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Heaven's Call

Hidden message…

Faith, it can lift you up

And we've got enough

To reach a new beginning

Sand flew everywhere as the two teens rolled ungracefully down the hill. Laughter mingled with screams and hands gripped cloth and skin alike. Dormant seagulls shrieked into the air, cawing angrily as the youths loudly rolled past their perches. Finally the movement ceased.

The brunette rolled over somewhat angrily and untangled her limbs from the smirking teen beside her. She huffed at his amused expression and turned her back to him choosing instead to grace the shore of the lake with her presence. The crimson-eyed youth behind her let out a half-laugh at her immature behavior.

"Come on Hilary! It was just a joke!"

The girl in question turned her head away, cheeks burning with embarrassment. It was not that she was mad at being pushed down a sand cliff. It was just…when his hand had grabbed her from behind so forcefully…well, she had thought something else. A star reflected bright light in her ruby eye as she turned away.

Kai turned to look at her, surprised. Now, when it was dusk she still struck him as an angel or princess from a fairy tale. Starlight touched her features and reflected making her glow like something unearthly. Conflicting with the starlight, the mossy rock she was sitting on and the ordinary shore with pebbles scattered around reassured him that she was real. Not a figment of his imagination.

He raised himself off the ground and inched closer to her, slowly.

"You're not really mad…are you? I'm… It was meant to be …"

The words tasted funny in his throat. Remorse was an odd feeling. Of course he had felt it, but never expressed it. He swallowed noisily and went over to her. He reached for his shoes and pulled them both off. And then he lay down on the smooth, slightly wet sand. His arms went behind his head and his eyes lingered on the stars, floating like fireflies in the endless expanse of sky.

Beside him he heard Hilary sigh and turn his way again. Her eyes also turned to gaze up at the midnight blue sky above them. She heaved a sigh again and then spoke.

"I'm not mad…"

If the words were not spoken with an air of kindness around them, Kai would have thought she was lying. His eyes focused on her once more before turning to analyze the moon.

Ghostly pale shapes, drifted silently onto the lake. Their long, ivory necks arched to the moon. They turned their beautiful ebony eyes on Hilary and watched her as they passed, preening and feeding. They looked as if angels compared to the dull landscape about them.

"Swans…" Hilary breathed, and she watched with a childhood interest. Kai turned to look at her once more. The very edge of a smile crept onto his lips.

"Why are you so fascinated with swans? I've noticed it before, but never said anything."

Hilary's eyes never left the angelic birds. The creatures drifted along the water as if floating in the sky, so gracefully. Staring into their eyes seemed to link you to infinity and the entire world seemed not to matter any more.

" When I was a little girl I used to visit my grandmother. She lived by a huge lake and every year in the summer they nested there. My grandmother used to collect all sorts of porcelain images of them. Swans have always seemed to me as angels in disguise and…well, they remind me of my grandmother. She…she and I were very close."

The sentence that she left hanging seemed to forebode a sense of sorrow and warned too inquisitive questions to be left unanswered. Kai left the question unasked and returned his gaze to the ivory birds decorating the lake with their beauty.

The night was once again filled with silence and the whole world seemed to be nothing more than the lake they were watching. The rippling water lulled even the most alert being into a sense of calm. The birds on the lake enchanted their watchers, moving with grace as if in a ballet.

Hilary spoke again, this time her words were filled with wariness, as if she were choosing them carefully. "I've always thought-well, I've hoped- that…when I die-whenever that may be- that I will be recarnated as a swan. Their just so… beautiful…"

The sentence was spoken with so much longing Kai turned to look at her again. A tear left a shimmering trail down her cheek, yet her eyes never left the sight of the white beauties on the lake. His body relaxed and he laid back down at the sound of Hilary's silence. His arms came to rest behind his head as he tried to puzzle out the secret meaning behind her words.

Hilary smiled a little bit when her eyes finally left the preening birds. The sight of the serious expression on Kai's face as he lay under the stars with his shoes off caused laughter to erupt from her mouth. She never thought she would see the supposedly cold-hearted captain of the Bladebreakers in such a position. Kai looked up at her curiously. The light in her eyes as she sat pointing at him and laughing so hard she couldn't breath, alerted him to the reason behind her laughter.

With one leaping bound he tackled her, and sent them once again rolling unto the smooth, damp sand below them. Her laughter mingled with his in a joyous melody of happiness. The sudden sound and movement caused the swans to eye the two carefully.

Finally the two settled in a pile near the waters edge. The nearness of their bodies sent Hilary into silence, as she could feel the heat radiating from Kai's skin, beneath his clothes. He glanced at her, now serene and serious, compared to the grin that had painted his face only moments before.

The pale light from a thousand stars danced in Hilary's eyes and made them an even more luminous shade of ruby red. Deep down in their depths Kai could read a heavy yearning, but glazed over top just an innocent fervor of a little girl. Their eyes met and linked them in a bond of desire.

Her lips were full and slightly puckered and when he eyed them, quick feelings of passion made his heart skip a beat. His hand snuck to the back to the back of her head and gently ran his fingers through the tangle of brunette hair that fell to her shoulders. Just a glance from her sent his head spinning and called him out even from his fortress of emotion he had spent so long to build. He let his eyes fall into hers and ever so slowly titled his head to meet the tantalizing aura of her lips.

Less than an inch apart, Kai's hand met something. He felt Hilary's breath explode out of her mouth as she gasped so near to his lips. She pushed away from him so fast he fell forward into the sand. He grunted with shock.

"Oh, God…I'm sorry Kai, I just…I'm so sorry!"

With that thoroughly confusing statement she turned on her heel and ran into the protecting cover of night. Kai gaped in utter disbelief at the still blackness, which was all that was left of where Hilary was sitting just moments before. His hand tightened on a thin strand of something. He looked down and beheld a single deep blue thread. Kai's crimson eyes lifted up to gaze at the path Hilary had taken while running. His brows knitted into a deep line of thought beneath the harshness of his confusion.

There's something she's not telling me and I'm going to find out...

Author's Note: O.k, I'm in a rush so this chapter wasn't as well written, as I wanted it to be. It was supposed to be more…magical, but it wasn't. There was just something missing and I didn't really edit this chapter so sorry for any mistakes, I probably reload it after anyways and when i do it will be a totally new version.It also gave clues to why Hilary has been acting so weird. But the end of this fic. is going to…knock your socks off, so to speak! Anyways, sorry about the delay for the next chapter, since I know there will be one. Also, sorry for no reviewer responses! Please R&R anyways!