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Tweak says, "To Cross the Road?"

Arthur Pendragon (a_royal_prat) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2010-05-21 01:00:00

Entry tags:

!@event, arthur pendragon, morgana

Who: Arthur and ~~Merlin~~Morgana
What: "..."
When: Shortly after learning this
Where: The library
Rating: Disturbing
Status: Incomplete

Arthur had waited as long as a location to leave. Getting to the library was priority, everything else was secondary. He flung himself down the streets with a single-minded determination that shoved everything, everything into the back corner of his mind. He had to find her. Nothing else mattered to him. There was nothing more important and if he ran down people as he moved, he never once noticed.

It wasn't until he reached the street with the library that he slowed, nearly stopping completely. What if he'd been lied to? What if she wasn't here? What would he do then?

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future_seer
2010-05-27 04:07 pm UTC (link)

"To a ... to a funeral home." Morgana knew all about future funeral rights. "They'll prepare the body and they'll bury her." Her voice was surprisingly calm but just at the thought of placing Gwen under ground, her fingers tightened their grip around Arthur and her eyes - unknowingly - briefly shone gold. Causing windows to rattle and four lamp post, the first being about three lamp posts over, to have their bulbs and glass shatter.

Morgana flinched and her fingers tightened some more, possibly to painful levels, but she didn't waver. It was possibly not best to mention cremation until she could get a better handle on her emotions.

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	a_royal_prat 2010-06-01 08:00 pm UTC (link)
	The distant shatter of lights and glass barely fazed him and he met Morgana's gaze, breathing heavily through his nose. "Where is this place? This funeral home." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	future_seer 2010-06-05 05:36 pm UTC (link)
	"There are a few in the city. I don't have a clue which one is the best." Because her mind insisted that Gwen would receive the best. She pulled out her PDA and got the direction for the nearest one. "The closest one is about four blocks away from here." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

a_royal_prat
2010-06-05 05:39 pm UTC (link)

"We'll go there." There wasn't much choice. Arthur could carry Gwen to and from the underworld, if required of him. His arms weren't weakening, but his resolve was. Heat burned the back of his eyes and he sighed on a shudder.

"Find another while you're looking at that." Because much like Morgana, he refused to leave Guinevere with someone who would mistreat her form.

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	future_seer 2010-06-05 05:50 pm UTC (link)
	And she would follow at his side, to help. Morgana could take as much of this as she would have to for both Arthur and Gwen. She simply didn't want to and even if she could physically force herself, her emotional resolve not to waver, she didn't have that sort of strength over her powers yet. "Alright." She said in response to both. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	a_royal_prat 2010-06-05 05:54 pm UTC (link)
	Arthur tipped his head back and gazed up into the open night sky. His jaw clenched in increasingly frequent increments until he brought his gaze downward with a snap. His head was clearing like bindings from a wound and a trickle of self-awareness gripped him as he looked at his step-sister. "Morgana, I'm sorry." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

future_seer
2010-06-05 06:35 pm UTC (link)

Morgana didn't look at him. She didn't have to look or ask to know what he was talking about. "I know." She said, before adding. "I understand why and I forgive you for it. You don't have to apologize." When she looked at him, clear eyes held his. Though she she knew why she was a bit surprised that he actually had. "But thank you for apologizing."

Though her eyes narrowed slightly. If he was apologizing for Gwen - Morgana was rather certain he was apologizing for ignoring her feelings in this - she's smack him.

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a_royal_prat
2010-06-05 06:40 pm UTC (link)

He did. Had he not said it now, it would have been said later when neither of them could sleep. Arthur wanted to strangle Merlin for not being where he ought, but having Morgana here was a blessing in itself, even if it was the least favorable pairing.

He hitched Gwen in his arms and stared off, past Morgana's head down the orange lit streets. They needed to get indoors before the same fate befell them.

"Four blocks?"

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future_seer
2010-06-06 03:31 am UTC (link)

"Four blocks." She affirmed. Her eyes peeled the road before she gave Artur a short warning, "I'll hail a cab." and ran a bit into the street. Flagging the passing cab. When the vehicle stopped Morgana pulled out what money she had, not all of it but hopefully enough, and ordered, "Take us to the closest funeral home. Don't ask any questions." The cab driver cut his eyes to her, Gwen's body, and she looked as if she was about to argue. Until she cast her eyes on Arthur and nodded.

"Alright." The woman said.

Morgana turned to look at Arthur.

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a_royal_prat
2010-06-06 03:39 am UTC (link)

Arthur noticed nothing so much as the heavy stillness of Gwen's body draped along his lap and tucked within his arms. The wounds on her neck were congealing and grotesque in a manner that had Arthur reaching for her hair to cover them as rapidly as he could gather fistfuls of it.

She could be sleeping peacefully the way Arthur held her. The bow of her lips was curved in a slight smile that would stay that way permanently. Arthur's shoulders shook as he bowed his head until their foreheads met and the coolness of her skin finally set every aching part of him into action until tears were falling heedlessly down his cheeks.

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