Street Kids

Rhys wasn't sure what to say to Caroline. She seemed really freaked out. But he could understand that. They were an odd bunch, but Rhys felt, beside Jason and Caroline, he was the least threatening person in the group. Sure he did admit to wanting to kill the Witch, but he had no real powers, he wasn't all that strong or smart or fast or anything really. Being human, Rhys had become plain and average, only driven by his need for revenge and, in the back of his mind, purpose.


He frowned at Sheena's statement that they were throwaways. He didn't like being considered that. But he wouldn't argue it either. He looked at Caroline once again.


"Don't worry. You'll be fine. It's a lot to taken in, but you'll be okay, I'm sure."
 
When Kira thanked him, the creature stood again, blackness twisting back into him. His form went back to the human one and he moved a little, as if getting used to the feeling. "I will keep my word. As for you, Kira, that wound will be sore, but if you do not reopen it, it should heal quickly. Just keep it clean and away from any outside interference." Nodding as if this was something so very simple, he turned back to face the van and the others.


Looking down over his appearance, he blinked a little. "Ah... sorry if this is quite a shock," he stated plainly, more to May and Sheena than anything. They'd not seen the change, but seemed to recognize it was him. Probably voice pattern, mannerisms, that sort of thing. All the sudden talk of humanity silenced his words, however. Standing there awkwardly for a moment, he shook away the thought and turned to see Caroline. Her face was still alight with fright and worry. Perhaps he had gone too far and too sudden with his words?


Giving a nod as if deciding something, he moved toward the van again and spoke to the shaken girl, after everyone else had finished, of course. "Now that this sort of thing has been dealt with and taken care of, we should go onto the next. I do not mean to seem forward, but, if we are to find your father soon, we should start off." Turning to the others, he tilted his head. "I suppose I never asked, but it is not an issue to 'borrow' the vehicle for such a thing, is it?" he asked, almost apologetically.
 
Caroline nods, giving another quick smile, but she still barely looks at Rhys. Sheena's words, however, do not seem accurate to her. Caroline has not been thrown away...Caroline is wanted, very wanted. She is her father's whole world...he risked everything to take her back, and now it has destroyed his life.


Caroline was not thrown away...she was taken away. She was stolen. And that is very, very different from the others.


Glancing towards Hood, she wonders without asking if they will be leaving again any time soon.


Almost as soon as she thinks this Hood directs their attention towards the car and their intended journey, and Caroline is relieved, though also still harboring deep suspicion of his intentions once they are alone. She begins to edge towards it, not waiting for the others to reply.


Sheena meanwhile glances around at the others, then looks back at Hood, shrugging. "Sure...I mean, we can steal another car if we need to."
 
May watches Caroline worriedly, not at all convinced by her words, not in the slightest. She glanced to the others, then at Hood. It seemed right now, people were parting separate ways - some for a simple trip to the lake - others to go break someone out of jail. The latter seemed more fun. She then glanced individually to Sheena, then to Hood and Caroline, "Hey guys, you want as much help as you can get right?" She glanced back to Sheena before looking to them once more, "Do you mind if I come with you?" At first she had been doubtful about asking them, did she really want to go back to Jail, even if it was to break someone out? Wasn't she scared of Jail? No. She thought stubbornly, Siran was scared of Jail. May wasn't. She then glanced to Sheena, her eyes secretly saying, 'Wanna come too?' She of course looked back to Hood and Caroline afterwards, waiting for their answers.
 
Now that they had figured out that Hood was not a strange man stealing a car or kidnapping Caroline and Kira was sort of healed, Rhys's desire to go down to a lake had returned. He looked at Kira and Jason, not sure if they still wanted to go with him. It was worth a shot.


"Hey Jason, Kira. You guys still up for coming with me. I can understand if you say no Kira and even you Jason. I can go there by myself. 'And then drown myself.'
 
Kira looks at him. She slowly stands. "I...Sure if I don't have to run again." She said slowly standing up. "I should be fine....I need to be more careful though." She said and then looked at Jason with a smile. Everyone suddenly was talking to him. She continued to smile when she turned to Rhys. "Oh Sheena and May...Thanks for the consern....you to Jason." She looked at them and nodded. "I will be with Rhys if you need me." She said and then held the wound on her side.
 
Nodding at Sheena's words, the creature's eyes went toward Caroline again, glad to see even a bit of relief on her face. He had not meant to frighten her so, but the question of just what was going on burned in his mind. One way or another, he would find out. However, before he could speak further or even move closer to the van, May spoke.


At her words, the creature smiled and tilted his head, but scowled inwardly. He didn't wish to get any of the rest of them involved in this... but if it was unavoidable, so be it. May's expression and the way she held the question seemed to say otherwise, though, and Hood could not help but notice this. "I would not be opposed to the company, but I must insist on taking care of this situation on my own. Once we arrive at the prison, of course," he explained calmly, hazel eyes of his human form flickering with black for just a second. "If I have assistance, there would be no way to tell just how strong my abilities have become."


As he answered, he noticed May's eyes move toward Sheena. Following her gaze, the creature moved his head to the side once more, wondering silently just what was going on between the two females. Quickly moving on to other thoughts, the male's words again cut the silence. "Whatever decision is made, it is imperative that we leave as soon as possible." Looking up into the sky, he lifted one hand over his eyes to shield the sun. "We should not waste the daylight. Traveling too late could rouse suspicion."
 
At May's request, Caroline looks over at her fast, assessing her, attempting to determine whether the girl's concern and offer was genuine, bred of a desire to truly help out, or part of some plan she couldn't yet figure out. But the other girl- Sheena- seemed to be taken by surprise by the offer...and when Caroline stopped to think about it, maybe it was a good idea. If Hood knew stuff, he wouldn't tell the girls in front of Caroline, would he? Maybe he wouldn't get around to talking to her about Jenny...maybe...


At the very least she would feel slightly more comfortable being in the car with two other girls, even if they were apparently also superhuman.


She shrugs, saying quietly, "Uh, that would be okay. If you came."


Somewhat surprised by May's suggestion, and her silent invitation for Sheena to join, Sheena takes very little time to decide this is a great idea. She totally wants to find out more about this Caroline and the whole thing with her dad, weird as the story sounds, and what better way than to spend more time around her? Not to mention, a jail break just might be kind of fun...and of course, if May's going, well...does anyone seriously think Sheena would stay behind?


Well, hopefully they don't think anything, hopefully none of them are connecting the dots. But Devin is staying behind, and that's more than enough motivation to go even if May wasn't.


"I'll come too," she offers, and before anyone could change their mind, she slid into the backseat of the car, gesturing for May to join her.


What she hadn't expected was to be greeted by the sight of the blood from the day before, streaked over a good portion of the van's backseat. Sheena stared at it, then, swallowing, turned to May.


"Uh...blanket. We need a blanket...to...cover this."


Somehow she thinks it would take a bit too much time to get to work scrubbing.
 
"Oh- yeah, the walk. I'm still coming," Jason said, lowering the rag he was proffering. Kira didn't seem to want it. He stepped back from the gathering, stooping down to grab the other rag he had dropped; great, now it had blood on it!


Oh. Well. They really should clean up the blood on the ground anyways, he guessed. How could they have missed the fact there was now red trailing across the driveway and the sidewalk? The boy dropped the towel again and soaked up some of the crimson liquid, trying not to think about how he was mopping up a liquid that had been coursing through Kira's body only a minute ago.


He frowned. There hadn't been a day since he met the supernaturals that hadn't involved blood. Maybe it was just becoming a subconscious entity to them.


Jason wasn't sure if that was funny or disturbing.


"Your welcome," he said distractedly to Kira's gratitude, looking up, "but, uh, before we all go dashing off, could you guys help me clean the sidewalk?" he paused. "Well, I guess a little streak of blood here and there might help discourage visitors," he said with a grin.


Blood. Man, there had been blood everywhere. The alley, the sidewalk where Hood was, the sidewalk where the dogs had took the body. The van after the rescue mission- the backseat must be crusted with blood. Kira had been covered with it, not her own but blood nonetheless.


Jason frowned some more. The old boy scout motto "Leave no trace" floated to mind. They'd make a shabby group of scouts, they would. He figured murdering people wasn't exactly a part of the handbook either.


Like the man he had- had-


Jason shut down his mind. He couldn't deal with it quite yet- he stopped thinking about anything, closing his eyes and staring at only the blackness under his eyelids. There was nothing else, he told himself. Just the dancing patterns that appeared if he stared hard enough.


A moment later he drew in a breath and opened his eyelids, before wiping another spot of blood away.
 
Rhys looked down at the blood as if he had not really noticed it before. He felt incredibly stupid not to looking at it not. After all there was a good amount on the ground. Maybe he was too focused on this own things that he hadn't notice? He didn't really see the body when he came upon the house before, but that was due mostly to exhuastion. Regardless Jason had a very good point. Rhys also had no inclination to deal with police if they saw the blood. It was hard to explain why there was no record of his birth and other things.


"I'll go get something," Rhys said, moving back into the house and grabbing some towels and a bucket of water. He then went back outside and began helping Jason take care of the blood. As he began cleaning up the sidewalk, he looked at Jason, curious. He wouldn't know how he would be able to handle a life like this if he was human. He did have a strange life himself, but Rhys had gotten use to it in a way. Maybe Jason had as well.


"You don't have to help us if you don't want to Kira since you got hurt and all. Me and Jason can take care of it and then we can go. Just...relax."
 
Kira looks at them and then chuckles. "Ok I may not be jumping at the idea of going with Hood....even though I really want to....doesn't mean I will make you guys do all the work." She said and then put a hand on Jason's shoulder. "You don't have to....I see how uncomfortable you are, it's my fault, really you don't have to." She said and then started to clean up the blood.
 
(Oh my gosh. That would be pretty fun to see. The gang getting question by police. Rhys has no record of even existing, Hood too I'm guessing. They'd probably try and get Jason's parent's in 'cause he's 13 and all, Caroline too. Sheena has some jail history along with May and who knows what we'd find out about Kira from it xD )


Although Hood smiles, May gets a slight feeling from his words that he is not entirely pleased. But then Caroline speaks up, and May looks to her. Maybe it would be best if they did go. She completely trusted Hood of course - as odd as that may sound - but Caroline might freak out at being alone with a 'parasite' or whatever Hood was. She nods, glancing to Hood first. "We'll leave the butt-kicking/Dad rescuing part to you." She gave him a smile, "I just, sort of want to get out of the house." She doesn't notice how bad that sounds if taken in another way. It sounds as if she can't handle the memories it holds. She nods as Sheena speaks, then vanishes into the house.


May returns, clambering into the car and throwing a blanket over the bloodied seat. But before she can pull the door shut, Devin is standing beside her and frowning lightly, "I'm coming too." She glares at him, "No. No you're not. Actually, I advise you to leave entirely." He glares back now, but you can see May's glare is full of hate, whereas his is just annoyance. "I'm not leaving you alone again." May rolled her eyes, "Oh look, you dared to chuck the word 'again' in there." She returned to her death glare, "Go away." "Siran--" "My name is May." He sighed, "May, you could get hur--" "Why should you care?" She spat her words angrily, a whole other May to the soft, gentle one. Suddenly May's long brown luscious locks were replaced with short, coal black ones in the shape of a bob and her deep, chocolate brown eyes lightened until they were a soft pencil gray, her full, rouged lips seemed to thin out slightly and her skin tone paled as her cheek bones rose up. Yet although her appearance had changed completely, Devin's attitude didn't seem to change at all, "I can look after myself Devin. Not to mention Sheena, Caroline and Hood are all here, so stop worrying and go away." Her voice had also changed. Devin frowned, seeming to have a quick internal battle before he opened his mouth to speak again. May could tell by the emotion in his eyes that he wasn't about to give up. She groaned before speaking to Hood, "Hood, please drive away." She brought her foot back and slammed it into his chest, not hard enough to hurt him, just hard enough to make him stumble back so she could grab the car door and slam it shut. She settled back into her chair as she slammed the lock on her own door, folding her arms and looking forward, "Back over him once or twice if you wish."
 
Caroline had watched this exchange with her eyes wide, darting between the blood on the seat that Sheena and May had just covered with a blanket to May and Devin outside. She had not noticed the blood earlier, and knowing that it still remains beneath the seat makes her stomach squeeze uneasily. Where had it come from...who had been hurt? One of them...or had they hurt someone else? She hopes it's Kira's blood...but how had Kira been hurt?


She presses back against her seat as May and Devin argue, her lips thinning out and her heartbeat speeding up slightly as she wonders if May will really hurt him, why she doesn't like this Devin guy so much. She can practically feel May's anger and decides to say nothing at all, hoping they can just get going, for real now.


Sheena too has been watching May and Devin, and though she can't say she isn't thrilled that Devin won't be coming- she completely is- she is not quite as happy as she would have thought, that May is fine with it just being the four of them. May looks angry still, unhappy, and as much as she dislikes Devin, as jealous as she doesn't want to admit even to herself that she is over the place he once had in May's life, over the obvious feelings he still has for her, and most of all, the fact that he happens to be the gender that has a shot of May actually having feelings for, she still doesn't like to see May upset.


She waits until Hood starts the car before she leans closer to May, saying softly, "You all right?"


(that would be fun...heads up guys, new guy will be joining eventually, he's posted in the sign up sheets. He will be a villain, not part of the family, so no worries about overcrowding and jostling to fit in yet another family member)
 
(Would be pretty funny. And yay another villian!)


Rhys, having decided not to repeat his words to Kira that she shouldn't help them as she was still recovering, sighed deeply. He looked back over at the van that was now pulling away. Devin was standing to where it had been, probably not in a good mood. Rhys cleaned for a moment and then, for no reason he could think of, walked over to Devin.


He studied him, not sure what to say. He didn't think anything would make him happy short of May returning and apologizing and giving him a chance. Still he didn't want to see him suffer. Sure Rhys was still technically an outsider, not knowing fully all the backstories, but Devin seemed okay to him.


"Are you going to be okay?'
 
May nods at Sheena, "Yeah, I'm fine." Her black bob of hair nods with her and she frowns lightly, tugging on the short locks, they grow slightly so that they are not so short and now fall to her shoulders, just brushing atop them. May is not used to having short hair. She glances back to see Devin and Rhys standing side by side before she looks back to Sheena with a shrug, "I just wish he would get the hint and go away." She looks forward, muttering now, "He seems to think I still need protecting."





Devin stands up as the car pulls away, glaring at the back of the car sullenly. He just wanted to make it right again. He knew she was still hurting, so why couldn't she forgive him and see the truth for what it really was? Then Rhys spoke beside him and he glanced over to him, putting on a weak grin he shrugged, "Yeah, I'm fine." (Hehe, that repeated sentence wasn't by accident! :D ) "I just wish she would give me another chance."
 
"It's not a hint, it's more like a command, a scream, a continued effort...is he mentally deficient?" Sheena asks, slumped back against the side of the car and rolling her eyes. "I mean, you've made it obvious you don't want him around. What's his problem? You're a big girl, you can obviously protect yourself just fine, and it's not like we would let anything happen to you anyway. Well, there was the recent kidnapping, but, you know, other than that," she adds in a sheepish mutter, before saying more firmly, "I'd kill before I let anything get you. Again. What makes him think HE is Mr. Bodyguard, just because he was be-"


She stops herself short, not wanting to finish up with "just because he was before" with Hood and Caroline in the car listening. Instead she pauses, then adds quickly, "I'll totally kick his ass if you want me to. I mean, he's got an advantage in size, but if I had a weapon or something. Or go for the groin." She grins at the thought, only half joking. It has definitely crossed her mind that the reason Devin won't leave is he can tell that May doesn't REALLY mean it, deep down, and she's still hoping May will disprove this.


Caroline has been listening carefully, and without turning around in the passenger seat she says to May suddenly, "He loves you, doesn't he? And that's why he won't let you go? You know, when people love you....they might get taken away. You shouldn't just send them away."
 
Jason managed, again, to be hardly startled when Kira touched his shoulder; he felt to him like he'd had more hands on his shoulder the past day than all the rest of his life. He looked up to see the shifter, and was suddenly reminded of Kira's hawk coming to perch on his arm in the alleyway back in the city. At the time he'd been more concerned about the talons digging through the fabric of his shirt, but it had been a strangely uplifting moment. Being in a supernatural world didn't just mean blood and fighting and isolation. There was awesome stuff too! He'd transcended Jason in the real world for a moment; he'd had a wild bird of prey on his shoulder in the middle of a city. Take that, world!


Then the claws had really started to hurt and he'd flailed the hawk off of his arm.


"No one here is going to blame you for bleeding on something!" Jason said, smiling despite himself. Kira's tone had been solemn, so he wiped the expression off of his face quickly. "I'm not, uh, uncomfortable about the blood, I was just.... Reminiscing." Jason remembered learning the word from that genius friend of his. Michael. He dipped his rag back into the bucket of water, watching the blood bloom out into the liquid; "I mean, there's not that much to clean, and it's more important to get your wound, uh, bound or something, right?" He wondered how they'd go about binding a wound like that. Wrap an old shirt around it?


Jason went over the events leading up to the eagles in his head. He'd ran from the baker's son. He'd met Kira, the... The talking cat. Hood had creeped everyone out majorly. Sheena had wolfed. Kira's demon enemy had dropped in, losing three men to the girls' claws. Hood had been injured after... Jason contained a wince... Stabbing the guy's shoulder through with a long nail.


And then the dogs had come to take the body, the rain had come to wash away the crimson, and the hawk had come to land on his shoulder. Was that really all that had happened that day?


Jason scrubbed at a stain.


(edited eagle for hawk)
 
*In a black SUV a few hundred yards behind a man with a camera is taking pictures with a high resolution long range lens* {Click Click}


Vince: Keep up lass you're gonna lose them.


Kendra: There is no way I'd lose a bunch of kids in a van, now shut up and let me drive.


Vince: Fine fine...Look at me a with me camera I'm like a bleedin James Bond here, I can see the pimples of the brats with this camera even this far away.


Kendra: James Bond? Ha you be more like James Clueless..Now send what we have to the boss.


Vince: Right! *Pulling out his phone and dialing* Boss I'm sending you some pics I think we found your lost lamb. *Using the Wifi on the camera the pics are sent to another Suv parked in the city, a very well dressed man sitting in the back opens as laptop to see the pics of the kids in the van, then one clear pic of a girl peaks his interest, he smirks*


Christian: Well well, my little Sheena you've sure grown since the last time I've seen you.


Vince: Boss, do you want us to grab the girl?


Christian: ABOSOLUTELY NOT, IF EITHER OF YOU TOUCH HER I'LL EAT YOUR HEART OUT OF YOUR CHEST!...I mean no just follow her, keep her out of danger till I get there and I'll bring her into the pack myself.


Vince: Yes boss, we'll keep an eye on her at all times.


*They both hang up, Christian continues to stare at the picture of Sheena*


Christian: Little Sheena, I will have what your mother denied me or I'll destroy you!
 
Kira sighed deeply and then nodded. (Was it an Eagle? Hmm I was thinking it was a hawk...hmmm) "I can blame myself. I should be more careful." She said and then sighed. "For me....being like this is very dangerous...and making the wound worse can be life threatning to me...after all I can't shift now." She sighed and then rubbed her head. "Because of my carelessness I caused a dear friend of mine to die right in my arms. Being careless I got this wound from my stalker friend." She sighed. "And just bleeding....well you'd be amazed how far a drop of blood goes in my line of work." She said looking down.


She suddenly jumped feeling a wet nose on her arm. She looked seeing one of the dogs that hung around were ever she went sitting there. She smiled and then petted its head. "Hello boy." She said and then looked at Jason. "Of course I also get all these dogs on me with the scent." She said with a chuckle. "You'd be amazed how many animals you attract being a shifter."
 
Rhys didn't believe Devin but he was not about to say that. He still didn't know any of them well enough to get into a conversation like that. But he could sympatheize with the man in a weird way. He had never loved anyone. When he was a merman he was still too young to grasp the concept and that time was mostly a blur to him now. So maybe. On land he was too focused on returning home to ever really connect or even be around other people. But he did love his home and to be denied something you loved. Well it hurt.


"So do you want to help us with the blood," Rhys said, motioning to the blood. "Or not. Me and Jason and Kira are going to go somewhere after we clean it up. You're welcome to join us." Why not? He wasn't sure how the other two would feel with Devin joining them, but he liked the guy okay enough. Besides more hands meant a lesser chance of him trying to drown himself or succeeding.


'But why not drown? At least your death will be in the water just like your birth was.'


Rhys shook his head, pushing that thought away. No as much as he hated his life right now, and that was lessening, he didn't want to die. Not yet.
 
May looks at Sheena as she speaks, and as her words carrry on, showing Sheena's obvious dislike for him even further, a small smile grows on May's lips. She is still in her form, having her polished looking black locks of hair and light gray eyes. She knew by now to always shift forms when out in public - in case she got into trouble. Then Sheena mentions she would kill anyone if they tried to harm May, and she feels a growing warmth spreading through her. She liked, no, she loved that feeling. The feeling of being loved, not just for her appearance - which was the usual for everything that had a d**k - but for just being her. The only ever person who had loved her just for May being herself was her Mother, and even she was taken from her. Devin of course claims he loves/loved her for her, but May believed otherwise.


May laughed lightly as Sheena offers up some buttkicking, but before she can respond to Sheena's extremely tempting offer, Caroline speaks up. May turns her now grey eyes to look at the back of the younger girl, remaining silent as she speaks. She feels her fists clench before she relaxes slightly. It's not her fault, Caroline doesn't know what happened. "Yes, he does love me." She speaks rather confidently, she is sure of this because he has told her so often. "But. I don't..." She pauses before starting again, as if it is hard to say. "I don't love him." She exaggerates the 'don't' in that sentence, as if she is convincing herself, admitting it to herself. She pauses, frowning lightly as she looks down and lays her hands in her lap, fiddling her fingers. "I met Devin when I was thirteen, we started dating when I was fourteen." She doesn't look up as she speaks, she needs to explain to Caroline why she would actually be glad if Devin left, but she can't give away too much, so she speaks carefully, "It wasn't a good time of my life, and my head was messed up." She shrugs lightly, "I was just a weak little girl, I didn't know how to deal with anything or how to react normally to anyone. And Devin took advantage of that." She slid her gaze out the window, not yet ready to look at any of them, "It wasn't like he ever hit me or anything. He could be really sweet...." She paused, "But he messed with my head too. One minute he was telling me he loved me and that he would do anything for me, and then the next he was getting angry at me and punching walls." She bit her lip lightly, "He scared me. I was scared it would be me he would hit next. I never knew whether he was going to kiss me or break something." She breathes in, her hands slightly shaky before she clenches them, "So that's why I'm 'sending him away'. I can't have him around. I will never let him control me ever again."


Devin nods at Rhys, "Sure, I'll help." He then looked to him, slightly surprised, "You want me to join you guys?" He chuckled lightly, "Yeah sure, that'd be awesome." He picked up a rag, "Sorry for the surprise, it's just you're pretty much the first person here who doesn't seem to hate my guts." He tossed Rhys a grin, dropped down to the ground and started cleaning the blood that was closest to them.
 
Giving a nod to May as she mentioned leaving the rescue to him, Hood was about to drive away when Sheena mentioned covering up the blood in the back seat. He blinked at this, surprised and remembering. It was 'his'; or rather, his Host's blood. He'd been shot so many times, but felt nothing at the time. His Host's Lycanthropy, along with the violent surge of adrenaline had made sure of that. Snapping away from his thoughts as May returns and covers the blood, he nearly drives off again when Devin stops him. Slightly annoyed, the creature meant to say something, but was cut off my May's protest. Giving a not-so-hidden smirk when she kicked the male and slammed the door, Hood began to drive finally, heading toward their destination.


Almost as if reading Caroline's mind, Hood speaks up about the blood, eyes never leaving the road. "I am sorry for the mess back there. I fear it was I, or my Host at the time, that lost so much blood. Extracting bullets is a messy process that I would not like to repeat on myself. Difficult." His words going silent, he continued to drive, listening to the others carefully and quietly. As the girls speak of Devin and May speaks of the relationship with him. The subjects, both talk of May and Devin and relationships in general, caused a frown to work its way onto Hood face. And, as the creature looked into one of the rear-view mirrors, the frown deepened. The only vehicle he'd seen thus far was one that seemed to be keeping their distance. He wondered if he was being paranoid, but kept one eye on the rear-view cautiously.
 
Sheena smiled back at May as she noticed the other girl's softened expression in reaction to her declaration of loyalty towards her and opposition to Devin, glad to see her smile. She was just beginning to really get animated in her description of how she could hurt him, exactly, when Caroline's question interrupted. She shot a glare in the younger girl's direction, though Caroline couldn't see, wanting to tell her to shut up about things she knew nothing about, but May explained before she could.


Sheena noticed the emphasis in which May said she didn't love Devin, and recognized in the tone a tone she herself had used often, a tone meant to convince herself as much as others. The tone didn't thrill her...to her, despite all May's protests and hostility towards Devin, the fact that he was still present, even if not currently in the car with him, spoke volumes.


Her resentment towards him becomes rage as May continues to speak, and Sheena can barely sit still as May describes his controlling attitude, her nails digging into her palms so hard they actually cut her skin. May has hardly finished speaking before Sheena bursts out with her own short speech heatedly, her blue eyes appearing almost to glitter with her strong emotion.


"That b*stard! What a f*ckin *sshole...and he REALLY thinks he can just come around you, he REALLY thinks you should just take him back?! He shouldn't even be able to lay a hand on you! I don't care if he did save your life or anything else, that doesn't make it right that he treated you like that. That's the problem with men, they think they can do whatever the hell they want with women, they think they're their property and they can just take it out on them if they have a bad day or didn't get their sandwich fast enough or whatever else, they think we're all here to order around and smack around and laugh at, then after treating us like sh*t they think they can just come after us and we're supposed to actually want them to touch us, and if we don't, they think they can still take whatever they want from us? And people wonder why the hell I have no interest in men. People wonder why the hell I'm-"


She cuts herself off abruptly, her cheeks suddenly coloring darkly, and ducks her head, pressing her lips together, as she realizes the words that had been about to leave her mouth. This little speech has revealed far more of Sheena and implied far more of Sheena's past than she is comfortable with, and to announce anything about her sexual orientation, even just in front of Hood and the little Caroline girl, would be way, way too much. Especially since any talk of that would automatically lead people to look at her with May, and come up with possible conclusions she just did not have the ego to deal with.


Making herself look up again, acting like she'd never said anything at all, she says to May, "I'll totally hurt him if you want, however you want."


Caroline listens to May's story with a frown, her thoughts jumbled and confused. She had at first taken objection to May describing her thirteen or fourteen year old past self as a "little girl", since Caroline herself is thirteen. She is NOT a little girl, at least, not in her own mind. Lewis, her father, had told her over and over how she was a smart, capable young woman, how she was mature, and having no other person her age to compare herself to, nor any other person's opinion to compare Lewis's to, she had accepted his words at face value. If Caroline was no little girl at her age, then May wasn't either.


Still, as May's story continues, Caroline finds herself softening towards her, troubled by her tale. This Devin guy, he sounds to her like he is dangerous...like he would do anything to have or control May, to take her for himself. He sounds like the people who had kidnapped her, the Brinkermans...the people who had put her in this situation to begin with. She decided at that moment that she didn't like him, that even if the others weren't good people, Devin was the worst, maybe even worse than Rhys.


"You should send him away," she says with surprising intensity, her jaw set. "Why is he even still here? You should send him away. People like him are dangerous. People like him get people hurt. People like him and Rhy- I mean- people like..."


She stops herself abruptly, praying that no one noticed her slip of tongue or tried to interpret it.


(Legend, where is the witch atm?)
 
May is slightly shocked at Sheena's outburst, her swear words and her intense anger. But she completely understands it. Then Sheena carries on, and May finds herself mentally agreeing with every word she is saying, hiding her own reaction to the words about men 'just taking' whatever they want. She certainly understood exactly what Sheena was saying. Because, in May's own experience, she had yet to meet a man who actually cared for her properly, one who didn't just 'take what he wanted', one that didn't snap at her and show violence around her. Then however, Sheena goes on to say how she has no interest in men, and then her mouth shuts suddenly and she blushes a deep red. May glances to the front of the car. Her eyes widened lightly before she covers it up herself by glancing back to Sheena. Of course, Hood and Caroline didn't know, and she was sure Sheena didn't want them to know. When Sheena speaks again, with offers of hurting Devin, May jumps on this chance to 'cover up' what Sheena just said, "You can do whatever the heck you like to him." She is trying to act like she doesn't care, but there is a subtle hint of the sadness still in her eyes, she grins weakly at her, "Too bad he woke up before we could chuck him in the lake earlier."


May then turns her attention to Caroline once more, slightly surprised at the girl's intense tone. Hadn't she just been saying that she shouldn't send him away? Maybe her story had changed Caroline's view. This also surprised her though, she was used to people just brushing away her sob stories, telling her that it was 'no big deal' When she was laying on the floor with a cut lip and black eye, it was 'no big deal' And now here there were people acting like it was a big deal. Before she had any more time to ponder over this, Caroline spoke again, telling her to send him away...but then she compares Devin...to Rhys? Yes. She had heard the beginning of Rhys's name. The car falls silent, before May's - well, her new black haired form's - voice spoke up, "Rhys?" She frowned lightly, her voice confused and curious, "What did Rhys do?" She of course, doesn't know Rhys that well, only his reason for being here - the witch stealing his tail and everything - but she of course wonders if maybe he did something to Caroline.
 
Kira's ears turned into that of a wolf. She growls lightly at Devin. "..." She sighs and then watches her dog walk over to Devin and sniff him. "Of course....you take his side....trader!" She said to her dog suddenly annoyed. Her ears turn back to normal but her frustration was still plain on her face. She sighed again and continued her work. Her dog came back tail tucked, but Kira ignored him. She sighed again and then gripped her side. It wasn't that she hated Devin...he just irritated her.
 
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