all this work gone to waste

[lipochrome]

Who: gideon nav and cr
What: a july catch-all
When: mid-late july
Where: the beach, cobra kai, gaze

Content Warnings: marked in comment headers, but expect death, grief, corruption, religious and family trauma

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[slayerskiss]

[It's not the first time she's felt someone severed off of her like a tumor. Although, in both cases, Faith knows that she was the disease. She didn't remember the girl before her. Every instance she could think of, replaced by someone else.

But she felt her, like a shackle against her throat, a few times. When she had that kid, Paul, in front of her and she was ready to kill him, it was this girl who yanked her back. When she tried to scream at Johnny to get to safety - to get away from Willow - a girl that she trusted - was that the slayer or the cavalier? Was there any difference at that point? When she killed Willow, she felt like they were moving as one for the first time since they'd been merge.

She understands the girl before her now, far deeper than she ever asked to, and she knows that the cavalier understands her too. She had front row tickets to the rot within her as it was revealed for all to see.

Which is a bit awkward.

She approaches her. A name ghosting her lips.]

...Gideon.

[That's her name. And she owes it to her to remember it.]