Alex Kennedy: Loyal Sidekick
(Finally something new. Woohoo! New character, at least for those of you that haven't been following my new project Full Sail. More information about Alex can be found there. This is also crossposted there, I just wanted to put something here to prove that I really have been writing.)
He thinks he can save everyone.
He always thinks he can just go out and take on the world, put himself up against the most impossible of obstacles, and come out not only in one piece, but with a rescued victim or two in tow.
When is it that he will realize that he can't always be the hero, the savior? Is it going to take until someone cuts him down? Am I, his closest friend, going to have to stand here and watch him crumble when that adversary finally arrives that he doesn't know how to defeat? He isn't invincible, no matter how much he tries to convince himself he is, or even how much I'd like to think he is…
But somehow I admire that goddamn stupidity of his. He's so strong, so righteous. He knows what he stands for, he knows what he wants…God, this is the year 2002 and the only word I can use to describe him is noble. You don't find noble people anymore.
But now he is starting to crumble. Slowly, yeah, and in a way that no one else would notice, maybe not even himself, but he's crumbling nonetheless. I see it in his eyes every single time he looks at Gil and Jessica; something is dying in him, something he never even knew existed…
It's the last thing I ever imagined he would break over, of course: a girl. Because when he decided to fall for someone it had to be the one person he couldn't have. Jessica. Of all the things to finally break, it had to be his heart. And maybe that's why it's so painful to watch him; it's the last thing I ever expected to happen to him. To Horacio, whose only love is duty and whose sweetheart is the Greeneville.
I wish I could say I was overreacting…maybe I am. All I know is that I've never seen him this dejected, this lost and it's worrying the hell out of me. It isn't him.
But he's still Horacio, isn't he? Which means he'll be fine. He'll get over it. He has to.
Because I'm not ready to watch him crumble yet.