04-02-2009, 10:11 AM
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| Out of Character This one is set in between our other two current ones, so it's one of the liasons between the first date and Elliott barging in to take care of Kol's injuries. XP I think I always write my longest posts with you! Word Count: 1007 >.> In Character It was no use, she just couldn't get back to sleep. Kol sighed deeply as she stared up at the black sky, countless tiny stars glimmering between dark budding leaves. She wasn't sure how long she'd laid there unmoving, but her body was beginning to feel restless from the lack of movement. The slow, rhythmic sound of the male's breathing beside her harmonized perfectly with the songs of the nightbirds and crickets that filled the air. The Stormbringer tilted her head slightly, sparing her companion a glance as a cool breeze rustled the trees. The innocent air that hovered around the big male as he slept only endeared him to the femme's heart all the more, and she smiled softly. Unfortunately, Kol could never seem to hush that critical voice in the back of her mind, the one that said she was only setting herself up for a catastrophic fall. She'd been cautious with Elliott at first, keeping the male at a distance as she felt her own feelings for him starting to deepen. There had been one other to ever occupy her heart in the same way back in the Valley, and he had thrown away everything, shattering Kol's world with the admission that all she was to him was a good time. The Stormbringer girl had been younger then, seeing the world with innocent eyes, and she'd thrown herself into an all-consuming love for the male that had been completely one-sided, though he'd been very, very good at stringing her along to get what he wanted from her. She had vowed to herself that it would never happen again. A wall had gone up around her bleeding heart at the moment of her beloved's betrayal, and Kol never intended to let it crack. She sighed into the wind as her smile faded, her face becoming pensive and troubled, washing away the contentedness of a few moments before. "Never again" was happening far too easily for her liking. Silently, the Stormbringer left Elliott's side, slipping noiselessly down from the treehouse and setting her optime paws on a destination for nowhere. A sliver of moonlight shone through the trees, glittering off the little silver decorations in her red-black mane. Her violet eyes saw only enough to keep her from bumping into anything, and she lost herself in thought as she walked. Kol wanted very badly to share what meager life she led with the male she'd left sleeping in the treehouse. He was everything she could ever want in a mate and partner, but Brandr had been the same way. He had done everything in his power to woo her, to convince her without a shadow of a doubt that he was fully devoted to her and loved her with all his heart, only to reveal the painful truth when he'd tired of her. It had all been a lie, a cruel act and Kol's first lesson in things that were too good to be true. Kol's brothers had wanted Brandr run out of the pack for what he'd did, but the Stormbringer girl still cared enough for him to ask her grandfather to let him stay. After all, if any conflict with the Dawnrunners were to break out (which ironically enough just happened to be the case, months after) they would need Brandr and his unorthadox fighting style. Crow had agreed, but it hadn't prevented the Stormbringer boys from enacting their revenge in other ways. Kol paused in her aimless walk as she came the little stream where Elliott had asked her on their first romantic interlude. Still lost in thought, she knealt down by the water's edge, tracing a claw meditatively across the surface. Elliott was amazing, to say the least. Despite his size and form, there was a gentleness in his eyes and his touch that Kol had never felt before from any other. He had no dark, brooding cloud over him, and his normally good mood was always infectious to her. He made her laugh easily, and she felt completely and utterly at ease whenever she was with him. Kol wasn't sure when it had happened, but it had. She'd fallen hard for the charming male with the simmering titian eyes, and she was at a loss for what to do. It all came back to the "too good to be true" lesson she'd so brutally learned from Brandr. Elliott...well, she was loathe to admit it, but that's exactly how Elliott seemed. He was just too good to be real. Denial slipped into the deepest recesses of the girl's mind, doubt shading her eyes as she stared pensively into the water. Tears threatened to spill from her eyes as she thought about having to end her little fairytale, but she knew it was something she had to do. Severing the tentative relationship now was better than waiting and bracing for the bomb she knew would inevitably come from the male. Elliott may be nothing like Brandr, he could well believe his feelings for Kol were true, but she knew it would happen eventually. Sooner or later he'd tire of her, or she'd do something stupid and hurt him terribly, and that would be the end. The girl couldn't bear the thought of any of that happening, and so she made the decision to stop things before they went out of control and disintegrated into a much more painful mess for the both of them. Her decision made, the Stormbringer pulled her legs beneath her and sat quietly beside the stream, refusing to give in to the tears that wanted to fall as she waited for dawn to come. There was no use trying to sleep now, and there was no need to wake Elliott from his own peaceful dreams. She'd head back to the treehouse and talk with him once the sun awoke. But for now she simply stared up at the moon as it smiled down at her, looking for all the world like a mocking grin from a bitter rival. Table by Fishie! |