assorted non-canon and AU threads

[aesculapian]

who wants delicious post-forest terribleness

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[miraculess]

You left a mark, Lethe. It's one of the few things I still have.

[shutsdown]

A... mark?

[HE'S BEEN ASLEEP SO LONG AND WHAT IS THIS]

[miraculess]

[ i'm sorry you're waking up to too many feelings: the lilith story, lethe

she. starts going a little pink, significantly less patchily than she used to ]

...I didn't mean that entirely literally, but. ...there's a scar on my shin from where you cut it; I've had most of the others healed, but I kept that one. I—

...I can count the number of people I wanted near my stitches on one hand, even after more than a year. I didn't want to forget.

[shutsdown]

That's-

Lilith?

[???!??!??!??!?!????!??!

this should make him happy and on some level it does but he can't. feelings. right now.]

[miraculess]

[ looks like she desperately wishes she could hide her face. ...hide her face more ]

I'm sorry if it was selfish, but I couldn't leave you there.

[shutsdown]

...I'm just. Tired. It's fine, Lilith.

[miraculess]

[ shifts him slightly, agitated and trying not to cling to him more than she already is ]

... all right.

[shutsdown]

[...tucks his face against her shoulder. hiding, a bit.]

[miraculess]

[ ...doesn't say anything after that, turning her attention back to picking her way through the woods. letting him hide.

at least until she breaks through into a clearing of some sort and inhales abruptly, startled. that... sure is a cute little house completely out of nowhere. ]

[shutsdown]

[the sharp intake of breath spooks him, and as his head snaps up he's already fighting to lunge from her arms]

[aesculapian]

[ Lilith flinches, would start to tighten her hold on him automatically—

but Samael has been watching them both like a hawk, and she lets Lethe go as soon as he starts to struggle, holds their empty hands up as though being unarmed means anything at all. ]

[shutsdown]

[He lands on legs shaky with disuse, half-stumbles, then drops into a crouch, one hand touching to the ground to help support him as his legs protest.

Lethe looks so wild like this, surveying the scene with those sharp gold eyes, ruling out other threats before looking to them.]

[aesculapian]

[ ...oh. he wasn't reacting to them so much as...

she blinks at him, very wide-eyed ]

That was my fault ... I am sorry.

[ Lilith's voice, but the tone is all wrong; pitched higher, soft enough to be just short of breathy ]