The whole world went silent. I heard as Thena and Chase made their way out and escaped, but that didn't matter to me.
I made my way down to the lowest floor, and approached Clair's body, and picked her up.
Clair: Hey.
Harlan: Hey.
Clair: How are you?
Harlan: Been worse. You?
Clair: I feel like shit man.
Clair tried to laugh but she groaned in pain.
Harlan: Hey hey don't move. I'm gonna get some help. HEY! MEDIC! ANYONE!
I tried to get up but Clair pulled me back.
Clair: No. Please... don't. Stay with me.
I looked at Clair's eyes as tears started to trickle down her sad scared eyes.
Clair: Please.
It was there that I realized, it wasn't death Clair was afraid of. It was her dying alone.
I sat back down and held Clair.
Clair: Harlan, I'm sorry.
Harlan: Don't...-
Clair: Harlan, please. There's no saving me now. There's nothing you can do. It shouldn't have been this way... but this is the way it is.
Harlan: I don't want it to be this way.
Clair chuckled.
Clair: This was never going to work out.
Harlan: Why not?
Clair: Because of who we are.
Harlan: Don't say that.
Clair: You are supposed to arrest me, I am supposed to kill you. Things were never going to work out between us.
Harlan: I don't care. I never did.
Clair: Harlan, the things I did-...
Harlan: Don't-...
Clair: I killed people... innocent people. My life is just layers and layers of stitches and burns.
Harlan: We all have our stitches and burns... but overtime, they heal. We heal.
Clair started to cry.
Clair: I'm sorry... I'm sorry that this one won't... for you.
Clair held my hand, and I understood what she meant.
Clair: You really shouldn't have come.
Harlan: You shouldn't have talked to me.
Clair laughed.
Clair: Talking to you... has been the best mistake in my life. You, Harlan Brandle... you were the best mistake I ever made.
Clair put her hand on my cheek. She wiped a tear from my eye, and after locking eyes, she pulled herself up to give me a kiss.
I felt her soft tender lips pressed against mine, and I kissed her back, passionately. I could feel as she kissed me back and I felt as she suddenly stopped. I pulled my lips away from hers and I looked as her eyes blankly stared in the blank space above us.
I heard as the door opened. May walked in with agents of T.H.E.P.A., Forster included. Both of them took one look at me, and didn't say a word. May slowly sat down beside me, closed Clair's eyes, and gave me a hug as I put my head on her shoulder, and cried.