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[originalmarvel]

After thisBilly waits until clothes are delivered to the cell and then footsteps fade. He dresses and then walks to the cot and lays down. He turns towards the wall and carefully, deliberately, gags himself with some of the cloth from the pillow, making sure not a sound can be heard

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[futures_of_ash]

She'd been on the lake.

That's where she always is when she's healing...so of course, she didn't get a note, no, she heard the screaming and Mel let her in again.

After all, she'd been listening for it.

Baby was kind enough to let her in, and she doesn't hesitate a moment in reaching out to stroke Billy's hair gently as the walls went solid once more.

She has no right to be here.

But she needs to be.

[originalmarvel]

Maybe he hears her, maybe he feels her, whatever the reason, his head turns and he sees her and he spins out of bed, crawling, moving to the cell wall and spreading his hands against it, shivering.

"What have I done?"

The voice is broken and shivering with pain.

[futures_of_ash]

She let her hand drop away as he ran, folding it back against her ribs in some strange hug. She looked like glass, Rachel did, with a candle shining behind the skin.

"Wasn't you"

[originalmarvel]

Her condition, her face... he looks at her and it penetrates.

"What happened? What's wrong Rachel?"