Lain and Rei

The cloaked figure walked slowly through the city streets, passing by it's many little shops. It was the perfect night to blend in, the dark cloak shielding from the rain. The darkened figure slowed as it turned onto a small street of smaller, and lesser known shops. Most of them dim in the dark of night, having closed their doors already. These walks always did last hours at most. Exploring the city was a weekly happening, to see what was on the other side of the veil.

The streets were mostly emptied now, coming to the earliest of the late part of night. The rain slowed to a light rain and the world around was a little quieter. Soft pitter patter of rain on the cement now. A car turned onto the street, it's headlights showing the strong jaw and perfect shape of a beautiful man's face behind the cloak. He squinted his eyes and turned his head from the beam long enough for it to turn and pass, then leaving him in the dark of night again.

He continued walking, seeing the lights of one shop down the way spilling onto the sidewalk. Slowly, he made his way towards it.

Soaked boots sloshed through the rain and mud, the long black cloak billowing in the breeze. A hand pressed through the veil of thick brush and trees, eyes looking in all directions to make sure no one saw. The figure pressed through and stepped into the other side. The rain still beating down, and the darkened sky ominous of the looming storm. With cloak and hood soaked straight through, the figure disappeared in a light cloud of gray, misty smoke.

Moments later, the dark cloak appeared outside of a grand city sparkling in the night. Violet eyes glistening from under the hood as the figure took sight of the city and it's goings on. Slowly they moved toward the inner city, still shrouded in the dark hooded cloak, and kicking up water from road under foot.

Duo was staring out the window in his office, his violet gaze indicating his mind was somewhere far away.

He sat and held her for some time, just thinking through everything they'd been through recently. He leaned his head in and kissed her hair. "Hn...I love you too." he whispered, his fingers drifting over her soft skin. He knew things had been rough and they probably would never get easy, but he owed her this moment, and he told himself at that moment, that he would be the best for her and do all in his power to keep the bad from their lives. He couldn't see her handle another loss, it was too much as it was.

Heero got up onto the couch next to her and pulled her into his arms, wrapping them around her and caressing her skin with this fingers. "When you're ready."