C'est La Vie...

Elizabeth's breath quickened as she felt the Demoness crawl on top of her. She felt her form pressed close, against their own. It was like they were tethered to one another, and the feeling was quite thrilling. She held her lover close even as the kiss was broken, a shaky breath filling her empty lungs with air they no longer required, but craved just the same. Yes, Elaina truly did make her feel alive once again.

Her own two hands found her lover's face, cupping it and mirroring her partner's display of affection. Her words, breaking the beautiful silence, felt almost alien. She stared into Elaina's eyes contemplatively, and then she smiled faintly.

"I've missed you too, Eli." Said Beth. As they arrived at their destination, Beth considered the idea of telling the driver to keep going, taking them in a loop, so they need not end this encounter. "No, I'm not mad." She said dismissively, running a hand through Elaina's hair. "If you'd made me wait another century or two, I might have been." She added wryly.

The driver had opened his door now, and had walked around to Elizabeth's side of the car. He paused, his pale hand curling around the handle of the door, as he noticed the two. Beth took no notice. Eliana's question held more importance.
"Of course I would. You're the only woman in the whole world who makes my heart feel like it's beating again. Why would I let something so petty destroy that?"

Elizabeth sat in silence, staring into the other girl's eyes as thoughts seemed to cross Eli's mind. She didn't speak. There was no need to. The chauffeur snapped them both back to reality, still holding the door open dutifully. As Eli slid off her lap, she got the sensation of something being taken from her. She had not been this close to someone in a very long time, and for a moment, her cold, dead skin seemed to grow colder still.

She smiled weakly at the chauffeur as she departed the vehicle, stepping out at the base of one of her former office buildings, decimated by the hurricane. The topmost level of it appeared to have been torn off of its base, and had flown off somewhere, causing more damage. Still, it appeared beautiful in a sort of apocalyptic way, the glare from the moonlight hitting the place just right.

"Ready?" Beth asked, using her keys, somewhat redundantly, to unlock the shattered glass door of the building. She held it open ceremoniously, allowing Eli to enter first. The place was trashed, desks flipped over, papers lying everywhere, and bits of glass covering the ground. "Mind your step." She warned the Demoness.

She stepped to the center of the room, where two large metal doors, largely untarnished by the weather, stood firmly. She tried the lock, but it appeared mangled and useless. She crushed it in her hand without much ceremony, dropping the destroyed lock to the ground, and prying open the doors. Through the layer of metal, a pristine set of elevator doors stood dutifully.

"I made sure they reinforced the elevator. It's expensive to replace these." She explained. "The power should still be on." She said, experimentally hitting the button. It lit up. Smiling, she waited for Eli to enter. If she did, just as the elevator doors closed, Elizabeth would rake her hands down each row of the hundreds of buttons, causing each one to light up, and the door to open almost immediately at the next floor. A wild, mischievous grin crossed her face as she looked at the demoness.

Beth gave the chauffeur instructions to return when called, and dismissed him. There was no need to make him wait around with the car, not when they may very well be spending the remainder of the night there. Eli’s excitement was not lost on Beth, who was currently fighting very hard as the temptation to resume where they had left off.

Not yet. She thought to herself.

Elizabeth rolled her eyes as Eli greeted her on the other side of the very door she had just opened for her.
“You know, the act of holding the door for you was what I was going for, there.” She nudged sarcastically as she stepped into the ruined building. It truly was a wreck, and truth be told, she was trying her damnedest not to step in the glass. “Just mind the glass. It’ll ruin our shoes if we’re not careful of it.” She cooed, her voice worried and warning, almost motherly, in a way.

As Eli bounced around the room, nearly landing in a pile of shredded metal and broken glass, Eli twisted around, her face practically growing paler still, only to see her catch herself and burst out laughing. Beth let out a sigh of relief. She sometimes forgot that they were both immortal.

Once Elizabeth had effectively trapped the two of them on the elevator, she laughed at the other woman’s comment.
“You mean to tell me you’ve done it on a hundred different floors at once?” She teased the other girl, although she wouldn’t be surprised if the answer was in the affirmative. “I’m sure you’ll still get your chance, if that milestone is what you’re worried about.” She assured her, just as the two each wrapped themselves around the other.

The distance between them seemed to evaporate in an instant as the two embraced. Brown eyes and black hair were the last sights that greeted Beth as her eyes slowly drooped shut. Her hands roamed the other woman’s warm skin, and the occasional *Ding* of the elevator was largely drowned out by the noise of the two lovers. That was fortunate, because it was still a long way up.