Unnatural Selection (OPEN)

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((If you are not familiar with Edolie's story, you might want to look at my character profile and in depth profile so that you know what is going on. The character profile should explain well enough...))

Edolie's second day back at Hogwarts was drawing to a close. The sky was splashed with bright pinks, oranges and reds in the west as the sun began to set. The far too familiar feeling of strength gaining as night took the place of day began to weigh on her. A dry and warm breeze still gently blew across the Black Lake causing small ripples over the surface of the water. A distortion in the effect a few yards from Edolie caused her to think that she had spotted a tentacle of the squid that had lived there so long ago. She wondered if giant squid lived that long and wondered why she did not know. "I'll have to find out..." she muttered to herself and she drew nearer to the edge of the water.

When the toes of her shoes were at the edge of the lake, Edolie looked down into her some what distorted reflection in the water and wished that vampires really didn't have a reflection. Even though she did still have a reflection, Edolie rarely looked at herself. Somehow, even after all this time, she still saw herself as the innocent seven-teen year old she was before she was changed, except when she looked at her reflection. Oddly enough, Aurora was right when she said that becoming a vampire had made her more beautiful. This fact made her reflection even more disturbing to her than it had been before. Beauty was something Edolie didn't much value when she was mortal and valued even less so now that she was immortal. It seemed such a pointless attribute to value, but then again the way someone looks to another person does have a lot to do with attraction. She thought of the way Jake had looked before and after his collision with Malachai Constant and changed her mind. Edolie loved him just as much after he was disfigured by the vampire. He was a caring and beautiful soul. The only thing about him that had bothered her was his jealousy, but that was a flaw that most had and it was quite flattering.

An old wound seemed to open up again in her clavicle at the thought of Jake. He had been her first love. Her only love for she had loved no other though there had been over five hundred years since his death. Edolie quickly looked away from her own reflection and back at the sky. The colours had darkened dramatically without her noticing until then. Even as the living dead, Edolie did not know what came next, but she knew that something must if ghosts could exist.

Slowly, she reached into her pocket and her cold finger-tips met the cold, broken stone that she had found in the Forbidden Forest. A figure appeared in the corner of her right eye. She turned to the man who had appeared next to her and stared longingly. He smiled sadly back at her as if she did not understand something very important that he did. "I know...it isn't right," she whispered and then, after looking at him for a moment longer, Edolie removed her hand from the pocket of her robe. As she did so, Jake Alexander vanished, but she sensed another near by. Edolie took a deep breath and turned back toward the lake, trying to shake off the deep feeling of sadness that had overcome her so as to not attract any more attention than she already would standing at the lake alone.

((Hah, that's alright.))

Edolie chuckled softly. "Don't expect it to happen often," she said as she shook her head, "I don't feel that way toward many things." She looked sideways at Keir and slipped her hand into his. The warmth of his skin felt extremely good on Edolie's. She had to push back her natural, or shall we say "super-natural", need to absorb his energy. Doing so while actually touching someone for extended periods of time was not something Edolie was used to. She found it much more difficult than fleeting touches such as hand shakes. "How are you feeling?"

For a moment Keir wasn't sure what Edolie meant with her question, he'd been so distracted by the look in her eyes and the way her mouth shaped the words that all the bad stuff had slipped from his mind. All that proved was that things weren't as bad as he'd thought. Or perhaps his thoughts were betraying him. Perhaps it wasn't that things hadn't been so bad but that Edolie was just so good for him.

He looked down at their hands and smiled warmly at her. He lifted their hands and pressed the back of her hand to his cheek. "I'm feeling ... spectacular." He was still smiling slightly, the coolness of her skin against his cheek was as soothing as the sound of her voice. "As long as there's more of this then the loss of the grin wouldn't be so bad."