Autumn's Beginning, Autumn's Breeze [2]

Christian

I held onto Cara tighter, "it was that or die apparently," I responded. "Ramere only does that if he absoloutely has to."

"OH." She shivered. I ran my hands up and down her arms. That seemed to relax her a tad.

Cara--

Cara calmed down when she felt Christian rubbing her arms. She closed her eyes and sighed, "Is he ok?" SHe asked softly.

Caspan-

I caught Kayla gently as she stumbled. I was beginning to get used to teleporting, so I was a bit more used to it by now. I had been Ramere's 'test subject'.

Ramere.

Three thoughts popped into my mind at once. They weren't really connected in any way.

I was still blazing mad at him.

He wasn't a very good teleporter. I knew that from experience, so there was no telling where we were now...

Every time a mage teleported with x number of people, the amount of power needed increases dramatically with each person. Even when it was just the two of us, maybe Natan too, it had cost Ramere a lot of power. To think of the power needed to teleport eight people, plus a wolf...

Crap. I turned, looking for him, my anger momentarily vanishing with my concern. I spotted him, propped up against the trunk of a tree, with Arabella kneeling in front of him. His eyes were closed, and even from a distance I could tell his breathing was heavy. I didn't know if he was conscious or not, but a moment later his lips moved in reply to something Arabella said. I sighed weakly in relief, hugging Kayla closer to me.

"Are you alright?" I asked

Arabella--

I knelt beside Ramere, one hand resting gently on his arm.

"Are you all right?" I murmured. He nodded, breathing heavily. "Im' sorry I couldn't warn you sooner, I wasn't sure of what would happen," I continued, speaking quickly.

"Wait...you did that?"

"Yes."

"I never pegged you to be that strong," he commented, obviously surprised.

"It's not something I make obvious," I replied, silently thanking the heavens he wasn't bleeding.

Kayla

I watched carefully as Ramere responded with an "eventually."

"I'll wait to kill you until you're up for a fair fight then," Caspan said keeping his arms firmly around my waist.



Christian

"He will be, might take a few days but he'll be fine," I assured her.

Cara-

Cara nodded and hugged him tight not wanting him to let go. She was still scared.

"T-they know I"m with you." She muttered sadly. "I-I need to get away, they'll leave you alone."

Christian

I held onto her tighter, "you're not going anywhere without me okay?"

"But what if theyget hurt?"

"We won't"

"I wish I could believe you."

I kissed her forehead, "you can."

Cara--

Cara looked up at him. "I know I should be able to, b-but I've never been able to before. And I guess my gut just wont let me." She laid her head back on his chest and sighed, "I'm sorry, I just couldn't stand it if you or your family get hurt."

Christian

"Then if one of us does, we'll let you sit down okay?"

She laughed slightly. "I'm serious."

I kissed her forehead, "I know you are."

"Then why can't I just dissappear?"

"Because you won't be able to out run them for long, and I wouldn't be able to live with myself if you got hurt at all."

Cara-

"But it is better just me. They will leave y'all alone." She said, all of this was tearing at her heart. SHe didn't want to leave him, but she didn't want them getting hurt because of her.

"No nessacarily. They will know we know about their plans." He reasoned.

"Still, they want me not y'all. If I leave they will leave you alone." She argued.

Christian

"Cara," I said, "I'm not about to let you go."

"Why not?"

"Because I need to know you're safe, the easiest way to do that, is to keep you with me."

"Bu-"

The arguing was really starting to get exapserating, so to silence her, I kissed her. Not that I didn't enjoy doing it.

Cara-

Cara's senses ran wild. She felt her arms slowly moving up around his neck and she leaned into the kiss. When he pulled away her sense were still realing. She was breathless and didn't know what to say.

"I-I" SHe started but he put a finger to her lips.

"Hush," He smiled, she obeyed not saying a word.

Christian

I kissed her cheek, "come on," I said, "let's get a fire lit."

She nodded looking like she was in a haze.

Cara--

Cara felt like she was walking on air. She followed him and helped as much as she could to help. When the fire was started she laid her head against his should and just looked in it.

"Why did you kiss me?" She asked looking up at him.

Christian

"I had two reasons," I said.

"Which were?" she asked after a pause.

"One: to shut you up. and two:because I have been resisting the temptation to kiss you again since I last did."

"Oh..."

"It was mostly reason two though."