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 Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:19 pm
It was the first bit of good news to come from all this. At least, it seemed like it could work. Cleaning his blood could improve his lifespan by months, years even. And he had at least two willing, viable plasma donars.
He stood then, tottering on his feet a little as he went lightheaded, before walking to her and collected her up in his arms, hugging her tightly to him as he buried his face in her white hair.
" Thank you honey."
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:21 pm
Violet eyes blinked in surprise as John hugged her... she had not really expected such a physical show of gratitude, or perhaps she just was shocked by the warm feeling his three simple words had given her... including the pet name sweatdrop
But she frowned a bit as her mind took note of how unsteady he was and she reached up to lay one hand on his forehead. "We should go home.. you should go take a nap on the couch downstairs.. it is cool and dim, and quite quiet... and I will fetch you something else for your head, you might be allergic to asprin after all!"
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:11 pm
HonoRaven Violet eyes blinked in surprise as John hugged her... she had not really expected such a physical show of gratitude, or perhaps she just was shocked by the warm feeling his three simple words had given her... including the pet name sweatdrop But she frowned a bit as her mind took note of how unsteady he was and she reached up to lay one hand on his forehead. " We should go home.. you should go take a nap on the couch downstairs.. it is cool and dim, and quite quiet... and I will fetch you something else for your head, you might be allergic to asprin after all!" To be honest, he'd become quite lightheaded when he had scooped her up...the effort of moving to her had taken quite a lot of out him. Her hand was cool upon his burning brow, and he let out a happy sigh at the feeling as it eased his pain somewhat. "Aye, perhaps that is best..." He said softly, placing her back onto the ground before leaning against the desk, rubbing his forehead and wincing as the pain shot forth once again...he was getting sick of this.
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:14 pm
With a nod and a frown she slipped her computer back in it's bag and led John back towards the doorway that they had entered through.
Her free hand slipped into a pocket and and pulled out a very high tech phone and punched in a number, a number that she had never before bothered to dial... there would be no answer, no one to talk to, all she did was dial that number and then end the call after a moment so she had her hand free again to trace her glowing runes on the door frame once more.
She didn't want to bother with putting away the books or going back to the alley that she normally used... it would cost her a lot more power to use this door instead of the one that she normally did, but she wanted to get John back home.
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:34 pm
John let her lead him away, frowning down at her as she dialled a number on her phone. He wondered if she was calling a taxi for them again, growing pale at the thought - bumping and jumping through the streets would not help his slowly growing migraine...
"What was that?" John asked - before his eyes went wide as his head suddenly seemed to burst into excruciating agony, doubling over in pain as his hands clasped his head as if trying to keep his brain from leaking out of his ears -
- Snow falling, a temple in a hill, Maximos armed with his scythe, a beautiful woman wrapped in woflskin, the head of a snake, a great tree within an ancient stone room, a hammer resting against a door, explosions filling the sky, a one eyed man snorting blood and fire -
"S-Sam!!" John snarled, the blood vessel which had burst in his head seeming to cause his brain to squash down, condensing in his head as visions flashed over his eyes -
- The dead rose, fire blanketed the ground, mighty wind slashed, he saw the world beneath him, his family dead before him, the moon rising high, she smiles in shock and awe with tears in her eyes, people laugh and cry, raging storms blanket the seas, light billows forth, he is alone, he is leading the charge, his brother lies dead before him -
He was beginning to lose himself. He fell to his knees and began to smash his head against the ground, the concrete shattering beneath each blow as blood poured from the wound. He needed to get the pain out, he needed to make it stop, it was killing him with these visions...
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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 1:19 am
Holding his hand Munin caught a residual feeling of what he was seeing, and it made her eyes go wide.... something was very, very wrong here.
"Stop it... John stop!" She almost screamed at him as he started to bash his head against the floor and she did something that she had not doen since her exile..
Munin embraced her full power, falling to her knees as she grasped John's head in her hands and took his memories from him, as she had last done for Odin alone.
- Snow falling, a temple in a hill, Maximos armed with his scythe, a beautiful woman wrapped in woflskin, the head of a snake, a great tree within an ancient stone room, a hammer resting against a door, explosions filling the sky, a one eyed man snorting blood and fire -
- The dead rose, fire blanketed the ground, mighty wind slashed, he saw the world beneath him, his family dead before him, the moon rising high, she smiles in shock and awe with tears in her eyes, people laugh and cry, raging storms blanket the seas, light billows forth, he is alone, he is leading the charge, his brother lies dead before him -
It hurt... it hurt so very much that her mind fogged with the pain and she could only open her portal before the knowledge she had taken overwhelmed her now mortal brain and Samantha slumped back on her heels, unable to do more.
The one eyed man... the one eyed man was laughing at her and his laughter would haunt her for all time.
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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:31 pm
She would feel large arms curling around her, holding her close as whoever it was carried her, lurchingly, through the portal as a voice cried out to her.
She had delved into his mind. She had torn out his memories. It would be like she had just shoved herself into a blender and turned it onto high. John's brain was dangerous because it was so damaged, if you even attempted to dig through it you were liable to get severely hurt.
And she had incised his visions. They would burn hotly in her head, Munin or no, and begin to sear parts of her away like acid...
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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 11:35 pm
The memories would have hurt even if John hadn't been in so much pain to begin with... there was only one being that she had been keyed to take memory from without permission, because that being didn't even have to think to take them back from her... he had created her... The one eyed man was laughing as bloody tears leaked down her cheeks, he was laughing at her.
Munin had tried to save John... if only for a moment or two, but now she was drowning in those memories herself, losing herself to not only John's pain but her own half healed wounds. Odin's betrayal had wounded his raven, had wounded her as badly as a pet owner who suddenly turns on the animal and beats them for no reason at all... and now he was laughing at her as her infraction into John's mind tore the scabs off those old wounds, laughing and laughing and enjoying the pain that she had endured since her exile.
Munin was losing herself, and the portal would collapsed with a rush of power behind John as he managed to get them back to the house... she didn't have the concentration to keep it open anymore...
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