Book 1: Shattered Harmony

Chapter 31: Danny's Birthday

Mistaken

Chapter 31

Danny's Birthday

Zareth slowly walked out of his room and looked into the room that belonged to Danny. It technically was a walk in closet remodeled into a small bedroom. It was fairly large technically specially for someone as small as Danny. It was actually her idea. Dareth didn't mind sharing his room. Even offered a small floor plan to put in another bed. But Danny already felt bad about existing in his apartment as it was. So closet it was. The bruise on the side of her face was far more pronounced now that the sunlight was bearing down on it from the tiny window at the top of the room.

Zareth watched her for a moment to make sure her chest rose and fell as it should, he knew they hit her last night, but he wasn't totally sure how bad. He inwardly turned on his scanner and his eyes lit up and he looked over her body. He usual technical stuff that was there the last time he scanned her a few months back after their last misadventure. At least her ribs had refused themselves. No lasting damage. He turned back around and smiled.

"Well gentlemen...I think we have a party to get together." He said and walked into the kitchen and began to make breakfast for her.

To Zareths surprise Danny didn't to much like cake. She said it kind of hurt her teeth. But she loved cheesecake. He pulled out everything from the fridge and began to make the strawberry cheese delectable that he had been planning on making her for some weeks now. At least Zane was in his head, or this could have turned out wrong. Dareth wasn't much of a cook at all.

Danny had woke up feeling sore, her face felt like it was stepped on. She pulled on her slippers and walked out of her room heading for the bathroom. She looked in the mirror and gasped. Her fingers trailed over her face. The purple, green color was a very dark contrast to the white android skin she had. It even made the wisp marks on her cheeks look like storm clouds. She sighed and looked down at the sink. The events of last night started to come back to her. Specially of what she had said about Dareth. Accusing him of not loving her like that. She looked back up at the mirror.

"You're a monster." She whispered to herself before stepping into the shower.

Zareth had the Cheesecake, pancakes, bacon, eggs, and hashbrowns on the table. It sounded weird but its what Zane said they did for Lloyd...well except the cheese cake of course. It was usually normal cake. Zane sighed in the back of Zareths head.

'She is one weird woman. Not liking cake. Cole would be disappointed.' Zane said. Zareth smiled and nodded his head. He turned on the radio just in time to hear 'Shine' start playing. It was one of Dannys favorite bands 'Collective Soul'

Danny walked into the kitchen to Zareth dancing back and forth in front of the sink cleaning the last of the bowls he had used to make the pancakes. He stopped dancing when he felt Dannys forehead on his back. To get an idea on how they differed in size. She reached to just under his shoulder blades.

"Hey babe." He said over his shoulders.

"Thank you...for not hating me." Zareth shook his head.

"Babe you needed to vent and thats cool. Just next time...make sure its at home and not near an alley where you almost got raped." Dannys eyes grew wide.

"Raped?!" She nearly screamed. Zareth nodded his head and ran his fingers over her face. She gasped at the pain. "Zareth I'm so sorry you had to see what they were doing."

"I said almost..." His eyes flashed red for a moment. Danny knew what that meant.

"You...you defended me?"