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[faithful_slayer]

Faith is sobbing, helplessly, as she flies to Nick's side, ignoring David, taking Nick's hand in hers.

She may be begging him not to leave her. It's hard to tell through the tears.

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[eternal_boy]

There's no response. Whatever was in this husk is no longer there.

His finger, however, twitches to her touch.

[faithful_slayer]

The finger-twitching makes her jump, and then clutch his hand tighter.

"Nicky? Nicky...please...I can't do this without you. I can't...be...without..."

She trails off, pulls the Gem of Amarra off her finger and throws it across the room.

"If you're dead, so am I."

[eternal_boy]

Another twitch.

He's gone, his soul and everything that made him Nick is gone, but the body still holds the same things dead as it held living and her emotion, her genuine desperation, is battering at him, prodding him to respond.

His head is still a mess, his jaw a wreck of bone and flesh...but there is some repair. Adam's blood had done something, but it wasn't enough.

[faithful_slayer]

Faith makes a soft, desperate, broken noise and cuts her throat open, leaning over so Nick's mouth catches the flow of inhumanly powerful blood.