Alone

[cassie_newton_]

So I got away scott free. Yay. Whatever. I'm wishing now that I'd never come here. I knew that things were all not right and would be uncomfortable and everything, what I didn't know was that I'd be waking up to seeing the two of them seconds before they started screwing against the wall

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[_dawnie_]

How embarrassing was this? On a scale of 1 to 10? About 200, Dawn mused as she began walking away from the cabin. She was fully dressed again but she still looked rumpled... no amount of combing her hair or straightening her clothes seemed to help that I-just-had-sex look. Of course some of that was probably due to the stubble burn on her cheek. She breathed a quiet sigh, wondering just how it was that Avasa had talked her into this. Okay so yeah, she supposed she'd rather go find Cassie than have him do it, but...

"Shut up," she muttered to her brain, and pushed a stray branch out of her way as she plodded along the path. There was an infinite amount of woods out here. How was she supposed to find the girl?

[cassie_newton_]

Cassie had been half asleep, drifting in and out of conciousness for a while. She didn't know how long anymore. She heard Dawn well before she saw her, the crashing through the underbrush alerting the blonde seer to the other girl. She groaned when she saw her. How much did she not want to speak to her? Oh...she'd probably give up a limb. She suspected Avasa was behind it.

Men could be soooo stupid sometimes.

She wondered if she could just let Dawn pass by and not say anything, but figured that that wasn't very nice. The girl had come looking for her, so she'd find her, even if she didn't want to talk to her. She waited the long while for Dawn to get near under the tree. "Up here." she said quietly.

[_dawnie_]

Dawn had been walking for fifteen minutes, and she'd been starting to wonder if she was going the wrong way. Maybe she left. Went back to school. No, that'd never happen. She couldn't be that lucky.

She jumped a little when she heard Cassie's voice. Glancing up, she saw the blonde high up in a nearby tree. Even as she blushed ferociously, her brow furrowed. What's she doing up there?

"Uh... hi," she said, her voice nearly a squeak. She couldn't stop herself from wondering when, exactly, Cassie had fled the cabin during all that.

[cassie_newton_]

Cassie bit back several statements. None of them would lead to anything good. "You come to get me?" she asked. Or to send me packing? She didn't move to get out of her tree yet, liking the distance between them just fine. She wasn't in any hurry to get closer.

[_dawnie_]

"Yeah, I uh, was looking for you. Avasa wanted me to--." She trailed off, fidgeting, glancing down at her shoes, then picking at the seams of her jeans. She still couldn't quite believe what had just happened. While Avasa had his moments of typical guy-ness, for the most part he was more of a romantic about it. That had been... Her cheeks flushed again.

She glanced back up at Cassie, not sure what to say next.

[cassie_newton_]

"Figured." Cassie said with a sigh. "Look, I'll go back, I just...not right now." she looked away. She didn't want to be having this conversation. "...unless...he's still okay, right? Coherent?" Her worry overrode her bruised feelings and it rang through her voice.

[_dawnie_]

Dawn sighed and sat down at the base of the tree next to the one Cassie had climbed. "He's, yeah. He's fine." Is he ever. Better than fine. He's just-- Okay, stop. "He's fine," she said again, more quietly.

She bent her knees and wrapped her arms around them, not any more anxious to look at Cassie than Cassie seemed to be to look at her.

[cassie_newton_]

Cassie sighed in relief, reaching up to run her fingers through her color streaked hair. "Oh good." she said softly. Maybe he's fixed and I can disappear into the woodwork or something. she thought to herself. "I'll go back later I guess. Maybe he'll be okay and I can just...go." she said aloud. She was pretty sure that's what Dawn wanted anyways.

[_dawnie_]

"Maybe," Dawn said.

Probably not.

No way would it be that easy. She was silent for a couple minutes, ducking her head and letting her long, glossy hair fall where it would, obscuring her face. Just thinking. Finally, she raised her head and pushed it back with one hand. This was beyond awkward. She'd never had anything against the other girl, and still didn't. She had the nearly uncontrollable urge to ask about the hand-holding incident, or maybe what had happened in those famous dreams, but now wasn't the time.

[cassie_newton_]

"It'll get fixed soon. I guess." Or we'll both go crazy. Won't that be nice. Cassie thought. She wanted to stop being strange, but wasn't sure she had it in her. "He's wonderful. You're lucky." she said instead, eyes looking up through the leaves to the tiny patches of blue she could see. Like his eyes. Blue and green.