Old friends, young hearts (Kisa)

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He watched the lion leave his home. He wasn't sure that he had ever seen a more fitting combination of man and beast. Samuel was as imperious as the myth of the beast which stalked within him.
D'arcangelo went back into his abode further into his cocoon pulling the wards as tight about him as he could.

He was not one-hundred percent but he could no longer watch from the shadows. The first step on his road had to be her. Everything else he could manage even in his weakened condition if but for her.
He'd gone halfway around the world to give the city a chance to flourish. He'd been willing to be unhappy for the rest of his life for the chance of his city to survive.

Now he was back and just like there he couldn't keep her from his mind.

Picking up his phone he dialed her number waiting as it began to ring...

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Kisa was in a half stupor Bernie was still in russia and she had taken to using her training to beat herself into a stupor every day and night. She had had to replace the punching bag 4 times now in the home gym. She had also spent a bit more time in the hyena form seeking the solace of being just an animal not thoughts aside from here and now. She'd let herself go and she had lost weight concern was evident from the faces of the others.

She'd started eating more trying to regain what she had lost but it takes work and it was a half hearted effort.

She reached out blindly and picked up her phone. At first number nor ringtone registered so she simply answered it. "Kisa"

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She wasn't smiling. He could hear it in her voice. He didn't bother to scry her. He knew that she wasn't in a pleased place. He allowed a few seconds to escape. There was so much to say but the words bottle-necked in his throat.

He could and had more often than not faced down angry lycanthropes, an army of guns or even a slew of all the above. Yet, now the idea if any hurt having befallen Kisa made his nerve quaver as a leaf in a tornado.

"Kisa..."

Keep it business he chided himself. Don't make it about anything but business. Not yet. He couldn't bare the hurt in her voice as it was anymore and his strength would vanish like the dinosaurs.

"I've sent you someone. He is not of your persuasion but I trust your judgment to deal fairly with him and the situation of his staying in Chicago."

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Kisa was quiet. She felt more like a deluge of ice water had just crashed over her shoulders. When he spoke her name. She shivered as she sat up from the mat in the floor of her gym.

"I will do what I can."

Her voice held no inflection of an emotional state it didn't reflect the tears that damn near blinded her. At least she knew now he was alive and not dead. She took a casual breath.

"Mykael.."

She said his name for the first time in months and she was proud of herself her voice didn't crack she was holding her composure well for the moment. She licked her lips and tried again.

"Mykael." Her voice was slightly stronger to her own ears.

"No more of this just business. It's killing us."

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He chuckled sourly. She was right he knew it and yet. And yet... He wanted to leap for joy she'd validated what he felt. She gave him wings. Sadly he knew that also he could plummet and drag her screaming into hell with him.

"Fine," he said attempting to keep his voice neutral yet not managing. "Meet me here. I can't travel yet. I need to see your face..."

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"Bitterness doesn't become you...."

She considered how she was looking as of late thin and a little wild around the edges. Fear creeped in around the edges finally.

"Are you sure you want that..." She shook her head. The doubts we voiced and they sounded that way she knew where he was.

"i'll be there let me get clothes"

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"No it doesn't and neither does despair or failure. I've recently met both. I don't like either. I L...'" He stopped himself short. But just barely. Despite his doubts he knew how he felt but saying it would make it all to real and make him all that much more a fool.

"I do I want to see you."

"Kisa"

Kisa I will be here waiting," It was as close as he could come to believing that reality wouldn't disappear. He knew that either of their professions could place an end to things in a heartbeat. Yet he could no longer blindly deny it either. If anything his attempt to sacrice it all for the common good has shown him that he needed to risk it all in the here and now...

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She closed her eyes taking the phone away from her face for a few moment she wiped a hand across her eyes and then dragged it down the rest of her face.

"I'll be there soon Mykael" She'd already started moving grabbing clothes and dressing.
She didn't want to hang up the phone so she didnt automaticly adjusting it to her blue tooth her breathing was about the only sound. relief and excitement flooding through her veins. She wasn't alone.

She pulled on one of her slightly oversized sweaters over her work out clothes and her leggings slipping her feet into a pair of slip on boots she picked up keys wallet and headed for the door.

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Mykael fell into the the old ease of listening to her. The soft murmurous slide of cloth. Her breathing steady and strong. He tore his ear away from the phone looking at it as if it was the gaping maw of the future.

The siren song of the past was strong yet he knew that tomorrow was happening now. Pulling the phone back to his ear he spoke.

"Kisa I will see you hear..." though he meant to hang up he couldn't bring himself to do so. So he held the phone to his ear and moved to open his wards and the door. She was coming. He would see her again. His heart thumped in his chest...

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"I will be there shortly you know.." She wasn't able to hang up either want or not somethings never changed she drove slightlyover the legal limit but she drove and would be to his office in a matterof minutes

She sighed listening with her other senses hearing that somethign was wrong other then the mutual heart aches that had aslaied them both.

"Whats wrong Mykael?"

Just a matter of minutes now she would be to the building and then she would move quickly into the bbuilding and to him.