Embrace the beast

[slayers_desire]

Five days ago had been a good day for April, since she had been able to protect Clark during a LOL and later helped him to fly. The days following had been normal enough, until the time came for April to return to her Nexus and complete some of her 'hero' expectations.

The situation had been easy enough at basic appearance, all April thought she had to do was get rid of one pesky demon that had a small town under its spell. What she did not know what that the spell had convinced all the mortals that they had to protect the demon.

That in itself had been difficult. April couldn't harm a mortal intentionally. But they sure as hell could harm her. By the time she had managed to get through the small riot crowd of people with their torches and home-made weapons, April had to call out her Beast to fight the demon one-on-one. It had been a more difficult battle than she had anticipated, because every now and then some innocent would try to protect the demon.

Then in the last moments of defeating the demon, he had burnt a rune into her shoulder, right before he took his last breath. It took April five seconds to realize that because of the burning rune, the Beast was not going away. And she was stuck in that form. It gave more reason for the already frightened villagers to attack her some more.

It took a whole lot of control not to fight back, and somehow April managed to get back home. There were small fires still smoldering on her clothes when she appeared at the door to her Nexus apartment. Opening the door slightly, the exhaustion came over her and she sort of slumped to the floor.

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[kalel-ofkrypton.livejournal.com]

"Well, you know me. I never really do things normally." He laughs a little nervously. "This is going to be fun to explain to my parents."

[slayers-desire.livejournal.com]

"No. You are definitely not normal. I think we got it right before. Weird. But a cute weird." April shifts to touch her forehead to his. The love rune on her bare back shines slightly and gives her a slight shiver of happiness.

"Slow is a good way to start."

[kalel-ofkrypton.livejournal.com]

Clark leans into her touch slightly, smiling. "I can do slow." Really, he can. Just because he runs faster than the speed of sound doesn't mean anything.

[slayers-desire.livejournal.com]

"Good to know." April kisses him softly. Something she had been wanting to do for a while now.

[kalel-ofkrypton.livejournal.com]

This time, Clark's ready for it, and he kisses her back.

This day has been full of surprises, both the good and the bad. He's not sorry at all to have another point in favor of the good side.

[slayers-desire.livejournal.com]

The kiss is definitely a good way for this night to end. Especially with him kissing her back. April feels like they have grown a little closer, and is grateful to have him in her life right now.