Far From Home

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FINALS ARE OVER!!!!!!!! //writing frenzy//

10.

When she wakes up, the sun is in her eyes the way she remembers, stinging the skin of her eyelids until she finally gives up her façade and opens them sleepily. It is then that she sees the manila envelope lying on her stomach so lazily and it is then also when her stomach churns.

As she wakes up, as she moves to get her bearings, to clean herself up, only one single thought consumes her. We have to save Vaughn. We must get to Vaughn. Before it's too late...

Her hair is still mussed from the pillow and her own tossing and turning that occurred throughout the night but it doesn't matter anymore. She's pulling a wool sweater over her hair, angering it even more, and then she's out the door. She never changed out of her jeans last night and for that she's thankful. She needs to get out, needs to leave.

The small yellow post-it from Francie falls from her back where it had stuck during the night and drifts lazily on to the wooden floor where it lays face down.

And then she's gone. Out to do who knows what but she does and she's not sharing. She's not sharing because her eyes are like fire, contrasting with everything else about her because she knows deep inside that her blood is like ice.

She burning up but she's freezing and there's only one thing that can remedy this torture that her body is going through and this is Vaughn. She allows her eyes to close for a second as she walks down the hall, trusting that it will continue to lie straight towards the door so that she won't walk into anything while she imagines his warm arms coming from behind and holding her against him, finally allowed to revel in the glory of his presence…

Finally able to look him in the eye with all the emotions stated plainly in hers. I want you. I love you. Don't ever leave me again.

His lips on hers… his hands on hers, holding them as she silently weeps into him, never unlocking lips.

She opens her eyes, flings open the door.

Runs to the car.

TBC… review~