“Now?” She lifted her hand and pressed it to the sun-lit glass. “Now, I know I never could live with it.” She watched the faint smear of condensation spread around her fingers. “I’ve seen too much to ever be just a normal girl.”
“And you would choose to live with vampires, the very things your sister has fought for so long?”
She shrugged. “Can’t see me fitting in at any school anywhere,” she mumbled, one side of her mouth rising as she added, “Unless it was Hogwarts.” Her eyes lifted to him. “You could teach me more than any of them, I bet.”
The smile that touched his lips was so soft, so unlike his usual grave expression, that she found herself returning it.
His hand rose and was placed against the glass, palm-to-palm with hers.
“If that is your wish, Dawn,” he said, his eyes holding hers.
It was the first time she could recall him using her forename and she was startled by how much it pleased her.
Without hesitation, she nodded, then gasped as his fingers slid through the surface of the glass as if it were water. Threading between hers, his fingers brushed softly against the back of her palm and he drew her through the glass.
Re: *drops and runs to work*
“Now?” She lifted her hand and pressed it to the sun-lit glass. “Now, I know I never could live with it.” She watched the faint smear of condensation spread around her fingers. “I’ve seen too much to ever be just a normal girl.”
“And you would choose to live with vampires, the very things your sister has fought for so long?”
She shrugged. “Can’t see me fitting in at any school anywhere,” she mumbled, one side of her mouth rising as she added, “Unless it was Hogwarts.” Her eyes lifted to him. “You could teach me more than any of them, I bet.”
The smile that touched his lips was so soft, so unlike his usual grave expression, that she found herself returning it.
His hand rose and was placed against the glass, palm-to-palm with hers.
“If that is your wish, Dawn,” he said, his eyes holding hers.
It was the first time she could recall him using her forename and she was startled by how much it pleased her.
Without hesitation, she nodded, then gasped as his fingers slid through the surface of the glass as if it were water. Threading between hers, his fingers brushed softly against the back of her palm and he drew her through the glass.
“Then stay,” he said softly.