Voices of the Past (Tech)

[Brandon (Tech)]

He smiled at her laughter, running his hand down her cheek again to let her know. She leaned against him and he closed his eyes as he leaned back against her, gently laying his head on top of hers "Pretty simple" He said in response to her question. "When they ripped us apart it left a deep hole in me, and I needed something to fill it up. The parties, the booze, the drugs, the girls" He went silent for a moment, he had not meant to say that, but he knew he didn't want to keep it hidden from her.

"They were simply the things that came closest. It was like pouring water down a bottomless pit, knowing that you could never fill it up but you still tried." He ran his hand through her hair again, gently kissing the top of her head. "But I promise you, you are the only girl who ever meant anything to me, the only one I ever... cared for" He had been so close to say the word, but he had chickened out at the very last moment. He wished that he hadn't, but continued to tell the story.

"After the... incident I worked with a little bunch of crooks, nothing bad, but they were the people that came closest to understanding me, second only to you and uncle. A few of them actually had their own... special abilities and they come to visit me sometimes." He put his one arm around her and gave her a slight squeeze, so happy that she was actually there. Only a few of the guys had known his true name and those were the few who had heard him talk in his sleep, when he had passed out somewhere and they came to pick him up. A few them had asked him who this Kelsie was, but he had never told them. Maybe he would now?

"Basically, the SoG made me into a scientist, and I've been doing my own research for a while, using whatever I could get my hands on. Mek" He thoughtlessly indicated Mek who had sat himself down on the ground a few yards in front of them. "Was my very first project, something the SoG pushed on me, but I didn't finish him until a long time after I escaped." He let the hand fall down, before he got an idea and indicated to Mek that he should fly over to him, slowly. "Some tracer noticed the disturbances my research and my work was causing and he told me about this place, said that here were people like me" He smiled, remembering the very first people who had not been disgusted by his appearance.

"How about you, what have you been doing all these years?"Mek had soundlesly worked his way over to Brandon by now, who had picked him up and handed him to Kelsie. "But before you answer that, try and guess what this is" He had always enjoyed searching for things that were as hard for Kelsie to guess as he could, it was a game he had never really stopped playing, always thinking of new things to give her, even all these years after. He had instructed Mek to meow a few seconds after Kelsie's investigation of him had begun, and Brandon hoped that she wouldn't be too frightened. "Can you guess it?" He asked playfully, making a half-hearted attempt to conceal a mild chuckle

[Kelsie]

He began to talk of his past and she listened. His head was leaning on top of hers and she smiled. She felt so small and fragile in that moment as he held her gently right there. But when he mentioned that he had .. been with other girls she knew what that meant and she stiffened slightly. She closed her eyes and looked down at her lap if she could see.

He kissed the top of her head and told her that she was the only one that meant anything to him. That he .. cared for. She had felt her heart leap into her throat when he paused but it fell again when he said cared. Past tense. Meant that he had cared for her but might not now. She sighed softly. Other girls. It just kept playing over and over in her mind. She had no experience with guys how was she going to ever compete with his past. She was blind, disabled, she wasn't perfect like those girls had probably been.

He began to explain that he was a scientist now. And he had made Mek as his first experiment. She smiled. She wondered what Mek really was. What he looked like but she assumed that one day she would get her hands on him and then she would know. Right now she was just hoping she was enough. If not for a relationship with Brandon that just to be his best friend as they had always been. He asked her what she had been up to and she was about to answer when he sat something else in her hand.

She began to run her hands over it. It.. it.. it was a .. a .. a skull. Suddenly it meowed and that was when she freaked. Quickly she dropped it as she got up backing away. She stumbled on a root and fell into the wet grass right on her butt. She winced softly as she did so.

"What.. what was that?" she asked trembling softly. What in heavens name had he given her. She began to get up and she knew where he was though her direction tended to be rather good unless they spun her in circles. She shivered and trembled softly wondering what he had placed in her hands.

[Brandon (Tech)]

"I'm, I'm sorry" Brandon stuttered as he got up from the bench. He had meant to surprise her, true, but not to scare her like this. "It's just Mek, he doesn't bite or anything" He moved in to her help her get up, which resulted in him also slipping in the wet grass due to the extra weight bestowed him by his prosthetics, but he managed to twist so that he didn't land on top of her, landing on his arm instead before rolling onto his back.

She got up and he let out a light laughter, still lying on his back in the wet grass. "I'm not too good at this am I? First I scare you off with Mek, then I slip when I try to help you get up" He had had the prosthetics for almost two years now, but he had never really adjusted to the changes that they brought, at least not completely.

After a few unsuccessful attempts he managed to get up, his metallic feet all but meant for the sort of ground that they were treading. But when he finally managed to get up he saw the gentle moonlight reflecting in her sky blue eyes, bringing back the memories from their summer, when they had sat by the lake and when that very same sight had given him the courage to finally take her hand.

With this in mind, he gently placed his hand on her cheek and almost kissed her, his lips less than an inch away from hers and slowly closing as he felt her gentle breath on the thin skin of his lips. But then he remembered her reaction when he had mentioned the other girls. If he kissed her now, then she would think that she just another one of them, yet another girl on a trophy rack, which couldn't be further from the truth, but she couldn't know that. He couldn't do that to her, to them, to what they shared.

Instead he took her hand and gently lead her back to the bench. "Please" he said, sitting down once again. "Please sit, I have some explaining to do" Here goes, it's sink or sail, He thought, gathering what little courage he had left in his soul. He knew that if he didn't do it now, he might never get another chance, and that scared him more than anything else

[Kelsie]

He came to help her up but she didn't need it and in the end his metalic feet slipped on the wet grass anyway. She laughed at that softly as she got up and wiped herself off. There was now a nice wet spot on her butt which she wasn't too excited about but oh well there wasn't much she could do about that right now anyway.

He finally got up and he came to her. She stood there looking up at him the moonlight glistening in her light blue eyes. She smiled softly as he cupped her cheek a blush crossing her pale features. He was so close she could feel his breath racing across her lips and she longed for him to kiss her. She didn't want to be just one of the girls he had used in the past to get away from his problems. She wanted to be something more. She felt like that there was more between them than in anyone she had ever met before.

But he didn't kiss her and she wasn't sure why? perhaps he didn't like her in that way. She had to be a bit down fallen because of that but she didn't say anything at the moment. He took her hand gently and led her to the bench again. She sat down and placed her hands in her lap wondering what on earth he was going to tell her.

He already had a girlfriend? He didn't want one. He was gay. no no.. maybe not. Maybe he didn't want to be in a relationship or maybe.. just maybe he really wanted one.

"What is it?" she asked softly as she reached over and after a moment of feeling around she found his closest hand and held it to her gently. "You can tell me anything, you know that."

[Brandon (Tech)]

Brandon took a deep breath, this was a thing he had tried to prepare himself for for so long. He felt her take his closest hand and gently hold it, and it made him smile. He knew that he was about to do the so-called right thing, but that didn't make it any easier. "Yes, yes I know" He said in response to her words, loosing up a little more

"Kel, I, I" He took another deep breath, trying to get his brain to function, which didn't seem to work. "I've... been with far too many girls throughout the years, almost always at the height of a party. I'm not proud to say this but... but they, they didn't mean anything to me. Some of them were pretty, others were attractive but I didn't... I didn't... I didn't love them" He finally managed to get the word out of his mouth, it felt as thought it had been choking him.

A silent tear ran down his cheek before he continued, as he remembered what he had been running from. "All the things I did, despicable as they may seem, I did to run from the pain. I went from relationship to relationship, but they never lasted because none of the girls were... you" He sank down a little more, afraid of her reaction to what he would say next.

"This is going to sound childish, and I guess it is, but all the girls I were with were merely substitutes for the one I loved, the only one who ever touched my heart" He reached his hand out to her cheek, cupping it as it had done so shortly before. "You, Kel. Of all the girls that I have met, seen and talked to, you were the only one who saw beneath the skin, into who I was underneath."

Brandon let his hand slide off her cheek and to his own lap, knowing that this was probably the end "I understand if this frightens you, we haven't seen each others in ages after all. I guess that all those years made me exaggerate what we had but I" He began to sob again, afraid that this were indeed the case. Kelsie had probably grown far past that point where such little childhood romances mattered, and that thought devastated him, and yet he couldn't stop thinking it.

He bit his lip, managing to stem the flow of sobs. "I'm sorry if it's too sudden and everything but I can't hold it back anymore. I've wanted to tell you this back from the day at the lake when we held hands, but I was afraid that, that it would frighten you. You were right when you said that my breathing changed when you came close to me, nobody ever made me feel the way you did." He paused to breathe deeply a few times, sounding almost as though he had lost his breath.

"I love you Kel" He said, cupping her cheek as the tears ran. "And if you let me, I'll love you until the end of time" He was convinced that somebody as wonderful as her would have the perfect boyfriend long ago, and that she was probably best off without people like himself in her life. But for once his hopes were above ground level and he prayed innerly that they wouldn't crash down again

[Kelsie]

It was finally time for everything to come out in the open. A time when everything was just happening and it was sink or swim. He began to speak to her and he told her that he had been with many girls. She had gathered that but she didn't want to know that they had been pretty and attractive because she was neither. She closed her eyes and dropped her head her hair hanging down across her shoulder so he wouldn't see her eyes and her face betraying her feelings.

She nearly got up to leave when he told her that none of them were her. She froze in midst of getting up and sat back down more curious now than ever. She listened and gasped softly when he told her that none of them stood up to her. That she was the only one that saw him for who he truly was and not just a good looking boy. She smiled softly.

Things from their past began to click in place. Holding hands at the lake. The quietness of that moment and why his heart had beat so fast. The times that his breathing would increase because she was close by or had hugged him after some game they had played. All the little things that had been cute but not understood began to fall into perfect place as she listened.

But when he told her that he loved her tears fell from her eyes splashing down on the skirt of her blue dress. She cried softly for a few moments as she thought about what to say and how to tell him how she felt. She looked up at the moon that accented her glimmering saddened eyes as she tried to come up with the right words.

"That was the summer I fell in love." she began. "With a sweet little boy that seemed to understand me and my needs regardless. That little boy that would find games we could share and ways to communicate the outside world to me through touch and sound. That same boy that seemed always smile and laugh at even my corniest jokes. The one that played with me even when the other kids laughed."

"He was so sweet you know. Everyday I would look forward to seeing him just once. Even if I only got to hear his voice through the phone or hear him playing with his uncle when I wasn't allowed to go. He kept me strong you know. Kept me going when my life turned bad. When my mom chose a new family over me. When she sent me to New York to live on my own and try to attend a normal sighted school. When everyone in life had deserted me I would think back to those days with him. Remembering all the days that summer we spent together." she said softly.

"He was gone from me for so long. My memories never faded because I thought about him daily. His laughter mostly. It was so light and beautiful like windchimes on a warm spring day. And when I came here to the academy because of what happened with Harley. I thought that I would for sure never find him again. The first and only love of my life. Because honestly, on a floating island in the sky how likely is it that the two would meet once again. But then, that voice. I heard it and it woke my soul. The beauty of it all the way that his voice lit up when I called his name and since then the touches that say all those three words that we are both afraid to say out loud."

She turned to face Brandon and took his hand in hers holding it to her heart gently. The metal of his hand was a bit cold but she didn't care. She held it in place pressed against where her heart was beating and she looked at him.

"Brandon Thomas, this heart has always belonged to you. I have always loved you and I always will. If you will have me, I will stand by your side no matter what." she asid softly as she closed her eyes gently. She smiled softly as she wondered if he would kiss her now. A true sweet kiss that they had never shared in their lives before.

[Brandon (Tech)]

When she had begun crying he thought it had been the end. It was no surprise, but he knew that he would probably pick up his drug habit where he had left it, where Roy had put a sudden end to it by bursting the bubble that had held the pain at bay. But then she spoke.

Brandon's eyes opened and began to flood with tears at her words, tears born from the greatest relief that he had ever felt. He loved her, he knew that, but he had been terrified that she had moved past the stage where their relationship had mattered, ´growing up´ as some of the more arrogant people in his life had called it.

But she sat there as beautiful as ever, the moonlight bathing her in its pale light, but that was not the beauty he loved about her, it was the most beautiful thing his eyes had ever seen, but his heart saw deeper. She spoke of their shared childhood, how much he had meant to her and how she... had fallen in love with him. He wanted to hold her, embrace her, to tell her how much he loved her. He longed to kiss her with all the love that had been hurting in all those years they had spent apart, only to find it's purpose in this fabtastic night, back in her arms and her presence once again. But he couldn't bring himself to interrupt her beautiful words, and nor did he wish to.

When she put his hand on her heart telling him that it had always been his, his own heart began beating quicker and he knew it was real, it was all true. He smiled as he placed his other hand on her cheek, his thumb running down her nose to let her know how much her words meant to him. "If I want you?" He laughed lightly as another tear ran down his cheek. "Kelsie, my dear, beautiful, beloved Kelsie" He whispered as he moved his face closer to her's, once again feeling her gentle breath on his skin. "I never wanted anyone else" He closed his eyes and kissed her, all the love that he had carried, nourished and cherished pouring into the kiss.

Her words had been gentle, loving and true, their very nature calling to his soul. This was why he loved her, not because her body was that of goddess to him, nor because of the physical attraction he felt for her, but because of who she was, the bond of love, care and understanding they had always shared, and the fact that she loved him back completed this knowledge, placing the final piece in his shattered heart where it belonged after more than half a decade of broken pain.

She had remained the person, the amazing girl, that he had fallen for, still remembering the moments from their childhood and treasuring them like he did even after all those years. He couldn't help but to feel a little happy that the erosion of his face, and thereby the prostethics, had not affected his lips, because this was the one kiss he had been dreaming of, the only one he would ever wish to remember.

[Kelsie]

And so she waited wondering what his reply would be. to all the words she had spoken would there be that reply she had always been waiting for after speaking the words that she had longed to tell him for so long. His hand came up to her cheek and she nuzzled into it. That gentle thumb running down her nose made her smile brightly. That touch was her favorite thing about Brandon. It was their sign, their signal from him to her that he was happy and smiling.

She chuckled softly but as he spoke to her the smile and laughter vanished. He came close and told her that she was the only one that he had ever wanted. She shivered softly as the impact of those very words hit her hard. But soon his lips came to hers and she closed her eyes.

A kiss. It was a simple thing for most people but for this kiss it was phenominal. Like those only seen in the movies. Her hand rose to his cheek as she kissed him back. All her own feelings pushing into the kiss begging to get out to tell him what she felt for him. The kiss lasted some time as it seemed time and everything around them had just stopped as the kiss of the century had finally happened.

The kiss broke softly as she pulled away staying close for a moment letting her body recupperate. Slowly her heart rate began to slow and the tingling up her spine began to fade and she opened her eyes. Only now wishing for one time in her life that she could see. For once she would like to see his face right now right after their first real kiss. Right now when he could be smiling at her after such a kiss.

Please... please touch my nose.. please let me know how much that meant to you please tell me it meant as much to you as to me.

"Oh Brandon. My dearest sweet love." she whispered softly as her hand stroked his cheek gently the brightest smile imaginable on the young girls face.

[Brandon (Tech)]

The kiss was by far the greatest he had ever experienced, feeling the love and excitement echoing through his entire body. His heart was racing along with her's as their lips met and melded, his heart seemingly growing until the point where it filled his entire body, the love growing with it until it felt as though he would simply burst with all the love and affection finally released.

He could feel her eager heartbeat through the hand she was holding tightly to her chest, her other hand on his cheek making the moment so perfect that his tears began to roll again, brought on by their mutual love, finally out in the open after far too long. The kiss ended and he looked into the eyes of the woman he had loved for so long, a huge burden lifted off his shoulders and his herat as she now knew, and that she loved him back completed him, made him whole again.

She ran her hand back to his face and resumed cupping it, Brandon all but purring in her touch. He reached his hand to her face, running his thumb along her nose as he always did, but this time he wouldm't leave it at that, it wouldn't do the kiss or the joy of their mutual and admitted love justice. He gently took her hand away from his face and leaned in to kiss her again, but not in the lips. This time he kissed her nose, just on the spot where his thumb would have passed had his hand been on the other side of her face. He let the lips linger for just a moment, so that she knew that he meant it.

She was the sweetest thing he had ever seen and known, the only reason that he had not become some ego-central lunatic or worse, like his parents. "You've done so much for me" He whispered, knowing how true it was. "You won't have to spend a day away from me" he assured her, lovingly running his hand through her hair "I don't think I could go that long without you" He smiled, running his hand across her cheek so that she knew. He could still taste the kiss on his lips, the taste of love that he had longed for as far back as he could remember.

"Nothing will break us apart now, not now when we... not now when we know" He kissed her cheek before hugging her for all she was worth. "I love you Kel, and I'm not afraid to say it anymore. I should have told you long ago, but now I have, finally"

He hugged her a little tighter, her warmth and her love protecting him somewhat from one cold, and completely warding off the other, the one in his heart. But he pushed the other one, the one that he still felt, off. He didn't want to let go, just yet. He had relished the kiss as he was now savoring her warmth, sitting there on the bench in the night with the moon and Mek as their only witnesses. What had happened between them was far more than a dream come true, it was a miracle, a touch of destiny who had finally decided that they had been apart and suffering long enough.

She had called him his love, her dear sweet love and that thouhgt alone sent another happy tear down his cheek as he pulled back, peering lovingly into her unseeing eyes. He laughed a little again, thinking back at his thoughts only moments before. "I was afraid that... that you had grown past those memories, that you had reached the point where they didn't matter to you anymore."

He reached his hand up and let it run down her beautiful blonde hair until it reached her cheek, cupping it with all his loving care. "I'm so happy that you are still the same person, the same beautiful young woman, that I fell in love with all those years ago." He moved in and kissed her cheek with the utmost care, letting the kiss last for just a moment before he pulled back, cupping her cheek again, another silent tear running down his cheek.

"I'm sorry for what I have done, but I just want you to know that..." He leaned in, slipping his hand from her cheek to the back of her head, gently holding it as he came in and kissed her between the eyes, letting his lips linger and his eyes remain closed for several seconds. "that everytime I teased you, tried you or pushed you, it was because I didn't know what it was that you made me feel, it confused me. But now I... but now I know. It was love, and it still is, and it will never stop being love that I feel for you. I love you Kel, and with God as my witness I swear that I'll make up for everything that I've done"

[Kelsie]

When the kiss ended it was as if pure magic the unfiltered pure magic that resided in the world had come out between them. Showing them that dreams did come true and miracles did indeed happen. Kelsie had always been slightly religious. Going to church on Sunday and praying every night before bed. It was just the way she coped with things. Telling the one above how her life was going even though he already knew it was nice sometimes to get it off your chest.

So when she had found Brandon again it had been just that. A true miracle one she had prayed for every night as long as she could remember and now it had come true. She smiled softly as he ran his finger down her nose. He too had enjoyed the kiss. But soon he surprised her with something she had not expected. Taking her hand gently and pulling it away from his face he leaned in. At first she thought it was for another kiss like the one they had just shared, yet it wasn't. When his lips went down her nose just like his finger had moments ago tears fell from her blue eyes and down her cheeks.

Why? Because that had touched her so much. That same move he gave her day after day when they were smaller and had resumed now to show his smile and happiness. But it had been taken one step further a kiss on her nose and her whole body tingled softly with the feelings that the kisses left her. She blushed softly as he pulled back to speak with her some more. That same soothing voice ran over her senses as she listened.

He spoke of not leaving. Never being apart and she smiled. She knew that eventually she would have to be away from him for a day or two. They were at a magic school it would suffice to say things happened. But by their own admissions they were going to do their damndest to stick together. She smiled as he told her that he loved her and wasn't afraid to say it anymore. She blushed softly.

"Brandon, my sweet love, I am not afraid to say it any longer either. I'm glad that we said it. I'm glad that we both return the other's feelings. Because, now I know where my home really is. It's with you." she said with a smile.

He pulled her into a tight and wonderful hug and she closed her eyes. She smiled genty as her arms wrapped around his body. She didn't mind that he was half metal or anything of the like. In heart and soul he was still her Brandon no matter what he looked like and that was all that mattered to her anymore. Was that he was in her life and she didn't plan to let him go any time soon. When he told her he was afraid she had grown past those memories she chuckled and pulled back.

"Never, never in my life did I forget nor want to. Sure for a long time they caused me pain only because I was so lonely and alone in my life. Yet, now they cause me happiness, because reunited with the one I love so much has indeed given me the chance to view them in their original light. To see that I am lonely no longer but instead reunited with the one that I longed to see most is phenominal." she said softly with a soft smile.

His hand slipped from her cheek to the back of her head underneath her thick mass of blonde hair. She closed her eyes gently as he leaned in. She wasn't sure what his next move would be but it certainly surprised her. He kissed her right between the eyes and she sighed softly as such a beautiful show of affection. A small blush crossing her features as he pulled back only slightly to speak his breath running across her face. She smiled.

"I always had a feeling. When I got older and looked back the way you treated me differently from all the other girls you played with. The way that you would take care of me like you loved me one moment and then play tricks on me the next. But I never minded because so long as I got to be with you that was all I ever needed that summer." she said with a soft smile.

She moved in this time and kissed him right between the eyes her hands on both his cheeks so she could estimate where the exact spot was. She kissed there letting her lips linger for a moment. Her heart was still racing with all the feelings they were sharing and what not. She pulled back and smiled softly as she sighed.

"Well I must say, that this was the best walk of my life. Got the life scared out of me by Mek and his meowing. Then we found that we have mutual feelings. I'll say that no walk is going to top this." she said with a soft smile.

She then got an idea and she stood up and took Brandon's hand. She smiled as she pulled him up of course he would have to help her. But once up she moved in and put her arms around his waist. She smiled.

"Dance with me, in the moonlight." she whispered softly as she began to move in a slow circle like they had in the kitchen. She closed her eyes and let her body tap into the rythum of his heart beating in his chest. And she danced.

[Brandon (Tech)]

He couldn't help but smile, she already knew most of what he had told her. She was so cute and also so strong, she had been his prime inspiration of bravery that day in the playground, and she still was.

She put both of her hands on his cheeks and he shut his eyes, shivering slightly when he felt her breath against his forehead and then her lips softly connect with the space between his eyes. Her lips lingered on his forehead and he felt as though they were sucking out all the bad stuff, cleansing his mind.

She pulled back and he opened his eyes, chuckling mildly when she mentioned Mek, recalling what he had just said to her and realizing that that had been exactly what he had been doing. But when she spoke of their confessions his smile lessened, becoming one of love rather than excitement. He was about to lean in to kiss her again when she got up. He looked up at her and, seeing her smile, felt his heart melt.

She took his hand and he stood up next to her. He blushed and felt the rate of his heartbeat increase when she put his arm around her waist, and as he looked down and saw the moonlight once again reflect itself in her perfect features, he heard her whisper to him, asking him to dance with her. He smiled and put his other arm around her waist as he felt her arms around his.

She began moving to the rhythm again, their rhythm, and he followed, his heart no longer clouded with doubt, pain or fear. At first he was as clumsy as he had been in the kitchen, but one look at her face in the moonlight and he was flying around the park with her, dancing to the pulse of what lay in between them. He closed his eyes once again, only to see the park fade away, the whole world seizing to exist for any other reason than the two of them, dancing their dance. He had never danced like this with anyone else before her, and nor could he have. This was a special connection only found by the fewest of people, and Brandon was beginning to realize how lucky he truly was.

The dance was soft and tender, and yet it also felt wild and passionate. Brandon couldn't tell as he found himself caught in between reality and fantasy, or maybe it was more than that. All he knew was that he could hear her breathe and feel her every heartbeat, their undying love meeting through their steps as they held each other dearly, simply dancing.

He didn't open his eyes to see and nor did he need to, they seemed to miraculously miss every obstacle in their way... for a while. Something caught the back of his heel and before he knew it he was lying on his back in the wet grass, a light "Oomph" escaping him as Kelsie landed on top of him.

His initial thought was to get up, but feeling Kelsie's light weight on top of him and the sensation of her blond hair falling down to caress his face, made him change his mind. His hand went to her face, softly cupping her cheek as his thumb ran across her nose once. The wetness of the grass was beginning to soak into his jumper but he didn't notice, the sight that met his eyes shutting everything else out with its sheer beauty.

Reaching his other hand to her face and gently sliding it behind her head, he slowly pulled her face down towards his, wanting to kiss her once again with all his love. He could feel the warmth of her body against his as well as their magical dance still coursing through his blood. He had lost her, found her and told her that he loved her, and he was going to give her all the love that he had held for her all those years

[Kelsie]

Dancing under the moonlight might have been the most romantic thing you could ever want in your life. The soft pale light of a beautiful moon shining down upon the couple as he lead her through the park. Their feet moving and dancing to their own rythum the one that carried them through the park and through the night. It was a dance that was on a deeper level than just their feet moving in the twilight.

They moved gracefully through the park she letting him guide her steps leading her safely without harm as they danced. There were no words exchanged or needed. They were saying it all but no words had to be spoken for one to hear what was being said. She smiled and sometimes she giggled as they danced under the soft moon light the stars beaming down upon them from above.

But soon something happened and she found herself being pulled down to the ground. She giggled the entire way down knowing that Brandon was beneath her but there was nothing she could do as she landed right on top of him. He let out a noise as she finished falling her head on his shoulder as her hair went all over him but mostly his face. She picked herself up slightly with her arms her body now straddling him without meaning to. She was about to get off when his touch came and she froze.

The way he touched her. Even ran his finger down her nose again. She smiled softly at that touch. She was never going to be able to live without that at least once a day. Because she was already hooked and it made small shivers go down her spine. She felt his other hand come up to her cheek and work slowly around the back of her head. She waited. Gently he pulled her down and her eyes closed as their lips met.

Once more the kiss was soft but so many feelings seemed to be able to be conveyed through a simple touch and carress of the lips. There her heart stopped beating completely and she couldn't help but continue kissing him. She found it was hard to breathe when she kissed him all the emotions surging her body that had no outlet. She kissed him for several long moments letting their emotions and hearts meet slowly and softly lettiing the soft carresses have their time.

When she gently broke the kiss she immediatly regretted it. She knew that there would be other kisses in the future but right now that had been the best ever. Their first kiss was unmatchable but that one had been damned close. Maybe it was all the years that they had been apart wishing they could confess but had no way to do so. She smiled softly as her hand came up and ran from his cheek and throug his hair before she leaned down and kissed him again.

Letting her arms free she lay down on his chest. She was a fairly light girl thin and toned but not heavy. She threw her hair over one shoulder so it would only bother the metal side of his face and she kissed him. Her arms wrapped around him gently her kiss getting just a little more passionate. No tongue or anything just a bit more emotion behind it. More urgency to show him how much she did love him and how much she did care.

Her legs were wet from the grass but she cared little as she spun them slightly so she was on the bottom and he was on the top. She lay beneath him getting her dress soaked but again she cared little as she kissed him still her hands running from his cheeks down to his neck and back up again. She broke the kiss again and looked up at him, or well her face did anyway.

"Oh Brandon." she whispered softly. "My dreams. They came true. I'll have to find new dreams now." she chuckled softly with a soft smile.

"It's getting cold isn't it?" she asked shivering a bit from the wet ground. "What do you say we go get my things moved ot your room and settle in for the night?" she asked softly stroking his cheek gently with the backs of her fingers.

[Brandon (Tech)]

The kiss was amazing, soft and gentle, an act of pure love. They were meant for each other, they were simply meant to be together. Feeling her body against his and the melding of their lips he had found all that he had missed and more, finally having mastered his fear and declared his love to find that it was mutual. He could feel her love through their mutual caress and he replied with all his heart, his emotions flowing freely from his soul for the first time in his life.

She ended the kiss and smiled, Brandon smiling with her. He had missed that smile, a thing that had always cheered him up regardless. Her hand come to his cheek and he closed his eyes in the pure calm that her touch gave him, relishing the sensation of her hand running through his hair as he let out a soft sigh.

When her lips met his again it felt as though the essence of heaven rained down upon them as he kissed her back, feeling her heartbeat against his chest as she lay down against it. He could feel her every emotion in her kiss, running through his soul and caressing every corner of his being. He replied with every corner of his heart, letting all of his soul run through the kiss, his heart aflame with both love and passion, truly experiencing them for the first time.

She shifted the positions so that she would lay beneath him, and he followed his eyes not opening once as the kiss continued undisturbed, both in pace and in spirit. He supported his weight on his elbows, just so that his body was in full contact with hers without restricting her breathing with his weight. His hands were running across her cheeks and through the hair that she was not lying on, as her hands ran up and down his face and neck.

Feeling her caresses and sharing her loving kiss was without doubt one of the greatest experiences in Brandon's life, rivaled only by that night so long ago when they had held hands, and what he had felt when they had finally declared their love to each other. When she broke the kiss he was smiling, the smile only widening when she spoke of how her dreams had come true. "Kelsie, my oh so beautiful Kelsie" He said, running his had through as much of his hair as he could. "My greatest dreams came true tonight, and the greatest is lying right here" He ran his hand across her cheek to let her know that she was his greatest dream, seeing her again and finally confessing what he had felt for so long.

He was about to kiss her nose again when she shivered and said that she was cold. He realized that she was right and began to get up, but waiting just long enough to feel her hand on his cheek, closing his eyes and letting out a sound that was almost identical to a purr. He got up holding Kelsie's hand, granting her his support, as offering his hand wouldn't have allowed her to know it was there due to her blindness.

Standing together in the moonlight once again, he gently stroked her nose with his thumb again, just once, before he leaned in and kissed the other side of the nose, letting his lips linger just a little longer than last time, to let her know just how happy she made him. Nobody had reacted to his touch on their noses like her, nobody truly understood the affection that he meant with it. A few had even thought that he had a nose fetish, which had lead to a series of awkward events, a thing that he would share with her some day, for a good laugh.

Pulling back slowly he opened his eyes and smiled, caressing her cheek with all his loving care and vigorous joy. "If we go and start moving your stuff around now, should I have Mek make us another two cups of hot chocolate?" He asked her, the clammy cold beginning to get make him shiver as well.

"That'll be good for keeping the cold at bay." He gently kissed her forehead and then pulled back, waiting for her answer. She was truly stunning here in the moonlight, the way her eyes and skin reflected the soft light like no other he had seen. Running his hand down her cheek again he sent a message to Mek to come out from under the bench from where he had seeken refuge from the reunited couples dance.

((OOC: Your turn ;D, you can godmod Brandon all the way to the point where they start moving furniture, or further if you find it appropriate))

[Kelsie]

What they shared was something that few found these days. Because true love was not something that was just given to you. It was something you had to work at and something you had to earn and even then you still rarely found The One. Yet here was proof that such feelings existed in life. Kelsie and Brandon proved that such feelings were real and could be achieved. After waiting so very long, years actually, they finally found each other and were reunited.

He called her beautiful. Something that she had never known nor been able to hear. Why? Because no one had ever called her that before. She was probably only beautiful to him but that mattered little in all honesty. All that mattered was the fact that he thought she was beautiful because he was the only one she wanted to be beautiful for. She blushed softly when he told her this only because she didn't find herself beautiful. Granted she could not see herself physically but that wasn't what she meant anyway. She saw people's hearts not their bodies and she ended up finding the best and the worst of people.

With her hand in his he helped her get up off the cold and wet grass. The back of her blue dress was now soaked and hung heavily on her small frame. She felt him pull her close and she didn't fight it despite the soft breeze practically freezing her as it ran across the wet fabric.

He brought his hand up and stroked her nose. A wide smile crossing her face at this time. She closed her eyes. No one did this. No one understood how much this really could mean to someone. Not only that but with her being blind it worked even better as her sense of touch was phenominal. But when he leaned in again and his lips connected with her nose she hugged him and stroked his hair gently letting his lips linger as long as they wanted to. Her eyes were closed and her body shivered both from the gentle kiss on her nose and the chill air.

He then asked her a questions about hot chocolate and starting to get her things. She smiled softly at him and nodded.

"Yes, and please tell Mek that I'm sorry for dropping him earlier. And I would love hot chocolate and I would love to start moving right away." she said with a bright smile.

She hooked her arm with his and she smiled as she led the way this time back to the academy but when she got there instead of going back down into the basement like area she found the elevator and then up to the third floor where her room was said to be. Down a hall she felt the numbers on the door until she came to her own. Sliding her key down to the lock she felt paper in the way. It was.. in braile.

-We have been informed of your recent move. You're things are down in one Brandon Thomas's room. Please enjoy your stay at Arcane Academy-

"Well, it looks like they moved me while we were gone. Says all my things are downstairs allready. So lets go back there then." she said with a bright smile.

She turned and led him back to the entrance of The Cave she was going to start calling it because that was what it felt like. She smiled up at Brandon.

"Well, I"m still not sure how to navigate this thing so.. will you lead the way?" she asked.

However this time she flicked out her cane so she could get the layout of The Cave so that eventually starting tomorrow at least she could navigate it on her own. That way she could come and go as she pleased.

((Haha! Take that no moving required. You get to godmod Kel getting back to the room. My only post for now, it's Thanksgiving so I'll reply to your reply when I get home tonight )

[Brandon (Tech)]

He saw her smile as he ran his thumb across her nose, one of the things he had missed most of all. Nothing, nothing could ever stand up to what she made him feel, her every smile, blush, laughter, touch, hug and kiss taking him another step up the stairway to heaven. She hugged him as his lips softly connected with her nose, even though she had to be freezing.

"I could tell him" Brandon said, smiling, lost in her eyes. "But I think it would only confuse him. He's strange like that" She lead the way back to the academy and he followed, their arms hooked and their hearts entwined. It was something special, walking with her in the moonlight after finally telling her what he had felt for so long. And she had also opened up, telling him of her feelings for him both of them having held back their emotions out of groundless fear, but he was far too happy to worry about that.

They reached her room, only to find a note that said that all her things had already been moved. He couldn't read brail, which could surprise no one, but he made a note to install a program with that particular form of text. "Well, that'll save us some time, wunnit?" He asked as he hugged her, kissing the top of her head with gentle care. She lead him back to the entry to the lower levels, and asked him to lead the way. Putting his hand around her waist and kissing her temple covered by her beautiful blonde hair, he lead her through the lower levels, the 'tap tap' of her extended cane echoing through the empty subterranean levels.

Brandon had specifically asked for a room located away from other students, under the pretense that his experiments could be hazardous, but in truth he didn't like company, or at least he hadn't at the time. At this thought he leaned in to kiss her cheek, slowing their pace a little. Mek said that the hot chocolate should be finished just before they got there, but that was far from on Brandon's mind as his lips softly connected with the skin of her cheek. He was slowly beginning to take in the fact that she was actually coming to live with him, a thing that made his heart beat with loving joy.

They reached his room again and he pushed the massive door open, haven forgotten to lock it when they left as his heart had been beating with unfulfilled dreams, but now when their love had finally been confessed the burden was gone. He held the door open for Kelsie, speaking the all too well known phrase "Ladies first"

It didn't last long though as he quickly moved to her side after she had entered, wanting to be close to her, in body and in spirit. Leading the way back to the couch, they sat down as they had before, only far less fear and nervousness between them. Reaching his one hand to her cheek and letting the other guide her hand to the steaming cup of hot chocolate on the table, he smiled, feeling as though he were dreaming only far better, knowing that it was real.

"You never got round to telling me how you ended up here" He whispered, the gentle feeling of her soft skin against his hand widening his smile. "You said it had something to do with Harley?" He was more than just curious to know how the woman he loved had seemingly apeared out of the blue air in an academy of magic, a place where he had found far more than promised in her. He had been told of friends, pals and shared interests... but love they had found themselves, after having lived apart for so long, ripped apart in the wake of his parents' decesion. It won't happen again, it won't. He promised her in his mind

((OOC: Ohh, you are so ebil to me, you cut my icy soul and break my non-existant heart . Happy TG by the way ;D))