Street Kids

Kira turned human her clothes still on. SHe just figured it out that she can make her clothes shift with her. With a mental slap to herself she looked to May. "Just some food I got for everyone. It's fast food I caught myself." She said snickering a bit at her small joke. "I got lucky for some humans leaving this out. Next time I will get something healthier but a small treat won't hurt us much." She whispered and then stretched out. "When the others wake up they can help themselves...I won't be eating much today." She said since she wasn't feeling to good today. She wasn't hungry for some reason. Maybe it was the appearence of the man from last night.
 
Sheena still doesn't stir, calm at last in sleep. Head on Jason's shoulder, arm wound around him, she sleeps with her forehead finally unlined, making her appear even younger than usual.


(she'll be so embarrassed later lol)
 
May opens her eyes and sits up, she walks over and sits beside Kira, "Mind if I have some?" She asks lightly, she looks up at Kira and after the girl nods she picks out a few fries and munches on them delicately, "So.." She begins, she had never met another shifter and she was dying to ask some questions, "How far does your power stretch? Can you shift to ANYTHING? Or only animals?" She munches on more fries, looking up at the girl with her deep brown eyes.
 
Kira leaned on the window post and then smiled slightly. "Well um, so far I'm only good at animals, but I have been able to turn into objects sometimes. So far I haven't been very good at shifting into other things but yeah I guess I can shift into anything." She answered with a bit of a nervous voice. She looked at May and then smiled again. She was happy to see she was useful in her 'Hunting' abilities.
 
May smiled back, "Shifting sure comes in handy though." As she spoke her face shape and hair changed. She looked back up at Kira and she was now a PERFECT replica of Kira herself. Almost as if she was staring in a mirror. She giggled then changed back into her own form as she stood up, "Well, I probably should get some form of sleep before everyone starts waking up." She smiled at Kira even though she was nervous of having another nightmare, she walked over to the mattress and curls up once more in the fetus position, her eyes shutting and this time she falls right into the clutches of sleep. And along with it, another nightmare.
 
Kira nodded and then smiled. "This would be the purfect time to get her guns. Her eyes look over everyone and then stretched out. Silently she went out again. After a few minutes came back with a large bag. Quickly hiding it in a open hold in the ceiling. She landed back on the floor silently. Now hidden by her clothes she had a hand gun and a knife. Happy with herself she could go hunting for fugitives again. Kira was like a bounty hunter. Yet she had no idea about anyone here. She slowly looked out the window again. The man that was after her was also a target for Kira. Although latly she hasn't been hired for anything.
 
Sheena isn't sure what awakens her. She becomes aware of her surroundings very slowly, conscious only vaguely at first of feeling a warmth close to her, then gradually to realize that she is cuddling in close to another person. She does not at first realize or remember where she was and pulls Jason closer, thinking that he is Maddy; she even smiles. After a few moments, however, her mind begins to clear, and she sits up fast with a stunned gasp, scrambling away from Jason and staring at him with her eyes wide.


"What the HELL..."
 
Unmoving as she continued to clean his wounds, he waited for her to speak again silently, eyes watching the bloodied cloth and bowl. The water twisting with crimson caught his eye and he watched it for a moment before looking back to her. Her words of dreams, nightmares, memories and subconsciousness intrigued him. He thought of these things, tilting his head at her mention of those that one found appealing. "Such a very interesting thing it must be, to dream," he said absentmindedly, seeming to be lost in his mind for a moment. As she stood, wishing him a good night, he turned toward the door and gave a simple nod. "Yes, thank you. You have a good rest of the evening as well."


After she had gone and her footfalls had quieted, Hood turned once more away from the doorway, drawing out the blackness again and pulling it around his flesh. The cleaning of wounds HAD helped to speed the process of repairing the simple scrapes and cuts, surprising the creature. Frowning, he closed his eyes and braced himself at the dark 'liquid' snapped the left arm of the Host back into place with a loud crack, then began healing it further. Eyes remaining closed, he concentrated on fixing the host, but could not help overhearing the words of the girls from across the house. At the mention of food, his eyes opened halfway. Soon, he'd have to eat as well, to calm the cravings of the Host. "After the repair," he murmured aloud through the blackness, white eyes going shut again
 
Jason, for whatever reason, didn't wake up at first. Maybe he was more tired, or more shell-shocked, or more unused to long nights. He felt the small movement from his left, but, half-lucid as he was, he didn't dwell on it. Ah, who cared; what would tear him away from such lands as he was wandering in his dreams?


When he did come to, it was almost comical. He was awoken by sounds of footsteps, the slight tightening of the arms around him, and the morning sun on his face. His first feeling was of a small itch of sadness that his dream world was gone. His second was like an aftershock, as the high ceiling reminded him of where he was.


His third thought was, Someone's hugging me.





Rapidly snapping into action, Jason jerked, trying to stand up and propel himself away from whoever it was at once. He promptly fell backwards off the bed, cutting off his "Hey what, fu-"


Bam! Jason landed hard on his tailbone, winced and crying out as his injured hands hit the floor as well. Ignoring it, he scrabbled onto his feet, putting a hand on the wall for balance (and removing it quickly again). Legs, the werewolf, crouched across from the mattress, her hair haywire and looking just as suspiciously incredulous at the turn of events.


Distracted by the pain coming from his tailbone and scabbed-over hands, Jason took a moment to speak- but gasped out, "'Morning-" shortbreathed, the obvious question unspoken.


He offhandedly noticed Kira and May standing in various positions, both staring. Great, he thought. Not just a werewolf, a werewolf pedophile.
 
Sheena took the opportunity to scramble across the room back to her own mattress, her face flooded with mortification, and she blinked several times, her shoulders hunching, jaw clinching as she grits her teeth, taking in a deep breath. Without quite knowing why, Maddy's face comes to her mind, and she briefly rubs both hands across her own face, ashamed almost to the point of tears. Taking another deep breath, she uncovers her face but doesn't look at anyone, muttering, her tone shaky, but defensive.


"I did NOT mean to do that, okay, I was NOT trying to molest your scrawny little body or something...I was obviously sleepwalking...or something."
 
"Or something..." Jason felt like staying frozen by the wall, but forced himself to travel over to his bed and sit on it, gingerly feeling his stinging tailbone. Sleepwalking into someone else's bed and wrapping your arms around them? Was it possible?


A bit numb, he added, "Scrawny? You're not exactly well-fed either." He looked over at the girl, who was staring downwards and looking positively mortified. Either it's possible, or she's a good actor.


Jason looked down himself, at his shoes that didn't match, with the big hole in the left one. He pulled the dirty article off of his feet and bent his socked foot upwards, ignoring how his wounded hands protested. There was mud and dirt plastered to the bottom of the fabric, which was nothing new. The crimson staining it was, though. He scraped some soil off of his near-hardened socks, sending it flaking to the floor. Just to have something to do besides look at Legs.


Jason suddenly became aware of an aromatic scent in the room, and looked up at May and Kira.
 
"Hey, if I was going to pick one of you guys to do sex sh*t with, you would be my dead last choice other than Hood," Sheena snaps back, lifting her head slightly and glaring at him through narrowed eyes, her tone heated. "You're just a kid, I might have had slept with some pretty disgusting guys but I don't have any interest whatsoever in KIDS. Sh*t, I don't even have interest in MEN, you think I want YOUR bony ass? I might not exactly be Marilyn Monroe but I weigh more than YOU do...probably."


Still, despite the harsh tone of her words, her chin quivers slightly, and she stands abruptly, heading off towards the room where Hood is, not yet realizing he's in there.
 
Kira sighed and then shurgged. She grabbed the bag of food. "I brought back some food for us." She smiled and held it out for them. "Better eat up. You two are sticks." She laughed a bit and then set down the bag for them. She sighed and then rubbed the back of her head. "Or go over there." She sighed deeply and then looked up at the hole hoping no one would see the bag.
 
For now Sheena ignores the food, even as her stomach growls audibly and painfully, and she suddenly notices its strong and not unpleasant scent. She had been half awake before, then too humiliated to pay attention, but now the scent of the food is almost enough to overthrow her emotion...not quite, though.
 
Jason watched Legs and her outburst silently. Maybe it was best if he tried to forget this had ever happened. He was pretty sure he got her point. Sex sh*t indeed. But what did she mean by, "I don't even have any interest in men?"...


Still a bit numb, like walking into a heated building after a snowstorm, Jason turned and walked stiltedly to Kira. "Hey... Thanks," he said, accepting the bag and opening it. Not wanting to seem like he was taking it all, he set it down and pulled some packages out.


My God. Hamburgers. Jason eagerly opened a pack. He wouldn't have preferred nectar and ambrosia over hot fast food at that moment. "God, how did you get this?" he asked Kira through a mouthful of meat. "It's wonderful." He swallowed; "uh, you want some?" he held out another, identical pack to her, hoping he wasn't being rude.


He'd think about Legs later. After the food.
 
As she enters the doorway of the next room, Sheena sees Hood and stops short, now caught between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, in the room with Hood she doesn't have to look at Jason or feel like Kira or May are staring at her, judging her somehow- if they don't think she's a pervert, then they definitely have to think she's some kind of pathetic freak who needs to cuddle someone to go to sleep or something, even a freakin' little kid like Jason, even if she doesn't know she's doing it, which makes it way worse. But if she goes in the room with Hood...well, no food in there, for one, and her stomach actually aches with hunger. And for another, she might have helped him somewhat last night, but she doesn't exactly want to be in a room alone with him either.


She stands in the doorway, torn, not wanting to go out or in.
 
Kira shook her head no. "Nah I'm good. I found some humans stupid enough to leave it out. They shouldn't miss it to much they look pretty rich." She said and then sat down. "Help yourself, I'm not hungry." She said with a smile. "I'm just happy I could help." She sighed and rubbed the back of her head. She never had sex before and personaily she really didn't want to. Legs seemed to have bad experences so that killed all curiousity.
 
Leaning against the doorframe slightly, Sheena tries to turn in such a way that she's not looking at anyone in particular but could possibly appear she's just "casually" propping herself up; the continued redness of her cheeks would tend to give her away, however.
 
Jason shrugged, and continued chomping through the burger. It was good. Heavenly. He hadn't had fast food since forever and a day.


Watching the songbirds flitter across the sky outside, it was hard to imagine anything was wrong with the world. There was a morning-after-rain freshness and a bright sun in the sky. All seemed peaceful.


But Jason didn't disillusion himself, seeing Legs pause out of the corner of his eyes. Instead, he took another bite.
 
As time passed, Hood's body had healed up for the most part, the Lycanthrope half of his Host assisting with the mending of bone quite nicely. Just as he was finishing up, he couldn't help but overhear the various outbursts coming from the front of the place, but he ignored them, still facing away from the door. Mostly, he tried to ignore the scent of food. All at once, it made him nearly ravenous and nauseous. Giving a shudder, he closed his eyes again and tried to concentrate on something else.


His eyes slipped open again, however, at the mention of his name and 'sex shit'. Giving a sigh, he shook his head, wondering just how he would convince the 'Legs' girl that there was no chance in hell of such a thing happening. Just as this thought spun around in his mind, the approach of quick footfalls drew his attention. He did not move, however, wondering just how long the other would stand there before saying a word.


Finally, after what seemed like ages, Hood stood up, turning to face the other as he pulled the hood of his sweatshirt over his face, obscuring his features due to the darkness of the windowless room. "It is awful rude to enter a doorway and not let oneself be known," he said, his voice without scorn. If anything, the strange being almost sounded cheery or joking, despite the hunger that bit at his stomach and caused pain in his head. "Though, after the encounter out there, one could assume you were simply looking for an escape. My apologies if I threw a wrench into the gears of your plan, so-to-speak."
 
May had been peacefully sleeping, but when the sound of Jason falling over occurred, she sat up almost immediently, wide awake. She looked over and caught his eyes as he looked around the room in shock. She sat silently up until the point where she heard Hood speaking to Sheena and sighed, getting up from her spot and walking over to the food, she took a seat beside Jason and her eyes flicked to him, "She was sleep-walking by the way. I was still awake when she did so." She paused, her voice sounded a bit uncertain, she had been in the other room with Hood at the time, but when she walked back in Sheena seemed in a deep sleep. She looked at the food and then at the doorway which Sheena was standing in, she sighed and swept up two of the five burgers that were there and bounded over to the doorway, she brushed past Sheena and looked between them both, "Sorry to interrupt, but I thought you might be hungry." She muttered lightly, trying not to seem rude as she held out a burger packet to each of them, she was sure Sheena didn't want to come get one because of her embarrassment, and Hood because...well...it just didn't seem in his nature.
 
"I wasn't trying to do anything to him," Sheena mutters quickly, sounding defeated more than defensive now, and she wraps her arm around herself, not moving forward yet, but then slowly lifting her head, looking over Hood while briefly biting her lower lip. "Uh...are you...better?"


In her mind she is sure that her unconscious transgression with Jason will be enough for the others to look down on her, if not outright want to throw her away from them...and it is that incident, though it was not within her control, that is beginning to make her realize how much she doesn't want that to happen...that she wants to be with them. That she NEEDS to be with people...pretty damn badly, obviously, if she'd freakin' sleepwalk just to be near someone, even a bedraggled kid.


--- Merged Double Post ---


Looking over at the burger May offers, Sheena takes it slowly, trying to smile at her as she mumbles a thank you. Her cheeks are still red, but she looks down at the burger, opening it and taking her first bite. After the first bite she doesn't even try to be polite about eating, gulping it down as though she hasn't eaten in days...which is almost true.


Burgers...she, like Jason, can't remember the last time she had hot food. Generally she sticks to stealing peel back cans from gas stations or candy from stores...the burger tastes so amazing to her she can't make herself slow down and savor it if she wanted to.
 
Listening to the Lycanthrope girl, Hood simply nodded his head. "Of course not. Your subconscious was simply seeking human contact. It is a perfectly natural thing and one you should not fret so much over," he explained. It made sense in his mind, anyhow. At the question of his wellness, his smile widened beneath the hood. "I will not be at one-hundred percent until the loss of scarring, but for the most part, I am much better."


As if proving his point, he flexed and moved his left arm, the one that had been nearly shattered in two places just hours before. "Thankfully, the Lycanthrope half of my Host was able to speed the process. With other Hosts, I have taken days to repair such wounds and--" he began, interrupted as May came in with food.


As much as the creature wanted to refuse, he accepted the thing, unwrapping it and taking a large bite quickly. It was delicious, but a part of him still felt revulsion, craving living flesh. He ignored this urge and looked to May, smiling behind the blackness of his hood. "Thank you," he stated plainly, taking another bite and chewing it slowly. "I fear I haven't had actual food in quite awhile."


In truth, the creature hadn't eaten anything in almost two weeks. There wasn't much reason behind it, he could have gotten food or simply absorbed another being, but there were times when his absent-minded thinking got the better of him and he simply forgot to do such things. Taking down the rest of the burger in a few quick bites, he folded the wrapping into a small square. Looking around, he realized that in the windowless room, there was no way to tell the time. "Is it morning?" he asked simply, tilting his head to the left and reminding himself that he would need to sleep on the following night.
 
Sheena lowers her head, but she is grateful, if surprised, by Hood's reassurance. It is ironic that he, over everyone else, would not judge her for her actions, that he even seems to understand. She gives him a quick, faint smile before balling up the wrapper around her burger, still standing in the doorway.


"Uh...almost morning, I think." She pauses, then looks between him and May. "When it is...what are you guys gonna do?"
 
May smiles as they both eat and at Hood's question her eyes drift back to the other room, she pauses, as if she is calculating something in her mind, and then looks back at them both, "It is 8am, so yes, it is technically morning." As Sheena wonders what they were going to do, May frowns, "I do not know really. I never really have any plans for what I do during the day, I just take it as it comes." Her voice is void of any emotion as she speaks of how she spends her days, she looks to Sheena, thinking of how they agreed to stick together, she gives her a small smile to show she still plans on keeping that agreement - if it is alright with her. She then shifted her gaze to Hood, "What do you plan to do next Hood?" She asks rather curiously, she wondered what he did to pass the time.
 
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