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[masked_merc]

Week 18

4. "Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway. -- Steven Coallier"

Actually, it's probably not.

That's one of the problems with being immortal-at least, if you don't want to be (Why the fuck anyone would want to be is something I cannot comprehend. Of all the curses in my life, this one is probably the worst, though less so now than it

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[tm_wintergreen]

I still remember the conversation we had the night you realized you likely had become immortal. It tore something in me to watch you face that anguish so alone.

[masked_merc]

That night is... hard to forget.

I...

[tm_wintergreen]

*reach for and squeeze along the shoulder*

I'm here. For however long you need me...so long as we stay in that bloody hot, insect ridden land fairly often...

[masked_merc]

*he leaned into the touch, then looked across at his oldest friend, voice quiet* do you know how much easier to bear that makes this?

[lady_kane]

"There are reasons why someone would choose immortality." For the most part, however, she agreed with him.

[masked_merc]

"I was thinking about Savage when I wrote that bit, Addie. You.." the took a long, slow breath, and looked at his wife with gratitude and love full in his face, "thank you."

[lady_kane]

She had *hated* waking in the morgue. She had been afraid, afraid and appalled and viscerally shaken, once she had realized what had happened. She had not been fortunate enough to leave without encountering someone, and in the first rush of renewed life she had killed the man with far more brutality than had been required.

She had despised her immortality.

But looking at Slade now, she simply shrugged gracefully and smiled at him, reaching out a hand to touch his cheek gently.

[masked_merc]

Slade pressed his cheek into her hand, equally quiet in that moment. After what he knew of Addie's time as an immortal, that she had even been willing to try...

[locked to Slade]

[rein_it_in]

I can only think of one reason someone might want that sort of thing and it ain't somethin' I ever would have thought of until recently, or even thought possible.

Re: [locked to Slade]

[masked_merc]

Which reason are you thinking of? If you don't mind me asking.

Re: [locked to Slade]

[rein_it_in]

Sugar, you ain't the only one who is very long-lived. I don't rightly know if that's the same as immortal but it may as well be from where I'm sittin'. I'm goin' to grow old and die and he ain't and I worry about what's goin' to happen to his tender-hearted self when the time comes. I'd spare him that if I could.

Re: [locked to Slade]

[masked_merc]

That was the thing that frightened me the worst, when I realized that I was. That everyone I knew and loved was going to age around me. Your Anrai's long-lived, then. Poor man.

...The only things that make it bearable now are that one of the people that cares most about me in this world has taken up an immortality--not of his choice, but because of who and what he is to Africa. And that my wife is doing her damnedest to find a way to keep from leaving me. Knowing her, she will.

[masked_merc]

Why, Todd? You strike me as smarter than that. Sometimes

What's wrong?

Re: (locked to Slade)

[masked_merc]

Yeah, I'd say you have plenty of reason to be scared, given what's happened to you. Doesn't mean you ought to wish for my curse.

Buried? No, that I haven't had to deal with. Autopsy started when I came back, yes. Thank gods the memories of that aren't very clear.

What have you gotten yourself into, Todd?