'Show Me Where to Begin.'

He didn’t even need to look at her to know she was there; the slight air displacement where she had suddenly appeared was enough to give it away, and coupled with the stench of that wicked brew … she knew, instantly, that there was no point in initiating any form of attack based on secrecy.
He always knew when she was near.
“Before you even ask,” she said softly, her voice barely a breath on the wind, “I came alone.”
A thin smile bled over his face, opening almost like a seeping wound as he opened his eyes, the ethereal amber a sharp contrast to the darkness of the night that surrounded them.
“I know,” he smirked, head tilting slightly as to indicate his attention. “You reek of…evil.” The effect that word used to have on her was…unexplainable. She used to tense, used to glare, used to lash out like a cornered serpent at the closest thing to her. But now there was nothing, barely a whisper of a sigh. Not even an eye-roll. “You sought me out yourself. Not under the guise of a purer intention, not for the sake of anyone else. For the first time in your life, Aeris, you’ve been selfish.” He smirked and glanced over his shoulder. “…It suits you.”
“Selfishness isn’t a guiding virtue.”
“I meant the green.”
Now that was the effect he wanted. She straightened up slightly and folded her arms over her chest, stiffening with both pride and the urge not to show pleasure at compliment. Chase grinned at her, showing a lot of sharp teeth. He could tell by the way she clamped her lips shut that she was hiding her own.
She was becoming more and more like him every day.
“I can’t do it anymore, Chase,” she eventually sighed, those blue orbs fixed on his. He raised an eyebrow in an almost mocking fashion.
“Can’t do what, my pet?”
“Suppress myself.”
He grinned, finally turning to face her fully; her hair was still fluttering in the breeze her sudden appearance had brought. He raised an eyebrow; the remaining blonde strands that had added colour to her pale attire had vanished completely, leaving only pure white. So aged, so defeated.
So beautiful.
“You overestimated yourself,” he eventually smirked, reaching out and tucking a stray strand of ivory hair behind her ear. “You thought you could fight against it. Thought that you could make the deal and remain pure, that it wouldn’t taint you the way it did me.” His smile was becoming patronising. “You did manage though. For a good long while.  You hid it from your friends, your students, your precious Renai.” She frowned at him. “She’s close to you.”
“She’s my family.”
“She’s your daughter.” He raised an eyebrow, the same level of sarcasm but without the grin on his face. “You took what you couldn’t have and made it yours anyway. The Loa Mang Lone has turned you quicker than you thought, in ways unlike what you suspected.”
“I cannot face evil alone.”
He gave a small laugh. “No, you cannot.” He gave her a surprisingly genuine smile as he tilted her chin sideways to get a better view of her face; not a single line of age to show all her years.  “You don’t know what to do. Where to go. For the first time in far too many years, Aeris, you’re lost. You need guidance down a path you are weary to tread, but nonetheless, there’s a hand forcing you down it anyway. The minute that broth touched your pretty lips, you were doomed to follow the Heylin path by your will or not.” He watched her carefully for any signs of movement or response, earning nothing but silence and stillness for almost a whole minute. When she finally looked at him, when she finally opened her mouth, the words she spoke were ones he oh-so-longed to hear.
“Then show me where to begin.”

Writing snippets is FUN. C:
Well, it’s been a fun day. Flirting with my brother’s friends over the Xbox and instructing them to make me a sandwich. I got two sandwiches today. See, when a pretty girl tells a boy to make her a sammich, that boy makes her a sammich. C:
Yeaaah, I’m pretty. X3 *showers oneself in self-love*
Sitting here watching Kill Bill (I want a Hanzo Hatori katana :’( ) at 03:02 in the morning is always a good thing to do because it really brings out the serial-killer in yourself. Apparently you think more when you’re tired, and I can’t sleep, so … yeah. Expect some odd comments. X3
Anyway, I was bored, so thought whoo, Chaeris! Part of me thought “oh, let’s make a sexy picture!” but then the other half of me said; nah, let’s do something really deep and a little shocking.
Heylin Aeris; Aeris who goes Heylin willingly.  Even when she has enough to keep going for; her little Renai, a bit more to her than a student. Dammit, Aeris, you have to stop getting attatched to people! C:
Maybe  this is a spoiler, maybe this isn’t, and maybe I’ll tell you, maybe I won’t. :3
Now, if you’ll excuse me, Beatrix is about to fight Gogo and this fight is beyond freaking epic. It’s like Cassandra Cain has her own movie!

Art/Aeris (c) me,
Renai (c) ~sumerjoy11,
Chase Young/Xiaolin Chronicles (c) Christi Hui.