Close your eyes and jump for the skies (Inevitable short) PG13

[mhalachai]

Am in a mood.

Close your eyes and jump for the skies
An Inevitable short (AB/HP)
by mhalachaiswords

Disclaimer: Harry Potter belongs to JK Rowling. Anita Blake belongs to Laurell K. Hamilton. No profit made, etc.
Rating: PG-13
Words: 300
Note: Inevitable future-fic. Set four or five years down the road. No spoilers, just swearing.

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Years of living in a war zone (for that is what Anita's life is now) hypes her senses the moment anyone new walks into a room; skimming the malls is near on impossible now; too many people, too many invisible threats and she's halfway to jumping out of her skin the moment she walks into a supermarket.

Harry sees it too; Harry lives the same life she does (lives in her damned hip pocket; if she trips over any more of his shit in the hallway one more time they'll never find his body) and if Harry's got a goddamned magic wand to solve all his problems, it brings him as much fucking relief as the gun in her pocket.

Can't shoot first. It's dirty pool.

Her senses are sharp and her reflexes are on a hair-trigger some days, and Jean-Claude can't understand because he's fucking dead, and Nathaniel and Micah and Richard can't understand because they have animals living under their skins, living breathing weapons they are, and all she has is a gun and a knife and the ability to raise the fucking dead and it eats at her that it's all she can do to hold it in.

Harry might be the only one who gets it; holding magic inside under a pressure-cooker, knowing that one day, she will not maybe will lose hold on the locked and bound doors inside her head and the magic will leak out and she will raise the dead without meaning to, and people will die.

Again.

Because history repeats itself, and she's spent years living in this fucking war zone and the only person who understands is Harry, and some days she thinks that he's afraid of what she can do.

Will do.

But not today.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I just woke up, and Im a bit croggy so when I first read "Jean Claude is dead"...I was thinking, hey, but thats a spoiler. Thankfully my brain reset itself, and I continued reading this lil tale.