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 Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:14 am
::She watched his face... she waited for him to tell her that he'd never leave her, that he needed her as much as she needed him... his lips moved, he said her name... but, he stopped...
He was fading:::
NO! NOOO! :::Cora held onto this shoulders tighter:::
:::But she held thin air:::
LUKE!!!
AahhH!! :::Her palms hit the floor:::
:::She breathed deeply, staring at the backs of her hands for a moment... she mumbed:::
Seraphim...
Seraphim!
:::Cora stood and shouted at the vast nothing above her:::
SERAPHIM COME HERE!!
Come and TAKE ME! Take EVERYTHING! Come here so I can finally DESTROY YOU! I'll die right AFTER YOU if I have to! COME FIGHT ME! I'M WAITING YOU COWARD! As long as I have a will, you will NOT HAVE THIS PLACE. COME ON FIGHT ME AND DIE!!
:::She screamed... she called for her death, for his death, if only to avenge the only reason she had to keep living. But the Seraphim didn't come. She called him for maybe hours, until she had no voice left to scream at him with. Then, she just thought of him, she though of what she'd do. She though that if she wanted it bad enough, he would just die if she thought about it hard enough:::
:::Cora never remembered moving from that spot... she felt as though she left everything she had right there on the place where Hajime faded for the last time, where Luke couldn't speak a word to her even though she begged him to love her in return. Where she believed above all else that the Seraphim would not have the Brink of Time so long as she wanted him not to. But she did move eventually... she had to. She had to do something, in hopes of ever being alive:::
*Exit Cora*
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:07 pm
:::Cora's feet slid through the hall, dragging. She had removed her boots, and her cuffs... her hair was down. Even her suit, her second skin, felt heavy on her body the past few nights so she took it off, and threw it on the floor of her room as though it were dirty, as though the floor were dirty.
In her room appeared a button-down shirt, very over sized like the one Malazar had lent her one day years ago. She put it on, and it still felt heavy, but at least it didn't feel dirty. She must have showered a dozen times in the past few days. Never able to get clean. The vanity mirror in her room, so strange looking amongst the cold metal walls, used to reflect a woman practicing to be beautiful for Alex, but for a while now, all it showed was someone sleepless and angry again and again everytime she looked in it.
bunches of colored ribbons that began popping up over the past six months, that she used to tie her hair lie in a messed pile. Her hand drawn playing cards, left mid-game of solitar on the cold floor. She wanted to get out of her room... but she didn't want to go back to the bar... and yet she did. She didn't want to be anywhere... but she wished she were somewhere.
So she dragged herself out. When she made it past the threshold, she looked ahead to the very spot Hajime last was, and Cora sank right there, so many feet from it, unable to pull herself any closer:::
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:16 pm
*Luke faded into the Brink, sitting in a chair. He's got on the same pants and shirt he was wearing when Cora last saw him. He's also has on a black hoodie that hangs on his body. Luke's eyes hold a blank, fixated stare. His hair is ruffled and sticking up around his head. He had come back from Aimee's room and had slumped into a chair in his dorm room.*
*Luke blinks as he noticed that he's back in the Brink, but that's his only reaction. He looks past the floorboards to see, Cora... lying on the floor, not moving...*
*His face goes even whiter and he jumps into a run.* Cora!!
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:22 pm
:::Her head weighed a hundred pounds, and her neck once so strong barely felt able to lift it... she heard her name. No one had said her name in days. She hadn't heard anyone else's voice for days...
She looked up her, eyes rolling slowly up-:::
Luke...
:::Cora's body suddenly snapped back into action. She felt her heart beating, she felt her lungs expand. Her heavy arms and legs began propping themselves up, and she began to stand:::
Luke..!
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:24 pm
*Luke grabs her and picks her up as relief floods through him.* Jesus Christ! *Without realizing it, he shakes her and says angrily.* Don't DO that to me!
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:25 pm
:::She held on to him...not even registering that he sounded agnry:::
I was afraid... :::She gasped::: I thought, I'd never see you again... You disappeared.
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:28 pm
*Luke realized that he was being rough with her, and he stops. He waits for his heartbeat to return to normal.*
I know. I know I did. *He lets out a ragged breath.*
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:31 pm
The Seraphim didn't come for me... I called him... Luke, but he never came. I've called him for days but he wont come to fight me...
:::She cried:::
I just wanted you to be safe here... I just wanted you to be here... but you disappeared.
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:32 pm
*Luke's eyes are 'O's of horror.* What?! You called him?! You called the Seraphim out to fight you? Here?! *His voice bellows angrily again.* Cora, you were here by yourself!! *then even louder* You can't ******** DO THAT!
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:36 pm
That was the point...
:::She couldnt look at him:::
You were gone... you were safe... and I was tired of being alone. I want you to be safe here too...
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:45 pm
Cora, you can't DO THAT! There's not just one of them!! There's not just one Seraphim!! There's THOUSANDS! ALRIGHT?! They... *Luke pushes aside his sadness and latches onto his anger.*
You don't understand! You can't fight them by yourself!!
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:47 pm
:::Her cocks back and now she looks at him... what did he mean...?:::
Thousands..?
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:57 pm
YES! Thousands, alright?!
*Luke shook his head. He had to get himself together. But he was so tired and so on edge. And when he closed his eyes, he saw them.*
They came out of nowhere... And they just kept coming. Cora, it's not what we thought.
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:00 pm
:::Tears fell down her cheeks as she stared off vacantly on a spot on Luke's hoodie:::
How...? how is that possible...? :::She was confused again::: Why is this happening..?
:::Cora had convinced herself that if she were to meet the Seraphim she would kill him... but thousands...? It wasn't fair. Her hopes began to sink:::
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:07 pm
*Luke's face goes pale when he sees her cry and paler when he says.* I don't know. *runs his hand down his face.* I don't know.
*starts up again* But you can't call them out! You can't, alright? So promise me you won't. EVER. Right now.
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