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Jade (gracelessangel) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2010-11-01 00:14:00

Entry tags:

!closed, #complete, gabriel, jade

WHO: Jade and Gabriel
WHAT: A post-death reunion and chat.
WHEN: [Backdated] Shortly after this; 2PM.
WHERE: The gazebo beside the lake.
RATING: Totally kid-friendly.
STATUS: Complete. Closed.

Jade couldn't remember the last time she'd felt so level-headed. Since finding herself miraculously returned from the dead, she had managed to stay away from drugs entirely and was finding it made quite a difference. Yes, some things were harder to cope with. But her thoughts were her own. Her actions were hers, as well. Nothing was due to the smack or the absinthe. It was all authentic, for better or worse.

It helped that Cas was going through it too. He'd opted to quit, cold turkey (something she still wanted to throttle him for from time to time), when she'd died. Now that she was back they were support for one another. But she couldn't spend all her time around him. She had other things she had to deal with and she figured, so long as she was thinking clearly and still on the not-using side of her addiction, she should take advantage of it.

So she'd decided to meet with Gabriel. Sitting at the gazebo, her feet propped up on the railing facing the lake and her hands resting lightly on her thighs, Jade tried to get her thoughts in order. She stared out across the water, going over everything for what felt like the millionth time. Gabriel was due there any minute and she hoped, by the end of their talk, they'd be a bit closer to deciding just where they stood with one another once and for all.

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archaic_rival
2010-11-03 02:51 am UTC (link)

He released her, but left his hands resting gently on her shoulders. A weight had been lifted from between them, but his heart ached with letting go, the way one's hands might have done after holding on too tightly for too long.

"I hope someday you find your own happiness as well," he said, leaning down to kiss her cheek. "Please tell me you won't be a stranger."

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gracelessangel
2010-11-03 03:11 am UTC (link)

"I'm happy just to be your friend," she assured him as she rose up and pressed her lips to his cheek as well.

Jade felt better. A little sad, a part of her mourning the end of something that had been very important to her for what felt like a very long time. But it was the way it was supposed to be. She knew that, somehow. She'd known it for a while and had just been too afraid to act on it.

"And you're not getting rid of me that easily," she teased him with another smile, this one much brighter than before. She stepped out of his embrace, wrapping her coat around herself to stave off the wind.

"Take care, Gabe, and try to remember that you don't have to shoulder everything, all the time." She grinned impudently. "You always were an overachiever," she joked as she turned on her heel and headed back toward the apartments feeling a bit more at peace than she had before.

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