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“-oyd, Lloyd, can you hear m-!”
“-hat are we gonna do?”
“-needs to be in a hospital.”
Lloyd’s head throbbed with an extreme ferocity as he slowly regained himself, but it wasn’t just his head; it seemed like as the seconds passed, so did his pain tolerance. Every single bone, muscle and joint pounded with the feeling of having been bruised.
The worst part though, was his heart which he could have sworn that he felt breaking as he recalled the events that had led up to now and the battle in the prison.
“I have no son.”
The taste the words had, the bitterness with no sign of his father in them, made Lloyd want to throw up to expel them from his mind and forget about the fight so he could continue to live in denial that maybe, just maybe, his father was alive inside of that thing.
But all he could do, despite how much his face hurt, was blink his eyes open to try and grasp some sort of idea of what was happening in the chaos of his own mistake.
“Hey, hey guys! His eyes are open!” The voice was loud enough to make his ears ring slightly, but it was comforting all the same because he knew the voice all too well and knew that it was Kai who was right by his side.
The comfort was quickly replaced by guilt from locking all of them out while trying to fulfill his mission, going so far as breaking his radio so they couldn’t talk him out of saving his father. In hindsight, he knew that he was wrong and he should have waited for them to help him figure out a plan.
But when he tried to speak, to apologize, his tongue felt heavy and a stabbing pain flooded his chest with a fiery intensity that nearly caused him to black out with a pitiful squeak escaping his lips as his eyes filled with tears.
“Hey, hey, save your strength, Lloyd.” Cole’s voice cut in through the blinding pain, followed by Kai’s.
“Yeah, don’t try to talk. Just let us take care of you.”
He managed to nod in response as the pain diminished in strength slowly. Despite just how chaotic everything around him was, however, he could feel himself drifting back into unconsciousness.
“Lloyd?” A muffled voice asked, but everything was starting to hurt again and the darkness was almost comforting to him, knowing that it meant that he didn’t have to focus on what was going on around him.
“Lloyd?!” The voice was louder and the panic was evident around him, but he just couldn’t stay awake any more with how overwhelming the dark was.
‘Just gonna close my eyes…’