He spends the car ride staring at Wesley because itâs too much effort
to turn and look out of the window. The blanket around him is scratchy,
if warm, and he welcomes each prickling itch because itâs new, itâs
different, and heâs as starved for that as he has been for blood.
Wesley is talking to him; a slow stream of words, dripping into his
brain. Sounds. Sights.
Taste.
Wesleyâs blood is heavy on his tongue, thick in his throat, though he
knows he swallowed every spurting, scarlet surge with a distant
gratitude that needs time to come into focus.
A memory, thatâs all, lingering and - no! Not false. Heâs fed, been
fed, taken in, absorbed. Heâs starting to heal, dizzy with a body
reawakening from dreams. Real.
Heâs staring at Wesleyâs throat, and when the man turns to him, after
parking the car, he sees the scar that bled out friendship and trust
and he wants to break Wesley open along that dotted line and feed again.
Thereâs something in Wesleyâs face that says he knows that and doesnât
care.
Angel reaches out, hand groping, and touches Wesleyâs face, running an
old manâs fingers, crooked and palsied, over living skin.
“Where are your glasses?” he asks, and thereâs nothing in his voice but
curiosity and he does his best to make Wes see -
And Wesley smiles and moves his chin down so his neckâs no longer
offered, open and bare.
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