The Loved and the Lost II

by Sihaya

Sequel! Will searches for his love out on the seven seas, not knowing if she is alive or dead. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WERE AWAITING AN END TO THE ANGST, HERE IT IS. Sortof.

3. Three: Bruises

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Chapter Three  

Bruises

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               Serenity would swear later that everywhere he touched her his fingertips left a bruise.

               The first night she had fought. The second night she had fought. The third and the fourth night she had fought.

               The fifth night only brought a grim resignation- the more she fought, the more Daniel enjoyed it.

               The thirtieth night was no different. Nor was the thirty-second, or the thirty-eight, of the fiftieth. She hadn't gotten to sixty yet.

               She'd let you know when she got to sixty.