Briar Hayes ♡ Rose Red (badsister) wrote in thereincarnates, @ 2012-07-19 10:49:00 |
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Entry tags: | briar hayes, byron darlington |
Who. Briar Hayes & Byron Darlington
What. A much needed moment alone after Kane's demise
Where. The Farm
When. Backdated to late Wednesday night, July 18th 2012
Warnings. TBD?
The sun set that night and for once, Briar didn't feel very peaceful. Kane was gone, but not dead. Just trapped in a box that they'd all have to worry about some day being opened again, but at least for now, the threat of Kane Lewis had gone from their lives. That should have been cause for celebration, but it wasn't. As a consequence Charlotte was severely injured, because she'd jumped in front of Briar and the arrow's path. Despite all of their very best efforts, things still hadn't gone completely according to plan. She probably shouldn't have expected them to, but that didn't make her feel any less restless. Like she was still waiting for the other shoe to drop, even though they'd already accomplished what they'd come here to do. Kane was gone, there was no other shoe to drop. No other threat, now they could just... what, be happy? Briar laughed softly to herself, amused that such a simple concept still seemed so foreign to her. After months and months of being under the constant threat of Kane Lewis, after losing Oscar and countless others they'd all cared about and after decades of living her very long life the way she had, she'd forgotten what it was like to feel safe.
That is, until every time she came back to this place. Briar stepped a delicate toe inside the entrance to the main house, shutting the door behind her a few seconds later. The sound echoed in the quiet, empty place and she didn't feel like a weight had been lifted off her, she had a sneaking suspicion she never would. But here? Here even the heaviest of weights on her shoulders couldn't touch her. This place was her sanctuary, and Rose's, the place where Rose had found her own strength and where Briar now maintained it. Even Kane's destruction outside couldn't ruin that, hadn't tainted what they'd built here together. Mister Dark had tried to destroy them all once before and he'd failed miserably, now so had Kane. It was just another chapter in this backwards fairy tale coming to a close, one Briar was happy to see go. There were other chapters she could stand to see stick around for at least a few more hundred centuries.
Climbing the now familiar stairs and walking down the same familiar hall, Briar felt a fraction of that peace she knew other people to talk about. But it wasn't about anything that had happened in the last ten hours, nothing about getting rid of Kane or being some kind of hero. She wasn't a hero. It was about what waited for her on the other side of that door. She knocked softly before entering, the door giving way with a quiet creak as she stepped into the dim lit room full of shadows. "He's gone."