Street Kids

As Sheena observes the confrontation between Devin and May, she turns to May, fixing him with a cold stare, her expression threatening. She doesn't speak for several moments, just staring at him. Finally, she comes close to him, looking him straight in the eye; there is not a trace of her earlier fear and insecurity in her gaze as she speaks.


"If you do anything to hurt her, and I do mean anything, I will kill you. And it will hurt. A lot."


She turns away and follows May into the house then, catching up to her. "You okay?" she asks softly, bracing herself for what she might find inside as they enter the living room.


But what she didn't expect was the boy, curled up in the corner...not terribly far from where May's father still lay. Sheena's eyes widened, her spine stiffening, and she freezes, hissing out loud. "Who is THAT?" Then, raising her voice, "What are you doing here?"
 
Rhys cracked open and eye, still very exhausted. He tried to think of something to say. Something intelligent. Something that would make sense of why he had come here. But all Rhys could manage was a "What?"


He shut his eyes again, just wanting sweet sleep to take him again, but they fluttered back open and he stared at the new people. 'Was it not abandoned after all? This does not seem like it will go well. And I need my energy to find my tail.' Rhys decided he would say whatever to get these people away from him so that he could go on his search without interference. It was already hard enough as it was without people asking questions or getting in the way.
 
Continuing to stare at the boy, Sheena doesn't move, but her tone, expression, and posture make it clear that she is not taking his presence well.


"This is OUR place. This isn't an open squat, this is our HOUSE. Why the hell would you stay at a place with a dead body anyway?!"
 
Kira just ignored everyone till she got back inside. She looked at the body and then at the boy. She grabbed the body and then threw it outside in the yard calling her dog friends using her shifting power to bark. They dragged it off once again.
 
Rhys woke up more and after a small struggled managed to stand. He looked around as if he might find something to explain himself and then shrugged.


"I was tired. It didn't look like anyone was here and...I just was to exhausted to care at the time," Rhys explained. He had a feeling his explanation was not going to go over well, but he had a feeling anything he could say would not please the girl yelling at him. "I'm sorry. I can just go. I didn't mean to be a bother. No one was here at the time anyways. No need to get all pissy."
 
"Yeah, no one except you and the DEAD BODY," Sheena said incredulously, eyebrows raising. "What are you, some kind of freak to want to go to SLEEP next to that thing?"


She averts her eyes when Kira disposes of the body, not wanting to look at it any longer than she has to, but also not wanting to call attention to that fact. Even with the body gone she can smell its blood lingering in the room and feels edgy. They'll have to clean...a LOT.
 
Rhys scowled. This was definitely not going the way he had planned it. He just wanted to leave and find another place to sleep. Sometime he slept near the ocean, but that was not always a good idea. But he did miss it and being near it always made Rhys feel better.


Rhys sighed. That didn't matter right now. Right now he had to deal with her. "Listen. I didn't do anything wrong besides squatting. I didn't kill the guy. I just didn't care that his body was here okay. I've seen worse things believe me." The ocean was not always a nice place to be and living on the streets was not pleasent either. Rhys knew this was a bad idea. "What the hell is your problem?!"
 
Kira looked at him. "Of course you didn't kill him....we did." She said and then looked at her clothes. "Man I need to get washed up...." She looked at Sheena still a bit shaky. She looked down at the floor and then looked around. "Um...I'm sure he ment no harm...." She said and then looked back at Sheena.
 
"What is my PROBLEM?! This is OUR place, we f*ckin' EARNED it, we KILLED for it, it should be OURS, not people trying to kill us popping in and out, not other street kids settling in, we already picked up Devin, that is ENOUGH!" Sheena almost yelped, her nails digging into her palms. She is rapidly growing agitated; though she had slept in the car, she is still tired and stressed enough that this, for her, is the absolute last thing she wants to deal with right now. She has to stop and focus on controlling her breathing, not wanting to wolf out when she left her clothes in the car.
 
Kira grabs Sheena's shoulder. "Sheena....calm down ok." She said and then sighed looking down. "Come on we're all a bit stressed....some more then others." She said meaning herself. "Just ask him to leave..." She said and then looked back at the boy. She sighed. "I have to get my stuff from the car...." She sighed.
 
Sheena takes another slow breath in, closing her eyes briefly, and grits her teeth, her shoulder tense beneath Kira's hand. When she opens her eyes again she is slightly calmer. "This has been a really sh*tty day, okay, so...just...you are in our house."
 
Jason finally pulled into the driveway. "We're heeere," he said to himself, cutting off the car's engine. He supposed the older ones would hot-wire it again the next time they needed to drive.


He gave half an awkward ear to the conversation behind him, before hopping out. He didn't like Devin any more than the others, so, he'd much rather just stay out of his way.


Outside, he just looked around a bit until May, Kira and Sheena went in the house. Really, he had been hoping someone would thank him.. but eh, it was them who saved each others' lives. I just drove. As he followed the girls in, he thought, and shot a guy.


He staggered a little when he encountered the dead body, the corpse demanding his attention over the newcomer. Tearing his eyes away, Jason examined the new boy; who was this? He let Sheena talk for a while, but when she began yelling he thought he should step forward. Kira beat him to the chase, and he talked after her. "Yeah, uh, Sheena," he said, worriedly, getting her attention. "I don't think this is... Too bad. I mean, the guy looks really tired, and it's not like he asked to stay here or anything...." When he looked closer, he really could see exhaustion; and besides, hadn't they all had nowhere to bunk before in their lives? "Then again, I really wish we hadn't picked up Devin either," he said. Coughing, he turned to the intruder; "I'm Jason," said the boy. "Who are you?"
 
Rhys was about to continue his screaming match with Sheena, but others had appeared to step in. Rhys nodded at Kira's comment.


"She's right. I said I would leave. I mean I guess it's obvious that I should. Besides I have things I need to take care of. So you don't have to worry." Before Rhys could storm away he turned to the guy.


"I'm.....Rhys," he said.
 
Jason nodded, slightly. "Nice to meet you... Rhys. That's a cool name." He turned to the others briefly, then made another suggestion. "If you want to, you could rest here. If you want. I mean, you look ready to drop and we're also, uh, practically in the middle of nowhere." He looked up at Sheena; "I mean, Sheena won't kind, right?" he added, asking the girl but addressing the boy. "We have some food and everything...."
 
Kira smiled at Sheena and then removed her hand. She walked over to Jason. "By the way, thanks." She whispered to him and then looked at the guy named Rhys. She tilted her head a bit. Maybe Jason was right, he could stay. Yet Sheena had made it clear she didn't want him here. "Hmmm I don't know Jason....You might not win to keep him here." She sighed deeply closing her eyes. "Anyways....Rhys...I'm Kira." She said and then thought about Zack. When she opened her eyes she looked at Rhys. He did remind her of Zack.....but zack was dead. She sighed trying to get him out of her mind. It was to hard....the pain was to much.
 
Rhys looked at the girl called Sheena. He was glad that Jason had invited him to stay, but would listen to Sheena. If she wanted him out, he would go. If she said it was fine, he would rest and then leave.


"Thank you... I didn't plan on staying long. I have something important I am doing. It sometimes wears me out." Rhys was connected to his tail even when it was gone. But locking onto it's located took a lot out of him mentally and sometimes physically if he did it too long.
 
"Yes, Sheena minds," Sheena says through gritted teeth, but she doesn't say it very loudly. She knows she's already outnumbered.


She stands still, mortified and angered when she feels tears sting the back of her eyes. She shoves them back immediately, her expression hard, but she can still feel them in the back of her throat.


She doesn't want this, new people coming and going, not knowing who she can trust or even who they are. It was bad enough adding Hood, and now that she got used to him, then they added that stupid DEVIN, now this kid too, who's too weird to care he's sleeping by a murdered guy? How could him joining them possibly work out? This is THEIR PLACE, they earned it, not him, not Devin, together, that meant only THEY should have it!


Abruptly she stalks out of the room and into the bathroom, slamming the door behind her.
 
Rhys winced at the door slamming. He looked at it. He might have wanted to start crying, but he couldn't care about how others saw him or what they thought. His goal was to return home. None of these people would be there when he went back.


"Um...this is a weird question but have any of you seen this skinny, pimply woman with really long white hair and black eyes," Rhys asked. Everyone told him no. It was too much to hope they would have seen her. But he had to ask. "Also is this her place? Is that's why she is so mad at me for being here?"
 
May watches silently as all of this happens, occasionally opening her mouth to speak but always having someone else speak before she can. When Sheena storms out she winces at the door slamming shut and looks to Rhys. She hears Devin chuckle, "Wow, no-one seems to like me." She glares at him and watches as Devin walks over to Rhys and holds out a hand to help him up, at least he was being civil, annoying, but still civil.


May looks at Rhys, "No sorry, I haven't seen a woman of that description." She then pauses, thinking over his net question. Technially, it was May's place, May's house, but since the others helped her...a lot. She sighs finally, looking to Rhys with kind eyes, "This house used to belong to that dead guy who was in here, but because he was my..." She pauses once more, her eyes conflicted as she spits out the words like they are venom in her mouth, "My 'father'" She carries on now as normal, "This house now technially belongs to me, but the others" She gestures to Jason, Kira, Hood and the door Sheena went through, excluding Devin from the 'group', "Kinda own it now aswell, since they helped me." She doesn't explain how they helped her, and glances to the door Sheena slammed once more before looking back at Rhys, "You honestly look exhausted, just, uh, just stay here until we get things sorted out ok?" She motions to the sofa against the wall, gesturing for him to sit and rest.
 
It is May's old bedroom Sheena has inadvertently entered, and as she sinks down onto the bed, running one hand through her hair and then covering her face, she tries to ignore thoughts of this possibly being the site of May's abuse. Part of her wants to hear what is going on in the other room but she tries not to think about it. It's not like anyone is going to go out of their way to come after her.
 
Jason cringed when the door slammed, regretting what he had said. Somehow, Sheena always seemed the most emotionally stricken with things, always the one to be immobilized from the inside out. But he tried not to judge, as always... He had no idea what she had gone through. Judging by what he knew, a lot.


"Yes, Sheena minds...."


Jason listened to Devin and May, and noted Rhys' strange inquiry. "I haven't seen anyone, uh, like that either," he said. "Who's that?" Then, he hurried to add, "Don't answer if it's personal."


He glanced at the door Sheena had gone through, then spoke again. "We'll stop crowding you," he said. "I think I'll go hunting for food. Well, as in fridge-hunting. You know what I mean." He wandered over to the kitchen, sidestepping the blood stains, keeping his brain studiously blank and focusing solely on possible dinners.


He opened he refrigerator.
 
After some time Sheena begins to realize that her stomach has been growling without her notice for some time. She ignores it, instead laying down in May's bed and staring up at the ceiling, trying to think of nothing at all. She doesn't want to go back among the others and that RHYS guy and especially that Devin guy and have to lose face, have them look at her or make fun of her or say anything at all...and she especially doesn't want that Rhys guy trying to be all apologetic and meek to her either. For today, after all it's stress, she's had it with even trying to pretend to be okay with anything, and socializing is beyond her ability.
 
Finally, they arrived at the home and everyone began to pool out of the van. Looking to Jason, he gave a nod and thanked the younger boy before getting up himself and stretching. The creature winced, the various healing wounds sending off shocks of surprising pain. Ignoring this, Hood stepped from the door and looked around the house. Unlike the others, however, he did not enter right away.


Instead, the creature moved slowly behind the house, scanning around it with eyes that darted this way and that, making sure there hadn't been any sort of tampering done to the place after they'd left. Slinking around, he stayed close to the shadows, moving to check each nook and cranny he could find for any type of monitoring device. Finally finding nothing or simply giving up his search, he moved back into the house and was greeted with another new face and another round of headache-inducing bickering.


Not speaking, the hooded being watched all of them interact in silence, tilting his head once and awhile as things got heated or interesting. Eventually, he'd become bored or sickened with it and moved by them, giving a quick nod to the new face. "I am called Hood," he stated simply and plainly, then pushed by them toward the back door through the kitchen.


His stomach growled as well, but he ignored it for the time being. His mind was racing, though his face did not betray the fact. He looked as calm as ever outside his mind. There were too many people crowded in the home and it was driving his parasitic form and the Lycanthropic half of his Host mad. Stepping out the back door, he closed it quickly behind him and took a deep breath of the night air, forcing himself calm.


"Too many new faces, it's getting difficult to keep track," he murmured aloud, an unusual frown gracing his features under the hood. Moving quite a ways from the home, he took a seat in the empty lot behind it, trying to concentrate on healing the various gunshots he'd simply shaken off while in his Lycanthropic form. As much as he'd disliked the lack of control, there was something to be said of the blind rage and power that it brought, especially under the control of his abilities.


Thinking on this, the man closed his eyes, concentrating and listening. If any of the men from earlier came looking, Hood would be waiting for them.
 
Rhys sighed. Everyone said the same thing. Rhys had begun to worry that she had changed her appearance from when she took from him. If so it would only make things more difficult. He looked as more people enter the room and he looked towards the ground. As Jason asked him why, Rhys looked up at him.


"I'm sorry. I don't want to talk about it. She..." Rhys did not want anyone involved, let alone people he didn't know. "She took something from me, that's all. I need it back."


Rhys yawned. He needed sleep. "Food. Can I have something? Something small is fine. Then I'll sleep and then I'll get out of your hairs."
 
Kira looks at May and then looks back at the boy. "Hmm....I don't know." She said and then looked at Hood. He seemed to be a bit on edge. She walked to where he was and then slowly walked out. She still needed to get cleaned up but right now she was keeping her mind off of the blood. "Hey....you ok Hood?" She asked not entirly sure she should bother him. "I can leave if you need to be alone." She said and then looked back at the others inside.
 
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