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Christian leaned back against one of the metal girders and absently fingered his pendant. He felt so drained after sharing everything he could remember about his mother and her death with Elise.
He also felt angered that she had lost her entire family to ravenous vampires. It wasn't fair that they were slaughtered, simply because they were mages.
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Elise had never known the pain that this lycan boy had been through. Other lycans killing his mother, because she was a mage and him having to hide his secret from even his best friend.
"I'm so sorry. I never knew."
He shrugged. "No one does. Except for myself and my father that is. But, he won't talk about it. It hurts him too much."
Without thinking she placed her hand on his arm, a tender, gentle touch.
But, then she caught sight of the beautiful, but deadly rays of the sun creeping along the horizon.
My God. I didn't know it was so late.
Pulling her hand back, she turned to leave.
"I'm sorry. I need to go. The sun is almost up."
"Yeah, okay."
As, she walked down the bridge she heard the lycan boy, Christian he had told her his name was, calling her.
"Wait!"
"What ?"
"Uh, I know this is going to sound stupid, but can I see you some time again ?"
She smiled, this time not the icy smile and not a big smile either, but a genuine one. "Sure, why not."
He grinned back at her. "Okay. Great."
Her smile grew a bit at the silliness of the look upon his face, but then she had to run to avoid being caught by the now quickly rising sun.
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2nd A/N: Next chapter will have a bit of a time jump ( only one month), but I want to fill you in on what happens. Elise and Christian see each other again, and then again and again.
Soon, mutual feelings of at least deep like ( y'know to like someone) begin to develop between them.
When, the story picks up again, they are rather unofficial bf and gf ( but, Elise won't admit her feelings for him, until a few chapters later, because Angels of Mercy ( the vampire army squad she belongs to ) are not supposed to have any real " human" emotions.)
Keep reading and reviewing. Thanks and a happy ( early) holidays.