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Shadow needed that little bit of reasurence, it always made him feel better when soemone would tell him so since his children were all else where now. He could only chuckle at the way Selena paused mid sentance like that, "I didn't expect it to be anything bad. I am just saying that you are keeping it very close to you." he said. Shadow smiled at her as he felt her fan poking at him as he thought of how to word his feelings, "Well, I guess I could tell you. There will be no need to tickle me. What you saw in my eyes was a simple desire that I am holding back right now." he said, giving the really short version and showing very little. He listened to Selena, he knew she could handle herslef. just because she looked like a lady did not mean she could not fend for herself, Shadow expected nothing else. "I am glad you can be yourself around me Selena. It is nice to see the softed side of people every once in a while. I am also glad you do nto need your gaurd up around me." he said as he moved closer to Selena as he was requested, right then all he wanted to do was kiss her and show her how he was feelign and show her what that look was in his eyes but it was probably for the better that he keep it back for now... or until Selena held stillf or long enough.

Shadow nodded, "You're right, I am not telling you everything. You will get to see it all very soon." Shadow said. When he felt Selena's gentle kiss he smiled but she had taken cover behind her fan again and so he could not do much in responce. "I can see that..." was all he managed to say. He listened to her speak until she was finished. It must have taken alot for her to do that since her face was so red but she was just as beautiful as always. "Thank you for that. I was planning on something similar but you got there before I did." Shadow said as he moved closer to her again since she backed away and then kiss her, what he should have done from the begining.

Shadow luaghed just a little as he watched Selena blush more than he had ever seen her do so far. 'Still just as cute as ever' he though as he watched her. Everything was just getting better for him, he really felt something for Selena, almost like his old dead heart was beating like it did under that spell. "As soon as you calm down enough. I can't have your face getting any redder now can I?" Shadow said with a little laugh. "Now you know what it is like to kiss me. I hope it was as plesant for you as it was for me." shadow winked as he watched Selena fanned herself and suddenly the blue fire apeared on Selena's skin. He was awed by it more than anything esle, he had never seen such a thing in his entire existance. "Most of what I had planned is basicaly the same as what I have just done... only a little different. I am holding myself back quite a bit here Selena, I just don't want to do anything to make you uncomfortable is all but if you want me to really show you how I am feleing then I will do my best." Shadow said as he laughed a little at Selena's last comment. Her eyes always seemd to have a strange softness to them, it was part of the reason he liked her. If he didn't stop himself Shadow would probably end up just staring at her.

Shadow moved closer to Selena and put an arm aroudn her once she had calmed the flames around her body, "Yes, I did feel it. I don't know what it was but I have only really felt it once before.... so long ago." Shadow said. It was ture that he didn't know much about what he felt but it was certianly there and what ever it was Selena was causing it. He liked the feeling he was getting from being around Selena now, he had relaxed even more and now his gaurd was gone, he was just himself now. "I won't hold back, not anymore and I am sure you can handle anything with that little display of yours." he said. When he heard Selena mentiioning his heart all he coudl do was let out a frustred sigh. "Will I ever be free from this infernal magic? Not even my death could stop it... why did it come back. Looks like this is something else I will need to stop with the old arts. Sorry to suprise you like that, I really didn't mean to." he let out another sigh. He really foudn this heart beat thing annoying and wondered on many ocasion how humans could survive with such a thing in them. "It is an impressive ability Selena. I have never seen anything liek it before, not in my entire existance. thank you for showing this to me." he said before prepairing himself. Selena wanted to know what he wanted to show her and he felt that now was as good a time as any, "How I feel." he responded before kissing her passionatly.

Shadow smiled at Selena's responce to his kiss. It was hard for him to beleive that anyone, human or not could have a grin that wide but it was so. "That sort of passion dose still exist but only shows itself to those who deserve it." he said. The sound of his heart beat was starting to get on his nerves a little but he would have to get used to it again. "Wait... you feel yours beating to?" Shadow asked as he listened closer, she was right. He could hear two seperate beats in the stillness and only grew more confused. He shook it off for now so he coudl finaly respond to Selena, "No, never in my entire existance... mind you I have only really spent the past... it is actualy hard to calcualte given the number of times I slept for centuries. I like long naps. Almost been at this manor for 105 years..." he said as he just remmeber that small peice of information. Almost 105 years ago he stubled onto the door steps of the manor and was taken in by a kind young vampiress. "I never thought it was possible either. I have not felt this since... I was a young lad back in Drakenhoff, my home." he said with a little sigh before catchign the last of Selena's words. 'It can still beat to the sound of love,' those words echoed in his head for a moment. "You are right, even my old dead heart cannot resist it after all this time." he paused so he could get a better look at Selena, "I love you Selena." he said with a warm smile and ment it.

Shadow coudl hear Selena's heart grow louder and louder after he spoke his final words. he watched Selena's expresions change and could only smile at it all. "I'll repeat what said, only slower just to make sure you hear it this time. I... love... you." he said. It had been a very long time since Shadow had even remotly felt like he did now. None of his previous wifes create a feeling liek this for him but one came close to it. "To be honest Selena, I only heard my heart beat when I was under the effects of that spell. You are truely soemthing worth keeping if you can cause this old heart to beat again." Shadow said. He took one of Selena's hands in his and held onto it, lighty sqeezing it. "Well, I used to sleep for centuries... my first nap was for a good few... lets not even go into how long that one went on for. I was troubled back then, I had no reason to go on so I slept in the hopes it woudl all go away and it didn't... until now of course." he paused for a moment as he thought back over the past 105 years. "I have seen many come, many leave and far more die. Some of them were friends, other enemies but we all manged to put up with one another. It wasn't until recently that everything hectic started happening." he said. His mind could not stay focused on those memories for very long, the air had changed slighty wich caused him to get slightly distraced. 'I keep thinking things can't get any better and they do.' he though, the delicate change in the air only hightened his mood. "The best day of both our unlives." he added.

Shadows smile fromed the beigning of a grin bit it was only a slight one. He was never a man for grinning but he would smile alot when he had reaosn to. When Selena finaly managed to respond, it only made him feel better. It was still hard for him to beleive that those few little words could effect a being in such a way as it was for him. "I am glad really... that we are like this. Sure the heart beat is annoying but it is worth it." he couldn't believe he was saying that after his old beat nearly drove him insane but there he was, willign to put up with it all for her. "What did I change for you?" he asked. Shadow had a rough idea but there was probably more to it than he was thinking. Now the subject had come up, the old world and his first wife. "Her name was Amelia, my first wife. An arranged marriage to strengthen the bonds between the clans. Funny thing really... we didn't love each other at first but as time went on and we spent more time together then we gradualy did. It was during the time of the vampire daemon wars though where she... where she was killed..." Shadow suddenly stopped there. The memory still hurt him deaply.

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selena saw the look of horrfic pain on his face and thne seh felt gulty for brigning it up he looked so sad while talking about her" im sorry shadow i didnt mean to hurt you that was never my intetion lets talk about something eles ok" selena pated shadow hand selena looked at shadow " you cant tell what youve changed about me how im different at all shadow" selean voice soft and cool like running water over burn "it is worth it to too shadow id rath know that my heart even tho dead and can still beat when love start calling it name!" selena gigles" my father tried to have me an arrenged marrige but it never happend why cause the day before my weeding i was truned into avampire that alos another reason im thankful to your friend "selena gigles at the look on shadow face now " what that look for huh shadow ?