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[ahsatan_natasha]

[ A dream? ]When he wakes, it's not with a start, or in a cold sweat. He moves simply from deep breaths and closed eyes to utter stillness, eyes open, staring at the ceiling

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[notsoyoung]

David sits down beside him, looking for all intents and purposes not like David, and sighs.

"This is terribly painful, you know."

[ahsatan_natasha]

Slowly, silently, he turns his head to look at this new David.

[notsoyoung]

"What? You expected me to walk around bodiless and headless the rest of my unlife? I should hope you'd know better."

He raises his eyebrows, gives 'Tash Grace a Look.

"And I must say, I quite like your new look, too."

[ahsatan_natasha]

He raises an eyebrow.

Quietly:

"I remember."

[notsoyoung]

"Do you really? What do you remember?"

[ahsatan_natasha]

"You've been fighting. I saw it. I was there, somehow."

[notsoyoung]

"Really, 'Tash, did I ever fight?"

His voice is faraway, soft, but the edge is hard and cutting.

"Where did you see me? In the hills and vales of the dead souls in Hell?"

[ahsatan_natasha]

"Yes."

Quiet, very very quiet, and in this strange not-mist sound doesn't carry or echo, quiet words dropping dead into the space.

"And yes."

[notsoyoung]

"Why didn't you stop me going down there?"

[ahsatan_natasha]

"I would have, if I could, David. You know that."

Quiet.

"Yours is not my world, mon ami."

There's pain in that.

[notsoyoung]

"Do you want me?"
Do you want me back do you need me want me 'Tash do you love me anymore?
"Does He?"

And he knows.
I'm fighting for you and for him is it worth it?
"Is the battle worth it?"

[ahsatan_natasha]

One hand reaches out toward David, backs of his fingers brushing across his cheek.
How could you doubt us?
"Tout le temps, mon cher."
Je t'aime. Il t'aime. Nous t'aimons.
In a way, it's the echo of an earlier conversation.

[notsoyoung]

David no longer sits on the grass beside 'Tasha Grace.
I never doubted.
He's in 'Tasha's Grace's arms.
Why did you leave us?
"Why did you leave us?"

[ahsatan_natasha]

Long arms wrap around him, even if the bodies are not familiar in this embrace.

"It was time. I had to, mon ami, I never thought I would be gone so long."

[notsoyoung]

Yes, they are different, aren't they? Not just in the face.

He buries his face in Grace's neck.

"I never saw you again..."

[ahsatan_natasha]

Quietly, so quietly,

"I am here now, David, and I will never leave like that again."

Brave words for one who recently was hit by a nuclear explosion, perhaps.

And yet somehow, they are still true.