everything but you

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Callahan "Callahan — " I hear the gasp, but it takes me a long time to come back to the present. For my brain to make sense of who it is. And all that time I have her back to the wall, my forearm at her throat cutting off her air. She makes a gurgling sound, and her hands fall away from my arm. She was clawing at me. I look at her. At what I'm doing. I blink. Draw back a little. Portia. Not a threat. Just a Little Kitten who needs my protection. Something crunches underfoot as I move back, shift my hands to her arms to keep her from dropping. I look down, smell whiskey, see the shattered glass, the liquid already absorbed by the stone. Portia is coughing, almost doubled over. I return my gaze to her. I was choking her. I didn't even think. Just attacked. It's dangerous for her to

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