Title: Her Savior

Author: Priestess Skye

Word Count: 178

Prompt: Faint

Genre: Angst, drama

Rating: PG

Summary: She would not give up. He would come.

Written for Forthright's 2008 Halloween Drabble Challenge

Slowly suffocating Rin tried to pick herself off the ground. The air was thick and heavy as Naraku unleashed his miasma all around. Where was her savior? Her hero? Her Sesshoumaru-sama? Not for the first time since her abduction she wished for his arrival and struggled not to lose faith. He would come for her. He always came for her. He never let her down.

Emboldened by her fervent prayers she stepped forward, coughing as her lungs tried to expel the toxic gas. She would not die here, she promised to herself. She had died once before and now that she has a second chance, she wasn’t about to give it up.

Weakly she raised a hand and clutched onto the nearest object in her way. Her eyesight blurred and nearly destroyed, Rin summoned the energy escape.

“Rin.”

Unable to see she felt around her, noticing the soft cloth beneath her finger tips.

He was here, just as she knew he would be, and knowing she was now safe, she closed her eyes and succumbed to the darkness.