It's Begun/Join Us
So it's begun. I've been allowed to stay on as Orochimaru's personal healer.
"You enjoy this, don't you?"
"Well…to a certain degree, yes. You are, as all attractive men are to me, sexier when fevered or in pain, but there is also a part of me that wants to become your doting nursemaid. Interestingly enough this only seems to apply to beings who would rather be left alone in such conditions."
"Stringing words together to justify this Hell you've created."
"Take your medicine and shut up will you?"
That had been the second time he had actually smiled at me. For a reason other than…you know. I was happy, but also relieved, because for the past few nights I had been having some really weird dreams. All of them involved him. (well, except that one with the kitty but that's another story) And each time I had found him injured, wounded, or bleeding to death. I remember the most vivid one being the dream where I was running though the network of corridors and found him curled up in one of the unused rooms, blood pouring from his stomach. I would rush to embrace him and he would cough up more to the crimson stuff. But the scariest ones I had were the ones where he tried to speak, the ones where I could have sworn he was going to say 'I love you'.