For Lee when she gets back tonight. I've gone home. ♥
She turned him about to face her, hands moving slowly to the tie that he'd learned to like in this modern era of guerrilla warfare. It hid the warrior she knew he was and made her smile as she pretended to straighten it. He was fuming at nothing more than a simple conversation. A few words shared by old lovers who were now friends. Should he be so threatened? Should he worry about her straying away from him? Maybe. But that was a very indefinite maybe. She couldn't say whether or not she could do such a thing. She hadn't before and she wasn't ready to try now. He had kept her together when everything was falling to pieces. He was one of her father's favorites, a man that had fought almost to the death to try to save the elder demon and who was now hanging on her words as if they were law though only in public. The commands she passed out were routinely rehearsed behind closed doors and she always asked him for his input. She was never so sure about what she was doing as she had not been granted the gift of leadership as her brother had. She had never been one who could effectively tell others what to do. All her life she had only wanted to be a soldier in her father's great legions, but now the command was being thrust into her hands as if by divine right. She barely slept because she was always so worried about the orders she gave and anytime news returned she was the first to wonder if the deaths had been in vain. Were they doing the right thing by harassing these vampire bastards? Would it end up killing them all eventually? That was what frightened her most and he knew this though she had never actually admitted it.
"You're threatened by him," she whispered as she continued to straighten the tie though she knew it wasn't necessary. As a soldier, he was always neat and pressed. Always so well kept.
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