A Thousand Years

After a while, the Alphess had grown adapted to the male's ways of stealing her away from her suite. It was almost as if they were speaking out like a couple teenagers on a new adventure, thinking just possibly they would find something so valuable independently together. Before he could pry her away from her desk, Noctavia quickly slipped into a comfortable outfit to reason with the freezing weather outdoors. Getting there, well, to wherever he had planned, she thought over the moment a bit and found it a bit suspicious. She knew that he was leaving on a short trip for work, but she didn't know why he had to leave just now when she finally knew what she felt so deeply inside. Truthfully, she didn't want him to leave, and instead stay, to drag her away on another journey and have a laugh or two as well as a few lovely kisses here and there to when she'd get the chance. It was just her luck. Noctavia sighed, blowing up a piece of her hair that blocked her vision on the other side of her silvery sunset shades. Even though it was cold out, the Alphess put back her hair into a long braid down between her shoulders, leaving her bangs to rest comfortably over her one eye. A smile shot to him as he tried to kiss her cheek, allowing herself to change the path and peck his lips quickly with a smirk. She was surprised at her own self as to how things could change so quickly in a short amount of time, but it seemed right for these things to happen. Like what most mortals liked to say, love changes a person in some of the wildest ways, and Noctavia herself would just roll her eyes, that is, until now. Now she knew it was true.

Watching him pull up on the switches, her instant reaction was to look to the newly refurnished rides and whatnots, just slightly to widen her eyes behind her shades as the lights twinkled in the reflection of her lens. Her mouth lay agape in amazement, as she had not known someone was even able to repair the Wonderland after so long of rotting in the dust, "Wow.." She whispered to the wind, a short tilt to her smile curling at the corners of her very light pink lips. Looking back to him, she pulled him lightly towards her, raising her brows as she lifted both of their now intertwined hands in a position of dance till she remained still peering deeply into his eyes, "Did you do this all for me?" She laughed once and turned back around, leaving one hand to tuck back into her jean pocket, while the other stayed with his. The time and place was just all too perfect to bare, and with a dip in her knowledge, she wondered curious as to what Daiken really wanted on this date. They'd known each other for a long time now, and shared very strong feelings for as well, obviously. So all she could do was wonder if it came to that time of truth and question. Deciding on her background, her eyes looked around the rides, but was only caught by one in particular. She smirked loud enough for him to hear and muffled a low growl as she let out a sigh in relief, "How about... the rollercoaster. I'm always up for a game first, though. Think you can beat me at throwing a ball against some milk bottles?" She asked with a curious tilt to her one brow, arching it with a bit of a challenging twinkle in her eyes.

Waiting till he was finished, Noctavia helped her self to lean back to get a greater view of his rear, smirking quietly to herself all the while kneading her fingers around the baseball in her hand. The end of her serpent sharp tongue snaked to trace just lightly of her upper lip, peering up from her shades to see flanks of snow fall from the skies above. She had been wondering all of December as to when it would finally come to the first snow fall of the season, hopefully soon she could be able to get some food while the humans were out trying to shop for gifts late at night for the greatest deals. Black Friday was most certainly in her favor, especially for those that could have been trampled by the one's she had captured for a quick bite. Hearing the clatter of milk bottles fall to the floor, Noctavia made a slight glance to Daiken's colorful hues, flashing him a broad smile with two long fangs as she teasingly moved forwards him as it was now her turn. The ball turned over and over in her hand as she looked to the display, tilting her head slowly to get a better angle. Holding her breath, she need to add some bit of excitement to this background, and as she thought for a moment or two in silence to herself, she came up with a fiery idea, literally.

Turning off her emotions was one of the easiest things she used to be able to do on her own, but not that she had experienced the true meaning of love, it was becoming a tad difficult to render around him. But with a little will power from inside, and a bit of pressure to her counterpart's urging whispers, Noctavia shut down her mind to think straight. Her mind wanted to meet the image of a wildfire raging through the deep wilderness, striking brightly to her imagination till she was able to trace every flame and color to what it whithehld to put it to life. Spotting the baseball in her hand, she sent the image to project towards it, lighting the ball aflame, flicking its flames up high near her shoulder as the wind made her control the fire to flow with it as if it were real to the eye. She did not look to Daiken, as she was afraid it would break the connection and become distracted, looking passed him to see the whole stand before her then light up in a wild blazing blanket of fire. Her eyes gleamed emerald, mixed with the orange and yellow of the image's reflection, making her smile confidently to herself. Training her eyes on the bottles, she pulled back her arm and took a step forwards with her opposite foot, then releasing the ball as she to snap it back. It flew into the air straight at the display's center, pushing its momentum into each other to topple over one another down to the rest upon the floor.

Peering to the prizes, she was way too short to reach them, but her eyes till looked over them. The wolf that looked a lot like them was a bit too cliche, and she didn't know what she would do with it once they got home. There wasn't a lot of space for it, so she pointed to the second largest prize, lightly flicking at the end of the white lion's tail, "Can I have it?" She made a soft noise while humming from her lips as she tried to reach up on her tip-toes with her arms stretched out to attempt at reaching it. "Ppplleeasseee..." Noctavia said foolishly, breaking the project to clear everything from the situation to a normal stand and non-flaming baseballs. She smiled innocently to the reaction he may of gave, but she would not be surprised as he knew of her power like the rare she told.

Her hands fiddled to stroke the toy's soft, plush features as she followed him onto the roller coaster. Holding the white lion closely to her side, Noctavia helped herself to get a nice footing to when she reached the medium level and stopped to see the mistletoe he spoke of about her head. Just as he began to speak up, the Alphess's insides fluttered and tightened to what felt so foreign to her body, as she had never been this strange before. She could easily tell by the look in his eyes that he held a nervous feeling of his own, wondering how to place his words correctly while he began to stutter and straighten again to speak normally. Her heart thumped like a million drums at once - rendering its over-powering roar to beat loudly behind her hollow boned rib cage. Drawing a steadier breath of air, the Alphess closed her eyes to relax her thoughts and ponder whether or not things could be happening for real or she had been imagining it all along. His scent changed in the air to a more broader stench, which worried her to a point that maybe things were shifting between them. But as he bent down to one knee, her eyes widened just slightly behind her sunglasses, the faint coloration of green shimmering through them down to where he stood, "Daiken..." Her tone was quiet, hushed to a light whisper as the barely made it through her mouth, appearing as if she mouthed them to the air like as if no one were actually there.

When presented with the peony, her one hand cupped near over her lips while they curled behind it in secret. He had remembered from the night of the masquerade of her studying the flower in the dark flower garden that surrounded the central park fountain, where they danced, and he dipped her to meet so close; face to face. That was when her first sense of the emotions heightened, and later on blossomed to what is to be brought to the attention of a band pinched between his fingers towards her. Eyes glossed under the light's glory, Noctavia could not keep herself from smiling as she reached out a delicate left hand for him to ease the ring onto her ring finger. All the while her opposing hand reached to where her heart was at, feeling it skip every few seconds to know that she was in fact alive, and this was real. Sniffing back the release of tears that almost started to pool in the dips of her eyes, the Alphess collected herself to think, but only smiled wider the more he looked up at her. Finding the words, Noctavia nodded really quickly to his question and laughed to ease off the many painful moments of her silence, "Yes.. Daiken, a million times yes." Pulling him up by the hands, she released him, only to grab him by the collar of his coat and bring him to her level in a forceful, passionate kiss. Their kiss lasted long to what she thought before she managed to find the enough urge to pull free to speak, peering up into his radiant colored hues, "In all my life, I've lived through so many years alone to find one of the best things life could ever bring me. There had always been something missing to the equation, and I believed the only way to solve that was to fulfill my dreams in having a pack, but I now realize with what I was looking for was a family, and someone to love." Loosing her strong grip on him slightly, the Alphess brushed her lips carefulling against his, "I never told you before you left the other day, but.." Her eyes averted to meet his,

"I love you, Daiken.. For all eternity till the day our hearts are no longer beating I shall be yours, and you shall be mine." She whispered, leaning in closer to kiss his lips with all of what she held inside to be let out and freed onto him. All the dark, emptiness in her cold heart broke away to find light peeking through, shining its glory upon her mind to see that even love will find a way into their hearts.