Night and Moon (LYDIA and Natasha)

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"My sister says I smell like trees and deep ocean water. What the hell does deep ocean water smell like? Darkness? Mystery? Salt? Thalassophobia?"

Cass shook his head and slouched backwards in his chair. Stefan enjoyed talking to the werewolf girl. Ariana wouldn't like it, but he was starting to second-guess all of the instinctual feelings he had always harboured against werewolves. They weren't so bad. Luna had never had a choice over what she would be, so why would he resent her for it?

"You know, I actually like talking to you," he said to Lunaria, looking at her and smiling. "It's quite pleasant. Much more interesting than lectures about trigonometry or mitochondria or World War I, basically all the crap I have to hear when I'm here. I literally lived through World War I, why would I want to hear a lecture on it?"
 
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"I guess kind of salty," she muttered as he mentioned ocean air. "I like the smell of the ocean." She added, remembering when her brothers had taken her to the beach nearby when she was a kid. She still went on her own when she got bored and resorted to skipping out on school.

She smiled a little at his next words. "Yeah, I have to agree, talking to you is certainly more interesting than attending class, or bugging sone popular kid. Also, detention is spiced up now and I don't have to sit here alone and bored." She chuckled.
 
Cass smiled in return. She was pleasant. "So if you're this nice and accommodating I would imagine your brothers to be the same."

When he asked, he was thinking of the possibilities of continuing a friendship with her. Ariana would be difficult to tackle but he knew the real problem was with Lunaria's brothers. The chances of them allowing Cass to see their little sister were the equivalent of winning the lottery. While being struck by lightning. On the moon.
 
Lunaria practically scoffed. The idea of her brothers knowing that she was being chummy cummy with a vampire would turn them into wolves. Figuratively and literally. "Don't think for a second that they wouldn't rip your head out if they found out about this." She told him with a small chuckle before glancing at him.

"What about you? Your sister? Is she the kind to be okay with this or does she despise wereolves?" She asked, remembering that he had a twin.
 
Cass grinned and raised an eyebrow. "This? Are you implying that this interaction is a thing? Are we friends now? I don't believe I am familiar with the sensation."

Cass retorted with a snort when she mentioned Ariana. "Ariana might actually side with your brothers. Over-protective siblings unite!" He pumped the air like he had seen in mediocre children's cartoons. "But seriously, she'd leave me alone if I wanted her to. She would just seethe in the background with rabid foam dripping from her mouth as she plots my demise."
 
"No, I meant this whole 'talking' thing." She said, using her fingers to make quote marks in the air. "But I mean if you want to put a label on it, fine by me." She added with a smirk as she relaxed back in her chair, once more kicking her legs up on the desk before her.

She raised an eyebrow at his description of his sister. "No, my brothers would plot your demise over mine. And then resort to forcing me into a tall tower like Rapunzel. Only I don't have long hair." She chuckled a little at the idea of it. She could have shifted maybe, but she'd break plenty of bones jumping out.
 
"I can understand their protectiveness," Cass noted. "I'd be like that with Ariana -- I am like that with Ariana. She's really pretty so naturally guys court her a lot and I just have to bite my tongue." Cass shook his head.

His white blond hair fell into his eyes as Cass shook his head again. So the inevitable rage brought by his sister would be warranted, but she would have to suck it up like he did.
 
"Must be worse for you than anyone else," she said, referring to the biting comment with a chuckle because of his fangs. She shrugged then. "It doesn't matter to me though, I don't see what's so weong with it anyways. My brothers were just brought up to believe that any other race is bad, so they stuck to it. I, however, am getting to see more of the real world, and I'm definitely liking it better." She told him with a grin as she twirled a lock of hair around her index finger, before staring at the chalkboard ahead of her aimlessly as if lost in thought.

She usually was though, and as a result, she would walk right into trees or walls, or even worse, other people. Slight ADHD made her mind wander, leaving her with the ability of supreme fidgetiness, and it was mostly a bane, than boon.
 
"I wouldn't mind if Ariana dated a human," said Cass, running a hand through his hair thoughtfully. "It's not that they're human. It's more the over-protective older brother instinct. I would probably beat up a kitten if I thought it was trying to court her." He laughed. "You know how many human boys tried to court her when we were actually alive? Close to twenty."

Of course, he had courted girls too, and he had succeeded because he was good-looking. But he had never really liked them that much. He had never been one to try to marry at the age of nineteen and just get a run-of-the-mill kind of job; Cass had wanted to explore.

"So I've pummeled you with werewolf questions. Do you have any about vampires?"
 
Lunaria shook her head. "Not really. I mean, I grew up learning everything about your kind and to stay away." She said with a shrug. "Then again, it could also be, as you say, the protective side of my brothers trying to keep me away from thr mysterious looking vampire in town." She added with a smirk.

She always figured there wasn't much to know. He had already said that the transformation process hurt a lot and they'd discussed scents, and she knew that you needed to be bitten to be turned -- at least she assumed that was the case. Ao she didn't have much else on her mind. Except...

"Have you ever fed on a human?"
 
"Have you ever fed on a human?" she asked.

"Yes," he answered simply. "But we can feed from humans without hurting them at all. We only need to take about half a pint of blood to be fully sated, and by that time they have passed out and don't remember anything that happened, plus the bite heals itself. We almost never drink from their neck, too -- wrists are perfectly acceptable. It's only the really evil, sadistic ones and newborns that kill people when they feed, and their victims always turn into vampires too. But mostly we feed on deer and other woodland animals." He paused. "And that explanation has probably put you off from talking to me ever again. If it makes you think better thoughts about me, I have never bitten anyone from this school."
 
Lunaria raised an eyebrow at his laat statement. "I thought you weren't really one to care what people thought of you?" She asked, a smile playing on her lips. He was a the snarky, sarcastic vampire. All that except the latter was known all around the school. Who else would be snarky if they didn't care what others thought as a result?

She could have said she was pretty much the same, as far as humans went. When it came to her brothers though, as much as she liked creating havoc, she didn't like to seriously upset them or seem irreparable in their eyes.

After all, they're the ones who brought her up. She had a respect for them even if she didn't respect most of ther views.
 
"I don't care what most people think of me," said Cass. "There's a few people in the world who know what I am and the last thing I want them to think of me is 'monster', or 'murderer'. Because I'm not either of those things."

The bell rang, signalling that they were supposed to leave to class now. Cass rose from his seat in one fluid motion, too graceful for any human to achieve, and turned to Lunaria as he slung his bag over his shoulder. "Well, I'm ditching," he announced, "as I cannot be bothered trying to listen to all the crap I know anyway. I would be honored if you ditched with me -- though your brothers might kill you. Or me. Probably me."
 
"Well I didn't think I's come off as that bad that you'd think I's assume the worst of you. I mean, I shared my scent with you." She teased, feigning a look of hurt on her face, before kicking her feet off the desk and letting the flat heel of her combat boots hit the floor.

She looked at him, taking him up on his offer. It's not like her brothers would know. Except for the scent... She could just butn some wolfsbane in the forest before getting home, that should mask it enough.

"Yeah sure, I was planning on ditching and going to the beach anyways. Besides, if you're honoured, it would be a sin not to grace you with my presence." She said with a smirk and then paused as she began to walk out. "Where is it that you go?" She asked, curious as to what the vampire did when he ditched.
 
Cass was surprised to hear that she would leave with him. He had not expected her to defy her brothers in such a way. "Where do I go?" he repeated as he crossed to the window, climbed out of it and helped her out too. "Usually to the woods." In a split decision, Cass grinned and shot over to the other side of the football field in only one second, flaunting his vampire speed just to tease her. He waited on the fringe of the woods for her to join him.

He was excited. Most of the time, he only interacted with his sister and Cass already felt refreshed to be socialising with, not only another person, but a person who he could be himself with and didn't have to hide anything from. She was also a very beautiful girl, which was definately a plus, and the thought of defying her brothers kicked up a rebellious buzz in Cass's mind.
 
Lunaria watched him with raised eyebrows as he sprinted off toward the entrance of the woods, faster than any hunan could even imagine to be. She simply rolled her eyes and took her time jogging over to where he was.

She was enjoying this though. The interaction with someone new, who was seemingly almost exactly like her, only a different specie. One she was supposed to hate but just couldn't bring herself to for some reason. Not that it mattered. If nobody was going to find out, no harm done.

"Happy you can show off to at least one other person now?" She asked with a smirk as she jogged past him and then backward so she could face hin too.
 
"Exceedingly happy," said Cass.

They trekked through the woods at normal speed, Cass taking the time to point some of the different types of trees to Lunaria as he held back branches to prevent her from getting hit by them. The woods were dyed green -- everything was either leafy or covered in moss, and all the scents in Cass's nose were of soil, tree sap and clear air, unpolluted by the town. And the wolf beside him.

They reached the approximate centre of the woods and were presented with a huge tree -- taller than any other in the entire woods, with roots thicker than both Cass and Luna's bodies together. "This is the best tree in the history of the world," Cass told Luna as he began to climb.
 
Luna watched him curiously and then got a hold of a vranch as well and began to climb. "Why is that?" She asked, halfway up to the top, small feet finding crevices in the tree bark easily to help guide her to the top.

Within minutes, she was on the highest possible branch, looking out over miles of forest, and beyong that, hills, covered by some fog. The city, which was so small, could barely be seen. Trees shrouded pretty much everything in its path. It was peaceful, and the wind hitting her felt amazing. She just found another favourite spot to ditch class.
 
"Because it's the most peaceful, serene place I have ever encountered," said Cass. He was standing precariously on a branch, overlooking the scene like some kind of forest god. "I love it here. Ariana is scared of heights so I'm pretty sure we're the only two people to have ever been up here."

He looked down at her. She looked gorgeous with the wind causing her hair to fly around her face. He reached down and tucked her hair behind her ear. "You're pretty cool, you know."
 
In that moment, Lunaria wished dhe was a vampire because then nobody would have to see her blush. "I know." She responded with a cheeky smile. "You're pretty cool too." She added after a second, just having paused for effect. She could be quite the drama queen sometimes, but it was fun and it wasn't everday that she got to just be herself with another person who happened to be similar to her.

"I can assure you I'll be coming back here a lot though." She told him, turning her gaze from him and looking back out to the dense greenery. "Also, probably not without you though. Because you're fast and I need someone to catch me in case I fall from this height." She said with a small smirk.
 
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