"Do you really want to know what happened to me?" Amelia asks. Raze looks up. He was confused until he saw her hand slip up, under her dress and retrieve a dagger. Raze would have laughed if this moment was not so serious. She slid it across her wrist and as the pool began to rise from the wound Amelia offered it to Raze. The scent of the blood excited Raze, but on a level he did not want to take her blood. Blood exchange was one of the most personal things that supernatural creatures could offer eachother. It was the highest level of trust. Raze, with a sigh, took the wound in his mouth and drank.

He saw the first time Lucian met her in the woods. Next he saw himself playfully chasing Amelia as a child, picking her up, and spinning her around as she giggled playfully. He saw the first time he helped her train and when Lucian gave her the set of daggers she fought with. Raze watched as she remembered his return and felt her joy for seeing him after all those years. He then saw everything that happened in the bedroom that night. From kiss to kill Raze saw every detail of Amelia memory. Raze detached himself from her. She stood before him vulnerable.

"I'm so sorry," Raze says looking away,"not for just what happened, but for what I said."

"Raze, I have not been blind to your wondering eyes," Amelia says firmly. Raze instantly closes his eyes in embarassement and shame. "Nor the eyes of the other men. They have all noticed that I have quickly developed. You are also my oldest and dearest friend, a fact I have never and could never forget," Amelia continues. Raze sighes. This was her way of putting him down easily. He would only be a friend to her. He could not meet her eyes, though she was trying to move in front of him. He was so embarassed and regretted every word that his heart had ached to say. They would both now be at an awkward disadvantage and he would be in constant pain knowing that she would not return his feelings. "I also," she says in a low voice,"have not been blind to the way your muscles gleam after your morning run, or the warmth I feel inside of me in your strong embrace." Her sentence finishes as her finger runs a line down the middle of his bare chest opened by a 'v' neck cut in his tunic.

His jaw went slack as he shivered. He slowly brought his eyes up to meet hers. They were dark and calling to him as the day before. Amelia walked slowly toward him, closing the gap between them until their chests touched. The minglings of their heat was like an electrical shock that shot through his body. As if this was all a dream, his hand moved up to caress her cheek as his head began to lower. Raze's heart was beating out of his chest and he felt slightly light headed. Amelia's eyes slowly closed as the distance between their lips grew small and smaller.

The moment their lips touched softly Raze and Amelia felt their bodies sigh together in passion. Raze slid his hands around his waist and pulled her close, making the kiss fuller and deeper. Amelia's hands went around his neck, not pulling away, but embracing him fully and pulling him down to her lips. The cool wind whipped, but the heat of their closeness and the rising heat of their passion could not be quelled by the coldest wind. The kiss lasted for what seemed like eternal bliss, but they parted for breath. Raze pulled away only to still be touching noses lightly. Both kept their eyes lowered as they revelled in their close feelings. As Raze felt his arousal approach and his breath hasten, he could smell a smell he had never smelt before, but his deep instincts told him what that smell was. It was the sweet smell of Amelia's arousal.

"Amelia," Raze nearly growled out as he thrust his mouth to meet hers. He felt arm her back and thread her leg up his thigh, allowing him to pull her closer than he thought possible. Their mouths met in a clash of pure passion as they seemed to wrestle for power. Raze ran his hand up her thigh to take ahold of her ass cheek. She moaned into his mouth causing his body to shake and his cock to harden. Amelia gasped and looked down quickly to where Raze's arousal was pressed against her.

"Raze," she says smiling wickedly as she recaptures his lips. Using her arms around his neck, Amelia hoists herself up and wraps her legs around his waist. Surprised, for only a moment, Raze cradles her bottom to keep her stable. He then knelt down and gently laid her in the soft bed made by the glowing flowers. He settled his body gently on top of her, not ashamed to let her feel his arousal. He felt her tongue gently brush his lips, begging for admission. With no hesitation, he granted her tongue entry and felt the sweet feeling of her tongue massaging his. Raze could only moan and wonder where she had learned such a thing. Their tongues wrestled for dominance as the heat of their passion increased. Raze moved from her lips to her jaw and down her neck. He felt her quick pulse beat against his tongue as he licked a line down to her collarbone. Amelia moaned and arched her back against his chest. Raze himself moaned as her body reacted to him. Raze let his nose run along her neck, taking in the sweet smell of her skin, the flowers, and her arousal. He wanted to kiss every part of her.

He kissed his way back to her lips and was met with hungry lips. Their kiss, quick and hurried, ended as Raze gasped when Amelia nipped at his lip with her teeth. Raze could not believe how aroused just a simple action had made him. He smiled, shocked at Amelia. She smirked, allowing her teeth to show. Raze realized he had her excited close to transformation. Her canines were extended and her fingers were not quite claws. He himself had felt his canines want to extend.

"Amelia, you are beautiful," Raze says stroking his hand from her bangs to her chin. Amelia closes her eyes and falls into his hand. She kisses his palm gently.

"Are you okay?" she asks, realizing the sudden change in pace.

"Perfect," Raze says smiling,"this is more than I have ever dreamed."

"Really?!" Amelia asks raising her eyebrow.

"Well no," Raze says gently kissing her lips,"there is a bit more, but I never thought this would happen."

"Why?" Amelia asks.

Raze rolls on his side beside Amelia. He sighs and plays with a flower. "I never thought you would ever see me like this," Raze says.

"Why?" Amelia says smiling.

"Because we are friends," Raze says.

"It is because we are friends that I could trust no one else with my body," Amelia says moving closer to him.

"So how long have you had these feelings?" Raze asks.

"Well since you came home. When I saw you walk through that door I realized that you were not just a friend anymore but a man. I had so many feelings build up inside from just the site of you, and when I thought about it, no man had ever made me feel like this. I knew that you didn't recognize me which made it more fun. I had been waiting for a friend to be around, but when I started talking to you, I knew I wanted more from you," Amelia says almost embarassed,"I'm not as innocent as you think. The king had some pretty scandelous books that I found and read without father knowing. I learned that intercourse has many positions, and names and how pleasing a man is not only done with one part of the female body."

Raze moans just thinking about that, he was trying to control himself and she was definately not helping his situation. But he pauses. "Then why did you pull away?"
Amelia looked away,"I have always wanted to win your approval, as a kid for a beloved adult, and now as a woman for a man. I am ashamed because I do not have the gift a wife gives to her husband on their wedding night...I'm incomplete and did not want you to have to settle for me..."

"Amelia," Raze says almost as a scold,"this..." he says placing her hand on her chest right on her heart,"this is all I need." he says sincerely.

The two stare deeply into eachother's eyes and slowly Raze once more moves in for a kiss. The same spark lights within him as before as her soft lips touch his. Knowing that she returned his passion for her made the kiss all the more enthralling.

Amelia parted from his lips and laid still. "What do you want from me Raze?" she then asks.

Raze was confused, then he pulls her close to him. "I want your heart....I want your love....Amelia, I want to bind myself to you for the rest of our immortal lives," Raze says kissing her.

Amelia smiles,"My heart has belonged to no one else."

"As has mine," Raze says.

"I love you," Amelia says.

Raze could not stop his heart from skipping a beat. There is was, in black and white. I love you.

"I love you too."

***i know you've waited a long time for this, and the fun is just starting***