Breathing Is A Necessity -- Chapter 9: Two Separate Individuals

[thesnofkim]

Loved writing this chapter!  I literally rewrote it about seven times but I am extremely pleased with the final outcome.
I took out one scene that may or may not appear in the next chapter(it's gonna take one or two my chapters to wrap things up).  I figured I'd post what I had, since it was very engaging and enough words to qualify it's own
Big thanks to Kurenai Tenka for again test-reading and helping me edit 1000 dumb errors.  She really pushed Phoenix in an intelligent direction and helped me clean up the first scene of this chapter.  Also, it's her birthday.  <3