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Clashing of weaponry could be heard throughout the building as the two dhampir test their skills against each others blades. Jamie charged at him with the arm blade that was on her right arm flicking her arm so that it flipped into position to where she was holding the handle and came down with a downward swing with all the frustration from their last mission. Zalister blocks with the two kitar that he used cradled her blade in between them being crossed as the ringing of their blades dissipated from the rest of the building he asks his good friend of many years and team mate, “What is bothering you Jamie you don’t seem yourself right now.”
“Nothing, anyways you shouldn’t be thinking about anything while we spar or else it will be your head” she states as she pulls back and keeps her blade in front of her in a defensive stance making sure she wouldn’t be caught off guard. Zalister then took his two kitar from the crossed position above his head and ran at her in a charge one of them in front of him in the ready to slash position and the other behind him as though he were ready to punch with it. The blades connected with a loud clash as he then started to thrust with the one from behind him and she noticed and countered with a kick to his exposed side as he winced. “You are being careless a’mae…,” she said all of a sudden then stopped and let her guard down as she thought about what she was about to say. It gave Zalister enough time to look at her and he noticed a small silver band apon one of her fingers and wondered.
“Is that the ring that I gave you?” he asked as she noticed what he was looking at she regained focus and pulled away from him.
“Why should I answer that after you left me there, as far as I know it could be one of the many rings that I have gotten over the years of you being here in the military,” she stated with irritation in her voice even though it were a lie. Just thinking about what he had asked made her think of the past and a tear came to her eye. He stood up out of the ready position that he was in and looked at her.
“Are you okay Jamie?” he asked being worried about his old friend. He started to walk over to her and stopped as she stood up and kicked forward screaming knockings the wind out of him as his eyes widened and he flew across the room dropping his weapons right after being kicked.
“You dare ask these questions after leaving me here, how dare you!” she started at him her arm blade tight in her grip as though she were ready to kill him her eyes flaring in a bright red compared to the golden amber they usually are. The sound of breaking bones could be heard as he hit the wall it cracking as well with the force of his body hitting. He then opens a weary eye to see the room a blur to him as the only thing he could see was her blade coming at his face he turned his head closing his eyes fearing the worst as he heard the sound of steel and stone then a snap. Zalister turns his head quickly to see her fist right next to his face against the wall her head was down as she looked at the floor and he looked at her the blade could be heard hitting the floor beside them the brace and the rest of it still attached to her arm. “Why…why did you leave me?” she asked quietly as her eyes still burned with the hatred of being left alone by a man going to war.
“What do you mean?” he asked then realized the questions and stood there silent not even paying any attention to his broken bones and responded to her question is a voice that could only be heard by her. “I left you because…,” as he paused to take a deep breath wincing from the pain grabbing at his side and continued, “because I didn’t want you to get hurt by my death if I were to die.” He then turned his head away from her and says, “You know that I never wanted to see you cry… ever.” The sound of tears could be heard hitting the floor as the entire room dropped into a dead silence and she leaned forward so that she is pretty much laying on the crippled Zalister flinching from the feeling of pain as her weight pressing against his shattered body.
“Well…I cried for days after you spoke those words,” she said as she laid her head upon his chest facing it so that he couldn’t see her face.
“I know…because I could feel it in my chest,” he said as he stared off into the room.
“How is that?” she asks as she gets back up to look at him her eyes still red her fangs clearly visible when she spoke.
“I may have given your heart back when I broke up with you but I never took mine back,” he then took her right hand gently in his lifting her sleeve to reveal a silver necklace wrapped around her wrist. He then said, “that’s why you still have this trinket which I gave you and what I had said back then is that I give this to you to show that you have my heart, if I ever take it back it means that I will never return to you.” She stared off into space remembering these words from when they first got back together and she started to cry.
“I can’t believe that I have forgotten the words spoken to me back then,” she starts to cry as she falls to her knees then to a sitting position on the floor. Zalister starts to sit down and winces in pain scrunching his face and a small groan comes from him and she looks up just now remembering that she had done this to him. She quickly stands and pulls his face close to her neck and says, “Quickly takes some,” as she pulled down on the body suit to expose some of her neck. His eyes turn from brown to an ocean blue and he leans in the bites her neck. Her eyes close as she could feel his fangs sink into her and her blood flow through the wound on the side of her neck but the feeling of nostalgia came as memories flowed through her mind of the same thing happening many years before this one. The fluid stopped flowing and she could feel him pull away from her but not before she felt a soft kiss lay where the two holes where on her neck which sent tingles up her spine.
“I only took enough to speed up my healing I will just need some time to rest,” he said with a quiet voice as he sat back against the wall and closed his eyes drifting off into a sleep. She then sat next to him then pulled him to a laying position so that his head was on her lap and she combed her finger through his hair as he slept. She watched him for what seemed an eternity but was only a few hours thinking about the ring on her right hand and the necklace upon her left wrist. A small smile came to her face as she thought about everything that had happened chuckling at herself feeling stupid.
“I can’t believe that I was so stupid,” she said not thinking he would wake up.
“For what Jamie?” he asked as he still laid there his head on her lap and her fingers in his hair.
She gasped out of surprise and said, “Don’t do that…but moving on for not remembering what you had said.”
“I had a question for you that I had forgotten to ask you, why did you join the military?” he interrupted her
“To tell you the truth it was to follow you,” she then paused then continued after taking a small breath, “but then after I killed my first person it became survival, I lost all my nerve after seeing the man lying there eyes open blood flowing from his body my team even had to pull me away from there.”
“So in a way you lost original motive for going into the military?” he asked as he sat up his injuries being almost fully healed
“In a way yes, yes I did,” she replied to his question then smiled at him this being the first time that they have talked like this since he had left. “Buts it’s all better now that I…” she stopped and looked at him her amber eyes looking at him with every emotion flowing within them and said slowly as though she were afraid of getting hurt again, “I..I have you back….don’t I?” A silence came from him who didn’t know what to say to her then he said nervously as though he were just asking her out for the first time.
“That is if you will have this retch back…”
“Who said you were a retch Zalister?” she asked with this voice that showed her mind was made and that she wanted him to be beside her.
“Well I did all those thing to you…” she then interrupted him with and soft kiss, her hands on his cheeks. For a moment in time they sat there not one thing going through their minds about the death the pain that this war had caused both of them just the joy of each others company. As she pulled away he looked at her with shock but a gently smile came over him as he saw her red cheeks and he laughed a little.
“What are you laughing at maelamin?” she asked not even noticing.
“One you just called me maelamin and two you are blushing.” He stated as he took her into his arms
“Do you mind if I call you that again?” she asked shyly not knowing the outcome of this conversation.
“Only when it’s just us…because the name doesn’t suit someone on the battle field don’t you think a’maelamin?” he says to her as she lay back against him. She nodded in agreement as her eyes just closed and her left hand came up to his arms and she lay there in her piece. Time seemed to pass slowly as they sat there with each other with no words said but the feelings could be felt between them with no problems at all.