Continued from this series: Neal/Alex -- Getting Used to Being Dead Isn't Easy (http://elrhiarhodan.livejournal.com/218920.html?thread=6753320#t6753320)
Eight more sentences for the adventures of ghost!Neal and ghost!Alex
I. A year had passed since their deaths; their friends still grieved, but things were getting back to normal for them, and then a new, dangerous criminal surfaced, and he had his sights set on one target -- Peter Burke, and suddenly being ghosts was more about business than pleasure.
II. The man didn't scare easily, and it was harder to manipulate him; Byron had mentioned that some people were more sensitive to ghosts and could see them, while others could somehow just block them out, and obviously Joe Deering was one of those people, and it wasn't until he had Peter cornered that Neal and Alex were finally spotted by Peter.
III. Deering had a gun trained on Peter, backup was locked out of the old factory, a clever trap by a criminal bent on revenge, and Peter was already bleeding from a gunshot wound to the shoulder when Neal and Alex finally figured out where they were.
IV. When Deering pulled the trigger again, Alex flung herself in front of the bullet and when it "hit" her, she turned it ghostly so that it passed right through Peter, while Neal froze the water in a puddle Deering walked through to cause the man to slip and fall.
V. "Neal?" Peter asked cautiously, as if he couldn't believe what he saw, and then he looked over and noticed Alex was there as well....he let out a startled yelp, and then he paused, and asked, "Wait, you're the one who turns my showers cold?"
VI. "In the flesh...sort of, and you finally see me, and the first thing you ask about is your showers?" Neal demanded, but he was grinning with relief while Alex trod over to Deering and made his gun vanish before she whacked him in the head with a metal bar, and then she looked over at Neal and said, "I told you to stop messing with his showers, Neal, what is he going to think?".
VII. Once Deering was no longer a threat, Peter slumped down on the cold floor of the abandoned factory and closed his eyes, his brain beginning to fade out even as he tried to sort out whether that was really Neal calling his name or if he was imagining the cold pressing against the terrible heat of the bullet wound...when he woke up, Diana was kneeling over him, Jones was calling for an ambulance, and Neal and Alex were out of sight, leaving him to wonder if he'd seen them, or if they'd just been a hallucination.
VIII. A week later, Peter was still at home, with plenty of questions about what had happened, and no answers, and then he glanced up just in time to see Satchmo trot over to thin air, tail wagging, and Peter smiled.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Neal/Alex -- Ghost: Saving Agent Burke
Date: 2011-11-17 03:28 pm (UTC)Eight more sentences for the adventures of ghost!Neal and ghost!Alex
I. A year had passed since their deaths; their friends still grieved, but things were getting back to normal for them, and then a new, dangerous criminal surfaced, and he had his sights set on one target -- Peter Burke, and suddenly being ghosts was more about business than pleasure.
II. The man didn't scare easily, and it was harder to manipulate him; Byron had mentioned that some people were more sensitive to ghosts and could see them, while others could somehow just block them out, and obviously Joe Deering was one of those people, and it wasn't until he had Peter cornered that Neal and Alex were finally spotted by Peter.
III. Deering had a gun trained on Peter, backup was locked out of the old factory, a clever trap by a criminal bent on revenge, and Peter was already bleeding from a gunshot wound to the shoulder when Neal and Alex finally figured out where they were.
IV. When Deering pulled the trigger again, Alex flung herself in front of the bullet and when it "hit" her, she turned it ghostly so that it passed right through Peter, while Neal froze the water in a puddle Deering walked through to cause the man to slip and fall.
V. "Neal?" Peter asked cautiously, as if he couldn't believe what he saw, and then he looked over and noticed Alex was there as well....he let out a startled yelp, and then he paused, and asked, "Wait, you're the one who turns my showers cold?"
VI. "In the flesh...sort of, and you finally see me, and the first thing you ask about is your showers?" Neal demanded, but he was grinning with relief while Alex trod over to Deering and made his gun vanish before she whacked him in the head with a metal bar, and then she looked over at Neal and said, "I told you to stop messing with his showers, Neal, what is he going to think?".
VII. Once Deering was no longer a threat, Peter slumped down on the cold floor of the abandoned factory and closed his eyes, his brain beginning to fade out even as he tried to sort out whether that was really Neal calling his name or if he was imagining the cold pressing against the terrible heat of the bullet wound...when he woke up, Diana was kneeling over him, Jones was calling for an ambulance, and Neal and Alex were out of sight, leaving him to wonder if he'd seen them, or if they'd just been a hallucination.
VIII. A week later, Peter was still at home, with plenty of questions about what had happened, and no answers, and then he glanced up just in time to see Satchmo trot over to thin air, tail wagging, and Peter smiled.