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That night, tired as he was from the party, Becker slept fitfully…

… "Jess? Jess, you're okay."

He held her face in both his hands, thumbs stroking as he searched for any sign of ill health.

"I'm okay."

"Thank god!"

Becker bent his head down to rest their foreheads together. Opening an eye as he felt her breath on his neck, he realised the many things he could do with their proximity. Tilting his head to the side as he watched her, Becker began to trace his eyes over her features. A mischievous glint entered his eyes and he pulled a hand to rest along the edge of her jaw line. Using this to tilt Jess's head up, Becker's heart started to beat a samba against his chest and his breathing became heavier as their noses brushed.

All movements stopped as their lips nearly met. The ghost of the impending kiss flittering across their mouths.

Jess breathed again and all self control was lost.

The kiss was hard and demanding as all coherent thought left Becker and he tried to feel every part of her lips.

She tasted wonderful. She tasted of… He couldn't think of the right words to describe it. She tasted of… Then he realised he had the perfect description. She tasted of colour. Of all the things he could no longer see or explain. She was the wondrous unknown. She was a burst of fireworks across the darkness which had become his life.

Pulling back from the kiss he rested his head on hers once more and ran his tongue over his lips in memory of what had just been there. Adjusting his grip on her, he pulled Jess back in.

Gently teasing her lips with his tongue, he waited until he was allowed access to her mouth. Deepening the kiss, he allowed himself to get lost in her. From deep inside, warmth spread through his body and tingling sensations crawled across his skin from her flicking hands. Moaning softly Becker brought the second kiss to a close, keeping his lips just millimetres from hers.

They stayed in the moment for as long as possible before Becker opened his eyes, getting lost in the deep green ones opposite him.

That wasn't right.

Jess's eyes weren't green.

The only person he knew with green eyes was…

"It was just a bug, Becker. No need to freak."

"Marianne?"

"Well durh. Who else have you been kissing?"

As he looked at his girlfriend her body started to shift. The hue of her skin started to grey and cracks began to form over her flawless skin. The cracks deepened into crevices and, in one moment, the woman was gone and there was a mass of beetles crawling over him.

They pulled him down and the covering weight started to crush his chest, blood filling his lung cavities…

"NO!"

Becker sat bolt upright, bringing his hands to his head and twisting them into his hair. Why was he always suffocating? Why did it always have to be a weight closing in on him, oppressing him, killing him? Wasn't it enough that he had to suffer the dark? Wasn't it enough that there was no light in his life?

His harsh breathing deceived his body into thinking that he was still chocking and he started to panic.

Bounty, who had been disturbed by her master's tossing and turning, gently placed a paw in his lap, using it to push herself up to his face and lick. He started to calm and smiled at the action, it wasn't a true smile, still caught up in his dream, but the knowledge that he would always have Bounty by his side was a comfort.
The puppy continued to lick and Becker lay down again, pulling her against his chest. Feeling the never-ending beat of her heart under his hands, he used it to match his breathing.

Then, together, Becker and the one constant in his life drifted off to sleep.


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