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The next morning was almost nerve racking. Katya had gotten very little sleep and was extremely nervous about school. Leonard was in the kitchen making breakfast, “Here’s my angel.” He sung aloud and placed some grits in front of her. “Thanks dad, but I think I’ll be taking this on the run, I can’t be late to school anymore and I have a project due second block.” Katya excused herself and bowled the grits up to take in the car. “Good enough, as long as you send it back to me when you’re done.” He winked as she ran out the front door, no telling when Cain was going to get there. He may have been an early bird kind of person; then again he may be a big scene kind of person. As she raced down the highway she saw Felicia pass her, suddenly time was slow and Felicia was leaning out of her window, she was obviously using a Time Melt Charm. “Why was Zane so mad last night?” she asked. Katya opened her window and leaned over. “I’ll tell you when we get to school; if we keep using charms like this the Coven is bound to notice something.” Katya smiled at her best friend and closed the window, flicking her hand for time to start again. It took Felicia a second to get back up to speed and come in behind Katya, then try and park next to her.
“Man, don’t I wish we had assigned parking. This would be so much easier.” Felicia sighed and grabbed her backpack out of the back, and sprinted to walk alongside Katya, who was nervously pacing the parking lot. “What is up with you?” Felicia wondered, she grabbed Katya’s arm and Katya jumped with a start. “What?” she asked, looking like a trapped animal. “Babe, are you on drugs? What the hell has you so freakin jumpy?” Katya didn’t even notice, Cain was getting out of a Mercedes Benz on the other side of the parking lot, a pretty little girl running behind him, who the hell was that? She had long beautiful black hair and deep penetrating gray eyes, just like Cain. “That must be one of his sister’s, looks like Allison.” Katya thought to herself. “Isn’t that the vampire?” Felicia asked, curling her lip in Cain’s direction. “I don’t know. Maybe, I can’t remember. Let’s go talk to them.” Katya started to take a step forward, but Felicia stopped her. “Whoa! When have you ever wanted to talk to a new kid, much less notice them?” Felicia was suspicious. “Uh…I don’t know, it’s his looks. He’s so damn handsome; I may have a chance with him.” Again Katya tried to take off, “I don’t think Zane would like that, vampire or not, in his eyes, you’re already his. That reminds me, what happened…?” But Katya ran out of her grasp and up to Cain. “Hello! I’m Katya Sorbini, this is my friend Felicia Gorgio, are you new?” Katya asked, trying to be the pleasant person she never was.
“Cain and Allison Chavar, at your service. Yes we are new, you wouldn’t mind showing us to our rooms?” he asked. Katya nodded and took their schedules. “Well, this is wonderful, I get introduced and I don’t get to say hello myself. Hi, I’m Allison, this jerks little sister.” The raven haired beauty stuck her slender hand out, smiling, and then took it back slowly realizing she was in public and couldn’t do that. “It’s nice to meet you, well Allison, your classes are mostly in D wing, next to F wing, so I can help you a lot. And Cain all your classes are mine, amazing! I can help you easily.” Katya smiled, and when Felicia started talking to Allison he winked and handed her a note. “You can read it later, in first Block.” He slipped it into her palm tenderly. “I’ve never gotten a note, well not from anyone other than Felicia.” Katya whispered. “What about me?” Felicia turned, having tried to listen in. “Oh, just talking about the wonderful club we’re in after school. You two should join, Honors Society? It’s for all A students and it does good for the community.” Allison smiled and looked at Cain, “Sounds fun, we should try it.” Cain nodded and took his sister’s hand. “Well, we’ll see you first block.” He waved to Katya and Felicia, “Wait you’re not going to…” but Cain was already gone. “Well they’re weird.” Felicia cocked her hip to one side and frowned. “Oh, and we’re not?” Katya tried to keep it genial, and went inside.
In first block Katya ripped open the note and began reading as though it was from a long lost husband held captive by enemy soldiers.
Katya,
       Meet me tonight by the creek I met you at in the spot I met you.  Try and act as though you’re not trying to drag me around today…people will notice, especially your family.
          Cain.
‘I am not dragging him around.’  She thought to herself.  Just as she did this, Cain walked in and sat down in the seat next to her.  “I am not…” she started but he cut her off with a look as if to say, “Didn’t I just tell you to shut up?”  Katya quieted and looked to the board.  The bell rang after only a minute and the teacher beckoned Cain forward to introduce himself.  “Hi, I’m Cain Chavar and I’m new in town.”  He waved, every girl in the room sighed.  Katya gave a disgusted face as she looked around the room at all the females swooning over him.  She pulled a Reading Spell and could see that every chick in the room was utterly in love with him.  “Oh come on!  He’s not THAT good looking!”  She thought to herself, and then looked up to Cain, who smiled brilliantly at her.  “Or is he?”  Something in the way he moved around the room back to his seat made her stupid in that moment.  The entire class she spent in a dumb daze, trying to figure out what he meant to her.  In the end she shrugged it off and went on to her next class, Cain at her side.
It wasn’t until that night when she got back in from meeting with Cain that the feelings came back to her.  Katya was sitting on her bed alone doing a little Calculus homework when suddenly she felt this empty feeling that had her on her side, clutching her stomach.  Katya let out a moan and closed her eyes.  It wasn’t like anything had happened down at the creek, they had just talked about the Coven, he was so interested for some reason. Slowly it went away, but for the rest of the night she wanted Cain right there, holding her hand and saying her name.  When Zane came over the next day, to ask for an answer, she almost said Cain’s name when she got angry with him.  Zane didn’t even notice he was so mad, and stormed out.  Leo on the other hand had caught it and asked her about it.  “Nothing dad, just a guy from school who’s pissing me off cause he’s a total idiot.  Zane reminded me of him cause of the way he’s acting about this.”  She ran away to her room quickly and laid down, casting a No-Thoughts Spell that didn’t work.  She tried again, but when that failed she quit and placed a Sleep Charm over her and dreamt about Cain.
The next day a girl in their third block class got the courage up to ask Cain out on a date, right these in front of Katya.  For a moment she was so stunned she said nothing.  But when Cain opened his mouth to be kind and turn her down Katya went ballistic.  “No!  He’s not looking.”  She retorted and immediately started blushing.  “Well fine.  Don’t have to get defensive over your boyfriend.”  The girl sneered and walked away.  Katya stared after her bewildered.  “What was that about?”  Cain asked, but Katya shook her head and turned away from him.
It couldn’t be anything serious, he was nothing to her, and would never be anything to her.  Once she looked his way and saw him staring at her.  He gave a quirky smile and waved, his white teeth shining like a light etched into his pale and beautifully creamy skin.  An hour and a half flew by as she thought until finally the bell rang.  Katya slowly gathered her books and headed for the door, but instead of walking to her next class, she walked right out the front door.  She was at her car in an instant and was backing out.  “I have to get away.”  She charmed a note for Felicia to find in her car seat when school got out later.  The small BMW squealed down the high way, straight for the park where Katya could get to the woods.  Her mind was racing.
Something about the way those girls had looked at him, and then the way he smiled at her, something was not right. She could still feel herself wanting to rip that girls throat out, but she didn’t know why she wanted to.  Nothing about any of this was making any sense and she just wanted to be away.  She could feel something in her gut churning, like tons of butterflies pounding away at her stomach.  Why was she acting like this?  Why was he making her crazy, and not in a good way.  She was going insane, and it only took a little over a week for him to do it to her.  Suddenly the turn for the huge park sprang up and Katya reacted with cat like reflexes, turning the wheel at a 90 degree angle and spinning into the parking lot, landing perfectly in an empty spot.  Hurriedly, she jumped out of her car and slammed it shut.  Tears of frustration were beginning to seep in her eyes.  Mothers of toddlers grabbed their children and placed them in the sand box on the other end of the playground as Katya began stomping around the grass in frustration.  With every stomp her leather boots gave she cried out in exasperation, eventually jumping on the ground, trying to pound it down further.  “Ahh!”  She screamed and ran into the woods, throwing her keys down and taking her boots off.  She didn’t care right now what those mothers were thinking.
Some random high school girl in leather boots, tight dark jeans, a black tank top and a leather jacket was acting like a maniac and taking it out on the ground was now running into the woods said to hold wolves and taking her clothes off. This wasn’t the time to be explaining things, especially to women who wouldn’t listen anyway.  Katya disappeared in an instant, the darkness enveloping her as the leather jacket came off with a swift twist of her arm.  The tears began to come, but she wasn’t really crying, no sobbing sounds, just the liquid.  She knew the spell was wearing off, she’d have to reapply it later, but for now she was so tired of being confused, she wanted to be herself.  Her next long and loud scream melted into the howl of a lone wolf as she transformed herself and took off at a run.  She had to get to her rock, from here it would take a good twenty minutes, but she had all day and she needed the run.
What would her father say when he found out she skipped school?  Worse yet, what happened when Zane found out she skipped, then realized Cain now went to school with her?  What would he do?  What would he say?  She messed up this time.  “I never should have told him about school.  I never should have talked to him at the coffee shop.  I never should have gone out that night.”  She screamed at herself.  Soon enough she was at her rock.  Katya slowed down and sat down at the base of it, changing into a girl cross legged.  Tears were still falling down her face as Cain’s words came back.  “You want to love me.  You don’t yet, but you want to.”  With a surge of grief and sad happiness she let herself begin to sob.  Brown tears fell into her hands.  She loved him, Katya loved Cain now.  It had struck her like a bolt of lightning that she would now never be happy until they were together forever.
“Katya?”  Cain’s voice rang out among the trees, he was looking for her. “Katya, where are you?”  She didn’t want to hide from him anymore, she couldn’t.  “Katya, what’s wrong?  Why’d you leave?”  He asked and jumped down from the tree he had landed on.  Katya continued to sob as he stooped over her.  “What’s wrong with you hand?”  He asked, seeing the brown tears flooding her hands.  Katya looked up at him, her eyes still streaming.  Cain jumped; two brilliant and vivid violet eyes stared back at him.  They shone with their own colors, gold flecks around the iris and black outlining the purple to make them even more noticeable and even more exotic.  “Katya.”  He whispered and reached for her.  “This is me, these are my true eyes, and the reason Zane wants me.”  She stood and, wobbly kneed, walked to the stream to wash her face.  “He wants my genetics, he wants my line.  These eyes represent everything my blood line stands for, without them, he’s powerless.  He knows that if he doesn’t have me now, any and all my offspring can claim the throne.  Simply because of these eyes can I not leave.  These eyes keep me from being the person I want to, they make me bound to him.  The magic that runs through me because of these eyes is stronger than anyone else in the clan.  My magic is so powerful because of them, that if I wanted to, I could never be stopped.” She began to wash her face in the river; her hands were dirty as well so she conjured up a Cleaning Charm to wash them.
“I don’t understand.  If you’re more powerful than him, why can’t you just rule the clan?”  Cain asked, standing behind her.  “Women can’t rule, written code thousands of years ago.  I don’t want to rule anyway.  I want to help, but I can’t rule my people.  They want Zane anyhow, he’s so strong and vibrant they wouldn’t have me, eyes or not.”  Katya stood and sniffed, drying her face.  Cain looked into her eyes.  “Why do you hide them?  They are so beautiful, so different.”  Katya shook her head.  “I used to adore them too, until people other than the clan began to question them.  It’s how the hunters knew that Vampire was right.  My eyes weren’t natural and to superstitious minds, that’s all they need to kill us.”  Cain took her shoulder.  “Why did you leave school Katya?”  Katya melted at his touch.  She closed her eyes and leaned her head back.  He had said her name, and how wonderful it sounded coming from his beautiful lips.
“Katya?”  He asked again, trying to bring her out of the daze.  “Say it again.”  She whispered.  “What?”  He seemed stunned she even spoke right now.  “My name, say my name again.  I want to hear you say it.”  She never opened her eyes, but took a step closer.  “Katya.”  Cain replied and wrapped his arm around her waist, pulling her in.  “Why can’t I not be around you?”  She asked, a tear falling down her cheek as she opened her eyes to see his face.  “Because you want to be near me.”  He leaned his head down to kiss her, but Katya broke away and walked back to her rock.  “But it’s impossible.”  She sighed and leaned her forehead against the rock.  “I’m not hardwired to be near you; I shouldn’t even be able to touch you.”  She moaned and hit the rock with her fist lightly.  “But you do, Katya.  You do and you know it.”  Cain reassured her.   Katya gave a snort of laughter and looked to him.  “I can’t even stand seeing other women looking at you fondly.  I know I don’t, but when they do it I just want to rip their throats out.”  She stated and took a step to the side.
“You’re jealous.”  Cain reasoned.  “I’m not jealous.  Why would I be jealous for something I don’t even have in the first place?”  She took another step and barked another laugh. She began to say words in old Romanian that Cain couldn’t understand.  She spouted them off without thinking and suddenly her magic engulfed her.  For a moment Katya was invisible in a ball of light due to the pure energy of magic in the air.  “I can’t even look away from you without feeling lost.”  Her voice came from somewhere above him.  “You want to be near me as I want to be with you.”  He was silenced by her magic, which was taking hold of him too now.  In Cain’s mind the only thought was that she was angry and was turning into the fairy she was talking about.  “My whole world has been magical.  But now, without you there, it’s dull and cold.  I can’t even think about you without it hurting.”  Everything stopped and Cain could breathe again.  He quickly looked for Katya and saw her standing about five feet away, back to him.  ‘Please don’t let her be a fairy.’  He thought.  “Katya?”  He called.
Katya’s shoulders shuddered and he realized she was still crying.  “My whole world has been shattered because of you.”  She said, and then turned to look at him, a smile on her face.  “And I can’t find one reason why I should care.”  A huge, crazy smile surfaced.  Tears were still falling down her face, but the smile made it seem as though she was crying for joy.  “Everything I’ve thought of to make me hate you doesn’t work. The fact that everyone I know can be harmed because of this doesn’t seem to bother me as much as not being around you does.”  Cain grinned and took a step forward.  Katya completely broke down right then.  Cain caught her in his arms as she fell to the ground, hands to her face, tears streaming. “My darling, please don’t cry.”  He whispered and rocked her.  Katya shook her head and looked up at him, “I’ve fallen utterly and madly in love with you Cain Chavar and I don’t know why.”  She whispered. Cain just smiled and placed her chin in his hands.  Katya looked into his grey eyes, “Promise me, that you’ll never leave.  Promise me you won’t let me get hurt for this.”  She begged her voice slightly choking. Cain pulled her chin close, only a hair apart and said, “I promise.”  And with that he pulled her in close and kissed her passionately.
Katya enjoyed the kiss for a moment and then wrapped her arms around his neck, pulling him tighter.  Everything changed in that kiss, her whole world was different now.  She knew that now, she would be an outcast.  She was a betrayer, someone who wasn’t fit to live.  Katya now had to run forever, but she was oaky with that, as long as Cain was right there with her, running and holding her hand.

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The next morning was almost nerve racking. Katya had gotten very little sleep and was extremely nervous about school. Leonard was in the kitchen making breakfast, “Here’s my angel.” He sung aloud and placed some grits in front of her. “Thanks dad, but I think I’ll be taking this on the run, I can’t be late to school anymore and I have a project due second block.” Katya excused herself and bowled the grits up to take in the car. “Good enough, as long as you send it back to me when you’re done.” He winked as she ran out the front door, no telling when Cain was going to get there. He may have been an early bird kind of person; then again he may be a big scene kind of person. As she raced down the highway she saw Felicia pass her, suddenly time was slow and Felicia was leaning out of her window, she was obviously using a Time Melt Charm. “Why was Zane so mad last night?” she asked. Katya opened her window and leaned over. “I’ll tell you when we get to school; if we keep using charms like this the Coven is bound to notice something.” Katya smiled at her best friend and closed the window, flicking her hand for time to start again. It took Felicia a second to get back up to speed and come in behind Katya, then try and park next to her.
“Man, don’t I wish we had assigned parking. This would be so much easier.” Felicia sighed and grabbed her backpack out of the back, and sprinted to walk alongside Katya, who was nervously pacing the parking lot. “What is up with you?” Felicia wondered, she grabbed Katya’s arm and Katya jumped with a start. “What?” she asked, looking like a trapped animal. “Babe, are you on drugs? What the hell has you so freakin jumpy?” Katya didn’t even notice, Cain was getting out of a Mercedes Benz on the other side of the parking lot, a pretty little girl running behind him, who the hell was that? She had long beautiful black hair and deep penetrating gray eyes, just like Cain. “That must be one of his sister’s, looks like Allison.” Katya thought to herself. “Isn’t that the vampire?” Felicia asked, curling her lip in Cain’s direction. “I don’t know. Maybe, I can’t remember. Let’s go talk to them.” Katya started to take a step forward, but Felicia stopped her. “Whoa! When have you ever wanted to talk to a new kid, much less notice them?” Felicia was suspicious. “Uh…I don’t know, it’s his looks. He’s so damn handsome; I may have a chance with him.” Again Katya tried to take off, “I don’t think Zane would like that, vampire or not, in his eyes, you’re already his. That reminds me, what happened…?” But Katya ran out of her grasp and up to Cain. “Hello! I’m Katya Sorbini, this is my friend Felicia Gorgio, are you new?” Katya asked, trying to be the pleasant person she never was.
“Cain and Allison Chavar, at your service. Yes we are new, you wouldn’t mind showing us to our rooms?” he asked. Katya nodded and took their schedules. “Well, this is wonderful, I get introduced and I don’t get to say hello myself. Hi, I’m Allison, this jerks little sister.” The raven haired beauty stuck her slender hand out, smiling, and then took it back slowly realizing she was in public and couldn’t do that. “It’s nice to meet you, well Allison, your classes are mostly in D wing, next to F wing, so I can help you a lot. And Cain all your classes are mine, amazing! I can help you easily.” Katya smiled, and when Felicia started talking to Allison he winked and handed her a note. “You can read it later, in first Block.” He slipped it into her palm tenderly. “I’ve never gotten a note, well not from anyone other than Felicia.” Katya whispered. “What about me?” Felicia turned, having tried to listen in. “Oh, just talking about the wonderful club we’re in after school. You two should join, Honors Society? It’s for all A students and it does good for the community.” Allison smiled and looked at Cain, “Sounds fun, we should try it.” Cain nodded and took his sister’s hand. “Well, we’ll see you first block.” He waved to Katya and Felicia, “Wait you’re not going to…” but Cain was already gone. “Well they’re weird.” Felicia cocked her hip to one side and frowned. “Oh, and we’re not?” Katya tried to keep it genial, and went inside.
In first block Katya ripped open the note and began reading as though it was from a long lost husband held captive by enemy soldiers.
Katya,
       Meet me tonight by the creek I met you at in the spot I met you.  Try and act as though you’re not trying to drag me around today…people will notice, especially your family.
          Cain.
‘I am not dragging him around.’  She thought to herself.  Just as she did this, Cain walked in and sat down in the seat next to her.  “I am not…” she started but he cut her off with a look as if to say, “Didn’t I just tell you to shut up?”  Katya quieted and looked to the board.  The bell rang after only a minute and the teacher beckoned Cain forward to introduce himself.  “Hi, I’m Cain Chavar and I’m new in town.”  He waved, every girl in the room sighed.  Katya gave a disgusted face as she looked around the room at all the females swooning over him.  She pulled a Reading Spell and could see that every chick in the room was utterly in love with him.  “Oh come on!  He’s not THAT good looking!”  She thought to herself, and then looked up to Cain, who smiled brilliantly at her.  “Or is he?”  Something in the way he moved around the room back to his seat made her stupid in that moment.  The entire class she spent in a dumb daze, trying to figure out what he meant to her.  In the end she shrugged it off and went on to her next class, Cain at her side.
It wasn’t until that night when she got back in from meeting with Cain that the feelings came back to her.  Katya was sitting on her bed alone doing a little Calculus homework when suddenly she felt this empty feeling that had her on her side, clutching her stomach.  Katya let out a moan and closed her eyes.  It wasn’t like anything had happened down at the creek, they had just talked about the Coven, he was so interested for some reason. Slowly it went away, but for the rest of the night she wanted Cain right there, holding her hand and saying her name.  When Zane came over the next day, to ask for an answer, she almost said Cain’s name when she got angry with him.  Zane didn’t even notice he was so mad, and stormed out.  Leo on the other hand had caught it and asked her about it.  “Nothing dad, just a guy from school who’s pissing me off cause he’s a total idiot.  Zane reminded me of him cause of the way he’s acting about this.”  She ran away to her room quickly and laid down, casting a No-Thoughts Spell that didn’t work.  She tried again, but when that failed she quit and placed a Sleep Charm over her and dreamt about Cain.
The next day a girl in their third block class got the courage up to ask Cain out on a date, right these in front of Katya.  For a moment she was so stunned she said nothing.  But when Cain opened his mouth to be kind and turn her down Katya went ballistic.  “No!  He’s not looking.”  She retorted and immediately started blushing.  “Well fine.  Don’t have to get defensive over your boyfriend.”  The girl sneered and walked away.  Katya stared after her bewildered.  “What was that about?”  Cain asked, but Katya shook her head and turned away from him.
It couldn’t be anything serious, he was nothing to her, and would never be anything to her.  Once she looked his way and saw him staring at her.  He gave a quirky smile and waved, his white teeth shining like a light etched into his pale and beautifully creamy skin.  An hour and a half flew by as she thought until finally the bell rang.  Katya slowly gathered her books and headed for the door, but instead of walking to her next class, she walked right out the front door.  She was at her car in an instant and was backing out.  “I have to get away.”  She charmed a note for Felicia to find in her car seat when school got out later.  The small BMW squealed down the high way, straight for the park where Katya could get to the woods.  Her mind was racing.
Something about the way those girls had looked at him, and then the way he smiled at her, something was not right. She could still feel herself wanting to rip that girls throat out, but she didn’t know why she wanted to.  Nothing about any of this was making any sense and she just wanted to be away.  She could feel something in her gut churning, like tons of butterflies pounding away at her stomach.  Why was she acting like this?  Why was he making her crazy, and not in a good way.  She was going insane, and it only took a little over a week for him to do it to her.  Suddenly the turn for the huge park sprang up and Katya reacted with cat like reflexes, turning the wheel at a 90 degree angle and spinning into the parking lot, landing perfectly in an empty spot.  Hurriedly, she jumped out of her car and slammed it shut.  Tears of frustration were beginning to seep in her eyes.  Mothers of toddlers grabbed their children and placed them in the sand box on the other end of the playground as Katya began stomping around the grass in frustration.  With every stomp her leather boots gave she cried out in exasperation, eventually jumping on the ground, trying to pound it down further.  “Ahh!”  She screamed and ran into the woods, throwing her keys down and taking her boots off.  She didn’t care right now what those mothers were thinking.
Some random high school girl in leather boots, tight dark jeans, a black tank top and a leather jacket was acting like a maniac and taking it out on the ground was now running into the woods said to hold wolves and taking her clothes off. This wasn’t the time to be explaining things, especially to women who wouldn’t listen anyway.  Katya disappeared in an instant, the darkness enveloping her as the leather jacket came off with a swift twist of her arm.  The tears began to come, but she wasn’t really crying, no sobbing sounds, just the liquid.  She knew the spell was wearing off, she’d have to reapply it later, but for now she was so tired of being confused, she wanted to be herself.  Her next long and loud scream melted into the howl of a lone wolf as she transformed herself and took off at a run.  She had to get to her rock, from here it would take a good twenty minutes, but she had all day and she needed the run.
What would her father say when he found out she skipped school?  Worse yet, what happened when Zane found out she skipped, then realized Cain now went to school with her?  What would he do?  What would he say?  She messed up this time.  “I never should have told him about school.  I never should have talked to him at the coffee shop.  I never should have gone out that night.”  She screamed at herself.  Soon enough she was at her rock.  Katya slowed down and sat down at the base of it, changing into a girl cross legged.  Tears were still falling down her face as Cain’s words came back.  “You want to love me.  You don’t yet, but you want to.”  With a surge of grief and sad happiness she let herself begin to sob.  Brown tears fell into her hands.  She loved him, Katya loved Cain now.  It had struck her like a bolt of lightning that she would now never be happy until they were together forever.
“Katya?”  Cain’s voice rang out among the trees, he was looking for her. “Katya, where are you?”  She didn’t want to hide from him anymore, she couldn’t.  “Katya, what’s wrong?  Why’d you leave?”  He asked and jumped down from the tree he had landed on.  Katya continued to sob as he stooped over her.  “What’s wrong with you hand?”  He asked, seeing the brown tears flooding her hands.  Katya looked up at him, her eyes still streaming.  Cain jumped; two brilliant and vivid violet eyes stared back at him.  They shone with their own colors, gold flecks around the iris and black outlining the purple to make them even more noticeable and even more exotic.  “Katya.”  He whispered and reached for her.  “This is me, these are my true eyes, and the reason Zane wants me.”  She stood and, wobbly kneed, walked to the stream to wash her face.  “He wants my genetics, he wants my line.  These eyes represent everything my blood line stands for, without them, he’s powerless.  He knows that if he doesn’t have me now, any and all my offspring can claim the throne.  Simply because of these eyes can I not leave.  These eyes keep me from being the person I want to, they make me bound to him.  The magic that runs through me because of these eyes is stronger than anyone else in the clan.  My magic is so powerful because of them, that if I wanted to, I could never be stopped.” She began to wash her face in the river; her hands were dirty as well so she conjured up a Cleaning Charm to wash them.
“I don’t understand.  If you’re more powerful than him, why can’t you just rule the clan?”  Cain asked, standing behind her.  “Women can’t rule, written code thousands of years ago.  I don’t want to rule anyway.  I want to help, but I can’t rule my people.  They want Zane anyhow, he’s so strong and vibrant they wouldn’t have me, eyes or not.”  Katya stood and sniffed, drying her face.  Cain looked into her eyes.  “Why do you hide them?  They are so beautiful, so different.”  Katya shook her head.  “I used to adore them too, until people other than the clan began to question them.  It’s how the hunters knew that Vampire was right.  My eyes weren’t natural and to superstitious minds, that’s all they need to kill us.”  Cain took her shoulder.  “Why did you leave school Katya?”  Katya melted at his touch.  She closed her eyes and leaned her head back.  He had said her name, and how wonderful it sounded coming from his beautiful lips.
“Katya?”  He asked again, trying to bring her out of the daze.  “Say it again.”  She whispered.  “What?”  He seemed stunned she even spoke right now.  “My name, say my name again.  I want to hear you say it.”  She never opened her eyes, but took a step closer.  “Katya.”  Cain replied and wrapped his arm around her waist, pulling her in.  “Why can’t I not be around you?”  She asked, a tear falling down her cheek as she opened her eyes to see his face.  “Because you want to be near me.”  He leaned his head down to kiss her, but Katya broke away and walked back to her rock.  “But it’s impossible.”  She sighed and leaned her forehead against the rock.  “I’m not hardwired to be near you; I shouldn’t even be able to touch you.”  She moaned and hit the rock with her fist lightly.  “But you do, Katya.  You do and you know it.”  Cain reassured her.   Katya gave a snort of laughter and looked to him.  “I can’t even stand seeing other women looking at you fondly.  I know I don’t, but when they do it I just want to rip their throats out.”  She stated and took a step to the side.
“You’re jealous.”  Cain reasoned.  “I’m not jealous.  Why would I be jealous for something I don’t even have in the first place?”  She took another step and barked another laugh. She began to say words in old Romanian that Cain couldn’t understand.  She spouted them off without thinking and suddenly her magic engulfed her.  For a moment Katya was invisible in a ball of light due to the pure energy of magic in the air.  “I can’t even look away from you without feeling lost.”  Her voice came from somewhere above him.  “You want to be near me as I want to be with you.”  He was silenced by her magic, which was taking hold of him too now.  In Cain’s mind the only thought was that she was angry and was turning into the fairy she was talking about.  “My whole world has been magical.  But now, without you there, it’s dull and cold.  I can’t even think about you without it hurting.”  Everything stopped and Cain could breathe again.  He quickly looked for Katya and saw her standing about five feet away, back to him.  ‘Please don’t let her be a fairy.’  He thought.  “Katya?”  He called.
Katya’s shoulders shuddered and he realized she was still crying.  “My whole world has been shattered because of you.”  She said, and then turned to look at him, a smile on her face.  “And I can’t find one reason why I should care.”  A huge, crazy smile surfaced.  Tears were still falling down her face, but the smile made it seem as though she was crying for joy.  “Everything I’ve thought of to make me hate you doesn’t work. The fact that everyone I know can be harmed because of this doesn’t seem to bother me as much as not being around you does.”  Cain grinned and took a step forward.  Katya completely broke down right then.  Cain caught her in his arms as she fell to the ground, hands to her face, tears streaming. “My darling, please don’t cry.”  He whispered and rocked her.  Katya shook her head and looked up at him, “I’ve fallen utterly and madly in love with you Cain Chavar and I don’t know why.”  She whispered. Cain just smiled and placed her chin in his hands.  Katya looked into his grey eyes, “Promise me, that you’ll never leave.  Promise me you won’t let me get hurt for this.”  She begged her voice slightly choking. Cain pulled her chin close, only a hair apart and said, “I promise.”  And with that he pulled her in close and kissed her passionately.
Katya enjoyed the kiss for a moment and then wrapped her arms around his neck, pulling him tighter.  Everything changed in that kiss, her whole world was different now.  She knew that now, she would be an outcast.  She was a betrayer, someone who wasn’t fit to live.  Katya now had to run forever, but she was oaky with that, as long as Cain was right there with her, running and holding her hand.