<hr/><div class="floatright">(http://cdn.tavern-keeper.com/character/4/3-thumb.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Rachel<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Titan's Tower / Dove's Room<br/><strong>Tags:</strong>Dawn(Dove)<br/><hr/><br/>Rachel smiled at Dawn, the smile got a little bit devious as Dawn opened the door farther.<br/><br/>"Thank you…" Rachel said, blushing just a bit with the compliment.<br/><br/><em>Great Azar, she's beautiful…</em>, she thought. Standing in front of Dawn now, with her half naked somehow made what she wanted to say … around ten times harder. "Well … I believe I owe you an explanation. It's going to be long … and I'll probably stumble quite a bit; but I'd like to try to get though it."<br/><br/>She took a deep breath and tried to swallow back some of the fears that were creeping up.  Trying to figure out where to start.<br/><br/>"I never … " Rachel took a breath letting the sentence die before she got any father; the nervous energy that coursed though her all to obvious.<br/><br/>Taking another deep breath, she began again. "I care for you Dawn, you're the most amazing person I know. I really didn't understand what that meant … what I felt … until yesterday."<br/><br/><em>Off to a good start … but here comes the harder part</em>she thought to herself.<br/><br/>"Jinx sent my powers out of control yesterday, I ended up absorbing the emotions of a lot of people. I … can't handle my own powerful emotions that well … being overwhelmed with the powerful emotions of others. Well, it made me do some things I regret."<br/><br/>She paused for a second, debating telling her … Dawn … this woman; perhaps someone that she could love … deserved to know, no matter who ugly.<br/><br/>"It's no excuse … I stripped for Aqualad in the pool.", she closed her eyes not wanting to look at Dawn. "I felt dirty … and cheap, like some whore. I walked away from the pool wanting nothing more than to die."<br/><br/>"But … after a few hours of meditation, I realized that while what I did made me feel horrible … what I felt; which isn't my feelings for aqua lad, but rather some random woman's feelings for a man. That pure unbelievable bliss that you feel when you're with someone you love… even for a moment. It was something I've never felt … something I've always thought I never deserved."<br/><br/>"I've done horrible things, even to my friends… back when I first came to Earth. I made Robin and Kid Flash fall in love with me … despite not knowing what love was… not knowing how truly cruel I was being to them.", she paused for a second trying to brush aside the tears that were now forming in her eyes before continuing.<br/><br/>"… and then last night happened. It was amazing … … no,<em>you</em>were amazing. I realized that all my feelings for you … the not in my stomach right now, the pain I feel when  when I admit things, I'd rather forget, the joy when you tell me I look good, the warmth I feel when you are simply in the same room as me… and well what you're making me feel right now. This is how things start."<br/><br/>She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself … suppress the fear and the ten million other emotions bubbling around in her screaming to be free. "I'm not good with strong emotions, the tend to … … cloud my judgement. I normally push them aside; because I can't afford to feel them. But with this … and you… I can't push it aside … I won't. I don't know where this will lead, and that scares me … but what scares me even more, is not trying. I guess what I'm saying … is if you're willing I'd like to try … 'us'."<br/><br/>She felt like she was drowning … putting herself out there just like that. While she may have worn a smile on her face the truth of the matter was she'd never been more scared in her life. She'd rather have gone toe-to-toe with Trigon, then have to do that all over again. That said, she'd do it in a heartbeat.