SteffiDaBeagle wrote:
I love this story. <3 You're a good writer!
fighter wrote:I love this story already I hope you continue ^^
whiteouthorizon wrote:"Leo."
I groaned a bit as a voice cut into my dreams, forcing me back into reality. Struggling to open my eyes, I saw the blurry form od Drake's face leaning over mine, swinging back and forth like a pendulum as I struggled to regain consciousness. Raising my head from beneath the furs, I winced as a sharp jet of icy wind lashed against my skin and hurriedly yanked the furs up around my face.
"We're here, Leo. Come on, I've already moved your bags inside." Yanking the protective furs out of my grasp, he seized me by the shoulder and pulled me into a sitting position. I felt goosebumps erupting upon my neck and arms, and they weren't just from the cold.
Slowly shuffling my way to the door, I expected to see a plethora of young children sprawled within the hallway the moment he opened it for me, so I was a bit shocked when a dark, empty silence greeted me. "You live alone?" I asked, stepping over the threshold and kicking the snow from my shoes.
"Always have," Drake replied. "Haven't met the right girl yet. Don't think I ever will, you know what this place is like. Everyone's all friendly like, but there's no passion in the community. No curiosity, no thirst for life. I sometimes wonder why I even stay here." I could feel my heart thumping as he said these words- he was more within my reach than I'd ever dreamed of him being. Shrugging off my coat, I hung it upon the rack before following Drake into the kitchen, where I could see a pot of soup bubbling on the stove. Going over to the sink, I gave my hand a quick rinse and a squirt of soap, before immediately going to the fridge, taking out some parsley and chopping it as fine as I could.
"Thanks," Drake said as he took the bowl from my hands. "I always forget this." For the briefest moment our fingers met on the bowl and I felt a thrill go through my heart, before he turned back to the soup and poured the herb in. "Mind cutting the bread? You do it better than I do."
Supper was a quick meal of bread, soup and some ham that he'd picked up earlier this afternoon. We lingered at the table long after our bowls were clean, catching up on the years gone by. The words flowed freely, something that surprised us both- the night wore on, and still our verbal communion continued. A loud bang outside stopped him halfway through some story about his college years, and we were both shocked to find out it was three in the morning. As Drake had work the next morning, I offered to do the dishes, an offer that he eventually gave in to. He'd nearly reached the staircase leading to the second floor when I suddenly spoke up.
"Drake?"
"Yes?"
"I love you."
A long silence ensued, and I could feel my face turning bright red as I bent over the plate, scrubbing at it furiously. Then I felt a hand on my back.
"I love you too, Leo."
Smiling, I listened to the sound of his footsteps retreating up the stairs before turning my attention back to the plates.
Well, I guess I did get something in today. It's not as good as I would've hoped, though.
Ah well. Hopefully the next part will be better. I hope you don't mind a few deaths.
»»Sizaansilah«« wrote:-----------------xXx-----------------
Sizaansilah--------------------------xXx------------------------Krahvokunviing
"Krahvokunviing?" {Cold Shadow Wings?}
Two dragons lay high up at a mountain's peak, snow falling down around them. One brown, one blue.
"Geh?"{Yes?}
The brown one began scratching something into the stone mountain cliff with a claw.
"What do you think about the Old One's plan?" The brown dragon reverted to speaking the common tongue, still scratching at the ground.
"Hm..." The blue considered the question. "I believe that if we wish to continue living. Het. Ko Taazokaan.{Here. In Tamriel.} Then it may be the wisest plan. The World Eater acted rashly. He should have waited. Been more subtle. These are not the joore {mortals} we left behind. They are smarter, more developed. Still fools in many aspects, but not as before."
More scratching filled the silence.
"Sizaansilah?"{Lost Soul Hunter?} The blue craned his neck over the brown's back, reading her scratches."Fin... Viing... Fundein..."{The... wings... unfurled...}
"I think you are right." Sizaansilah answered finally.
"Why did you write this?" Krahvokunviing meant her scratches.
"I... I'm not sure. I wasn't paying attention." She stood, stretching her wings. "The snow has stopped. Shall we fly?"
He lifted his head to the sky. "To hunt?"
"Geh." {yes.}
"Together?"
"Nid."{No.}
The blue dragon turned his head to face her. "Why?"
"It will draw too much attention."
"Very well." He paused. "Ul?"{Eternity?}
"Unslaad toor. Unslaad fo." {Eternal inferno. Eternal frost.} She answered, before taking off, disappearing over the edge of the cliff as she dove towards the Northern seas.
Krahvokunviing stood at the top of the mountain, looking up at the disappearing clouds for a few minutes more, before stretching his wings and catching a wind as it blew up the mountain's side. He took to the air, roaring to the sky before diving towards the plains to the South.
Dragons who wished for peace.
Would the joore accept this?
Or once again attept to kill them off?
Seperating him from her once again.
His last thought before spotting a mammoth, and allowing his hunting insticts to take over his mind.
SkySmoke wrote:&
Azrael (f)***************************************************Dragan (m)
I'm here again
A thousand miles away from you
A broken mess, just scattered pieces of who I am
I tried so hard
Thought I could do this on my own
I've lost so much along the way
No one ever expects a woman to be an assassin, especially a pretty one. I suppose, looking back, that maybe it was part of why I was so effective; no one was ever expecting it. To look at me, you would not guess I could be a ruthless killer. You would be wrong. I could. I still can. I was one of the best. I never missed, I never failed…until him.
You aren’t always given a lot of information about a target. Name, address, age. You aren’t usually told what they do for a living, if they have family, sometimes you don’t even know why you are killing them; it’s just what you do. It’s something you question sometimes, but after a while, you learn that it’s better not to know. Until the day the name is someone you know, and you know they don’t deserve to die.
The life I lived was a very solitary one. I didn’t have a lot of friends, and after a while I didn’t want them. I had found that to be good at what I did, it was easier to keep everyone at a distance. It was much easier to watch the life drain out of someone if they didn’t remind you of someone you knew, someone you loved.
He had been the exception to that rule for years. He was my best friend. My shoulder to cry on, the one person who could make me laugh when all I really wanted to do was cry. He didn’t know what I did. I was so afraid that if I told him, he would hate me. So I stuck to my cover story that I worked in the IT department for a major computer firm. It was the cover story I told everyone and for all intents and purposes, it was a legitimate job. I had the education to back it up; I went to the office and reported for work daily. It was just after that point where things changed.
We had met in bar one night. He sat down quietly next to me and instead of offering to buy me a drink, he just did. It was a different approach, one that made me interested in talking to him. We ended up talking until the bar closed, and for a few hours after that in the parking lot. Our relationship had never drifted out of the friendship phase, but if I were to be honest with myself, I was in love with him.
Which is why, for the first time in my career, when his name was on the piece of paper as my target, I declined.
“I’m sorry sir, I can’t.” I said softly, handing the paper back to my supervisor. He didn’t look up from his coffee, just slid the paper back towards me.
“You can, and you will.”
“No Sir, I can’t. I won’t.” It was only then that he looked up.
“What?”
“I won’t. I can’t sir. Not this target.”
“And why is that?”
“I…he’s my best friend.” He arched an eyebrow at me then stood and walked around his desk so he was standing directly in front of me.
“You do know, that if you refuse, he will become someone else’s target.”
My eyes grew wide. The thought actually hadn’t crossed my mind until he said it. The fact that he was a target at all meant that he was marked to die, regardless of if I did it or not. I took the paper back from his desk.
“I’ll accept sir. But can I ask…why?”
“You know we never ask. Are you sure you can accept this? That you’ll follow through?”
“Have I ever failed before?”
“There is a first time for everything.”
I looked him straight in the eyes, and lied. “Not for failure. Not for me sir”
He nodded slowly and I turned away from his desk and headed down the hall. My mind was spinning and I had to take several slow, deep breaths to keep myself from vomiting in the hallway. What had I done? How was I supposed to kill my best friend?
(The part in bold is lyrics from the song Pieces, by Red
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