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of the Fox Network, James Cameron & Charles H. Eglee.
Any new/and or original characters and creations are the personal property of
(C) E.J Whitehouse.
Worthy
By EMI
Over the years he’d been to
She was always the one he
dreamed about the most, her dark eye’s and wide smile keeping him warm and
giving him comfort on those nights when sleep simply refused to come.
Not long after his first visit
to rainy Seattle, he’d gone up to the high place, to watch the city’s denizens
below and to find that small amount of piece that being high above the world
afforded.
He’d scented her as soon as
he’d stepped out onto the rim. Even after all these years her scent was still
embedded in his mind and in his heart.
It hadn’t been difficult to
trail her after that, he just followed his nose.
For day’s he’d watch her
coming and going from her place of work, surrounded by her friends. And during
the nights he trailed her as she stalked around the rooftops of her adopted
city, like a tigress on the prowl.
Once or twice he thought she
may have sensed him; as occasionally she would stop what she was doing and cock
her head to one side as though listening for something… for someone… for him.
He watched her to see if she
still believed.
To see if she would be worthy
of him.
Worthy of her.
Every few months or so he
would return to
He’d known she was there from
the moment he’d opened the chapel’s door. Her sweet scent floating to him on
the air.
But it wasn’t until he heard
her voice. Heard her say his name for the first time in an eternity that he let
himself smile.
Turning around he drank in the
sight of her, as her dark curls framed her delicate face, and her soulful eyes
gazed at him in sorrow.
“Max” it came out as a
whisper, surprising himself.
“Ben, why are you doing this?”
He could hear the unshed tears
in her beautiful voice, as her pain for him washed over him like water.
Cleansing him. Purifying him. A ghost of a smile graced his features, and for a
moment his golden eyes lit-up with an inner light.
She was ready.
She was worthy.
She would help him find the ‘
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