15strangers week 2 wednesday

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CW: Extreme 999 Spoilers

[She's still holding an edge of fabric, though her grip is very weak, breakable, like everything about her. Tissue paper skin stretched over glass bones, brittle twig body ready to go up like kindling, fwosh.

She squeezes her eyes shut for just a moment.

No. No, she would not die like this. Like she had before. Like she was now.

Briefly, her fingers trembled.]

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[She goes red, but this time it's just a blush and not a fever; her temperature is slowly falling, true to her word.

A few moments after he brushes his lips against her hand, she shifts and reaches up to brush a kiss against his cheek, then lays her head against his shoulder.]

[unpossibilities]

[And now his face entirely heats up. His heart thumps in his chest. Well. That...seemed like an unspoken thing.]

...

I'm gonna make sure we're both okay, we're gonna get outta this, and then, um--

We can have a picnic under the stars. Together. Just you and me.

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[She giggles at that, just a little, but shes not laughing at him, or not really.]

Okay.