Shopping tours with half-naked men? I guess someone other than Alice got bored

[jealousvampire]

Characters: Rosalie {jealousvampire } & Hawke {golden_hawke }
When: 2nd February, early afternoon
Where: Rosalie's clinic and several shops within the city (?)
Rating: PG (?)
Summary: Rosalie asked Hawke to go shopping with her as long as she still is human. She wants to try her sister's habit of making people people wear different clothes for her amusement out for once. And

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[golden_hawke]

Hawke arrived a short time after Rosalie, wearing the cloth and the woolen coat, letting it stay open as he walked. A lady wanted to go shopping. The last shopping experience he had went... well... in his eyes it didn't go well. His sister managed to gussy him up and her boyfriend practically cackled as Hawke fiddled with those damn pants.

He hated pants.

But, for Rosalie, he would go on this adventure and allow her some fun. He'd do it for any friend, really, and it seemed as if she needed some cheering. There was something underlying that was bothering her, something that made her sad. He didn't know exactly what, and he was too polite to ask her that. He knew because the language he grew up with used posturing to communicate with. Once others knew that he could 'read' people like that, they tended to be more uncomfortable with him than before.

He didn't want to make her uncomfortable, either.

"Rosalie." Hawke smiled warmly, reaching out to just brush the back of her hand with his fingers. It was a greeting he was used to, and used it with everyone. "Are you ready?"

[jealousvampire]

"Ah, Hawke.", Rosalie greeted him, smiling beautifully but still worrying a bit deep inside. Being human again did not make things better. As a vampire her thoughts had been much faster, she knew that and it was annoying in a way. But it could get worse, couldn't it? Sure, it always could.

She was almost a bit surprised about seeing Hawke like that. Well, these were not the clothes she had given to him, when she had picked him up but ... actually she had not really thought that he would wear them really. His attitude towards pants seemed to be a rather bad one. But wasn't he cold?
Rose herself definitely was. Otherwise she would have worn a short dress instead of the leather and fur coat, the cord trousers and the Scandinavian styled pullover she was wearing now. But her human body was able to feel cold unlike her vampire self.

"Why is it that you are not freezing, while I could freeze right on the spot?", she asked him playfully.

[golden_hawke]

Hawke grinned and stepped closer to her, smirking a bit. "The love of others keeps me warm." The smirk eased into a smile as he tilted his head a bit. "I am used to wearing little. Though I do admit that it is a little cold here, and I would be warmer if I had my magic, but I will suffer wearing my cloth and the coat." He pouted playfully, almost moving to nudge her arm. "You do not approve of this, which is why you are taking me .. clothes shopping?"

[jealousvampire]

"The love...?", Rosalie asked, chuckling quietly at Hawke's words. "Ah, I see." Her laugh turned into a wide cheerful smile as she patted his shoulder in a friendly way.
"That I do not approve of this ... is only part of it.", she told him playfully, smirking at him in a caring but also evil-fashioned way. "I'm a doctor and doctors can not let their friends become ill because they happen to be too stubborn to wear proper clothes. If we could heat the building the normal way I would probably not say much about it, but ... like this."

She sighed. "Okay, I'm being honest. Actually I think that you would look very very good in most of the clothes I have in mind." If she would have been more innocent, what she not really was, she might have actually blushed, but not in this case, not this time.

[golden_hawke]

"Ah. I see." Hawke grinned and bowed his head slightly. "Then shall we go?" He had no idea where they would be going, but he trusted her to follow. "What kinds of clothes do you have in mind?"

[jealousvampire]

"Yes, I think so.", she replied, nodding softly, a smile on her lips and already heading down the road. "What clothes ...? Mh, that really does depend on what we are able to find within the city." She turned to face him while she walked and winked at him, telling him this way that there would be no more information he would be able to get out of her right now.

[golden_hawke]

He grinned at her wink, making long strides to catch up to her. His hand drifted over to brush along the small of her back before it rested at his side again, quickly falling into the habits of his adopted family. He liked her, that much was apparent. She was kind and strong and knew what she wanted. He grew up around strong people like this, so she easily reminded him of home.

And for now, he would remain quiet until they came to the store she wanted to go shopping in.

[jealousvampire]

Rosalie walked as fast as she could, which was nothing that she was used to because even running in her human body would lead to being unusually slow in comparison to a vampire's normal speed, but did her best on not appearing to be in a hurry. The main reason for wanting reach one of the shops she was looking for as fast as she could was that she had no idea when this event would be over and she would return to being a vampire again and even less knew what her vampire self would think of being that close to a human.

Human. She repeated again within her mind. But a human with special abilities. Abilities like those her siblings inherited.
"Hawke?", she asked out of a sudden, sounding a lot more hesistant than she had intended to. "Would you ... mind telling me more about how you usually live? And ... about that ability of yours, the one you told me about?" Without actually planning to, but unable to hold it back, she added a few other words after a split second, "I ... want to know a lot more about you." and even blushed hard as she noticed what she actually had said.

[golden_hawke]

Hawke nodded and continued to meet her strides, speaking in that oddly accented voice about his people. The Faunlyn were peaceful and kept to themselves. They were hunters and gatherers, working together to support the whole community. No human technology, but fire and water and magic. There was trade, but not money like payment. Close friends slept together in groups for warmth and security. The worse punishment one could impose upon another was segregation. Families were bound more by spirit than by blood, though everyone was considered one's brother or sister, there. Children were precious gifts, and even though they were taught how to be polite and helpful, they were never left wanting. There weren't couples like marriages there, and the belief that love was a never ending resource and could only be strengthened by others kept them close and jealousy almost non-existant.

As for his magic. Hawke was a little more reserved about that. He had learned early on from his teacher that this sort of magic's inner workings was passed on solely from master to student. "There.. is not much I am allowed to speak of it. Faunlyn magic is only passed on between each other, and the how and why of it cannot be explained to one who is not Faunlyn. Especially Blood Magic. And even then, only other [BloodSpeakers] truly know how it works." Hawke smiled a little in comfort. He was not afraid or ashamed of who he was, but he did not want his lack of information to mean he was hiding.

"I can control my blood to my will, and I can control other's blood to my will. If you have a cut and were bleeding, I would have control of it. It is a... comfort, to be surrounded by it. The magic can be offensive and defensive, and the power is great. There have been many seduced by its power and turned into monsters. It is also a magic that is not quickly passed on from one to another. Shai, my teacher, has one other student other than myself. I have heard from others we are the only ones he's had in many cycles.

"Some are upset, that he chose to teach me when I was young and not even Faunlyn yet. But I have done my best, and even those people who were upset cannot argue that I should be a student."

[jealousvampire]

Rosalie was stunned to a point were she could not really found words. Her steady pace slowed down and finally stopped. They were near the shops she had wanted to visit with him, but instead of turning towards them she turned to face Hawke once more. "All of this ... it really sounds nice. Really.", she told him in nothing more than a whisper. She was impressed and her voice at decided to work against her it seemed. "It sounds much more peaceful than the world I call home and ... this place here."

There had been many conflicts back in her world, she told him softly. Vampires were only allowed to live disquising themselves because of the Rules the Volturi, a group of Ancients, each one of them a couple of thousand years old, has set for them. If one did not obey the rules and told humans what he really was, the Volturi's guards would come after him and kill him without even listening to reason.

"My brother, Edward, had been in great danger some months ago. He ... thought that the girl he loved was dead and ... wanted to get himself killed by the Volturi." Rosalie's voice broke suddenly, tears filling her eyes and she began to sob, looking at the ground. "I ... it was my fault ... He could have died just ... because I told him Bella was dead. I believed she was dead ... Alice had foreseen it ..."

Rose continued to cry but also to talk to him, about her world. Bella was the human girl her brother had fallen in love with. Covens like her family's were rare in her world, since little vampire's were what they called civilized or vegatarians, which meant that they did not hunt humans, but lived from animals instead. Her family was one of them and consisted of herself, Edward, Jasper, Alice, her adoptive parents, Carlisle and Esme and ... Emmett. Most of her family already considered Bella being a part of them and wanted her to be turned into a vampire as she herself wished to, but ...
"She has no idea what she is willing to do. Her human self ... it will die, there won't be anything left of it.", Rosalie cried, rubbing her palms against her eyes, to stroke the tears away. "I ... I would have rather died, Hawke. I would have ... prefered to die ... instead of... living on like this creature ..."

[golden_hawke]

Hawke shifted closer, automatically wrapping an arm around her shoulders and pulling her close against his side before he even thought about what he was doing. She was in pain, and he considered her his friend, so it was only natural for him to try to comfort her. He didn't quite understand it all, other than she had been human once, and for some reason, she no longer was. A low rumble came from him, a purr or sorts that was too short for his own liking.

"Rosalie..." He had no words for her as he kept her against his side, trying to offer some form of comfort as she wept. "Were you changed to be like this against your will? What is it that you want now?"

[jealousvampire]

Rosalie had not expected herself to have a mental breakdown like this, but now she was human and the emotional memories she had repictured just now had been too much for her to take. She found herself weeping at Hawke's chest shortly after, her arm locked around his torso as if she was going to collapse if he did not hold her in his arms and possibly she even would. She was sorry to cry, she hadn't wanted their meeting to change into this, she had wanted it to be fun, to have fun with him today.

"I ...", she nodded before she found the rifght words,"Carlisle had only wanted to rescue me. I ... my fiancée, Royce and his friends ... they had raped me when I was still human..." There was something inside her throat building up apperantly, something that made it difficult for her too speak. "I ... was left ... bleeding ... dying on the street by them ... and Carlisle found me and ... turned me into a Vampire to safe my life but ..." The tears flooding from her eyes seemed to increase even. "This is not the life I wanted ... I ... always wanted to be like the girls who married the man they loved and ... who had a baby with him ... who could have a baby ..." It would never be possible for her to have that will fulfilled. Vampire women could not bear children.

[golden_hawke]

He held her all the tighter, pressing chaste lips to her temple as he let her cry, purring softly and speaking quietly in that strange, musical language to comfort her. He knew women who mourned their inability to have children, and he knew women who were forced against their will. For the longest time, he wondered why he knew these things, was subjected to the initial pain, and now he realized that it was to comfort others. Like this woman.

Hawke said nothing, just allowed her to speak and mourn and be more of a comforting presence than anything else. Regardless of the fact she wanted to have fun, it seemed as if she needed this grieving point more than ever.

[jealousvampire]

Rosalie cried for a rather long time after her words had died away, searching comfort in her friend's arms. When she finally was able to get a grip on herself again, her chocolate brown eyes were highly reddened as she looked up at him again. She still could not forget about anything that had happened to her, not even after more than 70 years of being a vampire. She was not that strong, even though she always pretended to be.

"Just ... why had it to be me ...? Why could I not have died ...?", she asked him with a stern look on her face. "Simply died instead of this ..."

[golden_hawke]

When she lifted her face up, he thumbed the tears away from her eyes, his own eyes pain filled with empathy. "I do not know." It was a simple answer, and an honest one. One could not know the will of the Ancestors. Perhaps there was a lesson Rosalie needed to learn, or teach others. No one would know until it happened.

"But know this: Whatever happens to you is for a reason, even if you do not know that reason now. When the time comes, you will."