Because it's not like I'm doing any actual work today...

[deathpixie]

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"If you do something right the first time, nobody will appreciate how difficult it was"

[indiana-j.livejournal.com]

When Doug hit the ground screaming, the sword embedded in his upper thigh and blood forming eddy's around his body, Amanda's answering cry wasn't one of pain or fear.

In fact, if Doug had been able to listen and think clearly, he would have realized the torrent of noise wasn't raw emotion. It wasn't an attempt to best Terry in loudest noise from the diaphragm. The noise was actually interlocking words -- old, ancient and powerful words.

And they were angry.

The effort forced reality to bend to the witch's magic and the demon that had been one step away from tearing Doug's heart out simply stopped. He not only stopped his actions but he simply stopped being.

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Later, Amanda stood in the shadows of the building and watched Doug being taken off to the hospital. Wanda had forced a mug of tea in her hand from...somewhere.

Remy and Pete had checked on her, in their own way, and questioned her.

They had congratulated her on a job well done and try as she might...

Amanda rubbed the middle of her chest with a wince. Try as she might, she could not get them to understand how difficult that had actually been. That spell had been buried in her subconscious and not one she had ever studied on her own.

It had ripped itself free and in doing so, opened her to forces she didn't quite understand as yet.

The last person she had ever seen work that spell had been Rack and the implications scared her to the bottom of her very soul.

And so her friends and coworkers congratulated her on a job well done as she stood in the shadow of the building, a hand pressed to her chest and feeling very alone and all of five years old again.

Re: "If you do something right the first time, nobody will appreciate how difficult it was"

[deathpixie]

*eees* Man, two for two on the freaking fantastic drabbles. A lucky girl is me!