A need to save everything that was lost

[loadedparadox]

Who: Arthur and acleandive
What: Continued on from here
Verse: Love Stories

Arthur moved around the loft, ensuring all windows were locked, the bars still on the windows. It had been for his own safety before, but now there was the worry about what would become with Mallorie trying to leave, to return to Dom.

After a bit she curled up in the corner and he was okay with that. He could handle her if she wasn't near the door, wasn't fighting him. Yet even as she dozed, he couldn't. He'd fall asleep, wake with a start. Come to and then drop off again. I was going to wear thin quickly but he hadn't had time to think when he realized what was to come, only react.

He watched her, never once truly looking away from her, even when his eyes fell shut. Always he was oriented on her.

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Mal sleeps fitfully, half formed dreams of her real reality that she knows she should get back to. It will be hard, she knows, now that she's here, hard to escape the sad looking projection of the boy she loves, but Mal is willing to try, willing to wait like a snake poised and coiled until she can escape, because she has to.

When she wakes again, it's without a sound, just the slow coming to awareness of her that brings her back into consciousness. She doesn't move from where she's curled, just studies the room around her, desperately forming plans.