"But it's meant to be?" "Everything is meant to be. Everyone is meant to be." His words didn't really make a lot of sense to me. I knew he and I had a lot going on, all of us did, in that moment, but his sudden mention of a bad ending drove me insane. There was no way things were going to end badly. We'd been together for years. It was never going to change. He reached forward for my hand, and I couldn't help myself but take it. He pulled me into a hug that was brief, but while I was in his arms it felt like eternity. I wanted nothing more than to get out of there alive just so I could get another hug, from him or not. "Go find him. He needs you more than I do." My words came out slow, but they were genuine. I wasn't the only one.