It had been an unusually quite day today in New York City, there were no distant sounds of sirens or anything ricocheting down the constantly echoing buildings of the city. This day seemed quite though, a perfect day for people to continue on with their work, whatever it may be. For some people it was typing up business reports, others it was making long reports for their deadline, but for Sapphire, it was painting in a small local studio in downtown New York. Sapphire had always enjoyed painting but the fact that she was now getting paid for her pieces of art gave her extra incentive to do better at her passion.

Sapphire smiled a little to herself as she painted one of the several eyes upon her canvas, allowing herself to get rather wrapped up into her painting. It was rather odd however to see Sapphire…somewhat happy, and it would seem that for a brief moment that Normal Sapphire was in control seeming absolutely ecstatic about it. This gave the young woman time to think to learn and to paint really eerie looking eyeballs without any disturbances.

The black haired woman’s blue eyes focused on her art a she swayed back and forth, not even loosing her concentration on the brush or her multiple colored eyes on the canvas as she did so. The mistress of darkness was a very complex and focused woman and for now she wanted to finish this piece so she could paint another one. The female heard a ringing noise and realized that her bliss would soon be cut short by someone entering the art studio, she inwardly cursed herself for wanting to come in on the day that everyone was off, but it was more happy painting time for her so she didn’t exactly care. Sapphire was determined to ignore this customer unless they wanted to buy one of the paintings, then she would act accordingly but the skinny white dressed clad pale woman wouldn’t budge till then.

Oddly enough though Sapphire had an odd strain of elegance to her paintings that not many ‘dark’ painters had. It was almost as if each one had a certain spark that showed some other feeling besides the darkness of the human soul, one may find it in a random brighter colored splotch on the painting or perhaps a figure with brightly colored hair running across the hills in the background. But It should be know that despite all the darkness that lurked inside Sapphire Lupin there was plenty of light and joy deep inside of her that could be brought out, by the right person even if they weren’t part of her family.

ooc: Geesh took me long enough! Sorry bout that!

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Naveed clutched a piece of paper in his hand rather nervously as he padded down the streets of NYC. It wasn't like Naveed to get nervous or intimidated- unless he was dealing with a certain dark woman. Sapphire. The run in with Emerald and Ruby had made him think of the woman whom he hadn't seen since the night he fell asleep next to her. He had to admit he'd been wondering how she was doing. Seeing that her sisters were fine he thought he could at least use that as an excuse to visit her. Even though he wanted to visit her for his own selfish reasons that he wasn't exactly sure of.

He like Sapphire, there was something about her that reminded him of himelf. There was something about their powers that kept them both strattling lines between good and evil. It was sorta nice to know he wasn't the only one like that.

A small bell jingled as Naveed made his way into the shop/studio. He'd honestly flipped through the phonebook and searched on the internet for hours to figure out this was where Sapphire was. He didn't realize the art was hers at first glance online- it seemed so bright, like she had hope.

He cleared his throat and stuffed the paper with the address on it back into his jeans pocket and stepped into the window light shining into the room. He was dressed casual in a fitting blue shirt and black jeans, his black hair tied back with some twine. He was unshaven and gruff looking but he was clean. He cleared his throat again waiting to be noticed thinking to himself that Sapphire was not the kind of woman you ever snuck up on. Ever.

Sapphire listened to the potential customer walk over to the area where there was much more light and continued painting. However, when she heard the clearing of the throat, a strange sense of familiarity enveloped her. She had heard that gruff throat clearing before and before she could stop herself she turned her gaze over to the source of the sound. A small, smile crept across her face when she saw him, her brush still in hand. The normally stoic female had not seen Naveed in a long time and in her opinion, he still had a certain air about him that made her somewhat attracted to him. Perhaps it was the darkness she sensed inside his heart, greater than that of other people around her or maybe it was just the fact that she genuinely liked the way he was, ether way she seemed relatively happy to see him.

Sapphire smiled and put her brush down onto her easel glancing for a brief moment at the picture with the eyes before rolling her own, it was an odd piece but like all of her pieces it could make you think if you looked at it a different way. Her art was mainly for those that were open minded to the things around them, not close minded like most people seemed to be. The Darkness Mistress walked over to Naveed slowly, that same smile upon her lips.

”Long Time no see Naveed,” her lips formed into a slight pout. “Why Havent you come see me before?”

Naveed grinned relieved. "Hey." he said with a smugish grin. "I wasn't sure if you'd want to see me. I sorta snuck off last time though. With good reason honestly..." he thought if he should get into the details of the camps but decided to let that pass as he put his hand through his hair. "I saw your sisters." he explained. "They were helping my sister actually." he looked about the room akwardly. Naveed wasn't exactly great with women. "They miss you I think. Do they ever look like you. Just as pretty." he snuck that last part on the end and turned to look at her with an honest to god smoldering look. "So this is your new workplace eh?" he stood tall and walked around the room a bit eyeing the paintings. "It's good you've got the space."

he turned unexpectidly to face her again. "How you doing kiddo? Are you happy?"

He wasn't really sure what he expected to happen but for some strange reason he neglected to think of a plan for when he actually got here. He'd wanted to see Sapphire and now he had no idea what to do.

The young woman smiled at Naveed gently, luckily there was no predatory glint in it so that was always a good thing, that meant she wasn’t gonna kill him. In a sense this was a very good think for him unless he wanted to sink into the ground because of his awkwardness around her. Not that Sapphire minded though, she enjoyed his smoldering gaze but it seemed that she much more enjoyed the fact that he seemed a bit flabbergasted around her. He was probably just inexperienced talking to women so Sapphire wouldn’t hold that against him. She was truly glad that he was here, happy to have a ‘friend’ around after all this time. Needless to say Sapphire didn’t exactly have friends to often visiting her artwork, it was truly a nice gesture in her own opinion.

“Happy? I wouldn’t say that necessarily Im doing as well as one might think of for a strange one like myself. It’s sometimes hard finding people to buy items from a mutant like me. But I get by, how about you have you been doing anything interesting lately? How is your sister doing?”

There was a pause as Sapphire thought for a moment for the perfect words to say, the smile on her face turning into a slightly evil one. The female got rather close to Naveed, that evil smiled placed upon those pale features of hers blue eyes glinting with mischief.

“Oh by the way I heard that last part about me being pretty, very sweet of you.” Sapphire told him, kissing him gently on the cheek almost teasingly, pulling away to look at her paintings.

"I disagree." said Naveed trying to keep a calm relaxed face as she pulled away from the kiss. He didn't want to show interest. Not yet. "Your paintings seem different than before." he said walking about the room to look at everything. "brighter colours. Different themes.." he paused. "and you are pretty. Emerald and Ruby look just like you. It was interesting to meet them."

he wandered about a moment taking eveything in then he let out a big breath of air. "Would you like to go to dinner?" the words just sprang out of him without warning. "er uh... to catch up?"