<<<*LK Spoiler Story*>>> O.K. I'm just back from three weeks on vacation and typing this in from my scribbled paper copy (first thing I've written _on paper_ in ages! ;-) It was written on the train between Philadelphia and DC the Tuesday after LK aired. I'm just typing it in now -- no beta-reading, no nothing. It's probably been already done to death as an idea, but I wouldn't know, as I was inexplicably nomailed that day on FKFIC and only now found out, so I haven't read any LK fic at all. If it's all repetative, just delete it, I understand. Oh, and it was going to be a drabble -- just to prove that I can so count to 100. Apparently I can't. So consider it a double-drabble. And for the purists among you, I've put a "^" after the hundredth word, so you all can just stop reading right there . Dianne .-*-.-*-.-*-.-*-.-*-.-*-.-*-.-*-.-*-.-*-.-*-.-*-.-*-. "POV" by Dianne DeSha (aka la Mercenaire) The searing pain was sudden, unexpected, as she fought to pull away. But the images were worse -- blood, lust, and time -- the sheer crushing weight of seemingly endless time. As though very far away she could feel the hardness of the floor beneath her head, the light chill of air against her exposed throat. Words. Familiar sounds tumbling all but unnoticed against her ears. Her eyelids parted of their own accord and her vision wandered, blurred, coming to rest on a shape... a figure.. poised.... A single word clutched and held her mind... Stake. The force of the impact ^ jolted her almost awake. She heard the clatter, saw the splintered point as it rolled away unheeded. More words. She fought to listen, to understand. The towering figure drifting, wavering before her eyes. A gift. The treasure. Peaches? But the rush was gone and there was less and less to hold on to. She hadn't noticed when her eyes closed again, barely registered the familiar sound of the closing door echoing through the empty loft. Angels? Devils? Never the empty box.... She awoke to the emptiness. And the hunger. .-*-.-*-.-*-.-*-.-*-.-*-.-*-.-*-.-*-.-*-.-*-.-*-.-*-.