Cecelia had put on a white apron and was over the stove cooking her favorite dish, fried chicken. She smiled as the oil popped and turned the chicken over. "Oh how I wish I could share this with you, but" she giggled and tweaked at his nose with the tongs she was using to turn the chicken over. "You can't eat real food." She chuckled.

"What a shame." *He said sarcastically with a smile, obviously kidding with her* "I wish I could still eat real food. I used to be a very good cook." *He sighed* "Unfortunatly, friend chicken was a little after my time. I concentrated mostly on classics."

Chi-chi nodded and placed some of the chicken on the plate, unaware of a flour spot on her nose. She sat beside him and looked up with wide eyes. "Which classics?" she asked while grabbing a napkin. "Can you drink things? Other than the obvious...If so, I can get you some..." She took a small bite and then whimpered, having burned her already pierced, and cut tongue. "Oww..." She stuck out her lower lip in pain.

"Will you please be careful?" *He said, exasperated* "You really have a talent for hurting yourself." *He shook his head* "No, I don't drink anything either. Well, except....you know." *He smiled and leaned back* "For a while in 1902 I worked in a five star restaurant in London. I was a chef.....so those types of things."

Cecelia raised an eyebrow. "What kinds of things? Those types of things tell me nothing. In case you forgot, I was born in 1989, not 1900." She wriggled the nose that still had flour on it and bit into the chicken again, this time more aware of the fact that it was hot, and did not burn herself.

ooc: keep in mind that lumos takes place in 1999. I asked adam about it just to be sure about how old dorien actually was.

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"Yes it's easy to forget." *He said and rolled his eyes* "I don't know....I made....three cheeese spinich tortillini with blackened chicken....and wedding soup with garlic bread, and cheese fondue in a bread bowl....and I worked with deserts too." *He sighed* "I had to leave after a year though because I don't ever get any older so I can never stay in one place for very long"

Her mouth began to water. "I should most deffinately let you cook for me... That sounds really good." She licked her lips and wiped her face, letting the flour spread across it unintentionally. "What kind of desserts?" she asked, putting a hunk of the skin in her mouth.

*He smiled at the flour on her face but chose not to let her know about it or wipe it off*" Well, the most complex desert that I made was a six tier wedding cake with little roses on it and sugar cubes that looked like pearls. But I made pound cakes and chocolate mousse and pumpkin cakes and lady locks. I miss it."

Cecelia licked her lips and a suddenly very happy expression went across her face. "I love food...Too much. In fact, all this talk of food is making me want to molest you right now!" With a snap of her fingers, a bunch of ingredients were on the counter. "A simple chocolate cake will do." She blew him a kiss and giggled.

*He grinned and got up, pushing up his shirt sleeves.* "You should be prepared for the best chocolate cake you've ever had..." *He had three bowls: one for dry ingreadents, one for wet ingreadents, and another for his home made icing. He started whipping them together* "I'll make a two layer.......and it'll be my recipe.....which is a secret that you're not allowed to know so don't watch." *He grinned, not looking back at her, concentrated on mixing the correct amount of ingredients*

Cecelia went behind him and wrapped an arm around him. "Okay. A secret's a secret. Which ingredient is the secret one, and I won't tell." She grinned and gently pecked the back of his neck. "Tell me. Which one is the secret?" She rubbed her face against him and chuckled to see flour on his clothes. "Yeah, thanks for telling me that was there.."

"Awww, you're welcome....it was cute." *He poured the wet ingredients into the bowl with the dry ingredients and scraped out what stuck with a spatula. He set them in the sink and grabbed the hand blender and started to blend the ingredients together* "They're all a secret. I intend to take it with me to the grave." *He grinned, seeing as he would never die*

She rolled her eyes. "Okay yeah. Grave... Well seeing as how I will die quite soon in comparison and you never will," she said, tugging a chair up and kneeling on it, "I think your secret's safe with me." She was pleased that he hadn't been bothered by her soft kiss and leaned into him. "So tell me."

*He sighed and lost the smile when she said about dying* "Um...I use a pinch of cinnamon into the mix at the beginning" *He said quietly, still mixing everything, obviously disheartened by the mention of her death*

Chi-Chi gently took both of his hands with one of hers. She let go and then took his face in her hands, tugging them in her direction. "I didn't mean to be so insensitive... I'm sorry..." She licked her lips and tried to catch his eyes. "Forgive me?"

*Dorien looked up from the food to meet her eyes* "It's alright I just....don't like to think about that." *He glanced away and then looked back to her* "Ut's okay." *He said, assuring himself almost as much as he was trying to assure her*

Cecelia licked her lips but did not remove her hands from his face. "Dorien...You still seem hurt...Is there anything that I can do to make you feel better?" She had nothing in particular in mind, but she did feel bad for potentially hurting his feelings. "I didn't mean to say something that would hurt you..."

"No...it's alright. i"m fine...." *He forced a small smiled* "Really, don't worry about it..." *He turned back to the cake, thinking of Rosalie again. He considered telling her but then thought against it. He had never mentioned her since she died, why start now?* "So is chocolate cake your favorite desert?" *He wanted to get off the subject of her death, although he couldn't push the image of Rosalie in her coffin from his mind*

She knew something was wrong and was utterly tempted to persue it to figure things out, but she decided it was better to just let him alone. "No actually.. I really like candy. Not chocolate though.. I love chocolate cake but when it comes to me snacking like a pig, it has to be gummy bears and lolipops and sour patch kids..." ((OOC: and cecelia is a hungry hippo right now lol))

She grinned. "But I really love chocolate cake. I can cook like a pro, but I can't bake for the life of me."

ooc: yeah really....stop talking about candy. I want gummy bears now. lol


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"Most of that wasn't around when I could still eat food. But it sounds good." *He poured the batter into two different round pans and stuck them in her oven, moving on to finish the icing* "But if I remember correctly....chocolate cake is very good indeed"

"Very good indeed!" She snaked a hand through his arm and wiped some frosting on her finger, then in her mouth. She giggled and wiped her finger across it again. "Very good for someone that can't eat!" And with that, she wiped the frosting on his nose and laughed pretty hysterically for something so juvinial.

*He grinned and got some more icing on his finger and reached out and smeared it on her face* "There....it'll go great with that flour." *He laughed with her, just because it was almost contageous.* "Now, no more tampering with my icing.....I'll have to make more and I'll be sevearly put out." *He said, still grinning*

Cecelia tried to reach her tongue to where the icing was but found that she couldn't. "Damnit.." She wiped it with her finger then licked it off with a chuckle. "You can be vicious young lady can't you?" She wiped the icing off of his face as well, licking it off of her finger as well. "Damn you're a good cook..."

*Dorien laughed* "Well, I've had a few years to practice." *He looked at the wall to know the time so he would know when the cake was done* "But I'm glad you tihnk so anyway." *He sat down and sighed* "I hope you don't say that to just anyone."

She held a hand to her heart. "One thing you should know about me honey is that food is my passion. I would never lie about food and not just anyone can make a cake that's as good as that frosting." She realized too late that she had stumbled over her words. She rolled her eyes. "You know what I meant..." She wiped a bit of flour from her face, though there was a bunch more. "Get it off?" she asked, standing before him.

"Yeah, you got it all." *He said earnestly although he was lying. He was an excellent liar after all. He hlaf wanted to tell her that food was his passion too, just a different kind....but he decided that would freak her out*

She wiped her face again, getting flour on her hands. "You lied!" she shouted with mock-anger. "How dare you!" She knew she couldn't hurt him, not that she wanted to. She didn't want to hurt her cake or her chicken... She only had one other option. She reached out to try tickling him, hoping for her sake that he was ticklish. ((OOC:Oh please be ticklish lol))

*He laughed a little, not very ticklish but just a little.* "Now you have to be my prisoner for that...."*He reached out and formed strong manacles around her wrists so she couldn't tickle him anymore.* "I used to be very ticklish, I think....but that fades a lot and your other sences take over."

Cecelia looked up at him, suddenly a face full of seriousness. "I can be your prisioner..I think I'd like that actually." She allowed a saucy grin and rubbed noses with him. "I think someone has some unholy plans for the innocent little veela huh?"

*He sighed* "Me? Noooooo...and with ideas like that I think you could hardly be considered innocent little girl." *He let go of one hand and dragged her over to the oven so he could check on the cakes. The looked good but not done so he closed the oven*

She smiled. "Are you saying you don't want me to be your prisioner then?" she asked, looking up at him with faux-innocence. "I have been known to be pretty naughty." She took a handful of unused frosting and smeared it all over his face. After she was through, she could hardly hold back her laughter.

*Dorien chuckled* "Well, it was good that I made, extra, wasn't it?" *He whiped some off his face and laughed* "You'll have to pay for that one, prisioner or not...." *He showed his teeth and crouched down. With a small hiss he pounced at her, and knocked her onto the couch, so that he was with her. Dorien smeared the icing on her face and laughed*

Cecelia shrieked, wriggling against him and laughing all the while. "Hey that's not fair!" She rubbed herself against him, getting as much frosting on him as possible. She wrapped her arms around him, trying to stop him from moving, but finding the action near useless. "Cheater! You have like, super human speed and strength and stuff." She giggled, not quite wanting to get away from him.

*He laughed at her remark about his super human strength and speed* "Yeah well.....there have to be some perks to it." *He slid out of her grasp easily and checked the oven again* "Cake's done...." *He grabbed hot pads out of habit, not really needing them and took outh the cakes, letting them cook before removing them from the pans*

Cecelia let out a breath she didn't know she had been holding and looked up at him. "You really know how to f**k up a moment do you?" She let out a small half smile and stood beside him to look at the cake, then back up at him. His face was still smeared with frosting. "Now I know what you mean...That does look kind of cute."

*He grinned* "Sorry....but I didn't want to burn your cake...." *He sat back down and wiped the icing off his face* "I wish I could taste it....it looks good....I'm a little jealous."

She smirked. "People are always jealous of me." She fanned herself with one tan hand and chuckled. She turned to him and stuck her tongue out, somehow managing to clank her tooth with the tongue ring. "Freakin dumb stupid..." She covered her mouth. "How is it that someone so pretty can be such a klutz?" she asked, trying to feel if her tooth was loose.

*He rolled his eyes* "You're going to wear me out." *He muttered, running a hand over his face. DOrien stood and got the cake out of the oan and started to ice it, one layer at a time* "Is your tooth ok?"

She chuckled. "Delilah got the sexy and the flirtating...I got the brain and with that somehow came the clumsy... Explain to me how it is that that happened to me..." Cecelia looked up at him and had a hard time not chuckling.

"That's another perk to being what I am.....gracefulness." *He put the other half of the cake on top and finished icing it. Dorien got a knife, plate, and fork for her and cut a slice, setting it on the plate. He brought it over and set it on the table for her*