Branson)
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Branson heard the scream coming from Sam's room and rushed up the stairs, his bare feet slapping on the cold spiraling steps. Bursting into her room, he didn't see her but the sound of rushing water was coming from the adjoining bathroom.? There he found her huddled in a corner in the glass-enclosed shower, as far away from the watery spray as she could manage.? The eerie cold in the bathroom immediately hit him but he shrugged it off and stepped through it, to inside the shower where to his shock the water was even colder still.
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"Jesus, Sam," he muttered, trying to shut the icy spray off.? The control knobs however refused to budge.? Gathering Sam up in his arms, he carried her bodily out of the shower and back into the bedroom, grabbing a couple of towels along the way.? He set her on the bed and began rubbing her all over with the towels, then just decided to heck with it and pulled the covers off the bed and draped them around her for warmth.
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"Are you okay, Sam?" Branson asked, visibly worried.? He put his arms around her, trying to rub some warmth back into her through the bedding.? He glanced back at the shower where the water was still running at full faucet. "I think you need to get a decent plumber out here to check this place over.? I think your pipes are seriously out of whack."?
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(Jaimie)
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Jaimie had sensed the scream more than heard it.? And also sensed that Kirstene had come down from her tower, which made him hesitate.? Her rage and torment were like an ache that penetrated straight through the walls, but he instinctively knew where she had gone.
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The young ghost quickly apparated into Scheherezade's room where he found the American Branson there ahead of him, tending to a soaked Scheherezade he'd wrapped up on the bed.? The water in the shower was still running.? And _she_ was there as well.? He willed himself to be unseen to Branson as he slipped into the bathroom. ?
Kirstene/Scheherazade?
Scheherazade Was freezing. Her body shivering to the bone. She tried several times to get out of the shower and she could not. The was was just so cold...just as bad as scalding hot water every time she tried, the water burned her skin leaving bruise. ?Through the shower she could see the figure¡¯s ghostly outline. ¡°Please,¡± Sam whispered.
The water seemed to blast her colder...harder. ¡°Please,¡± the young woman begged. But received not reprieve. She didn¡¯t think she could take much more of it when suddenly the shower door opened and Brunson reached in pulling her out.
She shivered in his arms and he carried. her teeth chattering loudly. her body shaking violently almost like it in the night she arrived in the rain and Jamie has been savior.
Scheherazade didn¡¯t hear anything Branson had said to her for all she could hear was the sound of her own heartbeat pounding ferociously in her ears right before her pretty green eyes rolled to the back of her head and she passed out.
Kirstene frowned when the man came to save the wayward soul of her sister. She could have stopped him but she wanted her to suffer a bit before everything came to a head.
Except the last person she expected to see was Jaimie although she wasn¡¯t surprised. ¡°ye always did take her side didna Jaimie. But in the end where did that ye.¡± She smirked in contempt disappearing. The water turning warm as she left.
