Rachel met Erik nearly a decade ago shortly after having come to Detroit. She seen him only for a moment and knew she had to have him a body of a Greek god, short bone white hair spiked and odd off color grey eyes that looked right through you. For Rachel it was a visceral reaction that couldn't be ignored and she knew nothing of who he was in those first few moments only that something in her was drawn to him and the beast in her would not be denied, it was a need she had never had and would never have again so powerful and strong that it was that of a force of nature all it's own.
She soon, through watching him in that first meeting, figured out just who he was from some of his tattoo's, Erik Bone Gaven, arguably the most dangerous man on the streets of Detroit, leader of the Skelton crew back then a gang so secretive nothing was really known about them except that the police couldn't take them down and the most hard core Detroit thug would cower at the mention of the fabled boogieman. Well that was just match to powder keg for Rachel, she had to meet him, right then, right there.
After that it was all heartache and chaos on Rachel's part, she still had need to be close to him but to do so lead to pain and humiliation so she had to keep away but fate was a cruel mistress and Detroit was surprisingly small, their paths kept crossing, fate kept bringing them back into each other's lives and in time, a very, very, very long time she began to get back on his good graces. They were forced to be close through circumstances beyond their control, everything around them was pushing them together and then trying to pull them apart but through it all things developed and before they knew it they had real feelings for one another.
Finally the forces that sought to drive them apart did so and for seven years they didn't see each other, both trapped in their own personal hell trying to get out. Both of their memories altered they went on with their lives until they were once again seven years later brought back together. Things had greatly changed, Rachel had grown up a great deal and though she was more broken and damaged than she had been she was stronger in other ways and had built a mighty reputation for herself in her world.
Erik likewise had changed both molded from circumstance, both having weaknesses and faults that the other fit and filled, fate had come in and made them fit, changed them to suit the other as if that time separated was needed for them to become the strength the other needed to fulfill a destiny neither asked for or even sought but it was theirs to see through. Their love would either hold fast or the enemy would break them apart, only time and fate knew the answer to that.
