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The Gardens; Enjoy the fresh air
Topic Started: Jul 4 2008, 10:50 AM (630 Views)
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  • Lara closed her eyes again, and took yet another deep breath. "RJ. Look at me. My skin...it's pale white!", she narrowed her eyes and held up an arm toward RJ. "Go ahead, touch it. I swear to you it's colder than the snow beneath us both."
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RJ couldn't hold back a light scoff, but it was far from a humorous one. "I know how cold your skin is, it was colder than the snow in the middle of summer ..." He had done a little bit of research since then, and the only thing he found to explain what had become of Lara was something that scared him terribly. He didn't want to make any assumptions. No, he wanted to hear it from Lara. " ...But why?"
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  • Lara teared up and shook her head. "No...RJ." she sighed and looked away, knowing that her cousin never again would look at her the same way. "Here, let me see your hand.", and without waiting for his permisson, she grabbed his wrist, not roughly, but it probably would shock him anyway because of the temperature.

    She pulled him a little closer, again, gently, as if afraid he'd break. Lara extended his arm, and let his fingers graze her neck, where a heartbeat should've been. "What do you feel, RJ?" she demanded, her eyes still shiny, staring directly into his.
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Even underneath his warm coat RJ felt goosebumps arise over his arm as Lara's cold hand took hold of his wrist. She guided his fingers to the side of her neck, and almost instantly memories from that night in the forest flooded his mind. With his other hand RJ grabbed Lara's arm to pull it away but it was too late. He felt the bitter chill of her skin underneath his fingertips.

He stood there silently with his mouth slightly agape and tears welling up in his eyes. Just as when he was checking for Dana's pulse in the forest, he waited for three seconds.

One ... Two ... Three ...

Nothing.

Naturally it has scared him in the forest when he felt Dana without a pulse, but now for Lara it was the scariest thing he had ever felt ... And it was too much for him. "Get off!" He shrieked. He quickly shoved Lara's arm away and stumbled backwards, staring at her with tear filled eyes and a horrified expression, just waiting for her response which he assumed would be negative.
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  • Lara stared up at RJ, scared to death, knowing how much this must of hurt him, yet she wasn't sure why his reaction had been so strong. And when he pulled away, she felt a piece of her heart fall right along with him, and she jerked her face away from him. The warm sensation on her neck was still there, and the pulse of his blood, the smell, was overwhelming, and she felt her mouth water. But Lara quickly bit her lip and shook the thought away.

    Lara leapt away as well, and perfectly landed on the bench beneath the tree. She didn't want to look at RJ, but she had no choice. She gathered up the courage and slowly turned her head to look at his face. And the outcome just about ripped her into pieces. She let out a shallow moan she shook her head again. "Things aren't aways what they seem" she down and brought her knees to her chest, looking away from RJ now.
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"Things aren't always what they seem."

Lara's words sunk in and helped RJ to calm down, but only a little. In his life everything always was what it seemed - chaos, and at last it was beginning to take its toll on the boy. He had been keeping everything locked up for so long. It had been years since he had opened up and expressed his feelings in any way, and it had been even longer since he had allowed himself to shed a single tear. But in the moment he pushed Lara's arm away, he knew he had hit his break down point and there was no avoiding it.

Shamefully he walked over and sat down beside Lara. He looked down at the cold snow and took a deep breath. "Vampire or not, you're still my cousin and I love you. Nothing will ever change that."
RJ paused to collect his thoughts. "Lara, I feel like my life is falling apart. I can't even begin to explain it, but I feel like I'm losing everything ..." RJ paused again and turned towards Lara, looking deep into her teary eyes. Suddenly, RJ grabbed onto Lara, wrapped his arms around her shoulders and held her tightly as if their lives depended on it. "But I can't lose you." He uttered quietly.
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  • Lara's eyes began to whell up with tears, and she sighed. RJ, had came and sat next to her, and she was careful not to breathe. "RJ, I am a vampire, and i'm not the only one out there." she scoffed and shook her head. "I ran into one last night, and that dog", she growled at the word, but recollected her thoughts quickly.

    But the sudden movement from RJ, took a toll on Lara. He was on her, all over her. His scent, the texture of his warm skin, the sound of his beating heart. She took a deep intake of breath, and a hand shot up and covered her mouth and nose. She had to shrug herself away from RJ, and shove herself as far away as she could get on the bench. She looked at him, eyes full of terror and hunger.

    When she had finally gotten a hold of herself, her throat burned with thirst, yet her mouth was watering. "You need to stay away from me..." she choked, "I'm dangerous, RJ." she sighed. "I think i'm leaving Hogwart's....leaving...", her eyes looked up to the moon, and a tear slid down her face. "the world..."
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RJ didn't even resist or fight back when Lara pulled away from him. It was done, he had already lost her and there was no point in trying to get her back ... Not now at least.

He gave her one last look and shook his head, narrowing his eyes at her and with a small sigh he rose to his feet. There were so many things he wanted to say to her but couldn't. His only option was to leave her alone, so that's what he did. Without a single word he turned around and sadly, angrily, bitterly, and hopelessly stormed out of the garden, regretting ever walking past the apartment in the first place.
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  • Lara's eyes watered up as she watched her cousin leave her behind in the garden. She shook her head quickly, biting her lip. He hated her. Hated her for what she was, and hated her because of who she became. One of the only family members she had ever loved, was gone from her. And she doubted that he would ever walk in her life again.

    Lara desperately clawed at herself, and grasped the turquoise heart necklace and let out a scream when he was out of site. She had never felt this depressed before. When her little sister died at birth, when her father was murdered, when her mother went crazy, and when she was seperated from her little brother. Never had she wanted to leave this damned world.

    She released the necklace, and he fell against her chest again. A sly smirk appeared on her face in the middle of this breakdown, and she shook her head quickly, and stood up, leaping away from the bench, and out of the gardens.
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  • Lara walked solemnly into the gardens. She had never thought she would every return here again, after the disppointment that unfolded from her last visit. But she remembered how she used to come here to clear her thoughts as a human during her long summer at the orphanage. She needed to get over the events which happened here, and relax.

    As she walked across the gardens toward her favorite tree, Lara glanced up at the moon, reminding herself how much she was growing accustomed to the night. She loved the dark sky, and the way everything was quiet at night. She could hear the human's quiet breathing as they slept peacefully, with hardly a problem in the world.

    When she reached her tree, Lara took a single leap and crawled through the branches until she found the one she was looking for, the one that was shaped so it seemed like a seat, and she could prop her legs up to relax. It would've been a great place to catch a nap, if Lara needed to sleep.
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RJ ran and ran and ran to the apartment where Lara lived. He knew that Kingsley Mercedes also lived there, as well as Cassandra Harper and John Reno, the three people he was trying to avoid the most, and so he wouldn't dare set foot inside. He stood outside, trying to think of a way to let Lara know that he was there without going inside. He could always throw pebbles at her bedroom window, but alas, she didn't have windows in her bedroom, so really he couldn't. No, he'd have to come up with something different.

He stood there in thought, one hand on his hip, the other thoughtfully rubbing his chin and with one of his black Chuck Taylor's tapping on the sidewalk. Suddenly, he heard a noise coming from the garden and looked in that direction. He remembered the previous winter when he had found Lara there, and the two had gotten into their little spat. Thankfully, that was over with.

RJ shoved his hands into his pockets and slowly made his way over to the garden fence. He looked across the green grass, shrubs, and the flowers, and before long spotted his cousin up in the tree.
"Lara!" He called out, already opening the gate and stepping into the garden.
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  • Lara lifted her head when a familiar human scent filled her nostrils, she looked up just in time to hear her cousin call out her name and see him running toward her tree. Now deja vu was hitting her all too well, and the memory seemed to glow in her mind.

    She leapt down from the tree and stood next to the bench until he reached her. "You rang?" she tilted her head to the side and smiled.
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The boy excitedly ran over to his cousin and tightly wrapped his arms around her, before picking her up off of the ground and twirling her around once. RJ then set her down and took a step back - an ear-to-ear grin planted on his face. He couldn't wait to show her the gift he had brought for her, and he couldn't wait to see her reaction. "I come bearing a gift." He said, speaking as a butler would, and giving a short and playful bow. "But first you have to tell me, what do you plan on doing next summer? Anything exciting?"
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  • As RJ ran over to her, Lara grinned excitingly. It was great to see her cousin so happy to see her, and in her cold skin, she felt herself warm up, even with a dead heart. When he picked her up, Lara laughed out loud "Think you're strong, eh? Just think what I could do!" her eyes glistened and she laughed again.

    When her rather shorter cousin released her and put her back to a landing, she tilted her head to the side and smiled again. 'Well, I like gifts!' she thought, though she did feel guilty she didn't have anything for RJ, and she felt as if he did too much for her, though she didn't say anything. "Next summer? Uh..." Lara honestly did have anything planned. "Well, nothing comes to mind. I'll be officially graduated..Why?"
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"Well, you're not very heavy." He replied, shaking his head. Though it was an awkward statement, it was just his way of denying that he thought he was strong, which he really didn't. when Lara continued to laugh, RJ couldn't help but laugh along with her. "And I don't think I'd survive what you could do."

He was more than relieved to hear Lara say that she didn't have anything planned for the next summer. At that moment, it meant the world to him. He reached into his back pocket and took out one of the brand new passports he had recieved from his mother. He then held it up for Lara to see, leaning forward a little, and raising an eyebrow at her. "How'd you like to go to Paris with me?"
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