Valor's eyes suddenly felt hot. Both of them were leaving a lot of things left unsaid. He could see it in her eyes and he didn't doubt for one second that she didn't see the same thing in his own eyes. Holding her like that was different than the other times they had embraced. Before it had been due to a passion that had erupted like a fire between the two of them. This embrace felt like the fire was losing oxygen and slowly dying.<br/><br/>He wanted to remember the shape of her and how she felt fitted so perfectly against his body. He could have stood like that all night but he knew they couldn't. When they pulled away and she said he was right she gave him a smile that was like a dagger slashing through his insides. How could he feel this strongly for a woman he'd only known for three weeks?<br/><br/>And why did it only have to be for three weeks? When her hand moved to rest on his cheek he leaned into it and stared back into her eyes. But the moment was slowly over. When she said goodbye he bit his tongue to prevent himself from saying something stupid. He watched as she turned away and walked away from him. When she had made it inside he suddenly couldn't control himself. He walked after her but she wouldn't have seen it and before he could reach her the doors to her bedroom shut in his face.<br/><br/>Stray tears rolled down his cheeks as he touched the doors that separated the two of them. So easy to rip open and yet they might as well have been impossible to open at the very same time. His hands dropped to his sides and that's when it began to rain. And he couldn't tell the difference if it was tears or raindrops rolling down his cheeks.<br/><br/>Why had he done this to himself? He had known before any of this began that they could never be together. He walked slowly over to the vines. He remembered when she had invited him up to her bedroom that first night. He had thought about feeding from her and making love to her. But how little he knew that that really would be the beginning of the love making process and now he was left with a cake that he couldn't eat. He cast his eyes longingly back at the doors before he started to climb down the vines. Of course he wasn't thinking and he slipped. He fell hard on his back into the wet muck on the ground but he didn't move for a moment.<br/><br/>Even as the rainfall grew heavier and heavier he just laid there looking up at the sky. Within thirty minutes the vampire would be gone as if he had never been there. It was time for him to go back to the Valic Dominion....<br/><br/>Jalice wasn't paying any attention to the window as he sat there naked upon his bed until he heard the rock pelt his window. Blinking the vampire's scarlet eyes were drawn to the window. Few bedrooms in the Valic Dominion had windows as the vast majority of them were under ground but with the royal pendant he was able to endure sunlight when he wanted to so he had an above ground bedroom.<br/><br/>Without bothering to dress himself he walked over to the window. Unlike humans vampires were a lot more relaxed about nudity. It wasn't entirely too rare to see vampires walking around completely in the nude. When he got to the window he blinked when he realized that Rosalie was standing outside in the rain. He threw his window open and jumped outside.<br/><br/>In his haste to close the distance between them he almost fell. He grasped her hands gently and stared into her eyes. Her eyes were the loveliest shade of brown he had ever seen. Such a trait was very rare in vampires but it wasn't impossible. Jalice didn't say a single word. Instead he leaned in and claimed her lips in a passionate kiss.<br/><br/>Rosalie knew full well Jalice was not a fan of the rain. He used to complain when she'd make him join her outside. She would dance in circles and get frustrated with him until he reluctantly joined her. They would join hands and dance together. They might have been a pair of fools in the rain but they had been a pair. And now that was no longer going to be true.