Title: Dreams and Shadows
Author: Nova
Email: cryptorchid7@hotmail.com
Spoilers: Basic Night World
Disclaimer: The Night World and its concepts belong to LJS, everything else belongs to me.
Rating: 15
Summary: A Night World vampire has fallen in love with a human girl. He's falling apart trying to decide what to do about it. Will he break Night World law, despite the risk to his life and hers, to confess how he feels?
Notes: feedback appreciated
Part 1
How unfair that it could never be. Nothing like this has ever happened to me before. They all fall at my feet and do everything I want. But not her. She was different. I'm gorgeous, rich, popular, and smart. What the hell more could she want?
Apparently more. I'm not even sure if she's noticed me. I'm not supposed to be noticing her, after all. I can't help myself. I'm so used to getting what I want all the time. This is also, technically...
Well, all my friends would think I was out of my mind. All I'm supposed to feel is the thrill of the hunt. But this time it's so much more. God, maybe I need to see a psychiatrist.
Then again, if she knew, could she accept the truth? She's probably crossed my path every day and night since kindergarten. How come I'm only just noticing her now?
It's too complicated. I don't know what to do.
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The feeling of being watched was creepy. Cathy wasn't used to it. She tried hard to ignore it, but it was hard.
"Are you *nuts*?" her best friend Helen was eyeing her as if she was insane. "That's Cassanova Redfern!"
"If she had some brains she wouldn't be interested in someone who calls himself Cassanova!" her other best friend Tori snorted. Tori was the brains of the group. Helen was the boy crazy bimbo. Cathy considered herself to be the normal one.
She gave into temptation and looked behind her, trying to figure out what was so great about Cassanova Redfern. They guy was tall and muscular, a nice face and a quirky, charming smile, shoulder length blond hair and shiny blue eyes,
Not really her taste. Guys had to have something to offer more than looks and money to get her attention. She didn't have dates very often. She preferred ordinary guys rather than the popular snobs who thought they could smile at any girl and she'd melt in their arms.
"Helen, if you want him then he's all yours," Cathy said with a snort as she opened her locker.
She stopped, staring at the red rose on the little shelf inside. Both Tori and Helen leaned forward.
"That's so romantic!" Helen gushed, pausing to look in the mirror and fluff her golden blonde hair.
"It's *creepy!*" Cathy said, looking at the rose in distaste. The blood red colour of it was almost...disturbing. To her it was more like a sinister *warning*.
"Whop put it there?" Tori said, her expression blank.
Cathy frowned, taking the rose out and throwing it in a near by trash can.
"You really *are* nuts!" Helen walked away, shaking her head in disgust.
"Sometimes I wonder how we ever became friends with her in the first place," Tori snorted.
Cathy sometimes wondered the same thing. She shook own head as she and Tori walked away. Cathy told herself to just forget about the rose. Unfortunately for Cathy, the rose was only the beginning.
* * *
Author: Nova
Email: cryptorchid7@hotmail.com
Spoilers: Basic Night World
Disclaimer: The Night World and its concepts belong to LJS, everything else belongs to me.
Rating: 15
Summary: A Night World vampire has fallen in love with a human girl. He's falling apart trying to decide what to do about it. Will he break Night World law, despite the risk to his life and hers, to confess how he feels?
Notes: feedback appreciated
Part 1
How unfair that it could never be. Nothing like this has ever happened to me before. They all fall at my feet and do everything I want. But not her. She was different. I'm gorgeous, rich, popular, and smart. What the hell more could she want?
Apparently more. I'm not even sure if she's noticed me. I'm not supposed to be noticing her, after all. I can't help myself. I'm so used to getting what I want all the time. This is also, technically...
Well, all my friends would think I was out of my mind. All I'm supposed to feel is the thrill of the hunt. But this time it's so much more. God, maybe I need to see a psychiatrist.
Then again, if she knew, could she accept the truth? She's probably crossed my path every day and night since kindergarten. How come I'm only just noticing her now?
It's too complicated. I don't know what to do.
* * *
The feeling of being watched was creepy. Cathy wasn't used to it. She tried hard to ignore it, but it was hard.
"Are you *nuts*?" her best friend Helen was eyeing her as if she was insane. "That's Cassanova Redfern!"
"If she had some brains she wouldn't be interested in someone who calls himself Cassanova!" her other best friend Tori snorted. Tori was the brains of the group. Helen was the boy crazy bimbo. Cathy considered herself to be the normal one.
She gave into temptation and looked behind her, trying to figure out what was so great about Cassanova Redfern. They guy was tall and muscular, a nice face and a quirky, charming smile, shoulder length blond hair and shiny blue eyes,
Not really her taste. Guys had to have something to offer more than looks and money to get her attention. She didn't have dates very often. She preferred ordinary guys rather than the popular snobs who thought they could smile at any girl and she'd melt in their arms.
"Helen, if you want him then he's all yours," Cathy said with a snort as she opened her locker.
She stopped, staring at the red rose on the little shelf inside. Both Tori and Helen leaned forward.
"That's so romantic!" Helen gushed, pausing to look in the mirror and fluff her golden blonde hair.
"It's *creepy!*" Cathy said, looking at the rose in distaste. The blood red colour of it was almost...disturbing. To her it was more like a sinister *warning*.
"Whop put it there?" Tori said, her expression blank.
Cathy frowned, taking the rose out and throwing it in a near by trash can.
"You really *are* nuts!" Helen walked away, shaking her head in disgust.
"Sometimes I wonder how we ever became friends with her in the first place," Tori snorted.
Cathy sometimes wondered the same thing. She shook own head as she and Tori walked away. Cathy told herself to just forget about the rose. Unfortunately for Cathy, the rose was only the beginning.
* * *