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"Yes sweetheart," he breathed, kissing her temple.
"One look at you would make any flower rise to it's full potential and more."

He laced his fingers with hers and closed his eyes. That familiar scent of hers always brought back the most fondest of memories. "How were your morning classes? And why aren't you taking lunch?"

In the beginning, he would have cherished, (or if you went back far enough, he would have feared) to catch her alone like this while others were dutifully having lunch.
However, her comfort and health mattered more to him now.

Geesh, what was she doing to him?

Cook looked around the kitchen. There was a stack of dishes forming inth sink, but those were Danni's, and she'd have a fit if anyone else tried to do them for her. "Uh...beside keep my girl over there from dashing off to some unknown trouble...again? Nope, not really. You can go on if you've got something that needs to be done." He said, flipping burgers on the grill.

Danni shrugged, setting down her umpteenth cup of coffee and took the soda. Chugging half of it down in one gulp, she blew out a slow breath as the caffeine did a serious number on her already wired system. "Oh yeah, that's caffeinated all right. What'd you do, jack it up with caffeine shots?" She asked, rolling her eyes.

She had never heard a man be so open with his feelings and his compliments as Dymetri was. Not even her father to her mother. Of course, they might have just kept that kept those sentiments and feelings private.

She leaned up and kissed his cheek very slowly and softly. She then smiled up at him, squeezed his hand gently, and then walked to the cafeteria. She would have asked Dymetri what he wanted, but he didn't eat food...

A few minutes later, she was coming back to the garden with a tray of food. There was a bowl of salad on it with berries and pieces of apple in the salad. Orange juice was in a medium-sized glass, and there was also an egg salad sandwich on her tray. She also brought a mug of coffee with her for Dymetri, just in case he wanted some. She had brought small packets of cream and sugar with her as well since she didn't know how he liked regular coffee.

She saw him waiting in the garden and smiled. She then went over to the bench and sat the tray on her lap.

Danni laughed when Chris asked about her gay trio, and she leaned back slightly, resting her soda can on her knee. "Well, three nights ago while I was out training in the woods, they decided it would be fun to try and ambush me while my guard was supposedly down...I suppose even for demons it takes a few days to regenerate holes in your body, even with the help of the devil's black magic...There's this whole chunk of Dunstall's side missing on his left. Think I caught some of his rib cage too...it was awesome. And the last time I saw Gambit, he had a hole the size of my fist right through where his heart would be if he had one. It was funny...Too bad I missed his neck. He'd be dust by now if I'd managed to decapitate him. And Arzol...he looks like Swiss cheese...You shoulda been there, man. Can't wait til they come back..." She said, chugging the rest of her soda before picking up her coffee again. God, she was doing a number on her system today, but she needed to stay awake.

What she'd neglected to mention was the fact that the trio had gotten in a few good shots of their own. She had slowly fading scars on her back from where Gambit had leapt on her like a raging cat, clawing into her back and latching on with his fangs. Only after a good blow to the head, via a convenient tree she'd backed into, had he finally fallen off. She'd also had nasty bruises on the backs of her knees from where Dunstall had swung a tree limb at her legs. However, she'd been able to heal those easily enough. The broken nose courtesy of Arzol's fist had taken a bit longer, but she'd managed to go through the whole healing process without destroying anything, so she considered that an improvement.

"Gooood Evening ladies and gentleman! We've got a fantastic show for you tonight filled with thrills and spills, phantasm and fright!"
The voice was blaring through every loud speaker in the school. Everyone inside and out was capable of hearing it.
"Now, I suggest you all head to the courtyard. Well, not so much suggest as demand, seeing as I've rigged your precious school with a gratuitous amount of explosives that I suppose you don't want me setting off!"

Lin had looked at Dymetri before she took a bite of her food and simply smiled at him. He was kissing her cheek, wanting to know more about her... He was so loving! Although, for some odd reason, she also loved his mischievous side. She fell in love with all of him, not just some of him. She loved this side of him, but she also hoped he started to become mischievous again. She didn't think there would be a problem with that.

She then answered his question. "Well, actually, in Elven years, I'm 82. I've been around 82 years, but we age so slowly, that if I am compared with a human, physically and mentally, I am 17 now. We stop aging when we reach about 350 years old. We don't know how old we'll look then, though, because we all have had different lives. Some Elves are battle-hardened and will look older when they stop aging. Those who spend all their life in our forest home and are always around the restorative magic of our spring water will look younger."

She was going to continue, but suddenly, a blaring, dark voice came through the speakers around the school. It was as if the darkness from that voice was billowing out of those speakers along with the sound of the voice.

Lin felt that darkness start to eat away at her. It did not feel like there were actual teeth eating away at her, but it felt like everything good in her life, everything good about her was being dissolved.

The sparkle and glow that usually came from her face was already draining away, and she dropped the tray in pain. She moaned lowly and then hissed. "Dymetri... What.... what is that?!"

Wasn't this school a safe place? What was going on?

Athena's ears glued themselves to her head, and she grabbed Chris and Danni. "Let's go!" She began to drag them (not all that hard with her demonic strength) to the courtyard. She did not want to get blown up. No way. There were not going to be Athena guts flying anywhere if she could help it.