The city looked the same.
Perched atop a tall building in the city's west, the city looked the same. Lights glowed as the sun went down, illuminating what was left of the traffic on the streets. Leo stood watching the pedestrians on the streets below, masked by darkness. He was on his way to the usual spot to wait for his brothers, where they all meet up from their various events and go on the first patrol of the night. But as the clock struck 8pm, Leo's eyes fixed on the well-lit clean building on the far street corner. A bank, closing down for the night after their extended hours. He gave a brisk look over his shoulders for his brothers, checking to see if The coast was clear. He didn't want to be caught in the favorite few moments of his Wednesday evening.
Shortly after 8:10, Leo's eyes fixed on the front gate to the bank opened to let a small statured girl out; an employee. Her medium length brown hair was tied up in a messy but tasteful bun this evening, and she was wearing her contacts, which better showed off her honey brown eyes. She smiled as she said her goodbyes, the cold air instantly flushing her cheeks an adorable pink. Leo inwardly sighed as he watched her, as he did every Wednesday that he could. She was an all around normal girl. Normal. Something he could never be. She was beautiful though, in all her normality. Spunky too, he once flew into a panic as he saw a man attempt to mug her in the streets on her walk home, and just as he had jumped to the nearest fire escape to save her, she defended herself with a well placed roundhouse kick to the jaw of her assailant, and then ran. Leo smirks as he remembers his astonishment; she was not a stupid girl. He walks along the rooftop, keeping pace with her as she went on her usual route home, which was coincidentally on the same way to the meeting spot with him and his brothers.
Although tonight, she stops on the street for a moment and looks around, and Leo takes a preemptive step backwards; knowing she can feel his eyes on her and that the unknown presence she's looking for is him. But just as suddenly as she stopped, she picks up into a full fledged run to her house. Caught off guard Leo sprints and jumps off one edge of the rooftop he was on, but instantly regrets that spur of the moment decision as she looked up right at that time just to see his shadow passing in front of the bright full moon. She screeched to a halt, her eyes locked on the place in the sky where she saw the shadow. Leo cursed the full moon on his breath as he crouched on the rooftop, hoping, pleading inside himself that she passes it off as her imagination. He hears the slow click of her shoes through the empty streets as she begins to walk again, but he can tell that she'll always be looking up for the rest of the walk home. He won't be able to guide her home for a while.
Disappointment setting in his chest, Leo slips away into the night to take the long way to his meeting place.
Ellie closes the door behind her and locks it, her heart beating hard. For the longest time she could feel eyes on her when she walked home, and although there have been attempts she has had no fear in defending herself. But the…. Thing she saw tonight, wasn't… human. She could tell, its shadow was too bulky, too quick, and what kind of person would be hopping around the rooftops at night? She knew there were some pretty strange people in this city, but not… THAT strange…. Right…? She triple checked her locks on the door and then went straight to the window to peer up at the rooftop across the street from her 3rd floor apartment. Slowly peeling off her scarf and jacket, she carelessly tossed them at the chair in the corner of the room; missing entirely. As thoughts raced through her mind she came to the slow realization that never once had she felt like it was a threatening stare, as if the presence watching her was watching to protect her. She shook her head like the thought would disappear with it, but a warming feeling crept up in her heart from her gut, telling her that she was right, although her mind wouldn't allow her to believe it. Drawing the curtains sharply, she moved away from the window and into the kitchen. I need a cup of tea.