Tommy
- Masterful Virgin -
The horse whisperer
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Post by Tommy on Feb 16, 2008 10:33:17 GMT -5
*Tommy pulled the horse out of the stables. It stamped it's feet and pawed the ground.*
"Sssh my friend, easy now."
*He spoke calmly. He mounted quickly and dug his heels in. The horse took off towards the cliff at a gallop. Tommy attempted to slow it's pace but found he could not. Suddenly the horse stopped all together. With a loud whiny it kicked up and threw Tommy off. He landed, his head hitting a rock hard about 20 paces off.*
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Post by Sorcha on Feb 16, 2008 10:37:27 GMT -5
*Sorcha heard the commotion and turned from the paddock to see a crowd beginning to gather and a nervous, riderless Morgan standing a ways off, prancing nervously back and forth. She felt sick with dread as she broke into a run, shoving aside the stablehands who had blocked her view, only to see Tommy lying pale and still, blood smearing the grass.*
"TOMMY!" *she screamed, falling to her knees and drawing him into her arms, cradling his head in her lap.* "Tommy...Tommy...you...you're going to be alright," *she whispered, taking out her handkerchief and wiping at the blood trickling down his chin.*
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Post by Liam on Feb 16, 2008 10:38:54 GMT -5
*Morgan reared up and pawed at the air, the whites of his eyes visible in his panic. He took off at a gallop back to the stables, where Liam found him and placed him back in his stall, wondering vaguely why he didn't have a rider.*
"Shit." *He muttered, taking off at a run the direction the horse had come from. When he saw what had happened, he froze.*
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Tommy
- Masterful Virgin -
The horse whisperer
Posts: 39
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Post by Tommy on Feb 16, 2008 11:10:37 GMT -5
*Tommy's eyelids flickered open.*
"Sorcha?"
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Post by Sorcha on Feb 16, 2008 11:12:06 GMT -5
*Sorcha was numbly dabbing at the blood seeping from between Tommy's lips and the cut at the back of his head. She barely noticed that his neck seemed to be at an odd angle.*
"Everything's going to be alright, Tommy," *she whispered.*
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Tommy
- Masterful Virgin -
The horse whisperer
Posts: 39
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Post by Tommy on Feb 16, 2008 11:13:34 GMT -5
*Tommy smiled. Oddly he felt no pain.*
"Yes, and my bairn. Tell him about his Daddy."
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Post by Sorcha on Feb 16, 2008 11:16:30 GMT -5
*Sorcha bowed her head, tears beginning to fall onto Tommy's face.*
"Aye, I'll do that," *she said softly, stroking a lock of hair back from his forehead.*
"An' ye can teach him t'ride some day...an' his brothers...we'll have ten children an' grow old in that cottage of ours...an' we'll all be so happy, Tommy..."
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Post by Aimée-Cosette on Feb 16, 2008 11:18:37 GMT -5
**LIAM**
*Liam couldn't bear to watch them. He turned and began to walk off.*
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Tommy
- Masterful Virgin -
The horse whisperer
Posts: 39
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Post by Tommy on Feb 16, 2008 11:19:20 GMT -5
*Tommy smiled.*
"Ay, I do love ye Sorcha."
*His eyes began to close.*
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Post by Sorcha on Feb 16, 2008 11:21:40 GMT -5
"I know ye do, Tommy..."
I'm so sorry I could not love you back.
*She held him close and began to sing softly.*
"...I'll take you home again, Kathleen Across the ocean wild and wide To where your heart has ever been Since you were first my bonnie bride. The roses all have left your cheek. I've watched them fade away and die Your voice is sad when e'er you speak And tears bedim your loving eyes..."
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Tommy
- Masterful Virgin -
The horse whisperer
Posts: 39
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Post by Tommy on Feb 16, 2008 11:36:11 GMT -5
*Tommy drifted off, her voice in his ear. With one last breath, he was dead.*
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Post by Sorcha on Feb 16, 2008 11:40:11 GMT -5
*The stablehands had to pull Sorcha away gently.*
"No...no..." *she whispered, shaking her head.*
This can't be happening...
*Kathy had arrived by that point and taken her daughter into her arms.*
"He led a good life, lass," *she said, her own tears falling freely.* "He's in a better place, now."
*Sorcha only wept harder and clung to her mother for a long moment before there was a stabbing pain ripping through her vitals. She screamed with grief and agony for a moment before everything went black.*
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