{"id":4022,"date":"2019-07-12T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2019-07-11T20:50:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T00:50:27","slug":"nineteen-02-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4022","title":{"rendered":"Nineteen – 02"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIs that what\u2019s bothering you?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He sighed again.\u00a0 \u201cShouldn\u2019t it be?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI suppose.\u201d\u00a0 Leinth leaned down and pressed a kiss to his forehead, then resumed running her fingers idly through his hair.\u00a0 \u201cBut it will <\/i>be all right.\u00a0 We just have to have to have faith\u2014have faith in our friends, our family.\u00a0 It\u2019ll be all right.\u00a0 We\u2019ve faced worse and come out the other side.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWorse,\u201d Seamus echoed.\u00a0 \u201cBut nothing quite like this.\u00a0 You know that as well as I do.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 She leaned down, looking him in the eyes.\u00a0 He stared back, feeling lost, helpless.\u00a0 He reached up to stroke her cheek, his heart aching.\u00a0 Leith kissed his thumb lightly before she continued, her voice low.\u00a0 \u201cAre you worried that the dreams will come again?\u00a0 The ones you were having before?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He squeezed his eyes shut and nodded slightly.\u00a0 Her fingers tightened briefly in his hair and he shivered, swallowing hard.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cYou can\u2019t let fear own you,\u201d Leinth said, her voice gentle, pain threaded through it.\u00a0 \u201cThis isn\u2019t like you.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never seen you like this.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s been a long time since I was allowed to.\u201d\u00a0 Seamus tugged at her arm gently and Leinth stretched out next to him, wrapping her arms around him carefully.\u00a0 \u201cVulnerability has been a liability for me ever since I was a teenager.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIt will<\/i> be okay,\u201d she said, the words quiet but forceful.\u00a0 \u201cNo matter what, Seamus.\u00a0 I swear it.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He buried his face against her shoulder.\u00a0 \u201cJust stay like this,\u201d he murmured.\u00a0 \u201cJust for a little while.\u00a0 Until I can fall asleep.\u00a0 Then I want you to go talk to the others and figure out how to fix this mess before it rages out of control.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cAll right,\u201d Leith said.\u00a0 \u201cI promise.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cGood.\u201d\u00a0 It was only then that he started to relax, by inches and fractions, the feeling of her arms around him helping to quiet his swirling thoughts.\u00a0 Perhaps he would<\/i> be able to sleep after all.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Seamus’s point of view.] \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIs that what\u2019s bothering you?\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He sighed again.\u00a0 \u201cShouldn\u2019t it be?\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI suppose.\u201d\u00a0 Leinth leaned down and pressed a kiss to his forehead, then resumed running her fingers idly … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[299,324,14],"tags":[150,171,170,166,149,148,159,168,147,165,146],"class_list":["post-4022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-7","category-chapter-19-book-7","category-story","tag-awakenings","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-leinth","tag-original-fiction","tag-post-apocalyptic","tag-seamus-vaughan","tag-serial","tag-serial-fiction","tag-story","tag-web-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EBlN-12S","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4023,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions\/4023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}