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12 ~Salvo~ Jordan stared down at Dathilda's motionless body, before gently bending over and closing her eyes. The black centers were their normal size, but the surrounding whites were crimson, filled with blood from burst vessels. He picked up a bed sheet from where it was folded neatly next to her still body and gently snapped it open over her, let it float down to cover her. He made especially sure that her face and feet were covered, tucking the edges in around her body. He had come in
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11 ~Dathilda~ Anailde, who apparently felt that she wanted no more misfortune landing at her doorstep, waited a few days until Brandon was able to tolerate travel then loaded Jordan and Brandon into some kind of carriage and took them to another town. Brandon tried to sleep through the journey. Anailde had given him enough narcotics to knock out a small horse, but every bump and dip in the road pulled his back, keeping him awake but exhausted. Jordan sat silent next to him. After a while,
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10 ~The Chimney~ Jordan woke up to someone shaking him and a warm voice next to his ear. "Wake up, blue eyes, I have something for you." Jordan groaned in agitation, turning over in his warm cocoon of blankets. "I don't want it." A bark of laughter, feminine in nature, had Jordan opening his eyes. He sat up, blinking. "Right here," Brandon's voice, right next to him. "Listen. Anailde has some medicine that we have to put into your eyes. It's going to make you see better. All right?"
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09 ~Convalescing~ For Jordan, the transition between unconsciousness and awareness was a quick and confusing thing. He blinked, and upon seeing nothing, sat up too quick, a strong wave of dizziness and nausea assaulting him. "Whoa, easy there blue eyes," a voice said and warm arms came up around him, holding him gently. "I've got you." There was a shifting of weight and then something cool was pressed against Jordan's mouth. "Here, drink this. Just water." Jordan took a tentative
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08 ~Charion~ Brandon and Jordan might have left their world in the grip of a mellow fall sliding slowly into a cool winter, but in the field of too tall grass, it was the middle of Charion's summer. The sun beating down from the sky was about as hot as Jordan's body radiating against Brandon's side. He trudged forward, dragging Jordan with him. A few more staggering steps had them out of the tall blades into a clearing which had shorter, normal looking grass, crops of some kind growing
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07 ~The In Between~ Brandon opened his eyes. At first he saw nothing but darkness, which frightened him. Then the shades of gray began to fall from his vision and he could take in his surroundings. It was the in between. Just like he had seen in his dreams and Charion, except everything was clearer and well defined, pulsing with life and color. Hell, even the air tasted different. Brandon took a deep breath, and then let it out. He felt a weight on him, and looking down he saw that
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06 ~Enable~ “So I want you to draw something that you made up...that I've never seen before," Jordan said. They were sitting on the floor of his new apartment, sparsely furnished, moving boxes all around them. Jordan tore one open, checked the contents, then refolded the flaps and pushed it aside. "You know you wouldn't have that problem if you had labeled your boxes once you had packed them," Brandon pointed out. "Yeah, well, I didn't think about that," Jordan mumbled. Brandon got o
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05 ~Lockbox~ Brandon sat in his room feeling lonely. Jordan had spent most of the past week at his house, packing up stuff to go in his new apartment. Thankfully, some of the students at school had gotten tired of picking on the "new gay" and had turned their attention elsewhere, allowing Brandon to slip back into the semi-anonymity that he had before the entire incident. Alexis and Andrew were still a phone call away, but what he wanted to talk about wasn't something they would understand.
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04 ~Tension and Torque~ They laid there for a while, not speaking. Jordan liked it, liked the feel of Brandon pressed up next to him. All his previous sexual encounters had a hurried, cold feel to them. Undress, fuck, then leave. But this, lying in bed, cuddling and the occasional slow, unhurried touches were nice. Eventually Brandon got up and found a menu for a Chinese place that delivered, and they ate in bed, using chopsticks and making a mess, occasionally feeding each other bites of
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03 ~Emotional Involvement~ "Here is one," Brandon said later that week. It was lunchtime and Brandon was sitting outside with Jordan, leafing through an Apartment Guide that Jordan had picked up on the way to school. "One bedroom with a washer/dryer hookup and a microwave. And it's pet friendly." "I don't want a pet," Jordan said. "You might one day," Brandon pointed out. "Like a goldfish or something." Jordan smiled a little at that. He was stretched out, sunbathing, while Brandon looked t
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02 ~Outed~ Jordan left earlier than normal to go pick Brandon up for school. He wasn't thrilled at the prospect of having to explain the situation behind his bruises to Brandon, but it wouldn't be fair to ditch him. Brandon had become so used to Jordan picking him up that he wouldn't even try to catch the school bus. Then he would have to walk to school--like he had been doing the first time Jordan had approached him. Jordan smiled at the memory, although it hurt his lips. Brandon had looked
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Jordan lay on his bed, trying to complete his Physics homework. It wasn't a hard assignment, really, it was just following the formula in his textbook, but it was difficult to focus on anything right then. He had other things on his mind. First and foremost, Brandon. Brandon, who just the night before was in the middle of what definitely looked like rape when he interrupted. Jordan wasn't sure how Brandon was handling that, because it didn't seem like Brandon was handling it at all. Bra
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Bonds are formed, relationships are tested and trust is taken to the limit…in the In Between. The In Between is a sequel and a continuation of events in Not The Sun. If you haven't read Not The Sun, I suggest you do that first.
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17 ~Leia Again~ Brandon woke up later that afternoon and found himself alone on Jordan's bed. He stretched slightly, sliding his arms up under Jordan's pillow before pulling the pillow to him, burying his face in it and breathing in deeply. He could smell Jordan on it and it made him smile. He got up and left the room. Jordan was sitting downstairs, talking on his cellphone. He saw Brandon and waved at him, motioned for him. "Yeah," Jordan was saying. "No. Not since last night. No, I d
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16 ~Recuperations~ Brandon finally managed to pry his gummy eyelids apart around eight o clock the next morning. Every single particle of light seemed to shoot straight through his eyes to sear his brain. He moaned pitifully, his head pounding, and managed to maneuver himself out of bed. He stumbled into the bathroom and splashed some water on his face. He eyed the tub warily. He knew he needed a shower and a shave pretty badly, but that just wasn't happening right now. Instead he tugged on
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15 ~Breakdown~ Brandon had already made arrangements to spend the night away from home, so after stopping to pick up something to eat, they headed back to Jordan's house. Jordan found a note left by Dylan, telling him that he was out having dinner with a client. He sighed and threw it away. Typical Dylan. At least that was one thing that hadn't been turned upside down today. Brandon sat down at the table, unwrapping the food they had picked up from McDonalds. Jordan got out some paper plat
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14 ~Traps~ Brandon got to Jordan's house at noon the next day, not feeling totally rested, but well enough to at least fake it for a few hours. Dalaja was already up, but Nikki had yet to make an appearance. Jordan was making lunch for everybody. "Here, eat," Jordan said, setting a sandwich down in front of him. Brandon took a bite. It was turkey, provolone, tomato, mayo, with mustard and Brandon was ridiculously touched that Jordan had remembered something so little and so simple. Jordan
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13 ~Bonding~ "So, what now?" Brandon asked. He and Jordan were sitting on the couch in the living room with Nikki and Dalaja. "Well, we need to check this guy out, obviously," Nikki said. "I still don't like the fact that we don't know where this guy's Enabler is." "Could she be dead?" Brandon suggested. Nikki shook her head. "No. If a Creator loses his Enabler, he'll get another one. Until he does, he won't 'register' as a Creator anymore." Brandon thought of having someone othe
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12 ~Revelations~ The next week passed fairly uneventfully. Brandon found himself thinking of Keith with an unrelenting intensity that was beginning to piss him off. He hated the guy; he was glad to be rid of him, so why did he keep on stealing glances at him during class? Considering Keith was even in class... He seemed to be missing a lot of them recently, and Brandon wondered what was up with that. Sometimes he would catch himself staring at Keith's empty desk, like he was expecting to see
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11 ~Consequences~ Brandon got up the next morning, feeling a little bit weird about facing his parents. His dad would be gone to work, but his mom acted like nothing had changed... which was just how Brandon liked it. At noon, Andrew came by to pick him up. They were going to meet up with Alexis and go to a paintball court where they usually hung out. Normally Leia would be with them, but that would never happen again and Brandon knew that. Maybe one day he could accept it. But he was gla
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10 ~Feelings~ Jordan drove both of them back to Brandon's house after school the following day. He was a little nervous. Brandon hadn't mentioned the kiss and he hadn't mentioned the kiss even though he had a feeling that they both wanted to. But Brandon was acting like his normal self--well as normal as Brandon got now that Leia was gone, and Jordan didn't want to do anything to upset that. Especially with what he needed to talk to Brandon about. Instead of going up to his room like usual,
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09 ~Discoveries~ For Brandon, it became harder and harder for him to focus on anything. He was never the most attentive student at the best of times, but now he was lucky to remember what classes he had a test in or on what dates he had a project due. He got bawled out by his Shop teacher twice for almost causing an accident, and in one class, after he was given his test paper, he just wrote his name down and then stared at it until the bell rang and turned his test in, still completely b
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08 ~Leia~ Jordan glanced at Brandon as he drove. Brandon was hunched over in his seat, looking lost and younger than ever in a pair of blue jeans and an oversized sweatshirt with his hair still damp from the shower. Brandon hadn’t wanted to go to school... Jordan hadn’t been excited about the idea either, but Brandon also didn’t want to stay in his house all day by himself either, so Jordan took him to his house. Jordan wasn’t sure what they were going to do once they got there-all he ca
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07 ~Mirage~ Brandon didn't want to go to school the next day. He was still embarrassed and a little bit hurt. He would have felt better if Jordan had just straight out rejected him, even cruelly, but the frightened tone of voice that he had heard after making his confession bothered him a lot and made him feel bad. Did Jordan think that he would hurt him, that he would try to force him into something he didn't want... like Keith had done with him? Never. He felt like Jordan didn't trust him,
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06 ~Downtime~ Jordan woke Brandon up at the unholy hour of ten a.m. the next day. Brandon smacked at him from under his cave of blankets. "It's Saturday you sadist," he mumbled. "Come on, get up," Jordan prodded. "Do you want to spend the entire day in bed?" "Yes." "No you don't. C'mon, let's get going!" "Go where?" Brandon asked grumpily, throwing his sheets back unenthusiastically. "My place. There are a couple of people I want you to meet." Brandon sighed and rubbe
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