Nina ran to the park as fast as she could knowing that Ulquiorra would be there waiting for her. Seven days of torture were finally about to end as she was promised that she would be able to see him again. She completely ignored the odd passing person and made her way to the spot of their reunion. It was late enough so that no one will be around to see her talking to no one when really he will be standing right in front of her. Her heart was more excited than it has ever felt but Nina stopped for a moment as she realized that she was nervous. She placed a hand on her stomach to try to calm the butterflies. She almost felt as if she were panicking.

"No, I can't feel like this now." She cursed but she forced herself to move forward only this time she paced herself to give time to calm down. Once she seen his slender figure there facing away from her, her heart raced and felt like it was going to jump out of her chest. Eyes slightly filling up with water, she took a moment to wipe them and focus on not looking like a fool. It's him, it's really him. Her smile widened while staring at him after what felt like forever. Ulquiorra seemed to be enjoying himself there. He seemed so relaxed. His eyes were almost closed as he felt the warm sun against his skin with his hands in his pockets then he looked over his shoulder. Nina's heart jumped upon noticing that he was looking in her direction. "Ulquiorra." Her spine tingled after his name rolled off of her tongue. His eyes softened once he laid his eyes on hers. She dashed across the grassy field and enclosed the space between them. It seemed like another seven days had passed until she was finally close enough to him for contact. She automatically wrapped her arms around him and buried her head in his chest and he put his arms around her.

"Nina." He said in his typical monotone voice but Nina could sense his excitement.

"Ulquiorra." She started. "I've missed you so much. You don't know how long this week has felt for me."

"Nina, it felt as if I were dying every day that I was not with you. You have become a part of my life in a big way. I want you to promise me that you will never leave again. Take me with you where ever you go."

"I promise." She smiled as she caressed his face. He looked into her eyes as he slowly moved his face closer to hers...

"Ulquiorra!" Nina said as her eyes shot open in the morning as soon as she woke up. She groaned after the dream then leapt off of her bed with excitement and a smile on her face even though she knew that Daren wouldn't be leaving until later afternoon. She needed as much time as she could to get ready. Nina could hear the birds chirping outside and sighed from their beautiful melody and she felt like the day was perfect. It felt a little too perfect but she shrugged it off and ignored any feeling of doubt, as long as she would see Ulquiorra again today, it would be perfect. She went to her full sized mirror and tied her messy hair back into a low ponytail to keep it out of her face until she showered. Daren was packing up his suitcase with most of his clean clothes and Nina leaned at the door frame watching him work with her arms folded across her chest. All his suits, ties and fancy shoes were packed but his jeans and t-shirts were left here as it was completely unacceptable to wear jeans at his work. He looked as if he were heading for an important meeting wearing his most expensive outfit and his hair was well kept.

"Can I help?" Nina was strangely in the mood to offer assistance rather than her ignorance.

"Uh, sure." Daren began trying not to sound surprised. "Grab my laptop from my room." Nina nodded and in no time returned with a thin high-tech laptop and set it on the table. "I gotta do some work on there before I leave today. Can you plug it in by the couch?"

"Kay." Nina said getting the charger chord then plugging it in. She sat there for a while trying to scan her fingerprint in order to start it up. 'Unrecognized' the screen read but that disappeared and asked for a back up password. Nina, out of boredom, attempted to hack in to the system knowing that Daren would be watching. She typed in his birthday on first attempt but the computer buzzed at the correct answer and a window popped up explaining so.

"Hey, don't go logging on there. There's confidential information in there that no one outside of my working facility can lay eyes on. It might be the end of me if that happens."

"Sorry. Looks like you finally got some better passwords. Years ago, before you ever got this job it was so easy to log on."

"That was before my career was dependant on a password."

"Yeah but I managed to find some embarrassing pictures of you drunk with your friends back then when you had such obvious ones." Nina said turning her sight to his. When she looked at him, she thought that he was Ulquiorra for a moment packing his bags and couldn't believe her eyes. Her scepticism caused her to catch her head in her hands. Daren looked at her with concern.

"Are you alright?" He asked.

"I don't know what happened but I suddenly don't feel well." She said noticing a nauseous feeling circling in her stomach.

"Maybe you should lie down for a while." Daren suggested.

"I think I'm going to go to my room." She said holding her head as she walked back to her room. She gently shut the door behind her then fell onto her bed trying to control her sudden feel of discomfort. "What the heck is happening?" She asked herself. "I don't care what is happening but I can't miss seeing Ulquiorra today." Upon saying Ulquiorra's name, she was come over with and uncontrollable dizziness. Realizing that Ulquiorra was the source of this problem, she did everything in her power to forget about him for the time being. "D*** he's not even here and he's torturing me." She cursed. She closed her eyes and took in a few deep breaths feeling much better as she concentrated on the evenness of her intakes. After a moment, she opened her eyes back up and decided to have a shower. By now she would have two hours before she has to leave but she tried not to think too much and cause any unwanted feelings. She quietly hummed to herself as the water rained down on her rinsing the shampoo away from her waist-length, dark brown hair. When she got out dripping wet, she tilted her head to the side as she looked at herself in the mirror and decided to leave her hair out of her braids for once. It was an occasion to dress up a little bit so it was decided that she would straighten her hair instead of putting it out of the way in her ordinary loose braids though it would take a while to blow dry. Once her hair dried, she took the straightener to her hair and pressed it flat with the hot metal. It took just as much effort to straighten than blow dry. She inspected her hair in the mirror for a moment before covering herself up with a towel and sneaking to her room.

When she closed the door, she walked over to her wardrobe and picked out the nicest, yet not too dressy, clothing. She came across a tank top that had a touch of girliness to it from the ribbon around low the neckline. It was tight at the breasts and loose around the stomach. She knew that she could not get away with this outfit if Daren where to see it so she covered it up with a hoodie and threw on some dark jean capris that where stylishly folded up at the bottom. She spent a good half hour in front of the full length mirror in her room making sure that her hair and makeup were perfect and by the time she was ready, she left her room to see Daren off.

"Well I guess it's time for me to go." Daren said throwing the strap from his laptop case over his shoulder. "I don't know when I'll be home next."

"That's fine." Was all Nina said at first then decided to add something. "I'll be here regardless."

"Take care of everything while I'm gone."

"Okay." Nina nodded. Daren lifted his suitcase in his other hand and walked towards the door. Nina stood there waiting and Daren took a quick look back at Nina's unusual formal appearance (except the hoodie was rather odd) before he closed the door. Nina went to the window and lifted the curtains to watch him walk out to his car. She stalked him making sure that he put everything in his car before climbing into the driver's seat then he took off. She turned around and leaned against the wall once his car was out of sight and sighed and took a moment. Nina pushed herself off of the wall and threw off of her hoodie then returned to her same position on the wall and closed her eyes. She smiled.