Post by Rae-Star Berii on Aug 21, 2013 3:20:53 GMT -5
"Most of my kills are for crimes against the young or beaten down....The out matched or those unable to defend themselves be it human or non-human alike...."
“I use to think I was like that too.” She said, looking up at the stars. “I use to think I was an act of justice, that I was doing good things by killing these creatures. But, I’m not so sure I am. What gives us right to play jury and judge?” She asked him, looking down to see that he was now led out on the grass.
Rae tucked a stray strand of hair back up into the bun on the side of her head. “What if I’m destroying things I don’t understand…?” Her musing was a direct result from her self-loathing, Rae wasn’t a thoughtless killer, she stalked her prey for months, she had a code that she followed, and sometimes she killed in self-defence. She wasn’t a ‘bad person’ and she wasn’t a blood thirsty killer. But she did enjoy it, she did enjoy the feel of taking a life…
For a long moment she said nothing, not expecting a reply to her spoken thoughts. Then finally she sat beside him on the grass. “It’s a nice spot by here.” She commented, glanced down towards him as she drew her knees up to her chest and wrapped her arms around them. Small, safe, secure.
Post by Adam Alexander Helviath on Aug 21, 2013 9:00:11 GMT -5
Adam reflects on the young hunter's words as he sits there, he sits up next to her, shoulder to shoulder as he stares to the stars once more. "I find that nature provides the safest haven in this country.... All the things that want to kill you are in the city lookin'... and everythin' that is terrified of you seems to hide in the woods...." He looks over at her for a moment. "At least that's what I encountered so far...."
He starts to look at her with a longing gaze, he does not have the feral look however, his eyes are kind and sorrowful. Adam hasn't had meaningful conversation in who knows how long and better yet a woman. "If you want... I'll take you where ever you want to go...." he looks back to the stars after about a minute if she ever meets his eyes. "....Just stay here a little longer... here... W-with me...." his gaze tilts down to a spot occupied by nothing in front of his feet, he seems to be opening up to this woman for who knows why.
Internally Adam is beating himself for exposing this weakness in him yet he is tired of just holding it in. "....Please...." This took every ounce of courage for the man and even just admitting it makes him feel slightly better.
Post by Rae-Star Berii on Aug 21, 2013 9:09:57 GMT -5
Rae looked at him as he begged her to stay and she swallowed down the immediate come back she had for him. Rae had never been in this position before; when she thought back to all the men she had spent time alone with. Her Father had been her hero when she was a girl growing up, they would often talk about juvenile and pointless things but he was always there for her when she didn’t get invited to the school dance or if she couldn’t do her homework. Then, her Uncle, a sly and sadistic man who had never beaten her – at least, when she had been a child he had not beaten her – just taken her to his bed. Then there was Caleb, who she loved, she loved and missed him dearly and wished more than anything that she had managed to save her little brother.
Out in the world, away from thoughts of her family, the men she had met were very different. Alistair, a Vampyre, who had put her on the right path to find the Daemon that had killed her family had wanted nothing from her other than conversation. He had found her intelligent and interesting. Craig…they had saved each other lives so many times and for a while there, before he left to China, she truly believed that they would always look after each other. Tyrant, who hated and obsessed over her. Who showed up everywhere she went and then would taunt her until she felt broken and afraid of him? Tyrant Creed did. Rae was sure, had he not become distracted by another, that he would’ve hurt her worst, if he had left her alive at all. Finally, Vrases… sweet, funny, over-confident and terribly cocky Vrases who made his New Years resolution to look after her. How she felt so drawn to the Were…but none of these men had ever begged her for anything.
“Okay.” She said, gently, watching him with careful eyes. “Alright, I will stay with you tonight, but in the morning you will take me home okay?” She told him, not sure what exactly she was agreeing too. If he tried anything…she didn’t know what she’d do.
Post by Adam Alexander Helviath on Aug 21, 2013 9:28:17 GMT -5
His grin grows into a smile "Wanna go for a walk?" He seemed to already have the handle of his gun extended to her as if to show his trust in her as well as an attempt to show he wasn't going to try anything. Regardless of what she did or did not do he would stand up and extend a hand to her. (In all honest her response determines everything)
Post by Rae-Star Berii on Aug 21, 2013 9:43:54 GMT -5
"Wanna go for a walk?"
“Sure.” Rae nodded, looking down at the gun. She’d taken it apart once, but it was apparent that he’d put it back together. She didn’t take the weapon nor did she take his hand. After his last little ‘mistake’, Rae was not ready to allow him too close to her. She was damaged, part of that was looking for dangerous situations with men because she did not find herself ‘satisfied’ in another other ‘normal relationship’. Still, she stood herself up and ran her hands along the curve of her bottom, brushing the grass from her light brown pants.
Then she showed him why she did not take his gun; lifting the back of her shirt she showed him her bra straps- there, pressed into the material was a knife. A small, slender, silver knife that was well hidden but in all manner still dangerous. “I told you, I don’t need you’re gun to feel safe.” There was a second knife, large, hidden in her boot too, pressed comfortably between the brown suede and her leg. But she didn’t tell him that, she wanted some sort of insurance against him.
Letting her top drop into place she said; “let’s walk, yeah?”
Post by Adam Alexander Helviath on Aug 21, 2013 9:56:04 GMT -5
He chuckles "I know... it was...." he shakes his head. "Never mind...So...." Adam seems to be enjoying the company on his walk. "...You look lovely this evening.... Wh..uh... What have you ....been up to lately?" He seems to be trying to have a normal conversation and painfully so. It is obvious that he rarely talks like this to someone, or at least rarely watches what he says. His goal is to not bring up unpleasant thoughts and be as pleasant as possible, he doesn't want to upset this one.
When the path in the woods comes across a fallen tree, a fairly sizable tree, he proceeds to walk ahead and get on it. He offers a hand to her, not because he feels she needs it but just because he remembers how he was taught as a child to be a gentleman. A soft and kind smile on his face matches his eyes in this manner and if she took his hand he would bow as he extended his hand with hers to help her back down over the other side. If she did not, he would apologize and move on, he's not trying to say she's weak just that he's trying to be a gentleman.
Post by Rae-Star Berii on Aug 21, 2013 10:12:17 GMT -5
"...You look lovely this evening.... Wh..uh... What have you ....been up to lately?"
Rae frowned at him a little bit, her hands folded across her abdomen as she walks beside him. The way he stuttered and stumbled made her a little anxious. She felt like she was on some sort of awkward first date. If that was what he thought this was…? Rae wet her lips and raised a perfectly sculpted eyebrow at him, but patiently she answered him. “I’ve been travelling a lot.” She told him. “I was in India a few weeks ago, Europe just after that. Me and my Dog, we travel a lot.” Did she enjoy travelling? She wasn’t sure, but it was a necessity.
“You?” She offered, by way of conversational exchange.
As they approached the fallen log she allowed him to take her hand. Rae reached out and as she did the light caught the sliver slits in the inside of her left forearm; the places where she damaged herself. She always use to kid herself that the cutting was a form of release, but maybe it wasn’t. maybe it was because she was broken and now the only thing that gave her satisfaction was being hurt?
She allowed him, once again, to help her down the other side. Resting her hand on his shoulders and feeling his fingers at her hips she slides down his body to stand face-to-face with him. For a moment Rae pauses, at five foot nothing she was much smaller than he was. Her chocolate eyes gazing up into his crystal blue ones.
Post by Adam Alexander Helviath on Aug 21, 2013 10:31:45 GMT -5
Adam playfully answers the 'you?' with somewhat the same manner. "Traveling... Around the states just me and my truck... I still can't decided on a name for it." He chuckles to himself but once he's on the log he notices the slivers and feels his gut crunch in on itself. After she says thanks he can't help but hug her as he speaks softly. "I'm so sorry.... no one deserves to ever feel the need to do that to themselves."
He has no idea what fully came over him but he felt the need to do this. His embrace strong but not constricting and if she pulled away he would let her, however if she stayed he would let it linger. His chin on the top of her head and hands in decent places, his body also seems to show no signs of ill-intent either. Adam seems to truly care and want to comfort this woman. An instinct seems to have taken over him and while he doesn't like it and even foresees it possibly being his downfall, he has seemingly fallen for her. Once he realizes this he lets out a deep sigh and whispers "...damn..." with a tone of realization.
Post by Rae-Star Berii on Aug 21, 2013 10:36:54 GMT -5
"I'm so sorry.... no one deserves to ever feel the need to do that to themselves."
He hugged her in and Rae went cold, along her arms tingles of fear rose like goose-bumps and she didn’t move. She barely let herself breathe as she stands there and allows him to hug her. Her heart pound in her ears, all she could think of doing was kneeing him hard in the groin and running, but she didn’t do that. Rae didn’t do anything, she never did. This was her weakness; this physical contact paralysed her with fear and terror. He got comfortable around her and she bit her lip, hands in fists at her side she felt herself tremble in his arms.
"...damn..."
“Let go of me.” Rae said, her voice barely more than a whisper, it was crackled with the intense unease she felt in that moment and her hands were in fists at her sides.
Post by Adam Alexander Helviath on Aug 21, 2013 10:52:47 GMT -5
Adam panics. "S-sorry... I..." he lets go instantly and puts his hands on his head as he paces around looking at the ground. "Sorry...sorry..sorry...Sorry...." he mutters over and over again. "I... I'm sorry... I just... I'll... Sorry...." Adam does not look at her and just makes sure he is a feet from her as he slumps against a tree. His gaze is still down as his hands still rest on top of his head seemingly pulling it down.
"I... I'm sorry.... I went too far involving myself in a personal manner that I had no say or reason to mention... for that I am sorry.... It is a habit that has kept me alive yet makes for a hindrance to friendships and anything of that ilk.... Please accept my apology..." he takes a deep breath before continuing regardless if she replies. "I don't know why but I like you.... it's heard to keep my wits about me...." he pushes himself off of the tree as he starts to continue walking slowly unless stopped. He is embarrassed and ashamed for his actions and it is obviously apparent. Adam does not plan to leave her here but simply feels the need to seemingly calm down.
Post by Rae-Star Berii on Aug 21, 2013 11:00:34 GMT -5
He was more afraid of her than she was of him.
Rae blinked, a little surprised by his display. She had to remind herself that he wasn’t like the others; that he had blushed earlier and so often he stumbled over his wording. She wet her lips and watched him, eyes wide, hands still balled in fists at her side and she let him get a little away from her. For the longest of moments she just watched his retreating back and forced herself to get a grip.
Rae swallowed down the bile in the back of her throat and un-balled her fists, she ran her finger up through her hair and caught sight of the scars on her arm that had frightened him so. Then, without moving, and in only raising her voice a little bit she spoke; “It’s okay.” She told him, “You don’t have to run away from me.”
Leaning back on the fallen tree she felt it press against her back through the thin of her vest. It was dark out, there were sounds in the forests that suggested they were not alone, the stars were stunning and then, between them this awkward interaction. “It’s okay.” She said again, wondering if he would return to her and what questions he might ask now. “You frightened me is all.” He had to have questions after all, what normal girl was so afraid of a hug?
Post by Adam Alexander Helviath on Aug 21, 2013 11:20:16 GMT -5
Adam turns back with his arms still on his head. "I... Thank you.... I can only imagine what could of unfolded... it was senseless...." He still looks down even though he is only feet away, He starts to say something again but then within a heart beat his gaze is past her, the gun over her shoulder, and his worry and panic vanished. His stance is powerful and dominant with a firm grasp of his environment. Adam also heard noises and was suddenly in a different state of mind. The normal smile was gone and the nervousness was no where to be found as he put his free hand over Rae's ear closest to the gun as he fires.
Three, Three steps, three shots, three collapses of bodies, three seconds. Adam stays silent as he removes the hand from her ear and puts the gun back slowly. He says nothing but simply walks toward the source of his reason for shooting. Faint whimpering can be heard as they get closer to what appears to be a man holding his crotch while two vampires slowly burn next to him. Adam walks up to the man and puts his boot on the man's neck as he pulls out his gun once more. "Anpu... lord of the dead... guide this spirit to your gates for your judgement or your condemnation..." he starts as he holds the gun to the man's head. The man curses and at Adam but also looks terrified, gripping and trying to pull Adam's boot off his neck to only have it pushed down harder.
Post by Rae-Star Berii on Aug 21, 2013 11:32:19 GMT -5
He seemed to be a magnet for danger and trouble. Rae flinched as he tugged her in and flinched again at the sound of the gun going off. Finally, when he let her go she had the chance to see just what was going on her. This was improbably and highly unsettling. Had they been followed? Were these related attacks that he was hunting? Perhaps it was a trap all together? Her mind whirled with such thoughts and she watched as he took down three new victims. He had killed four times that night already. Rae looked to the sky for a moment, when the sun came up these bodies would dust…wouldn’t they? She couldn’t imagine killing a human. It was not something Rae found easy to do…it was against many of the fibres in her being. But she had done it…she had killed hunters, once. It was not something she was proud of.
Her eyes came back to him, dark chocolate pools. “You just attract trouble, don’t you?” She asked him, pushing a soft smile onto her delicate features. Her soft cherry lips curved upwards nervously and she stepped a little closer, observing the damage done here. There was blood- that meant humans or un-dead creatures. She wet her lips and for the first time she had given up her terrible addiction found that she really wanted to smoke a cigarette.
Post by Adam Alexander Helviath on Aug 21, 2013 11:41:26 GMT -5
Adam finishes his prayer as the man cries. "Be at peace.... I am liberating you from this cursed existance...." Adam smiles softly as the man's eyes open to only be kept open by a new hole in the center of his forehead. Adam did not shift his gaze till after the shot and even then stepped off the man's neck carefully, leaning down to close his eyes and fold his arms carefully. "It can't be helped... I attracted you didn't I?" he says in a musing yet confident tone.
His gaze is determined as he turns around and looks at her, his hand extended with a soft smile as he puts hit gun away. If she took his hand he would try to pull her in close as can be before he spoke next and then attempt to kiss her quickly, either lips or cheek, and then move past her with purpose in his steps. If she refused he would speak regardless and walk with the same purpose in his steps. "I get the feelin' you'll be the death of me hun..." are the words he speaks to her as he cracks a smile. Regardless of her reaction, unless it impedes his movement, he will go to his truck and get his shovel before returning.
Post by Rae-Star Berii on Aug 21, 2013 11:48:49 GMT -5
After he killed he seemed more confident, more aloof. She took his hand when it was offered; though she was curious of him it was offered in the same manner as when he had helped her over the fallen tree.
He bent in and kissed the corner of her mouth and Rae felt the soft touch of his lips flutter through her. “Don’t push your luck.” She told him, her voice dark despite him being playful. She did not feel comfortable with him that close and she pulled away a little sharply after that. “You may be a skilled killer, Adam, but if you persist this way I will floor you, are we clear?”
As he began to walk away, however, she followed him to the truck.
“I’ll be the death of you?” She asked him now, frowning a little. “You’re implying this is my fault?!” That upset Rae a little bit, she had only walked into all of this because he couldn’t kill privately, now in the forest where privacy didn’t matter he was getting a shovel? How infuriated with him she was?!
