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A/N - Thanks to teenelizabeth for making sure Muse hadn't run away with me (again.) This is for prompt #2 - Life. (Prompt name can also be found in the chapter name.) Make my day...review!
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Stay with me, you're the one that I need. You make the hardest things seem easy.
Drugs or Me by Jimmy Eat World
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Amon strode purposefully through the small house, first locking the doors and windows, and then double-checking them. He retraced his steps amid the glow of the setting sun and peered out each window, checking for any movement outside, before tugging down the blinds and pulling the curtains tightly shut. He finished with the last one just as dusk came fully upon the world and made his way down the hall to his bedroom.
The man slipped in quietly so as to not wake the woman who lay dozing in the bed, but as he eased to sit, oh so carefully, on the edge of the mattress her eyes opened, a small smile gracing her lips. She reached up, smoothing two fingers along Amon's forehead and down the bridge of his nose, erasing the worry lines she found there.
"I'm fine, Amon," she whispered.
He glowered.
She changed tactics. "There hasn't been a hunter in years. Why do you still do the checks every night?"
"The night I stop will be the night they come." His voice softened. "Do you need anything?"
"No, truly, I'm fine. I know I don't look it, but I am."
He placed a hand against her cheek and she leaned into it. "Sometimes…" he began.
"Yes?" she prompted.
"Sometimes I still think of you how you were when we first met. Fifteen. Just a child."
She smiled. "I've known you as long as I haven't known you now."
He nodded. "There were times I never thought we would live this long…never thought I would live to see forty."
"But you have."
"You know I love you."
It was not a question but she nodded in affirmation anyway. She moved to sit up, wincing a bit.
"You are positive you are all right?"
She smiled, curling a small bundled object close to her chest. "I'm positive, Amon. Besides, women have babies all the time."