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 Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:06 pm
*Cross feels the movement under his hand and removes it from her forhead..... he frowns a little.. then decides it would be best to withdraw for now.. he had done the right thing in staying with her while she slept.. he had no doubt in that... but it wouldn't be right for her to find him there... not in her state..... let her come about in her own fashion... he gets up and walks to the door, turns and whispers... * Whatever's happened to ye Cora... may ye find yer peace again..... no'one deserves t'suffer so.... le'st of all you.. *cross turns back and smiles sadly... and y'll never know I was here.... *cross then heads out and down the hall way..... about to turn towards the bar... then he spys a door he's never seen before...* Library..? *and heads that way*
*EXIT CAPTAIN MERCUTIO CROSS TO THE LIBRARY*
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 12:21 am
*ENTER CAPTAIN NERCUTIO CROSS FROM THE MAIN ROOM*
*Cross heads down the hall and pauses at his door... then continues down to Coras room.... she was still stirring... but not awake... he stands in the door way a while and drinks his rum as he watches her.... his mind rolling over the information he just read.. and wondering at what had done this to cora.... and why this rum couldn't be available in his time..*
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:04 pm
*Luke nods at Maggie's request.* You got it.
*Luke turns away. Right. This'll give those two a chance to have some time to hook-up. It occurs to Luke for the first time, that Maggie and Bard probably never get to see each other. With the incredible gap in time.*
*Whoa. That blows.*
*As Luke's walking down the hall when he fades out of the Brink.*
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:14 pm
:::Mercy 7 awakens with a start. She looks at her surroundings and thinks for a moment that she was in her own world...but she notices right away that things are not as they seem. Her breathing begins to calm down as she sits at the edge of her bed. She begins to recall what had happened...how did she get there?
She stands up, and quite naturally goes for the door. As she touches the panel to open it, she realizes she doesn't know what she's doing. She's just doing it...
:::She sighs:::
Why...
:::But she goes ahead and opens the door anyway, and heads to the main room anyway:::
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:32 pm
*Enter Luke and Cora.*
*Luke led Cora to her room. He moved on auto-pilot, for all purposes numb. He used the key to open the door and entered inside. Lights turned on upon his entrance. Luke flinched slightly as his eyes took in the cold steel of the room. Before, the room had barely had a whisper of character, but now it was devoid of anything at all. It had changed - just as Cora. The room was completely empty, except for a cube-shaped bed.*
*Luke leads her to it and sets her down on it. Cora's grip still won't budge. Blinking at her, he hands her the glass of wine... For some reason, he really hopes she'll take it...*
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:39 pm
:::Still breathing heavily from all the crying, she stops for a moment when he offers her something strange looking...:::
What... ?
:::still keeping a hand on him, as though it meant holding onto her own life:::
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:47 pm
*At her reaction, Luke's face falls a little. She doesn't even remember what wine looked like, much less what to do with it.*
It's... *His voice cracks. For a moment, Luke has to look away to stop himself from crying.*
*He arches his neck away from her. Get it under control, Luke. Get a grip. Get it under control. Somehow, Luke does. He turns back to her and puts the wine down on the ground.* It's not important, Slim.
*Luke sits there with her for a long time. For the ump-teenth time that night he thinks - What happened to her? ... But he knows Cora can't answer him.*
*Finally, after a long while, Luke goes to get up, to let her rest.*
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:53 pm
NO!!
:::It just came out. She grabbed on again with the other hand pulling at him anyway she could:::
I... :::She to cry started again::: Please... stay... I...
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:58 pm
*Luke jerks back at the shout. For a moment, it didn't sound like Cora at all. It sounded so desperate that Luke immediately goes back to his initial position. God, she could barely talk...she could barely move...*
*When she started to cry again, Luke put an arm around her and held her close.*
*He looked up and around, not understanding how they'd gone from who they were and what they used to be - to here. He remembered when he got back from the Seraphim. Cora held him there. He remembered saying "It's ******** up. It's so ******** up." He felt that way now.*
*He didn't say it though. He just held Cora.* Shh, it's alright. I'm not going anywhere.
*He hoped that was true.*
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:01 pm
:::She was so thankful when he sat back down, she held onto him again, and cried on his shoulder:::
Luke... I...
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:06 pm
*When Cora doesn't finish, Luke says.* It's alright... *He says so to both Cora and himself.* It's gonna be alright.
*Even though neither of them said anything else, Luke stayed there with her.*
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Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 12:07 am
*ENTER CAPTAIN MERCUTIO CROSS FROM THE MAIN ROOM*
*Cross heads down the hall stopping at the door to cora's room... he prepares to Knock but then hears the sounds of her sobbs... and stops.... Mr. Lucas was there...... he didn't need to be.... he turns to leave... but as he does he fades instantly... the bottle dropping where he was with a muffled thud...... spinning inplace before coming to a stop while pointing at Cora's door.....*
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Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:31 pm
*Luke awoke in Cora's arms from the night before. Slowly, he slips out of sleep and out from her grasp. He looks around and remembers last night.... her crying.... how he held her through the night....*
*Luke shakes his head.... He stares down at her. She's sleeping peacefully. Her body rises up and down to the rhythm of her soft breathing. He runs a hand lightly over her shoulder...*
*With some trouble, Luke pulls his gaze away. He swings his legs off the bed. Leaning down, he puts his nose in his arm pit.. and reels back. God, he needs a shower.*
*As he leaves the room, he blinks at a bottle on the ground. He leans down and picks it up, setting it alongside the wall. He heads to his room.*
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Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:39 pm
*Luke goes into his room and moves into the shower stall. He cleans himself... completely lost in thought, after all the events of the evening before.*
*After a long steamy shower, Luke towels off. He throws on a pair of boxers and a faded pair of jeans. He runs the towel over his hair... not doing a very good job of drying it.*
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Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:43 pm
:::Cora slept peacefully for the first time in perhaps a couple years. The soundness of knowing that Luke was there allowed her to finally rest.
In her sleep, her dreams filed themselves back into place, and she had been granted some more memories, and some more humanity. Shortly after Luke had left though, she began to flow into a lighter stage of sleep, and soon, she would wake up:::
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