[IC] The Great Divide (Between XxLyraxX and Card Captor)

[XxLyraxX]

Lydia stood nervously outside of the English class, biting her lip as she grasped the hem of her shirt in trembling hands. Six years. Six years since she had last seen this town and now she was back. She was very nervous and took a deep breath as she hesitantly knocked on the door before entering. Mr. Bates, the English teacher, looked over and held out a hand in which Lydia timidly placed her pass. The man adjusted his glasses as he looked at the pass then at her. "How nice of you to join us Miss Lydia Finch. Welcome to Alvan High School." He said, glancing at the room. "You can take a seat next to Adrian. Adrian, please raise your hand."

[Card Captor]

Today was one of the rare days when Adrian was feeling depressed, and by depressed, I mean slightly less happy, although you would only be able to tell if you knew him well enough. Early this morning, Adrian had come across a black cat. Now while most people would find this a problem because of the whole bad luck thing, it bothered Adrian for a different reason; it reminded him of his greatest regret. It had been six years since the only real friend he ever had left his life, how he let her go after his father managed to convince him that it was to protect her, but that never stopped him from hurting. His mind was brought out of it's musings when he heard his name called. His brain was able to pick out the command to raise his hand. As he did so, he noticed the girl in front of the class, the new student he had been hearing about, and that's when his eyes widened 'it...it can't be. But she looks so much like her' however his doubt was blown away when he heard the whispering of a student behind him

"Lydia? What kind of name is that?"

'it...it really is her' that thought brought tears of joy to Adrian's eyes. 'I'm not going to make the same mistake again. I won't push you away to protect you, this time I'll just kill anyone who tries to hurt you' he mental declared in a surprisingly cheery tone considering he was talking about killing people

[XxLyraxX]

Lydia jolted at the name and she raised surprised blue eyes to follow where the teacher had indicated. She heard the man quietly tell her to take a seat but she faintly heard him, her eyes fixed on those haunting familiar crimson eyes that were staring at her. She was frozen in place, brain unable to process what was happening. Lydia get a grip; you knew there was a possibility that he was still going to be here. Calm down and stop embarrassing yourself! The tiny girl finally seemed to snap out of her daze and blushed bright red as some of the students snickered. She hurried over to the seat, almost tripping in her haste. When she finally plopped down in the seat her cheeks were a bright red and she was wishing the ground would just open up and swallow her. She kept her head down, avoiding looking over at Adrian.

[Card Captor]

Adrian didn't miss how Lydia seemed to refuse to look at him, but he couldn't blame her, not after what he did 'well not this time! I won't let you down again Lydia! It's a good thing I made some smoked salmon today, that's sure to make her happy. All I have to do get her alone during lunch and bring her to the rooftop, and then everything will be just fine. We'll be friends again, she'll be happy, and I can start to brutally murder anyone who so much as looks at her the wrong way...no, wait, that's not right; I should only kill people who physical hurt her, I can just scare anyone who's mean to her. Killing everyone who says something cruel to her would draw too much attention, and it might even upset her. Now let's see...if I remember right; she doesn't like to be grabbed suddenly. So I'll need to give her a heads up' tucking his right arm inside his coat, he turned the limb into mist. While the sunlight was weakening his powers, he had grown quite proficient at using them with such a handicap. In fact, he might have even been the better at working with this handicap then the rest of his race, mostly because they pretty much all tried to stay out of the sunlight. With his right arm now mist, he moved the gaseous limb right in front of Lydia's face. While it was too thin to be seen from a distance thanks to the sunlight, he was sure she would both notice it and recognize it. After he was sure she had ample warning, he moved his mist arm to her bare back underneath her clothes. then he made a single finger solid (something that he was only just barely able to do, thanks to the sunlight) and wrote on her back "I sorry. Fish lunch?" His message delivered, he returned his arm to normal

[XxLyraxX]

Lydia's eyes were fixed firmly on the teacher in the front of the room so she didn't see Adrian shifting beside her and she was completely caught off guard when something almost transparent appeared in front of her face. Lydia let out a startled yelp, causing the teacher to pause in what he was saying. "Something the matter Miss Finch?" Lydia blushed as the students turned to look at her. "N-No..I uh..j-just accidently banged m-my elbow against m-my desk." She stammered. Mr. Bates raised an eyebrow but returned to his lesson. Lydia's eyes flashed over to Adrian but before she could say anything she jumped almost a foot in the air when she felt a....finger? Yes, there was a finger tracing out letters on her back. A shiver flashed down her spine as Adrian's finger traced over her sensitive back. Her scattered brain, after a few moments finally managed to decode what he had said and she bit her lip, yearning to accept his offer but....she flinched as the severe beating she received from her parents flashed in her head and she quickly shook her head at his question, body tense as she felt her heart break at the pain she knew she was probably causing him.

[Card Captor]

Adrian's smile shrunk when he saw Lydia's nonverbal decline 'clearly a simple apology isn't enough. In that case, I'll have to show her how sorry I am...but how to do that? Oh! I know; after class ends and we break for lunch, I'll kidnap her and take her to the roof. There I'll personally feed her the fish I cooked this morning. Alucard said girls love that kind of thing...though I wonder why he was laughing so much? Bah, it doesn't matter. This plan is fool proof, absolutely nothing can go wrong...well as long as giant meteor worms don't come and attack the school, but I suppose that's sort of implied; they can ruin pretty much any plan' and with that, his smile returned to it's normal radiance

[XxLyraxX]

Lydia spent the rest of the class with her eyes firmly focused on the teacher. However, though her eyes may have looked like she was paying attention, she was anything but. Her mind was in turmoil and she was glad when the bell rang, signaling that class had ended and students were to go to lunch. Lydia quickly gathered her things and scurried from the room. She paused in the hallway, looking around helplessly. Seeing as she didn't know where the lunch room was, or her other classes for that matter, she honestly didn't know how she was going to cope with the rest of the day.

[Card Captor]

Class was now over and it was lunch time, it was time for Adrian to make his move. Grabbing his stuff, he rushed out to the hallway to find Lydia. Once he located his target he gave her a quick "hi" before grabbing her arm and pulling her along up to the roof

"W-what!?" a nearby girl said in shock "Isn't anyone going to stop him!?"

"Geez" another student said "calm down, it was only Adrian"

"Oh, that was Adrian? Never mind then"

Back on the roof, Adrian sat himself and Lydia down "I know you didn't accept my apology, and I guess I can understand why; I was a coward, I broke off our relationship because I was too afraid of someone hurting you to get to me. Well no more! This time, I'm going to protect you, no matter who I have to scar, hurt, or kill, because you just mean that much to me" Pulling her head into his lap, he took out his lunch box and a fork. Spearing a piece of freshly cooked fish, he held it up to her mouth "say ahhh"

[XxLyraxX]

Lydia let out a squeak of surprise when she heard Adrian's voice before he quickly grabbed her arm and began towing her to the roof. Shocked at the sudden action, Lydia was too slow to do anything and by the time she had regained her senses, she was already being forced to sit down, the vampire taking a seat next to her. She gazed at him with wide eyes, still slightly dazed from how fast things moved. A pang filled her heart when she heard that he though that he was the reason they drifted apart. The neko girl felt tears come to her eyes and she sniffled, burying her face against his leg and gripping his pants leg in a tiny fist.

[Card Captor]

Okay, it looked like it was working; she hadn't tried to escape yet. Clearly his brother was right; girls did like to be kidnapped (although the why of it eluded him). Putting the lunchbox and the fork with the piece of fish down, he readjusted her so that she was sitting in his lap instead of just resting her head in it. Wrapping his arms around her to pull her into an extra cuddly hug, he nuzzled her sweet smelling neck. He was't quite sure why she was crying, but he was going to make sure that she started feeling better

[XxLyraxX]

Lydia felt Adrian lift her and settle her in his lap. She curled up against him and buried her face against his chest. Her tears eventually trickled to a stop and she found herself yawning. She was always tied after she cried. She unthinkingly nuzzled her face against him, her eyes fluttering closed and very soon she was dozing, snuggled contently in Adrian's lap.

[Card Captor]

"Yay!" Adrian cheered "we're friends again! I was pretty worried that it would take a lot more for you to forgive me, I'm glad to see I was wrong. Now we can cuddle again!" he said, giving her a quick squeeze. Next, he took one of his arms off of her so that he could use it to stroke her head, petting her "there, there. You go ahead and take a nap. I'll make sure to wake you up in time to eat lunch before the next class starts. I've heard that lunch period last longer then most schools here, so you should have plenty of time. Then after you're all rested up, you can eat the salmon I cooked this morning"

[XxLyraxX]

Lydia was dreaming peacefully for once, feeling safe and secure in Adrian's arms. She slept for a good hour before her eyes fluttered open. She yawned cutely, rubbing at her eyes softly as she looked sleepily at Adrian. After a few moments she became more awake and blushed as she realized that she was still seated in his lap.

[Card Captor]

"Have a nice nap?" Adrian asked as he gave her a quick squeeze and head petting "next class starts in about ten minutes, so we need to get this fish in you belly before then" he said. Taking his arms off of her, he grabbed the lunchbox and the fork (with the piece of fish still on it) and held the treat up to her mouth "okay then, let's try this again; say ahhhhh"

[XxLyraxX]

Lydia couldn't help but nudge her head up into his hand when he started petting it but then she realized what she was doing and stopped. blush spreading across her cheeks. She felt Adrian grab something and she blinked when she saw a piece of fish speared in a fork appeared in front of her. She stared at the fish, mouthing beginning to water at the sight of her favorite food. She hadn't had fish in a long time. She hesitantly opened her mouth and accepted the morsel, eyes closing in bliss as she happily chewed the treat.

[Card Captor]

The smile on Adrian's face grew even brighter at the sight of the utter bliss on Lydia's face. He also hadn't missed how she pushed her head into the hand petting her "you're so cute when you do those little cat things. Hell, there have even been times where I wanted to get some catnip for you just to watch you play with it" he said as he started petting her again while getting another piece of fish for her to eat "so...am I forgiven now?"

[XxLyraxX]

A soft purr began rumbling in her chest when he petted her again and she happily accepted the next bite of fish, her tail uncurling from around her waist to wave happily behind her and her ears appeared, twitching at his touch. At his words she froze and looked at him. "Y-You've done n-nothing that I-I need to forgive y-you for." She whispered, speaking to him again for the first time in six years.

[Card Captor]

Adrian's smile grew even bigger and brighter "you mean you weren't mad at me!? That makes me so happy" he said as the hand petting her moved to one of her cute little ears to scratch it, while he got another bite of fish for her. As he did that, he pushed his face into her neck, both to smell it's intoxicating sweet scent again, and to better hear her adorable purring 'mmmmm...she still smells just as sweet as I remember. I wonder...if she smells this sweet, how sweet would her blood-gah! No, bad brain, stop thinking about things like that. I'm not going to just drink her blood without permission, and I can't just ask her since she'll most likely just say yes even if she doesn't want me too' he mental chastised himself as he fought back that minor vampire urge "your purr sounds so cute and relaxing Lydia"

[XxLyraxX]

"I could never be mad at you Addie." She said softly, using the nickname she had given him when they were kids. Her purr grew louder when he began scratching her ears and she leaned into his hand as she took another bite of the fish. She felt his bury his face against her neck and she blushed, cuddling closer to him. Her blush grew deeper at his comment about her purring.

[Card Captor]

"That makes me so happy to hear. I missed you so much when you were gone. You know, the first time I ever frowned was on that day 6 years ago. I didn't even notice it until my dad brought it up. Heh, that scared the whole family; they were worried I had gotten broken somehow...thinking back, they weren't too far off. I couldn't find another friend like you...I missed you so much Lydia, I should have never let you go. No one else is a cuddly as you" Adrian said. After that, he continued to feed her fish while he took a big wiff of her neck "...so sweet..." he mumbled