Raven Revivals by Amy Cross

Author:Amy Cross [Cross, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

Opening her eyes slowly, Anna finds herself staring up at a patch of light that has fallen across a Bioshock 2 poster on Scott's wall. She blinks a couple of times, surprised by the fact that somehow morning seems to have sneaked up on her, and finally she turns to see Scott sleeping next to her.

“Oh,” she whispers, as flashes of memory reach out to her. She pauses, thinking back to all the things they did during the previous night, and although her first instinct is to turn and run, she forces herself to stay exactly where she is. This is the first time she has ever woken up next to a guy before, having always preferred in her earlier life to get moving as soon as the act was over.

Holding her arm up, she flexes her fingers, still shocked by how well her body has healed. She was half-expecting to find that she'd regressed to her zombie form during the night, but now she's finally allowing herself to believe that the change is permanent. It's still not her original arm, but she figures she can live with a few cosmetic changes.

“Hey,” Scott says suddenly.

Looking over at him, she sees that his eyes are open wide, staring up at her.

“Hey,” she replies with an embarrassed half-smile.

“You okay?”

She nods.

“That wasn't a weak-ass question,” he continues. “I meant it. Are you properly okay?”

“I'm properly okay. Whatever that means.”

“You don't regret anything?”

She shakes her head.

“Me neither.”

He holds a hand out toward her, and she allows herself to sink back down onto the bed. As she feels him putting his strong, warm arms around her, Anna can't quite shake the feeling that she's in unfamiliar territory now.

“You've got some cool scars,” Scott says after a moment. “It almost looks like your arms and legs were cut off and then stuck back on again.” He runs a finger along the scar that circles the top of her arm, where just a few days earlier the new arm was sewn into place; already, the skin has almost completely fused over the wound. “Hell,” he continues, checking the scar at the top of her leg, “it's exactly like they were stuck back on. What are you, Frankenstein's monster?”

Smiling, Anna stares up at the ceiling. The situation with Scott feels simultaneously very very right and very very wrong, and she figures she's just going to have to live with those conflicting sensations for a while. Still, she has another feeling gnawing at her soul, and this one is harder to ignore: she can't shake the fear that something somewhere is very wrong, and that while it's very nice being naked in bed with Scott, there's somewhere else she's needed.

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