AHeartlessNobody

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The bonfire really was a great way for everyone to just relax and have a good time. No one seemed to be causing problems and everyone was clearly enjoying themselves. Casie had been enjoyng the warmth of the fire silently beside Serix until Ryan had walked up to her, asking her what she thought about it, while at the same time saying how great it was. This made her laugh slightly and nod, "Yeah, it is pretty great. It's nice to see everyone so relaxed and just having fun."

Ryan nodded, "To be honest, thats why we do this. It's less about getting rid of the trash and more of just giving everyone a chance to have a nomral night."

Cassie nodded, "It is pretty nice. It's almost like the bonfires people used to have before the invasion." She just barely notied then that Serix was talking quietly to someone and then, he whispered in her ear that he would be back soon. She glanced over at him, as if to say soemthing against him leaving to go off with someone by himself, but then relaxed a little when she saw it was Charlie. Surely hiim going off with the boy wouldn't do any harm, right? So, she nodded, and said a quiet 'okay' before turning back to Ryan.

Not much was said in between Serix's absence. Ryan attempted to flirt with her for the majority of the time, and she ignored all of his advanced, continuing to speak normally to him. It was a little while after he had left that someone had brought out unbent coat hangers and marshmellows. She laughed at this and agreed that roasting marshmellows would be a great idea, and was just putting one on the end of the coat hanger when Serix came back.

She smiled slightly at him and looked over to where he nodded his head, "Oh? He needed help finding Sally? Well, it was nice of you to try and help anyway." She handed him a coat hanger and a marshmellow, "Now that your back though, your going to learn how to roast a marshmellow."

She waited until he took it and showed him her own marshmellow on the end of the coat hanger, "Just put it on the end of the hanger, then stick it in the fire." She demonstrated while telling him this, "And then, when it gets to be a golden brown, take it out and eat it." She took it out of the ire and blew out the fire, "Oh, and dont burn youself on it, let it cool a second." Once hers was cool, she took it off the hanger an held it out for him to take a bit out of.

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Cassie smiled when Serix spoke, saying she looked beautiful, and she couldn't help the slight blush to creep up to her cheeks. Even though he had said that to her hundreds of times before, it always left her heart fluttering to hear him say it to her. He leaned forward to kiss her for just a moment and when he pulled back, she found herself giggling not only at what he had said, but at the left over red left on him from the kiss. Still giggling, she reached a hand out and spoke, wiping the red from his mouth with her finger, "Oh Serix, you're supposed to wait until the red settles a little before kissing with it on." She giggled some more and when she was done wiping it away, nuzzled her forehead against his playfully, "Well, I guess if you like it that much, I might have to start wearing it more often."

"Hey, you two love birds, the bon fire's about to start. Better come down and meet up with us in the recreation area before we leave you behind." Sarah's voice came from the other side fo the curtain, but thankfully the woman seemed to be the only one in these caves with enough sense to not come barging into their room uninvited.

Cassie smiled slightly and moved to look back at Serix, smiling, "Well, let's get down there. Wouldn't want you missing your first bonfire." With that she stood up, pausing a moment to reapply some of the lipstick from where Serix had taken some of it off, and then hooked arms with him, walking down toward the recreation area. Apparently though, the recreation wasn't set up for a bonfire and this confused her. Looking to Jerry, she spoke, "Hey, where's the stuff we're going to burn? We are still having the fire, right?"

Jerry laughed and nodded, "Yeah, we are. But you didn't think we were having it here, did you? If we burned anything in the caves the smoke would choke us and get on everything. We're going above ground to burn the fire."

"Above ground?" Cassie asked, wide eyed, "But, isn't that dangerous? What if someone sees the smoke or the light coming from it?"

He grinned, "We're in the middle of a dessert, Cassie. No one ever comes this way. Not even when the humans were still around did they try to track through this area."

Cassie frowned slightly, though she just nodded, "Okay....if you all are sure."

By this time, Jake entered the recreation area, smiling at them, "Alright, I think me, Ryan, and Monty got everything. The fire is ready to be lit. Lets get going."

And with that everyone started making their way through the caves and outside into the cool night air. It was really beautiful outside in the area they were in. The stars shined brightly over head and it was a wondrous sight. Smiling, Cassie hugged onto Serix's arm and the two make their way over to a large pile of mainly boxes with a few other little things mixed it. Ryan was the one to walk over to it, a huge grin on his face, "Alright guys. Let's get this party started." There were some whoops of excitement, mainly from the men of the group, as Ryan tossed a match onto the pile and it caught in flames, making a huge fire.

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“Oh, I must have forgotten to tell you,” Serix wrapped his arms around her teasingly and had a grin on his face that made her heart flutter every time, “I actually listened to what you said for once. We agreed to stop fighting—although he still thinks he has a shot at stealing you away from me.” He sighed in a dramatic fashion and she laughed lightly, “I think his delusion is incurable. Now come on; let’s go finish up our work. I want to see what this ‘bonfire’ is.” He put an arm around her shoulder and she smiled, leaning into his side as they walked.

"Wow, you two actually came to an agreement? That is amazing. It truly is a miracle." She said in mock shock, her blue eyes wide. Then, getting rid of her fake expression, she giggled and kissed his cheek teasingly as they walked, "Okay, okay. I'm sure there can't be much to do at the farm anyway. All we're doing is picking the plants." They finally made it to the farm, and sure enough Jerry put them to work picking some strawberries.

And as they picked, Sarah made her way over and grinned, helping to pick them, "You know, when they have these for dinner, I always save one of two. They make great lipsticks."

Cassie laughed lightly, "Oh really? I'll keep that in mind."

"You know what? Here, I think I have one of my containers with me." Sarah dug through her pockets and though Cassie went to politely refuse, Sarah pressed the small clear container of lip coloring[/img] into her hand, "Never been used. I have more in my room anyway. Besides, I'm sure you're man would love to see you wear it." Cassie wasn't sure if Sarah was trying to be nice or condescending, but either way, the woman walked off, leaving her there with it and Cassie sighed, shaking her head as she put it in her pocket, "Who wears makeup in a cave?" She asked herself quietly, wondering just how sane Sarah was.

They worked for about another hour and once they were done, everyone parted ways to go relax for a little bit before the fire, much like they had the day before. Cassie went with Serix to their room and sighing, she plopped down on the bed, she pulled out the container Sarah had handed her and shrugged, "Well, I guess what harm could it do, right?" Opening the container, she dabbed a little of the strawberry colored and flavored lipstick onto her finger and rubbed it onto her lips. Rubbing it in and then closing the lid she looked to Serix, "What do you think? Too bright of a color?"

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The day went pretty 'normal' from the time she and Serix woke up and went to the dining hall. This was kind of strange to her, considering everything up until then had been pretty tense. Normally there were people glaring after Serix or trying to snap at him. But, they all either seemed to ignore him all together, or included him in with their talks and jokes. Calling him 'alien' didn't really go away, but a lot of them used it in an almost joking manner, rather than condescendingly. It was nice to feel so relaxed, but at the same time, it was somewhat scary. Like she was waiting for someone to do something bad out of nowhere just to throw them for a loop.

Still, nothing went wrong. They left the dining hall and went straight to the farm, where they once again worked. She noticed once again that Hunter ignored their presence, which continued to worry her, but she tried to put that aside, at least for now. She couldn't let the worry of what he might do worry her peaceful day. Few things were planted today thanks to all the planting they all had done the day prior. Most of the day was harvesting and watering the seeds and plants. Because of this, they finished a little earlier than they had the day before.

After work they went to lunch and talked normal things with the other humans, such as some of the recreational things they did there in the caves. She even during lunch got to hold little Jamie again, something that made her beam even more because of the secret she and Serix held. Of course, she was so sure it would take a while of trying before she actually got pregnant, but it was still the fact of soon they would have a child of their own that made holding and playing with a baby all the more enjoyable.

As they were leaving the dining hall after they had finished eating, Ryan, who had come in a little later and was going to eat as they were leaving, smiled at her, giving her a side hug, "Hey Cass. What's up?"

Cassie shrugged, "Nothing really. The usual I guess? Wake up, work in the farms. Eat."

Ryan chuckled, "Yeah, things are pretty routine here when it comes to work." He grinned, "But, tonight we have something fun in mind."

"Oh really?" Cassie laughed, crossing her arms, "And what is that?"

Ryan put his hands in his pockets, "A bon fire. We always burn one every once in a while to get rid of trash. We're burning one tonight. I think you'll enjoy it."

She thought and shrugged, "Okay. I think that sounds fun. We'll be there."

Ryan smiled, "Good. I'll see you two there." He said and Cassie couldn't help but notice that Ryan even gave a nod in Serix's direction, before going off to get food.

Cassie, walking back to their room, held Serix's hand and gave him a confused look, yet with a smile on her face, "What was that about? What did I miss that would make Ryan actually acknowledged you without trying to go at you?"

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When she heard that he was going to at least try harder to stop instigating the fights, she smiled softly and nodded, "Thank you." It was nice to know that he was being serious about it this time. Maybe they could finally start blending into to this human society and Serix could slowly work on getting accepted by the others now. She sighed softly against his lips as he kissed her again, just savoring their time alone together, and when he gave her that mischievous grin, she laughed slightly, kissing him once more, "You really know just how to make it so I kept be mad at you anymore." She nodded, "Well, okay. I guess we could start working on that now." She teased, kissing him once more.

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The next morning Cassie didn't want to get up. She just wanted to stay snuggled up to Serix and have more of their peace and quiet. Yet, she also knew it wouldn't last forever and that they would have to get up soon or risk someone else barging into their room. Well it wouldn't be so bad if someone did (they had thought to get dressed last night before falling asleep just in case something like that happened), but she preferred for the to wake themselves up, to set a good mood for the day.

Sitting up slightly, she moved, and, a playful smirk on her face, she sat up slightly, and in one bound, jumped playfully on him, probably enough to give him a scare, and went to sit on his chest, leaning down to kiss him and laugh, "Time to wake up sleepy head. If you don't get up soon someone's going to come in here and then instead of being woken up by me, you'll be woke up by them." She smiled, "And you don't want that, now do you?"

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Cassie had thought she could really last with this. All she had to do was give them the silent treatment. Right? How hard could that be? Pretty darn hard apparently because she had laid down in bed, the covers pulled over herself and her back to the door, when she heard Serix come in. Immediately she wanted to turn and talk to him, but she chided herself. She couldn't give in that easily. Or at least, she hoped she wouldn't give in, until she felt her arms wrap around her and she was like putty in his hands as he talked to her in her ear, “Come on, Cassie. We both know you can’t stay mad at me forever.”

He was right, she couldn't. But she could act like it, couldn't she? She gave a 'humph' sound, turning her head further away from him, only to have him kiss her neck, leaving her cheeks turning a bright red, “You were the one who wanted to have a kid here. That can’t happen if you’re going to ignore me like this.” He kissed her once more, burying his face against her, speaking in a way that made her just want to snuggle up to him and stay there with him forever, “Please?” Giving a soft sigh, she turned, rolling over to look at her, still staying close to him, her forehead resting against his now.

And with that touch, she let some fo her emotions flow through to him using a link. She didn't do this often, but when she did she always had a good reason for it. These emotions showed her worry for him. Annoyance at both he and Ryan for acting the way they had been acting. Her fear of what the rest fo the colony might do to him if he continued to mess up in the ways he was. And her love for him all the same, even if she was irritated. Sighing again, she closed the link and moved to kiss him fro a moment, a kiss much like the one they had shared after saying their vows in their old hideaway, before pulling back and looking at him.

"Serix....please....I asked you this before, but please listen this time, don't get into any more fights. I don't want you getting thrown into the hold. I want you here with me, safe and sound." Returning his kiss on the neck with one placed to his own, she sighed against his skin, "I love you. And I don't want to loose you."

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Cassie thought the game was going rather well. She was having a lot of fun running abut and every once and a while stealing the ball from the other team. And, what she loved as well was that from the looks of it Serix was getting rather good at the game. After a few rounds of going about, Serix was stealing the ball every time someone came over with it. But, what she failed to notice was the greatly annoyed look coming over Ryan. That is, until she saw him shove Serix to the side. She tensed and glared off after her friend. She huffed and crossed her arms, standing over on their side, ready to scold him when he came back over, only Serix intercepted him first.

Right off the bat she knew this wasn't going to end well, and so when she heard Ryan spitting vicious words at Serix she made her way over to them, but didn't make it over in time because soon they had each other by the shirts, ready to go at it. She was very thankful for Quincy and Jake were there to stop the two of them, but what worried her was that Serix was already in enough trouble as it was. She didn't need him getting thrown into the hold because of people disliking him. These two were just going to have to learn how to get along whether they liked it or not.

After a stern comment to both from Jake, the older man left the three of them in the recreation area by themselves, a very annoyed and angry looking Cassie standing between the two of them. The first one she turned to was Ryan, arms crossed at first as she stared him down, though, as she went to talk pointed her finger at him for emphasis, "What the hell do you think you were doing?! He was just playing the game and then you have to go and, again, act like a butt hurt child!"

Then, suddenly she whirled on Serix, her posture the same as she spoke to him, "And you! I told you about getting into fights! Do you want to be locked up in the hold?! Because that's what is going to happen soon if this keeps up!" With a frustrated look she turned, pacing back and forth a moment, obviously steaming about this current situation, raking a hand through her long hair to push it from her face, "You know what? This is what I'm going to do." She stopped, standing between them and looking between the two of them, "I'm not talking to either of you. Not until I see you two getting along. Not a single word. No ifs, ands, or buts. If you two can act civilized by the end of tomorrow, then I might consider it. If not, heh, well then I guess its going to be pretty quiet between us, now isn't it?"

She knew it was a bold move to do such a thing. And it would be exceptionally hard to do with Serix, but she felt like at least it was worth a shot. If she could get them to at least stop fighting each other by doing this, then it would be worth it. Crossing her arms, she nodded "Now, if you excuse me, I'm heading to bed. This is the last you'll hear from me until I see a change. Goodnight Gentlemen." Then with that, she walked off, heading back toward the bedroom.

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When they made it to the large recreation area, Cassie knew immediately when she saw that Ryan was one of the captains who he was going to choose frist. And it was also no guess that Serix would end up on the opposite team. Sure enough, when Jake started it off by choosing Quincy, Ryan went straight for calling out her name. She smiled and shrugged, returning Serix's kiss on the cheek before walking over to where Ryan stood, "It's Cassie, by the way. Remember? I don't go by my full name anymore."

"And you remember that I like calling you Casitel?" He grinned at her, "And since I'm the only one who does that makes it my nickname for you, now doesn't it?"

Cassie rolled her eyes and watched as Jake, much to her surprise and everyone else's, picked Serix. She smiled brightly at Serix, nodding her head toward Jake to encourage him not to be so hesitant to go over to his team. If someone was being willing to let him join in and pick him so soon in the 'claiming' then he should be happy and take it as a chance to prove himself some more. Soon, everyone was called out and the teams were picked, everyone going over to their own sides of the fields to line up. And as they walked, Cassie jumped slightly in surprise when none other than Sally came over, glomping onto her arm, "Cassie! We're gunna kick their butts!" She giggled and to Cassie it was really funny to hear the young girl talk so competitively. She probably learned that from her brother.

Cassie smiled, "Well, how about we just try our best?"

Sally laughed and nodded, "Okay! I call the goalie!" Then the girl ran off, leaving Cassie laughing more as she looked over to Jake.

"So, Cassie. What position do you think you'd be better off with?"

Cassie thought about it a moment, looking over at the other team, biting her lip in thought, "Well, how about....either offense or midfield?"

Jake nodded, "How about we start you in midfield like your...boyfriend?"

"Husband actually." Cassie said with a smile, to which Jake shrugged.

"Alright then, go to midfield and back us up, new girl." Jake said, waving his hand and Cassie nodded, going to the center of the field, grinning at Serix as she stretched and got ready for the game to begin, "Well, Serix, guess it's your turn to learn about human exercise. Not exactly like the fighting you've been teaching me, but hey, it's still really fun."

"Alright! Let's get this game started!" And with that, Ryan kicked the ball, letting the game begin.

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"If you want to have a baby here, then let’s have a baby.”

Those words really did make Cassie's day. She beamed down at him when he spoke them and hen she did she leaned down to kiss him again, her excitement for his agreement in her kiss as she laughed with joy, "Serix I can't wait. I'm so excited. Thank you." Kissing him once more nuzzled her forehead against his as he layed there, "I love you so much." Then with that, Serix was rolling over to stand, saying they should go eat dinner before trying anything and nodded, "Yeah. I'm pretty hungry after all that work we did in the gardens. Let's go."

Once there, she held Serix's hand tightly and nodded when he mentioned they should keep their decision to themselves and she fully agreed with that. If the word got around that they were trying to have a child together, then Ryan and quite a few of the others would surely be on their tails trying to stop this from happening. She couldn't let that happen. She wanted this child more than anything and now that Serix had agreed to have it with her, she wasn't going to let anything stand in her way of she and Serix starting their family. And if keeping it a secret until they were sure she was with child was what they would have to do, then so be it.

Sitting down at the table, she took a bite of the apple she had grabbed and listened to Serix answer Jerry's question about and then looked to Emily when she asked her how she was doing with all the work and all. Cassie merely smiled and shrugged, "It's not bad. I think Serix was doing all the hard work with the shoveling. All I did was plant the seeds and pick the plants that were ready to be harvested." She stated, smiling up at Serix. He had been a really hard worker today and she was proud of him. He was really trying hard to make a good impression and she sure did hope some of them would see that and lighten up on him.

"Man, I'm starving." A new voice came from behind them and a young man who she had yet to see flopped down into the seat beside Jerry, a rather large german shepherd sitting obediently beside him, though, after a moment, the dog caught a whiff of Serix and began growing, turning his attention to her husband, baring his teeth and snarling as he stood to attention. The young man, as if just now noticing Serix for the first time, held a hand up to the dog, "Heal Dash." The dog immediately stopped, but his eyes stayed trained on the Lunairan as the young man looked to Serix, with not exactly disdain, but more of a suspicion and untrusting look, "You must be the two Ryan mentioned."

"If you didn't stay o locked up in that room of yours all the time you would have met them by now." Sarah mentioned, nonchalantly popping a blueberry into her mouth.

He rolled his eyes, looking at her, "Someone has to fix our guns around here." He moved his gaze back to the two, "I'm Samual. But everyone calls me Gunner."

"Ummm, nice to meet you?" Cassie said, her eyes averting every once and a while to the dog. It was calm now, but still staring at Serix, as if waiting for the command to attack. This was obviously some sort of fighting or guard dog and she didn't trust it.

As they sat there in silence another moment, the young man she remembered as Quincy walked over, a grin on his face, his hands being placed on both Gunner's and Jerry's shoulders, while speaking to everyone, "Hey guys, don't forget, later tonight we're having recreation. I was thinking soccer."

"Didn't we play soccer last time?" Conner questioned, raising an eyebrow.

"Well yeah, but we haven't seen the noobs play either." He said, nodding his head to Cassie and Serix with a grin.

Jerry chuckled, "That's true." He looked over to them, "You two up for a game of soccer?"

Cassie smiled slightly, "I haven't played that since I was a kid in school. But sure. Why not?"

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Cassie moved to position herself so that she was sitting in front of him as he spoke to her, giving her his thoughts, and she frowned slightly, averting her gaze for a moment before she looked back to him to speak, "Well...I don't know. I was just thinking how nice it would be for us to have a family of our own, just like Emily and Conner do. Besides....I mean...I don't think they'd treat a baby that way. And I'm pretty sure Ryan wouldn't let them do that even if they tried. And on top of that, if we had a child, then maybe Ryan would stop trying to flirt with me. I know how much that bothers you, so that would be a plus, right?"

Maybe she was being stupid thinking all of this, but all she knew was that it was something she wanted. She sighed and looked down against for a moment, before looking back up to him, "You say that the caves aren't a good place to raise a kid yet there are kids being raised here. And from the looks of it, they are happier than any of us are. And we're going to be in these caves for quite a while, so if not now, then when? If we never leave these caves, then does that mean we'll never have a child?" She said, a sad look on her face as she met his violet eyes again, but then frowning more, she sighed and turned so her back was to him, trying to hide the disappointment in her expression.

"I don't know....maybe I'm just being rash..." Still, even though she said this, it was obvious she was still upset by his rejection of the thought of having a child. Running a hand through her blonde hair, she frowned more, pulling her knees up to her chest, "Maybe I'm being emotional too? I'm sorry Serix. I shouldn't have brought it up."

She sat there another moment before forcing herself to turn back to him, and though the disappointment was still on her face, she moved behind him again to rub his shoulders some more, hoping to at least make him relax a little before dinner, yet in the back of her mind the thought of possibly never having a child if this was how Serix felt was still making her emotional and she felt tears stinging the corners of her eyes, and it was because fo this she was glad his back was to her so he wouldn't see that, though, every once and a while she was sniffle and let out a shaky breath from trying to calm herself and keep him from knowing how much his discission had upset her.