Birthright : [Seeking A Watcher -- Kris/Corbett Interaction]

corbett_renfroe
2005-10-29 19:00 (link)

The day hadn't been much fun for Corbett.

Then again, a day that started off with a pounding headache and a 20-minute ritual sacrifice to the porcelain gods wasn't likely to be on anyone's Top Ten list. For all his years, for all the times the Watcher had let himself go before, he had to face facts:

He didn't hold vodka nearly as well as he used to.

Aside from that, his run-in with Faith the night before had proven beneficial. After all, if a Slayer who once killed people--and enjoyed it--could forgive herself and a find a way to live her life, then Corbett could do the same.

After all, he wasn't the one who killed Teresa.

He was, however, the Watcher who'd essentially ignored his Slayer the past couple weeks, so busy with his books and research into the past that he'd lost sight of his present. Kris was his second chance, and Corbett hadn't been making very good use of it.

As the car pulled into its parking spot, Corbett considered bringing the books he'd just bought from Unseen Insight with him. But when he saw Kris sitting in front of his apartment, head rested on her arms, he decided the books could wait until later.

Shutting the door and lighting a cigarette, Corbett walked up to his Slayer, a tiny smile crossing his aged face as he sat next to her. "And what do I owe the pleasure?" he remarked in a calm, low voice.

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_timetofly_
2005-10-29 19:05 (link)

"Haven't seen you in a while, wanted to make sure you were still alive and kicking." Kris mumbled from her arms as she didn't lift her head just yet. She now lifted her shoulders into a shrug, "Never know with the times as they are right now."

Now she lifted her head to look over at Corbett and the dark circles beneath her eyes stood as a testament to just how hard Kris had been pushing herself lately. Dark angry bruises littered her neck from where Rhiannon's grip had pressed and then tightened to near choking.

She managed a weak smile, "How you been?"

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corbett_renfroe
2005-10-29 19:12 (link)

Corbett sighed softly, nodding in affirmation as he listened to his Slayer speak. He was about to reply when he glanced over and saw the face before him...along with the dark bags under the eyes and the bruises littering her neck.

Guilt quickly gave way to anger, Corbett's already well-defined face seemingly harder and edgier as he rested his hand on Kris' back. "I sincerely hope whatever caused those is a large bloody mess."

Anger once again gave way to that guilt. Something had happened to Kris, and Corbett hadn't been around for it. Buried in his books, living in the past, hanging out with other Slayers in bars getting pissed...the Watcher had bee doing everything except be a Watcher.

But that was all going to change right now.

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_timetofly_
2005-10-29 19:16 (link)

"I wish it was that easy," Kris muttered softly as she tightened her hands around each elbow of the opposite arm. "It's not, I'm afraid."

She didn't pull away from his touch as she might have done with someone else. Only a few people were allowed to touch Kris and Corbett happened to be one of those few.

"You might want to talk to your room-mate, he's got a lot going on right now. His Slayer ..she's gone.." She took a breath as she forced the words from her chest, "...dark, like completely and these bruises and the cut across my stomach are the results from a fight with her."

She lifted her eyebrows and expelled a breath, "Alot's going on right now. Demons in Vegas, disappearances...you name it, it's going on." Not to mention a whole lot of her own personal shit.

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corbett_renfroe
2005-10-29 19:21 (link)

Matthew.

His Slayer was...who was it he had told Corbett? Oh, right...Rhiannon. Corbett had met her once, his first trip to the bookstore, and she seemed decent enough; certainly not the kind of Slayer who'd all of a sudden just turn dark and rogue.

Then again, from what he'd seen and heard from Faith, she hadn't struck him as the type to go rogue, either.

Part of the Watcher felt sorry for Rhiannon--not to mention Matthew--but at the same time, he wanted to shove his fist down the Slayer's throat for putting her hands on Kris that way.

Fortuately, common sense prevailed, and Corbett decided to attend solely to helping his own Slayer. "Rogue Slayer," he said softly, shaking his head. "Isn't that always just a sodding bag of tricks?"

The Watcher took a drag from his cigarette, having suddenly lost the taste for it. Tossing the still-burning cancer stick to the ground, Corbett added, "I'm sorry. For not being around."

A long pause, and then: "For not being a Watcher."

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_timetofly_
2005-10-29 19:28 (link)

"She's not herself, Corbett." Kris said with a slight shake of her head, "It's like everything she ever was ..or is, has been stripped away from her leaving this husk of a person."

Kris' expression looked haunted for a very brief moment. "I know of only one entity capable of that and I remember all too clearly my own experiences with her." She gave a slight smirk, "She nearly killed me once, if it hadn't been for Hayden, I wouldn't be here now."

Her rambling was cut off as Corbett apologised to her. She tightened her arms around her elbows once again and each knuckle began to turn white. What could she say to that? Kris took a breath and muttered, "Apology accepted."

She settled a tired brown gaze on Corbett's face, "I'm not the easiest of Slayers, I know this. Got issues with letting people in and letting them help me. It comes from looking after myself for so long even before I was given this gift."

Kris dropped her eyes away, "You're the first Watcher I've actually been okay with, I was a struggle for Dominick because I never opened up to him and I never let him in, not completely. I'm trying but old habits die hard or that's what they say."