Well isn't this an expansive beach? Like most things in The World, this thing is no longer in use. In fact, it doesn't even work anymore. There's nobody around to look after it, and the door might even be locked. Bah, you know what? Just forget I said anything and I hate you all!

::Paz walks up to the old door of the lighthouse and grabs the handle::

"Locked, typical."

::After looking around on the floor for a key or something he shrugs and raises his hands, using his powers to emit a laser beam onto the door handle::

(And I'm hoping to achieve what?)

"Yeah, it's just not working like this."

::He steadies his hand by holding his wrist with his other hand and instead focusses on the door. He moves the beam around the handle, burning the wood. A deep black line is left in it's wake::

"Nifteh"

::With a kick, the door swings open, leaving the handle attatched to the frame::

"Anybody home?"

(Shit, I hope not. Cause I kinda just ruined their door)

::He walks into the dusty and dim room, looking around::

"Freaky."

"Handy little power you got there mister "breaking and entering"."

::Patience surveys her surroundings and spots an old couch, a gas lantern, spiderweb covered pictures, and a very questionable looking staircase that she wanted to climb inspite of its questionableness.::

"Freaky indeed...lets go to the top."

"Lets."

::He takes hold of the staircase's dusty railing and slowly makes his way up::

(Why the hell are we doing this?)

"If we fall, we die. Not like we have a power that can help during a fall from the top of a lighthouse."

::He reaches the top and looks around at the massive expance of sea. The broken glass and the dusty floor not being significant, he just stares out at the ocean::

"This place is amazing"

::He walks around the small circular room, the large light in the middle rusted and unused, covered in cobwebs::

"Light..."

::For some strange reason he feels a connection to the lighthouse, or rather some kind of feeling that just subsides in his stomach::

(It was light, then it's unwanted. Now look at it.)

"Am I going to be the same?"

::Patience greedily takes in the flawless view before her and her mind starts to drift.::

(Its times like this I trust in destiny...I am exactly where I am supposed to be.)

::Patience is pulled out of her self induced trance by Paz's question. She turns and finds herself staring into his eyes.::

"What do you mean?"

::He shakes his head only just realising he said that bit outloud::

"I mean that this lighthouse used to be important, it used to guide people with it's light, it was needed. Then it was forgotten, no one cared anymore, it was just there. Am I destined to be the same, will people get tired of my light?"

::He stared out at the sea::

"Wow, I really didn't want to tell you that. And god! How cheesy!"

::Patience chuckles lightly at Paz's remark.::

"Its not cheesy...and I think everybody feels that way at some point...nobody wants to be alone and forgotten,especialy those who have shared a part of themselves with the world. I know that that dosen't keep it from happening...but you need to understand...the world needs light to guide it, everything is dependent on light...plants, animals, us...we all need it to survive. So even though the light from this lighthouse is long gone there is still the moon, the stars, the sun..."

::Patience's attention is grabbed by a prisim of colors that is on the wall. She traces its origin with her eyes and she discovers that the glass from the large broken bulb on the top of the lighthouse is reflecting the sun to make this rainbow. She points it out to Paz.

"See, light is never forgotten...it simply moves from task to task and place to place."

(Geez...where is that coming from?)

::Patience gives paz her softest look.::

"Besides...you seem like a wonderful person I'll bet you will be surrounded with friends in time...if you aren't already"

::Paz listens intentley to Patiences words, and follows the direction of her finger until his eyes settle on the small rainbow of colours. He listens silently to her words and nods::

(That helped, odd.)

::He looks at Patience and smiles::

"Thank you."

::He sits down on the dusty floor, and once more looks out onto the sea, sunlight glistening off the waves::

(Light changes...it moves from task to task and place to place.)

::He rubs his palms::

(Meaning my powers are the same, they can go in any direction, do anything.)

::His eyes move back to the reflected light::

"I need to find new ways to use my power, ways to change it. I need to find out my true nature and accept it, the way the wiccan said I should, then it'll all make sense."

"Well then use this spell to your advantage. Ask yourself the tough questions...about what you want out of life, about why you are here, about how you feel about Justin and if he is the one...

(I hope I'm not pushing it...I would just hate it if they broke up.)

and go with what ever answer comes to you."

(No matter how blount it is...)

::He suddenly begins to shuffle on his feet::

"Ok, so what do I want? That's a question that has a hundred goddamn answers."

::He wrings his hands nervously. Then his head rises to look at Patience::

"I have to go..."

::He begins to run out, down the stairs, shouting as he exits::

"...I need to find Justin. Thanks for your help Patience! See you around!"

::He dashes out of the door onto the beach::

"No problem"

::She calls after him as she begins to be pleased with herself.::

(I should of been a psychologist)

::Patience looks around and now notices that she is very much alone.::

"Well now what?"

::Patience asks herself as she heads down the stairs, out the door, and back to the beach.::

::Sabriel appears on top of the lighthouse. She looks down at the sea, then sits at the edge and leans her arms on the bars, thinking of Lee::

[Lightning strikes the lighthouse, three times in a row]

::Sabriel jumps as the first strike hits her, the jolts wracking her body::

"HOLY SHI-"

::She gets hit by the second bolt, and blinks out to avoid the third. She appears back on top of the lighthouse, singed and burning. Sabriel stomps out sparks on her trenchcoat, and blinks down to the Beach::

::Lilith smokes in on the side of the light house feeling rather alive, because of recent events. She smokes out and reappears at the highest part of the lighthouse, and sits.::

::Standing up on top of the lighthouse, Lilith looks down to the ground. The tint of red in her eyes finally dissipates, with a little shake of her head.::

(What did I do?)

::Feeling a little drained from the encounter. Lilith poofs out to her apartment.::

::Luke arrives at the lighthouse and enters. He walks up to the the highest point within the structure, staring at the sea.::

(God, I miss you.)

::He looks at the sea for a little while longer before orbing to the stairway at CW Apartments.::

::Lilith reappears at the top of the Light house. Sitting on top of the building she looks out to the open sea.::

::Lilith stands and looks at how far up she is.::

(This looks like it could be fun.)

::Lilith crosses her arms around her chest, and falls off the side. Plummeting to the ground, not a single thought goes throw the Furies mind. No she is not committing suicide, she just decided to do it this way. Before she is about to hit the ground she smokes out and goes to her apartment.::

:: Azura walks into the old lighthouse and runs up the stairs to the light tower as quickly as possible. Once she's up there, she climbs out onto the little ledge which runs around the outside and grips onto the railing as she looks out at the city. After a moment she closes her eyes, gradually blocking everything around her out, trying to focus her power. ::

(I don't even know if this will work. But perhaps I will be able to hear at least something from up here.)

[Um... what are you expecting? Really.]

:: Azura sighs in frustration and actually voices her annoyance. ::

"I don't know! Something. A hint at what it will take for me to actually make this power useful to me."

:: She closes her eyes and leans forward against the railings. ::

(This cannot get the better of me.)

[FINE! You pick up on Luke's thoughts, through your connection to him. He's dreaming about sex. With you.]

:: Azura's eyes shoot open, her grip on the railings tightens at the same time. Her face is contorted in shock and disgust. ::

(I never thought Lucas... I never meant... A position like that is not even possible.)

:: She looks up at the sky. ::

"Thank you for that wonderful image, which I now have burned into my retinas."

:: After a while of glaring at the sky, Azura lowers herself down so that she is sitting on the ledge with her legs daggling out over it between the railings. She keeps one hand on one of the rails and leans her head against it as she looks out into the darkness. ::

(Not the result I was looking for, but at least it is something. I will give this place some credit, at least it is quiet and out of the way. And it is one of the first times something hasn't tried to kill me.)

::The vampire sneaks up behind Azura.::

(She smells so pure and... mmm... delicious...)

::With the wind bringing the redhead's scent directly to the vampire, her senses still up into a whirr of excitement and her ravenousness is close to overbearing.::

:: Azura gets that being watched feeling, and slowly turns her head until she is staring at the vampire. Smiling nervously, she tighens her grip on the railing and readies herself to get up. ::

"Oh... hello."

"Hello, handsome."

::The vampire walks towards her with a smirk on her face.::

"Fancy grabbing a bite?"

::Bares her fangs and lunges.::

:: Azura screams at the top of her lungs when the vampire bears its fangs and jumps at her. As quickly as she possibly can, she brings her legs back up onto the ledge and turns herself around. She begins scrambling away, tripping as she goes since she's in such a hurry to get away from the vampire. ::

(What is that... that... thing! Inside. I need inside.)

::The vampire rushes after Azura and leaps on top of her, going for her thrapple.::

:: Azura tumbles to the ground with the vampire on top of her. She whimpers pathetically and wriggles around in an attempt to dislodge the vampire from her, and protect her thrapple. ::

(Iamgoingtodie!)

"Aw, come on, that's all you got? Pathetic much?"

::The vampire elbows Azura in the face, and knees her, conveniently, in the crotch.::

:: Azura doubles up in pain from the double attack. She blindly feels around for anything which could be used as a weapon. Her hand comes across an old piece of - conviently placed - wood, which she swings at the vampire. ::

"No. It isn't."

"Oof!"

::The vampire rolls off Azura after having taken the clublike thing to the head. A little dazed, she comes to her senses and jumps onto her feet, yanking Azura up by her hair where she proceeds to smack her face off the metal railing surrounding the platform.::

:: Azura screams in pain at having her head bashed off of the rail. She almost has literal stares before her eyes as she tries to pull herself out of the vampires grip. Not sure if that would work, she tries to kick her leg out and trip the vampire up. ::

(Stupid, useless, passive power!)

::The vampire sucks also, and trips over Azura's foot, thankfully for her not falling over the edge of the lighthouse. She shakes her head and gets back up, rubbing her behind and snarling angrily.::

:: Azura takes the opportunity to scramble to her feet. She half keeps her attention on the vampire and she looks around for where the door back into the light deck of the lighthouse is. Seeing that it is behind her, she spins and makes a mad dash for it. ::

::The vamp blocks Azura and smirks.::

"Oh come now, running away? I thought you just claimed you weren't pathetic?"

:: Azura backs up a few steps, staring at the vampire all the while. ::

"Not wanting to die a horrible death is not pathetic."

:: Her eyes dart around her desperately as she searches for some other way down. Short of jumping off the ledge. ::

::Lunges.::