Title: Numb
Author: A.j.
Rating: R/NC-17
Spoilers: Season 7, Chimera.

Summary: Because there’s nothing else.

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"I'm using you."

Sarah's voice is scratchy and dry across the skin of his cheeks. He's inside 
her, buried as far as he can go in her body, and up until she'd started 
talking, she'd been chewing hard on his shoulder.

"Oh?" It's a gasp more than a question. His muscles are tense, body demanding 
for this to |keep going| because they need this. Need to let go. "Why?"

He arches into her hard, and she keens to the ceiling before grabbing two 
fist-fulls of his hair and refocusing. She is beautiful like this. A goddess 
made flesh.

Daniel grabs a fist full of her newly-short hair and stares. "Why are you 
using me?"

She bares her teeth at him and rocks her hips against him, hard. "Because I 
need to feel something, and this is better than rubbing soup in my hair."

And then she comes.

His hands will leave bruises on her hips in the morning. New broken 
capillaries on top of old, but he doesn't care because he's screaming into 
the night. And when they finally stop, he unwinds his fingers from her hair 
and just looks at her.

It's 4am, and Sarah is naked and panting in his lap. Her eyes are round and 
her face is a myriad of anger and pain and regret and loss.

He smiles then. Just a little. Because he's using her too.

"Good enough."

-fin-