Wedding Dance

[Melodia]

Nali took her hand back as he dismissed it. She could read the pain in his eyes when she touched him and it only hurt her even more. Revenge wasn’t sweet but sour in this circumstance.

She was silent, studying the lines in her palm. According to a reading, she would have a long life, be married to her true love…have kids. It almost made her laugh at how wrong it was, like she had stolen someone else’s hand in hopes that her destiny would change, yet the path of her fate wound the wrong way. And so she was left to stare at what could be, mocking her, but it would forever be out of her reach.

“Is that it? I look happy to you?” Nali asked. Truly, she looked anything but happy. Her eyes were wide and dark underneath, her lips crooked to never really smile unless it was sarcastic, and her voice was, well…cold. Ironic?

“Fine. Leave me be happy then. I’m sorry I saw you tonight,” The fairy spat harshly, bringing her hand down and playing with the chain of stones that was her bracelet. Her eyes stayed put on his face, as hard as it was to stay focused. “I think you’re happy too. I think that you’re happy going home—wherever your home is—every night to no one. And I hope you’re happy seeing how happy your sister is with her happy little vampire husband and their happy little life. Yes, you must just be the king of joy. The happiest vampire ever,” She said, a dark tone edging her voice.

["Parker!"]

Shane gave her a flat stare. One that kind of looked liked: ¬_¬ -- except he was looking right at her, his smoldering eyes locked to her radient one's. Did she look happy? His eyes didn't look a millimeter off her eyes, he could sence she wasn't happy. But...they way they were...they seemed perfect... and... He didn't shift his eyes, his eyes staring hard down at her as she started to apologize for seeing him tonight. He clentched his jaw, a thick anger rising and showing in his eyes. But he couldn't stay mad at her- he knew the truth. She was not sorry. As she mocked the word happy in her sentences he loosened his gaze. As she finished, he gave her a momment's look. It was a thick glare, his orbs finnaly glanced off of her looking at his sister and her boyfriend-- not husband! He growled lightly, finding the words to say....how...how could she...? He gave up the ghost- threw in the towel. His eyes became dull, his stance relaxing. He couldn't fight with her.

"I do love you. Thats why I'm protecting you."

He acually cracked a smile- curiously wondering if at that momment she would go crazy.

[xDDD]

[raihnstar]

((...*eats popcorn*))

[Melodia]

There was an extreme moment of silence for what seemed like a stretch of endless time. She stood still, watching him, her lips partly open in confusion. Her liquid eyes searched his face, but looked beyond the gold of his eyes and his beauty. She looked at Shane. Her Shane. Her seventeen-year-old vampire love from twelve whole years ago.

And then she screamed.

"Protecting me? PROTECTING ME?!" She growled, flexing her fingers, her shoulders haunching forward in an angry stance. Her dark hair fell in her face, and for a moment, she seemed to stand out. Sure, there were plenty of Night fairies in the crowd, all dressed in dark clothes with relatively dark hair and pale complexions. But it was as if the darkness that shadowed her heart glowed on the outside as well as the in.

"You have no /idea/ what you've done to me!" Nali practically screamed. Her mind was shaky, her emotions unpredictable and her rage unbearable. And she hated it. She hated the way she was now, all because her love for him had practicaly destroyed her. And these thoughts brought her control to an immediate halt. Why bother with it, when all it did was add to her stress? Why not relieve herself of the burden? She took a small breath and looked at her feet. Nali looked back up at him, her lips came together and her eyebrows raised in a sad, angry look. And then she leapt at him, her mind caving into her twisted passion.

["Parker!"]

Oh great. You see- this is what happens when you mess with her mind, you sick twisted freak... Shane thought rather amusingly. He knew her. He knew her well- even if twelve damn years had passed. By her expression...she was about to either faint or explode in..three...two....on--- He didn't flinch as she screamed at him. Her shrill voice, rising above the croud- catching a few glances. He lowered his smile, lightly frowning as if he was saying 'oh nali...my poor poor nali'... He looked at her, his face expressionless as she turned scilent on him. He was speachless. He had everything in his mind already played out to say-- but nothing came out. As she looked at her feet he expected her to walk away and leave, but no. He almost gave a quick one second sigh, then saw her actions way before any normal person did. God damnit Nali... He growled in his head as he watched her lunge at him. She was pissed, beyond that point, acually. Before she got to do any damage, which would really only inflict on her, he caught her, his strong arms wrapping around her body. He held up up to his face, his eyes to hers- for once. He held her firm, but with gentle hands as they were like iorn bars that controled her from hurting herself.

"Nali..."

He whispered gently to her face, almost dissapointed. Why couldn't she understand? She could do better! She could do better than Shane Grasio. She could have a normal life- or atleast forget him and try to. Why couldn't she just do that? Forget that she ever knew a Shane Grasio. His heart wrenched, hsi eyes sad upon hers, but with the instant feel of her skin, her heartbeat, her breath- he started to grin, his face light. He had Nali in his arms.

[*sniffle*]

[charismaticcryo]

Rorek eyed Neil one last time, still worried that his friend would sleep with the wrong women one of these days. He sighed as Neil reassured that he could take care of himself, yeah he could, but still. He shook his head lightly as he looked to Sam. SHe had asked what the two of them were like way back when.

He smiled to himself as he crossed his arms and loojed to Neil, wondering what to say. "Well" He turned back to look Sam in the face. "Neil was a foriegner, so he would ask a lot of questions to help him learn, he was also excitable when it came to gifts that the others had. I have to agree it was a great experience, Magikus. Now, how was I like?" Rorek looked away for a second as he ponderedwhat to say. "Well I can say i was quieter, but im still pretty much the same i think, maybe more open,but the major difference is that I lacked as much control as i do now. You see I have a gift that I really can't turn off, it will always be cold around me, no matter how much i concentrate. I can only make it less cold. It was to a point where i could not get wet. In fact my first meeting with Neil was in a rainstorm he had made, and of course the temperature around me caused me to be pelted with hail rather than rain."

He put a finger on his chin as he tried to remember more. "Ah hah! Neil also started his sleeping around at Magikus. It was where he first was an accomplice in an affair." Rorek sawa flash of white out of the corner of his eye and turned to look, a smile creeped across his face. He turned back and Pointed to Izarus who was standing among the Vampires with Taylor at his side. "He slept with his, the now secretary of public and foreign affairs vampire girlfriend. It looks as though they are still together surprisingly enough, I heard he is a vampire now. What a great first boyfriend to piss off. you are incredibly lucky he was so nice."



-------Korrex was grinning in his mind as he heard Ashlee ask what was wrong, this was working out perfectly! He turned farther away for a split second before looking back at her, a hint of sadness in his expression. He looked to the ground while he talked "Well the thing is I really wanted to ask you to dance later, but i was afraid you would say no because i am so cold. I am in this body because my brother does not allow me to control our real body, He hogs it to himself and leaves me with this weakend snow body."

He looked back up to her, lifting his hand and opening his mouth like he was going to say something, but then decided that couldn't. He let his hand drop and closed his mouth. looking away again as though he was ashamed of his cold.

'Yes, fall for it you pretty girl! Feel sorry for poor 'ol Korrex' He thought to himself, but kept it totally inside, his outside not even showing a morsel of what he was thinking.

[raihnstar]

Sam giggled at the picture of Rorek getting pelted with hail, "Oh, Neil you didn't!" She exclaimed when Rorek pointed Izarus out. "I know him! He's one of the nicest guys in the government!" she said in an accusing voice.

"/Actually/, Rorek is just making it sound bad-- well...no wait, it /was/ bad... but uh... It was different!" he said, protesting her sarcastic expression. "No see, what happened was uh...Taylor came onto me." he said, "And well, I didn't actually want to do her, but uh...she's hot...and she was um...a bit forceful in her uhh...seducing..." He grinned in an embarassed way, "I was actually scared sh.itless of her, cause back where I come from they've got a different breed of vampires...the kind that eat whole villages, you know." He said, as if they'd know all of this easily.

"Anyway, we uh..." he trailed off with an annoying grin, "AND SO uhh...Izarus wouldn't have tried to kill me, only I had this exgirlfriend..." he paused, realizing how odd this sounded, "I'd broken up with her the day before because I'd been uh...cheating on her--"

Sam stared at him, "You broke up with you girlfriend for cheating, and the next day you bedded another girl?"

"Well see uh...it wasn't like that. I was her boyfriend because she caught me off guard when she asked me...otherwise I never would have said 'yes'...cause I can't do relationships like that. ANYWAY," he continued, "It wasn't really the /next/ day...rather...the night...maybe... Cause itw as Taylor who told my girlfriend that I had uh--"

He stopped. Both of them were staring at him like he'd grown three heads. "...Well it was complicated. The point is, my ex girlfriend and the girl who I cheated on her with ganged up on me for some reason, and convinced Izarus to kill me. Luckily I was able to talk him out of it." he said cheerfully.

Sam gaped at him, and then turned to Rorek, "He-- He's crazy, right? I'm not the only girl who hasn't had areal boyrfriend ever? I mean...Neil, I'm sorry...that's ridiculous. Rorek, tell me you had a more normal experience in Magikus...? The only thing odd that happened to /me/ was that I got kissed by some random guy. It was gross." It actually hadn't been /that/ bad, but she wanted to uphold her 'touch me and it's rape' reputation. No need to give out any ideas.

Neil choked on his whine, "You let some random guy /kiss/ you? Kiss YOU!?" he asked, "WHY didn't you tell me this?"

"It wasn't any of your business." Sam snapped, and turned back to Rorek, "So did you have any girlfriends during Magikus?"

[charismaticcryo]

Rorek just stared at Neil as he tried to tell the two of them what had happened. 'Wow' Rorek thought to himself, it was a lot less confusing last time, hmm Maybe because it was it was still a fresh event when Rorek heard it. No matter. Rorek averted his attention back to Samantha as she asked him about his love life at Magikus, if he had a normal time.

He sighed as he crossed his arms again, "Well as normal as you can get for gifteds, I actually had very strong feelings for this electrokinetic that i had met, We never really dated, then one day she dissappeared, then there was this other girl, I don't know what I was thinking, I think I was with her out of a lapse of irrational thinking. Yeah she was pretty and all that, but I didnt really feel anything, then Korrex went and blew it. HE never really liked her, he said she was fake. And now everyone calls me a prude because i am still a virgin, or how i never did that second girl, she had a pornstar body. I am no prude, i have just been busy these years." Rorek narrowed his eyes almost threateningly towards Neil as he said this. He then put on a smile and looked back to Sam. "but other than that yes i had a normal time."

[raihnstar]

Neil bit his lip and tried to supress a childish giggle. It still managed to slip out somehow, though, and he laughed into his sleeve, pretending to cough the entire time. Sam glared at Neil, "Oh honestly, you're so immature." she snapped, rolling her eyes. "Yeah, well I don't think you're a prude, Rorek." she told him with a smal smile, but her comment caused Neil to go into further gales of laughter. Sam turned red, and was about to comment on his childishness again, when she paused, her mouth half open.

"Oh dear...should I go over?" she asked no one out loud, her eyes looking at something neither of the two men could see. It was Lady Knight, and she was pointing at Shane and Nali in the middle of the dance floor, as Nali threw herself at Shane. The woman shook her head, and Sam's hair blew back. "Are you sure?" she asked, and Lady Knight shrugged, He's a vampire. He'll be fine. I was more worried about the Night Fairy.. Sam nodded faintly for a moment, "Well..send a messenger over to the queen--and King. She'll be able to-- uhh...I mean they'll be able to protect her." Lady Knight nodded and left, and Sam was back, turning around and glancing at both men.

Neil had allready picked out what was going on, and he whistled, "Lookit that, Rorek...Shane and Nali... I thought his kind weren't violent..." he murmured, and then caught the grin on Shane's face. It was like an intoxicated madman, only...more sane...but still mad...an expression he was quite used to seeing in other people's eyes (an expression that was definitely not present in the Queen's eyes). "I suppose they still dig each other..."

Sam blinked, "You knew them too?"

"From Magikus. Did you ever meet them personaly, Rorek? They kind of kept to themselves."

[charismaticcryo]

Rorek nodded to Samantha as she said that she didn't think he was a prude. "Well thank you Sam." Rorek semi-glared at Neil as he had a giggle fit. "I am glad I amuse you so much Neil." He looked back to Samantha, shaking his head.

When Samantha left to talk to Lady Knight about Shane and Nali, His attention was also brought to the two. HE recognized the two of them from Magikus, He never really knew them though. He turned to Neil as he addressed him. He shook his head. "No I can't say I did, as you say they kept to them selves, never really met them." Rorek watched the two for a little while more before looking around the room for Korrex.

Where was he?! He wasn't by Victor any more, He quickly scanned the heads of the crowd, finally focusing on his brother talking to a fairie, Rorek narrowed his eyes in suspiscion, he had better be only talking.

He let it go and went back to looking around, He needed to go congradulate VIctor, but he still could finish up here before he went. He turned back to the two He smiled as he laughed a little. "I paniked a little because I couldn't see Korrex, turnss out he is just talking to some Fairie at the moment, he is probably trying to make them feel sorry for him being in that snow body. HE always does." HE said with a small sigh.

["Parker!"]

Taylor was talking with one of the vampire's keeping a curious eye on her brother and Nali- they seemed to be working things out just fine. She over heard her name over someones voice and snapped her head to some man. Who the hell? She furrowed her brows giving a tiny snarl wondering what they were talking about- and why they were talking about her. She tuned into the conversation but it had just ended. She growled lightly, but turned away.

[xD haha don't worry about her and awww poor naive ashlee!]

Ashlee's concerned expression only became worse as he seemed to seemed more distant. His eyes- even though they were a plain white- were featured in a sad state. When he spoke, her ears almost turned a bit red. He...he wanted to dance with her? She smiled lightly with sparkiling eyes, though they returned to sadness as he explained why he was feeling-- oh no. Because of his coldness? Well...she had to admit she was a bit chilled. She frowned slighlty feeling very sorry for him- yes- he was acually pretty cold. She looked at him with sad eyes, looking back at the ground. She...she should help him... Yeah! She looked up with a bright smile,

"I...I can help you get the body back if you want...."

But...how?

[Melodia]

It was like a forest fire. The blazes licked up trees and destroyed everything in their path, eating, burning, the smoke stinging and choking every living thing in its path. What once was a beautiful forest, green and lush, had quickly been converted to ashes. The decay of that forest had already begun long before the flame had sparked, however. But now it burned true and strong, waves of heat stirring and causing ripples in the air.

And then he came and put his arms around her, steadying the flames and then diminishing them altogether. What was left was the charred remains of trees, the dead clumps of black grass, and, ultimately, a barren wasteland. But the fire was no more, the dust was settled, and small green shoots were rising from the destruction.

All because of him.

She felt secure and warm (even though he was quite the opposite). It felt like Magikus again, safe in his arms. Nali was even anticipating the moment when he would let go, seeing as she had near timed it perfectly. But for now it felt good, real, right. She held his gaze for a moment, the anger slowly fizzing away to a soft glow in her eyes. She sighed and rested her head against his chest, simply enjoying the moment. She was older. Set to be twenty-eight and a half in a week or so. And he was still the same seventeen-year-old boy she had fallen in love with, only he seemed wiser. Like the pain had caused him to age as well, just not on the outside. He was still beautiful on the outside.

“Shane…I love you,” She whispered quietly, just enough so that her words caught on the breeze and he would be able to hear them. But she said it as an apology, not as a statement. Because it was an apology; he didn’t want her to love him. It just, unfortunately, happened that way.

[One more reply for Shane, perhaps, before Theo comes in and kills him? =D]

---

The dress was short and a light turquoise, fitting her thin curves. The straps kept it held in place against her fair skin. Her dirty blonde hair was straight and long, whisping in different directions with the breeze. Her bangs hung just above her eyes and along with her makeup it made her look very pretty. The middle of the dress was tied like a corset with white ribbons that matched her dainty white shoes, and a silver chain hung from her neck, with a sword pendant set with sparkling blue stones.

Melodia lingered along the edge of the crowd. As Head of Defense, one of the perks given to you was the ability to attend events such as this. The problem? She hadn’t exactly made a fairy friend before. Met with them briefly, yes, to ensure that they had no problems with her government, but none of them she knew personally. And so for now and most likely the remainder of the evening she was alone, a pretty tall thing, almost ragdoll looking, skirting along the groups of people and carefully sipping a golden colored drink.

[Free to anyone!]

["Parker!"]

[Hahah- sure!]

Shanes forest green eyes glittered with a curiosity as she seemed to relax in his arms. She was still, as always, light as a feather. But maybe it was just him. Her livelyness and anger seemed to curve away and all of a sudden she was calm. A delicate gaze looked over her her head resting against him now. He smiled lightly, his hands gentle on her.

His insides were raving for her. She always attracted him in every single way. Though experienced enough, he just sighed, getting his mind off his thoughts- especially her heart beat. Soft whispers came easily to his sensitive hearing, he nodded slightly then whispered back.

"You know I always will."

He would always love her. No matter what she looked like, or who she dated- even married. In any figureative heart he had- she was in it. And he still didn't want to ruin her life. He couldn't. He wouldn't be selfish. He wanted her to experience the things he couldn't- he wanted her to get married! He wanted her to experience real love! He even wanted her to have lots of little bratty fairy kids! He took a few more momments of the lasting thoughts before he started to let her down. He could hear familiar footsteps...


[and thats Theo's cue xD]

[Melodia]

He saw Viktor disappear from his sight, and he couldn't locate the fairy king. He thought about pursuing him, but he wouldn't leave Nali alone for so long like that. So he turned back and moved swiftly through the crowd, back towards the spot where he left her. And then he stopped dead.

There was his girl. In the vamprie's arms. But she looked...sad? Angry? Pleased? He couldn't particualry tell, only that someone else was touching his girl. Correction, had his arms around his girl. He felt his anger rising. In his case, if was by far more controlled than Nali's. That was, when he let it be. And now he was just pissed. His blonde hair blew from his eyes by a small breeze that was brought into motion from his anger.

He stepped forward behind Nali, his shadow falling over them both.

---

It came all too quickly. The release, that is. She felt Shane loosen his grip on her and she took a small step back, her hands lingering on his back for a moment as she looked at him. He'd always love her. How come she knew that already? How come that bit of info had been stored in the back of her mind for seemingly ever, but she just never let it come through? Perhaps it was because she needed the security of his arms, the gentleness of his smile, the honey color of his eyes once more. Just to refresh her memory a bit.

And then a shadow fell across his face, and she caught the whispy scent of night and pine needles.

Theo's hand grasped her shoulder and pulled her back, so that her hands slipped gently from Shane and she stumbled on the ground under the pressure of his force. "Move, Nali," He said through clenched teeth, pushing up the sleeves of his jacket.

Nali caught her footing, and knowing she wouldn't be able to get between the two, exclaimed, "No, don't hurt him! It was my fault!" The shout was indirect as to whom it was meant for. Shane, for one, seeing as Theo probably wouldn't be able to get in many shots and the vampire was faster. She was conerned for her mate's saftey, but then, which one was her mate? She loved them both, each in their own twisted ways.

Theo laughed at her comment. Blue sparks shot from his fingers, landing on the grass and turning it black. "You think you can go messin' with my girl's head?" He growled, his chin slightly upward in a show of power. "C'mon blood-sucker, show me what you got then. Whoever wins get her." His eyes were light, dangerous. He meant business.

[ßlue]

<sub>Dax smiled. He couldn't believe how she was talking about herself. He was reminded of the time in the hallway, after gym. He hadn't known how to tell her and yet. He did. She'd understood eventually. Almost like someone pulled silk from over her eyes and slowly but surely she could see. But that was then, just a faint memmory of twelve or more years ago. She didn't know anything now and even if she did start to be suspicious that he was talking about her, she would just think he was crazy and send him away. He couldn't court her at all, couldn't just start over. She was married now, and off limits to any sort of tries he could make to get her back. If he did try and win her back she would never fall for it. She might think he was cute for trying or just get annoyed and be like "back off pixie!!!" before tearing his herat out and throwing him in jail. He thought, pondering what to do. He couldn't really do anything, he could only talk to her. He sighed.

"If only it were that easy...I dont think she would listen to the Queen of Queens. Doesn't seem like even God could get in her way if she set her mind on something, y'know? She's just one of those people. She's strong, strong-headed, beautiful. But it's not like she denies our love because she doesn't want to love me. She tries to force me away because she does it for her people. She only wants whats best for everyone. I spose she thinks people would reject me and her and.... I dunno.... I could never really understand her logic..."

He looked confused, not only because he was confused, but because he really really was trying to understand and struggling to see why she would have. Who was their love hurting? He didn't see it. He shrugged, frowning down at the carpet before looking back up to her with a bit of lost confusion in his eyes. He just didn't know. His thoughts turned around her talk of the broken heart. Fables. He grinned.

"You think those are fairy tales then? Pshh, yeah right. I came in the nick of time. When I saw her like that, I could have sworn my heart stopped. It was a horrible wretching feeling. I was sure I was too late. Light..." He made a motion with his hand, as if something was floating from his mouth as he looked into the air as if he could see it. "It floated out of her mouth. Blood. Fairy blood. It was like my heart was disappearing with her spirit. Was horrible. It's not just a story. A broken heart is a real thing. Just ask one of you're ladies, they'd tell you. It is real. People can die from it...well...maybe not people. But Fairies can. I know that much. I must have the nine lives of a cat though. So far it's prolly been broken three times. First when she was stolen and taken away by the government when i first realized I loved her....second when she let herself love me for maybe an hour and then told me I had to stop loving her...and the last time. The last time must have been when I saw her dying and I couldn't imagine a life without her somewhere in it... I had to leave her for a while. I could tell she was going to try and push me away again so I left her so I could know she was somewhere at least. At least then I couldn't hurt her. I think... I think I did hurt her, when she always had to decide what to do about me. I think it bothered her so much."

He looked down, his face sad, thinking it over. Yes, he must have hurt her just by being alive, but he felt selfish for thinking 'he wouldn't have it any other way...'</sub>