{"id":3881,"date":"2019-02-22T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3881"},"modified":"2019-02-22T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T21:59:00","slug":"eleven-08-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3881","title":{"rendered":"Eleven – 08"},"content":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Seamus’s point of view.]<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cDo you know who it is?\u201d<\/p>\n

Seamus blinked at Leinth as she turned away from their chest of drawers, a shirt balled up between her hands, clutched against her chest. \u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you know who\u2019s out there? Who\u2019s coming?\u201d Leinth bit down hard on her lower lip, eyes gleaming in the dim of their room. There was fear in her eyes, enormous, real. His heart seized for a moment and he swallowed hard, slowly forcing himself upright.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think so,\u201d he admitted, standing on shaky legs. \u201cI just can\u2019t\u2014I just can\u2019t grasp it. It\u2019s just beyond my fingertips in the jumble.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJumble?\u201d She set down the shirt and came to him, hands reaching to cradle his face. \u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d<\/p>\n

He leaned his head forward, resting his forehead against hers as his eyes slid shut for a moment. \u201cI was dreaming before you woke me, that\u2019s all. Everything\u2019s jumbled up with what I was dreaming about. It\u2019s okay. I\u2019ll sort it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you sure?\u201d<\/p>\n

He nodded, exhaling. \u201cI\u2019m sure. Just let me get dressed.\u201d Seamus started to move away from her, stumbling toward the dresser. Leinth cursed in a whisper and moved to help him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a bad idea,\u201d she murmured as she wrapped an arm around his waist to support him. \u201cI shouldn\u2019t be dragging you out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d he said. \u201cNo, you should be. This is about us, not them. We have to face it\u2014at least alongside them if not alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m scared, Seamus,\u201d she said, reaching to open the drawer for him as he leaned to brace himself with his good arm against the top of the dresser. \u201cI\u2019ve never been scared like this before.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all right,\u201d he said, turning to press a kiss to her temple. \u201cWe\u2019ll be okay. We haven\u2019t spent this long apart just to be separated now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI love you,\u201d she said, wrapping both arms around him and squeezing, maybe a little too tightly. He wrapped his injured arm around her anyway and held her.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I, you,\u201d he whispered into her hair. \u201cAnd I, you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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