He could feel himself calming down, now he was leaning against Armand. Comforting to be here nestled against his borrowed warmth. As if he was the smaller of the two. Until Bianca crossed his path he hadn’t really noticed how much his devil adapted for him. Not moving too fast, having a mortal step. Sometimes laughably even making him feel like his strength matched his youthful form, and Daniel was the stronger male. Gifted in his charade. “She gave me a message, meet her where she first met me. Times Square, tomorrow night.” Worried and fascinated by the idea of Armand meeting whoever she was. He listened to the following words, the request. “Okay…Let me know your safe right?…Please.”
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“Not gifted dearest,” He tried not to dip into his thoughts with abandon, not anymore. “Imitating what I once was, no need to flaunt my otherness. You pride yourself in being used to me. But I’m dangerous, but I love you so for your sanity. I’m like the youth I once was…” stroking Daniels hand and raising it to his lips. “Stay here I’ll go to her tomorrow then meet you back here. Please don’t run again just yet. Lest she follow.” He stayed there until Daniel fell asleep and he slipped to his resting place nearby.
The next night he stalked the streets, on high alert. Dressed in less casual wear, a smart shirt and fine woop coat for the famed New York chill. Cloaking himself in the shadows and hiding in plain sight as he scanned the benches for her. Hopping and skipping from human to humans minds to find her. Ah there she was glowing in the well lit area, hair a period piece. Would it feel the same, would her skin. Where had she been - a whirl wind of thoughts all locked behind his peaceful face. Just a young man about town, eyes looking at him as he gazed at her. Feeling their weight he made sure they looked away from him and her. No living soul should witness this reunion. Because until she spoke he didn’t know what he’d do, coincidence he didn’t believe in had brought her to his Daniel.
The lost orphan in him wept with equal joy and sadness that she was there. Alive, well.
But his practical present self shrewdly observed. Where had she been until now, away from him…
Appears next to her in a blink. “Why and here?” So cold and aloof from his dearest lady love, Bianca.
It stopped her breath silently, the sudden presence of Amadeo by her side. Not on account of his abrupt arrival, but rather simply due to the impression of having him close. Finally, looking at his face so close, having him near her. At once, all her apprehension disappeared.
Her gaze regarded fondly at the inscrutable features that looked back at her. She felt unfazed by his coldness. It seemed a given thing —of course, he would be confused, of course, he would be hurt. But what was substantial was that he was there. He had come. That alone gave her hope and allowed her to recover her usual calm and poise. As long as he was there everything else could be bridged
She heard his tense voice and pondered his questions, although she gave no evidence of it. What could she tell him, why not? where then? No, that wouldn’t be the first words she would speak to him after five hundred years. It ought to be something better, something true, something real. Nothing less than a grand declaration or some profound truth seemed appropriate to break the long centuries of silence… but all she could do was address his concerns and answer his inquiries.
“Because I can’t remain away anymore. Remorse, precaution and even shame have lost their grip over me” she enunciated the words slowly, her serene eyes remaining on him at all times “I barely know the city as it is currently, I couldn’t think of another place to propose. Now that you are here we can go whenever you want”
"I meant why did you find me now, in this time." Did his deep gaze of askance seem familiar to her, was he so changed then when he was Amadeo to her. The eyes older, shadows in them that weren't there before, once upon a time in venice. The fact she was here a revelation, it stirred things within him. "But did you know I was here, how long had you been following Daniel?" This was important to him. The finer details.
Thinking on it he nodded, "Central park. It's vast enough to lose ourselves in." Frowning a tad more and then adding. "Was it you in Paris? At the theatre?" A ghost of his past she'd seemed at the time, a spectre he didn't know he deserved to see anymore. "Follow me." Using his speed to dash off towards the park.