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A deathwish is usually made long before it's realized. Before she was ever made Valentine, Faye was the type of girl who chased after dreams and would leap off the edge of a cliff without looking down. Reckless abandon was encouraged by a pair of parents so caring and attentive that she never wanted for anything, parents who cleared the path of brambles and branches for their daughter, never letting her feel so much as a scratch. To the girl who lived a life of safety, danger and risk were intoxicating and quickened the heart in a way that not even love could, forming thoughts that persisted even when memories had long since faded and broken away.

From early on, Faye was made to be a hunter.

It shows now, in the bright red that runs down from her knee and the harsh breathing that barely manages to fill her lungs. Her gun is held still and the aim true, save for the slight rattle of the weapon that comes from hands being raised through sheer willpower alone. All around Faye, their blood painting books dusty from disuse, are the bodies of Splicers. Figures, she's murmured to herself, that they'd all be hiding out behind stacks of books. Figures, that even men who lose their minds are nothing other than cowards.

Her breath is ragged with a slight protest, an unwillingness on Faye's part to let go. She just has one more. One more Splicer, who lopes around with predatory intent, that Faye needs to put down. She can do it. She could do it. But her vision is starting to swim and adrenaline is learning to fade, replaced by fatigue as her heel grinds against tile and startles the creature, inspires a flying rage.

"Shit," she bites out, raising her voice as she stumbles back, firing a couple of shots that barely clip its shoulder. "Dammit, hold still!"

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Date: 2011-07-27 03:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weary-head.livejournal.com
When Dean finds his feet, it's pure dumb luck that sets them stumbling in the right direction, the white of a pillar little more than a gray smudge in the shadows swimming before his eyes. Soon there's a body rising out of the dust in front of him, and Dean aims his Glock, realizing just in time that it's Faye. Still standing then. Well, that's just pure dumb luck, too.

"Faye," he whispers when he reaches her, setting his shoulder against the pillar. Hell, it must be the only solid thing in this room, and Dean leans hard, lets it take his weight while he reloads his gun with fingers that would tremble, but Dean's fought his way through enough concussions that they don't.

"There's two behind me," he says, eyes landing on the bolt of crimson by her ear, following it down to her jaw. "At least. You good to shoot?"

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Date: 2011-07-27 04:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weary-head.livejournal.com
Dean takes up position behind her, back to back and aiming his gun into the darkness that spreads all around them. Nothing, there's nothing, just settling dust and their own harsh breathing, until -

There's a sound so small, so shuffling and slight, that Dean could think he imagined it, but it doesn't stop. Straining his ears, Dean steps away from Faye, gun trained first right, then left, but still there's nothing, but the sound continues, seems like it's getting closer, and Dean looks up.

"Faye!" he shouts, but he can't stop the Splicer's descent, its inhuman body unfixed from the ceiling above, red hooks in hand and headed right for Faye. There's no time to warn her, no chance to shoot its body without risking hers, and Dean does the only thing he can do. He takes a running leap and barrels into Faye with enough force to shove her out of the Splicer's path, twisting as they fall to fire a round through the Splicer's chest.

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Date: 2011-07-29 10:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weary-head.livejournal.com
They land sprawled together, and despite it all, Dean's first instinct is to make a joke, mouth open and headed for some throwaway lewdness to dispel the fact that they're still surrounded, but then her lips are on his. Her mouth is sweet and warm and gone almost as quick, and in the beat between Dean draws a breath, only half-gathered before she kisses him again.

God help him, the sound Dean makes is less grunt than groan, contact he's been starved for suddenly freely offered, and he doesn't care if it's meant to distract, to punish, to shut him up. It feels good, and so does she, and when they part Dean's dazed and gasping, taking the hand she offers with startled eyes that only grow wider when she dispatches the nearest Splicer with a deadly blast from her Glock.

"Okay," says Dean, swiping his forearm over his mouth before he grabs another twisted body before it can leap, drags it down and close enough that he can crack his fist over cheekbone and jaw. "That works, too."

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Date: 2011-07-29 10:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weary-head.livejournal.com
For the longest moment she just stands there, looking at him like she wants to take a step closer, and god - despite the bodies lying all around, the blood on both their faces, he wants her to. He wants her to do what he's still too afraid to do and take that step, but she doesn't.

Dean's breath leaves him all at once, disappointment warring with relief that he hasn't fallen yet, is neither climbing nor slipsliding towards something he can't escape from. Never mind that what he's hiding from could save him. It could hurt him, and he's spent so long hurting already. He needs to stop being so goddamn reckless around her, needs to be careful. He believes that, too, armor almost up and settled familiar on his shoulders, right up to the moment she calls to see if he's coming, and Dean is moving at a speed that shouldn't be left in his tired limbs.

He catches up with her as the hallway expands, close at her side as they journey towards the bathysphere that will take them home. His hands won't seem to behave, almost reaching for hers before he stops them, hovering near the small of her back, little touches that are surely meant to reassure himself more than her, but after everything, Dean can't be sure that they'd be welcome. If anything, Faye's given every indication that she prefers to do things on her own, and she can climb into a bathysphere without help, can hit its buttons without Dean close by her side, but here he is, lips still tingling and eyes never straying far. Even in the faded light of Rapture, she's so goddamn beautiful, an angry flush high in her cheeks that only makes her eyes brighter, and Dean finds himself reaching despite all the ways he's tried not to, smoothing violet locks back from the cut along her hairline.

"Sorry," he says quietly, and even as he says it, he doesn't know what it's for. Everything, maybe, the things he can control and all the ones he can't, for his hands on her and the way he can't seem to make himself stop. "Faye."

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Date: 2011-07-30 10:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weary-head.livejournal.com
He wants to tell her he's not, that she's not the wrong person, she's the only one he's speaking to, but is that even true? Dean's lived so much in so few years, he has so much to mourn and to regret, more than he could ever fix with a one word apology. It doesn't seem fair that the same single word could invoke so much, but it does, and he reels with the lurch of the elevator, too.

Reels and just keeps falling, because she's back, warm and alive and with him, and Dean's hands are as helpless as they've ever been to stay away, spreading eagerly over the rich swell of her hips to drag her closer. His blood's been close to boiling all day, first the thrill of the fight, then anger, now this, want bubbling up and over, overtaking his senses and his good sense, too, because they're in a goddamn elevator and he wants to eat her alive, see her as bare as he feels, the quick catches of skin beneath his fingers not enough. "Faye," he says, reclaiming her mouth, kissing her with everything he has like he can will her not to stop. "Faye," he says, and then again, so at least she'll know that, despite all the ways in which Dean is fucked up, he knows who it is he's here with, who he wants.

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Date: 2011-07-31 04:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weary-head.livejournal.com
"H-hi," Dean stutters, stupid with the hot bolt of pleasure that courses through him at her sudden touch, all the blood he might have used crafting a more eloquent reply surging downwards, hardening him in the loose circle of her hand. Even after everything, after the kiss, a part of him hadn't believed that this would happen, that she'd go for it, but she has, and Dean makes a shivery but steady effort to get his shit together. He might be a sadbastard shell of the man he used to be, but he still knows how to show a lady a good time, goddammit.

His hands shake when he lifts them, but he gets the one button of her shirt undone, nearly losing his knees all over again when it comes open just like that. "Faye," he says again, and he knows he sounds a little too eager, too desperate, but he's been alone for so long now, not wanting anyone for months, but here underground, surrounded by death and danger and Faye, Dean feels alive again.

"God," he exhales, unable to resist a moment longer, one hand curving around the heavy weight of her breast, the other at the back of her neck to steady her when Dean seals his mouth over hers, hungry for her in each and every way he can get.

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Date: 2011-08-13 04:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weary-head.livejournal.com
"Thought I was comin' in here all business," Dean grunts before losing his voice to a groan, her teeth sharp and unexpected against his skin. He's half tangled up in machete straps and extra casings, slid from his shoulders and wrapped round his elbows, but Dean shrugs them violently off, the smallest bite of her teeth enough to having him moving rough and reckless. Surging forward, he grabs her up, hands beneath her ass and lifting until her long legs are wrapped around his waist.

"We're really doin' this," he murmurs, half to himself, and then he's lost to the soft warmth of her breasts, stubble scraping over delicate skin before he tempers himself, sets his lips to the spot and soothes with his tongue. It's been forever since he had his face between a woman's breasts, and he feels as eager as a child, but he only means to be half as clumsy.

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Date: 2011-08-23 02:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weary-head.livejournal.com
She rolls against him just right, just like she's been made to fit there, and Dean washes hot all over, toes curling in his boots. He hears the thunk of her own behind him, and knows instinctively that he'll never get that far. He wants her too much, too badly, but hell. Won't be the first time he's fucked with his boots on.

It's a filthy thought, but it seems to match everything about this day - the dank and dark of Rapture, the bodies they've left behind, all the unspeakable things he wants to do to the woman wrapped around his waist. He feels a sudden need to make up for it, make it good, but he thinks he'll settle for making her scream.

Peeling her hands from him, Dean wraps her fingers around the support rail of the bathysphere, drops her legs from his waist and then drops himself to his knees. Catching her waist in his hands, Dean nuzzles at the soft skin of her belly, deft fingers pulling those little shorts she wears open and down. "Definitely not stopping," he breathes hot against her, sealing his mouth over where she's already wet through her underwear.

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Date: 2011-08-23 03:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weary-head.livejournal.com
Dean hums, his lips parting in a smile before he nips at her, fingers hooked in the waistband to peel her panties down. He goes slow, gives her time to protest, even after everything that's come before, but there's something almost shy in her voice, in the way she tries not to speak.

"I like the way you say my name," he says as he pulls her leg gently over his shoulder. They're words he's spoken before, usually with a cocky quirk of his brow, but this time he really means it. The words aren't a boast, they're an invitation. He wants her to enjoy this, to let go, be loud, god, he wants to hear it.

Ducking his head, he kisses up the delicate skin of her inner thigh, but this time he doesn't stop, and when he reaches the sweet, hot core of her, Dean's tongue flicks out, every part of him eager to taste her.

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Date: 2011-08-27 02:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weary-head.livejournal.com
"I have my way," he murmurs, heady with the taste of her, her scent all around him, "there's gonna be a couple afters." Ducking his head, Dean sets himself to the task in earnest, and god, it's been forever since he tasted a woman. She's warm and sweet, hot when he narrows his tongue and pushes, seeking entrance.

He can't help but groan when he finds it, can't get far, not even when he grips her ass to bring her even closer, but it's still good, all tight, slick heat that he wants to slip his fingers through next, his dick. "Faye," he mutters into her skin, face a mess for the quick second he looks up at her, heel of one hand at his own groin and pressing hard. Christ, he could almost come from this, just from the sounds she makes. "C'mon, pull my hair if you wanna, I don't mind."

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Date: 2011-08-31 03:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weary-head.livejournal.com
Dean looks up at her, color high in his cheeks and pupils blown wide as he stares, so turned on he's nearly uncomprehending. He gets with the program though, wipes the back of his hand against his mouth and stands to meet her.

"Like the way you sound," he murmurs, and fuck, he might as well just tell her he likes everything, because his body's not exactly making it a secret. He's so hard he's lightheaded, and even the smallest brush of her body against the tent in his boxers makes him want to die. He tries to be gentle, but he wants her so much, and when Dean kisses her it's hard and hungry.

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Date: 2011-10-11 02:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weary-head.livejournal.com
Dean makes a sound like he's dying, and for a moment, the only sound of assent that follows is the sharp intake of his breath, each tiny shuddering exhale staccato sharp against her skin. "Want that," he growls into her throat, "want you."

Shoving his boxers down, he stills her hand on him as gently as he can with trembling fingers, so close already that if she keeps touching him, he's gonna go off. "Wanted you forever, god, Faye," he groans, lined up and ready though he doesn't slide home, some part of him afraid that somehow, in the next moment, this delirious fantasy will be gone. "Make it so good for you, I promise, just let me," he gasps, "Let me, let me - "

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Date: 2011-10-11 05:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weary-head.livejournal.com
Her voice whips through him like a wind, and for once there's no goad there, all this crap designed to make it meaningless something Faye really thinks she believes, and all at once Dean does want to make her scream. It's the same shit he tells himself every night, but right here and now he's sick of it, he wants to feel, and by god she's going to feel it, too.

There's a fuck you there when he opens his mouth, but he says it with his hips instead, slides forward and in in in, deep into tight, wet heat. "Gonna learn how you like it," he says against her ear, pulls his hips back to thrust again, his hands tight on her hips to angle her to take him just so. "Gonna make you wish you weren't too stubborn to come back for more."

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