Street Kids

Exhaling, relieved to see that May seems to be settling down, Sheena pats her shoulder a final time before nodding, her face as well as her body tensing up; it's obvious even at a glance how much she dislikes this. "Yeah...yeah, she did."


Her voice lowers and she glances back up towards where the others remain, almost whispering. "What the hell is she that she just carries around a whole bag of GUNS when she's like, sixteen? What is she, a gang member, a freakin' assassin?"
 
May shrugs, a bit confused by the whole gun thing aswell, "I have no idea. You would think that if any one of us carried weapons it would be the human." She sighs and looks back at the building, she begins walking towards it, stopping to look back at Sheena, "Guess we should go back inside.." She walks into the building and back into the room with the guns, her eyes are probably still a bit red from the crying but she doesn't care, or at least appears not to care. She kneels down and looks at the guns, she then stands back up at looks at Kira, "I don't need a gun...but thank you anyway." Her step-dad was a human, he wasn't a shifter like her and therefore should be easy to take down. Unless of course May has a break-down. She hopes she doesn't.
 
Kira looked at Jason and nodded. She grabbed another pistol, she showed him how to load the weapon and then gave him amo. She sighed and then looked at the ground and then back at the wall. She didn't say anything else she just stared at the wall. She sighed deeply.
 
Following May inside, Sheena looks up at Kira too, hesitating before saying slowly, "I don't do guns."


She doesn't explain this, and hopes no one will ask. The truth is that after what happened with Mr. Kellogg, even the thought of touching a gun is enough to make her feel physically ill. She can still remember the shock in his eyes as the blood spread across his chest, the horror in V.V.'s face, her sobbing gasps as she tells Sheena that she didn't mean it, she didn't know the safety was off...it had been the end of everything, that gun. The end of Foxfire, the end of friends, her makeshift family...the end of her and Maddy. It was because Sheena had had a gun that she had been alone for so long...and she won't take a gun now, won't risk letting that happen all over again, not when it's possible she has someone.
 
Kira looks at her and nods. "I only use them because of sir demon...I didn't know why but I knew I would need them. My powers aren't enough with him." She was slightly telling the truth. She looked at the bag. "I understand you do not want to use them...No one has to...it's just protection, i don't know what we will face and I really don't want to know." She said rubbing her head.
 
At Kira's glare and less-than-friendly chuckle, he simply smiled and gave a light shrug. "I apologize if it sounded as if I was being insulting, Kira. I simply meant that most do not deal well with my true appearance and I have an almost unlimited supply of 'weaponry' that I can use, due to the capability of transformation," he explained. "There is little reason to be offended."


As the girl took the bag from the ceiling, however, Hood's smile wavered just a bit. Guns. "As much as I appreciate the offer and ask for no explanation, I must refuse. I do not properly know how to use firearms, nor do I wish to learn. I find it much more satisfying to use a 'hands on' approach, if you catch my meaning," he said with a monstrous looking grin. "It can be so much more effective as well, if there are multiple targets. Such an interesting way to spread fear."


Once he was finished with his long winded and seemingly random words, he looked again to May, who spoke in wavering words that easily showed fear, or perhaps the recalling of awful memories. Hood simply nodded in an understanding manner as she left, looking over the others. The various reactions to Kira having weapons surprised the creature. He had not expected those who lived on the streets, no matter what age, to be so shocked by the firearms.


Approaching Kira, he was a bit taken aback at her snapping response, though he understood it. "I will admit my surprise as the reactions, though you should not be so shocked that the others have questions. There are many firearms here, more than for simple protection. Though, with that man after you, it does not seem so excessive." Waving this off, however, he chuckled and moved away, listening as nearly everyone but Jason refused the weapons. They were all SO INTERESTING! It was a chore for him to contain his laughter and to contain the tug that he felt toward their memories. Oh, how amazingly different they must have been.
 
"Looks like I'm the only one left, then," said Jason, sliding ammunition into a gun for the first time in his life. With a satisfying click! the bullets went in, and then there he was, holding a loaded weapon. Ironic... the thirteen year old, the only one without powers, is the only one to take a firearm. Not that I'll be any good at it, he thought, passively.


He listened to Hood silently, and took the return of the two girls without missing a bat. He leaned down, picked up the pack of french fries, and offered it to them, trying to grin.
 
"Well I'm not," Sheena repeated, as though she wasn't clear enough the first time. "Using a gun. I'll use knives, I'll use my own teeth and claws, when I'm a wolf, I'll use...anything else, okay? I'm NOT using a gun."


Her eyes slide to Jason doubtfully, and as another thought dawns on her, she mutters with real anxiety, "Uh, and if I'm sleepwalking like that...I really don't like the idea of him having a gun at his side and waking up reaching for it."
 
Jason's grin was genuine then. "Eh," he said, "I'll keep it out of reach when I sleep. Although if I do try to shoot you in the night I'll probably do something stupid, like hold it backwards and kill myself." He proffered the packet of fast food; he hadn't seen Legs eat anything since... well, never.
 
Sheena hesitates, then almost grabs the bag, taking a few handfuls of fries and going to sit down to eat it in the corner instinctively, as though to protect it from being grabbed by others. They are gone too quickly for her liking, enough that she almost chokes, going into a painful-sounding coughing fit for a while before she gets it under control. She smiles at Jason faintly from the corner, shaking her hair back from her face as she sniffs. It seems that sleeping even briefly, and eating the burger earlier, had already helped her cold some, as she had noticed she wasn't coughing as much as she had been.
 
Kira looked at them. "I have knifes as well." She said showing her her different knives. She looked at Legs. "I am sorry but that man after me is much to dangerous not to have guns. I am sorry if I affended you." She said and then smiled at Jason. "At least i could help you." She said and then looked at Hood. "Thanks." She said since he tried to well, make her feel a bit better.
 
"It's okay," Sheena tells Kira, shaking back her hair again, as it had almost immediately straggled back in front of her face. Though she's not one to worry much about how she looks, between the kills she had committed last night and the fact that she hasn't been able to shower in a few days, she feels rather dirty, thinking to herself that she'll have to break into the YMCA again tonight and use their shower, if she can't sneak in without someone noticing in the day.


She hesitates for a long while, then says abruptly, on impulse to the room at large, "Uh. My name...well it's not my name, exactly, like on birth certificate...but you can call me Sheena." Immediately she looks down again, trying not to show how much the name means to her, that this is a major attempt to trust at sharing it.
 
"Oh... right, Sheena," Jason said, confirming nothing but the presence of his voice, and turned the empty pack over in his hand. "There's more food out there, you know," he said, tossing the pack up and catching it again.


He moved to casually put the pistol down as he walked out of the room, but when he had bent down his foot landed on an old wrapper and slid- slightly- forward. He pinwheeled to regain his balance, setting his other foot down hard to stop from falling over- but the stumble made his hands jerk, and helped along by centrifugal force, Jason pulled the trigger on the gun.


The gunshot rang, loudly, and Jason flinched to the side, dropping the pistol. The bullet had flown right by May's head, and torn through the wall. "Oh- crap- sorry!" he exclaimed, rushing forward to flip the safety on. Crap, crap, crap, he thought it had already been on. He distinctly remembered turning it on. Well, crap, he must have turned it off instead. "Sorry-" he breathed.
 
At the sound of the gunshot Sheena freezes, her face draining of all color. Her eyes dart to the gun on the ground, then to May and the hole in the wall, and a shiver runs through her spine visibly before it begins to spread through the rest of her. She barely breathes, reverted back in time to V.V's tears, Mr. Kellogg's panting breaths, the smell of blood in the air and all around her all the Foxfire girls, crying, panicked, and Maddy's stricken face as Legs looks back at her, unable to even say goodbye before they're gone, never to see her, never...
 
Kira grabbed the gun and then pushed jason away. She checked to see if everyone was alright and then grabbed them all. "..." She looked back again and checked to make sure no one got hurt and then ran to the window. She almost kill someone by bringing these here. "I'm sorry....I...I got to go now." She said heading to get out. "I shouldn't have done that."
 
Sheena doesn't notice Kira starting to leave, or the guilt and fear she is showing after Jason's accident. She isn't noticing much of anything now, actually, too caught inside her own thoughts to be very aware of the present moment. She continues to sit without moving or blinking, her stomach twisting itself into knots as she barely breathes, half expecting, half praying to see Maddy before her again.
 
Hood had somewhat zoned off, going into his own mind for a bit as he thought of ways to kill the other. From how May had spoken of him, Hood almost wanted to make him scream, but he did not want to frighten his new companions with his various means of torture. It was not something meant to be seen by any other than himself. At Legs' coughing fit, he snapped back to reality, eyes moving this way and that behind his hood before realizing what was going on. He calmed for a second, watching and listening to those around him, both to gather information and to take in their conversations.


The mention of Legs' real name caused him to tilt his head, especially at the reaction she gave after announcing it. Legs must have been a nickname of sorts. Righting his head again, he went to say something about her reaction, but was stopped as the sound of a pistol shot tore through the silence of the room, deafening everything for a moment and causing the creature to reel back with a surprised hiss, eyes going black. He hunched over, eyeing the boy with a glare from behind his hood and listening to his mumbled apologies. As Kira swiped the gun back and headed to leave, Hood frowned. "Wait," he said simply, eyes darting around as they slowly went back to normal. "You should wait to leave with all of us. After that shot, there will no doubt be people alerted to this place. We should all head somewhere else, or find a place to hide."


Looking toward Sheena, he noticed her expression of shock and her shiver, then watches her slide to the ground, breathing coming in short and ragged gasps, her unblinking eyes staring nowhere but forward. He moved toward her, kneeling down. "Sheena, you have to breath before you simply fall into unconsciousness. You are in shock. You must calm down," he said, voice almost taking on a calming tone, rather than his usual strange and almost gravely voice. "It was only an accident." Turning to the others, he frowned. "Can someone assist her? I fear I am not the best in such situations."


Standing again, he turned toward May, looking to make sure she was not suffering the same fate as Sheena. He may have seemed to be acting helpful, but it was for his own benefit as well. He could not risk the group being discovered and himself taken in. He would escape, of course, but that would only make it more difficult to blend back into society. He would have to find another Host. The thought caused a frown to etch its way over his face, halfway hidden by shadow.
 
Kira looked at him and looked down. She looked at him and then sighed. "I think i've done enough to this group...I got to go..." She said unsure now. She really wanted to leave before she hurt them all. She looked down and then sighed again. Droping the bag she covered her face. "I'm not in the right state of mind to help her either." She said and then held her head. "Darn it."
 
May watched silently as they all spoke to one and another, preparing her mind to go visit the beast of man she once called Father when the gunshot rang through her ears and the bullet barely missed her head. Her body flinched away from the bullet, and as if she knew what to do, her hair colour changed to that of pure black with curls going throughout it, she then looked up as Hood spoke to Sheena and her eyes were a deep green with freckles on her cheekbones as Hood looked over at her. She quickly stood up, her hands shaking lightly, as her appearance went back to normal and she walked over to Sheena. She dropped down infront of her so that she was at her level and spoke reassuringly, "Sheena, it's alright. Nobody got hurt" She notices how Sheena looks to be almost...trapped in the past. She bit her lip, boy did she know that feeling all too well. She speaks again as her hand reaches out and rests lightly on Sheena's knee, "Sheena, no-one is hurt. Nothing bad happened." Her eyes stared into hers as she tried to get her to move, to talk, to do something. She knew that they had to move, and soon.
 
Sheena doesn't react at first. Slowly she becomes aware of a pressure on her knee, and her eyes begin to focus, drawing back into the present as she finally meets May's eyes. She is still shaking slightly, but as she looks back at her, she is beginning to realize where she is again, some of their words beginning to sink in, and she nods faintly, but can't yet find words, or figure out how to stand.
 
Jason was shocked as well. Well, crap, he couldn't stop thinking. That's what happens when you arm a preteen. He couldn't figure out what to do. May was comforting Sheena. Hood was... around. And Kira... she looked positively distraught.


"Hey... Kira?" he said, looking over at her. "Don't look like that; seriously, it wasn't your fault. I mean, I'm the one that, that shot the gun, you know?" Inside, he was going something like GAH now see what you did, Jason? But he managed to contain it. Now that he thought of it, he felt pretty distraught, too.
 
Kira looks at him and sat in a corner still looking the same. Guilt and fear still right on her face. She doesn't look at him, just iching to run right about now. "I....I gave you...the gun." She said glancing at the window. She looked at Hood, and then at Sheena and May. Something snaps, she suddenly looks as calm as ever. She gets up from her corner and then looked at Jason. "I gave you the gun." She said and crossed her arms looking out. "The gun shot doesn't have seemed to attracked attention." She said. This was a different side of Kira a completely different side. She was calm.
 
May smiles as she seems to come back to reality and she gently takes her hand and stands herself up before helping Sheena up, "You alright?" She asks gently. She is making sure that Sheena is leaning on her because right now Sheena seems unable herself to stand. She hears Kira's words and nods, "Either way, we should leave here soon."


May turns her gaze to Hood, thinking about how she had switched her appearance to that of another girl when the bullet had speed past her. It was out of instinct. One of the few times May had been shot at was when she was in that same disguise. She had just stolen from a bakers and the man came chasing after her, firing a bullet in her direction. Thankfully she had managed to get away or else she feared she would have lost her life. She mentally sighed, how did she get to this? A run-away girl who belonged no-where and had to struggle to survive.
 
Once May helps her up Sheena automatically starts to move towards the window, still not entirely steady, but after a few strides she is able to regain her sureness of her steps and moves on her own, her mind beginning to clear. Still she lets May remain close to her until she climbs out the window and lowers herself to the ground. Looking up at the others, waiting for them to come, she unconsciously hugs her elbows against herself.


No one is dead, no one was hurt, no one was even shot...it's okay. Get a grip...


F***, this is ridiculous...she can't do this, she can't go to pieces every time she hears a gunshot. She's living on the streets, Sheena KNOWS there are guns, she knows she's going to hear shots and probably even be shot at, and the last thing she needs to do is lose it like that...even wolfing out would be a better reaction.


Still, she would rather be threatened with any weapon she can think of than to hear a gun go off...she would rather willingly submit to anything a man might want to do to her than see him hold a gun to her.
 
Once Sheena seems, slightly alright, May turns back to the others, her hands on her hips as she takes in a deep breath and gives them a smile that doesn't seem to belong. "You guys ready?" She switched her gaze to Kira, "Even if it didn't attract much attention, it's not a good idea to stick around here much longer" She nods her head to where the gun hit the wall and you can already see some cracks leading off of it, the house would probably collapse soon. She then looked back at Kira and the guns, "It will probably be only Jason who needs a weapon...if he still wants one." She shrugs, her eyes get a hardened look and they glaze over lightly as she mutters, "He's a human, not a shifter like me." She wanted to carry on, to tell them the only power he had over May...over Siran...was the fear he gave her and the strength that was once bigger than hers. Once. When she was young she didn't know she could switch to an animal and defend herself.
 
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