He wanted information. So that was what this was about. Discovering how she had hurt him, learning how to stop it. She would have replied over my dead body but besides being a cliche, there was the possibility he would take that offer too seriously.
So she focused, instead.
She tried to shut him, this room, the whole situation, out of her mind. Try, he had said. So she would try. She tried, and she thought of glowing to push away Connor, to hurt Rory, to float up into Dagaz--even thought of the time she had used the power to glow as a human nightlight, when she'd had nightmares about Angelus.
She tried.
And dim, flickering, not enough to even zap a moth just yet--her skin began to glow in the dark of the room.
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Date: 2013-05-13 02:44 pm (UTC)He wanted information. So that was what this was about. Discovering how she had hurt him, learning how to stop it. She would have replied over my dead body but besides being a cliche, there was the possibility he would take that offer too seriously.
So she focused, instead.
She tried to shut him, this room, the whole situation, out of her mind. Try, he had said. So she would try. She tried, and she thought of glowing to push away Connor, to hurt Rory, to float up into Dagaz--even thought of the time she had used the power to glow as a human nightlight, when she'd had nightmares about Angelus.
She tried.
And dim, flickering, not enough to even zap a moth just yet--her skin began to glow in the dark of the room.