Shadowess Posted August 29 Author Posted August 29 Denix Vames - April 10, 2021 Elliot tossed some bacon strips on the pan. "I don't want you near the stove for this one. Ya might burn yourself. When you get older, I'll let ya handle the bacon. Why don't ya go with Vincent to the living room? Watch some TV while I do this?" --- "What?! I'm not leaving Tom!" Nate's wings sprouted. "If that bastard wants to try and kill him then he has to go through me. No offense to Hell but I don't want him there. And Heaven's no better. He can stay with me. We're in France. It's not like he's gonna come over here and try to kill him. He doesn't know that we're here. So no, he's not going." --- Carter sighed. "I'm sorry. It's just....This case is really fucking with me. I was so close to catching that sick bastard." He shook his head as he pinched the brim of his nose. "Just stay by my side and I'll take those cuffs off." He parked at the precinct. He took her cuffs off then stepped out of the car. They headed inside. He lit a cigarette. Smoking as he went up to the secretary. "Is Will around?" shadowess - April 11, 2021 "Ok!" Neva replied happily and practically ran into the living room where Vincent was. She sat on the couch and looked at the TV. --- Patience thought about arguing for Tom's sake but the room had started spinning for her. She had warned Carter that she'd already used too much of her powers today and now she was paying for it. She leant against the nearby dresser and rubbed her forehead, looking a bit pained. "Ok..." she sighed. "I believe he'd be safe with you...and it's not like I'm in a position to take him anywhere right now anyway...At least now you two are up to date and have an idea of what he was planning. So, you know what to look out for..." She glanced at the door. "I'll leave you two to it. Though I might have to get myself a room for the night so I can rest. I'll be gone by tomorrow morning, I promise. Sorry to interrupt you guys." She pushed herself away from the dresser and began walking shakily towards the door. --- Jessica glanced over at Carter when he apologized and she listened to him quietly. When he instructed her to stay close and he'd take the cuffs off her, she nodded. "Ok..." she said quietly as she turned to look at the road ahead. When they arrived, she followed Carter into the precinct and waited close by, looking around curiously. Denix Vames - April 11, 2021 Vincent and Neva were watching cartoons while Elliot was making sure that the bacon was cooked but not burned. It didn't take long for the food to be done. "Food's ready!" Elliot set the large bowl of grits, plate of scrambled eggs, and plate of bacon in the middle of the table. Vincent held her hand as they both went to the table. He smiled. "This looks delicious, Elliot. I think we'll like it." Elliot smiled. "Thanks but ya'll haven't tried it yet." "I'm sure it will taste good either way." They sat. "After all, you made it." He blushed. "Go ahead and take a bite." Vincent placed some of everything on his own plate before passing one by one, each dish to Neva who passed it along to Elliot. --- "Hold on a minute." Nate touched her arm. "You should rest here. Just to be safe. I think you used a lot more of your powers than I ever did." --- "Carter?" Will walked over. "What are you doing?" "It's complicated but I need you to keep an eye on Jessica. Can we talk somewhere else? More private?" "Sure." He led them to his desk. "Anyway, she's been making a mess of things. She's not a suspect if that's what you're thinking. We just need her out of our hair so that we can focus on the case. Would you mind having her at your place?" He bit his lip. "I guess it wouldn't hurt. As long as it's temporary. I don't normally have people over. It feels weird. Not unless they're my kind of people if you know what I'm talking about." "Yeah, I get it. But don't worry. She won't be hanging around your place for long. I promise." He nodded. "Then she can stay with me." "Great. I'll-" Just as Carter was about to leave, he suddenly collapsed. Dropping his lit cigarette on the floor near him. "Carter!" Will ran over. He checked his pulse which was slow. "Somebody call for an ambulance and get me a med bag!" He placed Carter on his back. He gently shook him. "Hey Carter. Can ya hear me?" Carter had been working tirelessly day in and day out that he had forgotten to eat and drink. Being dehydrated and starving was never a good idea. Shadowess - April 11, 2021 Neva had been cuddling up to Vincent as they watched cartoons and when Elliot announced that the food was ready, she beamed and jumped to her feet. Vincent took her hand and they walked over to the table where she sat down between them. She watched Vincent put some of each thing onto his plate and when he past the dishes along to her, she did the same before passing the dishes to Elliot. They were soon digging in and she happily ate the bacon first, loving the taste. ---- Patience paused when Nate touched her arm and she looked at him woozily. "She really doesn't look so good. She looks like she's about to pass out." Tom pointed out, seeing how pale her face had just turned. "I'm fi-" Patience breathed as her eyes rolled and her body slumped back against the wall. "Need to...help..." ---- Jessica followed them to Will's desk and when Carter said she'd been making a mess of things Jessica couldn't help tutting, folding her arms and rolling her eyes. Making a mess of things! All she did was do a little free running...and sneak away from David to run around unguarded in Hell... Will agreed to watch her and Carter got up to leave but then collapsed. "Oh, shit!" she'd exclaimed as he fell and she watched as Will checked on him. Her eyes wandered to the lit cigarette on the carpet and she quickly stubbed it out with her foot. She looked around quickly and saw the water cooler. She hurried over to it and poured some water into a cup. She didn't know if it would do much good but she had to try something. She rushed back, being careful not to spill any and handed it to Will. "Here, maybe it'll help?" Denix Vames - April 11, 2021 Elliot put some on his plate. Everybody started eating. "Mmm. This really is good." ,said Vincent. "Aw thanks. I'm glad ya'll like it." --- Nate held her close. Carrying her to the bed where he placed her there. "Why don't you rest here? I'm sure there's still plenty of our friends around investigating." --- "I'm not too sure but it's worth a try." Will lifted his head up and brought the rim of the cup to his lips. "Hey Carter. You thirsty? Cause here comes some water." He slightly pushed it down. Carter was subconsciously drinking until paramedics arrived to take him to the hospital. Will let them take him by stretcher out of the precinct. "I'm guessing you guys came here by car? We'll have to tow it but I think I can get them to take it to the office." shadowess - April 11, 2021 Neva smiled at Elliot between bites, apparently enjoying her food too much to talk as she quickly scooped more egg into her mouth. --- Patience didn't have the strength anymore to argue or resist Nate carrying her. She relaxed on the bed, her head rolling to one side as she quickly lost consciousness. Tom watched her and sighed heavily. "Well..." he scratched the back of his head. "That's...something. Wonder what I did to piss this guy off...from what Sebastian told me, venom is a pretty painful way to go..." he said a little shakily, apparently disturbed by the news that he'd been a target as well. "Guess it's lucky you brought me here when you did." he looked at Nate and tried a half hearted laugh. --- Jessica had watched anxiously as Carter was taken away by the paramedics. She looked back to Will when he asked about the car and nodded. This left Jessica a little concerned. Just just for Carter's health but because if he's in hospital and Parker's in Hell...who was left to try to find the crazy Angel?? She hugged herself. She knew that she might be in danger because of what she is but now she felt even more alone and vulnerable. Left with a complete stranger to watch her. "Now what?" she asked nervously. Denix Vames - April 11, 2021 "Eat slowly Neva. Wouldn't want to choke or get yourself a stomach ache." ,said Elliot. --- Nate sat next to him. He pulled him in for a hug as he silently cried. "What if she's right? Maybe you're more safer down there? After all, your friends are there as well." --- "Now, I take over this investigation with a little help from the people at Carter's office who can possibly help me. I know that Carter would want this case to keep going. He'd want someone to take it over." He headed to the locker room. "I'm going to change into my regular clothes then we'll take his car to the office. I'll see what evidence he's been able to gather. Maybe check his belongs at the hospital room he'll be staying at in case he has something important there. Just stay here for a moment while I go change." He soon came back wearing white jeans, work shoes, and an Aeropostale blue polo shirt with the buttons undone. His shades were hanging over his collar on his chest. "Let's go." shadowess - April 11, 2021 Neva swallowed what was in her mouth and smiled, embarrassed. "Sorry, I forgot." she said before eating the rest of her food a bit slower. --- Tom hugged him back, his body was trembling ever so slightly as he'd been trying his best to hide his fear. When Nate spoke and seemed to question himself, Tom shook his head. "No, you're right. I'd rather be here with you. I don't want to run and hide from every bit of danger that comes our way. I'd rather face it head on and do what I can to help." He pulled back a bit and wiped away Nate's tears. "And that's my choice." he sighed and glanced at Patience. "This has been a great break away from everything...but maybe we should go back and help?" --- When Will said he was going to take over the investigation, Jessica felt somewhat relieved. She didn't know this guy but he seemed like he really wanted to help. As he went off to go change his clothes, Jessica wondered what her role in all of this should be. Sure, she was scared, but she didn't like the idea of constantly hiding from danger. It just wasn't in her nature. She glanced at her own reflection in the window, recalling the thrill she got from jumping across buildings. She smirked. Maybe that's why she's here...maybe there's a bigger role for her to play in all this after all? Or maybe she just inherited a reckless attitude from her absentee father...either way... When Will came back, she smiled at him. "Alright, I'm in!" she said as if they'd just had a whole conversation about it and he'd somehow talked her around. "So, how do we do this? Do I go get my own gun? Do you give me one? or....?" She gave him a cheeky grin. Denix Vames - April 11, 2021 "That's alright. We all make mistakes." ,said Vincent. They continue to eat. --- Nate shook his head. He held his hands. "I know you don't want to be a coward in all this but I can't let you go out there. Not when I know someone is out to kill you." He kissed his hands. "In here, you're safe. But in America? I can deal with that angel there more than you. I just....I'm scared that I'm going to lose you." --- "Uh No. When we get to the office, you're going to stay there where it's safe. From what I've been told, it seems like you would never cut out as a detective in the first place." They got into his car. He pulled out his phone to make a quick call to the local tow truck company. Explaining the dilemma. Once that was done, he drove to the office. Shadowess - April 11, 2021 Smiling, Neva finished her meal and sat in the chair looking at her new family. "Thank you." she said to Elliot when she was finished. Then she looked thoughtful. "Can we go out and do something today?" she asked, being tired of being indoors all the time. --- Tom looked torn as Nate told him how he felt. He really didn't want to just hide and let everyone else do the work but he could see how worried Nate was and it made his heart ache. He sighed and rested his head against Nate's. "I'm not going anywhere. I refuse to leave your side." he whispered gently and kissed him tenderly. "If you want me to stay here...then I'll stay..." --- Ok, the first thing Will said made sense to Jessica. He wants to make sure she's safe and she's very cool with that. But not cut out to be a detective? "Oh, yeah?" She rose a brow and smirked at him once they were in the car. "Hey, officer oblivious, news flash for you. Those guys? They just met me. And so have you. Oh, and please, please tell me what Carter told you that explicitly means I'm incapable of helping? Other than, you know, 'she's been making a mess of things', which frankly, isn't. even. accurate!" She sat back in the seat with her arms folded. "I'm helping." she said stubbornly. Denix Vames - April 11, 2021 "Well, I don't see why not." ,said Elliot who had finished as did Vincent. "We should be careful when we're outside." ,said Vincent. Elliot smiled. "Don't worry. We'll stay safe." He looked at Neva. "Where do ya wanna go?" --- Nate nodded. "Thank you. I'm sorry if I make you feel like I'm locking you up. I just want you to be safe." --- "Give me one good example of you being 'helpful.'" ,asked Will. Shadowess - April 11, 2021 Neva thought for a moment and shrugged. "The park maybe? It looks sunny today." she said. --- "I know...I know." Tom shook his head a little. "Honestly, if roles were reversed, I'd be the same." he chuckled. --- "Mate, that's not fair! I practically just arrived in this city!" Jessica complained. "Swear to God...I came here to find my brother. Turns out I have two. Also turns out the supernatural are a real thing! Next thing I know, one of my brothers has been stabbed and I'm being hauled off to Hell for my 'protection!'" She ranted. "So, forgive me if I'm feeling just a little helpless and wound up!"
Shadowess Posted August 29 Author Posted August 29 Denix Vames - April 11, 2021 "I think that'd be nice." ,said Vincent. "We ain't got toys for this." ,said Elliot. "Don't need any. The park has its own playground." "Oh. Then yeah, let's go." They got up from their seats. Vincent took her hand while Elliot held her other hand. "I'll teleport us there." --- Nate smiled. "Good to know." He kissed him. "I'm just glad you're safe." --- "Ok but let's try to be less dramatic about things. We've all been in situations that we didn't mean to be a part of." Will soon parked at the office. "Here we are. Guess I'll go see if anyone's in." He walked to the front door and knocked. Shadowess - April 11, 2021 Neva was excited and she took both their hands, smiling up at them. Today would be a good day! They were ready to go when they heard the knock at the door. --- Tom smiled, looking into Nate's eyes. If only Patience wasn't passed out on the bed... He felt such love and gratitude towards Nate in this moment that he could happily lose himself to him again. --- Jessica rolled her eyes at being called dramatic. To her, it's everyone else that has been dramatic around her so far. Considering all the crap she's had to put up with since her arrival, she'd been as rational as she could be. She got out of the car and waited with him by the front door. Denix Vames - April 11, 2021 Vincent opened the door. "Oh? Can I help you?" "I'm Will and this is Jessica. Carter can continue his investigations because he's the hospital right now. Poor bastard forgot to eat and drink for who knows how long. So I'm taking over this case but I need help. Is there anyone that's available?" "Actually, me and my boyfriend were going to take our daughter to the park. Sorry but you can look in Carter's office for the reports." Will sighed. "Thanks." He stepped in and headed upstairs. Looking through every door before finding the office. Vincent took Neva's hand again. They appeared in the park under a tree. "Ya think he'll be good on his own?" ,asked Elliot. "He has Jessica. I'm sure he'll be fine. Let's just focus on relaxing. We all need it." --- Nate pressed his head against his chest. He chuckled. "I'm not in the mood anyway." shadowess - April 13, 2021 When Will introduced them, Jessica waved awkwardly. Finding it amusing that he was introducing her as well, when most people here already knew who she was. Jessica stepped in when he did and smiled at Elliot, Neva and Vincent as she watched them disappear. She then headed upstairs to find Will in the office and stood by the wall. "So, where do we start?" --- Neva grinned at the playground and made a beeline for the swing set. "C'mon!" she called back at them as she ran. Finally, she felt like a normal kid with a normal family. --- Tom chuckled as well, gently holding Nate behind his head and around his shoulders. "Fair enough." He kissed his head, glanced over at Patience then sighed. "So, what should we do?" Denix Vames - April 13, 2021 Will stepped into the office. He cringed at the smell of cigarettes and alcohol. "I've got to buy Carter an air freshener when I get the chance. First, I'll take a look at what he's got so far in his file. You are going to stay by and do nothing or touch nothing until I tell you to." He took out the only file the drawer. Reading it through. "Well, there's not much on physical description except for what's here. Looks like I'll have to go visit Carter at the hospital and fetch the notes there. Stay here and make yourself comfortable. Don't leave this house." He headed out of the house and drove off. --- "Whoo!" Elliot ran after her. Vincent smiled. Being not much of a runner these days, he sped walked over. Elliot stood behind her once she sat on the swing. He began pushing her. Vincent stood nearby. Making sure they were safe and sound. --- "The only thing we can do right now is rest. Once Patience is well enough then she can leave and tell whoever's in charge that we're safe. I might even head over there to help for a moment. I've been using my powers to read his mind and it doesn't seem like he has anyone around to help except for Jessica. I could get Gary and maybe even Cindy to help." Nate frowned. "Well shit. Carter doesn't seem to be doing good. It seems like he's in rehab." shadowess - April 13, 2021 Jessica put her hands up when he told her to do and touch nothing until told otherwise. She gave him a mock salute while sarcastically saying "Yes, sir!" before rolling her eyes. She waited to see what he could find to know if there was anyway she could help but when he told her to stay put, she grew annoyed. "Hey, wait a second-!" She ran after him as he left the house but he drove off without her. "Oh, god dammit!" she folded her arms, still standing on the doorstep as she watched the car turn the corner at the end of the road and disappear. "Ok, you know what? Fine!" She complained to no one. "You guys don't want my help? Want me to stay out of your damn way?! Great! Fine by me! I'll just go get drunk then! Fuck yas..." She grabbed her bag and slammed the door on her way out, lighting up a cigarette as she walked down the road, trying to find any pub or club she could go to and just forget everything for a while. --- There wasn't much of the day left by the time Neva, Elliot and Vincent got to the park but at least there was still some sunlight left. Neva grinned and giggled as she was pushed on the swings, swinging her legs back and forth to try and gain more height from every push. An elderly woman who was watching her grandchildren play nearby saw the new family and smiled. She didn't recognize any of them and assumed they were new to the area. She wondered if anyone had welcomed them yet. Perhaps their daughter might like to become friends with her grandchildren, she thought. She wandered over to Vincent and stood nearby, smiling at them. "What a lovely family." she complimented them. "Have you lived here long? I imagine moving schools wasn't easy for her." she nodded at Neva. "It's never easy leaving old friends behind, but I'm sure she'll make lots of new ones, eh?" --- Tom nodded at first when Nate said they could only rest and that Patience would be able to return once she was better. When he mentioned possibly going over to help as well, Tom naturally began to worry for his safety as well but he soon shook off that fear. As much as he didn't like the idea of Nate going into a dangerous situation, he was utterly confident that Nate could handle himself if he needed to. Then Nate mentioned reading their minds and Tom's eyes widened a little in amazement. "You can pick up their thoughts from all the way over here?!" he gasped and then chuckled. "Oh man, you still find ways to surprise me..." Tom then frowned at the news that Carter had gone into rehab. Things were beginning to look a little dire for the group back home. Tom hesitated, then kissed Nate's head once more, holding him tightly for a moment. "If...if you wana go over to make sure they're alright, I'll be fine here." he suggested. "She might be asleep, but I've got Patience to keep me company... Besides, I'm probably just going to nap on the couch and call it a night anyway." Denix Vames - April 13, 2021 Will soon reached the hospital. He stepped inside. Walking to the front desk. "Excuse me but is a patient by the name of Travis Carter here?" --- Leo had been zooming through streets to find the next criminal when he noticed Jessica walking alone. He couldn't recall meeting her. He wondered if he even did. He landed in front of her. "Hello." He took his mask off. "Do you recognize me?" --- Vincent flustered. Unsure on what to say. "Oh uh....We recently adopted. Our relationship was a bit rocky at first but we've decided to have a child. It seems like we're doing a decent job at raising her." --- Nate smiled and stood. "I'm glad you're ok with this." His eyes widened. "We have a problem. I'm detecting Leo but in three separate places? I think a few of his emotions might have been parted for some odd reason. Maybe you can help me on this. It seems like the two souls are in completely different places. One is in Springfield while the other one is in the Whitehouse." shadowess - April 13, 2021 Nurse May immediately knew who Carter was and where his room was. She'd been keeping tabs on him since his arrival. It seemed like him and his group just couldn't catch a break lately. When the officer she recognized as Will came in asking about him, she looked at him skeptically for a moment. She only knew him from his brief interaction with Carter in the hospital earlier and had no idea that he now knew the truth about the world. Regardless, he was an officer and now seemed genuinely concerned, so she had no choice but to show him to Carter's room. "This way." she said with a nod and began leading him to where Carter was recovering. "I have to warn you, he may not be in much of a mood for guests right now. He wasn't too happy when he was told he'd need to cut down on the smoking and drinking for the sake of his health. She stood to one side and gestured to the door. "He's in this room." --- Jessica had been walking down the street, cigarette in hand. She'd already walked past three bars and just hadn't bothered going into one. Feeling like she should be doing something to help with the case instead, but angry at being left behind once again. She was torn between blowing it all off to get black out drunk for the night, or finding her own way to the hospital to try to figure out what was going on for herself. She'd been close to tears as she marched on. Being left behind or generally not included always made her feel unwanted and she could never help herself comparing that feeling to her father not being around. She was lost in thought when Leo landed in front of her, making her jump back a bit while exclaiming "Jesus Christ!" She then looked at him, at first just annoyed that he'd startled her and then hurt when he asked if she recognized him. Was she really so forgettable?! "Yeah...I was there when you cut through that Oscar guy's scar...You gave me a drink." she couldn't help almost sounding bitter that he'd forgotten her. "Now if you'll excuse me...I have -a lot- of drinking to do...everyone else forgets me...why don't I go ahead and forget me too?" she moved to walk past him. --- The old woman chuckled at the way Vincent answered. "I see...well, she certainly seems happy enough. And when all is said and done, that's what matters most." she said kindly. She looked up as the street lamps lit up around them, ready for the sun to set. "Ah, afraid it's almost dinner time. It was lovely meeting you." she said before moving away to call her grandchildren to her, taking them home for the day. --- "What? How is that even possible?!" Tom gawped. He stood and nodded, ready to help in any way he could. Then he hesitated, glancing at Patience. "What about Patience? Will she be alright if we leave her here?" Denix Vames - April 13, 2021 Will nodded. He stepped into the room. Carter was sitting on a cushioned chair. Looking out the window. He seemed still. Wearing nothing but a blue shirt and grey sweats. He didn't even look at them when they had walked in. "Carter?" He didn't respond. Will nodded at her. "I'll take it from here." He walked over. Taking a seat nearby. "Hey Carter. I'm taking over your case. I wanted to help. I heard you might have something. Where is it?" Carter did a slow turn of his head. His eyes had dark bags under them. His five o'clock shadow was slowly becoming a beard. His hair was a mess. He looked as though he hadn't slept in days. "Jesus christ Carter. What the hell did they to you?" He pointed at him with a shaky finger. Will turned. Finding his overcoat hanging over the chair. He grabbed it. Checking the pockets. He found the haikus and a key. "Thanks man." He set the overcoat on the chair. He hesitated before saying, "Take care." Then he left. Carter looked out the window again. "You too." --- Leo continued to walk with her. "Apologies but my memories seemed to have faded away. Almost as if they were cut off. I was wondering if you could help me find them." --- Vincent looked around. "Hey Elliot. I think it's time to go home." "Oh alright." Elliot stopped pushing. "C'mon Neva. We hafta go." --- Nate frowned. "I'm not sure but we'll take care of this." He waved his hand over the room. "There. No one should be able to detect her. I've locked the door and the windows as well. This spell should work." His wings went back inside him. He took his hand. "Let's go." They soon appeared near the police station. It was tall and large. At least three stories high. "He should be in here but I'm not sure how we're going to go about this. We need to talk to him alone without anyone around. I don't want them to think we're trying to kidnap a cop." shadowess - April 13, 2021 Jessica stopped and looked at Leo skeptically. She glanced around them, almost expecting this to be some kind of prank. Looking back at him, she looked him up and down before giving him a confused expression. "How- sorry...how do we do that?" she asked, trying to wrack her brains, thinking up ways that he could get his memory back but the only thing she could think of was the solution she usually turned to if she was trying to remember something that happened while she was black out drunk...which, ironically, is to get black out drunk again. Hell, worth a shot isn't it? Heh...shot... "We could try drinking? Usually works for me..." she suggested with a shrug. --- "Awww!" Neva complained as the swing came to a stop, then she looked around at Elliot. "Can we come back tomorrow?" she asked, already a little excited at the idea of coming back. Maybe tomorrow they'd get more time to play? --- When they arrived outside of the police station, Tom looked up at it in confusion. "Wait...was Leo a cop before ADIEU kidnapped him?" He couldn't remember if that's what he'd said. So much had happened the day that they met him...and a lot more had happened since. As bad as Tom felt for forgetting this kind of detail, he knew it couldn't really be helped given everything they'd all gone through lately. He thought for a moment then snapped his fingers. "We call in an anonymous tip. Something that'll bring him out to investigate whatever we tell them. That way we have a better chance at controlling the environment."
Shadowess Posted August 29 Author Posted August 29 Denix Vames - April 13, 2021 Leo shrugged. "Why not?" He zoomed to an alley where he changed into the same look he had done before when he was trying to lure the angel to him. He came back out. "There. Now no one will know who I am." --- "Course. But right now, we need to head home." ,said Elliot. Vincent took his hand then held out a hand for her. "C'mon." --- "I'm not sure. Maybe? He was at the time of the 1800s. Cops did exist. He must have been one of them. But this could be what he wishes he could do instead of lying in the shadows. Killing criminals." He raised a brow. "What would we even say? And we'd need to make the location sort of close by. We should take a look at some of the addresses." shadowess - April 13, 2021 Jessica looked a little confused for a moment when Leo ran incredibly fast into an alley, but when he came back out she understood what he was doing. She couldn't help staring at him for a moment, her cheeks turning a little red at how he looked now. She shook her head a little to snap herself out of it. "Um...I saw a pub not to far back. I guess we could go there and order some shots to get us started?" she began walking. Unfortunately, the last time she'd seen Leo was when he'd handed her that drink. She'd been either at the hospital or in Hell since then and had no idea that he'd started dating Oscar. If she'd known, she might've been able to resist subtly glancing at him every so often to check him out. --- Neva grinned and jumped off the swing, running over to her fathers. She took Vincent's hand and waited for them to take her home. "Can we watch some TV?" --- Tom considered what Nate said and thought about where they could lure Leo to. "Maybe the abandoned mall? and I dunno...it'd have to be something he cares about...enough for him to hurry over there without backup." Tom scratched the back of his head, thinking hard. "A false lead on a new ADIEU group or something?" he suggested. Denix Vames - April 13, 2021 "Sure." Leo followed her into a pub. He sat next to her at the bar. "So what kind of shots are we talking about? Whiskey? Tequila?" --- They appeared in the office. "That wouldn't be a problem." ,said Vincent. Elliot sniffed the air. "Smells like coffee." He looked at the stairs. "Is somebody up there?" "It's probably Will. Remember he's working on the case." "Oh yeah. I forgot about that." --- Nate shook his head. "This is a different kind of Leo. He wouldn't know about that stuff." He waved a hand. "What if I....?" Leo, for some unknown reason, found himself stepped out of the police station. Heading to where Nate and Tom were. Nate grabbed him before teleporting them both back in the hotel room. Leo smiled. "Hi guys! And why am I here? Either way, it's nice to meet you two!" "Looks like this is his happiness. Nothing seems to phase this emotion. We'll need to get the last one and put these two emotions back inside Leo." ,said Nate. Shadowess - April 13, 2021 Jessica shrugged. "I'm partial to Sambuca, myself. But whatever you crave, I guess." she got the attention of the barman and ordered them six shots each. Six Sambuca for herself and six of whatever drink Leo wanted. Once they were poured and in front of them, she winked at him while picking up her shot glass. "Race ya." she then proceeded to knock each drink back rapidly. "Whoo!" she shook her head a little with a grimace then giggled and gestured for the barman to keep the drinks coming. --- Oblivious to the case and who Will was, Neva ran over to the couch and waited for Elliot and Vincent to join her. She'd happily watch anything they wanted to watch while cuddling up to them. Eventually, she'd fall asleep on them. Utterly content with her new family. --- At first, Tom was immediately concerned that Leo would freak out at suddenly being outside the station. But when he seemed happy and Nate teleported them away, he could see what Nate meant. "How do we even do that? Do you suppose we just push them into each other?" Tom asked, looking at Nate in confusion. Their lives were crazy, there was no doubting that. But this? This was a new level of insanity! He approached the happy Leo and tried a smile at him. "Hey, could you do us a favor, and stay here for a while? Our friend here isn't so well and we need someone to keep her company and make sure she's kept safe." he gestured to the still unconscious Patience. Denix Vames - April 13, 2021 Leo decided to drink the same drink she had. He kept downing each shot but didn't seem to get drunk even when there wasn't anymore in front of him. He frowned. "Looks like I wasn't made to be drunk." --- Elliot sat next to Neva and turned on the TV to cartoons. "I'll be right back. I just need to go see this man." ,said Vincent. "Ok. Don't take too long." He went upstairs and to Carter's office. --- Nate shrugged. "Hell if I know. We'll need David's help on this one once we've got all of them together." Leo smiled. "Of course! I'd be happy to help. After all, I am an officer. And it's my duty to serve and protect." He walked over to the bed and sat there. He gave a thumbs up and big smile before they disappeared. Nate and Tom found themselves in a bedroom in the Whitehouse. Leo jumped out of bed and aimed his gun at them. "Who are you?! What do you want?" "Uh a little help Tom." shadowess - April 13, 2021 "Maybe you just have a higher tolerance? Drink some more." Jessica's words were slightly slurred and she ordered another round in. She downed hers and looked over at Leo. When more drinks didn't seem to work either, she frowned. "Well, that sucks...I duno, man..." she tried to stand up from her stool and stumbled into him. "Oh, sorry..." she said with red cheeks and giggled. "Dammit..." she looked at him curiously and a little drunkenly. "Usually works for me...Do you have any other ideas?" --- Tom held his hands up and flustered a little when Nate asked for help. He thought about running up and snatching the gun off him but remembered that Leo could move just as quickly as he could due to the vampirism in his blood. "Uhhh....Hey Leo! It's us! Nate and Tom. Your friends. Remember? We came to help you!" he tried then shrugged his shoulders at Nate. He literally had no idea what else he could do in this situation. Leo was a match for Tom in both strength and speed...if not more so! Their best hope was diplomacy, as far as Tom could tell. Denix Vames - April 13, 2021 (so i was wondering if the angel's gonna show up at some point or are you waiting for the right moment to bring him back in?) Leo stood. "We might as well head to the office. You being drunk on the streets would be a bad idea." A man wrapped an arm around him. Bringing himself close against him. Pressing him to the bar. He whispered into his ear. "Hey there baby. Why don't we-?" Leo punched him in the throat. Causing him to fall to his knees and gasp for air. "We should go." --- Elliot had put Neva to bed when she fell asleep. --- "Friends?" Leo sniffled. He put the gun down and sat at the edge of the bed. "I don't have any friends." Nate switched the light in the room on. Revealing that Leo seemed to be constantly crying. His tears streaming down his cheeks as more kept coming. "This must be his sadness." shadowess - April 13, 2021 (Yeah, I'm waiting for the right moment lol There's one more haiku and it's guna be a massive slip up on the Angel's part that'll help the others catch him.) Jessica frowned at the idea of going back to the office. She didn't really want to face Will or Carter just yet and especially not as drunk as she was. When the random guy started hitting on Leo, Jessica felt her cheeks getting hot from jealousy. Then she laughed heartily when Leo punched him in the throat. "That's what'chya get, bitch!" she jeered and kicked the stranger over the rest of the way with surprising accuracy. She then chuckled as she leant against Leo for support. "You're fun! We should really hang out more often..." she grinned. When he said they should go though, she hesitated. Then she pulled out a key from her pocket. "We could always go back to my hotel room?" she suggested. "I er-...don't want to go back to the office just yet...not like this." she then admitted. --- When Tom heard Leo, he was confused. Then Nate hit the lights and he saw him. "Oh no..." he frowned, glancing at Nate. "This is awful..." he moved forward and sat next to Leo on the bed. "Of course you have friends!" he said. "We're your friends! That's why we're here! Because we care about you, dude!" he tried. Denix Vames - April 13, 2021 (alright) "Fine. Just hold on to me and tell me where to go." ,said Leo. He kept her close as they left the bar. Following her directions. --- Leo shook his head. He hugged his knees as he backed up into a corner on his bed. "Nobody cares about me." "Better save your breath. His sad emotion needs to stay sad so that he can understand what that emotion is." Nate grabbed Leo's arm and teleported everyone back to the hotel room. Leo rubbed his eyes. "I guess there's nothing that I can do. It's not like anyone would care if I died anyway." "Hey! Put that frown upside down." ,said Happy Leo. "David! We need your help on this one!" shadowess - April 13, 2021 Jessica used Leo for support and stumbled a little as she walked while giving Leo directions to the hotel. Once they got there, she told him the hotel room number and unlocked the door. Once inside, she stumbled straight over to the mini bar and opened up a small bottle of vodka which she knocked back and grimaced slightly. She then sat on the bed and smiled up at him. "Thank you, by the way...for 'seeing' me. Everyone else keeps looking past me...like I'm not even there...or not important..." She kicked her shoes off. --- Tom felt bad but knew there was nothing more he could do here and let Nate teleport them both back to the hotel room. He looked at Nate in concern. "Just try not to overdo it again..." he reminded him. Worried that he would burn out his energy like he had not too long ago. David appeared immediately. "Alright...at least I don't have to worry about anyone wandering- woah, there's two Leo's! Why are there two Leo's?!" His eyes had widened when he saw the apparent twins in front of him. He looked between Nate and Tom. "Why?-What?...Why??" Denix Vames - April 13, 2021 Leo sat at the edge of the bed. "Sorry to hear that. So, you're gonna keep drinking until you pass out?" --- Happy Leo waved at David. "Hi!" Sad Leo looked down. "Sorry if I'm being a burden." "Long story short. Somehow, Leo's happy and sad emotions got out of his body and wandered off. We were able to find but we don't know how to put them back in him." ,said Nate. Shadowess - April 13, 2021 Jessica watched him as he sat down and when he asked if she'd just keep drinking until she passed out, she smirked. Looking him over again and this time making it obvious as her cheeks turned pink. "Unless you can think of some other way to tire me out?" she suggested seductively. --- David looked between the two as they spoke, growing increasingly both worried and confused. When Nate explained what had happened, he blinked at him then looked back at the two Leo's in amazement. "Well...this is certainly new..." he scratched the back of his head then nodded. "But I'll bet there is at least some record of something similar happening in the past that we could use to help us...I know Tom won't but, by any chance, would you have learned how to speak or read Demonic in your past?" he looked at Nate. He knew that some Angels learned the language but not all. He was considering bringing a few books back to this room from Hell's library that he thought might help, and the more people searching for the same thing, the quicker they could be at finding a solution to this problem! Thank God, Lucifer wasn't around to know he was considering bringing some of Hell's books to Earth! David would have been in for a few decades of torture as punishment for just thinking about it! Denix Vames - April 13, 2021 Leo glared. "I'm spoken for." --- Nate shrugged. "A little but only because some of the Angels that I was fucking back then secretly loved it when I talked like that in bed. Pretending that I was a Demon or Devil." shadowess - April 13, 2021 Jessica hesitated and stared at him for a moment. "Y-you are?" She stiffened a little and looked away from him quickly in embarrassment. "um...S-sorry...I didn't know..." she muttered and sat there for a long moment, fighting back tears while her face felt red hot. She stood and stumbled back over to the mini bar, opening it up and pulling out a few different little bottles without bothering to read the labels. Desperate to forget what just happened. "Y-you can sleep on the couch...I'm just guna drink these and go to bed..." she said in a quivering voice as she started opening them. --- David seemed a little uncomfortable but didn't judge. Tom, meanwhile, seemed intrigued. He didn't even know Hell ha it's own language! He didn't even know where to begin trying to imagine what it might sound like! David nodded, eager to change the subject and just get on with the search for a solution to this problem. "Alright, I'll be back in a moment with a few books. It might take me a minute to gather them and I'll need some help searching through them for possible answers." he sighed. "If you really need it, I can transfer the knowledge of the language to both of you when I come back." with that, he vanished. It would take several minutes before David would appear again, holding a tower of books that he had to carefully set down. "Alright...I think that should do it..." "Christ! How many books?!" Tom exclaimed at the sight of them. "Just a few." David smirked. "Well..." he clapped his hands and smiled at them. "No time to lose! Who's first?" he asked, referring to who he would transfer his knowledge to.
Shadowess Posted August 29 Author Posted August 29 Denix Vames - April 13, 2021 Leo stood. "I think I'm gonna go home. I'm tired of everybody thinking that they can just get with me." He stormed out of her room. Leaving the hotel. --- Nate grabbed a book. "Might as well start off with me." shadowess - April 13, 2021 Jessica already felt awful but after what Leo said and the way he left, she felt even worse. She looked down at the little bottles in her shaking hand and dropped them to the floor as tears fell. If she'd known, she wouldn't have bothered! She only tried because he was the only guy that was actually nice to her! And she felt like there could genuinely have been something between them! But now any hope she had of just being friends with him, she'd utterly destroyed! The room span and she felt sick. She hurried off to the bathroom to throw up in the toilet. -Black out- She washed her face at the sink and tried to give herself a drunken pep talk. -Black out- She stumbled down some street she didn't recognize. -Black out- She was dancing in a club, disoriented, and completely missed it when some guy slipped a drug into her beer bottle. --- David stepped up to Nate and placed his fingers onto either side of his head. "This may hurt..." he warned him before pushing his knowledge into Nate. Once that was done, he then turned to Tom. "Uhhh...yeah, that looked like it hurt..." Tom said apprehensively. "Only for a moment." David reassured him and walked over to him. "We need all the help we can get." Tom sighed and closed his eyes. "Fine..." he tensed, readying himself. David chuckled. "Believe me, you're better off relaxing if you can. It hurts less." he placed his fingers into Tom's head as well and pushed his knowledge into him next. When he was done, David stumbled back, a little tired from the strain. Tom also stumbled back a little, gasped and groaning a little as he gripped his own head which was now pounding. Gradually, the pounding pain ebbed away and when Tom opened his eyes again, he looked over at a book and realized in amazement that he could read the title. "Woah!...take that Spanish class!...." he half laughed. "Constant practice my ass..." "Now then..." David breathed as he picked up a book for himself. "There's no time to waste!" Denix Vames - April 13, 2021 Jasper appeared in the bar she was in. "Hello there!" He tipped his hat. "Ya might want to not drink that. Somebody slipped something nasty in there." --- Nate flinched. He groaned but quickly shook off the pain. He opened the book in his hand. "So, what's the name of this spell?" shadowess - April 13, 2021 Jessica stumbled to a stop when Jasper appeared and cheered when she saw him, raising her bottle. But then he told her someone had put something into it and her smile slipped, she lowered the bottle and stared at it with a frown. "They did?" she slurred. Unbeknownst to her, the man that had drugged the drink had been watching her nearby and as soon as Jasper appeared and pointed it out, he hurriedly left the club. "Why-why...why would they do that?" she sounded crestfallen and her shoulders slumped a little then her eyes lit up in anger and she threw the bottle at the wall. The bottle smashed and it's contents spilled to the floor. "God...dammit...I am so sick of people hurting me, leaving me behind or telling me I'm not 'good enough'!" she slurred angrily. Tears stinging her eyes once more. She stumbled about on her feet, barely able to keep her balance. She brought a hand to her head and closed her eyes as her tears fell. "I'm so alone..." --- David rose a brow at Nate. "Can't you read it?" For good measure, he looked over Nate's shoulder. "The convergence spell." David's brows furrowed and he glanced up at Nate momentarily then back down at the book and grinned. By pure luck, Nate had found the correct spell by opening up the first book he held to the correct page on the first try. "It looks simple enough. Gather the fragmented souls into a seal. Chant the spell. The catch is, each part of the soul has to WANT to become one again...also no one else can step into the seal while the spell is being chanted or their soul may become entangled as well." he read further, then frowned. "If any one of the fragments dies before the ritual is complete then the entire soul will unravel...Leo would cease to exist..." David tore his eyes away and glanced at the two Leo's in the room before looking back at Nate and Tom. "Please tell me these two are all the fragments!" Denix Vames - April 13, 2021 Jasper frowned. He lifted her off the floor. Holding her in his arms. "Let's take you somewhere else." He carried out of the bar. He placed her on his horse then hopped on himself. "Hold on to me." --- Nate rolled his eyes. "Geez old man. I was just asking the name of the spell." He nodded. "That's pretty much it. Looks like the rest of his emotions stayed with him." Happy Leo jumped up and down. "Yay! We're going on an adventure!" Sad Leo looked away. "And we might die." shadowess - April 13, 2021 Jessica relaxed in Jasper's arms, feeling too drunk and tired to resist. When he put her on his horse, she looked at it in mild confusion, wondering just how much she'd had to drink. In fact...how did she even get here?! When he told her to hold on, she did. She held onto him as best she could despite the condition she was in. "Yerr! tek me to Hyrule, Link!..." she slurred, delirious. Then began singing, very badly and out of tune, the theme to the Legend of Zelda. --- David chuckled. "Old? For ninety-nine years old, I don't look a day over thirty-five, thank you very much!" Although admittedly, he did get a little carried away when he saw the spell. "I see...and where is the rest of him?" David pressed, trying to drive home that if anything happened to the part of Leo that wasn't in this room then he would be destroyed entirely. Therefore, there -really- wasn't any time to lose! "We need to find him and bring him here. Now." he finished in a very grave tone, trying to ignore the other two Leo's. Denix Vames - April 13, 2021 Jasper rode the horse down the road until they suddenly appeared on a cliff with a full moon up and the sea below. He stopped. "Well, here we are." --- "And I'm centuries old so who's more handsome?" ,asked Nate. He snapped his fingers. Making the real Leo appear who was in his work outfit. He held the head of a criminal. "Are you kidding me?!" He tossed the head aside. "What the hell do you guys want?" "Looks like his anger overtook him when his sadness and happiness were gone." He glared at Nate. "I'm not angry!" shadowess - April 14, 2021 Jessica had closed her eyes. The motion of the horse hadn't been sitting well with all the booze in her system and she felt like she might throw up again if she saw the world passing them by. When the horse stopped and Jasper said they'd arrived, she opened her eyes and looked out, over the cliff. At the moon and the sea. She blinked, confused. It was a beautiful place, sure. But why here? "Where-?" she breathed, hesitant. She paused to get another good look around them. "Where are we?" --- "Well then, looks aside. I'd say you're the old man here then. Careful not to drop your cane..." David bantered back playfully. He then caught the not so subtle side-glare from Tom and couldn't help chuckling. "Oh, don't you worry, Tom. Nate isn't my... -type-." Tom didn't respond and tried to pass off casually tidying up the books to hide his jealousy. David soon moved his attention on to Leo. He rose a brow at the severed head on the floor before looking back at Leo just as he'd announced that he wasn't angry. "-Sure- you're not..." He sighed then looked at Leo with a little more concern. "Leo, being split in this way pauses a danger to your very existence." he said simply. "We can help you rejoin with the other parts of your soul. You need to be aware though, that if any one of you are killed, you will cease to exist as a whole. Do you understand?" Denix Vames - April 14, 2021 Jasper hopped off the horse. "Whenever I had some bad anxiety kicking up, my boyfriend would always take me here to relax. I figured you'd want that too. Don't worry. We're still on earth." --- Leo crossed his arms. "Hmph! Why the hell would I want to do that? I'll still be around. I don't need those two holding me back." Sad Leo said, "Thanks for noticing I guess." "Oh shut up!" Happy Leo walked over. "There's no need to be mean. Just put on a nice smile and give me a hug." Leo swung at him but he did a cartwheel. "Almost got me!" Happy Leo wrapped his arms around him from behind. Resting his chin over his shoulder. He smiled. "We can be best friends!" Leo grit his teeth. "You two drive me nuts!" shadowess - April 14, 2021 Jessica watched him as he jumped off the horse and listened to what he had to say. She looked out over the cliff again and slid off the horse, stumbling over to it but not getting too close. "It's beautiful..." she muttered, still frowning. "I don't know what's wrong with me..." she said quietly, staring down at the sea. "I want to get close to people...I try my hardest to do the right thing but...I always get pushed back...rejected...left behind...sometimes I wonder if there's any point in trying...if I'm just destined to be alone..." She sighed. "Either that or I get so freaked out by the idea that someone might actually want to be around me that I lash out...Like I just can't believe that someone would ever like me enough to want to be around me...I convince myself that they're up to something...so I either leave before they can get the chance to hurt me or...I self destruct...and then they leave me anyway because no one knows how to handle me..." She closed her eyes and a couple of tears ran down her cheeks. "I'm alone...and maybe...I'll always be alone." --- David watched them fighting anxiously. "We need to get them all on the same page or they'll end up destroying each other..." he said to Nate and Tom urgently. "Leo!" he snapped. "You need to listen. If so much as one of you dies then the other two will die as well. Only, you won't just die! You'll all cease to exist! You NEED to rejoin with each other to survive!" Denix Vames - April 14, 2021 Jasper wrapped an arm around her. "Now now. Ya'll probably just got off on the wrong foot. I'm sure if you come back and try talking to any one of them then they'll welcome ya with open arms. Even my many great grandson." --- "I don't care!" ,said Leo. Nate walked over. "Think of it this way. You won't have to deal with them for the rest of your life." "Where do we do this?" Nate teleported everyone to the dessert. Keeping the book they needed in his hand. Happy Leo ran around. Raising his hands. "We're somewhere new!" Sad Leo looked around. "People die of dehydration when they're in desserts." "Hurry before I lose my shit." shadowess - April 14, 2021 Jessica wanted to believe him. She wanted, so much, to feel like she belonged to something. "And what if I fuck up again?" she sniffled. "What if I freak out? Lash out?...or what if I open up...bear my soul only to get left behind again?" she shook her head a little. "I don't think I could take that...not again..." Her brows furrowed a little. "According to my great grandfather...it doesn't matter what we do...how good we are on Earth...We'll all end up in Hell anyway...Because he signed a contract with Lucifer before we were even born...every member of our family...David's bloodline...is bound to Lucifer...any child me or my brothers have, will be bound to serve him...and their children after that...and so on...He sold us all before we even existed..." she stared off at the sea. "If Lucifer ever comes back...we're fucked...and on top of that...my father willingly became Lucifer's apprentice...he turned Devil...Now I'm half Devil...so even if I ever did decide that life got too much for me...even if I decided to throw myself from these cliffs right now...it wouldn't matter...I'd just wake up a full Devil...a true immortal..." She blinked and sighed heavily, feeling light headed as she thought about all of this. "...Where was I going with this?..." she slurred tiredly as her mind suddenly blanked and she became too sleepy to think straight...or... well...straight-er-. --- Once in the desert, David wasted no time. He immediately set about making the seal and instructed all three Leo's to stand within it. He then looked over at Nate and Tom. "Remember; Do not. step. inside. the seal!" he reminded them before turning back to the three Leo's. "And you three, you all need to stay within the seal for this to work!" Only when the three Leo's stood within the seal did David begin the chants. He looked over at Nate and Tom and silently encouraged them to join him in chanting. If they joined in, it would add to the spells power and therefore speed up the process. Denix Vames - April 14, 2021 "That ain't true. Being a Devil ain't a bad thing. Ain't like Angels are no better. Besides, you don't gotta listen to Lucifer. I mean the guy practically up and abandoned ya'll. What's he ever done for ya'll?" He held her close. Helping her to lay on her side. "It's alright. Just relax." --- The Leos all stood in the circle. Nate started chanting. Happy Leo kept hopping as Sad Leo just stood there crying. Soon, the two emotions went back inside Leo who flinched at the pain. He suddenly fell over. Collapsing as the fusion was more painful than he expected. But it worked. Shadowess - April 14, 2021 Jessica listened but by this point she was too tired to respond. He didn't seem to understand the predicament with Lucifer, that if he ever did decide to come back, then her and her family were contractually bound to obey any and every order he gave them... but Jasper at least made one good point...Lucifer did just up and leave...so maybe she doesn't need to be so fearful of his return after all? Still light headed, she felt her legs wobbling underneath her. Thankfully Jasper had hold of her to stop her falling and she held onto him while he lay her down. She looked at him tearfully as he comforted her and she relaxed, feeling the alcohol making her incredibly sleepy now. "I'm sorry..." she cried, exhausted. "I'm just...scared..." --- Once the spell was done, Tom stayed outside the seal and watched David warily until he gave the go ahead to stop chanting and enter it. He then hurried over and moved to help Leo to his feet. "Hey, Leo, are you ok? Do you remember what happened?"
Shadowess Posted August 29 Author Posted August 29 Denix Vames - April 14, 2021 Jasper gently rubbed her arm. "That's ok. Being scared is normal. But it's good to have someone by your side. And I'm right here for ya." --- Leo rubbed his head as he stood. "Uh yeah." He flushed with a frown. "Sorry about that. I guess I lost myself at some point. Literally." He clutched his arm. "But I don't know why." He looked down at his clothes. "What the hell?" He ripped the cloak off and smashed the mask with his boot. Revealing a dark robe-like outfit. "Looks like Angry Leo really likes blankets but I don't. Can we please go to some store? I need a new change of clothes." Nate smiled. "I've got all the clothes you need right here." He snapped his fingers. Making a store appear with no one inside. "I use it to style myself sometimes. Basically, anything that you can think of and it'll conjure up." shadowess - April 14, 2021 Jessica smiled tearfully and sniffled as she closed her eyes, slipping rapidly out of consciousness. "Thank you..." --- Tom gawped at the building that randomly appeared. "Woah! That's amazing!" Once again he was utterly in awe of Nate. David, meanwhile, had looked at the building and then at Nate in alarm. He's just an Angel. How is he THAT powerful?! Not even Arch Angels had this kind of power up their sleeves! Sure, the building didn't really exist and was just an ethereal projection that they could use to summon clothing... but still! If he was powerful enough to pull something that big out of nothing...what else was he capable of?! Denix Vames - April 14, 2021 Jasper smiled. "You're welcome." He stayed with her as she slept. --- Nate smirked. "Well, thank you. I do try." They stepped into the store. Leo was captivated by the clothes around him. "Go to the changing room and think of your outfit. You'll find what you're looking for." He nodded. "Ok. I'll test that out." He went further into the back of the store until he reached the changing rooms. He went into one of them. It didn't take long for him to come out wearing a black leather jacket with white stripes on his both of his sleeves. He wore fingerless leather gloves that had more of a grip on the palms to keep him from slipping whenever he would climb something. He had on dark grey jeans and military shoes. He wore a muscle black t-shirt underneath. He held two handguns in his hands that had laser points on them. He placed in his new holster at his waist. Nate smiled. "Now, don't you look like yourself?" "Honestly? I feel great. Thanks." "Don't mention it. It's what I do. Now, if anyone else would like to get some clothes, you're free to do so. But after that we have to head back to the hotel room." "Actually, I need to go to Carter's office. Check and see how he's doing and apologize. I might be able to clear off that suspension and do some actual work." ,said Leo. Shadowess - April 14, 2021 "I'm good, thank you." David said and checked his watch. He'd already been away from Hell for too long and was growing anxious about leaving a bunch of living people down there on their own. "You seem to have everything under control here. I'm going to head back to Hell to make sure the others are alright. I'll pick up the books from the hotel room before I go." he nodded at Leo. "If you'd like, I can drop you off as well?" Tom watched as Leo came back in different clothing and thought for a moment before shaking his head a little. "I'm good too, thanks. I still like the outfit you gave me earlier." he chuckled and held Nate's hand. He was ready to head back as well. When they'd arrive back at the hotel room, Patience would be just waking up. Groaning and rubbing her head a little. Denix Vames - April 14, 2021 "That'd be helpful. Thanks man." ,said Leo. He soon arrived at the office. "We'll see you guys around." ,said Nate. Both men teleported to the hotel room. He smiled at Patience. "Look who's awake. How's that headache?" shadowess - April 14, 2021 David teleported himself and Leo to the office. "Alright, best of luck with this case. Let me know as soon as it's safe and I'll bring the others back." he nodded before vanishing back to Nate's hotel room. "Don't mind me." He smirked awkwardly as he went about collecting the books before vanishing with them. --- "Pounding..." Patience groaned then watched curiously as David popped in, picked up book and then left. "What did I miss?" she asked, lifting her gaze to Nate and Tom. Denix Vames - April 14, 2021 "A lot. Leo had a problem that we took care of. Everything's under control for now. But I'd recommend you go to Carter's office so that you can help them once you're energized enough to do it." Denix Vames - April 14, 2021 (forgot to include this) ,said Nate. --- Leo nodded. "Thanks. I'll let you know." shadowess - April 14, 2021 Patience nodded and got to her feet. "I'll go there now. I'll still be limited on what I can do for a while but I can at least be there to help in other ways." She looked between Nate and Tom for a moment. "Thank you for helping me and I'm sorry I had to interrupt your holiday like this." she smiled. "I hope you can both pick up where you left off and have a good time. See you around." She vanished, teleporting to the office. --- Patience arrived at the office and headed straight upstairs to Carter's office to see who was on the case now and how she could help. She knocked on the door. Denix Vames - April 14, 2021 "Don't worry. I'm sure we'll think of something." ,said Nate. Once she was gone, he pulled Tom in an embrace. "Now, where were we?" He slipped his tongue into his mouth as he kissed him. Keeping his hands on his waist as he brought him to the bed. --- Leo followed her upstairs. He awkwardly rubbed his arm as he looked at the floor. "Sorry about everything." Will had woken up with a start when he heard knocking. He found himself drooling on his own report that he was attempting to make. "Damn it!" He balled it up and threw it in the trash. With his arm, he wiped the drool off his lips. "Come in!" He used some tissues to soak up the drool on the desk and threw that in the bin. Shadowess - April 14, 2021 Tom gasped softly with a smile as Nate pulled him to him and enjoyed those electric shivers running down his spine that Nate's kisses always caused. Tom kissed back and wrapped his arms around his shoulders, running his fingers through his hair and still smiling as he felt Nate walking him towards the bed, until he could feel the bed on the back of his legs. --- Patience had paused before knocking when she'd heard Leo's apology and she glanced back to see the way he looked at the ground. Her eyes softened and she sighed. "What's done is done, Leo. Let's put it behind us now and focus on moving forward, hmm?" she said kindly. When Will told them to go in, she stepped into the office and looked around briefly. "Where's Carter?" she asked. She hadn't been around when he'd passed out and gone to hospital. Denix Vames - April 14, 2021 Nate began kissing his neck as he unbuttoned his shirt. His hands were all over his bare chest. He started kissing there. Unbuckling his belt. --- Leo nodded before stepping into the office with her. Will bit his lip. "He's in rehab." "What? Why?" Leo walked over. "The smoking and drinking....It finally caught up to him. Right now, I'm taking over but I need help. And that's where you guys come in. I've got what's here but no way of knowing where this angel will strike. I need both of you to help me find him." He frowned. "I was suspended." "Well, you're not anymore. Whatever you did, I'm sure you've learned your lesson. And right now, I need all the help that I can get. So give me suggestions. Any idea and I'll listen." shadowess - April 14, 2021 Tom tilted his head back, his breathing becoming a little ragged as his excitement grew. A small moan escaped him as Nate's hands caressed his chest and his kisses moved. 'I am yours. All yours' he couldn't help thinking as he bit his lip and closed his eyes. 'Mind. Body. Soul. Every part of me. Yours and no one else's.' --- The news about Carter was concerning but Patience had a feeling that Carter would want them to stay focused. After all, the faster they find this Angel, the faster Sebastian could be brought home and Sebastian might be able to help Carter through what he's going through now. She folded her arms and thought for a moment. "Just so you know, I'm still pretty exhausted from using too much of my power earlier today. I might not be good to go, power wise, until tomorrow. So teleporting us anywhere is currently out of the question. Now, having said that, perhaps we could backtrack a little? Revisit some areas that we know this Angel has been to. See if we missed anything else? His next targets are out of his reach but I doubt he'll bother with them now anyway seeing as we have the Haiku's before he could carry out those plans..." she then seems to realize something. "Maybe there's something in the Haiku's that could give away the next target? A theme that we haven't noticed yet?... All of them so far seemed to have been written out for members of this group specifically! What if..." she paused, her eyes darting to the window. "What if...he's watching this building?" she looked back at Will and Leo. "What if his next target is one of us?...or...or someone else who is known to have hung out with or helped this group in the past? If he's not here watching us...what if he's wherever they are?...watching them?" Denix Vames - April 14, 2021 Nate smirked. He tossed his shirt aside. His wings sprouted. "Oh really?" They vibrated. He pressed himself against him. Whispering into his ear, "Then let me show you how far I can really go." --- Will nodded. "Good to know. First, I want an update on Tom and Nate's location." "In France." ,said Leo. "And Vincent, Elliot, and Neva are sleeping in a bedroom in this house. They'll be safe here. Carter's safe in rehab. Anyone else?" "Jasper can take care of himself. Jessica's at home. Gary's at home too or at work." "Either way, they're all safe. So long as we don't bring them with us, they'll be fine. Right now, we need to focus on these haikus." Will laid them out on the desk. "Now, where does this start?" shadowess - April 14, 2021 Tom heard the loud flutter of Nate's wings sprouting then gasped and moaned when he felt Nate's body against his as the vibrations from his wings passed through him. He grinned at Nate's words and shivered excitedly. "Yes!" he breathed and once again lost himself to Nate's passion. (Private Time) --- "There's Amelia and Charles as well." Patience added when they listed everyone Carter knew, having met them not too long ago for negotiations. "They're more of Carter's friends. Amelia is currently powerless but Charles is a full Devil, he should be more than enough protection for the both of them." Patience didn't know anyone else that might be friends with Carter as she hadn't met his other friends. Patience looked at the Haiku's thoughtfully. "Those three are the ones we picked up when the Angel dropped them." she pointed to each of them. "This one was left on the bed when Sebastian was taken...this must be the one that was at the scene when Alex was stabbed..." she read each of them briefly. "There's a pattern. It's not much...but each haiku seems to go from the same formula. The first line hints who the victim will be, the second gives a hint as to how they'll suffer and the last line is the infamous line the Devine used when they sought to strike fear into their enemies..." Denix Vames - April 14, 2021 "So then the next haiku will give us the location?" ,said Leo. "If he's willing. We most likely scared him off. The best thing we can do is check out the scenes. First, we'll start with the park. That's where it all started from there. But I need everyone to be on their guard." Will pulled out a black handgun from the drawer and some black cuffs. He placed it in his holster and the cuffs nearby. Dangling on his belt. "By the way, Charles is a Devil. I can't imagine who would do well against an Angel. Is there any way to contact them and tell them to get out of the country? Or maybe go to Hell?" shadowess - April 15, 2021 "Amelia won't be able to go back to Hell. She's pregnant and by now the barrier to Hell will be in effect. It prevents children or those incapable of knowing right from wrong from entering Hell for their protection. It'd pickup on her unborn child and rebound her back to Earth." Patience explained while shaking her head a little. "I'll call them and warn them of the danger." she said, taking out her phone. With the negotiations ongoing, she'd gotten their number so as to arrange future meetings. She dialed Charles's number and when he answered she quickly explained everything to him and suggested he get them to a safe location as soon as possible until the Angel is captured. When she was done she put her phone away and sighed. "Alright, I'm ready when you two are." Denix Vames - April 15, 2021 Charles answered. "Hello?" He nodded. "Alright. I understand. Thanks for the information." He put his phone away. "Amelia? We'll need to move for a bit." --- "Carter's vehicle is back right now but we'll take my car." ,said Will. They headed out of the house and into his car. He soon drove to the park. "We might have to separate if this park is big. Still, stay on guard. Sounds like this angel doesn't have a problem killing one of his own kind."
Shadowess Posted August 29 Author Posted August 29 shadowess - April 15, 2021 Amelia had just finished washing a few dishes when Charles called through and said they'd need to move for a while. "What? How come?" she asked as she walked back into the living room, drying her hands on a towel. --- Patience nodded and followed them to the car. Once at the park, she gave them both her number before splitting up to look around for anything they might've missed. By now, Alex's blood had been cleaned up and from what Patience could see, there was nothing else here that might point them towards who the Angel might be. She wandered around the park and looked in each area carefully while thinking. Did any of these locations have anything in common or were they just random coincidences? Was the Angel just taking advantage of the fact that Alex and Sebastian had been alone at the time? Denix Vames - April 15, 2021 "They've been working on a case involving an angel that's been attempting to murder our friends. Everyone has been put in safe locations. Because we can't go to Hell right now, Patience told us to get out of the country for a bit." ,said Charles. --- Leo and Will split up as well. Looking around the spot where they were at. Leo kept his gun in his hand. Ready to fire when needed. Will merely kept his flashlight on. Shadowess - April 15, 2021 When Charles briefly explained the situation, Amelia's eyes widened. She hated feeling so helpless. Angel or not, if she'd been able to, she'd have teleported to them without hesitation to help. But now she had a budding new family of her own to consider...it wasn't just herself she had to worry about anymore. She frowned and nodded, putting the towel down and moving into his arms. "Ok." --- They searched for what felt like hours but still found nothing new. Patience sent a text to Will and Leo, suggesting that they regroup and try the forest next. Denix Vames - April 15, 2021 "We should pack some things before we go." ,said Charles. --- Will and Leo met up with her at the car. "Hopefully, we'll find something at the forest. I mean that place is pretty big. There's got to be some kind of evidence there." ,said Will. "Murders always make mistakes. There's bound to be anything." ,said Leo. "Right. Let's go." They hopped into the car. Will drove them to the forest. Shadowess - April 15, 2021 Amelia nodded. "I'll go get the suitcase." She kissed his cheek before letting him go and heading into the bedroom. She took the suitcase out of the wardrobe and placed it onto the bed. She then packed a few clothes for them, leaving room for anything Charles wanted to add. --- Patience got out of the car when they arrived and looked around with a sigh. The smell of burnt grass and blood was still in the air. She looked at the spot where her knife had hit the Angel and spotted his dried blood on the grass near the trees. She tilted her head thoughtfully and walked over to it, bending down and picking the blood stained grass. She brought it up to her nose and took a few deep breaths. His scent was faded but she could still pick it up. Her eyes flicked up to look into the forest and she stood. "I think I've got something!" She said excitedly and began warily, but hurriedly walking into the forest. Stopping every so often to take some deep breaths and keep track of his scent. Denix Vames - April 15, 2021 Charles had put in their toothbrushes and toothpastes. He wrapped an arm around her. "Let's go." Once she had the case in her hands, they appeared in a room in London. It looked to be an empty apartment. --- "Really? What is it?" ,said Will. "Looks like she's got his scent. Let's follow her." ,said Leo. With their guns by their sides, they followed her. Shadowess - April 15, 2021 Once they arrived in the empty apartment, Amelia looked around curiously. "Where are we?" She let go of the suitcase and wandered over to the window where she opened the curtains to see the familiar buildings in the distance. She smiled. "Home..." she said with a sigh. "Sebastian's house isn't far from here... I'll bet everything is dusty there now." she chuckled. --- "It's faint..." Patience said as they moved through the trees. "He's long since gone but we might find whatever he left behind...it might help us to find him!" She continued to push ahead, pausing every so often to smell the air again. After walking for what felt like half an hour, the smell grew a little stronger until she spotted something in the distance and came to a stop. "There!" she said in a hushed voice. His scent still wasn't strong enough for him to be present but they couldn't rule out the possibility that the little cabin she pointed at was empty. What they would soon discover, is that they had just stumbled across one of the Angel's hiding places. They wouldn't find any weapons inside. But they would find the same kind of paper the Angel had been using to make the haikus, as well as a few photos on the wall. All taken, apparently, without the person in them knowing. Some even blatantly taken through the window of Carter's office! There was Nate, Tom, Patience, Alex, Parker, Carter, Sebastian, Nurse May, Jessica, Kite, Cindy, Amelia, Charles, Blaire, Elliot, Leo and Oscar. Alex and Sebastian had a red circle around their photos with red crosses over their faces. Parker, Carter, Nate, Tom, Cindy, Leo, Oscar, Charles, Amelia, Patience and Nurse May had a red circle drawn around their photos. While the rest had been placed a little away from the others on the wall with a large blue question mark painted onto the wall next to them. Denix Vames - April 15, 2021 "Really? I didn't know." He looked around. "Are you hungry? Or do you want to get some sleep?" --- "What the fuck?!" ,said Leo. "My thoughts exactly. Looks like everybody's on his bucket list." "No, I mean. Why me? I'm killing criminals!" "Let's not get into that debate. What we need to do is take all of this to the office. Unfortunately, we'll have to move these files and our weapons somewhere else. Not to mention the people. We'll have to call in anyone else who wasn't told about this and put them somewhere safe. That also means placing you guys somewhere as well." "Ok! No! We've been hiding our friends for far too long. I know this is an angel with a god complex but hiding isn't doing us any good. We haven't even caught the guy! And now this? We should all gang up together and take him down at the same time." "He's still an angel. We can't take risks." "Risks? You haven't been long enough to see that we've taken risks! Plenty of them!" "Enough! Let's just grab this shit." Will started taking down the pictures. Leo raised a brow. "Ya know, I'm surprised he doesn't know Gary." "Gary? Who's Gary?" "He's Alex's boyfriend. So far, he hasn't been a target. Maybe the angel never saw him?" "Then we should stay out of contact from him. Make sure he stays safe. If he tries to contact us then we have to ignore." shadowess - April 15, 2021 "Well, I mean...I didn't grow up here. I ended up getting my accent from David...but he used to talk about London so much when I was growing up that when I came to Earth, I ended up spending most of my time here. So I guess between that and David's stories...this place really does feel like home to me." she smiled. She thought for a moment on his question and looked down at herself, placing a hand on her belly. She wasn't even showing yet because it was still so early, but she supposed she was still eating for two. "I could eat." she nodded, turning to face him. It had been late at night in the US but now that they're in England, it was early morning. "I guess it is technically breakfast time." she chuckled. --- Before Will took down the photos and while he'd been busy arguing with Leo, Patience had taken out her phone and snapped a couple of photos of the wall so they could remember it's layout. As Will took them down, she looked at the photos she'd just taken thoughtfully. "He's right. If this Angel is unaware of Gary then we should avoid contact to keep him safe...I wonder why the Angel separated us out like this?..." She sighed. "You needn't worry about 'placing' me anywhere. I fully intend on helping to track down this Angel. I am more than capable of defending myself when necessary." She looked over at Leo. "We need to protect those in our group who are vulnerable. But I agree, the more capable people we have to help us, the better. So we should choose, very carefully, who should hide and who should help." Denix Vames - April 15, 2021 Charles smiled. "I'll start cooking then." He snapped his fingers. Once he opened the fridge, there was food there. He began making some eggs, bacon, and pancakes in the kitchen. --- "Then any Angel will do. Leo, you're an exception from what I've been told so you'll stick around. Any Angel that we know as a friend will report to the office. Anyone living in that house who's weak against the Angel's tactics will be placed somewhere else." "Wait a minute! They don't know about Vincent or Neva. That means they're safe too." "Either way, we should get them out of there. Put them in Carter's house. I've seen it and I know where it is. Seems like the Angel doesn't know." Leo nodded. "I'll transport them there." "Vincent's....something. He can do that himself. I'll just tell him." --- Gary knocked on the door of Carter's Office. Worried about Alex. Shadowess - April 15, 2021 Amelia watched him cook and smiled. She took the handle of the suitcase and wheeled it into the bedroom to unpack their things. Once finished, she walked back into the kitchen and wrapped her arms around his waist from behind, resting her head on his shoulder. "Mmm smells good..." she hummed then smirked. "The food smells nice too." --- Patience nodded then a thought occurred to her. "Vincent and Nate are both telepathic. I could request them both to come here and we can tell them right now. It'd save a lot of time." She then focused, hoping they would both hear her. 'Vincent. Nate. If at all possible, we need you both to come here now. There's been a development in the case and we could use your help.' --- Neva stirred, her sleep disturbed by the knocking coming from the front door. Denix Vames - April 15, 2021 Charles chuckled as he blushed. "Thank you." He flipped a pancake. "So, what are you thinking of naming the baby?" --- Vincent and Nate appeared. Nate seemed like he had quickly put on his clothes. His hair was still a mess from a personal moment. "You kind of caught us at an awkward time. What the hell is going on?" ,asked Nate. "Vincent, I need you to take your family to Carter's house. Elliot is the only target but I want to be safe about this. And Nate, I need your help so stick around for a bit." ,said Will. Nate sighed. "Fine." Vincent nodded. "Thanks for letting me know." He disappeared. --- Gary knocked harder and faster. Hoping to get whoever was inside their attention. Shadowess - April 15, 2021 "I'm not sure..." Amelia said thoughtfully. "I think...maybe Carol if it's a girl? After my mother..." she shrugged a little. "But I mean...that could even just be a middle name...we've got plenty of time to think it over...What about you? Did you have any thoughts on what names we could pick from?" --- When Nate showed up looking the way he did, Patience's face turned a deep red from a mixture of embarrassment and regret. "Sorry..." she said to him while averting her gaze. She looked back at her phone and showed Nate the photo she'd taken of the wall, before Will had taken the photos down. "Here. The Angel seems to have been watching us all for a while. He's put the majority of us together on one section of the wall while separating these four..." she points to the photos of Jessica, Kite, Blaire and Elliot next to the large blue question mark. She looks back at Leo and Will. "I don't suppose you two know about the Devine story? Well, I have a theory as to why he might be separating us this way. The Devine were obsessed with their idea of New Eden. They would choose who would get to survive to see New Eden very carefully and then try to brain wash them into following them. This Angel has repeatedly used the Devine's famous phrase, Punishment Divine. If he is some crazed copycat, then maybe he's also picking out who he'd rather have in his version of 'New Eden'?" --- Neva jumped awake from the knocks and shook Elliot to wake him. "Someone's at the door!" she whispered, her eyes wide and frightened. Denix Vames - April 15, 2021 Charles shrugged. "I'm not sure. I've never named anyone or anything before." He set the pancake on a plate. He placed some eggs and bacon there. He placed some pancake mix on the pan. Getting ready to make another pancake. "Your breakfast is ready unless you want another pancake." --- "Then we have to find those four and get them away from here. Place them in Carter's house. The Angel hasn't been there. If it's possible, I want an Angel to guard them." ,said Will. "I can do that." ,said Nate. "Then go please." Nate disappeared. "And Patience, I need another Angel here. Can we ask one to come here?" --- Nate grabbed the Jessica, Kite, Blaire, and Cindy from their homes. Placing them in Carter's house. "Listen everybody. This is for your protection. No one can get in or out. The Angel has been watching you guys so I'm here to keep all of you safe. I will have to fetch someone else. Stay here." --- Elliot got out of bed. "Don't worry Neva. I'm sure it's just a friend." He headed downstairs. Once he opened the door, he saw a worried looking Gary. "Is Alex alright?" Elliot yawned as he rubbed his eyes. "Last I check, he's still with David. You can ask him if you can visit." "How do I do that?" He shrugged. "Just call him but I'd come in first." Gary nodded as he walked in. "Hey David? Someone here wants to see Alex!" shadowess - April 15, 2021 (Do you want to write as the Angel that Patience goes to for help or would you rather I make one up?) Amelia's eyes were soft as she smiled at Charles lovingly. "Well, there isn't any rush...yet." she chuckled. She then kissed his cheek. "That's plenty, thank you." she said as she picked up the plate. "Although I'm probably going to end up eating more and more the bigger I get." she laughed. Having had around a week alone with Charles, she'd quickly gotten used to the idea of them having a child together. The more she thought about it, the more excited she became. She took her plate to the table and sat down with it. --- Patience nodded. "I can visit the Angelic Authorities. They're very similar to your human police force. I'll ask if they can spare an Angel to help us with this case." she explained. She didn't know many Angels in the Angelic Authority well enough to summon them the way she'd summoned Vincent and Nate. In fact, not many Angels appreciated being contacted that way. Especially from a newborn Angel. "I'm not sure how long that'll take but I'll make it clear to them that it's urgent." she assured him before vanishing. --- Jessica was still out cold and stinking of booze when she was brought to Carter's house. She was placed on the couch where she snored lightly. Cindy, alarmed at being grabbed by Nate, huddled herself into Kite's arms. Understandably, she was still terrified of Nate, considering their last encounter involved him trying to destroy her. At first she was confused when Nate said he'd brought them here for their protection but then he mentioned an Angel watching them and her eyes widened. She exchanged a knowing look with Kite as she recalled the stranger with the feather that had stalked her on her way home that day. If her mind wasn't constantly guarded, Nate might've caught the image of the blonde haired, violet eyed man that she'd seen. Unfortunately, because of her own secrets, she couldn't let that guard down for even a second. Especially around telepaths like Nate. When Nate vanished she looked around for a moment, looking a little lost. "But wait-! What about my job?? I have work in the morning!" --- Neva crept down the stairs to see who it was and saw Gary. She stayed by the staircase, watching tiredly while they talked. A moment later, David appeared. His sudden appearance made Neva jump and within seconds she'd transformed into a kitten and shot under the sofa to hide. David whirled around in confused alarm and looked from the staircase to the sofa. "What was that?" he then looked at Gary and seemed to understand. "Ah, not a bad idea actually. I can take you to Hell to see him. He's been getting restless now that he can move around a little more. Maybe you can distract him from getting any wild ideas about exploring Hell like his sister tried to do...Honestly, I don't know where my great grandchildren get this sense of adventure and mischief from..." he rolled his eyes with a smirk. He knew full well that he'd been the same when he'd been alive. Hell, even during his Demon training with Lucifer's best soldier, he'd been a handful! "Oh, just bear in mind though, once in Hell all communication devices stop functioning...Hell doesn't have any cell towers I'm afraid." he chuckled.
Shadowess Posted August 29 Author Posted August 29 Denix Vames - April 15, 2021 (you be the angel) "That's fine. We've got plenty of food here." Charles began cooking some bacon and eggs for himself. --- Will looked at Leo. "Let's check this place around further before we leave." Leo nodded. --- "I guess we'll have to call in sick then." ,said Kite. --- Nate appeared. "I don't mean to be rude but I'm gonna need Elliot and Neva. They have to stay at Carter's house for protection." Gary grabbed David's hand. "Please take me to him! I've been worried and I don't know what he's been doing!" shadowess - April 15, 2021 Amelia didn't like to eat alone, so she'd wait patiently until Charles had his breakfast ready as well before digging in. Once he was sitting with her, she ate up her food pretty quickly as she usually does whenever Charles cooked. He always made the food so good that she couldn't help herself. Even if the dish was a simple one, it was always done to perfection. She never left a scrap of food on her plate! When finished, she sat back with a big smile on her face. "Perfect as always!" She said happily. "Thank you. I'll wash the dishes when you're done. Maybe we could explore some of London today? Make the most of our time here?" --- It took several minutes for Patience to talk one of the Angelic Authorities to help her with this case. But Michael Dillard soon appeared with Patience near Leo and Will. Even for an Angel, he was a very large man. He stood at almost eight foot tall, having to bend down a little to fit into the room. His body seemed to be made entirely of muscle. He had very short, black hair and piercing blue eyes. "Will, Leo...this is Michael. He's...and Arch Angel." Patience introduced them. "You can call me Mickey." Michael greeted them in a deep, gravelly voice. "Like the mouse." he added although his features remained unexpressive. Even Patience stared at him uncertainly. She found it genuinely difficult to read whether Michael intended to be humorous or not. --- "Ugh...Debbie is -really- going to hate me for that! I've only worked there a couple of days and already calling in sick? Might as well just ask her to fire me..." Cindy complained, rubbing her forehead. "Looks like I might have to find a new job when all this is over then...whoever said the mortal life was easier is an idiot!" --- David smiled gently at Gary. "You can relax. You really haven't been missing much. I'll take you to him, he'll be happy to see you and when you want to return just let me know and I'll bring you back." He turned to Elliot and Nate and nodded. "Well, it looks like you're leaving as well anyway. Best of luck to you all. Stay safe." He vanished with Gary, taking him to the Library. As soon as he was gone, Neva ran out from under the couch at Elliot, mewing at him as she ran. She wondered where Vincent was. --- Alex had been staring out of the window again, lost in thought when David and Gary appeared in the room behind him. Sebastian was snoozing on the couch while Parker sat in the corner, reading one of the books. Parker had gotten so bored within the first few hours of being in Hell that he'd asked David to teach him how to read the demonic language just so he'd have something to keep him occupied. Rather than teach him the traditional way, David did the same thing he'd done for Nate and Tom by pushing his knowledge into Parker's mind. Hearing movement behind him, Alex turned around curiously and his eyes widened, he broke into a smile. "Gary!" he moved to hurry over to him but flinched and gripped his stomach. "Take it easy, you're still recovering." David said gently. "Don't care, guna hug him!" Alex grinned as he hurried over a little more carefully and wrapped his arms around Gary. Denix Vames - April 15, 2021 Charles ate with her. He smiled at her compliment. "Thank you but I should wash the dishes this time. You already did that earlier. And we can explore soon. Anywhere you like." --- Will's wide eyes stared at Michael as if he was a giant. He swallowed the lump in his throat. Leo jumped back. Keeping his gun by his side as he glared. "Nice to meet you.....Mickey." "Maybe we should go to the office and talk there. Leo, you'll stay out of the room." "What?!" Will gave him a look. "That's an order." Leo sighed. "Alright." He relaxed himself and put his gun away. "Then let's teleport out of here." --- "How about I go with you to work as your bodyguard? I can just explain to them that someone has been stalking you. And I'll call the guys down at the station about it. My leg's already getting better. I can just be there with my gun and uniform." ,said Kite. --- Elliot smiled and knelt to pick her up. "It's alright Neva. We're going somewhere safe for a bit." Nate teleported them to Carter's house where Vincent appeared too. "I heard about the news." Kite tore his cast off. He forced himself up and started walking with a slight limp. "Cindy saw someone holding a feather down the streets one night. She could give you the description of the person." Nate raised a brow. "Really? Give me all the details and don't leave anything out." --- Gary burst into tears. "Alex!" He kissed him. Holding on to those lips for a moment before enjoying the hug. Pressing his head against his. "I missed you so much! It's been hard trying to work without thinking about you!" shadowess - April 16, 2021 "You're such a gentleman." Amelia grinned and she glanced over at the window thoughtfully. "Maybe the London Eye? I'd love to look out at the city from the top! I heard Camden Market is a good district for shopping too." she suggested. --- "Uh..." Patience nodded while thinking. "He's never been to the office before and he doesn't know anyone from there to focus on, so teleporting there might be tricky. I would do it but can already feel myself getting exhausted again just from bringing Mickey here..." She then looked up at Mickey. "Have you ever been to Wesson Street?" Mickey thought for a moment then looked back at Patience. He would've nodded if he'd had enough room to do so. He held out his huge hands for them all to take. "I know the area." he answered while waiting for them to take his hands. Patience placed her hand in his and as soon as the other two did as well, they teleported to the street where Mickey straightened up and cracked his neck, relieved to not have to hunch over anymore. --- "I duno...That's really sweet of you but if anything did happen, I don't want to be the reason you got hurt again." Cindy said with a frown when Kite offered to be her body guard. "If I have to lose my job and start again just to keep us safe, then that's what I'll do. Nothing matters to me more than being with you." When they arrived, Neva remained in her cat form. Feeling too shy to transform back as she didn't know a few people in the room. When Vincent arrived, she perked up a little and mewed at him cheerily from Elliot's hand. Cindy watched Kite, both worried about his injury and simultaneously aroused by his display of strength. Then he told Nate about the stalker and Nate asked her to tell him everything. She looked at Nate nervously, hugging herself and nodded. She'd need to be careful to not let her guard slip. "I was walking home from work after my first shift. The street was empty at the time and I got the feeling like I was being watched. I didn't see anyone at first but then I looked up and saw this guy standing near an alley. He hadn't been there before, so I think he might've teleported there. He had short, blond hair and I think... purple eyes. He kept staring at me. Then he pulled a white feather out of his pocket and stroked his face with it while smiling at me. It was really, freaking creepy." she shivered. "I didn't want to walk passed him so I crossed the road but when I looked back, he'd gone. The whole time I just felt...I dunno...like I was being toyed with. I haven't seen anything like that since though and it's been a couple of days." --------- Alex couldn't stop smiling. His heart fluttering as Gary kissed him. "I missed you too! I want to come home so much!" his eyes filled with tears. Parker had listed his eyes from the book to watch them for a moment before lowering them back to read again. David smiled at them. "Gary, I'll have to give you the same rules that the others follow. Don't leave the library. If you want to leave this room, do not do so alone and stay close to this one so we can hear you if you need to call for help. Demons know not to hunt in this building but there's always a chance that a dangerous soul might decide to take refuge in one of the other rooms, and they don't tend to either know or abide by our laws." Denix Vames - April 16, 2021 Charles took the dishes to the kitchen and began to wash them. "Sure. We could do all that. I can only guess that they have delicious sweets." --- Leo hesitantly took his hand. Keeping a tight grip on it to show that despite knowing he was there to help that he wouldn't hesitate to fight him if he dared to harm any of his friends or Oscar. Will held Leo's hand and Patience's. "This way." ,said Will who opened the door. Letting them go inside. He stopped Leo with a hand. "And I want you to fetch my car." He gave him the keys. Leo hesitated. "But-" "We'll be fine. I promise." He nodded before zooming to the forest. --- Vincent smiled. He held her close. "How's my dear kitten? Doing well?" "Think she's nervous about seeing all these strangers." "Well, you don't need to worry. They're our friends. You just haven't met them yet." Nate held an angry expression. "That bitch! This doesn't even have to do with New Eden. He gets a kick out of it." He nodded at her. "Thanks for telling me all of this. I'll go inform Will about it. In the meantime, no one will leave." Kite glared. "We're not weak! I'm a cop! I know how to handle myself and so does Cindy! She deserves a say in this! We all do!" "She may be strong but she's no match for an Angel!" "And Carter's no better? Or you?" "Look! I understand you're frustrated but-" "We're all leaving!" He nodded at her. "C'mon Cindy. We're leaving." He headed for the door. Nate appeared in front of him. Kite pulled out his gun. "Get out of my way." Nate placed his hand on his head before he had the chance to pull the trigger. Kite suddenly dropped his gun as he collapsed. Falling into a deep sleep that he would soon wake from. Nate nodded at them. "Sorry." He disappeared. --- "Hold on David. I have an idea. There's cameras at my house now. Security. And I've been learning how to shoot. I have my own gun now. Can't I just take him to my house? Please? I promise he'll be safe there. We'll both be." Gary held Alex's hand with a shaky one. "Maybe this is selfish of me but I really want him to come home with me. Please?" --- Nate appeared in Carter's office. "Hey Will, I hav-" His eyes widened at the sight of Michael. He jumped back and brought out his weapon. Ready to fight. "What the hell is he doing here? Ready to arrest me? Cause I'm not going up there! I know what you guys do to Angels like me!" "Whoa Whoa! Hold on a minute!" Will raised his hands up between them. "Is there some kind of beef between you two?" shadowess - April 16, 2021 At the mention of sweets, Amelia's grin widened a little. "Oh, you have no idea how much I've missed Pear Drops! You know they have a giant one in Oswaldtwistle? But that's like...miiiiles away." she laughed. "I saw it once when I was over there for a visit. Huge! But they're nothing compared to the Rainbow Crystals and Rocket Lollies the same factory makes. Now those'll make you bounce off the walls!" she chuckled. --- Neva brought her little, front paws to Vincent's chest so she could look up at him and purr. At his words, she'd been comforted enough to want to change into her human form but then jumped when Nate and Kite began arguing. Her fur stood up on her back out of fear and when the gun was brought out she curled into a ball on Vincent's hand, her little form shaking. Cindy watched uncertainly as Kite and Nate had argued. She wanted to leave with Kite but she was frightened of what this Angel might be capable of. When Kite had nodded at her and told them they were leaving, Cindy remained quiet and followed him. She then froze and held her breath when Nate blocked their path and Kite took out his gun. Then Nate forced Kite to sleep and Cindy rushed forward to catch him. "Kite!" she cried out worriedly. She held him then looked up at Nate before he'd vanished. Looking back down at Kite with a frown, she brushed some of his hair out of his face. --- David frowned but watched the way Alex held on to Gary. He scratched the back of his head as he thought about how miserable Alex had been during his stay here. Stuck in the same room and staring off out of the window almost constantly. He knew that if he continued to stay here then it'd only be a matter of time before his wounds healed enough for him to attempt to sneak out like Jessica had. Only David had a pretty good idea of where, or rather -who- he'd end up trying to go to. Reluctantly, he nodded. "Alright. But if you get so much as a feeling that something isn't right, then I want one of you to call for me and I'll come to get you." --- Patience's eyes widened in alarm when Nate appeared and reacted the way he did. Mickey merely glared at him, unmoving. "Nate, please calm down. That's not why he's here." Patience tried to reassure him then shot a serious look at Mickey. "Right?" Mickey looked at her, his face as expressionless as always and he shrugged while looking back at Nate. "You are not my target right now." he replied simply. Patience turned back to Nate. "He's here to help with the case." Denix Vames - April 16, 2021 "Really? You'd need to show me all the candy there is. Tell me which ones are the best." Charles walked over after finishing the dishes. He wrapped an arm around her. "Would you like me to teleport us there?" --- Vincent gave Neva to Elliot who kept her close. He knelt by Cindy's side. "He'll be fine. He's just sleeping. I'll help you take him to a bedroom upstairs if that's alright with you." --- Gary nodded. "Of course. I promise." Once David had taken them back to his house, he smiled at Alex. "I'm so glad you're here. We can be alone together." --- Nate lowered his weapon. "So long as he doesn't try to arrest me then we're good." The weapon vanished. Will sighed. "Alright. Now, what did you want to tell me?" Nate retold Cindy's story. Will shook his head in disbelief. "So, we have the description of our guy. The thing is we need a sketch artist and I ain't no Leonardo." Leo zoomed into the office. "I brought your car back." He tossed the keys which Will caught. Will raised a brow at the drawing of a broken heart on his sleeve. It was detailed with chains and stitches. "Did you draw that?" Leo glanced at it before shrugging. "Yeah? So?" "Would you mind drawing out the suspect's face?" "Sure but we don't even know what he looks like." "Actually...." It didn't take long for Leo to make out a sketch of the Angel's face. --- Carter had gotten dressed into his normal clothes before jumping out of the window of his room. He ran off. Heading towards the direction of his office. He had made sure no one had seen him snuck off. Hoping he would be there without being stalled.
Shadowess Posted August 29 Author Posted August 29 Shadowess - April 16, 2021 Amelia stood and smiled at Charles as he held her. She was excited to show him her favorite places and candies. "Sure." --- Cindy looked at Vincent and while she maintained a calm expression, her heart rate had increased a little. She knew it was silly to feel fearful when he had no idea who she was but a part of her was worried he'd somehow realize she'd been the demon he'd fought with in Parker's apartment. She nodded quietly and helped him to carry Kite into the bedroom upstairs, laying him on the bed. She sat next to Kite on the bed and watched over him. "Thank you." she said to Vincent quietly. --- David dropped them off at Gary's house then left them to it, returning to Hell straight away. He had a feeling they were going to need some time alone to catch up and he didn't want to get in the way. He sat on the opposite couch to Sebastian and looked between him and Parker. At least he didn't have to worry about these two wandering off. Sebastian was far too worried about Carter to even think about Hell and Parker had absolutely no intentions of leaving. In fact, David strongly suspected that, unlike Alex, he was content to stay hidden as the last thing he wanted was for his ex to know he was here. --- Alex moved to hug Gary again and kissed him once more, just happy to be in his arms. "Oh, you have no idea how glad I am that you came to get me!" he smiled. "I thought I was going to go crazy in that room!" --- Even after Nate had put his weapon away, Mickey continued to stare at him for a moment before turning his attention back to the others. Once Leo had managed to draw the Angel, both Mickey and Patience looked at it curiously. "I don't know this Angel." Mickey said with a frown. "Yeah, I don't recognize him either. That probably just makes him an ordinary Angel then...not someone involved with the authorities..." Patience nodded then looked at Mickey. "That doesn't explain how he was able to get hold of an Angelic weapon though. Aren't only the Angelic Authorities issued with weapons?" "Some Angels are thieves." Mickey replied simply. Patience squinted at him for a moment. She got the feeling he was making a dig at Nate but his monotone delivery made it difficult to read him. "Anyway...do you think this sketch is enough to teleport us to him?" she asked and Mickey shook his head. "There is always room for error with drawings. A small detail might be wrong or the person giving the description might misremember what a part of them looks like. We might end up teleporting to someone that just looks similar to the real suspect. However, the sketch will help us to identify the Angel should we manage to find them." he explained. Patience nodded. "That makes sense...also, I managed to cut his hand with a demonic blade during our last encounter. So we're also looking for a man with a bandage around his right hand." she was beginning to feel more confident about this case by the second. Not only did they have a good idea of what this guy looked like now, but they also had a tell tale sign to look out for if they managed to find him. Denix Vames - April 16, 2021 Charles and Amelia appeared at the market. --- Vincent smiled. "Anytime." He went downstairs. Heading back to Elliot and Neva. --- Gary chuckled. "Well, you're here now. That's all that matters." They stepped into the house. Once inside, he kept him close. Kissing his neck as he gently pressed him against the wall. --- Nate crossed his arms and glared at Mickey. "Is there something that you want to say buddy?" Will slammed his fist against the desk. "Enough!" "You don't get it! These old Angels are nothing but cold blooded monsters!" "From what I've heard, you were no different." ,said Leo. "That was then. I've changed and they haven't." "Nate. Get out." "And leave you with him?" "I'm still breathing, aren't I?" Nate stormed out of the office. "I'm sorry about that. Anyway, is there any way you could detect his presence if you were to search the city?" ,asked Will. --- Carter soon reached the office. He knocked on the door. Shadowess - April 16, 2021 Amelia looked around the familiar market and smiled. The stalls were just opening up and the smell of exotic foods was beginning to fill the air from the various food stalls in the Market building. They'd wander around at a relaxed pace and look at all the weird and wonderful merchandise on sale. From knock off brands to curious collections. One stall that caught her eye had a man making old fashioned note books from parchment paper and leather covers with leather straps. There were the usual tourist stalls with London themed souvenirs. A gothic or pagan stall selling odd bits of dark clothing, crystals, goblets, jewelry, incense and tarot cards. The candy stall with old fashioned, colorful British sweets in large jars. Then of course, Amelia just couldn't help but coo over the stall with baby clothes and toys. Getting especially excited by how tiny the little shoes were. --- Neva pawed at Elliot's hand while looking down at the ground to signal she wanted to change back into her human form but didn't want to do it while he was still holding her. Upstairs, Cindy sat next to Kite while waiting for him to wake up. She bit the nail on her thumb nervously as she thought about everything that'd happened and the kind of danger they were in. --- Alex felt the wall behind him and Gary's body pressing up against his. He tilted his head back and let out a shaky breath as Gary kissed his neck. Her brought a hand up, running it through Gary's hair while his other hand wandered under his shirt, feeling his torso. "Oh God, I missed you!" he breathed and bit his lower lip with a smile. --- Mickey merely stared silently at Nate during his outburst. Patience watched Nate leave with a frown. When she'd asked Mickey for help, she hadn't expected it to cause problems between her friends. Mickey turned back to Will and shook his head. "That would take too long. The Angel might attack someone else in the time that we search the city. Our best bet is to use his plan against him. You know his targets which gives you an advantage and based on Nate's story, it would seem this Angel has been harassing the Demon woman. I'd wager she is his next target. I suggest we allow her to go about her business as normal while monitoring her from a distance. I can understand that you'd want to keep these people safe but by pulling them out of their normal routines you might end up tipping this Angel off that you're on to him and he may then go after someone else to try and throw you off his scent. He needs to believe he's still in control if you want any chance of capturing him. The minute we see him make a move, we surround him." "An ambush." Patience nodded. "He's right. This might be our best chance." she then paused when she heard the knock at the door and glanced between the others uncertainly. "I'll check it out." she said before leaving the room and heading towards the front door. When she opened it her eyes widened. "Carter!" she gasped. "I thought you were in hospital?" Denix Vames - April 16, 2021 Charles smiled. "This place looks interesting. Mind showing me the best candies?" --- "You should set her down." ,said Vincent. "Ok." Elliot did. Watching her transform into a human. "Hey there." Kite moved slightly as he kept sleeping. --- Gary led him to the couch where he helped him sit there. "Missed you too." Wanting to be slow and gentle, he merely unbuckled his belt. Working on pleasuring him some other way. (private time) --- Will frowned but nodded. "It's worth a shot." Carter stepped into the house. "I couldn't stand being cooped up in there while the case is still ongoing. So, have you made any progress?" shadowess - April 16, 2021 Amelia grinned and took his hand, leading him to the candy stall. She pointed out a jar of fine powder in layers of different colors. "That's Rainbow Crystals. It's like a sherbet but sweeter. You're supposed to buy a lolly with it to dip into it." she then pointed at a Jar of small human shaped, powdered sweets. "Those are Jelly Babies. They're famous across the country." she then grinned at a tub of what appeared to be jagged, black shards. "That's bonfire toffee. It's sort of like treacle toffee." Amelia just named the few but there were many more jars and tubs of different sweets in this stall. "Hmm, which ones do you want to try?" she asked, looking at him curiously. --- As soon as Neva was human she hugged both Elliot and Vincent, looking around the room worriedly. "What's happening?" she asked quietly, she'd been having a little trouble following what was going on. Cindy looked at Kite when he moved and lowered her hand from her mouth. She bent down and kissed him on his forehead. "What are we going to do?..." she whispered as she closed her eyes and kept her head close to his while stroking his hair. ------------ Frowning and feeling a little uncomfortable, Patience nodded. She knew it probably wasn't a good idea for Carter to leave the hospital like this but she felt it wasn't her place to say anything. She also hoped that wrapping this case up might help him towards recovering. "We found one of the Angel's hiding places and discovered his list of targets. I've brought in some help from the Angelic Authorities. He's upstairs with Will and Leo now. He's suggested we use one of the Angel's targets as bait to lure the Angel out so we can ambush him in a controlled environment. We also now have a pretty good idea of what the Angel looks like. Apparently he's been stalking one of your friends and she managed to get a look at his face." she explained quickly while walking with him towards the office. Mickey nodded. "You'll need to send word to her to let her know to pretend everything is normal and to go about her day as she already planned. Let her know we'll be watching and that she'll be safe. If you have any vampires in your group, we may need them to join us. Their sensitive hearing might pick up on sounds we might otherwise miss or they can focus to listen in on any phone calls. We will also need all other Demons and Angels you know to stand by as well. Teleportation will help us to close the gap as soon as the Angel makes a move. Try to keep humans out of this unless they're trained and in good health like yourself. In which case they will need to be armed appropriately." Denix Vames - April 16, 2021 Charles was intrigued by the sweets. "They are so many to choose from. I'm not sure which one to pick." He thought for a moment. "I guess Jelly Babies." --- Vincent knelt. "We're a target for someone's list. Someone who wants to hurt us. But you have nothing to worry about. We're right here." Elliot nodded. "Anyone who tries to get close to ya will get the full force of the South." "Let her go.....Cindy...." ,said Kite in his sleep. He seemed troubled. --- Carter nodded. "Well, I'm glad we're making progress at least. But I don't think we should be using a friend as bait." He stepped into the office. "Well, like it or not we have to." ,said Leo. Will pinched the brim of his nose. "What the hell are you doing here? You're supposed to be in rehab!" "I couldn't just stand by and let you all do this without me! I needed to know if you were all safe!" "We are! And you were safe in that medical center." "Humans that know how to defend themselves can come too. That's what the big guy said." ,said Leo. Carter turned his attention to Mickey. "You better not try anything." "For the last time, stop being suspicious about the tall angel!" ,said Will. "His name is Mickey." ,said Leo. "Whatever!" Leo stood. "Look, we wouldn't be leaving Cindy to die in the dust. We would need to bring any Angel, Demon or Devil, or Vampires that we know of." "So that just leaves out Elliot, Gary, Neva, and Jessica." "Time to tell David that he can kick out the guests." Carter hesitated but said, "Hey David! You can bring everyone from Hell over here! You're done babysitting!" shadowess - April 16, 2021 Amelia nodded and bought a bag of Jelly Babies for Charles to try. She bought herself a bag of Rainbow Crystals and a Traffic Light Lolly to go with it. Once they had their candy, she eagerly dipped the lollipop into the crystals and stuck it in her mouth with a smile. ----------- Neva was worried when they told her what was going on but was soon comforted by their defensiveness. She wrapped her arms around Vincent while he was knelt down and smiled. "I'm safe with my dads." she said quietly. "shh...I'm right here." Cindy whispered to Kite, laying next to him and resting her head on his chest. "I'm safe and with you." --- David appeared in the room with Parker and Sebastian. As soon as Sebastian saw Carter his face lit up. "Carter!" He exclaimed then ran forward and wrapped his arms around him. He suddenly got a whiff of his blood and pulled back sharply, realizing he hadn't had a drink since he first went to Hell. "Hold that thought!" he ran downstairs into the kitchen and pulled out a blood bag, biting into it immediately. David and Parker stared at the huge Angel warily then David looked between Carter and Will. "I'm guessing the danger hasn't passed yet?" Denix Vames - April 16, 2021 Charles sniffed the contents in the bag before taking a Jelly Baby and putting it in his mouth. His eyes widened as he chewed. "They're very sweet! Holy shit!" --- Vincent smiled. He gently patted her back. "Yes you are." Nate appeared. "Vincent, we're calling everyone that can defend themselves well enough against this Angel. You're one of them." Vincent looked at Neva. "Elliot will be here with you. I promise I'll be back, ok?" He kissed her forehead before disappearing with Nate to the living room of Carter's office. Kite seemed to have calmed down. His hand was on her waist. Feeling her presence, he slept soundly. Nate appeared in the room. "Don't be scared but we need both of you to help us take down the Angel. The plan will be explained once everyone's at the office." --- "Sebastian!" Carter smiled as tears fell from his eyes. He was about to savor this moment when Sebastian ran off. "Oh. I guess that was a close one." "Now before you say anything, Mickey is here to help. Ok? Let's make that clear." ,said Will. "Also, I need everybody downstairs and in the living room so that we can have a meeting." Once everyone did, the people that were there were Mickey, Carter, Sebastian, Will, Leo, Patience, Vincent, David, and Parker. Jasper suddenly appeared. "Ya'll didn't think I'd missed this, right?" "Well, now that just leaves Kite and Cindy. Hopefully, Nate can convince them to be here." Will handed Carter a black gun and cuffs. "By the way, you might need this." Carter nodded as he took them. "I'll kill him this time. I won't hesitate."
Shadowess Posted August 29 Author Posted August 29 shadowess - April 16, 2021 Amelia took the lolly out of her mouth and laughed at Charles's reaction. "Yeah, the Brits don't hold anything back when it comes to making their candy sweet...especially all the old fashioned sweets. Here, if you think those are sweet, try this." she dipped her lolly into the crystals and held it out for Charles to try. ---------- Neva frowned but nodded when Nate came to take Vincent away. She knew Vincent was strong enough to help them and come back. He was a reaper after all. She moved to hug Elliot as she stared at the place he'd been standing. "What do we do now?" she asked quietly. Cindy relaxed against Kite when she felt his hand on her waist. She had closed her eyes briefly but then they'd shot back open when Nate arrived. He explained they needed their help and she sat up again, looking down at Kite worriedly. "His leg still hasn't fully healed though!" she pointed out. "If it means getting rid of this psycho Angel then I'm happy to help...what do you need me to do?" --- Finished with his bag, Sebastian threw it into the trash and walked into the living room in time to see everyone else coming downstairs to have their meeting down here. He walked over to Carter with a smile and took his hand, gently rubbing the back of his hand with his thumb. David, Patience and Parker stood by to wait for the meeting to start. Mickey looked around at them all. "Apart from this Kite and Cindy, is this everyone that is capable of helping?" Parker glanced at Leo questioningly. Wondering if he wasn't suggesting Oscar to protect him. Denix Vames - April 16, 2021 Charles sucked off the crystals from the lolly and crunched on them. Making a sour face, he licked his lips. "Damn!" --- Elliot said, "Now, we hope and try to relax." He took her hand. "C'mon. Let's watch something." They walked to the couch where he turned on the TV. "Kite can stay then. But as for you, we need you as a distraction. Don't worry. You'll be under careful watch of your friends. Once they see the Angel coming after you, they'll strike." ,said Nate. --- Carter gently squeezed his hand. Letting him know how much he missed him. He smiled back. Leo glared at Parker then Mickey. "Yes. That's everyone." "Leo-" ,said Carter. "No! You don't get to do this." "I have Sebastian right here with me. You didn't think I would just bring him here if I didn't know he was capable of defending himself?" Leo crossed his arms. He looked away. "I don't want to hear it." Carter sighed. "Look, I know you're scared to lose him but if we don't do this together then that pyscho is going to eventually kill everybody he sees as sinners. Do you want him to get Oscar too?" Leo uncrossed his arms. He frowned. Hesitating before saying, "Fine. I'll call him. Just give me a second." Leo stepped out of the house. He leaned near the door as he called Oscar with his phone. Shadowess - April 16, 2021 Amelia laughed again and began walking with him around the market. "Right? If we ever want a good night's sleep when the little one is born then we should really stay clear of this stuff or they'll never go to sleep!" she chuckled, dipping the lolly back into the bag. "Was there anywhere you wanted to see next?" ----------------- Neva cuddled up with Elliot on the couch and watched whatever shows he put on. Occasionally she'd lose focus on what they were watching and wonder about what was going on before turning her attention back to the TV to try and keep herself distracted. She was far too worried to sleep. Cindy looked up at him when he said they needed her as a distraction and she tensed, hesitant. She glanced down at Kite once more before sighing and standing. If this stopped the Angel and kept Kite safe, then she would do it. She stroked Kite's hair a little and bent down to kiss him on the forehead, reluctant to pull away. When she did, she stood straight and walked around the bed to face Nate and sighed. "Alright...as long as he's safe." --- Mickey looked at Sebastian. "Is this all the vampires?" he asked. Sebastian glanced around but he couldn't see Tom. Having been in Hell though, he didn't know if Tom was able to join them. Parker also glanced around. "Well there's Tom...but I'm not sure if he's able to help and if he is, good luck telling Nate to bring him..." "Hmm." Mickey grunted then walked over to Sebastian, towering over him. "There is a chance we may need your abilities during the day as well. I can grant you temporary protection from the sun." he said as he placed a hand on his head. Sebastian froze, the size of this Angel's hand gave him the impression that he could easily crush his skull if he wanted to. He felt a strange sensation wash through him before the Mickey took his hand away and stepped back. Oscar had been playing F-Zero X when his phone rang. He paused the game and answered it. "Leo, are you alright?" he asked immediately. "How's the case going?" Denix Vames - April 16, 2021 "Very much true." Charles shrugged. "I'm not sure. You said something earlier about a building. We could go there." --- Elliot kept her close as he switched the channel to sitcoms. Letting her know that everything would be alright. --- Nate nodded. He soon appeared with Cindy in the living room. Carter glared at Mickey. Seeing him touch Sebastian's head, he attempted to shove him. "Hey! Back off!" Will held up a hand against Carter's chest. "Carter! Stop! He's just trying to help." Carter still glared but took a step back. Nate looked around. "Oh! You guys are talking about Tom?" He snapped his fingers. Making him appear. "Hey honey. You might want to grab a blood bag before joining us." Leo looked around to see if anyone was watching him before responding. "Everything's fine. I just...." He sighed. "Everybody's saying that we need you for this one last strategy against the Angel. But I..." He could hear his voice breaking as he fought back tears. Shaking a little. "I don't want you to get involved. Who knows what could happen? But these are orders. And if I tell them no then they'll just keep asking and I don't know what to do." shadowess - April 16, 2021 "The London Eye!" Amelia said with a grin. "It's the huge Ferris wheel-type building over there. You can see most of the city when you reach the top! Biggest Ferris Wheel in the world, apparently." --- Cindy looked around at everyone, a little anxious about being among such a crowd. Especially as at least three people here had attempted (and one succeeded) to kill her in the past. Although she did take note that Carter is no longer a vampire, which brought her some relief. The guy was crazy strong when he had been one and she really didn't like the possibility of him drinking from her again if they somehow figured out who she was. Tom looked around in mild alarm when he found himself suddenly standing in the living room of Carter's office. His eyes immediately fell on Mickey and he looked at him warily before nodding at Nate quietly and heading into the kitchen to grab himself a bag. "Oh, and don't worry about granting him sunlight protection. Lucky guy is already immune to the suns rays." Parker said to Mickey who nodded. Tom soon came back after drinking a bag and stood next to Nate. "Who's the big guy?" he asked Nate quietly. Oscar listened to Leo and could hear the pain in his tone. He frowned and put the controller down as he stood up. "Leo, it's alright." he said gently. "I know you're worried about me but you're forgetting the type of Demon I am...I was born for conflict and messy situations. With you by my side as well? Well, I think we'd be pretty unstoppable, don't you?" he smiled and teleported to stand right next to Leo, still holding the phone to his ear. "Don't worry. We've got this." he said as he hung up the phone and took his hand. "Besides, to quote a famous villain; 'this isn't even my final form!'" he winked with a grin. Denix Vames - April 16, 2021 "Sounds amazing. Let's go there." Charles and her appeared near the infamous Ferris Wheel. "Wow! It's huge!" --- Nate glared at Mickey. "Some douchebag Arch Angel named Michael." He sighed. "But he's here to help us. Still, don't get close to him. None of the guys upstairs like me for what I did back then so I would think twice if they didn't like you. Since you're very close to me." Leo hung up his phone before putting it away. He chuckled. "I don't know where that's from but ok." He kissed him. They soon went into the house. Carter looked at them. "I almost forgot. Oscar's a Demon. This could definitely work." "Alright. So that's everybody here." ,said Will. He stepped into the circle. "Now, here's the plan. We need Cindy to walk around the streets. Act like she's going to work. You'll need to walk somewhat slow for this one. Be casual. And everybody else will be watching from the sidelines. Once he shows up, Jasper can lasso him while everybody else will pin him down or knock him out. Whichever one is easy. Carter, if the higher ups in Heaven don't want this Angel as their prisoner, will shoot the Angel. Killing him instantly. Do we all understand the plan here?" shadowess - April 16, 2021 "C'mon!" Amelia said excitedly. She put her lolly into the bag with the crystals and rolled it shut before placing it into her bag, saving it for later. She then ran up the steps to the entrance. Thankfully, it was still early morning so people hadn't started queueing to get on it yet. She paid for their tickets and they climbed into one of the large, oval glass pods. ------------- Tom tensed and took Nate's hand while glaring at Mickey as well, almost as if defensive of Nate. "Noted." They all listened carefully to the plan. Cindy feeling uncomfortable and vulnerable at being used as bait but at the same time the plan they were putting together sounded like it might just work. When Will asked if they understood, Sebastian, Patience, Tom, Cindy, Parker and Oscar nodded. "I don't start work until seven in the morning. So we've got about two hours to kill before I should set off to work. If this guy is going to be coming after me then it's probably best that I go home and pretend that everything is normal. If I set off from here, or if I change my route then he's going to figure out that something is up." Cindy said. "Humans should stay in vehicles so as to stay hidden along Cindy's route to work." Mickey added. "Angels, Demons and- " He glanced at Vincent and Jasper. "Spirits can watch from rooftops and teleport to his location as soon as he makes an appearance." "Do you think we could borrow some walkies from the station for this?" Parker asked Will. "If we're all going to be split up like that, we'll need some way to maintain communication." "One vampire with humans and one vampire with Angels, Spirits and Demons. They have great hearing, they can relay messages between us." Mickey suggested. "If nothing happens before Cindy gets to work, it is important that she go about her day as she would have. If that happens Vampires will listen in to her while she works to listen out for any sign that the Angel might be there." Denix Vames - April 16, 2021 Charles sealed his bag of candy with the snap of his fingers before putting them in his pocket. He followed her into the ride. Sitting next to her. He smiled. "This is going to be exciting." --- Will hesitantly nodded. "I'd have to be careful about this." "No need to take from your place." ,said Nate who snapped his fingers. Conjuring up radios on the table. "I already did that for you." ".....I'm not even gonna ask where you got these." "Probably a good idea." "I hate to say it but Mickey's plan sounds pretty good." ,said Leo. Carter nodded. "We should be ready as soon as possible. I know there's only a few hours before her shift starts but I feel like we should be there already." "Maybe for us humans but with the rest of these guys, it'll only take them half a second to get there." "Carter and Will's cars can be used to keep the humans we have here hidden." ,said Leo. "Smart thinking. We can park them on the side of the roads. Each one on a different side." ,said Will. Leo looked around. "Sorry if I'm being paranoid but how do we know he's not listening in on all of this?" shadowess - April 16, 2021 Amelia sat with Charles on the wooden bench in the middle of the large capsule. She leant against him, unable to stop smiling. Every moment with him was always so perfect. It would take around fifteen minutes for their capsule to reach the peak of the wheel and they could see the city. Able to see Big Ben, Parliament, Tower Bridge, The Shard and all the other famous landmarks in London. Amelia stood and walked over to the window to look out at the city with a grin. "I always forget just how much there is to see in London! This view is perfect!" --- "We don't." Patience sighed. "All we can do is hope they're off somewhere else planning their move against Cindy and have no idea about our meeting here." "Then we put this plan into motion." Mickey said. "Capture if possible but if this Angel is too dangerous then lethal force is permitted. Cindy, go home now and prepare for work. Patience, teleport to the rooftop of her home with a vampire to monitor her. Take a radio with you." Cindy nodded then vanished, returning to Kite's apartment to pretend everything was normal. Patience also nodded and picked up a radio. She looked at Nate and Tom, figuring they might prefer to keep away from Mickey while also staying together. "You two want to come with me?" she asks. Mickey then looks at Will, Carter, Leo, Parker and Sebastian. "Humans and vampire, I trust you will prepare among yourselves how best to place your vehicles. Stay in contact but stay out of sight until it is time to move in." Then he looks at Oscar, Vincent and Jasper. "Patience, Nate and Tom will stay closer to Cindy. We will stay closer to the human's vehicles as we watch from the roofs at a distance." Sebastian took a radio and looked at Carter. "I'll stay in Carter's car." "Then I'll go in Will's." Parker said while also picking up a radio. Oscar looked at Leo and took his hand. "I'll be close by. Don't worry." Denix Vames - April 16, 2021 Charles walked over to her. Looking at the view as well. "This is a beautiful sight but I have a much more magnificent one right in front of me." --- Nate nodded. "We're definitely coming with you." Him and Tom disappeared. Reappearing where Patience would be. Will and Carter left the house with Sebastian and Parker going into their cars. They started the drive to the street near her workplace. Leo gripped his hand. "Me and him are fine staying together on our own. We can be one of the rooftops. I'm sure you can handle yourself. I can too. After all, I was forced into becoming a super soldier. It won't be hard for me to take this winged bastard down." "Ah ah ah! Carter said he'd be the one to do the killing." ,said Vincent who grinned. "And believe me, you don't want me to be the one who does it. I'll just freak out about it and start a massacre. I do miss the simple days when I didn't know about Heaven or Hell though. Minus the murdering of course." Jasper awkwardly smiled. "How about we all just get in our places and be ready for the task?"
Shadowess Posted August 29 Author Posted August 29 shadowess - April 16, 2021 Amelia grinned and looked up at Charles, her cheeks shimmering as she blushed hard. It was such a cheesy line but she'd be lying if she said she didn't love it. She leaned in and pressed her lips against his passionately. Savoring this sweet, romantic moment. --- Patience knelt low on the roof of the apartments and gestured for Tom and Nate to kneel with her. "Can you hear her?" she asked Tom. Patience could hear her as well, of course, but having both of them listening out would be beneficial. Tom seemed to concentrate for a moment before nodding. "Good." she glanced between Nate and Tom awkwardly. "I'm sorry about Mickey. When he said he would help, I didn't realize it would cause problems." she looked at Nate. "Tom was made by Sebastian and I am Sebastian's maker. In a strange way, that sort of makes us like family. To me, that means more than just words. I'd protect Tom as if he was my son too. I can see that Tom loves you...so, just so you know...if push ever came to shove, I'd chose my family over my profession." In other words, she was welcoming Nate into her family. Parker sat in the passenger side of Wills car and watched the streets intently. He felt a little awkward after their last meeting, especially after the things Carter had said. He tried to concentrate on the job, but it was a little difficult to not think about it. Sebastian sat in Carter's car and fidgeted with his hands nervously. "It's going to be weird...being outside during the day..." he said, his voice quivering a little. Oscar grinned at Leo's resolve. "Then let's go super soldier." he teleported them to the rooftop, watching over Carter's car. Mickey nodded at Jasper's suggestion. "Agreed. You two with me then." he said to Jasper and Vincent as he vanished to the rooftop monitoring Will's car. Once there, he'd glance at Jasper and Vincent uncertainly. "You are certain the Spirit Council will allow your involvement in this? I hear their penalties can be severe." ----------------------- At six in the morning, Cindy left the apartment and began walking as casually as she could towards her workplace. She tried very hard to not look around her as she walked, knowing she was being watched on all sides. Her heart was pounding in her chest as she walked and her senses were on full alert. Yet, during her walk to the florist shop, nothing happened. The morning proceeded as it normally would. Her manager, Debbie, welcomed her and gave her her tasks for the day. She arrange flowers, clipped thorns and took orders over the phone as normal. Then it happened...and it happened fast. The phone rang and Cindy answered it. "You've reached the Rose Garden Flower Shop. My name is Cindy. How can I help?" "Oh, hi! I'd like to order a bouquet of red roses." said an unfamiliar male voice. "No problem, would you like a card to go with that?" "Sure, can I have a personalized message put into it?" "Of course." Cindy took out a paper and pen, ready to write down the message. "Ok, so the first line is; 'A rose in the glass,'" Cindy wrote that down "Ok..." "Then the second line is: 'I shall place one on her grave,'" Cindy hesitated but wrote it down as well. Meanwhile, Sebastian's hand shot to Carter's, gripping it in alarm. "He's calling her!" Patience, Tom and Nate were on a rooftop a couple of buildings over to stay out of sight as the shop's roof was quite low and fully visible to the public. Both Patience and Tom looked at each other in alarm when they heard the phone call. "A-and what's the next line?" Cindy asked, her heart pounding again. There was a pause on the other end of the line before the male answered and Cindy could just tell by the way he said it that he must've been grinning. "Punishment Divine." "Who is this?!" Cindy demanded but the phone line went dead. Debbie walked through from the next room and looked at Cindy with concern, seeing how pale she looked. "Are you alright? Who was that?" Cindy didn't answer. She put the phone down and looked at the Haiku hurriedly, trying to figure out what he'd meant. Then she looked around the shop wildly and froze at the sight of the windows. They were stained glass windows...with roses painted onto them! 'A rose in the glass!' it's going to happen here! Now! "We need to leave!" Cindy said urgently, her voice shaking. "What? Why-?!" Debbie had started but Cindy grabbed her arm and started running for the door while snapping "NOW!" They ran out of the building and Cindy dragged a reluctant and confused Debbie down the street until a loud explosion caused them to ground to a halt, turning to look back at the shop which had erupted into large, purple flames. "My shop!" Debbie had initially screamed then looked at it in confusion. "The- the fire is purple! Why is the fire purple?!" Cindy knew why but she didn't answer. In too much shock at what she was seeing. For the flames to be that color meant that a certain powder had to be used...a powder that creates flames strong enough to destroy a soul, whether they are Angel, Demon, or anything else! She didn't have time to dwell on this or react however, as they'd come to a stop near an alley and while they were distracted by the flames, a figure shot out and grabbed Cindy. Before she could do anything, she saw the gun that his bandaged hand held. She watched helplessly as he aimed it at Debbie's head at point blank range. "No!" was all Cindy had time to scream before the gunshot rang out and Debbie hit the floor. Cindy started screaming and struggling to get out of his grip. Then they were both gone. The whole thing had happened within seconds. Mickey's voice would then be heard on the radios. "All Demons, Angels and Spirits teleport to Cindy's new location now!" Patience nodded at Tom and Nate before teleporting after Cindy. Oscar took Leo's hand and teleported him with him. --- The male threw Cindy down to her knees and aimed the gun at her head. Cindy began crying hysterically and looked around wildly. They looked to be in some sort of meat factory or storage place. The air around them was cold and the meat hanging from large hooks were covered in frost. "Shut up! Just shut up and let me think!" the male shouted at her through his mask. "Oh, you really fucked it up! You were supposed to burn!!" he growled at her aggressively. "How?! How is this shit so hard?! All I want is to bring back the Devine's! To show that their ideals are not dead! So, I decide to start small. How hard could it be? Pick out a bunch of nobodies and pick them off one by one! Easy right?! But no! Each one of you I tried to kill managed to get away!...WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?!?! What makes YOU so special?!" "Please! Please, don't!" Cindy cried, shaking. She could tell by the way the gun looked that he wasn't messing around and had come prepared with some Angelic Bullets. He was clearly unstable and she was terrified. The male straightened up and maintained his aim at her head. "Enough is enough. You die today." Denix Vames - April 16, 2021 Charles placed a hand on her waist. Keeping her close as he continued to kiss her. --- Nate nodded and smiled. "Good to know." Carter touched his hand. "Don't worry. You'll be fine." Jasper raised a brow at him. "What Spirit Council?" "Look Mickey. The only one who's our boss is Travis Carter. And if anyone has a problem with that then they can go fuck themselves. And if anyone tries to hurt our family then we'll kill them. It's as simple as that." ,said Vincent. --- "God fucking damn it!" Carter slammed his fists against the steering wheel. He got out of the car and took out his radio. "Where is your location?! NOW!" Vincent answered, "Focus on the situation in front of you. People will talk and try to get closer to the scene. Just handle it. We'll take it from here." Will ran over to the scene. He shouted, "Everybody back up! This is a crime scene! My name is Officer Will Harrison! Nobody is to go near the building!" He flashed his badge. He started radioing in for the fire department and police. He knew he would have to lie but he didn't mind it. --- Jasper rode his horse into the factory. Slamming the Angel against the wall. Making him drop his gun. He jumped off the horse. "Ya really think we'd let ya go?" He tied him up with the ropes. Everybody else arrived. Leo suddenly grabbed him from Jasper's grasp. His eyes turned an orange color. He started slamming the Angel around. Throwing him against the wall. Making him lose some of his teeth, breaking his nose, giving him a black eye, bruising his face, and breaking his hands. He soon shoved him on a hook. Vincent threw the black knife at him which he caught. Leo's canine teeth sprouted. "Thanks." He glared at the Angel. "Fuck you!" He stabbed the blade into his heart then ripped a good chunk of his neck out. "Remind me not to piss off Leo. Ever." ,said Nate. Shadowess - April 16, 2021 Amelia placed her hands around his shoulders, pressing her body against his as they kissed. Simply loving being close to him. --- Parker and Sebastian also ran to the scene, helping Will to keep people away from the burning building. Sebastian looked at Debbie's body sadly. She was just a human in the wrong place at the wrong time...she didn't deserve this. He took off his jacket and lay it over her head. Mickey's voice came over their radios. "Do not allow anyone into that building. Those flames have been tainted with an ethereal gunpowder. Anything those flames burn will burn right out of existence! The fire must be put out completely before anyone can step inside." ----------- Cindy thought this was it for her. In this moment of pure terror, her mental guard slipped and she held her breath. Closing her eyes and waiting for her destruction. Her eyes snapped back open when Jasper rode in and knocked the Angel back. She scurried across the ground, out of their way as Jasper tied him up. When Leo began beating the Angel, his wings sprouted and his flapped them wildly as he panicked. This caused both Cindy and Oscar to back up as far from him as possible. At some point, the Angel's mask had been torn off, revealing his face as he spit out a few teeth and some blood, gasping for air as Leo continued to beat him. Throughout all of this, the Angel barely cried out or screamed. Merely grunted and gasped as Leo lay into him. Mickey, Patience and Tom stood back, seeing that Leo was able to handle him. It was only when Leo threw the Angel onto a meathook that he let out an agonized scream, the hook holding him up by his shoulder and he dangled there, helpless. He watched as Leo caught the black blade and knew what was coming. He breathed heavily and stared at Leo coldly. "L-look at you..." he said shakily and he grinned. "J-just like them...Just l-like me...Merciless." The blade sank into his heart and he gasped, his body becoming rigid. He strained to speak. "P-Punishment...D-Div-" the rest of his sentence became a garbled choke as Leo ripped his throat out and his eyes widened while he suffocated on his own blood. His veins lit up, his skin turned pale and his body froze in place as he began to burn from the inside out. His wings burst into flames and it didn't take long for the rest of his body to ignite as well. Quickly burning to ashes. "I-it's over..." Cindy breathed, quickly re-guarding her mind. Having been huddled up in the corner during the whole thing. Denix Vames - April 16, 2021 Charles soon broke the kiss. Leaning his head against hers. "I've never felt this calm before in a long time." --- Will spoke into the radio, "10-4." Once the firemen came, he told them that this was some kind of special powder. Almost like acid that can burn people's skin if it was taken out. So the firemen sprayed the water at the building. Making sure that it was hosed down. --- Leo fell off. Dropping the knife. He caught his breath as he landed on his knees. His eyes turned back to their normal color as his canine teeth went back inside. "I...am nothing....like you." Nate walked over to Cindy and held out a hand. "How about I take you back to Kite?" --- Vincent spoke into the radio. "Suspect has been killed. Leo's a winner." Carter suddenly held an angry expression. He spoke into the radio. "Tell Leo that he needs to go into my office. Now." "Sure thing." Vincent turned to him. Leo raised a hand as he stood. "I heard." He zoomed out of the factory. Jasper frowned. "That don't sound good." shadowess - April 17, 2021 Smiling, Amelia looked into his eyes lovingly. "Same...it almost feels strange, doesn't it? Like it's a dream." she closed her eyes and sighed happily. "I hope it never ends." --- While Will spoke to the firefighters to warn them not to let anyone into the building while it's still burning, Parker spoke to the police as they turned up about a crazed gunman that had started the fire and shot Debbie before running off. He gave false directions that the 'gunman' had run in then let them arrange for Debbie's body to be removed. Sebastian saw the look on Carter's face and frowned. "It looks like Will and Parker have things covered here. Do you want me to come back with you?" --- Oscar approached Leo slowly. "Don't pay any attention to what he said. The guy was a nutcase. He was just trying to get under your skin." He then watched Leo run off with a frown. He sighed and looked at the others briefly before vanishing and appearing in Carter's office to meet them there. Mickey looked between Patience, Jasper and Vincent. "I'll have to return to Heaven to complete a report about this Angel. I trust you are all capable of cleaning things up from here?" he said. Patience nodded. "I'll take care of it. Thanks for your help." Mickey gave one last glance to Nate before vanishing. Returning to Heaven. Cindy looked up at Nate. Still shaken by everything that had happened. She looked at his hand and the thought of being back in Kite's arms was enough comfort to make her nod and stand, taking his hand. Denix Vames - April 17, 2021 "We could always live here instead." ,said Charles. --- "No, it's alright. I've got this. You just stay here with them. After all, Mickey gave you the ability to not be burned under the sun." Carter got in the car. He was about to drive off when he looked at him. "Unless it's temporary." --- Leo was in Carter's office. Waiting for him. --- Nate took Cindy to Kite who had just woken up. He sat up. "What's going on?" "Uh You can explain this to him." --- Nate disappeared. Going back to Tom. He suddenly hugged him. Sighing he said, "Something tells me Michael is going to tell daddy about me. And he ain't gonna like it. Not one bit."
Shadowess Posted August 29 Author Posted August 29 shadowess - April 17, 2021 "You really do like it here, huh?" Amelia grinned, keeping her arms around his shoulders. Then she shrugged. "In my experience, if trouble wants to find us, it always will. Regardless of where we are...but maybe a change in scenery is called for? It's definitely been nice to get away for a while..." she said thoughtfully while glancing out of the window at the city. --- "Yeah...he said it was temporary but he didn't say when it would wear off...and I don't really feel comfortable staying out in the open while not knowing when it could wear off." Sebastian said as he jogged over to the car and climbed in. ------------ "Umm..." Cindy hummed in a small voice as she realized she would now have to explain to Kite that she agreed to be bait and he probably wasn't going to like that very much. She sat on the bed and took his hand. "Don't freak out? Th-the Angel is dead. We figured out that I was his next target so we used that to trap him..." She shivered a little and quickly wiped some tears from her eyes before they could fall. "If we hadn't figured it out though...if I hadn't known and I'd just gone on with my day as normal...I wouldn't be here. H-he blew up the shop. He used an Ethereal gunpowder to do it. That stuff is illegal to get hold of in Heaven and Hell because it's flames destroy any soul it touches. Using it is considered a war crime...and-..." her voice caught in her throat and she had to stop to let out a shaky breath to try to calm herself. "D-Debbie's dead. When his plan failed, he lost his temper and shot her." --- Tom hugged Nate back and when he heard what Nate said, he quickly looked around the room. But of course, Mickey had gone by now. "I won't let him touch you!" he said defensively, trying to sound tough even though Nate was far stronger than Tom was. Yet this didn't take away from the fact that Tom meant what he said. He'd fight for Nate, no matter what the odds were. Denix Vames - April 17, 2021 "I know that but I think it would be best if we get out of America in general. No offense to that country. I just want our child to be safe. As safe as they can be." ,said Charles. --- Carter drove them to the house. They soon got inside. Heading upstairs and into the office. "You wanted to see me?" ,said Leo. "Yes, I do." Carter stood in front of his own chair. "Why the hell did you kill the Angel? I wanted to question him. And don't tell me he was a danger to everybody. You were built to take down anything and anyone easily. So tell me why did you do it?" Leo glared. "He was trying to kill my friends! Our family! You agreed to this!" "I only agreed to kill him if it was absolutely necessary. In that moment, it was not." "You don't know that! You weren't there!" "I would have been if any one of you had brought me there to kill him!" Carter had realized he let it slip. Leo's eyes widened. "So that what this is about? Revenge? You're so petty!" "Like you're no better? You killed him for that same reason too!" "Yeah but I'm not over here trying to criticize one of my own men because they did their fucking job!" "You are part of a detective agency! Not a bounty hunting agency! You don't kill unless you have to! And frankly, you've done so much shit that I should fire you now!" He shook his head. "Nothing but a murder." Leo gave a death glare. Tears left his eyes. He threw his knife close to Carter's head. However, the blade merely hit the wall. Carter jumped. He clutched his cheek which had a small bleeding cut. Leo zoomed out of the house. Heading to an abandoned building where he cried. Out of anger, he punched one of the poles. Busting a huge chunk off. There was a scent of a human that alerted him. He looked around. "Hello? Who's there?" He flinched at a sudden pinch. He looked to his left where a dart was on his sleeve. The needle had reached his arm. He pulled it out and examined it. His vision became fuzzy. He began to feel heavy. "D-Damn....it...." He dropped the dart. Collapsing on the floor. A man in a lab coat, brown pants, blue buttoned shirt, striped dark blue tie, and dyed grey hair had taken him into a van. He drove away from the area. Taking him to his house where he held an underground lab. --- At first, Kite was pissed off. He wanted to tell her how stupid she was for doing what she did. How dangerous things could have been for her even more so than they already had been. But when he heard everything, all he could do was hold her close as he silently cried. --- Nate smiled. "Thanks Tom. I appreciate it." He caressed his cheek. "Why don't we go back to Paris? I want to forget about all this. Just for as long as I can." shadowess - April 17, 2021 Amelia's eyes softened at Charles's explanation for wanting to move. She nodded with a smile. "Ok." she said softly. "Then we'll move here. We'll raise our child as peacefully and safely as we can." she grinned and brushed her lips against his. --- Oscar had been eavesdropping outside the office door and when Leo ran by, he'd jumped back and stared after him. "Leo, wait-!" he called after him then looked through the open office door to glare at Carter. "Just so you know, it's not just Leo that was responsible for the Angel's death. We all could've done something to stop him but we didn't. We stood by and just let it happen. We all wanted the Angel dead as much as you did. So, maybe don't put all the blame on Leo?" He said before vanishing to follow Leo. He'd arrived just after Leo had been kidnapped and wandered through the abandoned building, looking for him. "Leo?" he called out as he wandered through then heard a crunch and stopped. He looked down and saw the dart that he'd crushed under his boot. He looked around wildly for a moment, getting an awful sinking feeling in his stomach. "Oh, no you don't!" he growled and vanished again, focusing on teleporting to Leo's side. ---------------- Cindy was still shaking as Kite held her and she let herself cry into his shoulder. "He was crazy...he was really crazy...b-but he's gone now...it's over..." She sniffled and pulled back a little to rest her forehead against his. "M-maybe now I can really pretend to be human?...so we can have a normal life?" --- Tom smiled and looked at Nate lovingly. "Sure. Let's pick up where we left off." he said while bringing up a hand to cup Nate's on his cheek. Denix Vames - April 17, 2021 Charles kissed her deeply. --- Carter sighed as he shook his head. He pinched the brim of his nose. "Fuck me. I don't know what to do at this point." --- The scientist had symbols in his house and lab which prevented Angels, Demons, and Devils from entering. And if they attempted to do so then they would bounce back from where they once were. Leo was in a hospital gown. Strapped to a bed. His wrists and feet were held by leather straps. His mouth was duct taped. He was heavily sedated. Although awake, he could barely move. He tried to get out of the straps but failed. Tears streamed down his cheeks as memories of ADIEU came back to him. It was just like this all over again. Just like before. The scientist took some of his blood out by using a syringe. He placed the tube into a holder. "Don't worry. I'm just going to examine your blood. Once I'm done with that, I'll inject Devil and Angel blood into you. Not at the same time but just to see if your abilities can improve." Leo tried to scream. Yet, it only came out in weak muffles. --- "I failed." Kite grasped her hair. "I should have kept you safe. This is all my fault. I wasn't strong enough to protect you. How can I you be safe around me when I can't even do my damn job?" --- Nate and Tom teleported back to France. To their room. Shadowess - April 17, 2021 Amelia relaxed into his kiss and as much as she was enjoying being in the London Eye, she wanted some time with Charles a little more. Plus, given the shift in time zones they'd suddenly experienced, she was beginning to feel tired. When their kiss broke, she smirked at him. "Maybe we should head back to the apartment for now? We can always explore more of London later." --- Sebastian walked into the office and sighed, leaning against the wall with his arms folded. "Take a break?" he suggested with a small smile. "This whole thing with the Angel has had everyone getting stressed and generally on edge. I think it might be a good idea for everyone to try to relax in some way after what's happened." --- Almost immediately after Oscar teleported he reappeared in the same building but was thrown across the room violently. He landed on the ground and rolled a bit before coming to a stop and groaning. Runes burning his flesh across his body. He breathed heavily and grimaced as he reached for his phone, dialing Carter's number. "H-help! Leo...runes..." he tried to speak hurriedly but it was hard to concentrate with the pain he was in. --- Cindy shook her head a little. "No, Kite, no." she said softly. "You're still healing and he was a complete psycho. You can't blame yourself for this." --- Once they were back in the privacy of their hotel room in France, Tom pressed his lips against Nate's softly. "I love you." he whispered before kissing him again. Denix Vames - April 17, 2021 "Of course. I think I could use some rest too." Charles and Amelia appeared in the apartment. --- Carter nodded. "You may be right. First, you should inform anyone who doesn't know yet that the Angel is dead. I'm going to finish this case file and claim it as Closed." He answered his phone. "Hello?" His eyes widened at Oscar's words. "Where are you? Can you give me an address?" --- Kite pressed his hands against his head. "I don't care! I could have been there. And now someone's dead because of my own faults." He sobbed as he was shaking. "This is bullshit!" --- Nate deepened the kiss. "I love you too." His wings sprouted. He pinned him to the wall. Biting hard on his neck. He began to unbutton his shirt. Denix Vames - April 17, 2021 (hey you dont mind if i write the scenes out about what's happening in the lab, do you? just so you can get an idea as to what's happening to Leo. Nothing major but just some things.) shadowess - April 17, 2021 (I don't mind ) Amelia smiled when they arrived in the apartment and she kissed him again, running a hand through his hair. --- Oscar took a few breaths and turned onto his front, laying the phone on the ground as he struggled to lift himself to his hands and knees. He lifted his head to look around. "A-abandoned...I duno...some abandoned building...place is empty...big pillars...big windows...-oh, fuck!..." he groaned, the pain was unbearable. "h-hurry!" --- Sebastian smiled to see Carter agree with him then nodded when he told him to let others know the Angel is dead. Then he watched Carter answer his phone and he held his breath, waiting to see what was going on. --- "Kite! Listen to me!" Cindy placed her hands on his cheeks to gently hold his face. "There was nothing you could've done! At that time, I was surrounded and being watched by Demons, Angels, Humans and Vampires! And NONE of them managed to reach me in time to save Debbie! It happened too fast and no one saw it coming!" Cindy's voice had been quivering and she shook violently, barely holding on at this point. "Kite, please..." she cried. "I need you right now...I need you..." she broke down and rested her head on his shoulder, sobbing softly against him while holding on to him. --- Tom let out a soft gasp when Nate pinned him to the wall. Then moaned, tilting his head back as Nate bit his neck. When he felt Nate unbuttoning his shirt, he bit his lip while running his hands up Nate's arms until his hands reached his shoulders. Denix Vames - April 17, 2021 (cool) Charles smiled into the kiss. He placed his hands on her waist. Slipping a tongue into her mouth. --- "Alright. We'll be there right away. Just hold on." ,said Carter. He hung up. "That was Oscar. Something's happened to Leo. We need to get there! Is there anyone here that can teleport us?" Jasper appeared on his desk. Standing there. "Well hello there!" He tipped his hat. "Hey! Take us to Oscar." "Sure thing." He jumped off the desk. "Hold on tight ya'll." He held their hands. They soon appeared in front of Oscar. --- Leo lifted his head up. He was able to move just enough now. "Incredible!" The scientist had been looking into a microscope. Seeing how his blood looked under it. "These cells are unbelievable. I've never seen anything like it. I've heard of possibilities but I never thought I would see this up close before." He took a syringe and filled it up with a vial of blood. "Let's try the Angel blood first. Unfortunately, I don't have Arch Angel blood but perhaps with your help, once you become obedient, you can fetch me some." Leo struggled against the straps as his muffled screams continued. "Well, I'm a fool for not doing this earlier." He strapped his neck. Making sure it wouldn't move. He tightened the other straps just a bit. "There. Now, you can't get away." He injected the blood into his arm then sedated him again. Putting him to sleep. "I think it's time you rest now so that the blood can work through on its own. Let it get use to your body." He placed Leo in a padded cell and locked the metal door which had a slot to insert a tray of food into and three thick bars over the small window. "Sleep tight. I'll be keeping an eye on your progress through the cameras upstairs." He left. --- Kite wrapped an arm around her. Hugging her tightly. He kissed the top of her head. "I know....I know...." --- Nate slipped his shirt off. He started unbuckling his belt as he kissed him. Feeling up his chest then lifting his thighs up. "I don't think we've ever done it on the wall. Have we?"
Shadowess Posted September 15 Author Posted September 15 shadowess - April 17, 2021 A soft moan escaped Amelia when she felt his tongue in her mouth and she relaxed against him, pressing her body against his. --- By the time Carter and Sebastian arrived in front of him, Oscar was barely clinging to consciousness. "D-dart..." he pointed to the crushed dart on the ground. "Someone t-took Leo...d-don't teleport...I tried...this happened..." he took several deep breaths, fighting with all his strength to stay awake. Tears rolled down his cheeks. "N-need to find him!" --------------- Cindy cried softly into Kite's shoulder, feeling comforted by his arm around her and the way he kissed her head. Gradually, she began to calm down again and simply held on to him. --- Every little thing Nate did filled Tom with excitement. He gasped when Nate lifted his thighs, keeping him pinned against the wall and then smirked at his question. "Not -yet-." he answered while wrapping his legs around Nate's waist and kissing him again. Denix Vames - April 17, 2021 Charles slowly walked her to the couch as they kept kissing. He was soon on top of her as she laid there. He brought his hands under blouse. He kissed her neck. --- "Hold on. We'll help you." Carter lifted him up. "And we'll find who did this." He handed him to Jasper. "I need you to bring him back to the office. Try your best to help him as much as you can." Jasper nodded before disappearing with Oscar. Carter pulled out a napkin. He carefully picked up the broken dart. He looked at Sebastian. "Do you think you can smell what was in this? Maybe a whiff of the kidnapper's scent?" --- Jasper set Oscar on the couch. He quickly wet a towel with cold water. He began placing it on the burning symbols. "Sorry to see ya so banged up like this." --- Kite was still a bit shaken up but started to calm too. He didn't know what to say or do. He just remained there. Keeping her company. --- Nate smirked. "Well, you're about to." He pressed his chest against him. Letting him feel his wings vibrate. (private time) --- Will had finished dealing with the bomb incident at the now ruined flower shop. He had been at the precinct, taking a coffee break, when he decided to go outside and call Parker. Shadowess - April 17, 2021 He lay her down on the couch and laid on top of her. She could feel his hands on her skin and she moaned softly as he kissed her neck. She closed her eyes, enjoying the way he made her feel while her hands moved to remove his shirt. She bent her knees, lifting her legs on either side of his hips. --- Sebastian crinkled his nose in disgust and turned his head away from the dart. "Ugh, no need. That shit is so potent, I can smell it from here! Whatever he used to knock out Leo was strong!" He stepped away from Carter and began smelling the air around them. "It's so strong that it's masking any other scent...but...It has it's own trail! I can follow it." He grinned then looked back at Carter and frowned. "Shit, we should've asked Jasper to take us back too...your car is at the office...and you can't run as fast as I can anymore..." --- Once in the office, Oscar lay on the couch. He sucked in air through his teeth sharply and groaned a bit when Jasper placed the wet towel on the burning symbols. "W-when I find out who did this..." He began tearfully, his voice shaking from the mixture of rage and pain. "I'm going to tear them limb from limb!" he finished with a growl. ----------- Once she was calm enough, Cindy gently pulled away from Kite and looked at him while wiping away her tears. She didn't want to think about what had happened anymore. She wanted a distraction. Any distraction. "D-do you want to go home?" she suggested, wanting to be in a more familiar place. --- It had taken all morning to make sure people didn't get too close to the burning shop. When everything was finally under control, Parker decided to go for a walk to get some air and process what had happened. When his phone rang, he slowed to a stop and took it out of his pocket, looking at the number curiously before answering. "Hello?" Denix Vames - April 17, 2021 Charles took her blouse off. He kissed her chest then pressed himself against her. Kissing her. Slipping his hand under her pants. (private time) --- Carter carefully placed the wrapped broken dart in his pocket. "Maybe not." He awkwardly cleared his throat. "Hear me out but maybe you could carry me over there? Just run really fast like you would normally do." --- "I know. You'll get to be the first one to kick his ass." ,said Jasper. He frowned when the cold water didn't seem to work. "There's gotta be a way to make this shit get off." --- Kite nodded. He held her hand. "Definitely." --- Will blushed at the sound of his voice. "Hey uh....This is Will. Sorry I didn't talk to you before. Everything was so chaotic that I kind of forgot." He swallowed his nervously. "Anyway, would you mind going out for some coffee or something? Just to hang out. That's all. Nothing weird or anything. There's this great diner I know. If you're still at the scene, I-I can pick you up and we could go there." He tapped his foot. "By the way, don't think I'm a creepy for knowing your number. I got it off your file and I just-" He sighed. "I needed to talk to someone and you seemed like the type of guy I could talk to about....stuff." shadowess - April 17, 2021 Sebastian scratched the back of his head awkwardly and chuckled. "I guess I could do that..." He sighed. He couldn't see any other way of doing this and the scent was already beginning to fade. He needed to move quickly to keep on top of it. He walked over to Carter. "You ready?" he asked before sweeping him off his feet. He made sure Carter had a good grip on him before running at full speed, following the scent. Eventually, Sebastian came to a sudden stop and gently placed Carter down, on his feet. He stared at the building the scent was coming from and then looked back at Carter. "It's coming from in there." --- Oscar grit his teeth, breathing hard against the pain. "Th-the last rune that was on me needed to be broken...M-maybe the rune...where I tried to teleport..." his eyes rolled and he gasped, blinking his eyelids rapidly, trying to force himself to stay awake. He wanted to stay conscious so he could go straight to Leo, to help him, when he could. --- Cindy tried a smile and teleported them so they were sitting on Kite's bed in his apartment. She rested her head against his and sighed. "I don't want to think about it anymore..." she said softly. She kissed him tenderly. "I'm just thankful that I'm still here with you." --- Parker heard Will's voice and felt his cheeks get a little warm when he heard him apologize for not talking to him earlier. He couldn't help smiling a little and could feel his cheeks growing hotter as Will asked if he wanted to go get a coffee with him. "Um, sure. I er- I'm just a couple of blocks from the scene. Near the park." When Will explained he'd gotten Parker's number because he felt he was someone he could talk to, Parker's face literally couldn't get any hotter. "Yeah, don't worry. I know what that's like...plus, if you think that's creepy, you should hear about my ex..." he chuckled. Denix Vames - April 17, 2021 Carter blushed when he felt himself being picked up. He nodded. A gust of wind immediately hit him. He had almost forgotten how fast he use to be as a vampire. He straightened his clothes out once he was able to stand again. He took out his gun. "Let's canvas the area. See if there's something or someone around first. Then we'll look through the windows." --- Leo soon woke to an unbearable amount of pain. He quickly realized he was able to move. He took the tape off of his mouth. He screamed as pain out from his back. He clutched his head. Letting out continuous screams of agony. Wings suddenly tore from his skin. Sprouting out. They were whites ones covered in his own blood. The scientist smiled. Ecstatic about the result. "Fantastic! I have to examine those feathers!" He ran downstairs. He walked over to the cell. Leo glared at him as he caught his breath. He grit his teeth. The scientist took out a long taser. "Now, I need you to behave. Once you listen to me, I can get you some nice food." Once the cell door was open, Leo shouted. Jumping at him. The scientist shocked him with high volts. Leo cried out. He fell over. Breathing heavily as his wings twitched. He found himself bound by chains to the wall. Regular ones but he was far too weak to attempt escape. And he didn't want to feel that pain again. The scientist cut off one of his wings using a bonesaw. Leo cried out. Tears fill from his eyes. "Oh hush. Now, if my theory is correct. Giving you Devil blood should make your body more stronger. To work well with the Angel blood. A completely different kind of super soldier." He placed a hospital wristband on him with his full name and ADIEU number. "Ya see, I wasn't there when shit the fan. Can you imagine? Not being there during the chaos. I got real lucky! Which tells me that this is my opportunity to make you into a better soldier." He unchained him. Leo nearly fell but leaned against the wall. "So be a good soldier and sit over here." The scientist pointed at the bed. Leo glared before sitting on the bed. The scientist injected him with the Devil's blood. "Good. That wasn't so bad, was it?" Leo grabbed him. Attempting to bite him when he felt that electricity again. He collapsed. "I told you that this could be easy if you listen. Now, get inside." He crawled away. Getting into his room. He went to a corner where he curled up and said nothing. --- "Hold on a gosh darn minute!" Jasper filled a cup with cold water. He dumped it on his face. "Stay awake with me buddy!" --- Kite did his best to smiled. "I'm glad you're safe with me too." --- Will smiled when he made that comment about his ex. "Good to hear. I'll just get there. See ya....later." He hung up. Parker soon saw him in a car. Shadowess - April 17, 2021 Sebastian nodded and began creeping around the building, being careful not to make any noise as he did so. He had a horrible feeling about this place. Every so often, he'd look over at Carter to make sure he was alright and check behind them to make sure no one tried to sneak up on them. --- Oscar gasped when the water was thrown onto his face and he shook his head a little to shake the water off. "Dammit, I'm trying!" He gasped. "This shit fucking hurts!" He tried to sit up on the couch while breathing heavily. "Y-you need to tell Carter and Sebastian...Wherever Leo is, there's runes...the runes need to be destroyed...M-my...my phone..." he patted down his pockets then realized his phone had been on the ground in the abandoned building they'd just come from. "Dammit!" --- Cindy hovered her lips over Kite's. "Give me something else to think about for a while?" she whispered. --- When Parker saw Will's car pull up, he smiled. His face having had enough time to cool down a bit since their phone call. He headed over and climbed into the passenger side. "Hey." he greeted him. Denix Vames - April 17, 2021 Carter had decided to go to the other side of the house. Figuring they would check both sides. As he walked, he accidentally stepped on a button at the ground near a tree that was strangely near the house. He dropped the gun as it sent high volts of electricity into his body. He screamed. A net from the tree suddenly grabbed him. Leaving him hanging up. Having never felt that much electricity before, he was starting to lose consciousness. It would seem that this house had more than one type of security. --- "I'll go find it!" Jasper disappeared. He grabbed it but appeared in front of Sebastian to tell him. "Runes man. Ya gotta find those runes and destroy them. Oscar's in a lot of pain." --- The scientist locked the cell door. But in merely seconds, the Devil blood reacted. Leo screamed as the pain grew stronger. A black fleshy wing sprouted while the white wing started to get bits of black feathers on itself. "Perfect! Absolutely perfect! I'll go fetch you some food." The scientist went upstairs. Going into the kitchen. --- Kite caressed her cheek. "How about the fact that I love you?" He kissed her. --- Will was in his uniform with his shades on. He hoped he wasn't blushing. "....Hey." He started the drive to the diner. "So, how's working with Carter like? Especially since you guys handle Supernatural problems." shadowess - April 17, 2021 Sebastian jumped when Jasper appeared and he listened to what he had to say before hurriedly holding his hands up. "Keep it down. Runes?...Alright, I'll keep my eyes open for them. Just make sure Oscar is as comfortable as possible for now..." he glanced back at Carter again, just in time to see him being electrocuted. "Carter!" Sebastian cried out, he'd moved to run to him then paused. Carter's scream was awful to hear...but it had been loud and Sebastian suspected that whoever was in the building would definitely have heard it and might come out to investigate. Carter was wrapped in a net, hanging from the tree. Sebastian listened carefully to his heart, making sure he was alright. "Just hold on!" he called over, straining to be quiet. He hid himself, waiting for whoever was in the building to come out. He doubted they'd expect a vampire to run at them during the day. Maybe Sebastian had an advantage? He'd wait until whoever was inside to come out to get Carter and he planned on springing out, running at them as fast as his vampiric speed would allow to pin whoever it was against the wall. --- Oscar groaned and continued to take deep breaths. Trying desperately to stay awake. So focused on simply staying conscious that he barely heard Jessica knocking at the door. "Hey, you guys in there?" She called through the door. She could barely remember what had happened the night before, her head was pounding and she had just woken up on the couch in Carter's house. Neva had happily announced that the bad Angel was gone and it'd left her with a lot of questions. But mostly, she just wanted to apologize for the way she'd been acting lately. --- Cindy smiled and when the kiss broke, she giggled. "That'd do it." She ran her hands over his chest while looking into his eyes. "I love you too." she said softly and kissed him again. --- "It can get a bit hectic." Parker admitted. "Carter's a good boss. He does his best given what we're up against most days. But sometimes it can feel non-stop." He shrugged. "I suppose it's to be expected. The supernatural population don't exactly have anyone they can turn to when things go south for them...I'm pretty sure we're the first agency that knows about and works towards helping them. So, it's understandable that we tend to get a lot of work."
Shadowess Posted September 15 Author Posted September 15 Denix Vames - April 17, 2021 Jasper nodded before disappearing. The scientist was still working on making food when he heard the sounds outside. He stopped and headed out. He smiled at the sight of a new test subject who was passed out in the net. "Just what I needed." He ran over to Carter. --- Jasper appeared near Oscar. He set his phone on the coffee table. "Sebastian knows about it already." He heard knocking on the door. He walked over and opened it. "Nows not really the best time to be visiting." --- Kite deepened the kiss. Running a hand through her hair. Slipping his tongue into her mouth. --- Will chuckled. "I can't imagine solving Supernatural cases. I already deal with enough of normal cases. I could barely deal with the one case I worked on with you guys in the first place." He parked at the side of the road near the diner. Paying the parking meter for two hours just in case. "I'd recommend the sandwiches by the way. Just a suggestion." shadowess - April 17, 2021 Seeing the scientist run towards Carter, Sebastian's fangs sprouted, he jumped out from his hiding spot and charged at him, growling angrily. Aiming to grab him and throw him against the wall. If he'd known or had any hint that the scientist was from ADIEU, he might have been more cautious in his approach. But as far as Sebastian was aware, ADIEU were completely wiped out. --- Jessica blinked at Jasper and rose a brow. "Why what's-" she broke off when she heard Oscar's pained groans coming from inside the building. "What's going on?" she asked Jasper, trying to see past him. "Is it something I could help with?" --- A small moan escaped Cindy when Kite's tongue slid into her mouth. She kissed him back, matching his passion. Her hands slid down to his pants, beginning to undo them. --- Parker smiled. "You get used to it after a while...Especially when your introduction to the supernatural world is as crazy and fucked up as mine was...I'm now at a point where I can't imagine going back to a normal job. Just seems impossible to me." When they parked up, Parker got out of the car and followed him into the Diner. At Will's suggestion, Parker grinned. "Sounds good to me." Denix Vames - April 17, 2021 While the only scientist left from ADIEU was there, he hadn't been prepared. Or at least he couldn't be. He only had what he had. Unfortunately, he met his match. He had left the taser down in the basement. Not expecting anyone else. So when he was slammed into the wall, there was true fear in his eyes. His lab coat had his ID Card hooked to it. Adrian Basket Level 4 Clearance 9060 --- Leo was banging the side of his head on the wall of the cell. Sitting there as he hugged his legs. He couldn't do much damage to his head because of the cushion but he still did it anyway. Just to try and forget. --- Jasper was about to tell her no but realized she must have felt left out. "Well, you can keep wetting the rune markings on him. Make sure they're cold so he doesn't feel too bad." --- Kite ran his hands under her blouse. Taking it off. He brushed his hand over her bra before sliding it down to her thigh. Kissing her neck. --- They stepped into the diner and soon found themselves a booth. Will sat across from him. "I could never do what you do. Honestly, I think you did a better job than me when we were handling that case." A waitress walked over. Giving them both menus. "And just to let you know, the Couples Milkshake is available. It has a nice blended flavor of assorted berries, mango, and banana." Will blushed at her assumption. "Uh no thank you. We're just friends." "Oh! Sorry." She shrugged. "Friends can have it too. I'll just be back with you folks in a second." She left. Will tried to hide his smile by keeping the opened menu in front of him. "Sorry about that. So, what food's on your mind?" shadowess - April 17, 2021 Sebastian grabbed the Scientist by his coat and held him against the wall. He'd been about to say something when he caught sight of the ID Card. His face turned pale and his eyes widened. His breath caught in his throat and he was overcome with a mixture of terror and rage. He growled furiously at the Scientist then threw him towards the tree roughly. "Get him down!" He barked at him, balling his hands into fists and having to resist the urge to beat the man to death. "Get him down, right now! Then you're going to take me to Leo, you sick fuck! And you're going to release him. Is that clear?!" --- "Runes?" Jessica walked in to the living room and saw what he meant. "Oh my God!", she hurried off to wet the towel again. Oscar had had to lay down on the couch again. In far too much pain to stay sat up. Jessica hurried back and placed the wet towel gently on the marks, causing Oscar to groan a little louder. His face contorting in pain. Jessica glanced over at Jasper. "My ma used to talk about symbols like this. She used to talk a lot about things like Tarot and Ouija...I always thought it was a load of bollocks...you know...before I met you guys..." "Is there a point to this story??" Oscar growled through grit teeth. "Maybe!" Jessica snapped back then turned back to Jasper. "Yarrow and Goldenrod. They're herbs. Me mother told me they used to be used to heal wounds. She said that witches used to use them to counteract wounds inflicted via magic." --- Cindy moaned at his touch. She closed her eyes and tilted her head back, letting out shaky breaths as he kissed her neck. She bit her lip, sliding her hands under his shirt to feel his chest before pulling his shirt off him. (Private Time) --- Once sat down, Parker listened to what he had to say then couldn't help smiling and shaking his head a little. "Are you kidding? I thought you handled it like a pro. You helped to keep things under control and everyone listened to you. The most I did was sit around in Hell waiting to come back and help." When the waitress came over and assumed they were together, Parker could feel his cheeks getting hot again and he quickly lifted his own menu to hide them. "Eh, it's cool...I duno, maybe a club sandwich? That looks pretty good..." Denix Vames - April 17, 2021 Adrian quickly nodded. His hands were raised. "Ok ok ok! I-I'll do it!" He took out a scalpel and cut off the ropes. Carter hit the ground. He flinched at the sudden pain. Groaning, he slowly opened his eyes. --- Jasper said, "Where do I find all that stuff?" --- "Cool. I think I'll go for a Grilled Cheese Tomato. Probably have a cup of tea to go with it." Will hesitated. "Unless you want to try that new smoothie?" shadowess - April 17, 2021 As soon as Carter hit the ground, Sebastian ran forward and helped Carter to sit up. "Carter! Are you alright?" --- "I-I duno.." Jessica answered. "Oh, great. That's super helpful. Thank you!" Oscar groaned sarcastically. "Oh, c'mon! I'm trying here! I told you I didn't used to believe this stuff. So, it never occurred to me that I might need this information!" Jessica replied defensively. "Uhm...Yarrow...I think she said that grows in England or Ireland...mostly in the marshes...I duno about Goldenrod..." --- "Um-" Parker flustered a little at his suggestion, feeling his cheeks warm up a little again. "I er- I think I'll just stick to coffee for now. Thanks." he closed the menu and placed it to the side. Denix Vames - April 17, 2021 Carter rubbed his head. "I think so." Adrian ran at Sebastian with the knife in his hand. Ready to kill him. "Sebastian! Look out!" Carter grabbed his gun and fired. Shooting Adrian in the head. Adrian collapsed. Blood pooled from his head. --- "Well, what they look like?" ,asked Jasper. --- "Uh Yeah. That's cool." ,said Will. When the waitress returned, she took their orders then took their menus. Leaving. Will played with his watch. "So uh....What's new with you? Any hobbies that you have?" He scratched the back of his head. Shadowess - April 18, 2021 Sebastian jumped when Carter shouted and he whirled around in time to see Adrian getting shot in the head. He saw the way he was holding the scalpel and could guess he'd tried to use Sebastian's moment of distraction to harm him. He turned back to Carter and kissed him, overcome with passion and gratefulness in that moment. When he broke the kiss he moved over to Adrian and began routing through his pockets for keys. "H-he's an ADIEU scientist." Sebastian quickly explained. "That explains the odd security measures. We have to find Leo. God knows what he's been doing to him here!" He pulled off Adrian's tag and handed it to Carter. "Maybe he uses his ID number as a passcode or something?" He suggested. Sebastian couldn't rule anything out. It'd been preferable to still have Adrian alive in case they needed passwords but they couldn't help what had happened. All the could do was make the best of what they had. Once he'd found his keys, he got up and made his way carefully but quickly to the building, letting Carter lead the way with the gun in case there were more nasty surprises waiting inside. --- "I duno..." Jessica admitted. "For fu-..." Oscar groaned. "Google. It. C'mon! I'm an old ass Demon and even I know how to use the damn internet!" He complained. "Oh yeah!" Jessica pulled out her phone just as Oscar silently imitated her 'Oh yeah!' in a sarcastic way. He, of course, didn't mean to be so snappy with her. He was simply in a great deal of pain and full of worry for Leo, which meant he had little to no patience left. Jessica looked up images of the Yarrow flower and passed her phone to Jasper. --- Parker smirked at the question and could tell Will was trying to be cool. "Well...I don't exactly know if it is classed as a hobby but I learned to speak and read the demonic language while I was in Hell." He then shrugged and glanced out of the window. "I was stuck, sitting in the library for my own safety so there was nothing to do but read while I was there...I guess now I have a taste for reading really old books..." He looked back at Will. "What about you? What do you do when you're not working?" Denix Vames - April 18, 2021 Carter's eyes widened at the sudden kiss. When it broke he said, "Remind me to start bringing handcuffs to the bedroom." He stood. "ADIEU? There's no way any of them are still alive! This better be the last guy. I swear I'm going to kill those bastards if they're still around." He slowly walked into the house. Keeping his gun ready. A red circular shield had suddenly surrounded Leo. The runes suddenly cracked. Breaking apart. The house began to burst into flames. The ceiling had caved in. Just when Carter was about to shield Sebastian from the falling debris, they had been placed in the same red bubbles. Leo was visible above them. His eyes were closed. His head was down as he hugged his knees. His wings remained out there. "Leo? Leo! It's us!" Carter banged against the shield. "Listen to me!" Leo's eyes glowed. One being blue while the other was red. He glared. Feeling as though everyone was out to get him now. He sent an ear piercing sound to him. Carter covered his ears. Flinching as he heard it. Falling to his knees, he cried out. --- Jasper tried to grab the flowers from the screen. "I can't take them!" He raised a brow at the runes disappearing. "They did it! They got Leo!" --- Will blushed. "Well....I go to the gym. I cook and clean. I uh....watch old cop shows. I know it's ironic." He sighed. "I'm a really boring person, aren't I?" The waitress soon came over with their meals and drinks. "Here you two are. One coffee, one tea, a club sandwich, and a grilled cheese tomato sandwich. Enjoy!" She left. Shadowess - April 18, 2021 Sebastian looked around in confusion as the house crumbled and burst into flames around them. He didn't understand why it was happening and as far as he could tell, these red bubbles, whatever they were, were protecting them from harm. When he saw the way Leo was and how he was hurting Carter, his eyes widened. "What did he do to you?! Leo! Stop! We're here to help!" --- Oscar was at the point of despairing when Jasper tried to take the flowers from the phone. He'd been about to lose his patience completely when his pain was suddenly relieved. He gasped and looked down at himself. The moment Jasper said they'd got Leo, Oscar vanished. Jessica sighed in relief and reached out to take her phone back. "I was just showing you what they looked like." she chuckled. --- Oscar appeared in Leo's shield and looked at everything going on in utter confusion. He then looked at Leo and his heart sank. He was different and he was clearly in a great deal of distress. "Leo." he said softly as he bent down to hold him. "Shh, it's alright. I've got you. You're safe." He looked down at Carter and Sebastian. "Can you move in those?" he called down to them. If they were able to get themselves out then Oscar could focus on getting Leo out and keeping him calm. --- "That's not boring." Parker shrugged. "I'm pretty sure most of us at the agency do ordinary things in our down time. Gotta relax somehow. I guess I'm just a little odd when it comes to hobbies but...then again, after all the crap I went through, it's kind of expected." He took a bite out of his sandwich and his eyes lit up. For something so simple, it was pretty good.
Shadowess Posted September 15 Author Posted September 15 Denix Vames - April 18, 2021 Leo stopped the sound. Carter collapsed. Relieved that it was gone but exhausted from it. Leo moved his attention to Oscar. With his mind alone, he threw him out of the bubble. Making him hit the ground. He threw some debris at him. --- Jasper flustered. "Sorry. I still don't know how these things work." --- "Thanks." Will took a bite out of his sandwich. He suddenly rolled his eyes as he moaned a bit. He immediately stopped. Feeling like his face had gone even redder. "Sorry about that. This food is just really good. I'm guessing you've got a decent sandwich there too?" shadowess - April 18, 2021 As soon as Carter collapsed and after Oscar had asked if they could move in the bubbles, Sebastian attempted to move into Carter's bubble. If that didn't work, he attempted to push his bubble around in the hopes of rolling them both out of the building. Oscar was thrown out of the shield, a look of surprise on his face as he hit the ground. He saw the debris coming at him and knew drastic measures were needed. He half-shifted into his second form so that his skin would be replaced by dark, green scales. His sharp tail sprouted. As did his large, leathery wings. The only part of him that didn't shift was his head and face as he didn't want to freak out Leo too much. This shift was purely intended for self defense and evasion. "Leo! I'm not here to fight you!" He shouted at him while diving out of the way of the debris, swiping at some of the rocks with his tail to cut them in half before they could hit him. "I'm here to help you!" He dove back at the shield, attempting to get in again. --- Jessica shrugged as she held her phone. "It's cool. I could show you, if you want?" --- Parker rose a brow at Will's reaction to his sandwich. He couldn't help his own face turning a little red. He chuckled when Will apologized and nodded to his question as he swallowed what was in his mouth. "Yeah, you weren't kidding about these sandwiches." he chuckled as he took another bite. Denix Vames - April 18, 2021 Too distracted by Oscar's attempts, the shields had disappeared except for the one that still surrounded Leo. A tree was plucked out of the ground. Being thrown at Oscar. --- Jasper smiled. "That'd be nice." --- Will continued to eat. "And wait till you taste the coffee." He sipped some of his tea. Shadowess - April 18, 2021 As soon as the shields around Sebastian and Carter dropped, Sebastian rushed over to Carter. He scooped him up into his arms and fled from the crumbling building. Only stopping at a safe distance from it. He looked back at the building, concerned for Leo and Oscar but knew it was too dangerous for them to go near them right now. Oscar swung his tail at the tree. The sharp spine cleaving through it like it was made of paper. "Leo! Please!" he tried again to get into the shield. When he couldn't get through, he teleported into it again. Standing next to Leo. "Leo, you know I wouldn't do anything to hurt you!" he tried. "I love you! I'll do anything to help you!" he slowly tried to reach out to him, bringing his arms up to hold his shoulders. "Let me help you." he said softly. --- Smiling, Jessica stood next to Jasper as she showed him all the basic things that he could do with a phone. Such as texting and internet searches. She showed him how he could call someone from it as well as look up videos and music. --- Parker tried the coffee and grinned. "Damn, that's good!" He continued to enjoy his meal until his plate was clean. He sat back in his chair, satisfied and drank some more of the coffee. "So, what do you think about it all?" Parker asked after a quiet moment. "Finding out everything wasn't what it seemed?" Denix Vames - April 18, 2021 Leo's eyes widened at his touch. He suddenly saw flashing memories of Oscar and himself together. "O-Oscar...." The bubble disappeared. Making him fall. His eyes were closed. Having passed out from the sudden energized power that he had exhausted from the battle. --- Jasper was intrigued by the many things he learned about phones. "Ya see we had phones but nothing like this. Honestly wish we had these instead. Could have saved us some trouble back in the day." --- Will sighed. He leaned against the table. "Honestly? If it weren't for you and your friends, it would be a living hell just to know about it. But having you around...." He shyly looked at the empty plate in front of him. "It makes things make sense. Like I don't have to be scared. Ya know?" shadowess - April 18, 2021 Oscar smiled at him when he saw him coming around and saying his name. Then he had to move quickly to catch him before he could fall to the ground. Beating his wings hard, he flew rapidly through the flames and falling debris until he was above the building. He looked around quickly. Spotting Sebastian and Carter, he flew over to them. Landing beside them, he touched Sebastian's arm and teleported all of them back to Carter's office. --- "I'll bet!" Jessica chuckled in response. When Leo, Oscar, Sebastian and Carter appeared in the room, Jessica jumped. "Holy crap!" she'd exclaimed but then froze at how Oscar looked in his altered form, as well as Leo's new wings. "What the hell!?" Having been teleporting all day between trying to save Leo and the incident with the Angel, Oscar was now utterly exhausted as well. Still holding Leo in his arms, he fell to his knees and panted. He barely noticed that Leo's Angel wing had been burning his arm this whole time. Too concerned with getting him to safety to care. Feeling faint, he carefully set Leo down on the floor before passing out next to him. His body shifting back into his human form as he hit the floor. Sebastian set Carter down on the couch and looked between them all, looking a bit pale. He too was panting a little. Partly from having just run out of a burning building with Carter in his arms and partly from the adrenaline coursing through his system. "I-It was ADIEU...there was an ADIEU scientist...did this to Leo..." he panted as he hurried off into the kitchen to grab a blood bag. He quickly bit into it, trying to calm himself down as he drank it. Jessica looked confused and looked between Sebastian and Jasper. "What's ADIEU?" --- Parker thought about his response for a moment with a frown. He knew how he felt but unfortunately, his sense of security had been a false one when Parker had learned the truth. Instead, the man he'd placed his trust in had betrayed him and dropped him the minute he'd lost interest. Parker hated Bryce for what he'd done but the damage was still very much there. This, of course, resulted in some trust issues when it came to relationships. He fidgeted with his hands nervously, trying to tear his mind away from those memories. "I'm glad you feel like that." he said sincerely, smiling a little. "A-and I don't mind, if you ever want to talk about things...you know..." his cheeks turned a little pink and he flustered a little, struggling to put what he wanted to say into words. Denix Vames - April 18, 2021 Leo's wings went back inside him when they felt someone's touch. Jasper shrugged at her. "Must be a bad place." Carter started mumbling in his sleep as he tossed and turned. --- Will smiled. "Y-Yeah. That'd be nice." He glanced at his hands. Wanting to hold one. To be close to him but he knew he needed to take his time. He took out his wallet. "So I guess I should pay for this. You can go to the car. This won't take long." shadowess - April 18, 2021 Sebastian walked back into the living room, having finished his blood bag. "Bad is an understatement..." he said as he took a seat in the chair next to the couch. He reached over and gently rubbed Carter's arm. "They used to capture supernatural beings and conduct inhumane and cruel tests on them...I was a test subject...Patience was my cell mate at the time...they made me watch her die when they injected wolf venom into her system just to see what it would do...they ignored all of our warnings that it would be fatal. Thought we were just saying that to get out of another test..." Sebastian's eyes wandered over to Leo. "Leo was a test subject too...they brainwashed him...altered his DNA and made him kill his own family before making him into a supernatural hunter...their weapon..." He shook his head. "We saved him from that and helped him get his memories back...but I guess one scientist survived and wanted to finish that work they'd started on him..." Jessica didn't know what to say. She was stunned and deeply disturbed by this news. --- Parker hesitated when Will said he'd pay for their meals. "It's cool. I can pay for my meal." he offered, feeling a little uncomfortable at the thought of Will feeling obligated to pay. He wanted him to know that he didn't expect him to pay for the both of them and that he was quite happy to split the bill. Denix Vames - April 18, 2021 Jasper held an angry expression. "I think I'm glad they're all dead." Carter soon relaxed. Tears fell from Leo's eyes as he curled up. A red bubble surrounded him. Keeping him safe. --- "Oh! Um Right. Sorry." Will put his half of the bill on the table. They soon left the diner. "So, did you want to do anything else or-?" He was interrupted by the radio. He frowned. "Sorry about this but I've got to go. I had a great time though." shadowess - April 18, 2021 "I -hope- they're all dead!" Sebastian said. This whole experience had left him shaken. If this guys survived and had his own lab, then who else survived?! He watched Leo with a frown. Then looked at Oscar and then to Carter and sighed. "They're all probably going to be out for a while..." --- "It's cool." Parker chuckled and paid his half as well. As they left, he looked at Will as his radio went off. "No worries. Me too, we should hang out again sometime." he suggested, feeling his cheeks grow warm again. Inwardly, he cursed himself for being so awkward and nervous. Denix Vames - April 18, 2021 Jasper sat near Leo. "Why did he leave?" --- Will nervously chuckled. "Yeah, we should. I wouldn't mind a second....date." A red dot reflected on his shades. Sitting on his left eye. A bullet immediately went into it. He fell back. Hitting the ground. Bleeding from his wound. (by the way, he's going to still be alive. I'm just gonna have it where it seems like he's dead but then he gets resuscitated by paramedics and ends up in hospital) shadowess - April 18, 2021 (No worries) Sebastian had been deep in thought. He wondered whether Adrian really had been the last scientist. What if others had survived? What if there were more test subjects like Leo out there, unable to remember their pasts and stuck following their orders? A more frightening thought occurred to Sebastian suddenly. If they'd been modifying people, like Leo, with Wolf, Vampire, Angel and Devil DNA...then what about fairy? That's the only other specie that Sebastian was aware of that existed and as far as Sebastian was aware, they were practically extinct...except for one...and she's now pregnant. What if the surviving scientists found out about Amelia? She and her child would be like some sort of trophy to them! Sebastian shuddered to imagine the kinds of experiments they'd put them through! Jasper's question stirred Sebastian from his thoughts and for a moment, he didn't know what he meant. "Huh?" he looked up, confused. "I think he means, how did Leo end up getting caught?" Jessica guessed. "Oh uh..." Sebastian shifted in his chair uncomfortably. "Leo and Carter had a disagreement...Leo went out to calm down and Oscar went after him...then we got the call from Oscar when he got those runes all over him." Sebastian answered. --- "Will?!" Parker knelt down next to him and looked at the wound, then looked around wildly to try and see where the shot had come from. He quickly took out his phone and dialed the emergency services while removing Will's glasses. "I-I need an ambulance, right away! An officer has been shot!" He said hurriedly into the phone, keeping a hand on Will's shoulder while still looking around, trying to spot the shooter. Denix Vames - April 18, 2021 Jasper looked at Leo. "Poor guy. Wish someone would have stopped him." He reached out. Easily, he went through the shield. He placed a comforting hand on his shoulder. Leo's eyes shot opened. He sat upright. Glaring at Jasper before sending him out of the bubble. Jasper went through the wall. Leo suddenly went back to sleep. Jasper stepped into the house. "What the hell did that bastard do to him? I've seen him be defensive but this is something else." --- Will had stopped breathing. Paramedics and some police had soon arrived. The police checked the area. Trying to find the sniper while paramedics worked on Will. Trying to bring him back while keeping his wound covered. Making sure to bandage it. Shadowess - April 18, 2021 "Are you alright?!" Jessica asked, alarmed after Jasper was sent flying. "He did that to Oscar too when he tried to get close to him...managed to calm him down after a while, I guess. We had to flee the building because it was collapsing. Oscar came out holding him. My guess is, Oscar has the best chance of talking to him when he comes around." Sebastian shook his head. "You see? This is what ADIEU does to people...They screw them up until you think they can't possibly do any more harm to them...and then they outdo that..." Jessica knelt next to Leo and Oscar. Sebastian sat up and tensed. "Be careful!" he warned her. She looked at Leo warily for a moment. She felt bad about what had happened the night before and just wanted to help in some way. She'd figured out by now that he and Oscar were together and hearing that he needed Oscar, she did what she thought might help. She placed a hand on Oscar's shoulder and shook him gently. "Oscar? Oscar, can you hear me?" Oscar groaned a little but was otherwise unresponsive. --- Parker had begun panicking when he noticed Will's chest wasn't moving. He checked his breathing and began giving him mouth to mouth. Shortly after, the paramedics arrived and pulled Parker off Will. He stood to one side, watching and feeling helpless as the paramedics tried to bring Will back. He answered a couple of questions with the police who immediately began their search for the shooter. Crying, he took out his phone again and dialed Carter's phone. When it went straight to voicemail, he left a frantic message that Will had been shot and where they were.
Shadowess Posted September 15 Author Posted September 15 Denix Vames - April 18, 2021 Jasper did a casual wave. "I'm fine. I'm a spirit. Remember?" Carter's phone went off but he didn't wake up. --- The paramedics were finally able to bring him back. Yet, Will was breathing slowly. They brought him into the ambulance. Taking him to the hospital. Shadowess - April 18, 2021 Jessica tried to shake Oscar awake again. "Oscar? Oscar?" Oscar groaned again and lifted a hand, shoving Jessica's off him. "Dammit, what?" he complained sleepily. "Leo needs you." Jessica replied and Oscar seemed to remember where he was, sitting up suddenly to look at Leo. He still felt exhausted. His head was pounding and his stomach ached but he couldn't rest while Leo needed him. He turned to face Leo and gently moved to hold his shoulder. "Hey" he said gently. "Hey, it's ok. I'm here. I'm right here." ----- Parker had taken Will's car keys as he was being placed into the ambulance. Figuring he'd appreciate not getting a ticket if his car got left here, Parker climbed in and drove it to the hospital. He then sat in the waiting room while the doctors made sure Will was stable and patched up his wound. Denix Vames - April 18, 2021 The red bubble disappeared as he heard Oscar and felt his touch. He opened his eyes which were still red and blue but did not glow. He started crying as he threw himself into his arms. --- It was hours before a doctor showed up. "I understand that you're Will's friend? Well, it's fortunate for me to tell you that he's alive. He's in critical condition but we were able to save him. He's sleeping right now. However, his left eye was severely damaged. We had to take it out. There will be a possible eye transplant. But it will be a while before we can get some new eyes. Until then, he's wearing an eye patch to keep the socket clean of all bacteria from outside the protective wear. You can see him now if you'd like." shadowess - April 18, 2021 "It's ok. It's ok." Oscar whispered as he held Leo, rocking with him a little. "You're safe. No one is going to hurt you. I love you." He kissed his head as a few tears fell from his eyes. "I'll never let anyone hurt you again. I'm sorry I couldn't get to you in time. I'm so sorry!" --- Parker listened to the doctor and nodded almost numbly as he said he could see Will now. He followed him into Will's room and walked over to the chair beside his bed, still in shock over what had happened and feeling awful at the thought of how Will must be feeling right now. "Hey." he greeted him in a soft tone. "How are you feeling?" Denix Vames - April 18, 2021 Leo clutched his shirt. Sobbing uncontrollably. "I-I'm....sorry....I-I ran...." --- Will slowly opened his eye. He looked over at him. "Parker?" He sat up as he placed a hand over his eye patch. His eye widened. He breathed heavily. "W-Why can't I....?" Tears fell from his eye. He started shaking. "My eye! Where's my fucking eye?!" shadowess - April 18, 2021 "Shh" Oscar held him tightly and rubbed his back, kissing his head again. "You did nothing wrong. Absolutely nothing wrong." he said this softly but firmly. "Never blame yourself for this. Do you hear me? This was no ones fault but that scientists." Oscar opened his eyes and glared across the room at the wall, his eyes turning red. "And he'll pay for what he did soon enough." he growled. "He's already dead." Sebastian said, sitting back in his chair. "Carter shot him when he came after me." "Yeah...I wasn't talking about what I'd do to him on Earth." Oscar replied darkly. --- "Didn't the doctor tell you?" Parker felt annoyed at the doctors for not talking to Will before letting visitors see him. He quickly got up and sat on the edge of the bed, taking Will's hands and doing his best to ignore how red his cheeks were turning. "Calm down. Breathe. You-...you were shot...the bullet destroyed your eye...the doctors are waiting for a new eye to give you a transplant though..." Parker was shaking a little. "Y-you stopped breathing...I thought you'd..." he trailed off and gulped. "The police were searching for the shooter. I haven't heard anything back from them. Will, do you know anyone that might want to hurt you?" Denix Vames - April 18, 2021 Jasper said, "You shouldn't focus on revenge. Help Leo first." Leo looked at his wrist where the wristband was. He tore it off and burned it up in his hand. While it burned so too did the scientist's body until it was nothing but ash. He clenched his fist. "I should have stayed my ground. I should have ignored Carter." --- Will gripped his hands. He started calming down when Parker was close. He thought for a moment. Trying to think. "Two years ago....There was this killer that I put behind bars. He was supposed to serve a life sentence. He killed over a thousand people. He was a hitman. His name's John Keller." He started breathing heavily again. "And if he's out there and you're here." He laid back on the bed. Going pale. Shadowess - April 18, 2021 Oscar looked at Jasper and stared at him for a moment before looking back at Leo, watching him burn the nametag. When he spoke, Oscar sighed. "Stop it." Oscar said gently. "You had every right to go and calm down in your own way. C'mon, how about we go home now? Would that help you feel better? Help you relax a bit?" --- Parker listened to Will, his concern for him growing. "You think he's out already?" he asked then became even more worried when he saw Will lay back, turning pale and breathing heavily. "Will? What's wrong?" Denix Vames - April 18, 2021 Leo nodded. "But first...." He appeared over Carter. He wrapped his hands around his neck. Carter's eyes shot opened. "As of right now, consider me fired. Because I will NEVER work for you ever again!" He disappeared into the mansion. Carter sat up. He rubbed his neck as he looked around. "Oscar, I didn't mean to do this. I'm sorry. Tell him that I'm sorry." Feeling the tension in the room, Jasper disappeared. --- "He shot me! He's out right now! If he knows that I'm still alive then he won't just go after me! He'll go after you!" ,said Will. Shadowess - April 18, 2021 Oscar and Sebastian jumped to their feet when Leo grabbed Carter around the neck. "Leo, stop it!" Oscar had shouted. "Get off him!" Sebastian had rushed forward to try and pry Leo off of Carter. When he disappeared, Sebastian sat next to Carter and held him. In shock, Oscar looked at Carter and nodded before vanishing, following Leo back to the mansion. Feeling unsure of what else to do, Jessica went into the kitchen then came back with a glass of water for Carter which she offered to him silently. --- "Wha-? Why would he come after me?!" Color drained from Parker's face. He suddenly felt afraid. It wasn't like he had Devil DNA to fall back on anymore. If he died, that was it. He'd wake up in Hell as just a regular soul. Thanks to his great grandfather's contract with Lucifer, Hell was a certainty for him when he died. But maybe that didn't have to be the case? Maybe he could change that? He had an idea, but he'd need to get back to Carter's office in one piece first. He tightened his grip on Will's hands while a look of determination filled his eyes. "Then I need to take precautions...I need to go now but I'll be back later, I swear. I'll call Carter. See if he can get you some security in the meantime and if anything happens, I want you to call either me or him." Denix Vames - April 18, 2021 Carter nodded. "Thank you." He accepted the glass of water. He turned to him. "Please Sebastian. Don't be mad at him." --- Leo was in the bedroom. Sitting in the corner with his knees against his chest. Staring blankly at the wall as he hit the side of his head against the wall over and over. --- "Because he saw you with me." Will nodded. "Just be careful. Please. I don't want to lose you." He brushed his thumb over his hand. "I-I know we barely know each other but I swear I'm going to kill him if he kills you." shadowess - April 18, 2021 Jessica stood back and hugged herself, not sure if she could be of any more help but also didn't want to leave in case they needed her for anything. Sebastian looked at Carter and shook his head a little with a sad expression. "I'm not mad." he said gently. "Just concerned...for the both of you..." --- Oscar appeared in the bedroom and saw what Leo was doing. His eyes widened in alarm and he rushed over to him, kneeling in front of him and holding his head in his hands to stop him. "Leo, what are you doing?!" he asked in concern. "Stop that." --------- Parker's cheeks turned crimson at Will's words and the way he brushed his thumb over his hand. He blinked and smiled nervously, looking down at their hands. Then half laughed at himself. After his past experiences, he hadn't expected to feel like that towards anyone again. But here he was. He looked back at Will, his expression shifting back to a serious one. "I'll be careful. Don't worry...and if we make it out of this in one piece...we should really have a talk before our next um... date...There's a few things about me that you should know before we go out again." He sighed. He could barely think about that now with this killer out there. He needed to get moving. If this guy was serious, then there was no time to waste. "I'll be back soon. Try to relax. We'll get this guy." he smiled. "We always do." Gently, he let go of Will's hands and got up, leaving the room. He took out his phone again and saw Carter still hadn't gotten back to him. He dialed his number again and held his breath as the phone rang. Denix Vames - April 18, 2021 Carter sighed. "The only thing we can do is let Oscar help him." He drank some sips of water. He answered his phone when it started ringing. "Hello?" --- Leo's hospital gown burned off without burning himself or anyone or anything else. "I keep hearing everyone's thoughts. I want it to stop. Please make it stop." --- Will smiled back but was still worried. He did his best to stay calm. Closing his eyes and trying to relax. Shadowess - April 18, 2021 "You have telepathy?" Oscar realized and studied Leo for a moment. "It's alright, Leo." he said gently and moved to lift him into his arms. He'd take him over to the bed and set him down so he could be more comfortable. "It's going to be ok. Let's get you dressed then we can call David to us. He'll know what to do." ---------- "Carter! Thank God! I'm guessing you didn't get my message...Will's been shot. He's in hospital, the bullet destroyed his eye. He thinks it could be a hitman he put away a couple years back. There's something I need to take care of... We're guna need some security over here for Will." Parker explained quickly. Denix Vames - April 18, 2021 Leo clutched his head. "Just get these thoughts to shut up! Make your head stop thinking! I'm tired of listening!" --- "I'm sorry Parker but that's out of my jurisdiction. This is a hitman that you're talking about. By now, the police are already assigning two officers to keep an eye on him. Making sure he's safe. The police have everything under control. Trust me." ,said Carter. Shadowess - April 18, 2021 "That's a little difficult but I'll try." Oscar chuckled. He moved over the to wardrobe quickly and pulled out a bathrobe. "Here, put this on." he said, handing it to Leo. He'd wait until Leo was covered before calling out; "David, guna need your help with this one..." David appeared and looked between them briefly. "What have I missed this time?" he asked, looking over at Leo. "Leo...went through something pretty traumatic...long story short, he's got telepathy." Oscar explained briefly, not wanting to distress Leo further by bringing up what happened again. "He's having some trouble controlling it...is there a way to take it away?" David looked at Oscar for a moment then at Leo and sighed. He moved over to Leo and sat next to him on the bed, looking at him carefully. "Leo, look at me." He said gently. "I want you to focus. Focus on tuning out thoughts like you would certain sounds. Can you do that for me? Give it a try, it's easier than you think." If he could teach Leo how to control his new power, that would be better for him than taking it away. --- Parker sighed heavily. He didn't like it but he couldn't argue. "Alright...In that case...Will said this hitman might also come after me...because he would've seen me with him...so, I'm coming over. I need a favor. You know those vials David gave you? The cures? I'm guna need one ready when I get back...Just in case." Denix Vames - April 18, 2021 Leo put the robe on. He growled as he tried to push the thoughts back. "I can't! It hurts! Make it stop!" His wings sprouted. His eyes glowed. "Make it go away!" He cried out. --- "Alright. You can hold onto one of the vials. But I'd recommend being careful. Only go outside when you have to. Make sure you're not being followed. I can't have one more of my friends get hurt again. Will's lucky that shot didn't kill him. Most of the time it kills anyone." ,said Carter. He drank some more water.
Shadowess Posted September 15 Author Posted September 15 Shadowess - April 18, 2021 "Leo, stop. Breathe." David said soothingly, although he'd jumped at the sight of his mismatched wings. . "Ok, let's try something else...Here." He tapped a simple beat on his own leg. "Listen. Just listen to the the beat. Try to concentrate on the rhythm and follow it. Block out all other sounds and just focus on the beat." He kept it up while staying quiet for a moment to give Leo a chance to get used to it. "Now, I want you to try it. Tap a beat onto your leg or onto a surface and focus on it...and whenever you feel like other peoples thoughts are getting too loud for you, start tapping and focusing to help get yourself used to tuning it out." --- "Thank you...and I got it, don't worry. See you soon..." he said before hanging up. He thought about heading straight out but was hesitant. It had been several hours since Will was shot. More than enough time for the hitman to prepare another attack. He'd need to be cautious, now more than ever. Carter was right, he couldn't risk going outside if he didn't need to. He wondered if he could get some help to avoid leaving the hospital then. He slipped into the men's room, out of view of the security cameras. 'Vincent? Jasper? I'm guna need help from one of you...I'm in grave danger here guys.' he thought desperately. Denix Vames - April 19, 2021 Leo started listening to the tapping. Trying his best to focus. The world around him soon fell silent except for the tapping. He started tapping on his own leg. As he tapped, the sound began to resemble a bell sound. He closed his eyes and imagined himself at his old home with his family. That same bell. It was the meal bell....the train station....the moving door at any business....It was his entire life. Then he heard a church bell. He covered his face. "It was....18...55...." Flashes of radium products showed up in his head. "So why am I remembering that?" He could see dead bodies. Corpses laying in front of him. "Did they send me to observe? Unless it was before...." He shook his head. "Their bones! Breaking apart! They're screaming for help!" He lifted his head up as his eyes widened. "Someone in this area witnessed people dying by radium." --- Jasper appeared. "Vincent's busy with his family. I'll help ya out." He held his arm and brought him to Carter's office in a second. Shadowess - April 19, 2021 When it seemed to work and Leo started tapping as well, David and Oscar relaxed a bit. Oscar even smiled a little, seeing Leo learning to control his new power. David nodded. "That's it." he whispered. "Now you're getting it..." Then both he and Oscar frowned, watching Leo cover his face. They listened to what he said and both of them became horrified by what Leo was describing. "But...this area is full of huge houses and mansions, all blocks apart from each other...that would make the radius on your gift huge!" Oscar said aghast. "It's no wonder you were in pain!" David gasped. Then thought for a moment on what he'd said. "1855? If they're still alive then that means they're either Demon, Angel or Vampire..." --- "Thanks buddy, you're a literal life saver." Parker sighed in relief then looked over at Carter. "I'm guna be needing that vial then." He said, his features held a grave seriousness. Denix Vames - April 19, 2021 Leo shook his head. "Not that person's year. 1855 was when I was with my family at home. But I don't want to think about these thoughts. Please David. Take this away from me. This isn't a gift. It's a curse." --- Jasper smiled. "You're welcome." He disappeared. Carter nodded. "I'll go get it." He walked upstairs. Heading into his office. He took one of the vials out of a drawer. He came back downstairs and gave it to him. "Keep it safe." shadowess - April 19, 2021 David frowned and glanced at Oscar who frowned back at him. He looked back at Leo and sighed. "I guess this power just isn't for everyone...alright, I'll take it. Just prepare yourself though...it's going to hurt...a lot....Make yourself comfortable. You'll likely pass out as soon as we're done. When you're ready, we'll begin." David would then give Leo a moment to prepare himself. David, himself, was nervous about this. He knew it was going to hurt him just as much as it was going to hurt Leo. He was about to pull a power out of Leo and force it into himself and that's never an easy thing to do. In fact, it can only be done if both parties are willing participants otherwise it becomes quite dangerous for the both of them. Giving a power was one thing, but taking a power from someone? Leo would need to be absolutely certain that he didn't want this power and by the way he'd been acting, David was confident that that was the case. "Alright, now try to relax." David said gently, placing his hands on either side of Leo's head. "Close your eyes if you have to. Take some deep breaths...ready? here we go..." David would then begin focusing on pulling Leo's telepathy from him. The entire experience would be excruciating for the both of them and would last several, long minutes. --- Parker was relieved to have the vial in his hands and as soon as Carter told him to keep it safe, he was tempted to down it there and then. But he couldn't do that to Carter. Not at least without an explanation first and Parker hoped he'd understand. "Yeah...about that..." he looked from the vial to Carter. "Hear me out here. David said these potions revert a being back to what they were when they were born, right? So, if my theory is correct, then I wouldn't go back to being a Blood God. I'd go back to what I was before Bryce even got hold of me...I'd be a half Devil again. Which meant, if I died, I'd become a full Devil instead of a Blood God...I think I could handle that...after all, it's not as powerful as a Blood God and the part of me that went mad in the first place was Alex..." He sighed heavily. He had known about this theory from the moment David brought these vials to Carter, but he'd hoped he wouldn't need to resort to using one. "I was there when Will got shot. We had no warning or time to react...which means, if this killer does come after me...I might not have time to drink this before he kills me...but if I drink it now and the killer manages to kill me, then at least I'll have the ability to come back...rather than...just being stuck in Hell." Denix Vames - April 19, 2021 Leo took some deep breaths. Doing his best to stay calm. When he felt the pain, he cried out. Memories of the experiments that had been done on him in ADIEU and recently had flashed through his mind. David was suddenly sent back. Hitting the wall. The room shook as the walls cracked but did not crumble. He breathed heavily as he cried. --- Carter stood. "I guess it doesn't sound like the worst idea. But get ready for the process to feel like a bitch. It was worse than any other hangover that I use to have." shadowess - April 19, 2021 David had been gritting his teeth and whimpering as he tried to keep the process going. He was so focused on what he was doing and trying to hold himself together that he was taken completely by surprise when Leo flung him across the room. He hit the wall and when he'd hit the ground he was unconscious. Alarmed by what he'd watched, Oscar hurried over to Leo. Climbing onto the bed and pulling him into his arms. "It's ok, it's ok. I'm here. I've got you." --- Parker nodded. He looked back at the vial and licked his lips nervously before popping off the cork. "Here goes..." he muttered before knocking it back and cringing as he forced himself to swallow it. Almost immediately he felt the pain coursing through his body and he dropped to his knees, crying out and whimpering. He had flashbacks of when Bryce had turned him, the pain had been similar. He grit his teeth and tried to breath through the pain but ended up crying out again as his whole body tensed. Thankfully, the process didn't last anywhere near as long as when he'd turned into a Blood God and pretty soon he felt the pain ebbing away. He stayed on his knees for several minutes, panting. Wiping sweat and tears from his face, he stood shakily and looked at his hands. He half laughed. "I don't exactly know what I was expecting...I don't feel any different...of course, I don't...I'll still be as powerless as a human until I die..." He looked up at Carter, still breathing heavily. "God, I hope that worked..." Denix Vames - April 19, 2021 Leo buried his head against his chest. "I-I didn't mean to! I hurt him but I...! The pain! It was like before!" --- "From what I heard, it sounded like it did. Are you alright?" ,asked Carter. Shadowess - April 19, 2021 "Shhh...it's ok. Don't worry, he'll be fine." Oscar said gently. He frowned and kissed the top of Leo's head lovingly. He held one arm around Leo's back and his other hand cradled the back of his head, stroking his hair a little. "It's ok. It's over now. Just breath..." he glanced down, concerned for Leo. "Did it work?" he asked quietly, worried Leo might've thrown David away from him before he could finish the process. --- "Y-yeah..." Parker replied shakily and nodded. "A-and thanks...for trusting me with this..." he'd been worried Carter would be fearful of him risking turning back into a Blood God and refuse to give him the vail. He sighed and glanced at the windows. "I said I'd go back as soon as I was done here..." he said nervously. "I said I'd...explain some things about myself to him...before...our second date..." he sighed, his cheeks turning pink and he looked back at Carter. "Got any advice?" he tried a smile. Denix Vames - April 19, 2021 Leo clutched his shirt. He shut his eyes. "I-I still hear the thoughts! I couldn't wait! I just want it to go away!" --- Carter smiled. "Well, you're not your brother." He nervously chuckled. "Ya know, I'd recommend getting advice from Sebastian. It took me a long time to tell anyone my secrets. And the first person I ever told was him." shadowess - April 19, 2021 Oscar frowned and sighed. He held on to Leo tightly and continued to stroke his hair, trying to comfort him as best he could. "Okay, okay. David is out of it right now...so, we're probably going to have to wait until he wakes up to get any help from him...unless you know anyone else that knows how to help with this stuff? First things first, let try and get you to cope with it for now...just until we can take the power away, ok? What David showed you earlier...did that help at all? Maybe we could do something similar?" He looked down at Leo's face. His heart ached. He hated seeing him in pain like this. --- "Yeah..." Parker chuckled to Carter's comment. Sebastian had been trying to relax on the couch during their conversation. Jessica, feeling awkward, had left shortly after Leo and Oscar had with barely a word. When he was mentioned, Sebastian lifted his head from resting it against the back of the couch and smiled at them. "Honestly? I was just being myself...Aside from being honest from the get go, that's all I can really advise you to do..." he said with a shrug. "Just be myself?" Parker rose an amused brow. "Yep!" Sebastian chuckled. "I know. Sounds cliché, but trust me. It's the best thing you can do. Pretending to be someone you're not just complicates things needlessly." Parker nodded. "Thanks." he chuckled and started towards the door. "I guess I'll see you guys later then. I'll keep you updated." He stepped out and nervously looked around before heading to his car and setting off towards the hospital again. Denix Vames - April 19, 2021 Leo's eyes widened. "There's a scientist walking down the street. He worked in ADIEU before. They almost killed him. He was running with his friend. There wasn't enough time. His friend pushed the button. The scientist was the only one that made it out. Security killed his friend. He tries not to look back. Tries not to think about it. About what happened. Greg Fuller. He needs this curse. Maybe he wants it. He works in cancer cell research now." --- "Good luck." ,said Carter. There were two officers standing by the door leading to Will's room. One stood on either side. Shadowess - April 19, 2021 Oscar stared at Leo and blinked. He didn't know much about ADIEU and what he did know was the little amount he'd learned from Leo...and it wasn't good. But it sounded like he'd found another survivor of their horrors with his new power. "You think your power will help him?" Oscar asked uncertainly. "I don't know how you'd pass it on to someone else completely though...I know that Demons, Devils and some Angels can give a weaker copy of their power to others but passing on a power in it's entirety? Maybe...maybe it's like what David was doing but you're pushing it into someone instead of them pulling it out of you?" he suggested, hoping Leo knew what he meant. Surely he'd felt David trying to pull the power out of him through all that pain to know what it feels like? --- When Parker arrived at the hospital he was relieved to see the security outside Will's room, although he didn't recognize them. 'Must be new...probably mine and Carter's replacements...' He thought as he approached them and stopped, unsure if these officers knew he'd been at the scene when it happened. "Hi, um, I'm Parker. I was with Will earlier today...I called the ambulance and spoke to some of your other officers." he explained. "Is it ok if I go in and see him?" Denix Vames - April 19, 2021 Leo shut his eyes. "Just want to give it to him! Let him have it! Let him have it!" Greg had been looking back as he was walking. Making sure no one from ADIEU was following him. He still thought they were around. A sudden migraine hit his head. He clutched his head and cried out before passing out over the pain. Leo screamed as the room started shaking again. Then it soon stopped. --- One of the officers said, "Let me see some ID." shadowess - April 19, 2021 Oscar watched Leo scream and the room shake, unsure of what to do. "Leo?!" he looked back at Leo, worried while still holding on to him and leaning over him a little to shield him in case the roof fell in. Thankfully though, the room stopped shaking and Leo stopped screaming. "L-Leo?..." --- "Uh- sure." Parker said, a little taken aback. But then again, if it was a hitman they were keeping an eye out for then he could understand why they'd need to see ID. He took out his ID card from his wallet and passed it to the officer that had asked for it.
Shadowess Posted September 15 Author Posted September 15 Denix Vames - April 19, 2021 Leo breathed heavily. "H-He has it. It's gone!" He smiled. "I can't hear thoughts anymore!" --- The officer looked over the ID before giving it back to him. "Alright. You can come in." He opened the door for him. Shadowess - April 19, 2021 Oscar half laughed out of a mixture of relief and nerves. He'd been so frightened for Leo but now he was glad he was alright. He hugged him tightly, his eyes watering. "God, I was so scared for you...I felt so helpless!" he glanced over at David who was still face down on the floor. "We should probably move him somewhere more comfortable..." he chuckled. --- Parker took the ID back and nodded "Thanks". He put his ID away while walking into Will's room. He glanced behind him, back at the officer's curiously before heading straight in. 'Maybe I'm just being paranoid...I should really try and get a decent night's sleep for once...' he thought to himself. Denix Vames - April 19, 2021 Leo looked at David. "Yeah, we really should." He hopped off of the bed. His wings went into his back. His eyes stopped glowing. He picked David up and carried him into one of the bedrooms. Placing him on the bed. "I hope he won't be mad at me when he wakes up." --- Will on his side. His back facing Parker. There was a tray of mashed potatoes, peas, and a slice of turkey covered in gravy with a bottle of juice there. It appeared to have been untouched. He had been silently crying. Shadowess - April 19, 2021 Oscar followed Leo as he carried David and leant against the doorframe while watching him. "I'm sure he'll understand." Oscar smiled at Leo kindly. Once David was on the bed, Oscar walked into the room and wrapped his arms around Leo from behind. "Now, c'mon. Let's get you relaxed, hmm?" he kissed his cheek. "We'll do anything you want to do. Eat, play games, chill out in the hot tub or pool...you name it. Whatever helps." --- Parker saw the food and the way Will way laying and frowned. 'He must be taking this pretty hard...' he thought. "Will?" he said gently as he stood to one side, waiting for Will to respond in his own time. "I came back." Denix Vames - April 19, 2021 Leo smiled. "Thank you, Oscar." He thought for a moment. "Maybe we can be in the hot tub? I missed that." --- Will said, "I should have seen it coming. I should have kept my guard up." shadowess - April 19, 2021 Oscar grinned and gave Leo a lingering kiss on his neck. "Sure." he whispered and let Leo go to take his hand, leading him out of the room with a smirk, heading towards the hot tub room. --- Parker shook his head as he walked further into the room. "How could you possibly have seen something like that coming?" he asked gently. "You said it yourself, the guy was supposed to get life. How could you possibly have known?" He sighed and walked over to the bed, pushing the trolley with the food on out of his way a bit. He lay a gentle hand on Will's arm. "You can't blame yourself for something like this...you'll end up driving yourself mad...and trust me...I know madness..." Denix Vames - April 19, 2021 Leo blushed. He followed him to the hot tub. When they were there, he took his robe off and dipped into the tub. He sat there. Leaning against it as he sighed. "I remember being here for the first time. It was so strange but comforting." --- Will sat up. "Yeah but now you're in danger. I don't care what happens to me but I care about what happens to you." His stomach growled but he ignored it. Shadowess - April 19, 2021 Oscar watched him getting in with a smirk before taking his own clothes off and climbing in after him. He eased himself into the seat next to Leo with a sigh, loving the way the hot water felt. He looked over at Leo when he talked about the first time they got into the tub together. Oscar remembered it being really awkward and closely followed by them arguing...but, he supposed, that argument helped to fire up new emotions they felt for each other. So, it wasn't necessarily a bad memory. "Yeah? I think I know what you mean..." he relaxed into his seat and rested his head against the edge of the tub, closing his eyes. "Whenever I used to come to Earth, I'd never normally bother socializing...I'd prefer to bury my head in a comic book or escape to a video game than talk to people..." he opened his eyes and glanced over at Leo. "You were the first person, in a very long time, to spend so much time with me...Instead of just leaving after hanging out for an hour or so..." --- Parker sighed and couldn't help smirking knowingly. If only he knew...But that was part of the reason for his visit, after all..."I think it's time I told you about me..." he started then glanced back at his food. "Did you want to eat something first, though? It's a pretty long story..." He hoped that knowing Parker could now come back if he died might help Will to relax a bit. Parker was still nervous about this hitman though. Even if he could come back...he can still feel pain. Denix Vames - April 19, 2021 Leo looked into his eyes before kissing him. He got on his lap. Deepening the kiss as he cupped his cheeks. His wings suddenly sprouted. He jumped. "Sorry about that." He tried to get his wings to go back in but they didn't. Then they started vibrated. He blushed. "What the hell is going on?" --- Will shook his head. "I'm not hungry." He lied. Shadowess - April 19, 2021 Oscar kissed him back and moaned a little as Leo sat on his lap. His hands began to wander across his chest, one hand dropping down, under the water to grab his ass. Then he jumped as well and quickly moved his hands back, gripping the sides of the tub as he looked up at Leo's wings. He watched Leo try to put them away then gasped and moaned, tilting his head back as he felt the vibrations coming from Leo. He hadn't felt this kind of pleasure in a long time! He bit his lip excitedly and smiled at Leo, chuckling at the way he blushed. He lifted his hands back to Leo, one around his hips (being careful not to touch his Angelic wing) and one under his thigh as he moved them towards the center of the hot tub. "It's ok." he gasped in a soft tone, trying to contain his excitement. "This is a sexual thing we can do." His own wings sprouted and he began vibrating his as well while grinning at Leo. "Just relax and get ready for the best sex of your life!" he kissed Leo deeply and passionately, slipping his tongue into his mouth. --- Parker looked at Will dubiously before nodding and sitting down in the chair. "Alright...then I guess I should just go right into it..." he took a deep breath to steady his nerves before telling Will his story. From knowing nothing about the supernatural world, to meeting Carter, to being kidnapped and turned by Bryce, everything that happened with him, his memory loss, being split into two people and finally, having taken the potion to revert him back to a half Demon just a few hours ago. When he'd finished, he watched Will quietly and tensely. Unsure of how he'd react or what he'd think of him now. Denix Vames - April 19, 2021 Leo was surprised to see wings coming out of Oscar's back. He suddenly felt a rush of vibrations as well. He moaned loud. His arms wrapped around his neck. Smiling into the kiss when he thought about what he said. (private time) --- Will was shocked. He had no words to say. He looked at his food. "I think I'm glad I didn't eat anything." He shook his head. "Wow! So all of that happened to you huh? Just....wow." He scratched the back of his neck. "I don't even know what to say. Honestly." shadowess - April 19, 2021 Parker fidgeted with his hands again out of nerves. "Mhmm..." he hummed quietly as he thought about everything he'd gone through. "I'm not proud of those things that I did...I know some of that was Alex but it'd be selfish and irresponsible to say it was all him..." he shook his head a little while looking away. "Sometimes I can't help thinking about it all...the shame and regret that I feel...It makes me feel sick...I try not to let it get to me...to keep pushing forward but...It's hard." He blinked when he felt a tear drop onto his hand and he looked down at it in surprise. Then wiped his face to find he'd started crying. "Huh...I think this is the first time I've actually talked about it like this..." he looked at Will. Denix Vames - April 19, 2021 Will frowned. "Come here." He pat on the bed. Shadowess - April 19, 2021 Parker looked at where he was patting on the bed and got up shyly, moving over to sit on the edge of the bed. Looking at Will with a mixture of curiosity and nervousness. Denix Vames - April 19, 2021 Will caressed his cheek and looked into his eyes for a moment before kissing him slowly. "I know that you did some pretty fucked up things in the past but I can see that you're not the same man that you use to be. You're so much better. You're you." shadowess - April 19, 2021 Parker froze when Will caressed his cheek. His heart beat so hard, he was afraid Will would hear it. He couldn't take his eyes off him when he leaned in and as Will kissed him, Parker shivered and closed his eyes. Feeling himself melt into the kiss. Then the kiss broke and Parker was left staring at Will, his breath caught in his throat at his words. Speechless, a few more tears fell from his eyes. He leant in and kissed Will again, unable to express how he felt in any other way in that moment. Denix Vames - April 19, 2021 Will slipped his tongue in his mouth. Kissing passionately. He ran his hand through his hair. Holding on there. There was a sudden click of a camera which turned out to be one of the officers' phones. Will gave an annoyed look at him. "Richardson! You better delete that right now or else I'm making you do fifty push ups." "Sorry Captain." The officer deleted the picture. Will cleared his throat. He looked at Parker. "Sorry about that." shadowess - April 19, 2021 Parker had been losing himself in Will's kiss. So content in that moment that he'd forgotten the world around him...until he heard the click and he froze, his eyes snapping open. He turned his head and looked at the officer who'd taken the photo. How long had they been there? He hadn't even heard the door open! He'd made sure it was closed before coming in, didn't he? What if they heard what he'd said to Will?! Will apologized for the officer and Parker looked back at him, smiling stiffly. "It's ok." he lied. Inside he was both angry and shaken. He felt vulnerable. "I er-..." he cleared his throat while standing up. "I should probably head back now anyway...I could use some sleep..." He hesitated to leave. "I-...I'll be back tomorrow." he said softly, wanting to reassure Will that he wasn't put off from him. Denix Vames - April 19, 2021 "Ok. Yeah. We should both get some rest." Will held his hand for a moment. Gently squeezing it then kissed the top of it. "I know you won't have to really worry but stay safe either way." shadowess - April 19, 2021 Parker cheeks turned red as Will kissed his hand and when he told him to stay safe he nodded. "I will." he said softly with a small smile. "And...I know you've got guards and everything, but you stay safe as well." he reluctantly pulled his hand away. "I'll see you in the morning." he said before turning and leaving the room while trying to avoid eye contact with the officer that had taken their photo. He headed straight out to the parking lot and climbed into the car. He sighed heavily, knowing he had a lot to think about in the night ahead. He turned on the ignition and began driving away from the hospital and towards his apartment, figuring it best to not go near the others until this hitman was taken care of. He was frightened, sure. But he wasn't about to put others in danger because he was scared. Denix Vames - April 19, 2021 A dark car with tinted windows had followed him to his apartment. Shadowess - April 19, 2021 Parker couldn't be certain but when he checked his rearview mirror during the drive, he could swear he'd seen the same dark car back at the hospital. His heart beat a little harder. Would this guy really make a move that fast? Or was Parker just so scared that he was being paranoid? His mouth felt dry and every so often, he double checked his mirrors to see if the car was following him. When he pulled up at the apartments, he moved casually but quickly. If he was being followed, he didn't want to tip them off that he was on to them. He headed up the steps to his floor and hurried over to his door, unlocking it and running in before locking the door behind him. He headed straight into the bedroom and pulled out the gun he'd had stashed in the bedside table. Making sure it was loaded before quietly moving towards the bedroom door, listening out for any movement from the front door in the next room. He was shaking and sweating a little. He knew he'd come back as a Devil if he died but still, death was something he really wanted to avoid. He hadn't even wanted to take the stupid potion in the first place! He'd wanted to stay human! 'Focus Parker!' he thought to himself as he strained to listen for movement. Holding his breath. Denix Vames - April 19, 2021 The hitman, bald, dark eyes, rough features, muscle t-shirt, and jeans was picking the lock. He had his silencer right in his holster. Once the door was opened, he would take out his silencer and walk in. shadowess - April 20, 2021 Parker heard the rustling noise at his door and his heart rate increased. He had to hold his gun with both hands to stop it rattling from his shaking. When he heard the door latch give, he knew whoever it was now had the door open and was likely creeping into his apartment. 'It's now or never.' Parker thought to himself. It wasn't like he had a lot of other options. There was literally no other way in or out of this apartment. He flung himself around the corner and aimed his gun at the hitman. "Freeze! Put your weapon on the ground!"
Shadowess Posted September 15 Author Posted September 15 Denix Vames - April 20, 2021 The hitman dropped the lockpick. He glared. "Smart thinking. Was I really that obvious?" He unstrapped his holster and threw it aside since the gun was in it. "You won't stop me from covering my tracks. You've got me here but sooner or later, I'll get the upper hand. Kind of makes me wonder how would Will's head look like on a stick." He said that last remark just to get a reaction out of him. Shadowess - April 20, 2021 Parker remained silent as he watched the hitman throw his weapon to one side. Parker tried to remain professional. He was still a detective after all. But the hitman's words had gotten to him. Despite his efforts to hide his emotions, his gun rattled from him shaking again and a look of anger flickered across his features. He glared at the hitman, keeping the gun trained on him. "On your knees and put your hands behind your head." he ordered him while reaching for the handcuffs in his pocket. Denix Vames - April 20, 2021 "Whatever you say Detective Alex Parker." Indicating that he knew who he was. That he was this quick about obtaining information on who he was after. He did as he was told. When Parker grabbed one of his wrists, he swung at him. Shadowess - April 20, 2021 For a moment, Parker hesitated. It's only been a few hours since Will was shot. How did he find out who he was so quick!? He knew the color had drained from his face but he tried his best to ignore it. He had him. It was over. All he needed to do now was put the handcu- Just as Parker grabbed one of the hitman's wrists, the man had swung a fist at him and it connected with his stomach, knocking him to his knees, winded. Straining to get his breath back and blinking through tears, Parker tried to keep hold of his wrist while attempted to strike him across the head with his gun. Denix Vames - April 20, 2021 The hitman grabbed his wrist before he had the chance to hit him. "You really have no idea who you're messing with, do you?" He headbutted him. Making him drop his gun. He picked the weapon up. "I killed so many people and yet you're still dumb enough to face me?" He hadn't bother to notice that the silencer was near Parker. Too caught up in his own ego. He chuckled. "Will sure does pick the stupidest guys to work with him. It's not wonder he'll be dead soon. So much for that promotion he was getting. Heard it was called Chief. What a lousy job." shadowess - April 20, 2021 Parker gasped and tried to pull his arm free when his wrist was grabbed. He fell back with a grunt, holding his nose after the hitman head-butted him. His nose was bleeding and he winced as he glared up at the Hitman through tears. As the hitman had been talking, the hand Parker was using to prop himself up had found the handle of his weapon. "GO TO HELL!" Parker shouted at him suddenly, in a dark and monstrous voice that had once matched the one he used when shouting at Amelia in Bryce's basement. For a fraction of a second, his eyes turned crimson. He pulled up the silencer and aimed it in his direction, pulling the trigger four times. Denix Vames - April 20, 2021 The hitman's eyes widened when he heard his voice change and saw those red eyes. He collapsed when those bullets hit him. A pool of blood pooled under him. He had soon died. Shadowess - April 20, 2021 Parker watched as the Hitman collapsed and stared at his body for a moment before somewhat coming back to his senses. He was in shock as he took his phone from his pocket. He knew he should call the police but in his stupefied state he dialed Carter's number instead. "C-Car-Car-Carter-!" He stammered, trying to talk and feeling his breath catching in his throat. He gasped and began hyperventilating, dropping the phone and pulling his knees up to hug them, still holding the silencer in his hand. Rocking back and forth as he wept. Denix Vames - April 20, 2021 Carter picked up the phone. "Parker? Parker, what happened? Parker!" He ran out of the house and got into his car. "Don't move. Just try to take some deep breaths. Tell me where you are. Please." shadowess - April 20, 2021 Parker kept sobbing and rocking. He could hear Carter's voice through the phone on the floor and as much as Parker was struggling to pull himself together, he knew he needed help right now. He kept his face hidden in his knees, not wanting to look at the body again as he tried to take some breaths. "A-a-apartment-!" was all he managed to get out before he ended up going into another fit of hyperventilating. Denix Vames - April 20, 2021 Carter sighed before cursing under his breath. "Alright. Just hold on. Ill be there." He looked around. "Jasper?" Jasper teleported him to the apartment. At the open the door of Parker's place. He disappeared. "Holy shit!" Carter knelt by Parker's side. "It's going to be ok. Just give me the gun and try to calm down. I'll call the police." shadowess - April 20, 2021 Hearing Carter's voice, Parker looked up tearfully at him. His nose swollen and his shirt now drenched from it bleeding. He barely moved but he let Carter take the gun from him as he strained to control his breathing. He was shaking violently. "I-I tried...to arrest him...I d-d-didn't want t-to k-kill him!" he stammered through his tears. Denix Vames - April 20, 2021 Carter placed the gun aside. He brought his hands over his shoulders. "Hey. Look at me. Police try to avoid these moments but sometimes there's no way of doing that. Sometimes you have to defend yourself. To pull the trigger when it's absolutely necessary. This is one of those times." He hugged him. Gently patting his back. "You did nothing wrong." shadowess - April 20, 2021 Parker listened to Carter and rested his head on his shoulder when he hugged him. His breathing slowed down, almost to normal. He looked over at the corpse. At the pool of blood. He'd taken a life again. He knew what Carter said but seeing that pool of blood just brought back memories of killing when he'd lost his mind. All he could see was blood...blood everywhere...he could almost smell it. "I think I'm guna be sick!" he suddenly pushed Carter from him and ran for the bathroom, vomiting into the toilet. Denix Vames - April 20, 2021 Carter frowned but let him be. He called the police. Doing his best to explain everything. A few officers soon came over along with paramedics. They had taken the body while Carter answered questions. Shadowess - April 20, 2021 Parker sat near the toilet during while the police asked Carter questions. He leant against the bathtub with his head resting on it's edge, staring off into nothing as he thought about everything that happened. The way he'd lost it at the hitman. The look of fear on his face right before he died. The blood. He shakily lifted a hand to his mouth and felt around his teeth but he didn't have fangs. 'Did I just imagine it?' he thought, lowering his hand and hugging himself. 'Is this what PTSD is like? It felt real...I could swear I could smell his blood just now...or maybe...I was just remembering what blood used to smell like?' Denix Vames - April 20, 2021 Carter lightly knocked on the bathroom door. "Parker? They want to ask you some questions. When you're ready." shadowess - April 20, 2021 Parker glanced at the door when he heard Carter's voice and he sighed. He supposed he'd need to get this over with sooner or later. "Yeah...Just give me a minute, I'll be right out." He wiped his mouth with some tissue and threw it into the toilet, flushing it. He then stepped up to the mirror and frowned at his reflection. His neck and shirt were covered in blood when when his nose had been bleeding. His nose still swollen. He lifted his thumbs to either side of his nose, then grunted and gasped as he reset it. He got some more tissue and held it to his nose for a minute, waiting for it to stop bleeding again before throwing it away and carefully rinsing his face. He sighed again as he dabbed his face dry on a towel. He still looked a mess but he guessed it was understandable given what he'd just gone through. He hesitantly opened the bathroom door and stepped out, looking between Carter and the Officers. "Ok, I'm ready." Denix Vames - April 20, 2021 Carter gave him a reassuring look. Letting him know that he would be there for him. "Take your time Detective. Just start from the beginning to the end. I need every detail that you can recall." ,said the officer. Shadowess - April 20, 2021 Parker nodded and swallowed nervously. He started telling them what happened. From being followed at the hospital, to grabbing his gun, their confrontation, trying to arrest the hitman, their struggle and finally shooting the hitman before he could shoot him. He left out the part where he'd shouted at the hitman right before shooting him. "That's when I called Carter..." he finished, rubbing his arms as he hugged himself a bit. Denix Vames - April 20, 2021 The officer wrote everything down. "Alright. Thank you. We'll take it from here. I'd suggest living somewhere else in the meantime. We need to investigate this apartment." Carter nodded at Parker. "You can live with me for a bit." shadowess - April 20, 2021 Parker nodded then looked at Carter. "Thanks." he said quietly as he walked over to him, ready to follow him out. Denix Vames - April 20, 2021 Both men headed out of the apartment. "Listen. If you ever need to talk about this then please let me know. You can tell me every word and I'll try my best to say some decent advice." shadowess - April 20, 2021 Parker sighed and put his hands in his pockets as they walked to his car. He unlocked it and climbed in. He then waited for Carter to get in before driving them back to Carter's office. As he drove, he wound his window down for a bit of air and sighed. "I had flashbacks while I was in there..." Parker admitted. "They were so real that I had to double check that I'm definitely still human..." he gripped the steering wheel tightly. "I just-... I think I just need a drink and some sleep..." Denix Vames - April 20, 2021 Carter had gotten in the car. He listened to Parker during the drive. He shook his head. "Some water and a nap. Alcohol isn't the best option. I learned that from my days in rehab." shadowess - April 20, 2021 Parker rose a brow but didn't say anything. He was sure Carter had only been in rehab for a day at the most before he busted out. Regardless, he sighed. "Maybe you're right..." he muttered. He soon pulled up outside Carter's office and parked the car. Turning off the ignition, he climbed out and followed Carter inside. "If it's alright, I'm guna go take a shower and head straight to bed." --- Now this was more like it! Jessica had been tempted to go and get drunk again. She felt useless lately and had just wanted to forget her problems for a while and go to a club. Instead, she found herself a gym that was open 24/7 and signed herself up. She was determined to make herself useful in some way. Maybe the first step to that was simply getting in shape? She started off simple. With something she knew, and stepped up to a treadmill, starting off at a steady jog. Denix Vames - April 20, 2021 Carter nodded. "Sure. I don't mind." He went into the kitchen and made himself a quick sandwich. Eating it with a glass of water. --- Greg, wearing his glasses, has a beard, green eyes, and short brown hair. He was in a shirt and shorts. He wanted to try and get rid of these random thoughts in his head by working out. He went to a treadmill himself. Jogging lightly. Shadowess - April 20, 2021 Parker headed upstairs and climbed into the shower. When he got out, he sighed at his clothes as he realized he hadn't brought any other clothes with him. He supposed he'd just have to put them back on until morning when he could go out and buy himself some new ones. He put his shirt to one side and put his pants back on before climbing into the spare bed and trying to get some sleep. --- Jessica barely noticed anyone around her as she got into the zone. Staring at the wall ahead of her as her jog sped up, into a light run. She didn't know if this would help her but she had to try something. Right now she just felt so useless and most of the time she even felt invisible. She thought back to when she'd been in Hell. Running across those rooftops. The thrill of jumping from roof to roof, knowing she could die if she made so much as a single misstep. The wind rushing through her hair as she moved. The way her muscles got hot from the running and jumping. Man, what a rush! She hadn't done anything like that since her return to Earth. The only reason she'd done it in Hell was because the place just felt so empty...no one around to gawk at her. To panic over her safety. She'd been free to be herself completely. Not like here...God forbid she just stand on a rooftop, anyone below would think she was about to commit suicide! Oh, but she wanted to feel that rush again. She wondered if she'd feel more free when she finally died and became a Devil. What would that even mean for her anyway? Would she get powers? Would she be able to change her shape? Fly? She pondered over the possibilities as she continued to run. Denix Vames - April 20, 2021 Carter finished up and decided to get some sleep too. "Sebastian? You around?" --- "Geez ma'am. You really need someone to talk to. Don't you?" ,asked Greg when he listened to her thoughts. Shadowess - April 20, 2021 Sebastian had been reading a book in the main bedroom. Sitting on the bed and relaxing. When he heard Carter calling for him, he smiled and put the book down before getting up and heading to where Carter's voice was coming from. "Right here." he said as he approached him. "You alright?" --- Jessica was stirred from her thoughts when the guy on the treadmill next to her spoke to her. She turned her head and rose a brow at him, not slowing down. "What? What the hell is that supposed to mean?!" she snapped and panted. Who was this guy?!
Shadowess Posted September 15 Author Posted September 15 Denix Vames - April 20, 2021 Carter rubbed his eyes. He was getting tired. "Just had one of those days." He stumbled before leaning against him. "Mmm. It's a long story that I'll tell you later. Right now, I want to go to bed." He leaned his head against his. "With you." His lips brushed over his. --- Greg's eyes widened. "I didn't mean anything by it! I just meant that you have some issues and so do I. And that you really need to talk to someone about them." shadowess - April 20, 2021 Sebastian held Carter when he leant against him and smiled when he said he just wanted to go to bed with him. "Alright." he whispered and kissed him. "Let's go and get more comfortable then. We can talk about it tomorrow." He kissed him again and continued to kiss him as he picked him up, taking him to the bedroom. He set him down on the bed and lay next to him, holding his waist while moving his kisses down to his neck. --- Jessica slammed the 'stop' button on her treadmill and slowed to a stop so she could turn to look at him. "How could you possibly know if I have issues or not?! Hmm? I've never even met you before!" Had this guy been spying on her?! Jessica felt vulnerable and wary of him. Especially after everything that had happened since she arrived in this city. Denix Vames - April 20, 2021 Carter moaned into the kisses when he felt himself being picked up. He leaned his head back. Giving room for those kisses on his neck. "I didn't know going to bed would get me this. Maybe I should sleep more often." He gripped his waist. Tugging at his belt. --- Greg stopped his treadmill too. He sighed. "You know what? Forget I said anything. I'm sorry." He grabbed his bag and left the gym. Shadowess - April 20, 2021 Sebastian moaned when he felt Carter pulling on his belt. He moved over Carter so that he was on top of him, and continued to kiss his neck. He lightly scraped his fangs over Carter's neck, upwards to his chin. The stuck out his tongue and licked from his jaw, up to his earlobe, sucking on it lightly before whispering into his ear. "I think we both should." He kissed him deeply, slipping his tongue into his mouth while his hand slid under Carter's shirt, feeling his chest. --- "Hey! Hold up!" Jessica grabbed her bag and ran after him, out of the gym. She ran in front of him, blocking his path. "You think I'm guna let you make a comment like that and just leave?!" He poked his shoulder with her index finger. "You have some explaining to do, mate! Just who are you, huh? Have you been spying on me!? Why would you say something like that!? As if you know me!" She was a little freaked out but she wasn't about to just let this go. If there was one trait Jessica had that was consistent, it's that she was stubborn. Denix Vames - April 20, 2021 Carter squeezed his ass. He moaned at his touch. He unbuckled his own belt. Unzipping his pants. He cupped his cheeks. Stopping him for a moment as he looked into his eyes."You know, Tom said he could give you some of his blood. So that whenever I decide to go back to being a vampire, I can walk out in the sun. Would you....mind that?" --- Greg glared. He slapped her hand off. "I can read minds, ok? This damn hybrid gave it to me because he couldn't deal with that one ability. And now I have to listen to everyone's thoughts. It gets annoying after a while." shadowess - April 20, 2021 (I'll be back to reply as soon as I can. Currently at the hospital and been here all day. Boyfriend had a seizure this morning and he's never had one before. Just waiting for some tests.) Denix Vames - April 20, 2021 (sorry to hear that. hope things go well for him) shadowess - April 20, 2021 (Thank you. He's ok now. Docs couldn't find anything amiss today so he's going back in two weeks. I just have to keep an eye on him in the meantime.) Sebastian moaned when Carter grabbed him ass and he was so ready to lose himself to Carter. He was a little surprised when Carter stopped him and looked at him for a moment before speaking. When he told him what Tom had offered, Sebastian thought for a moment before smiling. "No." he said softly. "I wouldn't mind. As long as you're happy, I'm happy." he lifted his hand from his chest to caress Carter's cheek. "I'd do anything for you." --- When the man slapped her hand away, she placed her hands on her hips with a pout. Then she faltered when he said he could read minds. Her features softening a little as she understood why he'd said what he'd said. "Oh..." she lowered her hands, her shoulder's slumping a little. "Sorry..." she thought on what he'd said back on the treadmill. He'd told her that he had issues too and said she needed to talk to someone. Had that been an offer? Had he actually been trying to be nice to her? 'Typical! I actually meet someone who doesn't look right through me and I push him away before they even get a chance to be nice!' she inwardly scolded herself and sighed. "Look, I'm sorry about that..." she rubbed her arm awkwardly. "I guess I'm not used to people talking to me without an ulterior motive...And...you were right...I could use someone to talk to..." She shrugged and pointed behind her with her thumb. "You er-...you wana get a drink with me?" she gave him an awkward smile. "As a peace offering?" Denix Vames - April 20, 2021 (dont take my word as fact but ive heard of people having sudden seizures due to high levels of stress. not suggesting anything here. just saying what ive heard. and you're welcome) Carter smiled. "I love you." He kissed him again. Unbuckling his belt and pulling his pants down. He ran his hands through his hair. Tugging as he passionately kissed him. --- "Actually, I don't drink. Not since that day. But I wouldn't mind going to a cafe and hanging out there." ,said Greg. He held out his hand. "Greg Fuller by the way." Denix Vames - April 21, 2021 (hey wanted to say sorry because i feel like i said something inappropriate since none of this is my business. so i do apologize and hope everything's alright now) shadowess - April 21, 2021 (Hey, it's cool. You didn't do anything wrong as far as I can see. Sorry for vanishing suddenly. I ended up falling asleep on the couch after everything.) Sebastian kissed Carter back, just as passionately. "I love you too" he breathed between kisses. He moaned softly at Carter tugging on his hair and pulled back a moment to remove his shirt, throwing it to one side before going back to kiss him. His hand wandered over his chest and stomach, travelling down towards his hips... (Private Time) --- Jessica frowned at first when he said he didn't drink. But then she smiled again when he suggested going to a cafe instead. She took his hand, her cheeks turning a little pink. "Jessica Wilson" she introduced herself, then let go of his hand and stepped aside to walk with him. "So, how long have you been hearing other people's thoughts?" She asked as they walked. Denix Vames - April 21, 2021 (well I'm glad I didn't make a mistake) Will called up Parker. Waiting for him to answer. --- "Since last night. And I'm already getting tired of people's problems. I had enough of that at my last job." ,said Greg. Shadowess - April 21, 2021 Parker was woken up by his phone and he groaned as he sat up to pick it up. He saw Will's caller ID and answered the call without hesitation. "Will?" he asked tiredly. "Are you ok?" --- At his answer, Jessica began to feel awkward. She was a little confused. He'd been nice to her because she needed someone to talk to and now he was saying he was tired of hearing other people's problems. She put her hands in her pockets and stared at the ground as they walked. "What was your last job?" she asked. If it was to do with hearing other people's problems, she assumed he either worked as some sort of doctor or therapist. Denix Vames - April 21, 2021 "Am I clingy bitch if I say that I missed hearing your voice?" ,asked Will. --- Greg flustered. "Oh! I uh....was a scientist before. My co-workers would complain about minor things in the workplace." shadowess - April 21, 2021 Parker chuckled and flopped himself down on the bed, still holding the phone to his ear. "No." he chuckled. "I miss you too..." his smile slipped a bit as he remembered what had happened the previous night. "Has...has anyone told you yet? The hitman...he's dead." --- Jessica tilted her head a little to look at him when he answered. She smiled a little as she realized her guess had been close. "Yeah, I can understand why you'd be sick of it then." she chuckled. "I'd probably lose my mind if I were surrounded by people who complain all the time." She looked ahead of them. "Do you know any good cafes? or should we just pick a random one?" she shrugged. "I'm not really from around here..." she chuckled, knowing her accent would be a dead giveaway. Denix Vames - April 21, 2021 "Uh yeah. I heard. I'm sorry to hear that you did it. I can't imagine you were fine and dandy after that." ,said Will. --- "Well, there should be one up ahead." Greg pointed once they further. "That one!" They came to a stop at a small cafe. Shadowess - April 21, 2021 "No...But, I think I'm ok now though..." he said as he stared up at the ceiling. "I'm just glad it's over..." he sighed. "and you're safe." --- Jessica smiled and walked into the café, taking a seat in one of the little booths and looking over their drink menu briefly. "I think I'll just get a coffee. What do you want? I'll buy." She figured it was the least she could do after practically accusing him of stalking her earlier. Denix Vames - April 21, 2021 "Yeah. Me too." Will paused. "If we were alone together right now, like if you were physically here....What would you do to me?" He blushed. "Just a thought." --- Greg smiled. "It's alright but if you'd like to pay then that's fine." He read the menu. "I'll have a latte." shadowess - April 21, 2021 Parker felt his face grow hot very quickly and he flustered a little. "Uhm-!...I-I don't know..." he chuckled shyly. "I'd kiss you?" --- Jessica smiled and nodded. "Alright, I'll be right back." she got up and walked over to the counter where there was a small queue waiting to order. When she placed her order she was given a little plastic table holder with a number on it. She took it over to their table and placed it where the servers would be able to see it clearly. "They'll bring it over when it's ready." she said and sat back in her seat. "So, you said you were a scientist in your last job. What do you do for a living now? If you don't mind me asking." Denix Vames - April 21, 2021 Will smiled. "I'd kiss you too. And then I would hold you. Keep you close. Bringing my hands to your waist. Caressing your thighs." --- "Well, I still am a scientist. Just on a different field. Nowadays, I focus on all cancers. Trying to find cures for every one of them." ,said Greg. He frowned. "Something tells me you had a job." shadowess - April 21, 2021 Parker grew hot and shivered out of excitement at the way Will was talking to him. He blinked and looked down at himself, then smiled and closed his eyes, biting his lip a little as he tried to imagine Will being here with him. "I'd kiss your neck. Run my hands through your hair. Then bring them down to feel your chest." --- "That's awesome!" Jessica said, impressed. Then flustered a little, looking away from him for a moment and waving her hand dismissively. "Oh, it was just at me ma's shop...Sells crystals, incense, tarot...all that kind of stuff..." she shrugged. "I-I don't talk to her much anymore...and it was never my thing anyway...I've always wanted a job that was more...exciting, you know? Something that matters and really makes a difference..." The server came over with their drinks, setting them on the table. Denix Vames - April 21, 2021 Will licked his lips. "God Parker. I'd show you no mercy. Gripping your ass and biting down hard on your neck. Leaving impressions that would last for days. Just to let everybody know that you're mine." --- Greg blew air on his cup. "Interesting but I meant the flower shop. Either way, I'm sure you'll find something that will satisfy what you're looking for." shadowess - April 21, 2021 Parker shivered again and gripped the sheets as Will spoke. But as he imagined Will doing those things to him, the image in his mind kept flickering between Will being passionate with him and Bryce biting him. Particularly as Will said the last part and Parker couldn't help remembering Bryce feeding him his blood while saying "Now you are mine." Parker's breathing picked up a little suddenly and he ended up gripping his phone so tightly that he crushed it. When he heard the crunching noise and felt the phone give in his hand, he sat up hurriedly and lifted his hand to look at his phone. It was destroyed. The screen had gone black and was smashed and his phone was practically bent in two. "Oh, fuck!" he complained, knowing he would have suddenly cut Will off of the phone call. He lightly hit the back of his head against the headrest in annoyance. "Why brain?!" It was then that he suddenly had an idea. He needed to rid himself of these bad memories and what better way to do it than replace them with good ones? Besides, Will would probably need an explanation for suddenly being cut off anyway. He sprang out of bed and got dressed hurriedly, then practically ran downstairs and went outside. He jumped into his car and drove to the hospital. When he got there, he headed straight to Will's room. Now that the hitman was no longer a threat, there wasn't any security outside his room anymore. Good. He could really do without them sneaking in while they're alone, like last time. He walked in and smiled at Will. "Hey, sorry." he said a little breathlessly and showed him his broken phone. "I guess I got a little too excited." he chuckled as he locked the door behind him and shut the blinds. He headed over to Will's bed, sitting on the edge and kissed him. --- "Flower shop?" Jessica rose a brow. "I think you must be picking up someone else's thoughts." she chuckled. "I've only ever worked in me ma's shop in Ireland." She looked at her coffee and wrapped her hands around her cup, enjoying it's heat. "But yeah, I hope so..." she said a little dreamily with a small smile.
Shadowess Posted September 15 Author Posted September 15 Denix Vames - April 21, 2021 Will sat up. He smirked. "I'll say." He set his phone down. When he felt that kiss, he didn't hold back. Running a hand through his hair, he slipped a tongue into his mouth. His other hand was unbuckling his belt. Getting his hand under his pants. He suddenly stopped. Looking into his eyes, he caressed his cheek. "Is everything alright? You crushed your phone but....people don't normally do that. And I know you're not like most people but I'm kind of worried." --- "Oh, I see." Greg drank some sips. "The past is hard to forget. I lost....someone who was dear to me. My boyfriend was shot. I couldn't save him." shadowess - April 21, 2021 Parker moaned at Will's touch, the feeling of his tongue on his own. He was so lost in the moment that he was surprised when Will suddenly stopped. He was a little breathless as Will asked him if he was alright and Parker frowned a bit. "Uh-..." he hesitated, not wanting to ruin the moment but he supposed it didn't make much sense for him to break his phone the way that he had. "N-no..." he admitted. "While we were talking...I had a flashback...of him." he lowered his eyes. "For a horrible moment, it felt like he was in the room with me. It freaked me out a bit." He then shook his head and looked at Will, a new look of determination in his eyes as he lifted his hand to cup his on his cheek. "But he's gone and I refuse to let him continue to rule my life. Will, I want you. I -want- you to do those things to me." He bit his lip and rested his head against Will's. "I want to know what it's like to -really- feel loved." --- Jessica blinked and looked up at him when he brought up his boyfriend. "Oh..." she frowned. "Oh, I'm so sorry." she said softly. "That's awful...did they get the person that shot him?" Denix Vames - April 21, 2021 "Then let me show you." Will kissed him. His hands went under shirt. Feeling up his chest. --- Greg shook his head. "Those people always get away with everything. Try to look for them and they're already gone." He stared at his drink. Recalling the entire incident. "Sometimes, I wish that I could forget." shadowess - April 21, 2021 A soft moan escaped Parker once more as he relaxed into Will's kiss and enjoyed the feeling of his hands on his chest. He brought a hand up to run it through Will's hair while his other hand slid down his arm, then down to his side, under the sheets to rest on his waist, feeling the shape of his hip to tease him a bit. --- Taking a sip of her coffee, Jessica listened to him and tilted her head sadly when he said he wished he could forget. "You make it sound like these guys are the mob or something..." she said. She had only ever heard of ADIEU once and didn't know just how spread out or powerful they'd been before they were all but wiped out. So, it only made sense that Jessica's first impression of what Greg described to her was that this was some sort of human mob or gang that was responsible. "Well...I can't help you with forgetting...but I don't mind being here if you need someone to talk to?" she gave him a kind smile. "You seem like a good guy...I'm -really- sorry I was a bit of a bitch to you earlier...But I mean that, if you need someone to talk to then, here..." She pulled out her phone and jot down her number onto the napkin before passing it to him. "Feel free to call me whenever." she then shrugged. "Haven't exactly got much else going on right now." Denix Vames - April 21, 2021 Will grabbed his ass. Bringing him in closer as he laid back on the bed. He unbuttoned his shirt. He moaned into the kisses. He pulled his pants. "Fuck...." --- "They're worse than any gang that's ever existed." Greg took the napkin. He smiled. "Thank you. I'll be sure to call whenever I need you." shadowess - April 21, 2021 Moaning, Parker continued to kiss Will. His excitement growing as Will pulled on his pants. He shivered as Will spoke. He kissed him deeply before pulling back a little while playfully and gently hanging on to Will's lower lip with his teeth before letting it go. "Oh God, I want you so bad." Parker whispered then started kissing down Will's neck. --- Jessica had no idea what kind of gang could be that bad but she hoped she'd never have to find out. When he took the napkin, she smiled and picked up her cup. "Or just to hang out." she shrugged. "You know...if you want to..." she then added, feeling her cheeks turn a little pink again. She wasn't used to making friends so wasn't sure if she was being pushy or not. She knew she could be a bit 'full on' sometimes and hoped she wasn't putting him off hanging out with her. Denix Vames - April 21, 2021 Will gripped the back of his head as he moaned loudly. "Wish we could do it here." He dug his other hand under his pants. Keeping it there. --- Greg placed the napkin in his workout bag. "I'd like that. I just have to find the time since I have a busy job. But I'll tell you when I'm free." shadowess - April 21, 2021 "Me too." Parker moaned and brought his kisses back up to Will's mouth. Nurse may had been doing her rounds and was walking past Will's room when she heard the moans and stopped in her tracks. She rolled her eyes and sighed heavily before looking at the closed blinds. She stepped up to the door and knocked on it hard. Parker jumped a little at the knocks and pulled back, looking at Will with red cheeks. He smirked and bit his lip bashfully as he quickly jumped up and made sure his pants and belt were refastened and that Will was decent again before walking over to the door. He opened it to see an unamused Nurse May, arms folded and foot tapping. She stepped in quickly and closed the door so as to prevent eavesdropping and maintain their dignity. "Gentlemen." she began sternly. "Might I remind you, this is a hospital?" she turned and opened up the blinds again before looking back at them. "Let's keep these open unless a doctor says otherwise from now on." She nodded at them before leaving, content that the blinds being open would deter them from that kind of activity. Parker turned to look at Will and put his hands in his pockets. "Oops." he chortled. He then walked back over and sat in the chair next to Will, needing to adjust himself a little before he could relax. "Um...when do you think they'll discharge you?" he asked, wondering if a doctor might have let Will know what was going on with his eye by now. --- "Oh, yeah. Of course." Jessica smiled when he said he'd need to find time with his job. She drank more of her coffee and glanced around the café briefly. "You said I needed to talk to someone...Do you mind if I asked what it was about me, that you saw in my mind, that made you think I needed to talk to someone?" She asked as she brought her eyes back to Greg's. Denix Vames - April 21, 2021 Will blushed as well. He sat up. "Guess we can do it some other time when we're not here." He shrugged. "Doc said that I can go once they put a prosthetic in my socket. I'll get the eye once they say they have it. But they told me that I need to keep the eye patch on so the prosthetic remains clean and safe." He sighed as he leaned back. "And my boss is reluctantly letting me come back when I get discharged from here." --- Greg drank some more. "From what I can read, it seems like your friends barely notice when you're gone. That you've always wanted lots of friends to notice you. To ask you for help." shadowess - April 22, 2021 Parker nodded as Will told him he was waiting for a prosthetic first then rose a brow when he said his boss was reluctant to let him come back. "Why are they reluctant? it's not like the hitman is a threat anymore." he asked. He couldn't see why they would have a problem with Will going back to work. --- Jessica's face turned a little red and she looked down into her coffee as he spoke. He'd hit the nail on the head! She sighed, "It's not so much that I want them to ask me for help...I just want to be seen as someone they can turn to if they need someone...but it doesn't seem like any of them need me at all. Even my brothers pay me very little attention and I came all the way out here just to find them!" She blinked back some tears. "Maybe I should just go home...back to Ireland...back to that stupid shop...I doubt they'd even notice." Denix Vames - April 22, 2021 "Believe it or not, I'm getting a promotion. But they want me at my best. They're....worried about me. It's the first time I've gotten this kind of treatment. They're probably only doing it so that they can have a stable Chief. Maybe the eye patch will make us look bad in the papers. Either way, I'm going back to work." Will frowned. "Just wished you'd still work there. Honestly, I feel pretty bad about what you went through. None of us believed you. I even attempted to fire you at one point. Told the boss about it but he got mad at me for not understanding that you had gone through some shit. Whatever it was. He didn't exactly know either. None of us did." He sighed as he shook his head. "I use to think I was such a big shot just because of my position. And now look at me." He touched the eye patch with an open palm. "I deserved this." --- "Maybe you need to try something else. Get to know them by getting involved in what they do. You could always throw a party. Nothing crazy. Just a little get together." ,said Greg. --- Carter woke up. He threw on his bedrobe and headed downstairs. In the kitchen, he made some coffee. Pouring himself a cup with a yawn. He came back upstairs with a tray holding his cup of coffee and a cup of hot blood. He set it on the drawer nearby. He smiled at the sight of Sebastian sleeping. He kissed him before saying, "Hey Sebby. Wake up. I've got your favorite. Hot blood." shadowess - April 22, 2021 Parker listened to Will quietly. He hadn't shown any surprise when Will said he was getting promoted. After all, the hitman had already told him that much. Although, he'd been a little angry that Will had tried to get him fired while he'd been suffering from amnesia. But he quickly let that go as he knew too well what it was like to realize when you'd been in the wrong and try to change your ways. It's hard. Frowning, Parker sighed and shook his head. "No one deserves to go through what you went through just because of how they behaved in the past. The fact that you're willing to take responsibility for your past and work towards improving yourself makes you a good person." He sighed and offered him a small smile. "Take it from someone who knows...I'm pretty sure I did waaay worse than you. But I'm fortunate enough to get a second chance...and I intend on not taking that chance for granted...I think, knowing what you know now, you'd make a great Chief." --- Jessica sighed and leant her head on her hand, her elbow on the table. "I tried that..." she said when he suggested she try getting involved and she remembered trying to help Oscar, only for him to continually lose his patience with her and in the end, he didn't even need her help anyway. She then looked thoughtful. "But you might have something with the get together idea...it's worth a shot." she tried a smile. "Maybe, if you get time, you could help me with it?" --- Sebastian blinked opened his eyes and smiled at Carter's voice. He soon caught the smell of hot blood and broke into a wide grin. "Oh, you legend!" He said happily as he sat up and took the cup from the drawer, inhaling it's scent with a smile. "You're in a good mood today." he noted, smiling at Carter. He took a sip of the blood and sighed happily, leaning his head back against the headrest. "Oh, I missed this. It's been too long." Denix Vames - April 22, 2021 Will couldn't help but smile. His cheeks went red at Parker's thoughts on him being Chief. "Just hearing you say it...." He chuckled. "It's almost hard to imagine but it makes me feel better. Maybe you can call me that when we're alone." He winked. --- Greg finished his drink. "I'd be happy to. Just call me when you want me to get started." He checked his watch. "Looks like I've got to go but I'll see ya later." He stood from his seat and walked away with a wave of his hand. "Bye!" --- Carter shrugged. "Who wouldn't be in a good mood after they just made love to you?" He sat at the edge of the bed with his cup when he suddenly flinched. Clutching his back. "Guess I'm not getting any younger. Being in your forties really does hit you like a bitch." shadowess - April 22, 2021 Happy that he'd helped Will to feel better, Parker smiled. He then blushed at his suggestion but smirked. "Maybe I will, Chief." he winked back then chuckled. --- "Alright, thanks for your help!" Jessica waved back at him with a smile then turned back to what was left of her coffee. Alone again but at least now she felt like she had some hope of actually having friends here. She sighed and sat back in her chair, relaxing as she finished her coffee. Being in no rush to be anywhere else right now. --- "I already am." Sebastian winked. He then looked a little concerned when Carter displayed pain in his back. He frowned a little. One of the hardest things about being what he was, was watching those you love grow old without you. He tried to push that thought away though as he offered Carter a sympathetic smile. "And yet you don't look a day over thirty." he said as he gently brushed some of Carter's hair back with his fingers. "My handsome boyfriend." he said in a soft, loving voice. "Maybe I should give you another back massage later?" Denix Vames - April 22, 2021 Will smiled. He shook his head with a sigh. "I wish I was out of here already." He looked out the window. "I wonder what the guys at the PD are doing right now." --- Carter blushed at his comment. He smiled. "I'd like that." He touched his hand. "But I think we should discuss about Tom's offer. Maybe you should turn me now before I'm in another situation again." --- Leo, still naked, yawned as he stretched when he woke up. His wings stretched as well then went back in him. He laid on his stomach. Resting his head over his arms as he still felt exhausted from before.
Shadowess Posted September 15 Author Posted September 15 Shadowess - April 22, 2021 "I wish so too." Parker said while smiling a little sadly. "While I'm here and not currently busy, if there's anything you need, just let me know. Anything you want me to bring to you. I don't mind." --- Sebastian looked at him for a moment. Studying him carefully, making sure Carter was certain that this was what he really wanted. Sebastian couldn't deny that he was a little excited to get a second chance at turning him. The first time around had been disastrous thanks to Bryce but this time...this time he'd actually be able to do it the way he'd originally intended. Gentle, relaxed, just the two of them. Apart from the pain that comes after, the lead up would certainly be romantic. The way it should be done. "If this is what you want..." Sebastian began, caressing his cheek. "Then I'd be happy to do this for you. We'll call Tom over when you're ready and we're prepared. If my theory is right then we should only need a vial of his blood. I only had a small amount of Amelia's blood in me when I turned him...To turn you, you'll need a full blood transfusion. I'll have to take quite a lot from you and give you enough of my blood to replace it. If you drink the vial first and then my blood...that should do it." he then shrugged. "Failing that, we ask Parker or Jessica if I could borrow a small amount of their blood and try to replicate what happened when I turned Tom." --- Oscar had been laying on his back. They were still in the hot tub room, on the floor. The heat from the steam of the tub kept them warm. He opened his eyes a little and watched Leo stretching with a small smile. Leo's wings, although odd, seemed to fit him perfectly. Oscar had a couple of light burns here and there from accidently brushing his skin against Leo's Angel wing but Oscar didn't mind them at all. After all, this wasn't the first time he'd dated someone with Angelic feathers as part of their body. If anything, by now, the light burning sensations had become a sort of kink for Oscar. Spurring him on whenever he felt a feather graze him. Once the wings went back into Leo and he watched him lay on his front. Oscar sat up and leant over him, bending down to kiss his shoulder and neck lovingly. "We should probably eat something." he whispered between kisses. "Do you want me to cook us something while you rest?" Denix Vames - April 22, 2021 "Thanks but would you mind coming over here? Just for a second." ,said Will. --- Carter nodded. "Nate! Mind getting Tom over here?" Nate appeared with him. "Don't tell me. I already know what's going on here. I'll be downstairs." Nate left the room. --- Leo smiled and barely opened his eyes. "Something sweet and savory. And....could you check on David?" shadowess - April 22, 2021 "Uh, sure." Parker blushed as he got up and sat on the edge of the bed next to Will. --- Tom appeared with Nate in the room, looking a little confused as always. Whenever Nate took him anywhere it was usually with very little notice or explanation. Tom didn't mind this. He was sort of used to it by now. When Nate left the room, Tom stood there awkwardly, guessing he was the one that was needed. "Uh-...you guys ok?" "Carter told me of the offer you made him." Sebastian began and Tom realized why he'd been brought here. "Oh, yeah. I'm guessing you want to go through with it, then?" Tom asked, turning to Carter. --- Oscar smiled and brought his kisses up to Leo's cheek. "Of course." he whispered into his ear and kissed his earlobe lightly before getting to his feet and putting his clothes back on. He headed over to the bedroom where they left David to find it empty. "Hmm...maybe he just went back to Hell?" He thought aloud as he headed downstairs to the kitchen where he almost jumped at the sight of David sitting at the island counter and drinking a cup of tea. "Good morning." David greeted him with a smile. "I wanted to be sure Leo was alright before I left." he explained when he saw the surprised look on Oscar's face. "Yeah, he's fine now. Just...tired." Oscar moved over to the fridge to get the ingredients for their breakfast. "Would you like something to eat?" He offered and David shook his head, finishing off his tea. "No, thank you. I don't really need to eat or drink. I just drink tea occasionally as a treat and when I want to put others at ease." David explained. "Besides, now that you two no longer need me and Leo seems to be doing alright, I'll need to get back to Hell. There's another peace negotiation coming up and I want to make sure I have everything prepared." "Oh, yeah. I almost forgot you were a part of those..." Oscar said as he began putting ingredients into a bowl and mixing them. "How are they going?...If you're allowed to say?" "Well, we've only had one so far. Although, I think it went well, it is still early days. Something like this could take months or even years until everyone is happy and there is no more conflict. Until then...we just have to work hard at maintaining the cease fire and try not to give the Angels any excuse to start hunting Demons and Devils again." "Can't imagine that'll be easy...I'll bet there's a few groups of Angels out there that are outraged by the idea of Heaven and Hell being equals again..." "There are...but we still need to be careful in how we handle them. All it would take is for one of them to piss off the wrong Demon, get themselves killed and become a martyr for the rebelling Angels...then everything we've worked towards would crumble around us." "How do you cope under all that pressure?!" Oscar turned and looked at David. By now he'd poured the batter mix into a waffle iron and started frying bacon strips in a pan. David had already washed up his cup. David shrugged. "We just have to...Luckily, we now have the best leaders for the job and more and more Demons than ever are really started to get behind the idea of peace. Anyway, I'm getting carried away. I'll let you two rest. If you need me again, you know what to do. Take care." David smiled with a nod. "Bye, David." Oscar smiled and David vanished. Oscar finished making the Belgian waffles, carefully placing the bacon on the side of the plates. He placed a couple of strawberries on each plate as well as a little cup of melted chocolate that they could drizzle on the waffles or dip the strawberries into. To anyone who'd never been to Amsterdam, this might seem like an odd combination. But to Oscar, this was Breakfast Heaven for anyone who loved sweet and savory! He set them aside and headed back upstairs to the Hot Tub room and leant against the doorway while smiling at Leo. "Breakfast is ready. David has gone back to Hell. He was fine, just worried about you." he said reassuringly. Denix Vames - April 22, 2021 Parker cupped both of his cheeks and kissed him passionately. He suddenly stopped and smiled. "Just teasing you for what we could do when I get out. And let's just say I've got a thing now for guys named Parker." He leaned back against the headboard of the bed. "See ya later." --- Carter nodded. "I'm not getting younger. I want to be with Sebastian." He looked at his boyfriend. "For eternity." --- Leo smiled. "Really? That's nice. I'm glad he's alright. And I can't wait for breakfast." He got up. "I'm going to get dressed. I'll be there soon." He headed into a walk in closet. He put on a black shirt and tight grey shorts. He soon came downstairs. "Hey Oscar! Where are we eating?" shadowess - April 22, 2021 Parker kissed him back and when Will stopped him suddenly again, Parker looked at him a little breathlessly as he told him he was teasing him with the thought of what they would do once he was discharged from the hospital. Will's kiss and his words had left Parker with red cheeks and a very strong desire for him. He bit his lip and smiled as Will said he'd see him later, hinting it was time for Parker to go for now, and he nodded. "S-see you." he said breathlessly as he got up and left the room. He made his way to the car almost dreamily, gently touching his own lips as he remembered the way Will had kissed him and he couldn't stop smiling. One thing was for sure; after this particular visit, Parker was going to need a -very- cold shower to cool off. --- Sebastian's breath caught in his throat at Carter's words. His cheeks turned pink and he was so touched that his eyes watered a little as he smiled at Carter. Tom smiled at both of them then nodded. "Alright. I er- I don't need to be here for the turning part. I think you two might appreciate the privacy, right?" "Right." Sebastian chuckled. "So...uh, you got anything I can pour some of my blood into for you guys?" Tom then had an idea. "Hey, and if this works. If you end up immune to sunlight too, then maybe we could do the same for Sebastian? He'd have to be cured first of course, but then I'd just give my blood to you again and it'd be Carter's turn to turn Sebastian?" he suggested. Sebastian looked away from Carter to Tom then towards the curtains. He'd never even considered that he might be able to change too. He'd been this way for so long that it never really occurred to him to try it. --- Oscar nodded and headed back downstairs to where he'd left their breakfast. He sat at the island counter and waited for Leo, not touching his food yet. When he heard Leo's voice, Oscar called out; "Well, I'm in the kitchen but I mean...it is -your- big ass mansion." he chuckled. "Where do you wana eat?" Denix Vames - April 22, 2021 "Only if Sebastian wants to. And I'm sure you can put it in one of the cups downstairs." ,said Carter. --- "Our mansion! And why don't we see what the dining room looks like?" Leo followed his voice until he found him. "I should really see if there are any closets filled with black clothes around here." --- Elliot stepped out of the house. "Alright ya'll. I'm going grocery shopping. I'll see ya'll later." shadowess - April 22, 2021 "On it. I'll be right back then." Tom said before hurrying out of the room and downstairs into the kitchen. He took a cup and picked up a small knife. He cut into his hand and held it over the cup, letting his blood drip into it. Meanwhile, Sebastian had brought his eyes back to Carters and he smiled lovingly. "This won't be like last time." he said softly. Leaning in close to him and resting his head against Carter's. "This time will be far more relaxed. Intimate." he kissed him tenderly. "Loving." he looked into his eyes. --- "Alright." Oscar replied, picking up both their plates and carrying them towards the dining room. "The dining room it is, then." He then shrugged as he set Leo's plate down and set his own down across from him at the table. "Even if there aren't, we could always go get some. I've had a savings account racking up interest for decades." he chuckled. "Almost forgot about it too..." --- Neva had taken her kitten form and hidden herself in Elliot's jacket pocket. Although not too well as her tail stuck out of the corner a bit. Denix Vames - April 22, 2021 Carter smiled. "Yeah. It's almost hard to believe that we finally got this chance." He kissed him deeply. Caressing his cheek. "Although I'm gonna love the pain." --- Leo smiled. "I wish I had done something like that when I was a lumberjack back then." --- Elliot stuck his hands in his pockets. "What the-?!" He took her out of his pocket. "How did you get there?" He chuckled. "I've got to go shopping ,squirt." shadowess - April 22, 2021 Sebastian chuckled at Carter's last comment. "Yeah...but now that you know what it feels like, maybe it'll be easier to cope with?" he said, trying to ease Carter's nerves. Although he had no idea himself what the pain was like. His change had happened when he was either passed out or too drugged up and delirious to remember. That part of his memory was a little fuzzy. Downstairs, Tom walked from the kitchen with the cup of his blood as well as two blood bags ready for when Carter would need them. He entered the living room and was heading towards the stairs when Jessica walked in. Tom paused and looked at her warily for a moment as she too stared at him with all the blood in his arms. "Uhh...thirsty much?" Jessica asked. "Carter's going to be turning. You might want to stay downstairs for a while but ideally..." he trailed off and a look of irritation crossed Jessica's features. "But I -just- got here." she complained. "and you'll be -just- dying if Carter decides your blood smells better than this bagged stuff. Which, by the way, being what you are, it does." He began walking towards the stairs again. "Choose not to listen to me if you want but it's on you if anything bad happens." he warned. Jessica sighed and rolled her eyes. But given what she'd been told about Vampires mixing with half Devils, she knew it was safer to just leave. She opted to wait it out in the garden instead. She didn't really have anywhere else to go for now and she thought she might be safer as long as she was outside. She lounged on the bench and scrolled through various social media sites on her phone to pass the time while wondering how long it takes to make someone into a vampire. Someone'll come out and tell her when it's over, right? Tom knocked on the bedroom door before walking in. He set the two blood bags on the bed and gave the cup to Sebastian. "Alright, you guys should be all set. I'm guna hang out downstairs with Nate until you guys are done." He said briefly, heading back towards the door. "See you later." he closed the door behind him and headed downstairs to where Nate was. Sebastian looked into the cup, at Tom's blood and sighed before looking back at Carter with a smile. "You ready?" --- Oscar chuckled as he started to cut in to his waffles. "To be fair, when I set mine up they were still fairly new and I'd only really intended to use them at that point in time...I'd forgotten about it until my next visit and I realized I'd earned interest in my absence. I told the bank tellers I was a son or grandson of the original account holder and they signed the account back to me...been doing that ever since. Although, admittedly it's gotten a lot more complicated to claim the account over time. Now I have to forge birth certificates, death certificates for the 'deceased relative' and a will..." he chuckled and shook his head a little. --- When Elliot's hand reached into the pocket, Neva squeaked a small meow. When he brought her out and held her, she looked up at him with big brown eyes while purring, then meowed again.
Shadowess Posted September 15 Author Posted September 15 Denix Vames - April 23, 2021 Carter sighed. "Ready as I'll ever be." He raised. "So, who gets to drink this stuff? You or me?" --- Nate leaned against the couch and gave Tom a seductive look. "So, mind ever drinking from me? I think you'd like it." --- Leo dug into his waffles. He took a bite. With a big smile, he said, "This stuff tastes delicious! You're so great at cooking!" --- Elliot petted her. "Oh alright. You can come with me. Just be careful." He set her back in his pocket. Continuing his walk to the local grocery store. Shadowess - April 23, 2021 "You. I'll drink from you first, then feed it to you. Then I'll feed you my own blood after that to complete the change." He set the cup down, being careful not to confuse it with the cup he'd been drinking from earlier. He turned back to Carter and smiled. "First, let's get you comfortable." Once Carter would be laying in the center of the bed, Sebastian would lay next to him, looking into his eyes. He'd bring a hand up to caress his cheek before kissing him, deeply and slowly. He'd continue to kiss him while his hands caressed his arms and chest. Then, he'd bring one hand up to run it through Carter's hair as he began to slowly and tenderly work his kisses from his mouth to his cheek, his jaw and finally, his neck. Sebastian took a deep breath, inhaling the scent of his blood and growing excited. His fangs sprouted and he kissed Carter's neck a couple more times before sinking his fangs into it, quickly but carefully. He'd hold the back of Carter's head with one hand and wrap his other arm around Carter's torso to support him as he drank from him slowly. Savoring him and the moment. Unable to resist moaning a little at the taste of his blood and the way it warmed him. He'd only take enough to cause Carter's heart to slow down a bit before pulling back and taking a breath. Now, working quickly but still gently, Sebastian picked up the cup and held it to Carter's lips to help him drink it. Only putting the cup back down once it was empty. He then bit into his wrist, ignoring the numbing feeling and gently pressed it to Carter's mouth. He'd moan again a bit as Carter would drink and rest his head against his while looking into his eyes, smiling lovingly. This was how it was meant to be. --- Tom blushed and looked at Nate. "I think I would like to..." he smiled. "You've smelled really good to me since we first met." he then admitted. --- Oscar smiled while chewing his own. He swallowed what was in his mouth then nodded. "Heh, thanks. Picked up this recipe in Amsterdam." he winked. "We should go there sometime. Place is so relaxing it's unreal." --- Neva mewed happily and sat comfortably in his pocket as he walked, peeking out at the street from the gap and watching the world pass by as Elliot walked. Denix Vames - April 23, 2021 Carter moaned at his touch. He gripped the sheets as he could feel his fangs overtaking him. Beginning to feel numb, he did his best to drink all of it. And then he slurped up Sebastian's blood. Before he knew it, he could feel a slight bit of pain. It grew just a bit. He flinched and clutched his stomach but the pain wasn't as bad as before. This time, he could do this in peace with the man he loved. The man that he knew he was going to always be with. "Sebastian....I love you." --- "Same goes to you." Nate pulled him into an embrace. He lifted him off the floor. Bringing him close. He whispered, "I want you to bite me. Right here and now. On this couch." --- Leo smiled. "I'll try not to let work get in the way of a good vacation then." He sniffed at the chocolate. "Ya know, this use to be a rare find. You would see it in stores but it was expensive. Except for strawberries since our neighbor was a farmer. Those were the good old days." He drizzled the chocolate over the waffles then took another bite. His eyes lit up at the taste. Bringing tears in his eyes. "If my family can see me now, they'd be shocked about this treat. I wish I knew where they were right now." --- Elliot went into the grocery store. He began looking around. Grabbing food items that were needed. Meat, dairy, bread, and soda. And then he stopped at a frozen aisle. Ice cream sat on those shelves. He took her out of his pocket. "Take your pick." shadowess - April 23, 2021 The moment Carter flinched, Sebastian knew he'd had enough blood to turn and gently took his wrist away to let the transformation take hold. He watched carefully, with soft eyes as Carter's pupils dilated from the pain and he gripped his stomach but he seemed to be handling it far better than last time. When he spoke, Sebastian smiled at him lovingly and lowered his head to rest his forehead against Carter's. "I love you too, Carter." He said in a soft voice. "And I always will." This moment was so perfect. Just the way he'd hoped it would be. --- Tom's breath shook from excitement when Nate lifted him, as he looked into his eyes. He couldn't deny that he'd been tempted from the day he'd met him to taste his blood. But he'd always managed to resist, fearful of hurting him. Maybe now was different? They'd grown so close over time, and maybe the fact he'd been able to resist for so long meant he had more than enough strength of will to pull himself away from Nate, before he could get carried away? Not only that, but Nate was so much stronger than Tom was. So, Tom was sure Nate would be strong enough to push him off if he wanted. Now Tom had the most important thing of all from Nate; permission. "Oh, Nate!" he breathed excitedly and kissed him passionately. One hand running through Nate's hair while the other cupped his cheek. He kissed down Nate's jaw to his neck and hesitated, still fearful of hurting him. His scent was so intoxicating and the idea of drinking his blood had caused his fangs to sprout. He pushed the fear down and kissed his neck a couple more times, closing his eyes and taking in his scent. "I love you." he whispered, the quickly but as gently as he could, he sank his fangs into Nate's neck. The moment his blood hit his tongue, Tom's eyes rolled and he moaned at the taste. He only took a couple of mouthfuls but he took them slowly. Making the moment, and that taste last as long as he could. When he swallowed it, he could feel it warm him up inside and send tingling sensations throughout his body. He even felt aroused by this. Reluctant for it to end, Tom forced himself to pull back, taking his fangs out and gently licking the little bit of blood from the bite mark he'd left. He leaned back a bit, enough to look Nate in the eyes once more and his own were now full of love and lust. Meanwhile, in the garden, Jessica had put in some earbuds and lay down on the bench with her head resting against the iron arm. She closed her eyes and listened to music from her phone as she waited until it was safe to go back into the house. --- Oscar listened to Leo with a small smile as he ate. Seeing his reaction to the taste of chocolate was heartwarming but he knew Leo missed his family terribly. "They're likely in Heaven." Oscar said gently. "Like Carter's family..." he seemed thoughtful for a moment. "I don't know how the Angels would view you, given you're...I guess, part Devil now? But if David's negotiations continue to go well and peace is finally accomplished, then maybe you'll be able to visit them one day?" he suggested. He then tilted his head. "That's a point...I wonder if you managed to pick up any other powers...Maybe, you can teleport now?" --- Neva mewed happily at the sight of the ice cream, then quickly looked around to make sure the other shoppers weren't paying attention. She pawed at his hands and looked down at the ground as a way of asking to be put down so she could change back to her human form. Once she was able to do that, she took Elliot's hand and looked at the ice cream tubs. "That one?" she asked and pointed to the chocolate flavored ice cream. Nearby, pretending to browse the shelves while watching the two subtly, Atma smiled. "That's a rather charming family you have there, Vincent." she spoke to nothing quietly, knowing Vincent would hear her. "You must be quite proud." her smile slipped a little as she pretended to look at frozen peas. "We need to have a little chat. You and I. Nothing bad. But it is rather important." Denix Vames - April 23, 2021 Carter shut his eyes. He took in a deep breath. His fangs sprouted. He could smell everyone's blood. --- Nate moaned at his touch.The numbness was such a desire that he never knew he wanted. He kissed him. "Oh fuck! This is perfect." He took Tom into the washroom. --- "I could really see them? That'd be amazing." Leo raised a brow. "I don't know. To be honest, I rather not use the powers that were forced on me. I've been unintentionally using them just by instinct alone." He recalled the tasing, the straps, and the needles. He dropped the fork and covered his mouth. Tears streamed down his cheeks. He couldn't look at him. "I'm sorry. I just....I thought I could leave it all behind me. But no matter what happens, people will always want to use me." --- "Sure thing." Elliot placed it in the cart. Vincent appeared next to Atma. "If you hurt them, I'll break your bones." shadowess - April 23, 2021 Seeing Carter's new fangs, Sebastian smiled. His transformation must be complete. He quickly grabbed one of the bags from the bottom of the bed and brought it up to Carter's hands, urging him to drink before his instincts to hunt could take over. He kissed his forehead and whispered. "My boyfriend, my love. The handsome vampire." --- Tom grinned at being taken to the washroom again. It was as if Nate's blood had reacted as a powerful aphrodisiac in him. He could barely contain himself. Utterly filled with desire and passion that it almost completely consumed him. He kissed Nate, deeply and passionately. Sliding his hands under Nate's shirt and feeling his chest and hips. One hand slid around to his backside and he gave him a gentle squeeze. ------------ "Oh, no. No, no, no, no!" Oscar put his fork down and got up from his chair, walking quickly around the table to sit next to Leo and pulling him into his arms to hug him. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have brought it up! I didn't mean to upset you!" He stroked his hair and kissed the top of his head. "It's ok. I won't let anyone hurt you ever again, you hear me? Anyone even tries, I'll fucking destroy them. You'll get through this. I'll help you anyway I can, ok?" he kissed his head again. "I'm sorry." --- "Yay!" Neva grinned happily and hugged Elliot's arm as they continued to shop. Atma chuckled at the threat, unable to contain her grin. "I don't doubt you would." she said then looked at him seriously. "I'd never bring harm to them. The child especially. You forget, I'm the spirit of Life. My whole thing is helping people to -Live-." She sighed and lowered her eye a little, staring off to the side. "They are, however, in danger." she brought her eye up to look at Vincent again, staring at him as if staring into his soul. "Neva's name is still in your book, isn't it? Don't worry, I'm not going to lecture you on how to do your job...I want to help you save her." She glanced around warily. "We can't talk here. Too many ears." Denix Vames - April 23, 2021 Carter blushed at the compliments. He sank his fangs into the blood bag. Enjoying every bit of its taste until it was nothing but an empty bag. --- Nate's wings sprouted. He kissed his neck as he unbuttoned his shirt. His wings vibrated. He unbuckled his belt. --- Leo shook his head. "No, it's ok. I-" He suddenly recalled a memory that he never thought he could. (The Execution) Leo was running alongside by some security guards. They were chasing after a guard and a scientist. Both men were Ben Collins and Greg Fuller. Ben hit the button that had opened the front door after inputting the code. Greg was near the door. "GO! Get out of here!" ,shouted Ben. "Take the shot!" ,said a guard. Greg ran out of the building as Leo fired at Ben. (End of Memory) He pressed his head against his chest. "I did it! I was the one who killed Greg's boyfriend! Back when I was still in ADIEU! He's gone because of me!" --- Elliot nodded at her. "What ya think? We got enough stuff here?" Vincent gripped the book. "Follow me." He appeared in a dark cave. Shadowess - April 23, 2021 Sebastian pulled up the second bag. "Are you still hungry?" he asked, offering the bag to him. --- Moaning, Tom tilted his head back as Nate kissed his neck. He moaned a little louder when he felt the vibrations from Nate's wings passing through his body. He hurriedly threw his shirt to one side then ran a hand through Nate's hair while his other hand moved to Nate's pants, sliding his fingers just under the rim to tease him while he smirked and bit his lip seductively. --- Oscar blinked and looked down at Leo with a frown. He shook his head a little. "No, he's gone because of ADIEU." he said softly but firmly. He cupped Leo's face to look at him. "You weren't -you- when that happened. Never forget that. You weren't -you- because of -them-." he shook his head a little again while looking into Leo's eyes. "Anything you did while they had control of you was not -your- fault. It was never your fault. It was theirs. They knew what they were doing when they took your free will from you. They were entirely to blame." he brushed some of Leo's hair out of his face and caressed his cheek. "Don't blame yourself for it. You, this Greg person and his boyfriend...all three of you were the victims. But ADIEU are gone now. You're safe. No one will ever make you do things like that again. I won't let them." --- Neva tilted her head a little while looking in the cart at all the groceries. "I think so..." she said unsurely. --- Atma appeared near Vincent in the cave and looked around briefly. "Hm...I suppose this'll do..." she said as she adjusted her eyepatch into a more comfortable position before taking out a cigarette. "You don't mind, do you?" she asked Vincent before lighting it up and taking a drag on it. She exhaled the smoke away from him and leant against the wall of the cave. "There's only one way to remove a name from that book once it's in there...find a willing replacement." She began and then sighed. "I've never died. I was brought into existence as a spirit before life had even started on Earth...Because of such a life, as well as my faithful service since the literal dawn of time, my 'retirement' would take the form of reincarnation. Sort of...I'd awaken as a 'Jane Doe' on Earth. Human. Mortal...and without memory of what I once was." she flicked her ashes away. "You can see why I have been reluctant to retire. But still, I suppose it's better than ceasing to exist altogether..." She dropped the cigarette and snubbed it out with her shoe, despite it only being half smoked. "I'll get to the point. I want to trade my life for Neva's...Neva gets to live and I get to..." she sighs. "'Retire.'" she then lifts a finger. "But, I want to go on my own terms...as I've already said, your family and friends are in danger...and as you are well aware, as Spirits, we are forbidden from getting involved in the politics of Heaven, Earth and Hell." She then smirked. "So, I'm going to get involved...so that you don't have to. Then, by the time the council realizes what I've done, it'll be too late and I'll be safely living a new life on Earth with no memory of my crime while you get peace of mind that the people you love are safe."
Shadowess Posted September 15 Author Posted September 15 Denix Vames - April 23, 2021 Carter snatched the bag from him and drank it all up. He awkwardly smiled. "Sorry." --- Nate moaned loudly. "Fuck! Tom, you're so good at this." He kissed his chest. He suddenly turned him over. Ropes appeared. Wrapping around his wrists. "Time to really have some fun." (private time) --- Greg knocked on the doors of the mansion. Leo tensed up. "W-What do we do? I always have a plan for everything! I always know what to do! What the fuck do I do?" --- Elliot looked over the groceries. "I'd say so. C'mon. Let's go pay." They headed to one of the cashiers. Bryce stood nearby. Dressed in his security guard outfit. He raised a brow at him. "What the...?" He did his best not to pay attention at him as he paid for the groceries. But Bryce wasn't caring about what he was doing. Not really. He just leaned back against the wall. Enjoying a simple job and a simple life. --- "Wait a minute! I have so many questions. Like who's going to the new Spirit Of Life? Why do you want to retire? And can I trust the next spirit to obey the rules? Why my family? You could do this for anyone else but you decide her? I'm so confused." ,said Vincent. --- Gary had been working. Stopping a fire in a house. Unfortunately, the fire had burned through his mask. Burning partially his face. He nearly died but got saved. In the hospital, he laid there with bandages on the left side of his face. He had gone through surgery because his fellow firefighters had to make a hole in his neck just so he could breath with the machine they had to help save him. There were stitches on his neck. Being covered by bandages. He was hooked up to an IV bag and heart monitor. Shadowess - April 23, 2021 Sebastian chuckled. "It's ok." he kissed him tenderly then rose a brow and cringed a little at the sudden noises coming from downstairs. "Well...I think at this rate we're going to need to hire a cleaner to go into that washroom!" he chuckled. Even through her earbuds, Jessica could hear noises coming from the house and she squinted at the building then rolled her eyes. 'Seriously!? Everyone in this place is getting laid except me!' she thought in annoyance as she headed out of the garden and around the front to the street where she began walking towards town, just to get away for a while. --- Oscar held Leo tightly. He couldn't see who was at the door from here and was a little alarmed at how jumpy Leo had gotten. "It's ok. Relax. Breathe." he said soothingly and kissed the top of his head. "You stay here, I'll got and see who it is, ok?" He'd slowly let go of Leo and get up from his chair, walking over to the doors. He glanced out of the peep hole but didn't know who Greg was. He opened the door and looked at him curiously. "Uh, hello? Can I help you?" --- Neva looked up at Elliot when he began acting a little strangely. "You ok?" she asked, looking around briefly. Not knowing who Bryce was though, she looked past him without giving him a second thought. --- Atma smiled patiently as Vincent got all of his questions out of his system. "Is it not obvious? Neva and I would effectively be trading places. Not immediately mind you, she's still got some growing up to do. But with two loving fathers, perhaps, by the time she takes on the role, Neva will have the social skills and capacity for empathy that I never had...Oh, and don't worry. I'm not the only Spirit of Life...not anymore at least...Just...the -oldest-." She glanced around the cave for a moment and frowned. "There's a group of Angels coming to 'arrest' your family and friends for harboring a fugitive...You've already met one of them. ADIEU are not gone either. They just got a lot better at staying hidden." She turned her head slightly to look at Vincent seriously. "This group of Angels want nothing but power and the downfall of Hell. They have been opposed to the peace treaty from the beginning. They plan on 'arresting' your friends and family to 'prove' to the Angels heading the negotiations that Hell cannot be trusted...and they plan on then selling their prisoners to ADIEU in exchange for weapons and protection for Angels from any of ADIEU's experiments." Atma shook her head with a look of disgust. "The Spirit Council want us to do what they always want us to do...nothing! I've had enough. I'm sick and tired of watching helplessly as year after year wars, torture and greed destroy innocent people!" "I need you to convince your friends that I'm on their side. I can only help them if I am close to them. I-..." She paused and gently lay a hand over her eye patch while looking away sadly. "I've seen the possible futures...It's never always clear and most of the time I only see a small part of a specific future but this...My death, if I proceed down this path...is certain." She lowered her hand and looked back at Vincent. "But with my death, life is also certain. The lives of all of your friends and family." She sighed and for the first time, her eye reflected some fear that she felt. "I can only die by a Reaper's Scythe...When I have the enemy within my grasp. Their leader. Only when I have a firm hold of him...Kill me...and don't hesitate...not even for a second." --- As soon as he heard the news, Alex rushed over to the hospital. This was the second time a fire had almost claimed Gary's life! He practically ran through the hospital, being yelled at to slow down by Nurse May on his way past. He reached Gary's room and his breath caught in his throat at the sight of him. "Gary!" he cried as he rushed in to sit on the bed next to him and held his hand. Denix Vames - April 23, 2021 Carter rolled his eyes. "Why can't they just do that in France? They seemed to be having fun there already." --- Greg, in a plaid brown shirt and jeans, said, "I'd like to speak to Leo. He's the one who gave me the ability to read minds. My name is Greg Fuller. By this point, I already know that you know who I am. And no, I'm not here to hurt him or kill him. I just want to talk to him." --- Elliot smiled with a nod. "I'm alright. Let's go before the ice cream melts." He carried the groceries. Both were walking home. --- Vincent glared. Thinking about the fact that they had destroyed their building. He figured it was their only building. He grit his teeth. "For you and everyone else, I'll make sure that your death is quick and hopefully painless. The audacity that these bastards have! To think that we are mere monsters!" He shook his head. "My days of being a killer just look like candyland compared to what they've been doing." He nodded. "I'll do my best to convince them." He raised a brow. "Wait a minute. Who is the leader?" --- Gary smiled but didn't say a word. He lifted the notepad up which read, Hi. He gave his hand a gentle squeeze. Shadowess - April 23, 2021 Sebastian chuckled. "How do you feel now?" he asked, looking over Carter carefully. --- Oscar faltered when Greg told him who he was. He glanced back, towards the dining room where he'd left Leo. Then looked back at Greg hesitantly. "Um...maybe give us a minute? If you just come walking in it might freak him out...Let me go talk to him first..." he said before closing the door and walking over to the dining room. "Leo?" he began, hesitant. He walked over and sat next to him again and sighed. "Stay calm? H-he's here...That Greg guy. He says he just want's to talk...what do you think?" he asked then reached out and held his hands. "Whatever you decide, I'm with you. But just know, I'd never let anything happen to you." --- "Yeah!" Neva held on to Elliot's arm as they walked home. Further down the road, Jessica noticed them and she thought back to what Greg had said the night before. 'Maybe this is my chance to show I'm not useless?' she thought as she smiled and walked towards them. "Hey, would you like a hand with those bags?" she called over as she got closer. --- Atma watched Vincent and waited patiently for his reaction. When he asked who the leader was, she glanced around uncomfortably. "Michael Dillard..." She then sighed heavily and held up a finger. "But you cannot intervene, don't forget. This means you won't even be able to tell your friends who it is that I need to protect them from...and that's not all...this will be complicated...not just because you won't be able to intervene...but also because I cannot kill. Comes with the occupation...Even if I managed to strike someone lethally, they wouldn't die...but they sure as hell would be mad that I tried. This is why it is important that you only strike me down once I have the leader in my grasp. My destruction will also be theirs." She then seemed a little frustrated as she crossed her arms and stared off at the ground thoughtfully. "I also can't tell your friends...Nor will I be able to protect them from Michael's henchmen. The moment I raise a hand against any of them, the Council will realize what I am doing and put a stop to it...We can't risk them stopping me before I can take out Michael. But don't fret..." she looked back up at him. "I've only seen bits and pieces of what is to come but always it ends with all of your friends lives still intact. They are clever, your friends. I'm certain they can figure things out on their own and defend themselves before Michael makes an appearance." --- Alex half laughed through his tears at the note. "Hi..." he replied. He then frowned. "This isn't fair! I -just- got you back! Why does this shit keep happening to us?" he cried. Denix Vames - April 23, 2021 "A bit weird but....I'm fine. I feel just fine." Carter caressed his cheek. "And I have you right in front of me." He kissed him. --- Greg nodded. "Sure." Leo bit his lip. "I...I want to talk to him. I want to tell him everything that I can remember." He looked at him. "Please." --- Elliot smiled. "That wouldn't be a problem." He handed some of the bags. "Just follow us. We're heading back home." --- Vincent sighed. "Fine but then, what can I tell my friends?" --- Gary wrote down, 'Part of the job.' He drew a heart. Shadowess - April 24, 2021 Sebastian smiled at his answer. It was understandable that he might feel strange for a while but he was happy that he otherwise felt ok. He then grinned at Carter's last comment before kissing him back slowly and deeply, running a hand through his hair as he did. --- Oscar studied Leo for a moment then nodded. "Ok." he said softly and gave Leo a comforting smile. "I'll be right here with you." he then said before getting up and heading towards the front door again. He opened it and looked at Greg. "He wants to talk to you...follow me." he said before walking away and leaving the door open for him. He headed back to the dining room and sat next to Leo, holding his hand and squeezing it reassuringly. --- Smiling, Jessica took some of the bags from Elliot and walked alongside them. "We've got ice cream!" Neva told Jessica happily. "You do? That's awesome!" Jessica smiled back at her then glanced at Elliot uncertainly. Maybe now was also a good time to put another of Greg's ideas into action? "Hey, Elliot? I was thinking...Everyone in the group has gone through so much lately...and by the sounds of it, they went through even more before I even arrived...I was thinking of maybe putting a bit of a party together? Nothing huge, just something where everyone can relax and have fun for a while...do you think that's something the others would be interested in?" --- Atma frowned. "Just that they can trust me." she shrugged. "Lie if you have to. Tell them I apologized for my earlier behavior and didn't want them thinking ill of me. Anything that will stop them attacking me instead of the Angels when I make my appearance." --- Alex read the note but continued to frown at it. Tears sliding down his cheeks. "What were you doing in the house? Was someone inside?" he asked. He didn't know what the procedures were for firefighters but he always assumed that they generally stayed away from the fire as they tried to put it out unless someone was in danger...and even then, if it was far too dangerous for a firefighter to go in and save them then they had no choice but to leave them inside...as harsh as it is, it's better for only one person to die than two. Denix Vames - April 24, 2021 Carter smiled into the kiss but then stopped. Looking at him. "Do you want to do this too? Became a Day Walker?" --- Greg closed the door behind himself. He followed Oscar to the dining room. He sat down at one of the chairs. Leo frowned. "I'm sorry for killing your boyfriend. He was one of the security guards. You and him had plans on telling the everybody the truth about ADIEU. About escaping and telling the government. I remember that assignment. The one I was tasked to do. To kill both of you." Tears hit the table. "Just know that I never wanted to do those horrible things. They took me and my family away. Forced me to kill them. They used me as one of their soldiers. Experimenting on me. I wasn't myself. I was never myself when I was with them." He clenched his fist. Squeezing Oscar's hand. "I-I'm so sorry." Greg gripped his arms. He sighed before speaking. "I was really going to punch you but honestly, I think I deserve a good punch more than any of you guys." "What? Why?" "Because I was part of those continued experiments on you. I didn't give it a second thought until I saw that connection you made with one of the test subjects. A werewolf by the name of James Keller." "James? I don't..." He raised a brow. "Well, that's shocking. He's still alive by the way. As far as I know. He was on the list as a future ADIEU soldier. I'm not so sure if he's still around now." "What?!" Leo stood. "But that building was destroyed! What if he died in the fire? Or what if he's one of the survivors that were let loose?" Greg shrugged. "Beats me. I only know what I know. And you said you destroyed their building? Well, I'm hoping that was the last one. Because those damn bastards know how to hide pretty well." --- "A party? That'd be awesome! I'm sure everybody will love it. I do barbecue sometimes at my family's parties. Maybe I could do some of the cooking." ,said Elliot. --- "Alright. It won't be easy but I'll try." Vincent awkwardly scratched the back of his head. "And sorry for stabbing you when we first met. Back then, I kind of missed killing people. It was the only hobby I ever had. But good luck with your business. Hope you get what you want." He disappeared. Appearing back in the house. --- Gary wrote, 'Couldn't let her die. Workers said no one was there. Bullshit. I saw her. Standing there. I grabbed her and then the fire grew. She was gone but I felt burning. Pain. She was there. She was she was she was she was she was....' He burst into silent tears. Shaking. He shut his eyes. Seeing the flames.
Shadowess Posted September 15 Author Posted September 15 Shadowess - April 24, 2021 Sebastian had to stop and think for a moment when Carter asked him if he wanted to be a Day Walker as well. He glanced at the closed curtains again. Although he'd managed to keep his cool for the most part when Mickey had given him temporary immunity, he had been utterly terrified in that car while they waited for the sun to rise. But then that was understandable when you've lived over a decade, hiding from the sun for fear of being burned to death. He'd been silently thrilled when it hadn't burned him alive once it had risen, even though that thrill was somewhat tainted by the fear of Mickey's power wearing off before he could find shelter. But now he thought on it, maybe it's time for an upgrade? He looked back at Carter, imagining them fearlessly going out in the sun together and he smiled. "Yes." he said softly. "I'd like you to turn me..." another thought then crossed his mind and he smirked. "But first...Seeing as I'd have to take the cure anyway, I'd like to spend a single day as a human...just to remember what it was like...it's been so long that I genuinely can't remember." he chuckled. --- Oscar watched the conversation unfold. His interest peaked when he heard about this James Keller that apparently once had a connection to Leo and even more interesting, Leo didn't seem to remember him. "I guess I missed out on all of that...I only learned about ADIEU when I met Leo. I learned a little more when Leo was kidnapped not to long ago... Even then, that was just one escaped scientist on his own...Judging by that, I don't think we need to worry too much about whether there are more facilities out there...however, this James guy..." Oscar looked worriedly at Leo, remembering what he'd told him about when the group had first met him and helped him get his memories back. "What if he's running around out there with no memory or free will like you were?" --- Jessica grinned. "That'd be great!" She felt a sort of weight lifting. Maybe Greg knew what he was talking about! "What can I do?" Neva asked, looking at them. "I want to help!" --- Alex watched him writing and when he began repeating himself, he looked up from the notepad and saw Gary breaking down. His heart ached for him and he reached over, gently placing his hands on Gary's. He quietly looked into Gary's eyes for a moment. He didn't understand what Gary was trying to say. He had a horrible feeling that the girl, whoever she was, didn't make it. But he didn't want to assume the worst and right now Gary needed him. "I'm here. When you can talk again...and when you're ready, I'm here. I always will be." He swallowed hard and glanced around the room momentarily, trying to fight back his tears. "So, What did the doctors say? How long will you be in this time?" he slowly removed his hands so that Gary could write again. Denix Vames - April 24, 2021 "Of course. The vials that are still here. I kept them in my office. We can go there now." ,said Carter. They went into his office. Carter unlocked the drawer and took out the vial. "Here it is." --- "It's a possibility but I haven't heard anything about mysterious deaths." ,said Greg. "I'll go and look for him. Someone has to find him." ,said Leo. "Normally, I'd say it's too dangerous. But considering what I know, I think you're fully capable of doing this." Greg stood. "And I think I've been here long enough. I better go home or else I'll be late for work." He gripped the chair. "Wait a minute. Oscar, do you know if my boyfriend's in Heaven or....?" --- Elliot smiled at Neva. "You can decorate the whole place." They stepped inside the house where Vincent stood there with his arms crossed. "We need to talk. And I'm going to call everybody else here. So make yourselves comfortable cause this is going to be a long conversation." --- Gary wrote, 'A while. Until stitches heal. Until burns heal. Want to leave. Want to help. Cheri needs my help.' --- Will, having gotten out of hospital with his prosthetic eye but still the eyepatch over, was roaming the streets. He had parked his car. Deciding on walking for a bit to check if everything was clear. He heard some noises in an alley and walked towards them. His hand was on his holster. Ready to take out his gun. When he heard nothing else, he turned around. Not seeing James who was slowly walking towards him from behind. Reaching out with his mouth opened. "Captain!" ,shouted Kite. He ran over. Getting in between them. James bit into his arm instead. Kite cried out as he fired off his gun. Will fired at James but missed. The werewolf ran off. Will knelt by Kite's side. He wrapped his arm up in some bandages. "It's alright man. We'll get this sorted out. Let's take you to Carter right away. Something tells me that guy didn't have rabies." As Will drove them to Carter's office, Kite began to feel strange. He kept a grip on his arm. Leaning against the window as he tried to deal with the pain in his body. Shadowess - April 24, 2021 Sebastian followed Carter and looked at the vial a moment before gently taking it from Carter's hand. He stared at the liquid inside and half laughed. "Hard to believe this little drink is going to make me human..." He took a deep, shaky breath before smiling at Carter nervously. "Well...no time like the present, I guess." he said as he popped off the cork and held the vial up a bit. "Cheers." he then drank it quickly, forcing himself to swallow the liquid and cringing at the taste. Sebastian looked at Carter tensely for a moment, wondering how quickly it would happen. Then not even a moment later, he felt the pain surge through every part of his body. Through every muscle, bone and vein. The intensity of it took him so by surprise that it knocked the wind out of him and he fell to his knees, gasping. He hugged himself and clenched his fists. Gritting his teeth and straining to not scream. He shut his eyes tightly as he tried to bear the pain and ended up crying out as the process became agony. He was uncertain how long it took before the pain faded but to Sebastian it had felt like hours. Finally, he opened his eyes and found himself laying on Carter's office floor. His body covered in sweat. He simply lay there for a moment and tried to catch his breath as the last of the pain ebbed away. He could feel his heart still racing. Shakily, he lifted his hand to feel inside his mouth but his fangs were gone. He gasped then half laughed, sitting up slowly and looking at his hands. His skin had a little more color to it than it had when he was a vampire. Not nearly as pale. He looked up at Carter, wondering how different he might appear to him now. "I'm...human!" he grinned. --- "I'll go with you." Oscar said, turning to Leo. He then looked back at Greg and hesitated before answering. "It depends...when he was alive, did he knowingly commit any serious sins?...If you give me a name, I could go to Hell and check but it might take me a while..." --- "Oh boy..." Jessica said when they stepped into the house and Vincent told them he was calling a meeting with the rest of their friends. She glanced at Elliot then lifted the shopping bags a little. "Maybe we should put this stuff away first?" Meanwhile, Neva had run up to Vincent and flung her arms around him. --- Alex frowned at the note. He looked up at Gary. "Is Cheri the girl you were talking about? Where is she? Maybe I can help her for you?" he offered. Denix Vames - April 24, 2021 Carter ran over to his side. He knelt there. Making sure he would be there for him. "Sebastian? I'm right here." His eyes widened once the transformation was done. He scoffed. "I can't believe it! I've never smelled this part of you before." He raised a brow. "That sounded really weird." "Hey! We need some help!" ,said Will who kept a good hold of Kite. Letting him lean against him. He knocked on the door. "Please! Something's happened to Kite!" --- Greg squeezed his own arms. "His name's Ben Collins. But I doubt he'd be up in the clouds. He worked ADIEU just like I did." Leo shook his head. "Oscar, I'm not putting you in any more danger. I know you have your own abilities but this is a werewolf. I don't want you to get bit. I'm already a freak by having this much DNA in my system. You shouldn't have that same fate." --- "Put them away then." ,said Vincent. He picked Neva up with a smile. "How's my little ice princess doing?" Elliot followed Jessica into the kitchen where they placed the groceries in the fridge and some in the cabinets. --- Gary wrote, 'Yes. She-' He hesitated before writing 'Houdini' as a way of saying she vanished. Hoping to get the message across. Shadowess - April 24, 2021 Sebastian couldn't help laughing at Carter's last comment. He then turned towards the source of the commotion with a frown when they heard Will shouting. If Will had brought Kite through the door just a few minutes earlier, then Sebastian would've been able to smell the wolf venom from here...But that was no longer the case and Sebastian now had to rely on Carter to pick up on such things. He got to his feet shakily and would follow Carter down the stairs to see Will and Kite. "What's happened?" --- Oscar looked between Greg and Leo. He then frowned at Leo's words. "You are not a freak." Oscar said, defensive of him. He stood, placed his hands on Leo's arms and sighed. "I can handle myself...but if you'd prefer to find him yourself then I trust you in your own abilities...I know you'll be safe." He cupped his chin, looking at him lovingly. "There's something in Hell I need to take care of anyway...I'll try to find Ben while I'm there..." he glanced at Greg. "Is there anything you want me to say to him when I find him?" --------- "I'm good! We got ice cream!" Neva announced happily while hugging Vincent. She then leaned back a bit in his arms to look at his face. "We're guna have a party!" She said excitedly. Jessica helped Elliot to put the food away. All the time wondering if he wanted her to stick around as well or whether she would just be 'in the way'. Once done, she'd follow Elliot back into the living room, where Vincent was. --- Alex rose a brow at the note. "Houdi-..." he started reading the word aloud then paused as he realized what Gary must be trying to say. "Do you think she's an Demon? Angel?" he whispered. "What does she look like? I'll see if I can find her." Denix Vames - April 24, 2021 Will took Kite to the couch where he helped him lay there. Kite clutched his stomach. He groaned at the unbearable pain that was growing. "I don't know! Someone bit him!" Carter flinched at the smell. "Whatever did this to him left an awful scent unless he didn't shower." "Oh ha ha!" ,said Kite who grit his teeth. "Son of a....!" --- Leo nodded. "I'm going to get changed before I go out." He headed upstairs. "Yes." Greg hesitated. "Tell him that I'm doing ok. That I'm safe. I'm working in a normal job. And maybe see if he can come visit me. Find a way to do that." --- "Well, that's nice. A party sounds like fun." ,said Vincent. He snapped his fingers. Summoning everybody in the group to the living room. This excluded Gary, Greg, and Cindy. "I have gathered you all here today for an important discussion." He put Neva down and sat on the couch. Leaning against it. He took a deep breath. "That really took a lot out of me but I can still talk. Now, I know this is all sudden but it's necessary to discuss about this now." Denix Vames - April 24, 2021 (forgot to include this) Gary wrote, 'Black hair. Ponytail. Green eyes. Pale skin. Don't know what she is. Please find her.' He let his hand go before caressing his cheek. Shadowess - April 24, 2021 Sebastian looked at the bite mark on Kite's arm curiously. Then as soon as Carter mentioned his smell, he became a little alarmed. "Wait, Carter. What scent? Describe it to me!" he said hurriedly, taking a step back from Kite. If it was a wolf bite then the scent would be overwhelmingly sour. Enough to bring tears to your eyes in much the same way an onion does. If that was the case then they would need to find out how close the next full moon is. A newly turned human is harmless until their first transformation. After the pain of their DNA changing during the first few hours after the bite, they'll just feel uncomfortable and sore in the lead up to the full moon. The first transformation would be dangerous for anyone who gets in Kite's path...after that though, he would find it easier to control his transformations and what he does while shifted. "Kite, this is important. The person that bit you, did you get a look at their eyes?" --- Oscar watched Leo head upstairs then looked back at Greg and nodded. "I'll tell him...but..." he shook his head with a frown. "I'm afraid, once a soul is in Hell, they're stuck there. The only way to get them back to Earth would be the resurrection ritual which...I don't recommend. The cost of bringing one person back to life is the sacrifice of two others..." He then seemed thoughtful and added. "But...I know a Demon that might be able to help him gain redemption? Once he passes all of David's tests he'll be given the option of either ascending to Heaven or becoming a Demon with the purpose of helping others in their journey to redemption. If he becomes a Demon, he could come and go as he pleases." --- Alex read the note and nodded while looking back at Gary, placing his hand over his. "I will. I promise, I'll help her however I can." he said seriously...Then suddenly fell to the floor as the hospital vanished around him and was replaced by Carter's living room. Having fallen due to the hospital bed suddenly no longer being under him. "OK, WHAT THE SHIT?!" he snapped as he got to his feet and turned around to see the room full of their other friends too. All of whom looked equally confused. Sebastian looked even more alarmed than he had done earlier as he looked around at the others. Glancing warily between everyone then at Kite. Parker was still holding a toothbrush in his mouth, shirtless and looking around at the others with red cheeks when he was teleported to the living room. His cheeks turned even more red when he noticed Will was here as well. "Well...this isn't the bathroom..." he mumbled as he walked towards the kitchen. He threw the brush into the sink and spat the paste down the drain, running the water momentarily to rinse it down and then walking back into the crowded living room. Jessica stood back, against the wall. Feeling a little uncomfortable with the sudden crowd. Neva jumped when Alex had shouted and ran over to Elliot to hold his hand. She looked at Kite worriedly, sensing something was different. Patience and David had been standing very close together and as soon as they realized where they were, David took a hurried step back and faked a cough into his fist. "So er-...That's what we should discuss in the next meeting..." He then looked around at the others warily, Patience's cheeks had turned bright pink as she also glanced around. "What are we doing here?" Oscar gasped and looked around when he found he wasn't in the mansion anymore. "Not being funny, but I was kind of in the middle of something!" he complained. Thankfully, Tom had just been buttoning up the last few buttons on his shirt when he looked up and found they weren't in the washroom anymore. "Uhh..." his cheeks turned red and he couldn't help smirking. "That was...pretty good timing..."
Shadowess Posted September 15 Author Posted September 15 Denix Vames - April 24, 2021 Everybody was confused. Vincent could see that. He stood in the middle of the group. He cleared his throat. "Everybody listen. I brought you all here because I need everyone to be clear of one thing. You can trust Atma. And I know this sounds weird of me to say but things have changed. She has changed. And she is sorry. You can trust her now. She is a friend." Kite mumbled out the word, "Yellow" at Sebastian's question. "And how are we supposed to believe any of that? She wasn't exactly a welcomed guest. Do you remember the last time we saw her?" Carter glared and grabbed Vincent. "She hurt some of my friends! Let's not forget that she hurt you!" "I understand but-" He shoved him. Vincent easily caught his balance. "We're not siding with her!" "What the hell is this about?" ,said Will. Shadowess - April 24, 2021 "Is that a joke?!" Alex protested when Vincent said they could trust Atma. "That bitch pinned me to a wall and spoke down to us all like we were trash!" For once it seemed Carter and Alex were on the same page about something. "Wait...eye-patch lady?" Jessica looked at Vincent. Recalling him stabbing her and Nate ripping her head off. "I don't know man...this whole thing reeks of a trap to me..." Parker said apprehensively. "She seemed like she could be ruthless, given the chance..." "The Midwife?" Patience rose a brow, seeming shocked by what she was hearing. "Of course you can trust her!" Sebastian looked at Patience, suddenly torn between supporting Carter and believing Patience. "Sure, she can come off as snobbish but as far as I'm aware, she's literally incapable of taking a life. Anytime I've met her, she's always had people's best interest at heart..." Patience continued. "She's...also Amelia's Midwife currently." David added. "I doubt Amelia would let her anywhere near her if she didn't trust her." "Okay...I'm a little lost here...What's the problem with Atma?" Oscar rose a brow at them all, having missed the time the group had met Atma for the first time. Sebastian suddenly looked at Kite then tugged on Carter's arm. "Carter. I really need you to describe that smell. I think I know what bit Kite!" "Yeah...I was kinda wondering about that...what the hell happened?" Alex glanced over at Kite and Will questioningly. --- Cindy was out and about in town, handing out her resume to different stores. She'd need a new job now that the flower shop had been burned to the ground and it's owner was murdered. Denix Vames - April 25, 2021 "I know what she's done but please listen to me!" Carter glared at Patience then him. "None of you get it! She's a no good bitch who would put her own life before anyone else's! She's hurt us before!" "And you're sure about that?" ,said Elliot. "You've never met her so you wouldn't know. But she deserves to rot in a pit." ,said Nate. "Yeah! How do you expect any of us to trust her?! She's nothing but a-!" ,said Carter. The arguing had grown and grown. Carter couldn't focus on Sebastian as he was pissed off. Everybody else was argumentative too. Kite sniffed the air. Smelling everyone's scent. Yet, he only rolled off the couch. Falling on the coffee table which broke at his strength. He cried out. "ENOUGH!" Leo had shouted. The whole house shook. He fell to his knees. Covering his knees. Every person there was now trapped in a red bubble. His canines had came out. His wings sprouted. His eyes glowed. Tears rolled down his cheeks. "Just stop! Stop arguing! Why do we have to keep doing this?! Why?!" He curled on the floor as he sobbed. --- Jasper appeared next to her. "Hey ya! Whatcha doing?" Denix Vames - April 25, 2021 (meant to say covered his ears) shadowess - April 25, 2021 Alex and Parker sided with Carter and Nate. While Patience and David sided with Vincent. Jessica and Oscar stayed quiet, unsure of who to side with as the argument unfolded. Sebastian was watching Kite and growing more and more desperate to get their attention, feeling helpless now that he was human. Neva was beginning to shake from watching everyone shout and she clung to Elliot for comfort. When they were all suddenly trapped in bubbles, the shouting finally stopped. Oscar looked over at Leo and frowned. "Leo?" He called to him as he tried to move his bubble closer to him. He rested his hands against it's sides and looked at Leo worriedly. "Leo, breathe!" He teleported into Leo's bubble and wrapped his arms around him, trying to comfort him. "It's ok. I'm here. Just breathe." he said softly. "What happened to him?" Alex asked, now staring at Leo's new wings. Having missed the whole ordeal with the scientist. "Not now, Alex..." Sebastian replied gently. He then looked back at Kite. At least he was safe in that bubble...he looked over at Carter. "Carter, I think I know what bit Kite." he said again. "Look at him. He's changing. He's not human anymore..." he looked at the table that was now smashed. He then looked over at Patience who was staring back at him, apparently just now realizing he wasn't a vampire anymore. "The scent on him, what is it?" he asked her urgently. Patience glanced at Kite and sniffed the air then wrinkled her nose in disgust and turned her head away a bit. "Wolf!" Sebastian's heart sank and he looked back at Kite. "Oh man...I'm so sorry..." he looked back at Carter. "We need to find out when the next full moon is. When newborn wolves turn for the first time they lose control...they become a danger to everyone. After that though, he'll find it easier to control himself and will be able to shift whenever he wants." --- Cindy jumped when Jasper appeared and she looked at him for a moment before smiling. "Hi, Jasper." she lifted the pile of papers in her arms. "I'm trying to get a new job...Since my old one burned down...I'm trying to live a human life for a while. Tell you what, trying not to use your powers everyday is quite the challenge. I don't know how humans do it!" she chuckled. Then tilted her head at Jasper. "What brings you here, anyway?" Denix Vames - April 25, 2021 Leo sent Oscar slamming to the wall. Trapping him in a bubble. "Shut up! I want everyone to shut up!" Elliot knocked on his own bubble. "Leo! Ya don't have to-" A sudden shock of electricity was sent to him. He screamed before collapsing. Leo stood. Glaring at everyone. "I'm sick and tired of this! All we ever do is argue! Why can't any of you just agree on ANYTHING?!" The house shook again. Kite groaned. He slammed his fist against the floor. Will grew concerned. "Just hold on!" He suddenly covered his ears as he fell to his knees. Crying out at the high pitch sound. --- "Oh I just wanted to get away from everybody. They're all having a bit of an argument. I was gonna invite them to the wedding but guess we'll have to postpone that. But anyway, can I help?" ,said Jasper. Shadowess - April 25, 2021 Once again, Sebastian's attempts to help Kite were drowned out by everything else going on. At least now, Patience was aware. Oscar hit the wall and groaned when he hit the floor, his back and head hurting as he tried to sit up, looking at Leo tearfully. Neva screamed when Elliot was shocked and she turned to glare at Leo. "DON'T HURT MY DAD!" she yelled at him angrily and the temperature of the room dropped significantly. Frost began to form over their bubbles. --- "Oh...sorry to hear that." Cindy said as she started walking again. "I guess you could if you wanted...Not sure how though, I'm just handing these out to all the stores in town. Hopefully I'll hear something from at least one of them." she then shrugged. "If you've got nowhere else to be, you could just tag along while I hand them out? Hang out and chat for a bit?" She smiled. "You said you're getting married? Congratulations. Why don't you tell me a bit about your partner?" Denix Vames - April 25, 2021 Will collapsed when the sound stopped. Leo glared at Neva. "SHUT UP!" He sent something at her. "NO!" ,said Vincent who forced himself out of the bubble. He ran in front of the power. Saving her in time but getting hit in the process. He fell over. His eyes were closed. Having been put in a coma. Leo and everyone else had been teleported to a desert at night. He wanted to deal with this somewhere where the area felt more spacious. --- Jasper continued to walk with her. "Well, he's a fancy man. His name is Beau Carter. We met while he was traveling back in the 1800 something." He smirked. "He sure did know how to do some pretty neat stuff in bed." shadowess - April 25, 2021 Neva jumped when Leo shouted at her and she whimpered, stepping back until her back pressed against the bubble as Leo sent something in her direction. But then Vincent took the hit instead and she watched him collapse. She screamed and ran forward, falling to her knees and pressing her hands against the bubble, as close to Vincent as it would allow. She looked between Elliot and Vincent and sobbed. Once in the desert, Jessica glared at Leo. "Are you happy?!" She shouted at him. "Jessica, don't!" Parker warned her, watching Leo warily. Jessica struck her bubble with her fist in frustration. "You attacked a child and made her cry! You fucking asshole!" "Dude, seriously!" Alex looked between Jessica and Leo. He also seemed nervous. "Stay out of it!" "No!" Jessica snapped. "I don't give a shit if I'm human! I don't give a shit that you all think I'm useless! I'm not going to stand on the sidelines and do nothing while this prick abuses his powers!" she struck her bubble again. "What? does it make you feel big?! huh? I bet you feel real tough right now, bullying a little girl!" she scolded him. "Jessica, shut up!" Oscar snapped at her angrily. "You're not helping!" --- "Oh?" Cindy chuckled at his last comment as they approached one of the stores. "He wasn't half incubus was he?" she laughed then placed a hand on his arm, "I'm kidding." she said quickly, worried she'd offend him in some way. Although she was a Succubus herself and knew they weren't as bad as their reputation made them out to be, she was so used to her kind being judged harshly that she worried about what people thought whenever she brought them up. "I'm just guna head in here and drop one of these off. I'll be right out in a minute and then you can tell me more about you and Beau." she said before heading inside and looking for a manager to give her resume to. Denix Vames - April 25, 2021 Leo clutched his head. He grit his teeth at her yelling. He glared at her. Her body was suddenly covered in claw marks. "Leo! Please! Look at what you've done! I promise we'll do better! We'll be better! You just have to let us try!" ,said Carter. Leo slowly began to turn into his werewolf form which still had his wings. Nate popped his bubble. He took a step forward. "I know you feel. I use to get angry all the time. Blaming everyone for what I became. Killing without mercy." He continued walking over. Leo growled at him. "But it doesn't have to be like that. Not anymore. We can resolve our differences without fighting. Without arguing. And we will find a way to stop arguing. But you have to understand that it does happen. That it's natural." He popped everyone else's bubbles with a wave of his hand. "He needs us now more than ever! We have to let him know that we're his friends!" Leo took some steps back as he continued to growl. --- Jasper smiled at her joke. "Alright. I'll wait here." shadowess - April 25, 2021 Jessica had been about to strike her bubble with her fist again when she gasped and tensed up, looking down at herself in shock as fresh cuts covered her body, blood seeping through her clothes. She fell on all fours, shaking and groaning from the pain. As soon as the bubbles burst, Parker and Alex ran over to Jessica. Parker catching her just in time for her to lose consciousness as her blood dripped onto the sand. Neva ran over to Vincent and Elliot Crying and trying to wake them both up. Sebastian ran over to Carter and watched anxiously as Leo shifted. Tom also stood back anxiously. He knew wolf venom was toxic to vampires and although he was a Day Walker, he had no idea if Leo's venom would still be fatal to him. "Leo, listen to Nate. He's right. We're all here for each other. We need to work together, not fight each other!" He tried from where he stood. Oscar groaned as he got to his feet and walked a little closer to Leo. "Leo, please stop this." he said shakily. "We can talk about this. There doesn't need to be any more violence." Patience took a step forward as well. "We'll listen. Just please calm down. Non of us want to fight." David nodded. "It's natural to get angry but we should not let our anger get the better of us." he said gently but sternly. "Breathe. Come and talk to us. All we want is to help." --- After a brief chat with the manager, Cindy left the store with a small smile. "Alright...on to the next one!" she said as she began to walk again. "So, where were we?" she asked, glancing at Jasper. Denix Vames - April 25, 2021 When Leo heard their words and listened to the pain around him, he cried as he shifted back to his human form. A bubble surrounded him as he floated up. Suddenly, Jessica's wounds had healed. Vincent and Elliot opened their eyes. Will did the same. They all looked on as Leo appeared in front of Oscar. He caressed his cheek. "I'm sorry." He kissed him before fading away. --- Jasper started telling her about his fun adventures with Beau. James was following them. Shadowess - April 25, 2021 Parker looked over at Will as soon as he saw him wake up and then back to Jessica, feeling torn. Alex gently pulled her out of his arms and smiled at his brother. "It's cool. I got her." he said and Parker gave him a grateful smile before rushing off to Will's side. "Are you alright?!" he asked as he reached him, his eyes full of worry. Relieved to see her parents waking up, Neva threw her arms around them each while still crying and shaking after what had happened. Oscar watched Leo with a concerned frown. When he appeared in front of him, Oscar lifted a hand to cup Leo's and he gave him a loving smile when Leo said sorry. He kissed him back and had been about to tell Leo that it was alright. That he wanted to help him and be there for him...but watched in speechless confusion as Leo faded away. It hadn't been like a teleportation. It happened too slowly...his breath caught in his throat and he stared at the spot where Leo had been standing, his heart dropping and he got an awful sinking feeling in his stomach. His eyes filled with tears. His voice breaking a little as he spoke. "L-Leo?" --- Cindy listened intently to Jasper's stories. Having missed the cowboy era entirely, she was fascinated by how different the Earth had once been. She was so engrossed in Jasper's stories that she completely failed to notice they were being followed. "Well, one left..." She said as she came out of another store. "Could be the lucky one. Where do you think I should hand this one in?" she asked, looking up at Jasper.
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