Treading Water (2/3)

A/N:  I know it was originally a two parter, but it didn't want to smoosh itself down into just two parts so now it's a three parter.  I can't argue with it when it gets this way.  Not work or child friendly.  NC-17.  Nine/Rose.  Sorry about the formatting.  LJ is wonky and doesn't want to let me take out the extra lines between paragraphs. *sighs*

 

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Treading Water (2/3)

A/N:  I know it was originally a two parter, but it didn't want to smoosh itself down into just two parts so now it's a three parter.  I can't argue with it when it gets this way.  Not work or child friendly.  NC-17.  Nine/Rose.  Sorry about the formatting.  LJ is wonky and doesn't want to let me take out the extra lines between paragraphs. *sighs*

 

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Of the Vortex Born: Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty:  With Great Power

Jamie’s smile was empty and cold as she raised her hands and tongues of flame leapt forward, encircling Mickey Smith and John Cassidien in an uneven ring of fire. Slowly she brought her hands together and inch by inch the light moved towards the two men.

“Jamie, no!” Mairi screamed, her cool reserve broken, gone in a flash of insight that told her that her sister would not come back from the murder of these two men, no matter how justified the child might consider it to be. Jamie’s eyes turned on her older sister and she tilted her head, regarding her as if she were an unknown quantity and not the person she had grown up with. Mairi rushed forward, her hands going to Jamie’s arms to try to pull her sister into a hug, but she was repelled as Jamie bounced her off.

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Of the Vortex Born: Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty:  With Great Power

Jamie’s smile was empty and cold as she raised her hands and tongues of flame leapt forward, encircling Mickey Smith and John Cassidien in an uneven ring of fire. Slowly she brought her hands together and inch by inch the light moved towards the two men.

“Jamie, no!” Mairi screamed, her cool reserve broken, gone in a flash of insight that told her that her sister would not come back from the murder of these two men, no matter how justified the child might consider it to be. Jamie’s eyes turned on her older sister and she tilted her head, regarding her as if she were an unknown quantity and not the person she had grown up with. Mairi rushed forward, her hands going to Jamie’s arms to try to pull her sister into a hug, but she was repelled as Jamie bounced her off.

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