Wayward Son | Cobra Kai

𝟏𝟐． 𝖲𝖤𝖢𝖱𝖤𝖳 𝖧𝖨𝖣𝖤𝖠𝖶𝖠𝖸

ep. 1 | mercy, part II
━━━━･❪ ☄️ ❫ ･━━━━

[    Out of her head, she sang
Come down and waste away with me    ]
— everlong

THE THRUM OF THE ENGINE AGAINST HIS SEAT LULLED HIM TO A PEACEFUL STATE, well, as peaceful as he could be.

Rocky Lawrence glanced outside the window, seeing the world pass him by in a flurry of lights against the night sky. He looked away and down at his lap, breathing a barely audible sigh through his nose. "Thanks for doing this..." he croaked.

Beside him, Sam LaRusso spared him a glance and grinned softly. "Yeah," she said for the third time. "It's no problem, I really don't mind."

After his breakdown, she offered to take him home. Unfortunately, though, he knew that Robby wouldn't want to see him, and he quite frankly wanted to stay anywhere other than with his father. It was bad enough that he hurt Robby, but to be around Johnny? That sounded just as bad.

So she was taking him to her house— well, sneaking him into her house. The LaRusso home. Where he could possibly be shot on sight.

"Just don't tell Diaz or anyone about this." He grasped the golden cross around his neck tightly, facing the window. "It's bad enough I disappeared on everyone, but if they found out I left with his girl?" He let out a 'whew.'

Sam opened and closed her mouth, "Um, actually...Miguel and I aren't together anymore. We broke up."

"Oh shit!" Rocky exclaimed, failing to hide his surprise. "Seriously?"

"Yeah. I thought you knew." She tightly nodded and he bounced his brows. He couldn't lie and say he didn't feel a bit better about going to her house.

It was silent for a moment after that, just the sound of the car on the road and the radio quietly playing a song he didn't recognize. Then she inhaled, drumming her fingers on the steering wheel. "So..."

Rocky raised a brow and glanced at her, "So...?"

Sam licked her lips and looked from him to the road a few times. "Can I ask what happened back there? One second you seemed okay and the next... it's like you were a completely different person."

The whole tournament he seemed aggressive, but she thought that was because he just wanted to win, doing like her dad said. Only, after their small talk and that guy showing up, it was like he transformed into someone else. Someone with a dark scary look in their eyes.

He swallowed and clenched his jaw, tightening his grip around the necklace. "I don't know. It's like... it's like I wasn't all there. Like I wasn't fighting my brother... like I was fighting someone else." He didn't quite know how to explain it. Rocky sighed, "I dunno, I just don't know how Robby will ever forgive me. He was already pissed at me."