Finding Ida's sister

Sheena, somewhat insulted, half scowls at Mr Grin. "I'm not a kid...I've fought battles and stuff. I've even died...THREE TIMES. I can see, can't I?"


Liza frowns too. "I can fight bad guys too!" Faith fixes a look at both of them.


"The guy said get out, get out, squirt one and two."


Sheena turns her scowl to her. "I'm taller than you, how am I a squirt?"
 
Grin chuckled lightly at Sheena's reaction, shaking his head. "I did not mean any offence. It just... isn't exactly the easiest thing to look at. It can be taxing on one's mind." He shrugged. "You can stay if you wish, Sheena." The man turned toward Liza and knelt down to her level. "I wouldn't like for you to see this side of me, Liza. I wouldn't want you to think me some kind of scary monster."
 
Liza looks back at you solemnly. "Sheena Legs turns into a monster sometimes. But I know she's still good. And I don't think she's scary, even."


Sheena flushes at this, clarifying quickly, "I'm half Lycan, I'm not a MONSTER." She makes no move to leave the room, but Faith goes to Liza and picks her up.


"Pip, I think you need to go get ready for bed."
 
Grin gave a nod, then blinked at Sheena's reaction. His face turned into a scowl for a second, glaring at her snide use of 'monster'. He shook his head, then smiled again at Liza. "Perhaps once I've figured this all out, I'll show you."
 
(she didn't mean it as in she's calling him a monster, she just took offense at Liza referring to her as a monster, lol...which is ironic because she used to call herself a monster before she understood what being Lycan was) Faith gives her a little push towards the door. "Pip, I'll be checking on you so if I find you peeping around the corner..." As Liza scuttles off, Sheena still hasn't budged, and Faith turns and looks at her briefly, rolls her eyes, then allows her to stay.


"If you scream or something I'll pull your hair," she warns her, and Sheena rolls her eyes in return.


"I don't SCREAM over gory or weird stuff! ....anymore," she added sheepishly at Faith's incredulous look.
 
(Oh, my bad. Either way, Grin could have taken offence just due to the look of his other form. It's a sore subject with him... which is why he's so resistant to show anyone.)


Grin nodded a silent thank you toward Faith. As much as he liked to believe Liza could handle seeing his other side, he didn't want to scar the girl. Looking to Sheena, he smirked a little. "You may not think the same once you see this..." he said with a slight shrugging gesture, slipping off his hat and setting it down. He sighed, taking in a few deep breaths. As he exhaled the final breath, all sounds around them simply stopped. The ticking of a clock, the creaking of the house, the sounds of the outdoors; all were muted. Slowly, from the corners of the room, the light began to fade. Grin's eyes burned a bright green, then went completely black, shining like pools of oil in the diminishing light.


Unseen energy began pulsing around the lot of them as the remaining light simply stopped showing through. The man's expression had began to twist into a grin worthy of a jester as the light vanished completely. The sound of bone popping snapped into the air as the grin continued to pull up his cheeks violently. His teeth, once two rows, had become at least six, shining horrifyingly in the blackness and a laugh began to echo all around their little group. "You see?!" rasped a voice from all around them. It was both the kind voice of the man, and a gutteral snarl of something that should simply not be. "This is my gift. Is this what immortality brings? What AM I?"
 
Sheena jumps, her eyes widening, and she steps closer to Faith, her entire body tensing, and she swallows as her hand goes to cover the knife with retractable blade up her sleeve. She doesn't scream, but she looks visibly shaken. Faith absently puts a hand on her shoulder, staring at Grin with narrowed eyes, but they are more thoughtful than anything; she is definitely not afraid.


"Honestly, I have no idea."
 
Jason flinched as he walked down a corridor, hearing Mr. Grin's words from the other room. He could hear it from this far of a distance; and he assumed Alex could as well. It didn't bring back good memories, but he kept his mind carefully blank and he felt okay.


(Sorry, I assumed Alex would have agreed to take him to their room)
 
The dark began to fade into light around them, starting with the return of all normal sounds. The man's toothy grin faded, returning to a solemn look of simple worry as the shadows pulled away once more. Tendrils of shadow twisted up from his eyes, being the last of the dark to vanish as his eyes returned to their normal green. However, they were bloodshot now; the change always took quite a bit out of him.


With a look to Sheena and a glace toward her sleeve, he sighed. "I tried to warn you, it is not something I like to show people for that very reason," he said, regret in his voice and bloodshot eyes for having bothered the other so much. It wasn't hard to see how much it had shaken her. He turned to Faith and nodded a little, rubbing his head. "I feared as much. Perhaps I am simply an anomaly after all," he murmured with a slight chuckle, leaning back against the wall.
 
Faith shrugs. "Well, I don't actually know a lot about immortals...I mean, I wasn't born one. Macal...you ever heard of anything like him?" She glances at her husband.


Sheena squares her shoulders, her expression relaxing slightly as she lifts her chin and says determinedly, "I'm fine. That was no big deal." Still, she's standing close to Faith and doesn't shrug her hand off her shoulder.
 
Well sadly since I'm no longer immortal I no longer have access to the knowledge that was passed down through my bloodline, I only have what I've come across in my 12,000 plus years and I have to say I've seen plenty of races and beings you are a bit of a mystery to me, it doesn't mean I can't find answers if you give me time. *Stands in front of Grin with my arms crossed*
 
Sheena is still eyeing him and blurts out, "Have you ever killed people?"


Faith looks at her rolling her eyes, but then looks back at him, interested in his answer in spite of herself.


In the other room Liza is tagging after Alex and Jason, intent on helping Alex show Jason around the house. "Do you wanna see my room? Do you? It's pretty. You'd like it. You could see Patty's friends."
 
Grin couldn't help but smile a little at Sheena's tough front. He nodded, but there was a knowing expression on his face. "Well, I am glad it wasn't too shocking then," he said, turning towards Macal as he began speaking. The man nodded, frowning a bit. A mystery? That didn't exactly give him too high of hopes. However, at the offer of finding answers in time, Grin nodded and smiled once again. "I have nothing but time to give, if it does not inconvenience you too much. I hate being a burden and you seem quite busy, so no need to rush things. I'm in no hurry."


He began to say something else when Sheena blurted out her question. He stopped, giving a sigh. "I..." he began, then shook his head, beginning again. "I won't lie to you, I have killed before. More than a few times over the years." The mention of it filled his face with regret. Mostly, he hated it... but the darker part of him yearned for it. He'd always had to push back the urges and learned to ignore them well over his lifetime. "When I was first changed, my mind was lost. I was truly a monster. Before my 'rest', I killed many blindly, not knowing how to properly suppress my other half."
 
At this piece of information Sheena tenses again, saying nothing, but it's Faith now with the questions. Interested, she looks up at you, tilting her head slightly. "So every time you shift now...is it still a possibility that if you're not careful, you could lose control? Was your shifting involuntary at first?"


Sheena pauses, then says slowly, making an effort to be willing to accept that he's not a total monster, "Like, when I was first Lycan and Izzy had to teach me not to kill everything?"
 
Grin eyed Sheena's tense reaction warily, but said nothing, listening to Faith's question and then answering. "Now, I have control over it. I have not lost control in hundreds of years," he said plainly and solomnly. "And yes, at first I had no control over my shifting. It could happen when I was endangered or even at random. It caused me to become reclusive and avoid others for many years."


Looking to Sheena, a light smile set on his features at her small bit of understanding. "Yes, something like that. For my other form, it was not only the killing that it craved, but the fear of those it stalked and tortured." He shuddered visably. "I'm sorry... I shouldn't be speaking so openly about this. It's quite the depressing and awful subject."
 
"But...you don't do that anymore...it's not like, something you have to fight...right?" Sheena looks somewhat nervous about your reply.


Faith shakes her head, then laughs a little. "I guess you just have to not get too happy then." As a new thought dawns on her, her eyes widen. "You don't happen to have known a vampire called Angelus...or a bunch of gypsies who like to curse people?"
 
Smiled reassuringly at Sheena. "No, it's second nature. I don't have to fight it anymore. Completely under my control, thankfully," he said, being completely truthful. At Faith's expression and words, he raised a brow, voice slightly confused. "I do not know the gypsies, but the name Angelus rings a bell... not someone I know, but perhaps someone I had known? Or perhaps just heard of..." he said, trailing off as he tried to think.
 
"Well, he's only like the worst vampire the world's probably ever known...slaughtered thousands, every Slayer's enemy, about killed me a million times over, left me with some of my few permanent scars, physical and otherwise...that would be the big Angie man," Faith exhales, rolling her eyes slightly before looking back at Mr Grin. "So do you have the happiness thing, one true moment of perfect happiness and out comes the big grinning monster?"
 
Grin blinks and shakes his head. "Well, I hope I do NOT know him then. He doesn't sound like one that I would call an acquaintance, even." The man frowned, then blinked at Faith's question. "I must have misspoken. Happiness does not trigger my other side. It used to, but it was the joy of slaughter that fueled the monster. Now, the only thing I can think of would be if I was near death. My other side could simply gain control as a means of survival."
 
She processes this, then shrugs. "Guess that's way preferable."


Sheena is still eyeing you, then says abruptly, "Why do you GRIN like that? Is that your real name?"
 
Truth be told we've all killed for our own reasons and as much as a mystery as you are to me Grin I sense no malice from you...For now but be assured if I ever do I'll happily be the one to take your head and trust me I specailze in killing our kind..well now it's your kind. But in the meantime don't worry about it being an inconvenience to me I'm rather curious about you. So I think I can squeeze in a little research in my down time.


Alex: *Alex walks in and sits* I'd be happy to run Geno-Test and see what I can come up with.
 
The man gave a simple nod to Faith, then looked to Sheena, a bit taken aback by her outburst. "I can't say I know exactly WHY I grin that way in my other form. I have always assumed, however, that it is to accommodate the many rows of teeth that grow in during the transformation. And as for my name," he began, then paused, a strange look coming over his features. One of longing. "I cannot remember it. The name I was born with was lost with my mind after I was changed. The local villagers that found me sleeping began calling me Mister Grin because they'd seen my transformation. They thought me a deity from the Gods." He sighed, then looked over toward Macal.


At the man's words, Grin smiled in understanding. "Well, then I must make sure I never bring malice your way." He nodded, however, looking into the man's eyes. His own showed a deep understanding, as if silently saying he'd bring nothing of the sort to any of them. "I thank you in advance for your assistance." Looking over toward Alex, he raised a brow. "Geno-Test?"
 
As time passes and Grin continues to answer her calmly, showing no sign of a threat to anyone, Sheena relaxes, going over towards Alex and whispering. "You missed the big show...that guy can make dragons look like friendly kittens."


Liza enters the room again, now with an armload of stuffed animals almost falling to the floor with her effort to carry them all at once, and she smiles up at Mr. Grin. "Are you done being scary? Do you want to meet my friends?"
 
Alex: A Geno-Test means I would take a sample of your DNA and run it through our data base, which has a sample of every known alien, and supernatural beings DNA code, we may not get an exact match but maybe a similar geno-type will send us in the right direction.
 
(Sorry for my lack of posting. I thought I was waiting for a post for some reason, then noticed that I was being waited on TO post. I swear, my brain hasn't been up to par these last few days. Haha)





The man knelt down to Liza with a chuckle. "I AM done being scary, but I think there are a few more things left to speak about before I go to meet your friends. It shouldn't be long, though," he said with a reassuring smile, standing back up and looking over at Alex as he spoke. "That sounds like it could prove very useful. I'd be willing to do that as soon as possible." He laughed a little, shaking his head. "I do not mean to seem so anxious, but I have been curious about just what I am for many, many years now."
 
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