"I'm... sorry," he said as he tried to talk. He coughed, and blood came spraying out of his mouth. "Know that I love you. I've always loved you." He started coughing again, he was pale and I could see the life draining out of him.

"NO!!" I placed my hands on his chest, my fingers spread as they started to glow. I wasn't going to lose him, not again, not after all I had already lost. I closed my eyes and let my senses go; I could sense the bullets lodged inside him, and I used my power to move them back out. He screamed as the flattened slugs moved...