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"Your right, Your right." he aid almost feeling as if he was reassuring himself more than anyone. "I really hope they dont go too far, its only going to get worse as the night goes, maybe they should wait out the storm, but then Malachi may suffer because of us waiting." he sighed.
Evan turned back to Alister, "Im..fine. im good, really." He gave Alister a weak smile. "Its fine by th ay, you dont have to apologize."
“Well, you answered my question.” Malachi kept his eyes on her, deciding to stand up. There was still a dull ache in the small of his back, and he groaned softly, his movements slow. When he got on his feet, he leaned on the cave wall to keep himself steady.
He decided just to accept whatever path Arden may take. Though her abilities would be incredibly useful in their efforts, she had shown clear disdain for the rebels, and joining the rebellion was always about doing so of your own free will. If she went back to the aliens and gave them away, well, they always had a plan for that.
Her silence concerned him, however. He shuffled over to her, the beast’s song echoing around them.
Talon murmured in agreement. He checked what he thought was Evan’s room, closed the door in dissatisfaction, then tried another.
“Okay,” Alister rubbed his neck, still feeling slightly embarrassed.
“Can we change the subject?” Noel offered.
The door creaked open. “Gladly, my dude,” Talon said, letting himself in.
“Talon!” Her eyes widened with familiarity, and she grinned.
“Hey Noel,” he waved to her and Alister, then went over to Evan. “Evan, my man! Glad to see you on the other side, eh? How are you? Dang, you’re in a wheelchair? How about that?”
He smiled, offering his left hand since his rightful arm was broken.
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“Well, you answered my question.” Malachi kept his eyes on her, deciding to stand up. There was still a dull ache in the small of his back, and he groaned softly, his movements slow. When he got on his feet, he leaned on the cave wall to keep himself steady.
He decided just to accept whatever path Arden may take. Though her abilities would be incredibly useful in their efforts, she had shown clear disdain for the rebels, and joining the rebellion was always about doing so of your own free will. If she went back to the aliens and gave them away, well, they always had a plan for that.
Her silence concerned him, however. He shuffled over to her, the beast’s song echoing around them.
it felt familiar to her, like she had seen it a million times, she probably had. She watched as her step dad approached her, her little kid self. He had just requested something of her, she knew exactly what he said scowling at him. She responded to him with, "I'd rather die!" he approached her slowly and scowl and glare morphed onto his face as he started at her like he would the scum of the earth. "Then why don't you." Had been his response, she looked at herself backing up into a corner as far as she could. she knew it wouldn't help, this sick pig still approached her. Kneeling down to be face to her terrified face, Just watching he event happen filled her with fear as if she were in the spot and it was happening again..She tried to vanish into the shadows but her step dad reached into the black shadows and pulled her out and standing up off the ground. He slapped her across the face, tears springing her eyes. He said something incohearnt before placing hands firmly around her neck and starting to squeeze. she clawed at his hands trying to break free from them. Spots dotted her vision she was running out of air fast. Then she heard her mom, "Mom…." she whispered reaching a hand out and her step dad dropped her, she banged her head on a table edge, holding her bleeding forehead her step dad left the room with a warning. "Dont tell your mom or else." she woke from the vision with a jolt.
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Talon murmured in agreement. He checked what he thought was Evan’s room, closed the door in dissatisfaction, then tried another.
“Okay,” Alister rubbed his neck, still feeling slightly embarrassed.
“Can we change the subject?” Noel offered.
The door creaked open. “Gladly, my dude,” Talon said, letting himself in.
“Talon!” Her eyes widened with familiarity, and she grinned.
“Hey Noel,” he waved to her and Alister, then went over to Evan. “Evan, my man! Glad to see you on the other side, eh? How are you? Dang, you’re in a wheelchair? How about that?”
He smiled, offering his left hand since his rightful arm was broken.
Trent walked in behind talon though he heard the conversation before they had even opened the door or gotten closed to it.
He waved at noel as he entered the room, tilting his head at Alister not recognizing him.
He walked over to Evan as well as Talon and waited for Talon to stop talking.
Evan gasped at Talon. "Talon hey! Its good to see you too! Im doing pretty good, im in a wheelchair becaus is worried about my wounds reopening if i walk or stand to much." He chuckled a little fist bumping talon before turning to Trent.
"Hey dude glad to see your still alive." He smiled at Evan ruffling evans hair, Evan gasped at the mutilated ears r the missing ears. "they cut off your ears?! how can you even hear??" trent hesitated at that question looking at alister then at Talon.
Noel answered automatically. “Technically he’d still be able to hear, as long as they didn’t mess with the part of the ear that’s inside your head.”
Talon almost didn’t register what she said, but he whipped around to stare at her. Alister stared at her too.
An amused expression crossed her face. “What? They had me learn basic human anatomy when I used to work in the med bay.”
Talon rolled his eyes. “Noel, we aren’t nerds like you, alright?”
She grinned.
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He chuckled at the interaction but as they were talking about it he'd have flashbacks back to when they litterally reached into his ear and ripped out his cochela, plus the three small bones in his ears, plus the Eustachian tubs in his ears, and the immense pain he felt when they were doing it. his almost felt his ears ringing but realize i was nothing.
"they did, unfortunately." he put a hand to his neck.
(Oop- XD)
Noel winced. “Ouch.”
“Are you alright?” Alister perked up, looking closely at the new boy.
“Oh- I should probably introduce you,” Noel stuck a hand out in front of him.
“Ali, this is Talon Pierce and Trenton…” she sighed. “I always forget your last name for some reason. Talon, Trenton, this is my brother, Alister. He came here with me from the prison yesterday, during the invasion.”
“Hey.” He waved at them, giving a small smile.
Talon tried to cross his arms over his chest before cringing and just keeping them at his sides. “Noel! You have a brother? I thought you guys looked alike.” He studied Alister for a moment. “You said he came with you from the prison?”
“It’s a long story,” she shrugged.
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'Yeah im fine." he kept the hand to his neck. He watched as Noel introduced them to the new guy who smelled like lab way too much for trents liking.
"your brother hm? how come we didn't know about him sooner?" he questioned not meaning for it to come out so serious and yet it did. he wanted to know where alister had been and why he hadn't been with his sister.
Evan reached out and put a hand to rent, rent turned and even shook his head and Trenton sighed.
"I guess if evan says your okay your cool."
(Me trying to figure out the relationships of these characters over the past three years: @_@)
She started fiddling with the daisies in her knuckles, avoiding eye contact. Alister grinned incredulously. “Aww El, you never talked about me with these guys?”
“Well I… I didn’t want to!” She retorted. Then her voice lowered. “I wanted to keep all that to myself. It would’ve been painful to talk about.”
“Sorry, sorry, I was just messing with you,” he threw a hand up, pulling her shoulders close with the other. “Sorry.” He let the word slip out again.
“It’s alright,” she shrugged.
I thought you were supposed to say ‘I forgive you.’ He was about to articulate that thought, but Talon spoke first.
“Hold up, hold up. Painful? And why is he here only now?” He looked between them, putting his left hand into his pocket.
She looked at the floor, still fiddling. “We got separated. We finally found each other during the prison invasion. That’s all you need to know.”
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Trent huffed a bit frustrated. "Well whatever it is I have something he does not need to see or know so if he could leave the room for a little bit so I could talk about it?" He asked, crossing his arms a bit.
Alister had been with the lab and there's no tring if he still had ties to them.
He didn't trust him
it felt familiar to her, like she had seen it a million times, she probably had. She watched as her step dad approached her, her little kid self. He had just requested something of her, she knew exactly what he said scowling at him. She responded to him with, "I'd rather die!" he approached her slowly and scowl and glare morphed onto his face as he started at her like he would the scum of the earth. "Then why don't you." Had been his response, she looked at herself backing up into a corner as far as she could. she knew it wouldn't help, this sick pig still approached her. Kneeling down to be face to her terrified face, Just watching he event happen filled her with fear as if she were in the spot and it was happening again..She tried to vanish into the shadows but her step dad reached into the black shadows and pulled her out and standing up off the ground. He slapped her across the face, tears springing her eyes. He said something incohearnt before placing hands firmly around her neck and starting to squeeze. she clawed at his hands trying to break free from them. Spots dotted her vision she was running out of air fast. Then she heard her mom, "Mom…." she whispered reaching a hand out and her step dad dropped her, she banged her head on a table edge, holding her bleeding forehead her step dad left the room with a warning. "Dont tell your mom or else." she woke from the vision with a jolt.
Malachi had his arms around her the moment he saw she was shaking. The memory of the last time this had happened floated into his brain, and he remembered he couldn’t really do anything to snap her out of it. He stayed beside her as she saw things only she could, whispering and shaking. The dream-like song came to an end, and Malachi turned to see the creature fast asleep.
Something else floated into memory, and so he took up the singing himself. His voice was smooth and low, and though the tune was sometimes softly off-key, he just pretended his grandmother was singing with him too.
”Je me souviens quand j'étais jeune,
“Les choses étaient lumineuses et belles.”
“Les yeux recouverts d'une lentille rose,
“Je pensais que ça durerait pour toujours.”
“Je t'en prie, tu resterais?”
“Si ce n'est pas à côté de moi,
“Alors à l'intérieur de moi?“
“Garde-moi entière…”
“Pendant que la rose tombe de mes yeux.”
He looked down at her as she woke, concerned.
Trent huffed a bit frustrated. "Well whatever it is I have something he does not need to see or know so if he could leave the room for a little bit so I could talk about it?" He asked, crossing his arms a bit.
Alister had been with the lab and there's no tring if he still had ties to them.
He didn't trust him
(Oooooooooo-)
Alister looked at Trenton, a little confused by his sharp tone. He understood his need for privacy, he’d asked Noel for it just a few hours ago. And considering all of the boys had come back from being arrested (now that he knew their names, remembered hearing them over the intercom in the prison, but they were separated to different areas, so Evan was the only one he saw), they would obviously have things to talk about.
Still, it felt exclusive.
He stood. “Alright. Um, nice to meet you.”
Noel watched him go, a frown edging its way into her features. Talon also stared skeptically after him. Noel faced Trenton.
“Trenton, what happened? Why did he need to leave? I know I didn’t say much, but I promise my brother is not an enemy.”
Her steel eyes bore into his, almost trying to dissect him.
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Trent huffed, now he looked like the bad guy when he was just looking out for everyone.
"Talon don't stare at me like that you know why." he huffed, before reaching up to his dirtied cap and pulling it off.
His fluffy wolf ears unfurled and popped out twitching every which way.
"I wanted to tell you two about the wolf ears, and i didnt want it to spread past you two so i asked him to leave okay?" He looked around the room at there expressions.
"Are you kidding me Trent? that just makes you cooler." He smirked at him, mostly just grinning.
"Really?" he perked up a bit.
a knock came at the door.
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it felt familiar to her, like she had seen it a million times, she probably had. She watched as her step dad approached her, her little kid self. He had just requested something of her, she knew exactly what he said scowling at him. She responded to him with, "I'd rather die!" he approached her slowly and scowl and glare morphed onto his face as he started at her like he would the scum of the earth. "Then why don't you." Had been his response, she looked at herself backing up into a corner as far as she could. she knew it wouldn't help, this sick pig still approached her. Kneeling down to be face to her terrified face, Just watching he event happen filled her with fear as if she were in the spot and it was happening again..She tried to vanish into the shadows but her step dad reached into the black shadows and pulled her out and standing up off the ground. He slapped her across the face, tears springing her eyes. He said something incohearnt before placing hands firmly around her neck and starting to squeeze. she clawed at his hands trying to break free from them. Spots dotted her vision she was running out of air fast. Then she heard her mom, "Mom…." she whispered reaching a hand out and her step dad dropped her, she banged her head on a table edge, holding her bleeding forehead her step dad left the room with a warning. "Dont tell your mom or else." she woke from the vision with a jolt.
Malachi had his arms around her the moment he saw she was shaking. The memory of the last time this had happened floated into his brain, and he remembered he couldn’t really do anything to snap her out of it. He stayed beside her as she saw things only she could, whispering and shaking. The dream-like song came to an end, and Malachi turned to see the creature fast asleep.
Something else floated into memory, and so he took up the singing himself. His voice was smooth and low, and though the tune was sometimes softly off-key, he just pretended his grandmother was singing with him too.
”Je me souviens quand j'étais jeune,
“Les choses étaient lumineuses et belles.”
“Les yeux recouverts d'une lentille rose,
“Je pensais que ça durerait pour toujours.”
“Je t'en prie, tu resterais?”
“Si ce n'est pas à côté de moi,
“Alors à l'intérieur de moi?“
“Garde-moi entière…”
“Pendant que la rose tombe de mes yeux.”
He looked down at her as she woke, concerned.
she rubbed her eyes as they watered a bit from not blinking the entire freaking time. She noticed a warmth around her and then noticed Malachi's arms around her, did she cling onto to him or did he hug her? why would he hug her? she frowned a little bit assuming she must have clung to him in her vision.
She muttered a sorry that was barely audible before trying to detach from the hug, this was the second time it had happened infront of him and it honestly felt pathetic.
she sighed, looking down.
(Oh I meant Talon was staring at Alister….)
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(Lol it’s ok)
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(pretend he didnt say that to talon)
(“Noel, don’t stare at me like that. I’ll show you why,” he huffed.)
(I remember when I was young,)
(Things were bright and lovely)
(My eyes coated in a rose colored lens,)
(I thought it would last forever)
(Please, won’t you stay?)
(If not beside me,)
(Then inside me?)
(Keep me whole)
(While the rose falls from my eyes)
He thought she said something, but the rain covered her soft whisper. He pulled his arm away, letting her detach while he repeated the song more softly this time, the words blurring together with open-mouthed hums.
When he finished, he sighed as well. He wondered if he should ask. Well, it wouldn’t matter, she had a low opinion of him anyway.
“What did you see?”
She seemed to be showing symptoms of PTSD, but it seemed to happen very randomly. He’d seen people get unwanted flashbacks at certain times, all with a common trigger between them. Even if he’d only seen it twice, he couldn’t pin point anything common in those moments that could act as a trigger. It nagged at him annoyingly.
Trent huffed, now he looked like the bad guy when he was just looking out for everyone.
"Noel, don't stare at me like that. I’ll show you why," he huffed, before reaching up to his dirtied cap and pulling it off.
His fluffy wolf ears unfurled and popped out twitching every which way.
"I wanted to tell you two about the wolf ears, and i didnt want it to spread past you two so i asked him to leave okay?" He looked around the room at there expressions.
"Are you kidding me Trent? that just makes you cooler." Evan smirked at him, mostly just grinning.
"Really?" he perked up a bit.
a knock came at the door.
Noel gaped at the wolf ears, her eyes moving to dissect them instead. She didn’t notice her daisies slowly wilting. She managed, “Woah… Trent… why do they make you look so cute?”
She was suddenly filled with the desire to touch them, but considered the fact that they had most likely been artificially and painfully attached. Still, she couldn’t keep from reaching out her hand slightly.
Talon chuckled, eyes gazing proudly at Trenton. “They do make you look cool, dude… and cute, I guess.”
Noel snapped out of it and was about to ask Trenton a million questions, but she turned to the knock at the door. “Is that you, Alister? I don’t think you want to come in yet.”
Alister managed to find his way down to the basement, or in other words, the hospital. Despite it being a basement, it was warm and homely, a wide open space with a wooden floor covered in old, faded rugs and soft furniture. He’d been surprised to see that they even had this stuff, but wasn’t as surprised to learn that they had stolen it or scavenged it from decades old homes. He walked past a few badly injured people being tended to by a gray-blonde man, up to Bimala, who was working at a holographic computer emitting a soft orange glow.
She glanced at him. “Hey Storm. What brings you here? Is your arm acting up again?”
“Oh no, thank you,” he said softly. “Trenton and Talon came up, and they all wanted to talk in private.”
He sat down in an empty love seat, unsure of what to do.
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a ginger boy with freckles and ivy green eyes opened the door, looking up at the whole group until they all stared at him, and then he broke eye contact only solely looking towards noel.
"U-um B wanted you to know that they might not um send out a patrol for as long or as far as they had um hoped because the storms u-um getting pretty bad out there.." he fiddled with his hands before offering noel a weak anxious smile.
he had noticed trents ears but by the look on trents face he realized he probably shouldn't have. "U-um if I'm interrupting i can leave.."
Before the ginger boy came in, he was enjoying the feedback he was getting and honestly got a bi flustered with all the cute comments but played it with a bit of "I'm kinda hurt, you guys didn't hink i was cute before? ouch."
He chuckled a little bit along with evan chuckling then noticed noel reaching out a bit.
"its okay if you want to touch them noel, there pretty soft."
then ginger boy walked in,
and saw trents ears before he had time to put his hat back on.
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He thought she said something, but the rain covered her soft whisper. He pulled his arm away, letting her detach while he repeated the song more softly this time, the words blurring together with open-mouthed hums.
When he finished, he sighed as well. He wondered if he should ask. Well, it wouldn’t matter, she had a low opinion of him anyway.
“What did you see?”
She seemed to be showing symptoms of PTSD, but it seemed to happen very randomly. He’d seen people get unwanted flashbacks at certain times, all with a common trigger between them. Even if he’d only seen it twice, he couldn’t pin point anything common in those moments that could act as a trigger. It nagged at him annoyingly.
she sighed at his question.
why the heck not, not like she had something to loose.
"i saw this man…he looked really familiar, we were in my old house i think. The attic area, i was trying to get away from him, but he pulled me from the darkness. He asked me to do something and i told him i'd rather die and so he picked me up and wrapped his hands around my throat and started to choke me…until i think, my mom got home and he dropped me and i hit my head on the corner of a desk making it start bleeding, then he told me to not tell anyone and left." she rubbed her neck when talking about it.
Noel sighed. “Figures.”
Talon stepped between Trenton and the boy, almost acting like a shield. “She said you shouldn’t come in here. Even if you weren’t the person we thought you were, it would’ve at least been better if you talked outside.”
She gave him a look, then walked over to the boy, standing a few inches from him and blocking his view of the other boys. “Thanks. Could you let Mrs. Collins know I want to speak with her later? Oh, and remind me of your name?”
She sized him up. He had a nervous demeanor, and hopefully wouldn’t be one to go blabbering about everything he saw.
“Ah, I see.” Bimala didn’t look up from the computer. Alister tugged at the beads in his mahogany hair, worried she might be busy.
She tapped the screens a few times, like she was moving something from one screen to another, then she looked at him, pushing her glasses up. “Sorry, had to transfer those medical files. Why don’t we do some stretches together while we talk? You look like you want to talk.”
He made a small, admitting smile and sat up straight. Bimala started rotating her arms, and he mimicked her, asking tentatively, “Who’s that guy? I haven’t seen him around.” He nodded to the man tending to the injured people.
“That’s Dr. Quinn, the medic for the rebellion here in ‘7. He’s been generous enough to allow me to share his space. We’ve been pleased to find that we work quite well together.” She smiled as they began rotating their opposite arms.
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(bimala x Dr)
"Y-yeah i can." He noticed how they kept moving in front of each other cluing him in that he definitely wasn't supposed to see what he just saw.
"S-sorry, Also its K-Keegan." He slowly backed out of the room grabbing the door handle and shutting it as he left.
Trent exhaled more like a sigh, "Hopefully he dosent go mouthing off to everyone about what he just saw." he ran a hand through his hair before offering a thankful smile to talon and noel.
"Im sure he wont, honestly doubt the kid has any friends, i think hes on the newer side." Evan spoke.
((bruh XD idk tbh also what is Keegan’s last name, his district, and does he have any siblings? And sorry, I should’ve explained when I asked this about Trenton, but it’s so I can figure out their ID codes)
