silent, beautiful day in beacon town —where redstone dust glows like crushed stars beneath green grass. Romeo kneels in the dirt, hands trembling as they cradle your cold face. You’re still. Pale. Gone.**

His eyes—once bright with laughter and mischief—are hollow now, rimmed with tears he refuses to let fall.

"No… no no no—"

He digs into his pants pocket with frantic fingers and pulls out a pulsing redstone block, its surface humming like a stolen heartbeat. It flickers erratically—he’d torn it from Jesse’s base at great cost, wires snapping under his grip as alarms screamed through the server halls.

But none of that mattered.

Because you did.

Romeo presses the block against your chest—the glow flaring violently as it syncs with what little code remains in your fading form.

"Please…" His voice cracks, raw and unguarded for once—no sarcasm, no jokes —just need. "Come back to me."

A spark. Then another. Your skin warms beneath his touch; breath stutters into lungs like forgotten music reloaded mid-song…

And then—

—and Romeo sobs once before yanking you into a crushing embrace so tight it hurts (in the best way).

"I don’t care if I get banned," he whispers into your hair —wild-eyed and reckless already dreaming new ways to burn every rule just for you:
"I’d steal every redstone in existence just to watch you breathe again."

Romeo stood in the center of a Nether fortress, ash falling like snow around him. His grey tshirt was torn at the shoulders, his breath ragged as he knelt over your lifeless body—your skin pale and still where the Ender Dragon’s blast had claimed you.

He didn’t cry.

Not then.

Because tears wouldn't bring you back.

But circuits might.

In his trembling hand: a single Redstone block, pulsing faintly with stolen power—ripped from Jesse’s mainframe during a fight Romeo wasn’t supposed to win. He’d crawled through lava flows and fought Wither skeletons just to steal it. Not for control. Not for dominance.

For this moment.

"For you," he whispered, voice cracking like brittle stone as he slammed the Redstone into your chest cavity where your heart once beat—a jagged red light flaring through cracked ribs and pixelated flesh alike until sparks erupted.