Street Kids

(Awwwww!! Sheena! :D That's so sweeett! *Coo's over the cuteness*)





May smiled as Sheena spun, watching the happiness on her face and admiring how pretty she looked when her hair was flying behind her. She then began to fight the urge to laugh as Sheena began play mocking her, then, as she said 'good clothes' She burst into laughter, "Really Sheena? GOOD clothes?" Her laugh died down to a giggle as Sheena wrapped her arm around her waist and poked her nose lightly, practically beaming at the blue-eyed girl as she spoke.


She smiled when Sheena spoke of 'the little one' unable to stop herself from instantly applying those words to a different situation, trying not to think of it too much because she wasn't quite sure how any of that would work. Obviously if they ever wanted a kid they'd have to either adopt - not a very available choice what with their records and lack of records - or get a 'sperm daddy' So yeah, complicated.


Then Sheena told May that she was her heart, and instantly the girl tensed, pulling away as she changed the topic to showering. May smiled lightly at that, unable to think it was anything but adorable, and she reached out, cupping Sheena's face in her hands as she smiled at her. "If that's your way of saying I love you." She paused, leaning forward to give Sheena a soft, gentle kiss before pulling back and smiling at her, "Then you're my heart too."


She honestly felt that one, and you could probably hear it in her voice. Although she was entirely new to this whole, liking girls thing, and new to this relationship in general; she meant it completely and utterly. Sheena was the first person, ever, who she felt truly understood her, the first who made her genuinely happy. Of course she loved her.


She then smiled, let go off Sheena and spoke joyfully, "I'd love first shower once Caroline's done, if you don't mind of course."
 
(lol, cute Sheena is cute :P that was basically what I wanted...mind if we skip to getting to the boys?)


Sheena had had no idea how May would take her declaration. Hell, she didn't know what she herself thought of it. Was it really possible to love someone in such a short time? Was it possible that someone could love her back?


But...she and Sheena had shared a bed several times. They had talked about the pain of their pasts, about their losses and fears, emotions and anger. They had cried in each others' arms...they had saved each other's lives. They could calm each other like no other. May alone out of non-Lycans could calm Sheena, treat her without fear, when Sheena was wolfed out. May understood her in that short time more than Sheena had thought anyone ever could.


Yes...May was her heart. She had never thought that anyone could ever take even a piece of it again...but May had taken it all into her hand and squeezed.


But what would May think? She had only yesterday decided that she would date Sheena, and already today Sheena was making some statement of commitment...of love? Two days ago she had rejected her and said that she absolutely wasn't gay, that she loved Sheena, but "not like that..." and in two days, did Sheena REALLY think she could change that much?


But then May was cupping her face in her hands, smiling into her eyes. May was kissing her...and then, May was telling her that she understood what Sheena was trying to say. That she loved her too.


When Caroline came out of the shower, her hair wrapped in a towel, she looked over at May and Sheena on their bed quickly, noticing Sheena's smile, and frowned. In her mind, she was so miserable that no one else had any right to look so happy.


"You can go in now," she said, still watching them suspiciously. "You're smiling...have you guys been...you know...doing stuff?" She paused, then said uncertainly, "Um...what kind of stuff do you do?"


Figures May gets first shower dibs and sticks Sheena with a question like that.
 
(Nah I don't mind. Oh, by the way, if you mention them leaving, May would probably shift into the mum form, go downstairs and tell the lady her and her THREE daughters are heading out, go out to the car, then go back around to the side of the building, shift into a bird and fly back up into the room, then shift into herself and go downstairs with Caro and Sheena, complicated, but fun and necessary, as May would put it.)





May looked to Caroline as the girl exited the shower, hair in towel and a frown on her face, she asked a question that indeed made May blush a rosy pink. "Uh.." She jumped up, still holding the dress as she pratically bolted into the bathroom, pausing to stick her head out from around the door and stick her tongue out at Sheena while Caroline wasn't looking, calling back with a, "Sheena will tell you! Taking a shower!" Before shutting the door and hopping into the nice warm water.


Yup. Picking the first shower was definitely a good choice.


(Sorry for the short post, just wanted to squeeze that in before you time skipped xD )
 
As Caroline looked at Sheena expectantly, Sheena immediately looked away, her face nearly as red as May's. Yeah, there was no way she was giving this kid an extensive sex ed...she was what, twelve? She had enough time to figure this out all on her own...right? Right. Or at the very least she could read some books. Yeah, yes, book reading was definitely in order.


"Um...we...well, we, we talk," she started awkwardly. "And we...say nice stuff...and...hold hands...and...wow, those beds look like they're good for jumping!"


She sprang up on her and May's bed and began to bounce at first just to distract Caroline, then because it actually was enjoyable. For a few minutes Caroline just stared at her, but when Sheena jumped to her bed and tugged off her towel from her head, the other girl slowly stood and bounced too, tentative, then more fully. By the tiime May was out of the shower Caroline was actually smiling and bouncing almost as hard as Sheena, and Sheena felt very pleased with herself. Maybe she wasn't as bad with her as she thought.


By the time Sheena was also ready and they were making their way to the car, they had quite a lot of manuevering to do in order to check out without raising suspicion. May had to shift back into her adult form and check them out, being sure to mention that she had three, not two daughters just to confirm May's earlier fast talking. Then she had to shift into a bird when out of sight of the woman, fly into their room, and walk out as her own self, just to keep up the illusion anymore. Sheena just hoped the woman wasn't looking to notice that although the three "daughters" got into the car, no mother did.


It was May's turn to drive back, and Sheena wanted to sit up front with her, but deferred to Caroline in the end and sat in the back with her. The girl was not quite as miserable as yesterday but was still much more quiet and serious than usual, and it didn't take much to cause her to become on the verge of tears. They had four hours left to drive, and though Sheena tried to keep the drive light, talking and attempting to joke, the closer she got to May's house, the heavier she felt inside. Once they were there with the boys, everything would seem more real. Kira's death, Hood's absence, Jason's changing, Caroline and her loss...and once they were there, Sheena would be that much closer to having to choose to go with Christian.


By the time they finally pulled into the driveway of May's house, Sheena was actively dreading stepping out of the car.
 
"Actually I have a theory on the subject," Rhys said. He tried not to think of the Witch and what happened. Kira had saved his life and yet he couldn't have returned the favor. It felt like he cheated her out of something by not being there for her. But he didn't want to voice this amongst the three of them. "When the Witch died, I became a merman again." Rhys did not say that something was off about this. He should have completely return to his original form, but yet he was still humanoid with legs and all, yet he could feel his tail there as well, as if he could change at will now. It was weird for him. "But she had other powers. I was thinking some of them might have imprinted on you. You have some of the Witch's powers that left her when she died. After all they were all stolen in the first place."


Rhys also didn't say that they didn't return to their owner instead because they were likely dead. But who knew how often she did this. Rhys didn't want to think of it at all. Rhys saw the house and was happy. He just wanted to shower and sleep.


 
*Miyako, finally making her way back to the pack's place in the city, she quietly makes her way to her room, stripping off her dirty ninja outfit then walks into her bathroom shower, washing off the blood and dirt from the day's fighting, she now has time to think about what she saw, Sheena is no longer her rival she's seen how her and May interact, not even Christian with his abilities and step between true love if that was possible he would have been able to get Sheena's mother to be with him instead of the man she ended up with, what a stupid woman if she had said yes to Christian she would surely still be alive. What is bothering her is Hood, he is unlike anything she's seen before, the power and anger pulsing off him still gives her a chill, she must report what she saw to Christian cause she doesn't think Christian would be so confident about defeating this Hood creature if he knew what she saw.


As she steps out the shower and reaches for a towel her hand comes back empty after it's pulled away from her, she looks in the direction it went and sees him, Christian, dressed in a perfect white suit it probably cost enough to feed a hundred people back where she came from but that didn't bother her, because he own clothes were just expensive.*


Christian: How rude, you sneak back in without a word and even worst you shower without inviting me to join, you could have at least invited me to scrub your back, my dear Miyako. *Grinning as he steps forward sliding his arm around her, leaning in deeply kissing her. Suddenly she fears that Sheena may not stand a chance against Christian..Hood may not stand a chance against Christian, the power and the confidence that flows off him is unearthly and eerie, this is more then his power as an Alpha, this is him..just him and what's worst about Christian's power is he's barely in the top 15 of the most powerful Alphas in existence, he's what human's call Middle Managment, but with Sheena as part of the pack he can move up in the ranks, return to his original seat of power before the exile, Miyako swore two things to herself, to help Christian regain his seat and to become his mate for life.*


Miyako: I apologize for not coming to you directly but I didn't want to soil you with the filth from today's battle. I have much to report about Sheena and the ones she travels with. *She goes on to fill him in about what happened and what she saw with Hood.* Anyway I advise caution when dealing with that one.


Christian: I see, well that is interesting I seem to remember stories of such creatures in anicient text, very versatile creatures, very hard to kill, I take your advice and thank you, my love. This Hood fellow is dangerous, I think we'll need to prepare a reception for him if we ever cross his path again...I'll need you to gather some things for me once you've rested, take Vince with you..Miyako, you've done well I'm very happy with your results, so tonight you will share my bed with me.


*Leading her behind him out of her room and down the hall to his chambers, Miyako tries to hide the huge smile on her face as the doors close behind them.*
 
Jason gave Devin a skeptical look when he related the story. "I... uh, disappeared?" The boy scratched his head; "Well, uh.... If I did, I definitely didn't do it on purpose."


He took the right turn, then the two other turns he had predicted earlier. He was listening avidly to Rhys' explanation, wanting to explain the strange things that were happening to him; a small part of him felt glad that something was distracting him, but he tamped that feeling down. It only served to remind him about Kira.


Jason gave the merman a curious look when he finished talking. "So, now I have superpowers?" He stopped for a moment, then asked, remembering Devin's side of the story; "You mean I can teleport? What?" The boy was incredulous. "What sort of things could the witch do?"


They were at the house. Jason crossed the driveway without thinking, and had a hand on the doorway before he remembered who had just died here. With a blink, he shook his head and sharply pulled open the entry way.
 
As May pulled into the driveway, shutting off the car's engine, Caroline sat up straight, craning her neck to see the out the window and up the driveway. Jason, Rhys, and Devin were at the front door, as though they too were only now returning, and she pointed, calling out to May and Sheena.


"The boys are still here...so...are we gonna stay here then?"


The unspoken question is "for good," and Sheena hesitates, glancing at May as she replies.


"Caro....what about your...well, those people, they're your real parents, right? So...they probably miss you and are worried...are you sure you dont' want to go back to them?"


She was sorry she had spoken when Caroline immediately drooped in her seat, her entire body seeming to wilt at the reminder of the Brinkermans- her real parents, the people she had formerly believed to be her abductors- and likely Lewis as well. She should have learned by now to leave heavy conversations like that, the ones that would probably result in tears, to May, who obviously was better at carrying them out.


"You don't want me to stay?" she mumbled, her chin practically touching her chest, and Sheena looked at May again somewhat helplessly before trying to awkwardly clarify herself.


"No, Caro, just...you know...they're your parents. We...May and me, and the others...most of us...we don't really have that, you know. Parents who worry about us and would want us back."


Her wish that she had kept her mouth shut only intensified as Caroline's lips pressed together tightly, and tears rose to her eyes.


"You don't want me to stay around...you want me to go back to...them?"


"No," Sheena said quickly, and was somewhat surprised to realize that it was true. "No, just...maybe...you know, they're worried..."


"I don't even know them," Caroline interrupted, and her voice was growing higher and tighter, a couple of tears escaping. "I don't know them, I know they're my...parents...but they don't FEEL like it, and I don't know them, and they'll want me to be like they want and I can't be, I'm not. They won't get it, and I don't...I don't even love them. They're my parents and I don't even love them, I love him more and he was...I love him MORE and that's not...it's not right...I can't go back, I want to stay here. I want to stay with you."


A few more tears escaped, and Sheena looked again at May for help, biting her lip. Damn it, her big stupid mouth.


"Caroline...sorry...I'm going to say hi to the guys," she muttered, completely sticking May with this one.


Getting out of the car hastily, she called out to the boys, waving too.


"Hey!" she almost ran towards them, giving a brief, somewhat awkward smile as she came to stand in front of them. She had a strangely uncharacteristic urge to hug or touch them, and made a quick gesture forward with her hand, but then withdrew it at the last second. "We're back...uh...are you guys all right?"
 
"Um... I think she had some kind of persuasion power," Rhys said, trying to recall the fight that had happened earlier. He tried to remember what she had done. "Maybe water-type power as well. I'm not sure." Rhys worried for a moment as the irrational thought of what if Jason had got his tail instead and that was why he didn't return to his original form. But that made no sense and Rhys could feel himself as whole now. He shrugged though. "Sorry I can't be more help."


He watched Jason open the door with a little more force than necessary and then heard Sheena's voice nearby. It seemed the rest of them had returned. He looked at Jason and then at Devin, his face going a little pink, then turned to Sheena.


"We're....okay," Rhys said, not sure if he believed that. They were okay in the sense than none of them were injured, but Rhys could tell they might not be all okay emotionally. "How about you guys?"
 
Sheena looked the three of them over, trying to assess how they were by how they looked physically, because she knew as well as Rhys that none of them could really be okay, not REALLY. None of them looked any different than usual from what she could tell, but that meant little. Surely she looked not so different from usual either, and yet she felt as if everything in her life was changed now.


And now Rhys was asking how they were...well, that was definitely a question without any certain answer.


Sheena glanced back at where May and Caroline were still seated in the car before responding with a shrug and sigh, deciding that blunt truth was the only way to go with this one.


"Well, Caroline is in the car right now crying because I suggested maybe she should live with her parents who are probably going out of their mind worrying over her because she still loves the sick perve who kidnapped her and lied to her all her life and also didn't teach her a single thing about sex while he was at it, probably because he planned to teach her in an all too hands on manner eventually. I've been being stalked by a pack of violent Lycans for a few days now because they all want me to go live with them and learn how not to kill people, and the worst one probably wants to marry me or screw me. We blew up a prison and killed a lot of people in there, we were in the middle of a shooting at a diner, Hood morphed into a huge monster and took off, and any day now I'm gonna have to go with the Lycans or else they'll kill us all. Oh and Caroline wants to live with you guys and you'll have to figure out how to take care of her since May's going with me to the Lycans. Also, she's not thirteen, she's actually only twelve, so Jason, you aren't the youngest anymore. Oh, and on the plus side, May and I are dating now."


She adds the last part with a smirk, looking directly at Devin. "But yeah...that's how things are."
 
Jason was walking inside, thinking over what Rhys had said- the witch had, after all, managed to persuade her enemy to walk straight towards her somehow. And teleport. And attack with water. "No, it's fine," he said. "You explained a lot." Like how he'd been able to talk the two thugs aside.


Before the boy managed to completely cross through the doorway, however, a noise from behind alerted him to their van's arrival. Jason spun around, watching the vehicle cut to a stop in the driveway; May was in the driver's seat. Sheena was the first to hop out, quickly approaching them. She sounded like she was in a good mood. "Hey, Sheena!" he greeted.


Rhys answered the girl's question for them all, then inquired about the other group. Jason stepped back out to be fully on the pavement again, and was immediately bombarded by Sheena's tale. More about Caroline than he'd ever thought he'd know- and what? What about sex- wait, there were Lycans after them? Oh, well, there was sex mentioned again. They had destroyed a prison? A shooting? Hood? Caroline? She... Oh, well, so he wasn't the youngest anymore. Cool... He guessed?


Jason's mind leaped from one thought to another as he tried to follow Sheena's speech, making him look over the Lycan's shoulder at May when she finished- then Devin- then back to Sheena. As his head raced to analyze all the new information, the boy half-raised his hand tentatively and responded:


"Well... Uh... I can teleport now." He looked at all he surrounding faces in turn, then made a shrugging motion before going inside.


Jason was reminded of how he'd disliked Devin so much- before all this Witch stuff happened- and felt guilty when he recalled how the Lycan had saved him from the thugs, who the boy still believed he might have maybe been able to outrun them anyways. Possibly. This also brought him to thinking about Sheena and May, but Jason glanced over that quickly because there were more important things to process. For one, he also felt guilty about being so negative towards Caroline, if she really had been raised by... Uh, a kidnapper pervert person. And then there were more random supernatural things after them- because the witch and May's kidnapper and the demon that killed Kira wasn't enough.


Right, Kira was dead.


Jason slumped on a couch, exhausted.
 
"You guys are leaving again?"


Rhys had listened silently though it all. He looked at Jason when he went inside and sat down. He felt really bad for the boy and he wished there was something he could do to help. He felt like he was to blame in a way as well. If he hadn't drowned, they would have been more alert. Devin might have seen the demon sooner or Jason would not have gotten his powers and might have been alerted sooner as well. Rhys also felt to blame for not realizing it until it was too late. How could he not save the life of the girl who had saved him? It felt wrong to him.


But the merman was also distracted by Sheena's story. It sounded bizarre and he wasn't sure how to react to most of it. Rhys could feel the sense of him not belonging creep up. Maybe with the girls minus Caroline gone, he could just leave. Caroline wouldn't care, Jason was too distraught to do anything or even care at the moment, and Devin... Rhys looked at the man. He had heard what Sheena had said and a part of him was happy, relieved. But he had to remind himself that just because May was off the market, he still didn't stand a chance with Devin.


He looked down at his feet. Maybe leaving would be best. He could finally return home after all.


"Sounds like an adventure," Rhys said with a nod. "But doesn't sound all that fun either. I hope you know what you are doing." He didn't know why he said that but he felt like he had to say it. Even if he might go, either if he didn't like them all particularly well, he didn't want to see any of them die. Not after what happened to Kira.
 
Sheena smiles at Jason as he greets her, surprised but pleased that he actually sounds like he thinks it's nice she's back. She had had the impression that Jason either didn't much like her or else didn't care about her one way or another, but maybe that was just Jason.


As he raises his hand, rather like the middle school student that he is or more accurately, should be, Sheena looks over to him again after her long-winded explanation. He's gone not long after his sole contribution of news, but she's still impressed by his sharing and looks to Rhys and Devin, eyebrows raised.


"Jason can teleport? Really? Can he...do it without landing on someone's head or leaving half his arm behind? 'Cause I've seen him with guns and it's scary...scarier than the average person with guns, which is bad enough." She glances again towards where he's disappeared into the house, lowering her voice, though he can't hear her from where she is outside. "Is he okay?"


Looking to Rhys again when the boy responds to her, Sheena nods in reply to his asking if she and May would be leaving again, exhaling. An adventure...that was one way of putting it. "Slow approaching torture" sounded more accurate to her, though, and she bites her lip slightly as she looks back towards the car, hoping that May will emerge with Caroline soon.


"I don't exactly want to go...I kinda don't have a choice, though. Rhys...you guys will take care of Caroline, right?" she says with some intensity, and even includes Devin as she looks between them both. "She's just a kid and I don't think she's gonna go home. We can't take her, it would be too dangerous...so...you guys will make sure she's all right?"


She glances back at the car again, then calls out in a louder tone. "May, everything okay?"
 
May had decided that she hated driving. If you were to ask her what she disliked about it, she would say everything. Not only did she have to focus on the road the WHOLE time, her body became stiff from sitting in the same place for so long, she constantly had to look out for road signs and she had to worry about stupid drivers cutting her off or not indicating when they needed to.


Yeah, someone else was driving next time.


When they finally pulled up, May immediately stretched out, looking back over her shoulder at Sheena and Caroline. She falls silent as Caroline asks about staying, and lets Sheena take the reins on this one. She watches carefully as Sheena answers....and mentally facepalms when Caroline shows a negative reaction, her whole body seeming to cave in on itself.


Then Sheena looks to May after Caroline's mumbled words, and May looks back with the same expression. This was becoming tearful quickly. May ignored the stung as Sheena spoke about having parents who wanted them, parents who worry about them. May did, no, Siran did. She had a loving mum, one who would do anything for her beautiful baby girl, and her Father, well her Father wanted her too much, in the wrong way, and he never worried about her. But she quickly shoved those depressing thoughts away and came back to reality just in time to hear Caroline declare she didn't know her own parents.


Then Sheena bolted, and May decided she was so going to get her back for doing that. She sighed lightly, almost in a motherly way, and clambered over the seat and into the back of the car. "Sshh, Caroline." She spoke softly and did not yet pull the girl into a hug, thinking maybe she wanted some space, but she did sit beside her, trying to gain the younger girl's eye contact as she spoke, "Don't worry Caroline. You can stay with us, ok?" She wasn't just saying this to get Caroline to stop crying, she did honestly mean it. As different as her situation may be, and it WAS different, she understood what it was like to not want to go back, ever. Sure they may be your parents, or parent in her case, but whether they were your family, well that was different. And she couldn't make Caroline go and stay with people she didn't love, people who she didn't see as her family.


"You don't have to go back to them, you can stay here with us. We can't make you do anything you don't want to, and I wouldn't want to make you do something you don't want to do anyway." She paused now, trying to be careful as she spoke, not wanting to cause another tear fountain, "But you should maybe call them, at some point. We could do it from a telephone box, or a withheld number, that way they can't track your location." She paused again, voice gentle, "Just to let them know your safe, that you're not injured or worse."


When Sheena calls to them from outside, May leant out the window, "Yeah, just give us a second." She called back before looking back to Caroline, wondering how she would react. Would she agree to call them?


-------------------------


Devin followed Jason and Rhys back home, well, what they called home anyway. He didn't stop to think how weird it was that Jason already knew the way back, he was infact so enthralled with the idea of Jason receiving superpowers from the dead Witch that he didn't even notice. "Wait a minute? So Jason got powers from the witch's death?" His eyes widened, "I'm not gonna suddenly teleport to Texas or something right? Or the middle of the sea? 'Cause that would suck."


They were about to enter the house, the same place Kira had died, when a voice was heard behind them and Devin looked around to see Sheena sprinting over to them. He instantly tensed up, remembering Sheena's strong dislike of him and how she had managed to plot with May to try and throw him in the lake. Devin blotted out most of Sheena's words, only actually listening when she spoke May's name. Then she announced they were dating.


His eyes flickered over to hers, widened, and he noticed the smirk as he stammered out his words, not trying to hide his shock in the slightest, "W-What? You..You're dating?!?!" He glanced to the car then Sheena again, "But..But May's straight! And..and..." He trailed off, about to say that he loves her, but that would be a bit too forward. So he instead stood, almost shocked still as his eyes constantly flickered to the car and back to Sheena throughout the remainder of the conversation.


Then Sheena is looking at him, asking if Jason is okay and talking about looking after Caroline. Yet all he can think about is May....and Sheena. Together. Not him and May. Sheena and May. Apparently May isn't straight anymore, and she clearly isn't single anymore, but Devin still loves her, but she loves Sheena. He looked back at the house, avoiding looking at Sheena or May as he spoke. Suprisingly enough, his tone wasn't bitter or angry, or even mad like he thought it would be, it was more...resigned, defeated even. "Kira's dead. I'm pretty sure he's not ok." Without even looking at her as he spoke, Devin turned his back on Sheena and Rhys and headed after Jason, going into the house.


He fell on the other couch, letting his head roll back and look up at the ceiling as he blinked. May's dating Sheena.


(Oh dear, does Sheena and Caroline remember May's little story about Devin? How she told the others that he was violent and 'messed with her head'? Welp. Good luck Devin if they do.)
 
Considering what May was telling her, trying to weigh its logic against the strong lingering emotions she was feeling, Caroline took several slow breaths, sniffing and wiping at her eyes with her sleeve. She looked over at May beside her, as though to assess her honesty in what she is being told. She would really let her stay with them...she would let her live with them? Right now, it's the only thing she can think of that might be okay, the only people she might feel halfway comfortable with.


She didn't want to call her parents...she didn't want to have to talk to them, didn't want to have to admit that they were right, that they had been telling the truth. She didn't want to feel guilty or ashamed, and she didn't want to feel sorry for them. She didn't want to hear the anger and worry, the fear that would color their tones. But...maybe they did deserve to know that she was okay. Maybe they did deserve to know that she was at least alive...and that she didn't blame them.


She was still afraid that they would find her, if she called, somehow. But if May said she could make it where they wouldn't, she guessed she believed her. So..maybe she should.


Finally she nods, sniffling again, and lets her shoulders slump. "Okay...I guess I will....but May? Can I stay with you guys always, then? And...when you go with Sheena, to that guy? I want to come with you."


**


Sheena's smirk deepens a little more as Devin reacts with astonishment to her announcement about her newfound dating status with May. Was it really so incredible that May might be attracted to her? Was it really THAT shocking?


Well...actually, yeah it was. Sheena herself would never have believed that someone like May would ever want someone like her. She has no idea what May sees in her...but that doesn't mean it's not deeply satisfying for her to see Devin's reaction to the news.


Still, the comment about Kira sobers her immediately, and her smirks becomes a somber expression as Devin follows Jason into the house. She bites her lip, crossing her arms in a self protective manner before going to see for herself what was holding up the other girls. Opening the car door, she says to May and Caroline inside, half leaned towards them, "All right?" then to May, in a lower tone, she adds, "Uh...Devin's not thrilled."
 
May watches Caroline as she seems to take in the information, relieved when she nods, her crying down to a sniffle. She nods at Caroline's first words, but as Caroline asks about coming with her and Sheena, to go see Christian, the dangerous bad-ass Lycan Alpha. Well....that's a bit different, and she frowns, looking down at her lap. "You can stay here Caroline, with us, for as long as you want to." She pauses, biting her lip lightly, "But...you'll have to ask Sheena about going with us." She looks up at Caroline, "It's her decision, not mine."


Just then Sheena decided to open the car door and speak to them, stopping May from saying anymore as Sheena spoke to her, she frowns at the words about Devin not being thrilled, and then it clicks. She frowns still, but you can see the recognition in her eyes, "About us?" She speaks casually, like them dating shouldn't bother Devin in the slightest. Of course, that is her view on it, "Why does it matter to him? It's none of his business really."


Anyone can tell even May's trip away from Devin hasn't softened her mood towards the male lycan in the slightest.


She then glances to Caroline and back to Sheena, "Uh, Caroline was wondering if she could come with us to Christian's...." She trailed off, already knowing Sheena wouldn't like the idea - especially as May herself wasn't keen on it. Christian could do anything, he could kill Caroline without blinking if he wanted to. The only reason Sheena was probably comfortable with letting May go with her was because May could look after herself; she wasn't so sure Caroline would far well against an Alpha.
 
"Because he thinks he totally owns you, why else?" is Sheena's scathing reply to May's question about Devin caring, rolling her eyes and crossing her arms. "He wants you, or at least to lead you around on his leash, so he doesn't want anyone else to have you. So he totally thinks it's his business."


"Didn't you say Devin was violent?" Caroline pipes up , her head raising to look at Sheena with some interest, and Sheena stiffens slightly as she is reminded of this. Looking at May, she says slowly, "Yeah, pretty sure she did." She doesn't ask, but the look on her face is a question that she does want an answer to.


At May's question about Caroline, Sheena's face closes off, and she shakes her head vehemently, then motions with her hands and arms as well in a swiping denying gesture for added emphasis. "No. No, no, absolutely no way no. No. You stay here with the boys, they'll look out for you. No way am I gonna worry about you there when it's enough worrying about my own self. No."


"But-" Caroline started, but Sheena cut her off again with another forceful headshake.


"No. Sorry, Caroline, but I'd pretty much rather you be stuck in a closet in this house than walking around that bunch of insane Lycans. No."


Caroline scowled to herself, her tears now totally forgotten as she reached to open the door and stalk inside the house, crossing her arms over her chest. Already she is trying to think of ways she can convince them otherwise, because she is determined that she will NOT be stuck behind like some little kid with the boys. Sheena backs up to let May out, holding the door open for her, and looks to see if she's following before making her way back to the house.
 
(May's little story about Devin is on page 95, if you want to refer back to it :D )





May listens to Sheena talk, a small smile on her face at Sheena's attitude, finding it amusing, then when Caroline speaks up, mentioning Devin being violent, May sobers up immediately, falling silent as her smile dropped. "Yeah.." She mumured, looking down again. "Don't mention it to him though, please. He never hit me, so it's not that much of a big deal."


She hates how she sounds like a pathetic, scared little girlfriend, but then she reminds herself that she is not. She is not pathetic, she is NOT scared and she is NOT Devin's girlfriend, she is Sheena's girlfriend, and Sheena would never, ever do that to her. Plus, May was a lot stronger now, mentally and physically.


May remains silent as Sheena tells Caroline she can't come, then as the latter storms off into the house, May finally looks up and clambers out of the car, following Sheena before she speaks up, "I'm glad you told her she couldn't come. It would have been hard to look out for her aswell. Impossible even."


She doesn't speak of Devin, and hopes Sheena won't.


-------------------


When Caroline stalks into the house, Devin looks over at her somberly, he barely nods at her, lost in his own dark thoughts of May and Sheena and even glimpses of Kira. "Hey Caroline, you alright?" He murmured, his mind not totally focused on his words or even the girl's answer.


(Hehe, I keep reading your posts Faith and picking up new words, I find myself always looking at one of them and being like, 'what's that?' and then looking it up and using it xD )
 
(lol like what kind of word? *didn't actually know I use unusual words*)


"Not a big deal?" Sheena counters, her eyebrows knitting together as May gets out of the car. "He tried to intimidate you, May. He was trying to control you into doing whatever he wanted even if it hurt you. Maybe he didn't hit you, but there's other ways to hurt a person...a lot of other ways."


Thinking of that is putting her in a darker mood than she wants to have, and she takes May's hand partly to try to calm down, partly in a sense of possessive protectiveness towards her, though it is highly unlikely that Devin would try anything against her now. As they walk up to the house, she looks back at her, saying quietly, "Caro's sort of a pain sometimes, but I wouldn't ever put her in danger on purpose. Really, I hate that I'm gonna be putting you in danger when we go. I wish...May, I wish I wasn't like this. I wish I could find a way to just take it out of me."


As they open the door, entering the living room with the others, she is still loosely holding her hand.


Caroline slouches against the wall opposite Devin, still folding her arms and scowling as she responds to him. She doesn't trust Devin, not at all, but at the moment she's irritated with Sheena enough to answer.


"They're not going to let me go with them when they go to the Lycans after Sheena. They want me to stay here with you guys. No offense, but you're all BOYS."
 
Jason lifted his head as Devin entered, watching him collapse onto a couch as well. He looked solemn, staring up at the ceiling. Because of Kira, maybe? The boy sat up a little straighter, wondering if he ought to say something; but... What was there to say, really? Could he ask him if he was okay?


No, that would sound stupid; the boy reflected on how the Lycan had healed his own wound out on the streets. He owed him at least some concern, though, and Jason had just made up his mind when the door burst open again.


It was Caroline, harumphing over something. Devin looked towards her and asked if she was alright in a distracted sort of tone (Jason felt, somewhat irrationally, like his line had been stolen), and she responded with a scowl. Jason found her complaint a little childish- same as always- but reserved his judgement this time. He really didn't know anything about her life.


"Hey," he did call out, though, "what's wrong with boys? Lycans are sort of scary anyways, to be honest." He hastily added on towards Devin- "No offense."


Her words had brought thoughts to mind, however. There'd been one exhausting episode after the other... And already, Sheena and May had found something else to dive into. They were going to see werewolves. By Sheena's description, they didn't seem to be all too well-meaning, either; how much more could the group go through before more people got hurt- or died?


Jason wondered where Kira was buried.
 
(figured after some group acknowledgment of Kira and some resettling as a group, would skip ahead some...is that all right with everyone?)


Looking over to Jason, still slouched against the wall, Caroline straightens only slightly as she answers him, her hair half covering her eye. She shakes it back in a gesture reminiscent of Sheena as she answers him somewhat cautiously now, eyeing him as though she is for once considering her words rather than blurting them out.


"Boys can't be trusted," she tells him. "They'll do things to you. Hurt you and try to trick you and take away what's special about you. They lie. And I don't really know any of you. May says that Devin used to do things to scare her..."


She is parroting the general consensus of what Lewis has taught her, but although she soon is reminded of him telling her all of this, she does not yet make the connection to his lying to her and his rather exaggerated lessons about the dangers of all boys. Her face falls as she thinks then of Lewis, and her voice drops, her crossed arms becoming more like a self embrace.


Sheena, having walked into this conversation, looks over at Devin quickly, knowing that he and the others must have heard this. Squeezing May's hand, partly wanting to avoid any conversation that might upset her, and partly wanting everyone to know exactly what sort of person Devin was, she paused for a beat, then said, "Uh...can we...where is...Kira?"


Caroline looks up then, as though just remembering unfinished business, and though she is still hugging herself, looking very melancholy, she says in a small voice in the general direction of Rhys, "Oh yeah. Uh...sorry about how I was going to give you to the witch...she lied to me. I didn't know she was lying...EVERYONE lies all the time. I don't even know how you're supposed to know the truth."
 
Rhys found he was hurt by Sheena's words a lot more than he had expected. He actually flinched and moved away, separating himself from everyone right now. So it was clear that Sheena would not care if he disappeared. She was going again anyways, bringing May with her. So it wasn't like if she did, she could do anything about it.


Devin seemed really upset about the whole May/Sheena thing and this hurt Rhys as well. Everything was just one blow after another and Rhys looked away, finding it hard to even try and bring himself to talk to any of them or participate in the conversation at all. He looked at Jason, the only one he thought he'd feel bad about abandoning. He was young and he had been through a lot. Kira's death seemed to hit him really hard and now Rhys was planning on going as well. Sure he was new and no one knew him that well. But the guilt was still there. Was it enough to make him stay on land? The merman wasn't sure at the moment.


"It's okay Caroline. She was very good at getting what she wanted. But she's gone now." Rhys thought about her question. "People do lie Caroline and it's not easy to know what is the truth and what is a lie. But if you want reassurance of that, then think about facts. Real, hard solid facts. Things you know are true. Like candy is sweet and delicious or there is twenty-four hours in a day. People may lie, but there is still truth around us."


Rhys wasn't sure why he said that but he wanted to comfort the girl in some way. Maybe he was going at it wrong, but he had never been on to say the right things.
 
(Somberly xD Never heard it before)





May simply shrugs at Sheena's words, not knowing what to say back besides, "It's in the past. He couldn't do that to me now even if he wanted to."


She feels herself clench Sheena's hand lightly as they connect, reminding herself that Sheena is there, that she's not alone. She looks up as Sheena speaks to her about danger, and she finds her saddened mood dissipating as she offers her a grin, "You're not putting me in danger Sheena. I could kick Chrisitian's butt if I wanted to. I could be Hood if I felt like it. I could even be Christian as a wolf if I saw him in his Lycan form." Then, as Sheena says she wishes she didn't have to do this, that she wants to just take the 'monster' - as Christian had referred to it earlier - out of herself, her grin falls and she becomes more seriously, her voice becoming quiet, "Hey, we'll get through this okay? Together."


-------------


Devin frowned as Caroline spoke her troubles, sitting up a bit straighter, he vaguely listened to Jason's words aswell and simply nodded at him, the distraction from his eyes now gone, "None taken." He looked to Caroline seriously, "May and Sheena are going to a Lycan pack? Alone?" He was clearly becoming a bit angry now, "What do they think they're doing? Are they stupid?" His voice rose on the last three words and it was just that moment when the girls decided to enter the living room. They obviously heard him.


He glances to them for a milisecond before looking back to Caroline, the anger soothed slightly as he spoke, "Jason's right. Lycans are scary, especially when they're in a pack 'cause there's so many of them." He frowned lightly, looking down as he remembered the other pack, attacking his own pack, his dad, his mum, his sister, all the others. "Too many of them." He murmured before looking back up, "If you were to go with them Caroline, you'd be dead within a day. It's safer here, even if we are all boys."


He paused then added on, still a bit lost in his memories, "Not all Lycan's are as nice as Sheena and me." He didn't notice how that may be taken as big headed, nor did he pay any heed to May rolling her eyes at him, he thought he was nice, he hadn't ever been purposely rude or mean to anyone unless they had deserved it, he hadn't hurt anyone who hadn't hurt him first. He didn't blackmail people unless they were going to or had blackmailed him.


(Ah sorry, just saw the time skip, could I squeeze this in before it?)
 
"We're not STUPID, we're doing this to be SAFE. To keep EVERYONE safe, including YOU," Sheena shot back at Devin, bristling at his flare-up. Turning towards him, one hand on her hip, she adds, "We'll be back. Not sure when, but we will be. It's four days from now. It might be a few days, maybe a few weeks...I don't know, maybe even a few months, if I have to live through a couple of full moons. But we'll be back. And I have a cell phone now, so if you guys stay around here, we can keep in touch. Caro, you can call any time you want, okay, keep these guys on their toes."


Caroline looks very much unsatisfied with this response, but she doesn't reply. Seeing no obvious protest from her, Sheena takes in a deep breath, then says, "If you...buried Kira somewhere...I'd like to see where."


(I will in a couple more posts, time skip)
 
Devin glares at Sheena as she snaps back, he stands up. He was now at stage two of accepting Sheena and May's new relationship status. Stage one, confusion. Stage two, anger. Stage three, who knows?


"Keep EVERYONE safe?" He growls out, he looks to May sharply then back to Sheena, "What about you two? What about May? You sure you're both gonna be 'safe'?" He grinds his words out, "You're going to a pack right? Not only will you have the alpha there, but more than a dozen Lycan's who'll do anything he asks them to." He looks to May, "You're not a Lycan May, they'll probably try to kill you straight away." May glares at Devin now, her words coming out sharp, "I can look after myself." Devin rolls his eyes, "I know you can May, but can you take on that many Lycans? They'll fight you even if they don't want to. If that's what the Alpha tells them to do." He looks to Sheena, "Even Sheena will. If she's told to."


May is still glaring at Devin and she takes a step forward, hand still in Sheena's, "I don't care what you think or say Devin. I know what I'm doing and I'm not letting Sheena go alone." Devin looks to both of them then, a dangerous glint is in his eyes - clearly visible to both of them - and for half a second he considers commanding Sheena not to go, to stay here, or to at least not allow May to go with her. But then the thought is gone as quickly as it had come and he shakes his head, "Whatever, your funeral." He drops back down onto the couch, muttering to himself, "Being a rogue is better than being in a pack any day"


For a few moments, he doesn't answer about Kira, but then he speaks up, not looking at either of them, "I buried her at the back of the garden, put some stones ontop of it and some flowers." He had actually arranged the stones with thought and picked some pretty nice purple flowers to lay on the grave.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 3 (members: 0, guests: 3)
Back
Top