Stein/Marie - Healing

For a split second, golden eyes met olive.

As the warm, healing glow radiated from her slender palm, she saw his eyelids relax and his troubles simply slip away.

The madness tortured him from the inside out and continued to wreak havoc with every fibre in his being. She had to live with it. She had to sit idly by whilst the cruel disease simply withered away the resolve and the fight that made up the man before her.

She felt him go slack against her touch, and as he fell to her shoulder, he murmured only one thing.

"Marie."