A/N: I have a ton of stuff written and half written. Anyways, here's what I've got on the lastest episodes: next premiere- February 4th. Episode title- "The Transmogrification of Eunice". Another character that isn't usually on the show- ELENA VALIDUS! Yeah, it's just a rumor, but I'm pretty sure she'll show up in this one. We've waited long enough to see her…
Disclaimer: idea for this is by Crushed Hale.x and I do not own the characters. Gwen's POV.
"Okay, good to know we got dropped off in the middle of frickin' nowhere," I huffed, tugging a few dirty, muddy strands of my flame colored hair away from my tired eyes. The sand kicked up in my face, and I immediately regretted being so dirty to begin with. Just the dust and grime around us on the outskirts of a desert was enough to make me mad. Being dirty was just so irritating after so long. Four years and I felt like I deserved a shower. I was free and I still hadn't been able to even clean the basic grime off my skin. It was annoying.
"Relax," breathed Kevin as he carried me on his shoulders through the sweltering heat. The sun's blinding rays were raining down on us like buckets of moisture being thrown from the sky by demons. Honestly, I would've been grateful for rain. It sounded good. And it probably would've cleaned me off to a decent extent. "You need to calm down. I'll get us some place safe, grab us some chow, and we'll sit down and plan things out. Capiche?" He held one balled up hand into the air as if asking "Do you trust me?"
I bumped my fist against his and shifted myself so I could kiss his gorgeous ebony hair, trying to focus somewhere between what I could see ahead of us and keeping my balance. "Capiche."
"Now, how far out do we look?" he asked, unable to keep the slight doglike pant out of his voice. Kevin had been carrying me on his shoulders for at least two miles. Maybe more. Between the heat and the general exhaustion of just everything in our worlds crashing in on us, I didn't blame him for being totally wiped out. I'd noticed he'd been struggling for the last nine hundred yards give or take, but he wouldn't put me down until we were safe on solid ground instead of in this barren, sandy wasteland.
"Looks like another two miles," I breathed after getting dust in my throat. I coughed a bit, trying to recover from the dirt going down my windpipe. As if my body wasn't bad enough already, the conditions here made it worse. But at least we were back on Earth. "It kind of looks like the Vegas strip..." Lights shimmered in the distance despite it being about four in the afternoon. The sun had passed its peak, and I knew we both had to be eternally grateful for that.
Kevin snorted a weak laugh and managed a smile. "That's just great. First place we get to is Vegas."
"And you would've preferred New York?"
"New York is safer than Vegas, sweetheart," he snickered, using one hand to brush his messy hair from blocking his vision. "Vegas is a dangerous place. Its crime rate is much, much higher than the rates in the Big Apple." A soft smile touched his features before vanishing like a ghost. "And besides, it'll be harder to get anywhere from here. I know New York better. That, and this place is surrounded by desert and we have no cash for any other kind of transportation."
"Well, we'll get to the city and worry about things from there, alright?" I leaned forward so that my long braid of hair fell over one of my shoulders and almost sort of whapped him right in the face. It narrowly missed.
He huffed with the effort of walking after another half hour or so. I could feel him slowing down and we were still about a mile and a half out of the city limits. Having me up on his shoulders wasn't doing him any good and we both knew that. The pack is only as fast as it's slowest member. And Kevin was slowing down enough to slow down the whole pack. Especially since there were only two of us.
"Lemme down," I said, trying to haul myself off of his well-muscled body without falling on my butt or doing a face plant into the dry, dusty sand. "I can walk it from here, Kev."
"We're almost there," he said, eyes not even shifting in the slightest to look up at me. His muscles tightened and he put on a brave face, trying not to show how tired he really was. "We can make it. I'll be fine." He had one hand on my knee to keep me balanced and he gave it a little squeeze out of love. I couldn't help the smile that curled up the corners of my mouth. "I promise, if you get too heavy, I'll let you down."
Once more, I pressed my lips into his messy ebony locks and a faint smile kissed his face the same way the sun caressed our skin. It beat down on us with the most intense heat we could ever imagine. It made the Null Void's crimson sky almost welcoming compared to this intense blaze of sunlight. "Kevin?"
"Hmm?" he answered, planting another foot down into the sand to keep moving forward to the destination we had been working towards this whole time. We just needed to be back on solid ground.
"I love you."
"Love you too, beautiful."
And we trudged on. Or at least he did, me upon his shoulders like a princess being carried through the streets. The vast blue expanse above us sprawled out like the ocean. It was a welcoming sight.
A/N: Shorter, I know, but I'm struggling with these in-between chapters. Anyways, review!
~Sky