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A small five roomed appartment, a kitchen, livingroom, study, bedroom and bath.

Its a little miss kept, but the bedroom is in perfect condition.

[from Glittering waters]

Lura had shook her head with a small smile on her face at Derrick's comment. She mearly waved him to follow her and lead him up to her appartment. The whole way up she couldn't help but think about what he'd said. He had the ability to be a man running from the law, but why would he hide in plain sight in the middle of a curfew? She didn't know, but she was to kind to just leave him out there.

She opened her door and let him in, lead him to the living room where the couch sat before her small 13'' TV. "Here's where you'll sleep, I'll go get you some blankets and sheets to cover the couch, do you use two or one pillows?" She asked as she continued to the closet next to the bathroom. She took a comforter out, a base sheet, and a blanket from the closet; then grabbed a pillow and pillow case and dropped them on the bed. "Cause if you need another I could take one from my bed."

Her appartment smelled of Lilacs and Cherry Blossomes, and Lura herself hadn't realized just how much the scent differed from the musty old moth smell of the hallway outside her door. Atleast till she realized someone else were to sleep there. Canis had gotten used to it, but she didn't know if Derrick would have difficulty sleeping due to it. "Does the smell bother you?" she asked briefly, she wanted to scold herself, she was worrying to much wasn't she?

She hadn't noticed how he kept looking at her untill he turned away. It was like a loud noise in a cramped room suddenly disappearing and being left in utter silence. It was strangly awkard, how you noice something only after it's stopped. She almost asked what was wrong, only to keep her lips shut. She nodded to his comment on the pillows, "Ok, here," she walked over and placed the quilt, blanket and pillow down beside him. She went and bussied herself with the pillow.

She took the pillow case she'd taken from the closet and started to stuff the pillow in. She was having slight difficutly only to find that the pillow case was the wrong size, how could she have made such a foolish mistake? "Oops," she uttered, "One sec," she went back to the closet and started to rummage through the closet, bending over once or twice to check the bottom of the closet.

Her heart was pounding, what made her so confused, so flustered? Was it Derrick's pressence in her appartment? Only feet away. He was only the first man to come into her room since her late boyfriend. He was arrested over four years before for being in an illigal human and... her relationship.

Lura didn't look at him, she didn't know if she could. "Yeah, its that door over there." she called out, only when she remembered Canis was there, she stood and called out - "Wait! Canis is in there!"

"I'm sorry," she answered, "There's no where else for him..." she mumbled, she finished with the pillow and placed it on the couch. "I'm sorry. Really...Here," She started to walk back to her room, "If you need me I'll be in my room. Feel free to what ever food or drink is in the fridge...there's probably nothing good...but we have water." she said with a sigh, this wasg etting uncomfortable, she sighed and opened her door. "Goodnight...If you need to use the rest room, there is one in the hall way..." she called, then closed her door behind her.

She felt suffocated, almost trapped in her room...but relieved to be out of sight of Derrick. Strange how he could make her feel that way.

She sat on her bed, laying over the blankets after opening a window. It was too hot. She would have opened the door to vent the room but Derrick was out there. Her chest hurt and she felt anxious with him in her appartment, like she had an extra weight on her shoudlers. Yet she didn't want to kick him out, or send him away...as if she feard she'd never see him again...

She had finally lulled herself to sleep, the restlessness finally getting to her, untill she was awakened by Canis howling.

Canis had woken to hear Derrick's soft scream, and the scent of blood worried him, he'd recognised the scent as the 'nice guy who pet him' and he paniced. He guessed some one had come in and hurt him, so he started to howel and had burst from the bathroom and crouched beside Derrick as Derrick tossed the remainder of the thorn into the trash.

Lura was startled out of bed, she was confused to what would cause Canis to wake so suddenly, he was the heaviest sleeper...then she remembered Derrick, if Derrick had stumbled in on Canis...Canis could have ripped his head off in confusion. She cried out and stumbled from bed, tearing her door open in fear to see Canis sitting beside Derrick, with Derrick's shoulder bleeding, just slowly starting to heal.

"Oh God what happened?" she gasped as she walked toward him, "Are you ok? Did Canis do this?"

Lura looked confused at Derrick as he answered and quickly went for the door. Canis whimpered, he was so scared for Derrick, afraid that some one had hurt Derrick that made him cry out before...but here Derrick was avoiding him. He felt terribly sad now.


Lura fell to the floor in a pathetic attempt to calm herself, she'd just hyped herself up for no good reason? She watched as Canis had sadly walked back into the bathroom and closed the door. The sun started to rise, Lura sat up quickly and paniced.

THE SUN WAS RISING.

"s**t..." She darted for her room and went to find her glasses, her sun glasses, if she didn't find them soon she would be screwed! She remembered she had left them on her kitchen counter and she quickly darted for them...

But she was already too late, the large window in her living room looking directly at the sun was aimed right at her, and before she could even reach the counter she turned foolishly to the sun. Once the light hit her eyes, she froze in fear, paralized. She couldn't move, she couldn't do anything...

After what felt like forever ended, and she could finally move, but she couldn't see. She was blind once again. "Damn," and she could hear the scratches against the bathroom door, she found her way over, tripping once or twice over her own two feet.

She finally made it to the door and opened it, Canis, once again a normal dog. She grabbed ahold of his collar and had him lead her to her chair. "damn i hate t his... why must i bee cursed to never see in the day light?"

Lura heard Derrick's voice, she tilted her head to hear him, Canis barked and started for him happily, dragging her with him.

He got to Derrick's ankles and licked his hand, begging to pet him. Lura sighed as she let go of Canis's collar and fall to a seat on the floor before Derrick.

"Derrick, it's me, Lura." she stated sadly. "And the dog...that's Canis." She leaned to her left and reached for something to steady herself, finding the counter she crawled toward the counter and used it to pull herself up. Her once blue eyes were now a noticible violet as they blankly gazed at Derrick, she could hear his breathing so she could place where he was.

"I can't see in the day, and Canis returns to a normal dog in the sun's light. I'm sorry if we confused you," she said, only wanting to lock herself in a closet. Some how she felt degraded before Derrick, the fear of him leaving hit her again. She bit her lip. What was this terrible feeling?

The fear of losing something she didn't have in the first place was enerving. Derrick must think her a foolish idiot.