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Date Posted: Saturday, March 11, 10:36:02pm
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Mary
's message, "The Healing Touch - Chapter 25+" on Thursday, October 13, 02:39:21pm
Dear Readers:
My muses, while not nearly as talented as some of those who post to these boards, and finicky of late, have decided to finish this story (just a couple chapters to go) so that it can be archived at Ranma’s. I have multiple ideas for new stories, but in all good conscience I have to finish this one for all the people that were kind enough to read it in the first place. Many thanks to all of you.
Hugs,
Mary
Chapter 28
Nikita awoke slowly, aware instantly of his warmth and closeness beside her. Her hand reached out and stroked his cheek and his eyes opened immediately in response to her touch. He was so beautiful, she could do nothing else but lie there and stare at him. Drink in the fact that he was hers, that he loved her, that there was a possibility that they would finally always be together.
He asked her the overlaying question that was instantly on his mind, “Are you ok?”
She had to be honest, they had to be honest with each other right now, “I don’t know. There’s so much I hardly know where to begin.”
“I’m most concerned about the APECED that she claims you have. We will have to have you tested as quickly as possible.”
“The symptoms all make sense, so many pieces fall into place.”
“If she is really your Mother.”
“She is. I can feel it.”
“I just want DNA proof so you never have to question it again. I’m sure Mick can help in validating everything that Alexandria has told us.”
“Did you see how much I resemble her?”
Painfully, Michael had to be honest with her, “Yes.”
“I always wondered what she would be like. What she might look like, how she would walk and talk, how it would feel to be hugged…” her last words were choked as she tried to hold in the tears that were threatening to fall.
“I’m so sorry that you had to go through that.” He pulled her closer against him, almost hoping in some way to absorb some of her pain, make it a little less for her to bear.
Her soft husky voice floated up from where her head lay on his chest, “What will happen to her and Walter now?”
He didn’t know that one person could have so much compassion until he met the woman that he held in his arms. She once again had amazed him with her question considering all that she had been through. “I don’t know. We will have to talk with Mick.”
“Mick? You really think we can trust what he says?”
“Yes. For some reason I do.”
Nikita considered this for a moment, “Then I do too, because I completely trust in you and your instincts. And I love you.”
Michael pulled her closer against him and ran his fingers through her soft hair, “I love you too.”
They stayed like that for a while just basking in being together. But the questions began to swirl in her mind, “Michael?”
“Yes.”
“I have to be tested for APECED.”
“I know, love.”
“It’s not an easy condition to control.”
His heart broke as he realized her self-sacrificing thoughts were controlling her words right now, “But, it is possible to control.”
She hesitated, he prepared for her response. “Maybe you would be better off without…”
He sat up, never completely breaking contact with her, “No. I need you to hear this very clearly Nikita, I love you. I don’t want to live another day of my life without you in it. We will control this disease and you will have your dreams. And I will protect those dreams with every breath in my body.”
Tears flowed down her cheeks at his loving words and he gently kissed them away. Many moments later as she collected herself she asked him, “What happens now?”
“If in fact we can believe Mick, we now decide what happens next.”
Hesitantly she asked, “So you’re out?”
“Yes.”
“And we don’t have to stay here in Section?”
He sighed, “I think we have to stay for a short period.”
Her heart increased with fear as she thought through all the reasons why she wanted to run from this awful place and the people in it. “Why? Why would you want to stay here?”
“Because we have to find out about your health, which is the most important thing to me. I just want to stay long enough to know exactly what is happening with you and make sure that I can take care of you for the rest of our very long lives.”
“Do you think we should go back to Center One or…?”
“I think we should just take the next few days, get some answers to basic questions and talk about what we want to do after that.”
“Right now I think I’m hungry. Do you think we could get something to eat?”
Michael smiled at her simple request, “Yes I do. I think you could have anything that you want my love.”
*****
Mick was on the phone, “No. I can take care of the Alexandria situation. I’m sending her to head up Section Two. Yes she’s extremely displeased but I can keep close observation of her activities that way. Walter will be sent to the farm to train the new recruits. I thought about just cancelling him but his munitions talents are too extensive not to use as best we can. Now, Michael is t be released. No, there will be no tracking this time. I won’t have it any other way.”
Mick hung up after that and looked to the monitors that surrounded him, taking in the quick moving data of situations from around the world.
He sighed and poured himself a drink, “Well, I’ve done all I can. Michael, Nikita the rest will be up to you.”
*****
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