New Perspective

Alex watched as he grinned and his eyes sparkled at her. He grabbed her hand and led her towards the exit. She held onto every word he said to her and she thought about it for a moment. Now she knows why he brought her to the exit. She let a small grin play on her face.

"I'm up for it" she replied to him. This was Alex's night to let go and have some fun and not worry about other people.

"Great," he grinned, throwing an arm around her shoulders, pulling her closer to him as he continued towards the exit, not sparing any of the other girls around them a glance. What was the point? They'd all lost their chance to have him by not being brave enough to come up to him.

"I hope you don't mind travelling by Floo," Julian said, pulling open the nightclub door for her, "Problems that come with calling Paris home."

Alex simply grinned at him. He put his arm around her and her arm went to his waist and they walked towards the exit. She felt him bring her closer to him and she didn't say anything. This was a one time thing, they both knew it.

She shook her head. "Nope, wouldn't be a first time" Alex said. He opened the door for her and shrugged. "Don't worry about it love" Alex walked out the door but she made sure to grab his hand on the way out.

Love. An involuntary shudder ran down his spine, and he glanced back at Alex, before his gaze was drawn down to their intertwined fingers. Frowning, he looked back up, meeting her brown eyes.

"You do realize that this is a one time thing, right?" Julian slowed his pace to a stop, pulling out her grip.

He was not going to play this game if she didn't know the rules.

She watched as he shuddered. "Oh okay, really? Love, is a phrais some English people say, if I knew you'd react like that, I wouldn't have said it and the hand thing is just to pull you out the door, don't tell me you weren't wondering why" Alex explained to him. Why did boys always thing something completely different.

"Yes I do realize that, why do you actually think I'm looking for someone to love me?" Alex asked. Maybe one day but definitly not now.

"Shhh," he raised a finger, placing it squarely on her lips, an odd mixture of relief, lust, and a bit of amusement sparkling in his blue eyes. She understood - well, maybe not about his obvious dislike and distaste for anything concerning the emotional side of love, but most certainly about how very short term this would be.

"Less talking..." Julian grinned devilishly, a hand wrapping around her wrist to pull her down the street. "And more...action."

Alex rolled her eyes but smirked when he put the finger on her lips. She knew he was relieved that she knew that this was a one time thing, she was too because she didn't want a comintment now.

Alex laughed but let his arm go around her. "Well than what are we waiting for Frenchie" Alex teased.

He grinned back at her, his footsteps faster than they usually were. He couldn't help it; there was just something intoxicatingly exciting about taking someone home. Though technically it wasn't his home, it was where he lived. But there was something weird about calling Ninette's house home.

Slipping into a store, he gave the owner a charming grin. With a handful of Floo Powder in hand, Julian leaned against the fireplace, humming softly. "Ready?"

Alex kept up with him when he quickened his pace a bit. They ended up entering a shop and Julian grinned at the clerk and turned to her and she realized their was flu powder in his hand. "Yes I am ready, by the grin on your face and the fast walking, you are as well" Alex was the one grinning now.

That grin of his only widened.

Shrugging a shoulder, he grabbed a pot of Floo Powder, holding it out to her. Once she'd taken it, he tilted his head slightly, his grin still in place. "You can't blame me, can you?"

Giving her the address, he turned toward the fire, grinning from ear to ear. Tossing the powder into the flames, turning them all emerald green, he recited the address, tossing a grin over his shoulder before stepping into the fireplace.

Stepping out of the Fontaine fireplace with a cough, he glanced around the darkened house. "Anyone home?" he called, the silence his answer. Good. She wasn't here.

Leaning against a wall, he blew ashes off of his skin, waiting for Alex to find her way here.

She took the floo powder and shrugged. "Nope, guess not" Alex replied to him. She listened to the address and waited for him to disappear before she got in and followed him. She mentally thanked whoever it was to distract her family from her leaving and going to the hissing snake. She stepped into the fireplace and gave the address Julian gave her and dropped the powder.

When the flames went out she saw Julian waiting for her. She stepped out of the fire place and brushed the dirt off of her. She looked at Julian. "So what now" she asked with a smirk.

"What now?" he arched an eyebrow, making his way towards her, each step full of purpose. The grin was back on his face. The idea of wiping it off now just seemed pointless.

"Well," he elongated, stopping just in front of her, licking his lips slowly. "Whatever," he leaned towards her, brushing a strand of hair back, his fingers dancing across her skin for far longer than necessary. "You," he cupped her face with his hands, a corner of his mouth lifting up into a smirk. "Want."

And with that, he brought his lips to hers with an open mouthed kiss.

Alex smirked when he repeated her question. He stepped towards her but very slowly. Alex knew he was tempting her but it didn't matter to her at the moment.

He was teasing her now. She was prepared for him to kiss her but he simply moved hair behind her ear. His fingers were against her pair skin and she was wondering when did it start feeling hot in the place. She really wanted to wipe that grin off his face. She kissed him back when his mouth met hers. She pulled away but their bodies still touching.

"I want you" she gave him her famous seductive smirk.