Street Kids

Kira looked at the ground walking silently behind Rhys. She sniffed and looked around. She hadn't eaten all day so food was pretty much on her mind but she didn't want to leave Rhys. She looked at him and then looked at Jason with a smile. She crossed her arms trying to avoid from grasping her side. The pain had increased, all this moment wasn't helping the wound at all.
 
When Devin's face clearly shows his shock at her heritage, Sheena does not make the connection at first. She merely thinks that he is surprised she has super powers, or similar ones to his own, not that it's the "half" Lycan part that is getting to him. It actually isn't until she sees May's pissed expression and hears her hissing tone that it clicks in Sheena's head, and then she too stiffens, her jaw clinching, one hand forming a fist as her ears heat.


So that was it. Half Lycan. That was the problem.


It wasn't like she didn't already know how people thought of her- how EVERYONE thought of her. Being half Lycan meant that no matter where she went, no matter who she was with, Sheena didn't fit in anywhere. No one wanted her...everyone, absolutely everyone, saw her as a freak. Her own cousins were so disgusted and impatient with her, with what her mother had done, the Lycan laws she had betrayed, to conceive her, that they had basically abandoned her. Her father, all other humans of course thought she was a monster. There was no place for her in this world, and Devin's half uttered word had summed up what she knew very well everyone thought of her.


Disgusting. That was what she was to everyone. That was what her mother, the only person Sheena knew had cared about her, the person responsible for her existence, was thought to be. Disgusting. If it was up to everyone else and their comfort, Sheena would never have been born.


She was so busy thinking along these lines that she forgot the car until May mentioned it again, and still did not quite comprehend until May grabbed her hand and began to run after her. Sheena stumbles, then quickly catches up with her, easily able with her Lycan speed to keep up. She can just make out Caroline's profile in the front seat, as well as that of a man she has never seen before, and her concern increases. Had Caroline just gone off with a stranger? Had someone kidnapped her? Was that someone after Kira?


Seeing Rhys, Jason, and Kira exiting the house out the corner of her eye, still running with May, she screams over her shoulder, "Someone took Caroline!"


(they can get away, the other three can explain)
 
Hearing Sheena yell at them, Rhys stopped. He turned and looked at them. He walk over, knowing that May and Sheena might try to caught up with the van. The unusuall feeling was gone or at least forgotten for the moment. He was sure that it would come back to him later though. He opened his mouth to speak, when he looked at Kira.


"Are you sure you want to go anywhere? You look like you need to relax or eat or something." He didn't want to force her to come either. Waiting for a reply from the girl he turned back to Sheena and May.


"I think she's with Hood. They...they were going to do something about Caroline's dad. At least that is what I heard when I was in the kitchen with them."
 
When Rhys calls back to her, Sheena isn't paying attention to him at first and continues to run with May, intent on catching the car now so far off in the distance she can barely make it out. It takes a few moments for his words to sink in, and when they do, she jerks to a stop, pulling at May's hand and still keeping hold of it absently as she turns to yell back at him.


"That wasn't Hood!!!! That was a guy!!! A human guy, and he stole our car!!!"


She starts to take off again, yanking at May to try to get her to join, though the car is now nearly entirely out of sight. Caroline or not, that's their freaking CAR the guy is taking off with, the car they went to such trouble to get for themselves!!!
 
Kira looks at Sheena. She runs back but grasps her side. "HEY! No! Hood can shift! He only looks like a human!" She shouted running as fast as she could to catch up. Suddenly she graps her side again and falls to her knees. HJer side starts bleeding and she looks at Sheena. "THAT IS HOOD!" SHe shouted at her again and then cried out in pain. "Oh I think I just made it worse." She said holding her side. She stood up again and then continued to run after sheena.
 
Again Sheena's adrenaline slows her ability to register Kira's shouted words, and by the time she had processed what she's trying to tell her and stopped again, nearly yanking May's arm off in the process as she turns on her heels, she witnesses Kira falling. Her eyes widening with concern, for she had until this point forgotten Kira's injury and what the other girl had said had caused it, she drops May's hand and hurries back to her, stopping in front of her somewhat awkwardly, with her hand half extended towards Kira's shoulder. She still feels not fully at ease with Kira, and is unaccustomed to physically touching her, but after a few moments' pause she does reach out and very lightly grip her shoulder as she peers into her face.


"Kira?"


Her eyes drifting downward, taking in Kira's bleeding side, she gasps, then impulsively reaches for her shirt to lift it. "Kira, shit, you need stitches or something!"
 
Kira looks at Sheena and then sighs. "I know." She said and then lifted her shirt enough for Sheena to see the wound, it was just above her waist, but the slash caused by her demon stalker made it up to her fourth rib, an upward slash. She looks at Sheena. "I'm sorry." She said and then lowered her head in pain. She sighed deeply, swallowing hard. She looked at Sheena, although Kira wanted to be friends with Sheena, Sheena was distant since the guns thing and not only that but Kira hadn't exackly been trying to be friends.
 
"Sorry? Why are you SORRY?" Sheena repeated, incredulous. "It's not like you stabbed your own self. Shit, people really hate you, don't they?"


As soon as the words leave her, she realizes how awful they sound, how offensive they are. Blushing a little, she holds up one hand. "Sorry, sorry, didn't mean that...look, we gotta get you fixed up, that looks horrible." She hesitates, then very slowly extends her hand for Kira to take if she wants. Almost as an afterthought, she adds, "Hood can shift into a human? Why is he taking Caroline?"
 
Did she not listen to him before?


"I think they were going to break Caroline's dad out of jail or something. I was half-paying attention to their conversation really." Rhys looked at Kira with wide-eyed concern. He knew she was hurt and yet he invited her out. How stupid was he? Clearly very.


"Kira you need to go to the hospital, unless one of you guys can do stitches or something."
 
Kira looks at her and then ignores her earlier comment. She takes her hand and then looks at her, She slowly tried to get up. "To get her father out.." She said gasping as the pain only gets worse. "Oh I did it this time..." She said looking at her wound. She looks at Sheena. She frowns and then swallows hard. "Ugh I sware this is worse then a gun shot wound."
 
At the question, Hood tilted his head and gave a small huff. "Read your mind? No, of course not. However, whoever was with you left such an impression on everything around them. Something darker than the norm. Not well." He thought about this for a moment, then seemed to notice her fearful expression. "I don't mean to have scared you, but I really do wish to know the truth," he stated plainly.


Taking the moment of silence to look back in the rear view mirror, Hood blinked as he saw both May and Sheena running after the van. Scowling, he presses on the brakes, stopping quickly, but not hard enough to throw himself or his passenger for a loop. Cranking the wheel, he turned a quick loop and headed back toward the others, picking up speed as he noticed the commotion.


He stopped again, letting the van stay idling as he got out and surveyed the situation. Kira had fallen, the smell of blood stung his nostrils. Cursing, he moved toward them and leaned down toward the other. "You really should be more careful you know..." he said, but smiled lightly. Looking back toward the van, he held up on finger in a 'hold on' sort of gesture then turned back toward Kira. "If I try to fix this further, it could be very uncomfortable." His words hung in the air as a warning. He could help the girl, but it wouldn't feel pretty.
 
As Hood circles back to them, seeming irritated by the unnecessary ruckus they had been in the process of creating, Sheena's eyes scan over his now human features briefly, suspicious slightly, still. His words and tone serve to reassure her- who but Hood talked like that? As he walks towards Kira, offering his help to her, she meets the girl's eyes, shrugging.


"He pulled the bullet out of my leg. Felt weird as hell and kinda hurt too...but it was better than having it stuck there. It's just sort of sore now, but I probably heal faster than you do, Kira."


Her eyes drift to take in Caroline, still sitting in the passenger seat, and Sheena frowns as she observes her. The younger girl is sitting very straight and tensed, not looking at the others outside, despite the attention currently being given to Kira. She is staring at the dashboard, and she looks terrified.


What was with her now? Had Hood said something?
 
Kira looks at Hood and then looks down almost in shame. She sighs deeply. "Ok..." She said as if a child who just got in trouble. She looked back up at Hood and then looked at Sheena nodding. "I see...you probably do...I haven't been able to shift to help heal it since I got it." She said and then looked at Hood. "I will try to be more careful...I am sorry." She said looking away and then sighed. "I am ready if you wish to proceed." She said looking at Hood.
 
Seeing that Kira was being taken care of, Rhys backed away. He would let them do there things. He rocked on his heels and glanced at Caroline who was still in the car. Figuring he could not help contribute to helping Kira, he walked over to the young girl.


"You okay in there? Sorry your plans got delayed," he said. He didn't think it was Kira's fault and hoped the girl didn't either, but she had seemed to anxious about doing this to have something else happen that took precident over it for the moment.
 
Caroline, as is very typical of her while in a stressed out mindset, had actually managed to block out the entire dramatic scenario outside the car, and is genuinely unaware of Kira's injury and the others bumbling about attempting to help. Her thoughts had been hyperfocused on only Hood and what she perceived as his threat, on her heightened fear and anxiety. What if he did know? What would he do? What if the witch figured out that he knew? What if he wouldn't really take her to her father? What if-


When Rhys spoke to her Caroline jerked, almost screaming, and her face went pale. She had not seen him standing near her or heard her approach, and his voice had been a rude shock out of her dissociated state. She stares at him without saying anything, her heart pounding hard in her chest.
 
Stretching his new form and giving a small exhale, Hood looked down to meet Kira's eyes and gave a nod. Closing his eyes then, hundreds of black tendrils twisted forth from his back, pulling around his body and moving toward the girl's wound. They stopped, just before and the male opened his eyes, giving Kira one last nod before pushing the ropes of darkness into the wound itself.


They worked quickly, much quicker than when he'd attempted a quick fix before. He'd been fighting his Host then - now he was a creature of his own power; his own lifeforce. Re-knitting muscle, relaying veins, repairing torn tissue; all were done with quick and seemingly effortless movements. The creature withdrew the things for a moment, looking down to the girl before finishing his bit of 'healing'. "Are you alright?" he asked, tilted his head curiously, wanting to make sure he hadn't hurt the girl too badly.
 
Jason stepped out the door, taking in the surroundings of the day. It was blindingly sunny; whatever cold there was was easily dispersed by the brightness. He looked over at the other supernaturals there, the conflict between the Lycans much more immediate now that it was right in front of him; the indolent fog that had gathered around Jason disappeared entirely. He was a part of it too, after all, no matter how insignificant.


Jason stayed silent as he trailed behind the two older teens, returning Kira's smile gratefully and glancing over at Sheena, May and Devin as he went. When the latter received a blow for his words, there was no hiding the slight grin that appeared on Jason's features, but he turned away nonetheless. Probably no one had noticed.


And if no one had noticed then, he had been completely forgotten when Sheena and May began to shout and run. First Rhys had spoken up, and Kira had run after, all chasing the van like a scene off of an old cartoon. Surprised, Jason took off towards them; Kira was older and supernatural besides, but with her wound hindering her the boy could keep up. "She's right, It's Hood!" he called out, supporting Kira's statement, right on her heels. His proximity was why, when Kira fell, Jason just about tripped over her. With a shout, he tumbled to the side, managing not to hit the wounded shifter. He rolled when he he hit the floor, and popped right back up; with hardly a stumble, he called, "Crap-Kira, are you-"


But she was off again, towards Sheena and May. Unprepared, he fell behind her, wide-eyed at the blood she had left on the floor, and was about to run after when he had a better idea. Sheena was returning to help the girl; so he turned swiftly and ran back to the house. "Be right back," he muttered to no one.


He crashed through the front door and over a couch, entering the kitchen. He took a few seconds to grab two clean rags and wet part of one in the sink, before running back out. Jason made his way to Kira as fast as he could, noting that the others had already gathered around the shifter; he slowed down as he neared them, hands on his knees for a moment as he caught his breath, then pushed forward past the others to offer her the rags. "Kira-" he said, noticeably out of breath but not too winded, "Are you okay?" He extended the cloth along with the unnecessary question, glancing at Sheena and then back to the shifter. And Hood- Hood had com back in the van, asking to administer to her wound.


Suddenly feeling pointless and unnecessary, Jason drew back a little. Hood could do wonders more than a few damp rags; Jason wasn't living in the normal world anymore. He kept forgetting.


Kira had been kind to him. May was nice, but payed him no mind; Hood he had hardly spoken to, and Devin and Rhys he had hardly met. He wasn't even sure if Sheena knew he existed at times, and Caroline- well, forget Caroline. Of all the group he was beginning to like Kira the most. The rags were the most he knew to do, but even that had been useless. Jason looked sideways at the drops of blood on the pavement, and dropped a rag over one of them.


(Edited, and a bit added on to the end)
 
Kira stood as still as possible bu the pain was almost unbarible. She was a little relieved when he stopped and then finished his work. She looks at the wound. She looks at Hood as he asks if she was alright. She nods even though she was getting little relief from the now sore wound. "I'll be fine, thank you Hood....but you better keep our word and help the girl and her father." she said slightly smiling at Hood. She took a beep breath and then looked a Jason. "Yes I'm fine." she said looking at him.
 
May had been running towards Caroline in the van; the same confusion going through her head as Sheena's. Was this man Hood or not? But then she had been pulled back and forth until she ended up standing infront of a bleeding Kira. Her eyes widened and she dropped beside her instinctively, "Kira?" She spoke softly, her eyes taking in the wound, she opened her mouth to say that she needed stitches, but she was beat to it. When Hood arrived, speaking indeed as Hood, she grazed her eyes over his form for barely a few seconds before she took a few steps back, feeling as redundant as Jason. Speaking of which, she looked up as the boy came back. She smiled. He had brought back some rags. But then she noticed the rejected look on his face as he glanced at Hood and his magical healing abilities. Without having to think, she walked over to Jason and lay a reassuring hand on his arm, smiling lightly at him. Afterall, she had been a 'human' for 13 years, she knew what it was like, to feel so useless and, well...weak. She always felt weak as Siran. "Hey, thanks." She glances at the rest of the supernaturals before looking back to him, "I know it is odd, suddenly waking up one day and finding that things like, well, this exist." She gestured to the group in general, she glances to him softly, "But that doesn't mean that you're useless, yeah?" She looks at him for a moment, "I felt the same way for thirteen years. I was human too." May isn't entirely sure on that one though, whether she was human and suddenly got her powers at thirteen, or whether she was always a shape-shifter and never knew how to use her powers until she turned thirteen.
 
Sheena, as is usual of Sheena, didn't really notice Jason or his efforts in the background. It is not in her nature to pay much mind to someone who she perceives as neither a threat nor a very close friend, and though she considers Jason to be part of the "group", she, as Jason himself had noted, does not usually pay close attention to his individual actions. It is not until May notices Jason and reaches out to him, both physically and with her kind words, that Sheena takes notice- of course, anything May does, she'll notice.


Her eyes shifting to take in the rags Jason had dropped, putting together what he had intended to do, and listening to May's words to him, Sheena speaks to him too, though her attempt at a smile is still slightly hesitant, if sincere.


"I was human all the way until last year. Kinda a shock, to all of a sudden get this long lost cousin showing up and saying guess what, you're totally not."


But even her attempt to echo May's kindness towards him brings a faint shadow to her expression, as thoughts of her cousin make her think again of Devin's reaction earlier to her half Lycan state. It isn't like she cares what he thinks...it isn't like she cares what anyone thinks, not really. Except May, and maybe most of the others. To some extent. She doesn't care, really.


Then why does it bother her to think that everyone, human or Lycan, pretty much thinks like Devin does, that she's more than just unnatural, more than strange...what was that word Devin had used again, as though she could forget? Oh, that. Disgusting.


That.
 
"Sounds like the complete opposite of me," Rhys said, the bitterness of his tone clear. He did not hate humans or anyone on land. He just hated being yanked so hard from his home and placed on land and having no way to return. "I was a merman for most of my childhood and then suddenly became human. I think either way, it is very strange. To be pulled out of your nature element, either as a human or something not and then forced into a world you know nothing about suddenly." Rhys clamped his mouth shut, not really wanting to say anymore and shrugged. The familiar urge of just leaving was still there.


"Anyways are you okay Caroline? I didn't mean to startle you."
 
Caroline, beginning to breathe more normally after a few moments, nods very slightly at Rhys's words, but does not meet his eyes. She even physically turns her body away from him, looking at none of the others. She is afraid that if she catches their attention, they will sense or see in her what Hood had seemed to....and that, given the fact that they are all now speaking about their supernatural powers, some of them ones she had not yet known about, she has legitimate fear of what they might do to her, if they realized their deception.


Rhys is the last person she wants to be talking to her right now. What if he knows, just like Hood...would he do something to her, like he had to Jenny?


What if she can't earn their trust...what if they figure her out, and she can't help Jenny? Jenny won't help her then...will Hood? He had said she would, but she has no reason to trust his word.
 
Jason was startled when May touched his arm, but was able to cover it up fairly well. Life on the streets for such a young kid meant reacting quickly; it took all of half a second to snap to attention and realize there was no threat. In other situations, he would have been gone as quickly as a surprised rabbit.


He wasn't as skittish as Caroline, though, and recovered immediately. "Oh, uh, hey May," he said, resisting the urge to withdraw his hands; it wouldn't do it be impolite to someone who was trying to be kind. He listened, sort of surprised but attentively, as May consoled him, agreeing as he said "Right." Athough he was a bit uncomfortable by the motion, he smiled quickly to show his thanks.


His first impression of the shifter hadn't been wrong; May was as kind as he'd remembered her from the previous days. Jason was grateful that she had bothered to try and comfort him, and heck, she was right anyways. He'd never felt the need to prove himself, except just recently to try to help Kira; he'd always been content as a street-going ragamuffin and just thankful nothing worse had happened to him. He'd been able to tide over misfortunes easily. It made no sense, now that he was secure and a part of a group, to be jealous or feel useless. Who cared if he didn't do anything? It wasn't like the supernaturals were going to judge him.


Jason was intrigued by her last sentence, however. So to his age, May had been... Well, normal? She had gone through the same as...


Well, that was silly. She had gone through much more, he knew. But it was strange to think she once was a normal human. And that she was still kind through all of it.


Jason was much more skeptical of Sheena's consolation, but seeing her weak smile he didn't dwell much on it. She must still be okay inside, having let Caroline in and everything. In response, he shrugged; "Who knows? Maybe I'll end up being supernatural anyways."


He knew the chance was infinitesimal. But hey, he supposed it was possible. Hanging around all the werewolves and stuff might eventually have an effect on him.


Jason didn't know how close to the mark he was.


He offered the rag he still held to Kira; "D'you still want it?" He figured she might need to wipe the blood off or something.
 
May smiles as he responds normally, even speaking about becoming supernatural himself. She chuckled lightly, "Yeah, maybe. It is possible right?" She looked around at their little group, even including Caroline in her glances. She then noticed how rigid and frightened the girl looked. What was wrong? Was it something one of them had said? Was she scared knowing about their supernatural abilities? She mentally face-palmed, hadn't she and Sheena agreed that they were not going to reveal who they were unless necessary? May was so stupid sometimes. She looked back to Jason, "I mean, just looking around at us, I'm pretty sure we can say ANYTHING is possible." She then glances back to Caroline, the worry back in her eyes. Was she scared of them? May didn't want anyone to be scared of her, unless they were someone like her step-dad or Calius. Being scared of someone was such a terrible feeling that only those who deserved it should be put through it. She glanced to Jason, noticing that he was occupied with Kira. She then took this as her chance and slowly walked over to Caroline, noticing how she refused to look at them. She spoke softly, not wanting to startle her, "Hey Caroline? Are you alright?" She paused for a moment before speaking again, "You...You're not scared of us, are you?" She had a frown on her face, she didn't want the girl to be scared of her.
 
Still sitting in the car, Caroline notices May's approach only when she is near her, but this time she does not react as dramatically as she had with Rhys. She merely swallows again, meeting May's eyes only briefly before nodding quickly, attempting to straighten out her features into a smile. She is not successful, and her expression still appears strained, her fingers nervously closing themselves around her knees. Knowing how she must look, she tries to come up with a verbal explanation, and it is in fact mostly truthful.


"Yeah...just...you guys can do stuff that...I never saw before."


It's mostly Hood who's really concerning her, of course. Hood and his "knowing..."


Sheena follows May's approach of Caroline with her eyes. As with Jason, she had paid the other girl no mind once Kira and Hood's healing of her distracted her, and she realizes now, as May had long ago, that Caroline appeared frightened. Not that she blamed the kid. Any sane human being would be scared to find themselves among all of them...especially people like her, who were apparently so DISGUSTING.


Oh, shut up, MARGARET, she told herself with great disgust, even shaking her head slightly, get off of it already, who the hell cares what Devin thinks or says? It's DEVIN!


It's not as easy as that, though, and the connection between Caroline's apparent fear and Devin's earlier careless comment linger in the back of her mind as she too comes closer to Caroline in the car, attempting, as she had with Jason, to help.


"Hey, just because we're bigger, stronger, faster, and way more supernatural and un-human than you, and could kill you in like, three seconds, no need to freak out or anything, it's just your average every day group of outcasts, right?"


Realizing almost as soon as she says it that this, though meant jokingly, was likely not to help, she tried again.


"Hey, just because we're weird doesn't mean we're evil or anything, right? Just not really part of human life all that much, anymore. Forget street kids, forget runaways, we're the throwaways...and I think you get that one, huh?"
 
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