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'''Generator Room, Logging Camp'''<br> | '''Generator Room, Logging Camp'''<br> | ||
'''Late at night'''<br><br><br> | '''Late at night'''<br><br><br> | ||
− | The concrete was hard and cold and coupled with the wet state of my clothes, I wasn’t able to sleep. I kept shivering and waking up. After the fifth abrupt awakening, I gave up and gingerly | + | The concrete was hard and cold and coupled with the wet state of my clothes, I wasn’t able to sleep. I kept shivering and waking up. After the fifth abrupt awakening, I gave up and rose gingerly to pace the room. Maybe if I got my blood pumping I could warm up enough to cease shivering.<br><br> |
''Maybe then I can sleep''.<br><br> | ''Maybe then I can sleep''.<br><br> | ||
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− | I heard his call and carefully made my way over. If the others were having as hard a time sleeping as I, I didn't want to add to their trouble | + | I heard his call and carefully made my way over. If the others were having as hard a time sleeping as I, I didn't want to add to their trouble. I sensed rather than saw Joshua before I stepped on him and hunkered down at his shoulder. The wall was concrete, just like the floor, but it held me up as I leaned in and said quietly, "I've been worse."<br><br> |
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− | + | Despite the technicality of it being summer, the rain and the cool night air made the temperature cool. Unless of course, you were the crew of the Summer's Gift, who had spent the day soaked to the bone. In that case, the temperature was cold and it was clear to Joshua she must be freezing. "Come here," he ordered quietly under his breath, and opened up his arm for her to come get warm with him.<br><br> | |
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''What if I had just stayed in the dropship in the first place?''<br><br> | ''What if I had just stayed in the dropship in the first place?''<br><br> | ||
− | He wasn't sure he was going to be able to sleep at all tonight. | + | He wasn't sure he was going to be able to sleep at all tonight. And I so wanted to be rested for the full day's work ahead of me, he thought sarcastically.<br><br> |
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I closed my eyes as he took my hand and I sent a prayer of thanks Heavenward for the extra warmth. I kept my other hand firmly where it was, determined not to be greedy. I was warming up, if slowly, but slow would do.<br><br> | I closed my eyes as he took my hand and I sent a prayer of thanks Heavenward for the extra warmth. I kept my other hand firmly where it was, determined not to be greedy. I was warming up, if slowly, but slow would do.<br><br> | ||
− | "Cooperation," I said after a minute. "It might get us more than confrontation will. And seriously, without the | + | "Cooperation," I said after a minute. "It might get us more than confrontation will. And seriously, without the drop ship, there's no getting out of here on foot alive. The road's mined upslope and down. They're nasty. Rick triggered one and we were damned lucky we could maintain the tension on it long enough for him jump clear. No telling what other surprises lie buried there. Survivalists held this camp, Joshua, paranoid at a level that makes me look mellow. So for the woods, there's no way they'll leave their rear flank unprotected. The woods are going to be mined. Maybe set with man traps, too. That avenue's a dead end."<br><br> |
Joshua's body heat and his rain jacket finally worked and the last of the shivers ran their course. <br><br> | Joshua's body heat and his rain jacket finally worked and the last of the shivers ran their course. <br><br> | ||
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"I'm rubbing off on you. What were you thinking? The abseiling, the deer, the bunker. I'm not saying you were wrong, exactly, just ... it just seemed a little extreme for you. What's going on?"<br><br> | "I'm rubbing off on you. What were you thinking? The abseiling, the deer, the bunker. I'm not saying you were wrong, exactly, just ... it just seemed a little extreme for you. What's going on?"<br><br> | ||
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− | "Stay," he said quickly. "Please stay. I need you." Not just for the night, but forever, he thought. But imprisoned in the dark with their potential death looming over them was probably not the best time to have that conversation. | + | "Stay," he said quickly. "Please stay. I need you." Not just for the night, but forever, he thought. But imprisoned in the dark with their potential death looming over them was probably not the best time to have that conversation. Or then again, maybe it was.<br><br> |
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− | Never one to turn down a lady, Joshua did as she asked and let the heat between the two of them burn away all those painful | + | Never one to turn down a lady, Joshua did as she asked and let the heat between the two of them burn away all those painful what-ifs about the past day's events. Tomorrow was suddenly looking to be a much better day.<br><br> |
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