[0] Zel woke up with a jerk. He had dreamt about Him again. It was the third time this week and it was only Wednesday. He sighed to himself and looked at the watch. 7.00, time to get ready for work....
An hour later he was on his way out from the apartment he shared with his childhood friend Lina. He ran towards the bus and barely made it as usual. During the ride over he found his mind slipping again... towards Him, that man he saw at the club the other night. Why couldn't he just let it go? He wasn't ready for a relationship yet, the breakup with Val was still to fresh in his memories. But still, He continued to appear in Zel's head, and dreams... what was it about him that made him so special....
Lost in thoughts he almost missed his stop, he got of at the last moment and walked up to the building where the newspaper he worked at was located. The wind tore in his almost white hair and the sun reflected in his corn-blue eyes. [1] When he entered the office he waved hello the receptionist Shilfiel as he passed on his way towards his cubicle. She waved back shyly before going back to flirt with the blond brawny mail-boy.
He was a journalist for one of the local newspapers, his area of expertise was culture. Today he was supposed to research a long lost artifact that had recently been found, but once again he drifted off in thoughts. He came back to reality when his computer bleeped to alert him of a new mail message. As he opened it he saw that is was from his flamboyant roommate. The message read:
To the lovesick puppy
Am-chan and me was thinking about going to the club tonight. Wanna come?
He might be there, and this time you might even gather the courage to approach him. So what do you say Zelly-chan? In the mood for some groovin' on this plain Wednesday?
The mail was signed with a little animated SD-picture of the redhead herself. "Must have been Am-chan who drew it" he thought absently as he clicked the reply button. He was about to call for a rain check but at the last minute he changed his mind and agreed to accompany the two girls to the club.
The rest of the day went by without any disturbing thoughts of the man with the purple hair. Maybe it was the fact that he might see him tonight that made the day pass so quickly. When he walked pass the reception on his way out he noted that the blond boy still was there flirting with Shilfiel and he wondered if they had moved at all during the day?
Lina and Amelia met his at their favorite coffee shop. They where sipping their cappuccinos and exchanging compliments as he sat down at their table. "So, what's the deal about tonight? You finally goin' to talk to him?" asked Lina while looking at him with her sparkling ruby eyes. Zel scratched his neck while smiling an embarrassed smile. "I don't know... You know how I get at these occasions, my tongue gets tied and I just don't know what to say. You are so lucky to have Am-chan... you don't have to look no more" [2] He shoot a glance at the dark-haired girl at the other chair and watched her blush prettily as her name was mentioned. Lina waved aside his excuses and leaned over the table. "You are just a big chicken that is all. And if you don't talk to him tonight I will do it for you.... So there!" Zel froze a bit. Sure he liked Lina as a friend but he definitely didn't want her as his date-central. He could screw up just as well on his own, Lina had a tendency to be a bit rough in her dealings with others. And that was just what he didn't need...
The afternoon proceeded fairly calm with only a few outbursts from Lina's side. They grabbed dinner at a local Chinese restaurant before goin home to make the difficult decision on what to wear. After pulling out most of their wardrobes Zel settled on a blue silk shirt, that brought out the color in his eyes according to Amelia, and navy velvet pants that felt like a second skin [3]. Lina was dressed in black and red as usual, the dress she had chose for tonight didn't leave mush to the imagination, and you could see the open admiration in Amelia's eyes as she looked at her girlfriend. Amelia had gone with the slightly more conservative look and wore a white suit cut to enhance her feminine form. The two really made a dashing couple.
The trip to the club was uneventful and they got passed the bouncer easily. Zel reacted as he passed and recognized the mail-boy from work. "Never thought I would see him at a place like this, but what the heck, he has the bod for it..." The sight of the new bouncer distracted him so much he walked into something warm and firm. He looked up [4] and stared right into a pair of amethyst glittering eyes. "Of all the people I have to walk into him... Oh god he smells nice..." The rest was lost in incoherent thoughts as the musky sent of the purple-haired man made its full impact on his senses. From far away he faintly reacted to the fact that the man was actually talking to him. "... so, would you?" Zel blinked as he tried to recall the question. "Sorry, I got a bit confused, what did you ask?" The purple-haired man smiled mischievously as he repeated his question. "I was just wondering if you would like to dance this dance with me, since fate obviously has pushed us together..." Zel took the moment to actually look at the man before him, The purple hair was cut in bangs and almost hid those wonderful amethyst eyes from view. He was dressed in a pair of disturbingly tight black leather pants and a black leather vest. Around his neck was a necklace with a staff-shaped pendant that ended with a red jewel. "Yes, I'll dance with you.... I have to feel if that hair is as soft as it looks..." Zel froze as he realized that he actually said that out loud, he was sure he had blown it but the man only smiled again and took his hand to guide them towards the dance-floor. On the way he glimpsed Lina with her arm around Amelia giving him a thumbs up. "Yes, this showed promise to be a very special night." [5]
0 - First with the excuses: Its my first, I am not English and I wrote it in two hours late at night because a cold made it very hard for me to sleep. But if you like it you are free to mail me at wildangel@home.se Oh and Yes I have stole the note idea from Harukami-sama. I just found it nifty....
1 - This is my view of how Zel would look without the curse, maybe the hair is colored, this is the Slayers in our world after all. Just think of it as his clothes and his hair switched colors. The hair white blond and the clothes blue.
2 - Yes I paired up Amelia and Lina.... Got a problem with that? the author takes a defensive pose with her trusty wok
3 - Come on girls, I know you can see it before you, that's it.... Take you drooling bucket over here....
4 - So I don't know if Xel is taller than Zel or not... but in this fic he is. H*ll I gave Zel blonde hair so who's to stop me grin
5 - And the rest is up to you dirty imagination.... leering grin