Hey! Just a short one to tide you over until I link up my notes! Enjoy! As always I adore your reviews!
As the silence between them became deafening, Claudia spoke, "Not much of a conversationalist, are you?"
Freya regarded her with apparent disinterest, before sighing, "What do you want to talk about?"
"Urm... I don't know."
Her strides lengthening, the immortal said amusedly, "Now who is the poor conversationalist."
Hearing footsteps on the porch, Leena turned to see Adam striding towards her; topless. The innkeeper felt her head go very light very quickly, as she beheld his well muscled and, finely toned chest. With a dazzling smile, he took the bundle from his shoulder and placed the shirt wrapped apples on the table. "I made a start, to save you tomorrow."
"Oh, OH!" Leena struggled to formulate a coherant thought never mind words, "Um, good. Uh, thanks."
Realising what was afflicting the innkeeper, but being too polite to point it out, Adam picked his shirt back up. Leena moved forward, and held onto the material, "Here, let me, you've been carrying fruit about in this. I'll put it through the wash for you."
He smiled again, unintentionally making her legs go to jelly, "Thank you."
Shu appeared in the doorway, "Adam, a word?"
"Of course." He inclined his head to Leena, "Excuse me."
"Sure, no problem!"
In the Hallway, the Egyptian regarded him sympathetically, "Be careful of the path you are treading my friend."
Adam became sombre, "I tread no path friend. You should know me better than to assume so."
"I speak only as a cautionary measure. Adam, you are as a brother to me. I only seek to protect you, as any brother would. I beg of you, distance yourself from this mortal."
"We have barely even spoken..."
"The seeds of danger have already been sown. Do not cultivate them Adam. For the sake of you both."
His fists tightening slightly, Adam felt his anger rising, he whispered harshly, "Shu, I am in no danger. The only one I would ever loved died because of me over three thousand years ago. In the arms of her father; because I was at war when it happened. He turned to leave
"Adam..."
"I will distance myself from the mortal Shu, if it will put your mind at rest."
Claudia almost heaved an audible sigh of relief when her Farnsworth buzzed, "Hey Hg!"
"Claudia, Elizabeth tells me we are looking for a young northern English girl."
She nodded, "Right, so a teenager that sounds like you..."
"No!" Elizabeth stood up, "The Northern accent is completely different!"
Freya looked over to the screen, "Newcastle?"
"Yeah, I'd say so."
The immortal nodded, "I know it. Don't worry."
Elizabeth inclined her head, "Good. We'll meet up at the Cathedral in two hours."
Claudia flashed a grin, "We'll be there!"
Shu shuddered a moment. Sitting across from him, Adam frowned, "Are you alright?"
"I sense an imbalance."
The other man straightened as a feeling of uneasiness washed over him too, "I feel it." Releasing a shuddering breath, he shook his head, as if ridding himself of a troublesome fly.
Running a hand through his thick black hair, Shu's eyes wandering in worry, "What is this?"
Claudia noticed Freya had stopped dead. "What is it?"
"Call Elizabeth."
Opening the Farnsworth, Claudia was met by a severe looking Elizabeth, "You too?"
Freya nodded.
"What was it?"
"An imbalance. Adam and Shu will handle it."
The first time it happened, he was surprised, he hadn't expected anything to come of this; much less this. As the life drained from the whore beneath him, and strength flooded his limbs, he released a long laugh. Getting up, unbothered by the body, he dressed. Flicking a note at her corpse, he stretched, "You did better than your word, mein Leiber, danke." (...my dear, thank you. German)
Standing in the crisp winter sun, he took a deep breath of the clear biting air. He could feel her alive, like a buzzing in the back of his skull; but if he had his own way, it wouldn't for much longer.
Just a short one. It's a little all over the place but it should start to link up soon!