Thread: Run This Town (Rory+Ishu)

Watching the small movements she made, her hands nervously gripping her dress and her lips parting with gentle breaths - things that when seen on other women he normally found completely repulsive - set his heart to beating wildly, his body filled with a warm, electric energy. The urge to touch her came upon him again and he didn't know whether to be relieved or disturbed that the places he wanted to caress the most were her face and to hold her hands in his own. Looking down at her knees however, he swallowed a knot in his throat when a shade of arousal pulsed through him as well. When he got her answer, again in the form of that floating voice in his head, his face opened up in a small smile, totally unlike the leering expression that normally dominated his face, his anxiety about leaving her eased for the time being. He didn't know what he would have done if she'd declined his offer - he couldn't stay to talk with her further without endangering them both, and leaving at that point would have been a final goodbye - but it pleased him greatly that he'd get a chance to speak with her further. The smile disappeared like a lightbulb flashing off at the noise from the window, his eyes dilating with a bestial quality as he turned in that direction. His hackles were almost visibly raised as lightning quick he was on his feet and striding towards it, ready to snap the neck of anyone attempting to intrude upon their sanctuary. Peering out through the still open shades, he couldn't see the brothers yet, street lamps below turning on one by one and illuminating quiet sidewalks and the roadways looking like black rivers snaking through the city. He knew they were probably gathering now, waiting for everyone of their group to arrive before setting out. He was going to be late. Tension filled each and every muscle as he quickly walked back over to the chair, standing with his hands resting on the back of it, placing the wooden frame between them. I have to go, he said curtly, the boyish joy that had possessed him mere seconds before gone now and replaced by a very grave and businesslike demeanor. There is an old library not too far from here, with an eagle statue out front - you know it? he did not wait for her to confirm if she did. Meet me there, tomorrow morning when the sun has fully gone above the horizon. It'll be safe. The old library was a place he knew would be empty, books tending to fall out of favor these days and the brethren never having a use for them at all. They could be alone to talk. And that more than anything else was what he wanted from her. Forget the fact that he was feeling insane and acting creepy with someone who would normally be considered food - he didn't know how satisfying the answers to those questions would be. Because in truth, he didn't think she even knew what was happening to him or why. Mostly...he wanted to know about her. Who was she? What were these strange abilities she had? And he also found himself wanting to tell her things about himself, things the brethren would never ask for lack of interest in anything other than sex and murder. My name is Cade, by the way... Their eyes met again and he sighed through his nose, shoulders sagging as he reluctantly backed to the door, stopping at the doorframe. I'll be waiting for you... and I know, I know it sounds crazy but... please, just trust me. I won't let anything bad happen to you. And then because he couldn't trust himself not to stay there with her forever if he delayed a moment longer, he turned and left, not looking back as he made his way back to the ground level and out onto the street. As was expected, night wrapping her arms around their forms and enveloping them in seductive embrace, the brothers stood in the street laughing boisterously together recounting the highlights of the day to one another. Like shadows coagulating, Cade joined them along with another who'd come from the opposite direction and they were welcomed with bestial growls and a small burst of brotherly wrestling with slight sexual attributes mixed in with it. And as if nothing had happened at all, Cade found himself joining them, the thoughts of the day and the unnerving girl he'd met, melting away from him as one of his fellows put an arm around his shoulders and kissed his temple. His thoughts only drifted back briefly when one of the others, Quin, his face and body shadowed heavily in the dark cloak of evening, asked him, So what has your slovenly ass been up to all day? Cade paused for a moment, the smirk on his face frozen as his mind filled with soft images of light skin, white hair and blue eyes like the sky. Nothing good, he said with a lewd roll of his voice, his tongue dipping out between his lips and an eyebrow lifting suggestively. The others laughed and hollered uproariously at that and they started on their way out into the nightly raid, Cade's smile fading as he glanced over his shoulder back at the apartment buildings where he'd left her .