"Sure." Midona called to Anna over her shoulder.
"Hey." she said, sitting down beside Seth.
"Hey. Umm...Midona?"
"Yeah?"
"What's going on? What's happened to me? I- I'm so confused right now..."
Midona smiled sadly, and stroked his cheek with the back of one hand, the comfort she knew he was looking for.
"We're going back to conneticut. It'll be okay. You'll be fine, I promise. I'll never let anyone hurt you, my beautiful shadow boy."
Even as she said it, Midona knew that was a promise she couldn't keep, but for perhaps the first time, she was oddly saddened by that truth.
She liked Seth. If she was honest with herself, she liked him a lot. She wanted to keep him, to stay by his side, to protect him from the beatifully dangerous world she had drawn him into.
And she hated knowing just how finite his life was.
Creatures like us weren't made tolove, I know. What happened between Gabe and Blake proves that. But they tried, and...so must I.
She caught Seth's gaze and echoed Gabriel's long-ago words, "And no matter what happens, what you see me do...remember that sometimes, even the worst nightmares wish for peace. Even one's like me."
He looked up at her, "What does that even mean?"
Midona smiled and pressed a single kiss to his lips, "It means that we can do this, Seth."
((yay for recycling old quotes! Also, that comparison between Gabe/Blake and Midona/Seth definitley does NOT mean they will meet the same fate.
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