Room 217, Late Saturday Night

[walks_two_paths]

After the events of the night, Savannah wasn't exactly feeling very much like herself. In fact, she was completely emotionally and physically drained. Too much had happened in the last 48 hours and she wasn't sure how much it was all going to change things for her.

After talking with Eve and making sure she was settled -- and reassuring herself that she was alive, really -- Savannah headed back down to her and Johnny's room.

She stood outside the door for a long time, before she finally found the courage to open the door and walk in. She was unsure of how happy he was going to be to see her now that he knew everything.

She shut the door and then leaned up against it.

"Hey," she said softly.



[[OOC: For Johnny.]]

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[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

She shook her head. "Leah had already made herself known to be here last... Friday night... after I got off work. She was the reason I went to see Eve. Then, when I came to get my book ... I already had seen what I thought was Eve dying again. Leah tried to kill her when I wouldn't agree to leave with her... and Leah was supposed to be dead, Johnny. Paige killed her."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

He cocked his head. "But you didn't tell me, when I asked you just said you went to see Eve. How come you couldn't have trusted me with that info, Savannah?"

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

"Because I was afraid of what Leah would do, Johnny. She was a half-demon determined to take me away... again. She ripped my entire world apart before and she was here to do it again. All I could think about was that she was here to destroy everything that mattered to me. It wasn't that I didn't trust you, nothing like that." She looked at him. "I told you before that this was the first time in a long time my life had ever seemed normal -- and how much I love you. For a little bit, Leah made me feel like that same thirteen year old girl again."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Johnny ran his hand up and down her leg, comforting her. He was so sorry any of this had to happen, and he was sorry that she had to be hurt. He was just wanting it all over with. "She's gone. Everything is going to be okay from here on out, right Savannah? Nothing else can come back to haunt you, to mess with you -- I need this reassurance because I can't stand you being hurt. Last night, I swear I felt a rage I hope I never feel again anytime soon."

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

Something broke inside her a little bit, because she couldn't be honest with him... and give him that complete reassurance that he needed.

"Johnny... I can be completely honest with you and tell you the rest of it and let you know what could happen and what I am." She met his eyes and hers were full of tears. "Or... I can lie to you and reassure you that I will never again be threatened and hide everything from you."

She swallowed.

"What would you prefer?"

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

He took her hands in his and came up on his knees so that he was almost eye-level with her. "I want the truth, no matter what. No lies, no secrets. It's not what relationships are made of Savannah."

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

Savannah was visibly relieved. "I don't want to keep secrets from you Johnny... not ever again." She looked into his face. "Can we go over to the bed... and you hold me while I tell you the rest of it? Because I was afraid Leah was going to beat me and take me away, and that I'd never be able to feel you holding me again."

She bit her lip.

"I really need that right now."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Come on," he said softly and stood. Taking her hands, he helped her to her feet and together they moved towards the bed where they laid down, and Johnny pulled her up against him when he laid on his back, gently cradling her head to his chest.

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

Savannah felt a lot of the tension drain out of her when Johnny pulled her close to him like this and she blinked back tears. She had meant it when she said she had been afraid she would never be held by him again. She loved him so much and the last two days had been scary.

"My father, Kristof Nast, was the heir to the Nast cabal. Cabals are like the mafia, only with supernatural abilities. Being half witch, I'm already an enemy of the sorcerers -- well, most of them. When I killed Kristof, I became the number one enemy of the Nast cabal." Savannah's voice was a stumbling whisper. "Kristof's father, my grandfather, and all of his relations would like nothing more than to have me brought to them and killed for what I did -- even though it was an accident. The only Nast that doesn't want me hurt is Sean."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Shh, please don't cry anymore. You're here with me and you're safe. I swear on my life I won't anyone or anything hurt you ever again."

Johnny moved his hand up and down her back, holding her close. "Can Sean keep you informed of what his family is doing? In other words, would he sell them out to help protect you?"

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

"Sean and the rest of the family are mot on the best of terms, but yeah, he'd pick me over them to keep me safe. If he had known that a version of Leah was here and trying to take me away... he would have been right there."