Sydney Sage (sagemelrose) wrote in freedomtownic, @ 2015-03-29 12:20:00 |
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The welcome pamphlet was not nearly as helpful as Sydney thought it ought to be. There should be a list of emergency numbers, even if they were the same as the United States or another known country they should be listed along with a map, an actual paper map showing where the hospitals were, police (again assuming there were police, which if there weren’t that was a completely different problem altogether), education services and so on. A talking dog and a piece of paper that gave such a lack of information was frustrating to Sydney. No matter though, she was resourceful and had would indeed figure out what needed to be done. That was all that she could do, there was no sense worrying about things that she couldn’t do anything about when what she really needed to do was go and make sure Adrian was okay. It was the first and most important thing she had to do right now. Regardless of the fact that she’d been considering going to Mexico when she’d been taken from Palm Springs and delivered her here, to Knowhere which apparently for the time being looked like a normal city, what it might do later Sydney wasn’t sure and she would have appreciated more information on what it could become given that seemed like a logical question. Logic appeared to be something that was not a strength of this place thus far. As she made it to 504 Devron, luckily she was in the same building, Sydney reached out knocking on the door. “Adrian?” She called as a wave of mixed emotions tumbled across her. She couldn’t decide if she wanted to just hug him or… No, that was not something… Sydney this is not the time to think about how you may or maynot feel about him. There are more pressing matters. She lectured herself as she waited for him to open the door. ~~~ Before his arrival here in Knowhere, Adrian had spent the last few hours going back in forth between his confidence that Sydney would follow the clue he had left her and show up and fear that she would continue to deny how she felt and would really follow through on her plan to run away to Mexico. That's what it was, he knew. He'd seen the truth of her feelings in her aura and in the way she looked at him sometimes. He'd felt it in the way her body responded to every touch and kiss. Adrian was sure that Sydney loved him the same way that he loved her. What he wasn't sure of was whether she was ever going to admit that to herself, let alone to him. He'd been telling himself for the dozenth time that she would show, he just had to be patient, when he was engulfed in their weird light and suddenly the scenery had changed. Adrian had spent the next... however long it had been sure that he was imagining this whole thing. It didn't have the feel of a spirit dream or even those brief moments on weirdness that he saw in his more lucid moments were the beginnings of spirit driving him insane, but it couldn't possibly by real, no matter what others claimed. Still, he'd been enjoying his banter with that spider woman, Gwen, when he saw Sydney show up quickly followed by Lissa. For a moment Adrian was torn about who to seek out first, but then he saw Rose pop up and that eased his worry for Lissa a little. Not to mention that he wasn't especially eager to see his ex, no matter how over her he might be. He wasn't sure how, but he made it back to the apartment he'd been assigned before Sydney showed up. His own emotions were conflicted as he waited for her. On the one hand, Adrian couldn't help wanting to be around her. On the other, it was painful to consider that she might never be ready to give in to the feelings they shared. She really was his flame in the dark and he was drawn to her like a moth. Even if that flame would only singe his wings, he couldn't stay away. Masking that inner conflict, Adrian wore his trademark smirk when he pulled the door open. "Hey," he greeted her, stepping back enough so that she could come inside. Adrian wanted to touch her. He wanted to pull her into his arms and kiss her. He managed to muster enough self control not to act on those impulses, though, and tried to instead give her what she thought she wanted. ~~~ Those eyes killed her every single time, and she wanted to tell herself that she hated herself for falling so deeply into a number of thoughts that she shouldn’t allow herself to fall into. No, Sydney Sage was going to focus on everything else that was going on, she was not going to let her emotions get the better of her, especially given that she didn’t have a clue how they ended where they were or what they were going to do about it yet. “Hey.” She said feeling that same pull that she always felt around him. Reminding herself that nothing should, or could happen between them as she looked down and back up to him. Walking in past him she looked around the two bedroom. It felt weird being in an apartment that wasn’t his loft apartment. Not that the apartment looked bad, it looked much like the one she’d been put in. “Are you okay?” Sydney asked as she turned her attention back to him. She really felt like she could use a coffee right about now to help her focus on everything. Or she just wanted one because it was a comforting thought, something normal. Nothing in their lives was ever normal though was it? ~~~ It was ridiculous how just one word could fill him with so much emotion. Just hearing Sydney say “hey” made his heart race and it took every ounce of self control he had not to pull her into his arms and kiss her. He was trying to act casual and unaffected, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth. “I’m fine, Sage. Are you okay?” He looked her over critically even as she looked around the apartment. She looked okay and even when he summoned up a little spirit to take a peek at her aura, she seemed to be okay. Her aura looked the same as ever. It was mostly yellow with those flashes of purple that showed that passionate and spiritual nature so few people ever saw. Except for him, he knew Sydney was a lot more passionate than she let on to others. Even though her aura looked fine, Adrian still worried about her. This whole thing was kind of crazy. It was a lot to take in, although Sydney seemed to be taking it better than he was. He knew a lot of that was just her analytical nature, though. She was too focused on getting answers to be really freaking out. ~~~ “Do you have any idea how many things we are going to need to figure out, with Rose and Lissa, especially with you and Lissa, we need to find you both feeders, which we will. I will find a feeder.” Sydney said launching into the logical parts of how to make everything work. Yeah, she was about to run away to Mexico but had decided not to, but right now none of that mattered, what mattered was keeping Adrian alive and safe, she was not going to fail, she was not going to lose him. Yes, she was pretending that all of it had to do with the fact that he was…. He was Adrian with his stupid perfectly messy hair and his… “We need to figure out a plan for telling Rose and Que-- Vali-- Lissa everything.” Sydney said as she looked up at him biting her lower lip, god all she wanted to do was hug him right in that moment. ~~~ Adrian couldn’t help himself. As she rambled on about plans and what they needed to do, he reached up and rested a hand on on her. “Stop, breathe, we don’t have to figure all that out right this second,” he told her. Adrian knew he and Lissa would both need blood, but it hadn’t been that long for him and he was used to only getting it a couple of days a week in Palm Springs. They’d figure that out and they’d figure out what and how to talk to Rose and Lissa, but right now it was Sydney he cared about. It was Sydney he was worried about. “Are you okay?” he repeated. He was all too aware of how close he was standing to her and when she bite her lip like that all he wanted to do was bend down and kiss her. It took a lot of self-control to hold back, but he reminded himself that he wanted to talk to her about how she was really doing with all of this, other people’s needs aside. If he started kissing her right now, he had a sneaking suspicion that conversation wouldn’t happen and right now Sydney’s well-being was a little more important than his raging hormones. Only just slightly. ~~~ Mildly irritated at him telling her to breathe, Sydney actually knew that he had a point, but she also knew that they needed to figure out everything because there was so much they didn’t know and she wanted to learn as much about all of this as she possibly could. Reading comic books hadn’t been on the list of approved books growing up, nor was it something she ever had had enough time to do. She would however now need to read up on all of it. Especially about talking dogs and their pamphlet writing ability not to mention talking racoons and apparently superheroes of all different kinds. She was going to need a library, or a book store. Looking into his green eyes she relaxed just a little, with his hands on hers and with being this close to him, everything else she’d been rambling off out loud and in her head. She loved being this close to him, but she should hate it, she shouldn’t be excited at the shock waves that rocked through her just by him touching her hand, she shouldn’t be this excited about being this close to him and wanting nothing more than to kiss him again, to feel the passion, to know it was there. “I’m fine.” She said actually meaning it, she was fine. “We just really need to figure out our next steps.” Those last words difficult to get out simply because she was so close to him physically. ~~~ Adrian studied her, summoning his magic to look at her aura. It shone as brightly as it always did, the colors steady, although he could tell she was a little irritated. She wasn’t lying about being fine, though. He could tell that much. The colors in her aura burned brighter as he stood close to her, but at the same time, he could see the tension in her lessening. He wondered again why she had this reaction to him and she didn’t, as she claimed, love him. He knew the answer, of course, but he told himself that now wasn’t the time to get into her denial or whatever it was that caused her to claim she wasn’t interested in him that way. Still, he couldn’t help letting his palm linger against her cheek. He gently rubbed his thumb over the golden lily that decorated her skin. The lily that symbolized everything that complicated things between them. Dark emotions swirled in his mind and Adrian had to push them back. Sydney was right in the sense that there were things they needed to figure out. “We will figure it out, Sage,” he assured her. Well, she would probably figure it out, but he’d be there with more support and hilarious one-liners while she did. ~~~ Why did he have to be so attractive? And why did he have to look at her like that? It wasn’t fair, it wasn’t fair that he could just disarm her without even trying and get her completely armed up at the same time. It was ridiculous and Sydney needed to stop thinking about that because it wasn’t going to help the situation. Her breath caught as his thumb moved across her cheek, involuntarily, or maybe voluntarily she let her head tilt slightly into the feeling, into the rush of fireworks exploding inside of her, the fire that only he ever brought out in her. It was irritating and addictive, and amazing…. But she wasn’t supposed to be feeling that way about him. “Adrian…” Sydney whispered out a mixture of desire, uncertainty, longing and confusion. ~~~ “Hmmm?” Adrian knew they were standing dangerously close. He knew he wasn’t suppose to kiss her or probably even touch her like this, but the thing was that he couldn’t really help it. Loving Sydney wasn’t something he could help. He’d tried to fight it, right from the start. Adrian knew that the idea of a vampire and an Alchemist together was ridiculous. He knew how they felt about his kind. Even now when he was sure Sydney’s feelings toward vampires had changed, he knew them having a relationship wouldn’t be anything simple. Hell, he knew it’d be easier if he could actually move on and be interested in someone else. The problem was that he couldn’t. He was in love with Sydney, no matter how illogical it was. He couldn’t stop feeling this way even if he wanted to. And he couldn’t force himself to stay away from her, no matter how much she claimed she wanted that. The fact that he could see how she felt in her aura and feel it in the way she reacted to his touch really didn’t help. He loved seeing those reactions in her, he loved the way she felt when he was pressed against her. Adrian had an addictive personality and truly staying away from Sydney was much harder than not smoking or drink could ever be. ~~~ Eyes drifting to look at his lips for a moment too long she quickly forced herself to look away, it felt like ripping something inside of her as she did, but she couldn’t give into whatever this was, she couldn’t give into any of those thoughts she’d had about him that she was strictly not supposed to have. There were rules and there were things she still had this desire to follow even though she wasn’t totally on the alchemist band wagon anymore, or well, she’d pretty much blown past a lot of that given everything… Swallowing she looked away from him and tried to focus on anything else. “Did you read the pamphlet the dog seemed to write and hands out when we arrive?” Sydney said saying really the first thing that came to mind to say given that she knew she couldn’t let herself fall into him, she couldn’t let herself go and let her desires over power logic. She was a logical person, she needed to stay logical and organized and ready to face whatever it was they might be up against right now. ~~~ Adrian just gave her a look at that question. Did he read the pamphlet? Of course he didn’t read the stupid pamphlet. “Nah,” he answered glibly, “I knew you’d be along and read it plenty of times for the both of us.” Truthfully, he’d kind of been convinced it wasn’t real, that none of it was real and that he had to just be losing it or something. It was talking with Sydney more than anything else that had convinced him maybe he wasn’t imagining all of this. She had a way of chasing away those shadows. Besides, if this wasn’t real, she wouldn’t so obviously be trying to fight this thing between them. ~~~ “Of course you didn’t, you’re just going to wing it, or expect me to have.” She said over the top of him as he told her that she’d read it enough for the both of them. That was unfortunately very true, Sydney had read it to the point where she actually had it memorized now. Rolling her eyes she crossed her arms around her protectively because what she really wanted was, was to hug him. “Okay, well, I assume they have paper somewhere in here and we’re going to start a list of things we need to get done, or rather that I do.” Sydney said going for a plan of action. ~~ |