The big city.

"Yes you do! If you really loved her, you'd care about her feelings and not just your own," Raven said.
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Laurinda looked at him, then at the woman in his kitchen. Slowly, very slowly, she nodde.d
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Ava turned in her sleep.

"I love you, too," She whispered.

Blake sighed happily. "You'll be okay." He said, brushing her hair out of her face. "I won't let him near you again."

~!!~
Lance sighed in relife. "Thankyou."

~!!~
Aden mumabled something it sound like you're right.

"Think about it," Raven snapped, and then she was gone.
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Laurinda frowned; what did he care? Then she remebered all that he had seen, about her past, and quickly looked away. She needed to get out of here now. But...part of her...didn't want to?
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Ava was still fast asleep, but she seemed to understand what he was saying. She reached up a hand to the one that he had used to brush her hair out of her face, and grabbed it.
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"What did you need?" Hymn repeated to her brother.

Leon smiled and bowwed. "To annoy you." And he left.

~!!~
Lance smiled and tried to go back into the kicthen.

~!!~
Blake leaned down and kissed the tip of her nose.

~!!~
Aden frowned.

Hymn glared at the spot where he had stood moments before.
~!~
Laurinda stepped aside, looking around, as if she were looking for a way to run out.
~!~
Ava smiled slightly in her sleep.

Chris sighed. "Annoying isn't he?"

~!!~
Lance looked behind him. "Please don't leave."

~!!~
Blake smiled to, and kissed her hand.

Hymn sighed as well.

"You have no idea," she mumbled.
~!~
Laurinda froze. What did he care anyways? She tried not to show what she was thinking.
~!~
Ava sat up a few moments later, awake. She rubbed her eyes and saw Blake, having no idea what just happened. A few moments later she was hugging him tightly, crying.

"I'm sorry for my idiotic brother and his manners, of lack there of in this case." Carlisle told her, he stood up and walked over to her. He offered her a small smile.

"You don't need to apologize," Cora repeated, rerturning his small smile. "You did nothing wrong." She still looked very upset, and tried to hide this by looking away.

Carlisle set a finger under her chin and turned her face lightly to face him. "Cora? You okay?" he asked.

Cora nodded.

"I'm fine, it's just---" she paused, and sighed. "What exactly did he do to make Annabell so afraid of him?" she asked quietly, unsure if she really wanted to know the answer.

"Annabell has always been afraid of him for as long as I can remember." Carlisle told her, "But then she started to trust him again because it appeared he was forgetting his old ways. A month later knight's came searching for Damon and they were going to slay those that took him from the prison, he forgot to mention that when he came back home. Rather than speak up for us he let us watch as Annabell screamed for Damon to save her. At the age of six Annabell was beheaded for treason. Just as I was about to have the same fate my father showed up and told them to leave us. Since he was a knight himself the promptly obeyed, they left with my brother." He told her, "He frightened her since they day she was born and then let her die."

Jade disappered, and reappered in heaven. Aden soon found her. He looked thoughtful. He leaned down and kissed her, and she quickly kissed him back, thinking that this was what she wanted. He frowned, and placed a hnd at the back of her head. Soon her eyes wideed and she pulled back. In a quick movement she slapped him hard across the face, and she disappeed.

Aden was lefted standing there stuned.

Jade reappered in the park.

"Sable!!" She cried throwing her around him, cring slightly. "I'm sorry." She said over and over again. She ruied her face in his chest. "I love you! I relly do, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

~!!~
"What do you like?" Betty asked her quickly, pushig Lance back out of the kicthen.

"Why ca't I enter?" Lance asked.

"Your accidet prone, you'll get hurt." She said quickly.

~!!~
Blake said nothig as he held her tightly, almost afaid if he let go, she'll disapper.

~!!~
Chris smiled at her ad stood up.

Sable fell to the ground when Jade disappeared, shaking his head. He had finally let his heart go, and now the woman he loved was gone. He felt tears coming, just as she reappeared. He stood up, taking aback in surprise as she began to hug him. He hugged her back, smoothing her hair and whispering to her.

"It's okay, it's okay," He whispered. "I love you, too."

Raven grinned.
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"Food," Laurinda said simply. She smirked when Lance was pushed out of the kitchen. She was feeling very uncomfortable with all of this; she would eat, then leave. That was the plan.
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Cora listened silently, her anger growing with each passing moment. When he finished, she closed her eyes, trying to control herself.
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"I'm sorry," Ava cried. "So sorry." She hugged him tighter.
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Hymn smiled back, then yawned. She was tired.

Betty frowed. "What kind of food should I make?" She asked.

"Betty, just make her something, you'r not going to gt a saight anwser." Lance said.

~!!~
Jade's tears soon slowed. Sh would of have kissed him, if wasn't for the fact his little sister was there. Instead she just buried her face in his chest. "I'm so sorry." She kept saying.

~!!~
Blake frowned. "You did othing wrong."

Laurinda felt herself smirk, but quickly wiped it away. She just shrugged.

"I'll eat anything," She said simply, and that was true; she'd even eaten out of trashcans before; not her best memories.
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"It's not your fault," Sable kept repeating, still holding her close. He didn't know what had happened, but it seemed Raven had something to do with her being able to remember. He gave her a smile, and she smiled back. Then she disappeared, reappearing in heaven, searching for Aden.
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"Yes I did. I let him take me. I couldn't---" She cut herself off, and shook her head, sitting up and holding the tears back. No more would she cry.

"Did you go willingly?" He asked suddenly.

~!!~
Jade pulled back ad looked up at him. "But you looked so sad, I made you sad!"

~!!~
Aden was still were Jade lefted him, rubing his cheek. Jade had hit him so hard that she left a latge red mark.

~!!~
Betty nodded.

Lance looked at her. but aid nothing.

"It's not your fault," Sable said, still holding her close. "Not your fault."
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Ava blinked in surprise, then shook her head.

"No!" She said. "No, I didn't, but I wasn't strong enough to get away. I---I should have been."
~!~!~
Raven walked straight up to Aden, and had to struggle not to smile at the mark on his cheek.

"Thank you," She said instead, surprisingly.
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Laurinda looked back at him, but also said nothing. The resemblence between him and her father was amazing, at least to her.

Aden glared slightly. "Why must I put some one else's happiness before mine?"

~!!~
Lance truned his head slightly, that' when he aw it. The photo frame was crooked. He walked over to it, and tried to make it saright.

~!!~
Jade closed her eyes. "But I should of have realized othing was the matter when I saw you."

~!!~
Blake looked at her. "Then you did nothig wrong."

"I'm sorry if I made you worry. I shouldn't have. I'm---not worth all of this, you know," Ava said quietly, her voice low and her tears dry. She was serious. "You shouldn't have to deal with this."
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"If you really loved her, than you would," Raven said. "Even I can understand that."
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Laurinda watched him, and smirked slightly. She would have fun with this.
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"It's not your fault," Sable repeated, and looked down at her. He reluctantly let her go, and tilted her chin up to look at him. "Do you hear me, Jade?" He asked. "It's not your fault."

"He does't desvere her." Aden said. "She should much uch more then him. He isn't good eough for her."

~!!~
Blake frowned. "But I love you, I'm willing to go to the ends of the earth for you!" then he realized what he said and looked away, his face crimson.

~!!~
Lance kept tring to fix it.

~!!~
Jade opened her eyes. She nodded slowly.

"He's self centered, rude, and annoying." Carlisle said, "And despite all of this, my parents care about him." he turned away from her then, his anger rising once more.

Raven glared at him, her anger suddenly flaring up.

"That's my brother you're talking about," she said. "And he's much more of a man than you are. He doesn't manipulate girls into loving him.!!"
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Ava's eyes widened in surprise, and she quickly looked away, cheeks bright red. Slowly, she gathered the courage to say what she knew she had felt for so long.

"I love you, too."
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Sable leaned down and kissed her softly. He pulled back, resting his forehead against hers and keeping his lips close. "You need to stop getting in trouble," he whispered.
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Laurinda kept watching, smirking.

"It doesn't matter." Aden said, and truned to leave.

~!!~
Blake looked dow, uabl to look at her, afaid that if he did he will find out it was all a dream.

~!!~
Jade laguhed softly. "Is that possiable?" She asked in a taseing tone.

~!!~
Lace finally got it staright a few moments later and truned ack to her.

"You're an idiot," Raven mumbled simply, folding her arms across her chest as she watched him turn to leave. "I can see that, and so can everyone else."
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Cora calmed down as he grew angry, and placed a hand on his shoulder wordlessly.
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"OCD?" Laurinda asked him simply.
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Ava thought that him looking down was a bad thing. She glanced back at him, then quickly away again. It seemed as though both of them were too frightened to say or do anything.
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Ashlyn had fallen asleep on her bed, the half empty box of pizza still next to her.
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"I guess not," Sable whispered, and kissed her again lightly, only this time he didn't pull away.