Kurt was running as fast as his legs would move, his heart pumping painfully in his chest and his breath tight as he tried to swallow enough air in fill his lungs. Branches rushed past him in the dark, reaching out and tangling in his clothes and scrapping at his skin like sharp bony hands trying to catch him and just barely missing. He stumbled once, but didnt look back as he pushed himself up from the damp forest ground. There wasnt time, he didnt have time.

He could hear his heart pounding in his ears, and the echoing beat of another heart, but he didnt know if that second beat was just his imagination. His sweat was cold on his skin as the night air snapped at him and he couldnt move fast enough. He ducked between two tall, dark and looming trees that looked frighteningly like the forms of two giant creatures reaching down towards him and then he came to an abrupt halt. He flung his arms out to his side frantically trying to catch his balance as hed looked down only to find himself teetering precariously on the edge of a rocky height with a sharp drop down into blackness. Kurt swallowed and took a step back away from the edge. There was nowhere to go.

He closed his eyes and steadied his breath reaching into the inside pocket of his coat, feeling the warm smooth surface of the stone he had tucked near his heart. He held back a whimper and slowly turned around as he heard a low hissing sound behind him. He didnt need to open his eyes to know what was there, to know the truth. He had failed. There was nowhere to run and no way to save himself or the man he loved. It was over.

Kurt opened his tearful blue eyes ready to face his fate.