Forbidden Fruit

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"Knight?" Sinisa felt cold and she called out to him. Even before she opened her eyes to see a strange light. The shadow flickered every so slightly, like a flame. Sinisa sat up to look, she could smell a sweet aroma like flower's. The room looked different, somehow tidier, almost organized.

Sitting on the table was the source of the odd shadow, a large candle. 'That was most likely the source of the sweet smell, as well.'  It took Sinisa some time to get up, everything was sore and it hurt to move. She could move her left arm but gripping even a light cloth hurt, painfully. It took her several minutes to tie a piece of cloth around her arm and shoulder for support.

'I am alone.' Sinisa thought to herself as she looked around the room again. "Knight must have recently left." She muttered to the darkness. She noticed the candle had hardly been burned down. There was something new on the table, a tall thin object. She moved slowly to look at it. The back was covered in, the same Wraith material that was everywhere. But there was a black side, it was reflective.

Sinisa nearly cried, when she saw her image reflect back at her. Both side's of her neck where covered in puncture mark's and random scratches littered her flesh. Her dark shoulder length hair was a mess and she was dirty. Sinisa sat down in the chair to stared at her broken flesh.

"Please, wake up." Sinisa closed her eyes. Her whisper pleaded only with the darkness. When she opened her eye's a moment later, she was still on the Hive. "Please, wake up." She closed her eye's again. After a moment she just burst into tear's and laid her head against the table.

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"You are not alone, my Sin." Sinisa had no idea how long she had been wallowing in her own self pity, when Knight's voice broke her free of it. Sinisa tried to ignore his presence. She just sat up and tried to wipe the tear's from her eye's. "I have brought nourishment."Knight purred as he watched her.

"I am not hungry." She hissed and turned away from him. Knight just growled in response. It took him several minute's to come up with a response.

"You have deiced then." Knight fought to keep his temper in check. Sinisa glared at him for only a moment, then she just focused on the floor again. "If you do not eat..." Knight dropped to a knee next to her. "...All thing's must eat. Do not make me..."

"You wouldn't dare!" Sinisa snapped, her eye meant the Wraiths with a threatening nature. Knight did not back down, but he did not threaten her either. The Wraith just growled displeased as she focused her anger at him.

"I have been maintaining your life, with my own. That can cause your lack of hunger. You will need your own strength...eat." Knight tried to keep his irritation hidden, 'He could just force her to take the gift but...' He did not want to lose his composure. If he forced anything on her there was no telling what she might do.

Sinisa glared at the Wraith, she could tell he was holding back. She smiled slightly, when she realized, it was getting easier to understand him. Knight smiled back at her and Sinisa suddenly needed to know something.

"Why?"The word just escaped her lip's. Knight just lowered his head remorsefully. "Why can't I hate you?" Sinisa remarked painfully. Knight looked up, his expression suddenly curios. "I should hate you for what you have done. But..."

"I do not need your forgiveness, to be able to protect you." Knight remarked, he did not understand her word's.

"I wasn't afraid of you at first. Not when I first saw you, in that room with all the other's." Sinisa reached out, then touched Knight's cheek, as he listened carefully. "For just a moment you were, my Knight. Then..." Sinisa winced and turned away from him."... Every time I try to hate you. I think of the first time I saw you, before the fear... Why?" Knight let out a long sigh in response. "I am a child... Will you teach me?" Sinisa started to accepted her own flaw's.