Prompt: Twilight
Pairing: IzayaxOC
What a wonderful time of day. It was the time when humans were at their busiest. Some were rushing home from a long day of work, and some were heading out to prowl the city at night. For him, it was indeed splendid. There were so many interesting humans to observe.
And observe he did. He tried out many different situations with humans, saw how many different faces one human could make. Human emotions were quite something; he found each and every emotional display interesting. He was a master at making humans feel certain ways by manipulating them. However, no matter how good he was, there was one certain emotion his targets never genuinely showed.
At least, not until this twilight.
She managed to catch up with him, but it took her a few minutes afterward to catch her breath. Her lungs could only take so much of running up a hill before needing more breath. He simply stood there and smirked when she finally regained her lost oxygen. Soon after, she lost the oxygen again with her chattering.
He paid a bit of attention to her motor-mouth; at least, he gave her more attention than he had in the past. This caught him a bit by surprise; since when had her useless rambles become interesting to him? The ever-observant information broker had not seen that one happening.
His attention turned to the city, which could be seen beautifully from where they now stood. She looked in the same direction as him and smiled. The city sure is beautiful, isn't it? He could almost hear her asking that, though she remained silent.
Something happened in that moment that neither of them noticed. Maybe it was looking out over the city that did it, or it could have been building up for days. All he knew was, when he looked at her again, there was something different in her expression.
She smiled sweetly at him, her eyes filled with something besides happiness. Without thinking she reached over and grabbed his hand. He was surprised for a few seconds, but this had been something expected of her. What she had not expected of him was that he did not let go. For a moment they just stood there together, watching the city.
That was when he saw it, the emotion no grown person really ever bothered to show him. He smiled before removing his hand from her grasp. She frowned when he poked her lightly on the nose, and pouted when he silenced her with a teasing remark. He wasn't sure what he thought of her new-found expressions, but he figured that it wouldn't hurt to keep her around a bit longer.
After all, wasn't there something intriguing about falling in love in the twilight?
.the end.