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Post by Faith on Jun 10, 2006 17:28:15 GMT -5
Faith looked over her shoulder at Angel. She wanted so much to feel warm and safe and she could think of no-where better than right here, with him. She lay back on the bed and curled up along side him.
"You don't mind do you? Just don't wanna be by myself right now."
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Post by Angel on Jun 10, 2006 17:33:06 GMT -5
Angel put what was left of his left arm round Faith and he held her close, it felt strange for him to be close to someone again, he hadn't been this intimate since the incident where a demon's blood turned him human and he spent most of his time getting reaquinted with Buffy. He smiled slightly atthe thought of he and Faith together but he couldn't help doubt that it could only go so far, if he experienced true happiness again then his curse would belifted and he'd be his old self again.
"How long where in there?" he asked in thedelicate way possible.
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Post by Faith on Jun 10, 2006 17:39:52 GMT -5
She relaxed more, her arm sliding around his waist. She felt safe. Safe enough to think about where she had been the last couple of months.
"I really don't know." She had a mental picture of the wall with the tally on it. "I guessed a few months, but it felt like years."
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Post by Angel on Jun 10, 2006 17:42:43 GMT -5
Angel shook his head, he was right, he looked at some of the dirt on her and frowned "You can get cleaned up if you feel up to it right now, I managed to get you some new clothes so you can get out of those rags" he then shifted slightly closer "of course, you don't have to do that now"
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Post by Faith on Jun 10, 2006 17:53:37 GMT -5
She glanced down at herself. She must have looked like death warmed up. She laughed a little.
"These rags were what you gave me last time. I could get them dry cleaned if you like." Then she looked at her nails. "Don't think I'll be needing the claws anymore either, but it can wait. Don't really want to move right now."
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Post by Angel on Jun 10, 2006 17:59:17 GMT -5
He smirked "Good cos neither do I" they lay there quietly in a comfortable silence, in each other's arms, not knowing what the future held for either of them, then glanced at the claws "So, must have been pretty intense in there?"
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Post by Faith on Jun 10, 2006 18:10:58 GMT -5
"In the beginning, I fought so hard to stay alive because I knew you'd come if you could." She paused, gazing into his eyes. "After I... after I lost you..." she looked at her hands again, "I kinda just fought against myself. Turned myself into what they wanted me to be. A monster, just like what I was killing every day."
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Post by Angel on Jun 10, 2006 18:16:48 GMT -5
He listened intently to what she was telling him, it certainly souded like she struggled to keep herself alive, judgign by what he encountered in that place it must have been no easy task, even for a slayer of Faith's caliber. He blamed himself, he could have gotten her back quicker but he spent too much time moping around to even bother going out and finding the solution.
"I'm just glad you lived through it, any normal human would have been dead within a week in that place, you managed to survive months"
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Post by Faith on Jun 10, 2006 18:21:30 GMT -5
"Yeah," she sighed. "One of the perks of being the chosen one I guess." Her mood turned a little darker.
"I tried to end it y'know." She couldn't look at him, just stared at his bandaged wrist, her fingers gently tracing along the end where his hand should be.
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Post by Angel on Jun 10, 2006 18:24:57 GMT -5
He moved the hand from behind his head and took it in Faith's and held it to his chest, all he wanted to do was go to sleep, he was tired, he hadn't slept at all since she'd been taking away from him and now she was back, safe and his arms, he felt like he could go to sleep for months.
"They'llpay for wehat they've done to you, I don't care how or when but they will"
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Post by Henry Elder on Jun 10, 2006 18:32:03 GMT -5
"They'llpay for wehat they've done to you, I don't care how or when but they will"
"Really?" asked Henry, moving into the doorway. He'd been eavesdropping. "'Cause I was thinking that we hide."
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Post by Faith on Jun 10, 2006 18:35:12 GMT -5
She closed her eyes for a moment, noticing the missing heartbeat that should have been beneath her fingertips.
"They can wait." She said sleepily, wondering if she could close her eyes for more than a couple of hours without her nightmares creeping in. She curled her leg around one of Angel's, pulling herself up close to him. It felt natural, comfortable to be so close to him. It was reassuring to know he would be there when she woke up.
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Post by Angel on Jun 10, 2006 18:40:08 GMT -5
Angel lifted his head "You know it's customery to knock" he sat up, still holding onto Faith's hand "Besides, I doubt they'd take any further interest in Faith, all they wanted to do was punish her and they did that, they where just too sadistic to let it end" he looked at her, even when covered in dirt she still looked beautiful.
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Post by Henry Elder on Jun 10, 2006 18:44:55 GMT -5
"Not much one for customs. Still...good day. Faith free, the big bad dead, or so I plead to Gods I don't believe in, and now you two are getting nice and groin happy. Warms my heart. Why, there should be a comic."
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Post by Faith on Jun 10, 2006 18:47:33 GMT -5
Faith jerked awake at the new voice in the room. She looked up to see Henry stood in the doorway. He still had scars on his face that looked familiar and she remembered how fiercely they had fought the day before she was captured.
"How long was I gone?"
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