a chance at a normal day.

[Zack Rokai]

An hour earilier Zack had worked up his courage to ask the priest to remove his armor for one day. The priest at first refused saying that his job would be in jepordy if any undead raise in the graveyard.

Zack took his sword and bought clothes using the church's money he bought dark clothes he was not going to be an assassin no he was just trying to look normal. Zack didn't know what the day had in store for him since it was still early.

He walked down the street in his new outfit yet his hair was combed over his left side of his face to his scars. He was just happy to be normal even though it was just a day.

"Damn priests, all I ask is one day a month to be a normal person. Yet they same the same damn thing. 'What if the undead raise.' I could care less outside of that suit of armor." Zack said and sighed he looked around people didn't pay much attention again."Maybe I'll see her again. Charlie, what a odd nurse she was." Zack was talking to himself. He didn't really care for those around him. That was just him for anyone.

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[Charlie]

Charlie had been out of the hospital now for a couple weeks and she was now walking the streets of the city after visiting her mother at the store. She wore today, a nice long loose fitting skirt that moved freely about her ankles and her sandaled feet made a soft padding sound as she moved along with a tank top, both were brown tones with golden leaves placed along the edges for design. Her duties at the hospital were over for the day and she was just about to pick up some bread and a bit of milk for her nights supper at home when she looked up and saw him.

She had to take a second look, just to make certain sure, but it was the Paladin all right. What was his name? Oh yes, Zack was what he had called himself. She smiled when she saw him and decided her dinner could wait for the moment. This man seemed nice enough as people go and this time, he was off duty, or at least she figured he was, due to the fact that he was dressed in regular clothing and not in his paladin’s attire.

The blonde nurse walked over and up to him and with a friendly smile inclined her head, his way in recognition. “Hello again.” She greeted. “How are you today?” She asked with that all too familiar warming smile and voice she always seemed to carry with her wherever it was she went.

[Zack Rokai]

Zackheard her foive when he looked over at her."Charlie, good to see you again. I am alright, I just wish I had more time when we last met to get to know you. I was on duty that whole day." He said as he looked at her his face hidden by his hair. Well at least his scarred side was."Today I was hoping just finally converse with anyone will to listen to me." Zack said and then pointed to a small resterant."Would you like to join me?"

Zack was only asking for her company if she didn't want to it was fine. Yet Zack was hungery he hoped that Charlie would at least take him on his offer. Zack wasn't going to do anything toward Charlie after all they only met a month ago. Zack's thoughts were more on trying to be normal for the day. Which he wanted sometimes more times than others.

[Charlie]

So he had remembered her. She was glad he did as she would have felt very odd had he not. She smiled wider at his greeting and then with a quirky little tilt of her head she grinned at his offer as well, it would certainly beat the hell out of spending the evening alone at home with her thoughts and a plate full of food she would inevitably end up slightly picking at as she mused over the past couple weeks and finally throwing out because of loss of appetite. Yes, perhaps this she could use as much maybe as he could.

“Well Zack, I am always here to lend an ear to you if you are willing to speak and I wouldn’t dream of turning down your offer of a dinner.” She replied and accepted his invitation all at the same time. “Shall we then?” She warmly smiled over at the man, totally ignoring his obvious covering of his disfigurement, that simply didn’t bother her, she wasn’t so shallow as to have allowed something so small as that to hold her back from neither conversing or accepting an invitation to dinner from someone who she figured could become a friend, and she really could use the company after all.

“As far as the other day is concerned.” She then went on, talking as they moved off toward the diner. “I totally understand, you are after all here to protect and who would I be to hold that against you. Besides, see…” She smiled at him. “You’re making up for it as we speak by taking me to dinner.” She winked at him and then looked forward again as they approached the diner.

[Zack Rokai]

Zack smiled she accepted his invitation to dinner. Zack opened the door to the diner and said."After you, Charlie." Zack said he was after all a paladin and needed to at least acy like one even thought that armor was just too much he had nothing to worry about today. Zack then waited for her to enter and he walked in right behind her."I'll take care of the bill. I am the one who invited you to this diner." Zack said he smiled for the first time he wasn't forcing it, it was a real smile. Which for him was a first.

Zack had noticed what Charlie was dressed in yet he didn't care he had to admit it she was lovely in it. Zack just want to have a worry this was his 3rd attempt at a regular day. The other two he had to slay undead with out his armor. He wanted a regual day, this was better cause he had someone to talk to.

[Charlie]

Charlie walked into the diner and followed a girl to the table they were to be seated at then sat down. She smiled over at Zack and then to the serving girl As she had asked if they wanted anything to drink as she handed them their menus.

“I’ll have iced tea.” Charlie told the girl in her usual soft and kind tone, always accompanied with that soft warm smile.

Charlie looked around the diner her already smiling lips turned up slightly more as she realized she’d been in this place many times before. It was a quaint little place with good food and always-friendly service.

“Thank you.” She looked across the table and thanked Zack for dinner. “This is a great place too.” She added with that same tone as always as she took up her menu and began to read over what they had to offer, though she already had a good idea what she might want.

[Zack Rokai]

"Water will do for me." Zack said to the waitress and saw Charlie looking around. Then she tahnked him he smiled."Your welcome Charlie, this is actually my first time here." Zack said and looked around and then looked at the menu. Zack had no idea what to get. He read everythign saw the details and all and yet he had no idea what to have.

"Charlie do you suggest anything? I've never been here before."Zack said and fixed his hair on the left side of his face so it would be harder to see his scars. He looked at Charlie then back at the menu. He was unsure of what to order as of yet anyway.

[Charlie]

Charlie smiled up at him from her menu and nodded. “Yes I tend to enjoy their pasta a lot.” She replied to his question. “I am thinking along the lines of a nice Penne myself.” She went on. “Perhaps you should try it too?” She then questioned. “It is really yummy.” She added with her lips further turning up into a full smile now before she closed her menu and settled it back on the table before her.

Charlie was glad to be here, glad for some company, she’d spent most of her time alone since her father’s death, save for the say time when she was at work or with her mother. This was never really a good thing, she needed this, needed to get out of her house and spend time with others and what a better opportunity than dinner with a new found friend.

“So, what is it a Paladin does on his time off?” She then asked, her expression never changing. “As a nurse I tend to stay away form the hospital as much as I can, of course I sometimes don’t get that time off.” She grinned. “Though it is nice when I do as that means there isn’t too many wounded around.” She finished and then looked around once more at the interior of the diner.

It was a comfortable place, decorated with candles in the center of all the tables setting in lightly tinted red glass holders that, instead of having a smell, had no smell at all allowing for the full scent of the kitchen to wonder about to the noses of its customers. There were also a great number of guests, telling that she was not the only person that liked the place and its food. He had chosen well, even if he had not known it.

[Zack Rokai]

"Normally we don't get time off I of course started the and day a month break."Zack said and then looked at the menu again."Of course the priest alwasy act up because I seem to be the only one able to slay undead. Yet for the last 2 months nothing not even a mouse in that graveyard." zack said and then looked at Charlie for a moment and then sighed."No one really knows what it's like to be watched nearly 24/7. Even on my days off." Zack said and looked outside the window to see a guard just start walking away.

Zack looked at Charlie and said."I would love to be a normal as everyone else." Zack looked down to the table and sighed again."Becuase of the church I'm not allowed to experiance the best things in life like you can, Charlie." Zack said and looked around the room."Love, marriage, and all that kind of stuff." Zack looked at Charlie and then looked at the menu."Yet I can take a new friend out for a nice dinner is fine." Zack said and closed the menu."I think I know what I want."

[Charlie]

Charlie looked up as the waiter appeared and settled their drinks in front of them and she offered him a friendly smile and a thank you to go with it. He then took their food order and was on his way to take care of what they asked for. She took up her drink and sipped at it then took a long draw of its contents and settled the container on the table before her as Zack continued to talk.

“Priests…” Charlie scoffed and rolled her eyes. “Sometimes I wonder about them.” She actually near growled. “Oh, I am so sorry, I mean no disrespect or anything, just I haven’t had the best of luck befriending a single one, ever.” She went on, not believing she’d just put down the religious facilitators when sitting with a Paladin of all things. She took a long drink form her drink again after that, mentally kicking herself and hoping she hadn’t just screwed up what could be a perfectly good dinner with a friend. Then again, he didn’t seem all to happy with the order either, so she felt perhaps things should be fine.

Charlie once again laughed slightly at his remark to normal. “Just what is normal in your eyes Zack?” She then asked, throwing aside the things about the family business. “I try to find normal in my dictionary and I come up blank every time.” She gave another half laugh at her own life. “I think that word is sometimes overrated.” She finished as she raised the glass to her lips one more time.

“And yes, a nice dinner with a friend never hurt anyone.” She then replied with that ever present warming smile she always seemed to carry with her wherever she went. “No one should argue that point.” She fished, settling her glass on the table again.

[Zack Rokai]

"Normal to me is things anyone can do any day of their life." Zack said as he said his order and looked at Charlie and said."Yet I wanna know what it is like to have someone close to you. I because of my rank I can't even know what it's like. There are days I wish to be like everyone around me. To know love, passion and romance. Yet because the preists seem to watch over me on my one day off I can't." Zeion said after the waiter left and then said."If I could sneak away I would yet, the metal in my armor seal out the calls of the demon blade buried out in the.....graveyard...." Zack had realized why he was made to watch the graveyard they were worried an undead would retreive it."Well now I see their plan." He said and looked at Charlie and said."Their not worried about undead their worried about the blade." Zeion said and looked at the table."I was a fool to think they were conserned about me." Zack said and then sighed heavily."Charlie I want to live life like today. I really do want a normal life."Zack said and looked at her with his right eye revealed he would have begged her to help him live the city if not for a gaurd outside watching in.

[Charlie]

Charlie took another sip from her drink as he talked about what it was he thought perhaps normal should be in his own eyes. Definitely normal for him was not what she found normal to be every day of her life.

Here she was a nurse in the cities largest hospital studying to be a doctor, a father who she had just witnessed being crushed to death between a great ship and a dock, though still she didn’t know much after that until she had woke. Her mother was declining in health every day since her fathers’ death, to this Charlie was perhaps thinking it wouldn’t be long until her mom had simply given up on anything at all. She had just befriended a man who was a Paladin who hated what it was he did but continued to do it because of some silly sword of darkness that had disfigured him, or at least that was what he had thought happened to him, in Charlie’s eyes it just gave him a larger character and honestly couldn’t find a thing wrong with him other than he was simply greatly depressed. No, his definition of normal everyday life was definitely not what Charlie’s had been.

“You know Zack, what you need is a good does of forget your problems for a night.” She then stated and winked at him as she took one more sip of her drink. “Of course, I think that is what we could all use from time to time.” She gave him another wink and a warming smile. “Hey after dinner, you want to go for a night ride? You can ride my father’s horse.” She then decided it just might do her new friend some good to take a long ride in the night air

[Zack Rokai]

"Maybe I do. I wonder just when though the priests will try and stop that fun. I'll bring my horse from the stables he is hardly ever out unless the caretaker is there." Zack said as he took a drink and looked at Charlie and smiled."Maybe what I need is a forgetful night. A time where nothing else matters and just have a chance to be myself. Tonight I'll sneak out and meet you at the ocean." Zack said and then noded and whispered."Is there a gaurd by the window again?" Zack asked because he felt like he was being watched and yes there was another gaurd right out the window just looking in thought it was obvious he was watching Zack.

Zack of course always knew the gaurd that would watch him cause after all Zack had to know each gaurd by name and face and only one was told to watch him. He admitted Charlie was just a person to talk to after all she actaully listened to him...which to him was a first.

[Charlie]

Charlie listened to his response as their meals arrived at the table and after thanking the server, picked up her fork and then looked out of the window at the man who was peering in as if he was supposed to be there and his ego gave him the right to spy on the two. Charlie smiled sweetly at the man out side the window and then took a big bite of food, chewed it up and then, looked back up at the man peering through at them as they began to eat. She opened her mouth and exposed the man to her mouthful of chewed food and then, after swallowing laughed as he looked away in disgust.

“Well!” Charlie giggled slightly as she looked over at Zack, he wanted to know what he was doing, and so I showed him.” She stated innocently and then continued to eat, giving Zack a smirk and a wink all at once.

She took another bite and then a drink and smiled warmly at Zack then. “Ok, a midnight ride it is then sounds wonderful.” She replied.