I couldn’t sit here while she lay curled up in a ball, cold and pale. After a few minutes, it hadn’t moved again.

Was she waking up? Could she wake up? Her hand barely squeezed mine and I watched it desperately hoping for more. Pagan’s hand moved in mine and I stilled. I was also going to make sure she knew I had never had sex with some other girl. I had gone about making her fall in love with me again all wrong. Another one- one that might actually work. I just hadn’t thought she’d do something this detrimental. I’d known she was going to do something stupid when she’d demanded I fight last night. I brought her hand to my lips and kissed it softly. I reached for Pagan’s hand and held it in mine. How could I forget him?’ I carried her up here and she hasn’t moved or said anything since. She was… she was curled up on the cement with tears running down her face saying, ‘I forgot him. Then I got worried and turned around and came back. That her mind hadn’t suffered a trauma too much for her body to bear.

“What happened?” I asked, afraid to take my eyes off her. So when Pagan Moore was once again in the books to die I remembered her. The brooch had made me remember the girl’s name. She’d wanted me to keep it and give it back to her in her next life. She’d remembered the time I’d come to her as a child. The one I’d given back to her only last Valentine’s day. She isn’t happy with the so-called soul mate they created for her. I wasn’t going to let you go down so easy. I couldn’t help her if I didn’t know what had happened. The natural pink color of her cheeks was gone.

I reached up and brushed the hair from her face gently. If she is messed up because I made a stupid ass decision I’m not going to be able to live with it.” You…Do?” I lifted my gaze from Pagan’s still pale body and glared at Gee. I had been hoping for some small memory to come back to her but never had I wanted to harm her.

What had Gee done? She wasn’t supposed to remember everything until the Deity decided it was time. Panic gripped me and I rushed to the side of the bed and knelt down beside her. If she’s hurt, mentally, I expect you to extinguish me. “What exactly did she remember?” I asked taking a step toward the bed where Pagan was sleeping. “She remembered,” Gee said from the corner of the room where she sat watching me. The curtains were closed and the lights were off. I scanned the room and found Pagan curled up on the bed asleep. All she’d said was, “It’s Pagan.” I’d come immediately but I hadn’t expected it to be Pagan’s dorm room she was calling me to.

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