The sun hit her face, she was distracted by every little thing that zoomed or flew past. Edalia waited to cross the street of the busy road. She winced. Again? She looked at her arm that dripped with crimson blood.
It was an anxious thing, she always had a habit of digging her nail into her skin.
"Do you need something to clean that?" A man asked, he was only slightly taller than her, dark wavy hair and brown eyes.
   She looked up, for a moment she thought she saw him. Ikaris. But it wasn't.
    "O-oh no, I'm fine," she gave an awkward smile. She missed him. A lot.
   "Are you sure?" He asked, almost reaching his hand to her.
   She pulled her black jacket sleeve down and shook her head. "I'm fine." She snapped.
   He shoved his hands into his pockets. "Alright." He sighed.
   "Sorry, just I don't like men.." she told him. "Wait.. no.. I do like men, just I hate them because most of them remind me of my ex, which is stupid because it's been like centuries since I've last seen him." Edalia rambled.
    The man stared at her like she was crazy. "You mean it's felt that long?"
  "Yeah, it's felt like centuries," she nodded. "I'm Edalia by the way."
   "Dane. Dane Whitman," he held his hand out. She shook it.
   "Where are you off too Dane?" Edalia asked him rocking on her feet.
   "To see my girlfriend for a party," he replied.
   "Oh? What's the occasion? Who's the special gal?" Edalia smirked.
   Dane chuckled awkwardly. "It's my birthday, and my girls name is Sersi."
   Edalia choked on her own spit. "T-that s-sounds f-fun." She choked. "Well, I'll have to see you." She waved and quickly crossed the street, leaving him standing and confused.

   Back at her apartment, she tossed her bag down and plopped herself on the couch with a groan.
    A small meow purred next to her. She looked over at a small orange fluff ball of a cat. "What are you looking at? It's been a long day okay? Waiting tables is hard! Don't give me that look!" Edalia gasped. "I was lucky I didn't get a night shift, I could use a time to sleep."
    She closed her eyes.

     An hour later, a glass in the kitchen shattered. "Crookshanks get out of the bloody-" she shot awake, the room was shaking, things continued to fall off the shelves. She covered her head in case anything fell.
   It stopped. She froze in a panic. "Holy shit crooks, what do you think that was?" She baby talked the cat as she picked him up.
   The cat purred.
   There was a knock at the door. She stepped over the glass and opened it.
"HERAKLES!?"
  "Edalia? This is your apartment?!" Herakles exclaimed.
   "Umm yeah?! Where the bloody hell have you been?!" She snapped.
   "I live next door!" he told her, he straightened up his jacket.

   "Wha-what?! Hang on.. your the fucking one who plays his guitar at fucking one in the morning?!" She shouted.
   He covered one ear. "Yeesh Eda. And that was only one time and it was because I had a gig I didn't practice for because I was busy." He frowned.
   She rolled her eyes.
    "I literally just came over to check on my neighbors like a decent human," he scoffed.
   "Right," Edalia muttered.
"Do you want to get pizza?" Herakles asked her.
She raised an eyebrow. "You haven't seen my in centuries and the first thing is pizza?"
"Let's just go, and leave the cat... I don't like animals," he mumbled.
"So you don't like yourself, aww Herk! Love yourself!" She teased.
"Your seriously more annoying than you were before," he shook his head.
"I love you too," Edalia giggled and set the cat down and started to walk down the street towards the old pizza shop.
"Anything new with you? Besides music.." Edalia asked him.
"I babysit," he shrugged.
"You? Babysit? I don't buy it at all," she laughed.
"I'm serious!" Herk exclaimed. "It's easy. I babysit and get all the ladies. I'm a ladies man." He beamed and sighed.
"Righttt, and wears your girl right now?" She asked.
"Er...In Sweden," he fibbed.
"And what about Makkari?" She asked.
"What about her? Obviously things did work out, did you see the way she always looked at Druig?" He looked down. "I don't blame her either, Druig is more for her anyway."
She took his hand in comfort. "She'll come around. I promise."
"What about you and Ika-"
A loud crash came from a few blocks down, screams echoed down the hall. "I-I have- we should see what's happening!" Edalia looked at him and started a full on sprint towards the noise.
"YEAH, RUN TOWARDS THE THING THAT PEOPLE ARE RUNNING AWAY FROM, SMART CHOICE!" Herakles shouted. He sighed. "We're going then? Alright fine, no one listens to the logical one." He ran after her.
Edalia froze seeing it.
"Is that a-" Herk started.
"Deviant. Yes. It is." Sprite finished.
"Sprite! It's you! You don't look a day over 12," he exclaimed.
Sprite glared harshly. "You don't look a day over stupid."
"She still likes me," Herk told Edalia who formed a golden lasso into his hands and whipped it around the deviants leg and tripped it.
Spite created illusions of herself, walking around the street.
  The deviant followed all of them, confused.
   It shot at sprite hitting her in the back with its tentacle like thing. She fell, it crept closer to her.
   A fast figure flew and knocked the deviant into the shop.
  "Sprite!" Dane called helping her up.
   "Oh, I've met boyfriend by the way, he's okay," Edalia told Sersi.
  "Thanks?" Sersi panted.
  The figure walked out of the shop. "Hello ladies." It was Ikaris.
   Edalia stared at him and smiled in what seemed relief. Her face dropped. "LOOK OUT!"
   Ikaris turned and was rammed into by the deviant. The deviant pushed him into the bus, that flipped over towards them.
   Sersi rushed forward and put her hand up and the bus turned onto rose petals.
    Ikaris flew up and shot a lazor blast from his eyes at the deviant. He  blasted it into the water.

  Everything went still.

"Well, I hope you are all alright, imma go back home," Herakles smacked his lips and turned to leave.
   "Hold it. We can't leave... why did are the deviants back." Edaliah looked at them.

They all just looked at each other.

*past*

    "Cant let you go fight deviants on your own now can we?" Ikaris was telling Thena.
   "I didn't come to this planet to coward behind walls," Thena glared.
  "You need to trust Ajak," Ikaris told her
   Thena shook her head and started to walk away.
  "Thena." Ikaris stopped her. "It's an honor to fight along side you."
  "And you," Thena nodded.
  Edalia watched them from a distance.
   Herakles nudged her. "Hah, look Druig made those guys slap themselves. Then got scolded by Makkari."
   She gave a small laugh. "I've thought this for years now. Mind control is such unfair gift. I feel like my power is just so... boring compared to everyone else's." She whispered.
     "Jealous I see?" Herk raised an eyebrow. "Come on Eda, literally I wish I had yours, I mean come on, Phastos still calls me bolt."
   "Lightning is cool!" She protested.
   "Rightttt," Herk laughed.

THIS IS THE SPICY SCENE ITS AWKWARD FOR ME TO WRITE AND YEAH SO HERE IT GOES (I'm also replacing sersi with Edalia)

    *still the past*

Edalia worked in the gardens, she had always enjoyed it was hot. Very hot.
   A shadow of a man covered the sun. She looked up and was greeted by Ikaris. "Want to take a walk?" He asked her, holding his hand out.
   Edalia nodded softly getting up and taking his hand as he walked to the top of the hill on the beach.
    "Oh, so your learning their language now?" Edalia giggled after he had attempted to speak in the language. She laughed.
  "What? What did I say?" Ikaris smiled a chuckle.
  "You said 'I am very beautiful'" she looked down.
   Ikaris came from behind her, and  ran his hand down her arm and took her hand. "You are very beautiful Edalia.." he whispered. He looked at her in less of a lustful way, but more of a meaningful way, she wanted to.
   She put her hand on his neck and kissed him passionately, their lips met as he kissed her back, she followed his head as he leaned more in, he pulled back as he went to her neck kissing her neck.
   She gasped softly and ran a hand through his hair.

   *a few moments later*

Edalia felt his breath against her neck, she closed her eyes, panting slightly as she opened her eyes staring at the stars.
  Ikaris stroked her cheek and turned her face towards her. "I love you Eda." He whispered.
   "I love you.." she whispered back, hugging him tightly, he was warm and she never wanted to let go.

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