Chris closed his eyes, waiting for the end, wondering if it was true that a vampire's soul died with his body. He wondered if there would be a light. But instead of light, or even just a simple loss of sensation, he felt warmth and heat, first in his shoulder where Mary's stake had grazed him, pinning his shirt to the floor, then through the rest of his body as she settled onto him, pressing her lips against his own.
He kissed her back, resting his hands hesitantly on her hips. The sudden, unexpected brush with death had left him awash in confusion and uncertainty, and he still wasn't entirely sure that Mary hadn't obliterated his heart - he certainly felt like he was bleeding out - maybe this was some trick the brain played whilst one was in the throes of death.
As Mary took off her shirt and began tugging at his belt buckle, the absurdity of the situation hit him full force. His last coherent thought was to completely ignore any further thoughts. After all, terrifying was simply a synonym for exciting, and this, right now, was the fuel time burned to keep the whole world going. To start asking questions would be downright blasphemous. Instead, he closed his eyes and let sensation after sensation wash over him, finding his way around Mary's body on instinct and the map of her he'd been drawing in his head for so many months. Even the lust for blood, awake inside him as always, had been quieted enough to slip away with everything else.
The tires screeched as James slammed on the brakes outside of Chris Peterson's house. It was the last place he'd thought to check - it had seemed unlikely that a vampire would bring someone into his home, to where he slept. What if Mary had managed to survive, to get away? All she would have to do is wait until sunrise, and that would be that. And why would Mary, however irrational she'd been, allow Chris to take her to completely unfamiliar territory?
With a sinking feeling he realized he was wrong - neither one of them would have come back here. He had missed them, Chris had already disposed of her body, and now he was back home brushing his teeth and slipping into pajamas. Mary had been right about one thing at least- Chris would die tonight.
James' heart jumped when he saw Mary, alive, well, and sleeping. Sleeping? Maybe she couldn't find Chris' car keys after she killed him. She would have been tired, and she'd had several drinks earlier in the night. Staying the night here had probably been the best option she had.
James: "Mary?"
Mary: "What are you doing here?"
James: "I was looking for you."
Mary: "Oh. Good. Can you give me a ride home?"
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So, um... gawsh. I think I need to comment on how much of a lusty wench Mary was in this episode. Because she is the lustiest wench who ever lived with that hairmesh and those jeans and those peacock earrings. It's like she *knew* she was gettin' some action with Chris.
She's also absolutely completely bonkers. It might be hard to figure why she decided to screw her stalker, the bloke who's been threatening her and bent on killing her... but then if you think about it, it's really not. Sex and violence get really close to each other somehow... and given how close she and James had gotten in the last couple of episodes, I think there was a lot of rage in her she had directed at him... especially after his comment in the bathroom -- "But there is nothing - NOTHING - I could do that would make me hate myself so much as to take a toxic, bitter, broken thing like you to my bed." -- (There were tears, Sara, I cried) -- it all just makes sense in Mary's weird, screwed up logic.
I also agree that Chris popping up from the bed wearing that shit-eating grin is possibly the most amazing picture of the series.
What else, what else.... Oh, yes. Deanna.
I like her. I like her a LOT. Even when my fangirl heart is screaming, "BUT TRISTAN AND EMILY CLEARLY BELONG 2GETHERRRR!" I really like Deanna. Damn you for making her so... genuine. She's not a bitch. She's just... normal. Poor thing. She has no idea the mess she stepped into when she got involved with Tristan Payne. She's not Diana Fowley of the X-Files (you know what I'm talking about, Sara) who was such a raging bitch everyone wanted her to die, whether you were a Mulder/Scully shipper or not (and I wasn't, just for the record. Not at all. *twitch*twitchtwitch*)
I want to see more of Deanna. That poor, poor girl. She doesn't really need to die. She just needs to be with someone other than Tristan. *nods sagely*
You know who does need to die, though? IAN. OH GOD. DIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDEIEIEIEFIUJHBJ^&%R!T2YFGERG *stabbystabbystabbystab* I already have such a bad association with the name. I might have to dig up the nickname I have for the real life Ian and call this fictional variety the same thing: Satan. Loving petname, isn't it? *growls*
Tristan and James's backstory? Heartbreaking. Pure and simple. I've said it before and I'll say it again... James and Tristan are like brothers, and I'm sure after 100 some odd years, Tristan has forgiven James for what he did.... but you never forget. And that scares the shit out of me for some reason.
A superb job as always, ladies! The best thing to get for Christmas is a big ol' helping of ANGST. WOOOOO.
Right then. I'm off to work on my play and write a paper and study for a final and do all this other stuff in the next 24 hours. Woooooot!
Mildest of predictions, somewhere in the mistiest of futures:
Andy has someone (probably Chris or his crack team of vampire hunters) kill Ian. It is Andy's last act of deux ex machina, and he does it for Emily . . . out of twu wuv. But Emily loves Tristan and Tristan loves Emily, so Andy is cut out of the picture. (Kismet, fate, the stars, whatever. Those two totally need to make babies to frolic with James and Mary's.) After this, Andy continues on the straight and narrow, but he is a shell of a man. Jade recognizes this, and nurses him back to his full vibrance. They have hella smart babies with weird hair.
So, do I get a cookie?
"This emotion called 'wuv' confuses and enrages us."
Somewhere, in some parallel universe, there so has to be Andy/Jade hella smart weird hair babies.
"Mawwiage. Mawwiage is wot brings us togevver today. Mawwiage, that bwessed awwangement, that dweam wifin a dweam . . . and wuv, twu wuv, will follow you fo'eva and eva . . . so tweasure your wuv."
And those babies are taking over the world!
DP merchandise? *nudgenudge*
No there doesn't. :D ;) Though, I reckon that would be kinda cute in a not so cute way. Make sense, much? ;)