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Date Posted: 08/16/07 4:23pm
Author: Dane
Subject: Inside
In reply to: Bree 's message, "inside" on 08/16/07 4:05pm

(He had taken his time bathing and dressing Bree, wanting to be sure that she was clean and sweet smelling again before he took her into the sanctuary of their bedroom. Only when she was safely tucked into bed in a clean nightgown and a warm fire lit in the corner did he finally retreat to the bathroom to clean himself up. He was filthy, his throat ached terribly and he wasn't all that sure he wasn't in a terrible nightmare. Turning his face into the hot spray, he let the emotions roil through him and experienced each in excruciating detail. The rage of the dragons arriving on his lands, the betrayal of Shenille's wrath, the fear of knowing that Bree was in danger, the grief of seeing her bleeding out, the joy of she was healed and the utter exhaustion that followed. The blood that swirled in the water between his feet made him suddenly sick.. a reaction he had never before had to blood. It was that it was Bree's blood that made him throw up so violently.. heaving as the pain in his chest clawed up towards his throat. He had come so close to losing his white lady.. so damned close.. Feeling like the blood just wouldnt come off his skin, he started to scrub at it, harshly with a cloth until his skin was red and raw from it.. and still he felt unclean. All these emotions.. they were so new to him.. so foreign.. that he had no idea what to call them or how to handle them. All he knew was that he felt wrong.. incomplete and unsure. Once he was dry and shaven, he put on a pair of sweats and sat in his armchair, near the fire so that he could watch Bree as she slept. In his exhaustion, he too fell asleep in the chair, and was brought suddenly awake by the sound ofhis name on her lips. He was on his feet and at her side within moments, his hand coming out to lay on her shoulder as he sat on the edge of the bed.) I'm here. (He said softly, not knowing what she needed or what had startled her. He wasn't used to these situations, how to handle a frightened woman. All he knew was that the last time she had been upset like this he ahd handled it all wrong and Durgan had told him that women like to be coddled.. so he was going to try his luck at that. He laid his hand over her belly as he looked down at her, expression unreadable but soft.) Everything is fine now.. Durgan saved the bairns.. Ye'll all be fine.. (He nodded softly, wanting to reassure her but now knowing quite how to accomplish that - not realizing that he was doing a fine job of it.)

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