The Law of Family Love // Carter&Laws JB!Blitz

Noise brings comfort to Carter Laws.

It's not as overwhelming as he expects it to be, but his parents had already been in, just like Jack had been too. Coward stinging on Carter's own lips like the fire that burned Jack Corradi-Laws' parents to ash. Two Laws that had been his best friends since they were younger lost because Jack promised to give himself up in their place. How much of a lie that had been because now Carter's sitting in a room waiting for the train to take him away from his life and to a strange coffin where killers roam. Legacies of their own to create while his crumbles to ash. If he's lucky, maybe a yeti will grace him with a quick death unlike Mitchell's gurgled words of blood.

Carter had been his last words.

Fingers tap rhythmically to the sound of his own heartbeat that's found it's way up into his throat like he was going to spit it out still beating. Always searching for that calm water to ride on, instead of the drowning static that crackles over and over again. They say lightning never strikes twice on the same place, but it had for them. In fact, it struck three times on the Laws and it would probably strike more times after him. Hopefully Jack would feel what he felt, despite his hatred, he still loved his adopted brother. Humans were selfish. Selfish creatures that wanted to live until they can't live no more.

That's what all of them wanted, but he can't have that. Mitchell and him were doomed to live until their names were pulled out of a glass bowl. Everyone comes in and Carter gives them a prideful smile like nothing was wrong. Despite death's tar dragging him into the ball of anxiety in his chest. Anger in his throat, but he holds it from Jack's meeting with him before the train comes. All he says is the words that Mitchell Laws had once told him.

"I love you. All of you."