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Post by illyxmusicxloverx on Dec 2, 2010 22:48:38 GMT -5
i sighed. "i cut a deal with the devil; i have sold my soul for my pack's freedom. if i break it, hell will break loose and hunt our asses down." i said, groaning and putting my head on my knees. "i just wish i could see him again." i whispered, feeling a single tear slip out. "he's my mate. it's hard for new mates to be apart. but forever? ... do you miss your boyfriend?" i asked, changing the subject again. i left the tear on my cheek, not caring that it refused to slide down to the floor. --------- "She's blocking me out." Whisper murmured. Xavier looked at her. "when she falls asleep, will you be able to tell where she is?" he asked. "it'll be hard, but yes. i think so." she murmured. she looked at Raven. "but i think it's your choice if we go after her or not."
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Post by Cheyenne on Dec 3, 2010 16:01:17 GMT -5
Kendra nodded. “I miss how he used to be, yes.” she replied, looking down. “Sometimes I wonder if I could deal with his death better, because death is definite. Irreversible. You can’t resurrect somebody. But he’s alive and I don’t get to see him very much. When I do…it’s not the man I remember and it hurts to see him how he is. Because I know he’s in pain too and I can’t do anything about it.” She swallowed. “I wish I could tell you it gets better after a while, but it doesn’t.”
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Raven blinked, looking down with a swallow. He was thinking. Or rather, talking.
If you find her you could at least see her, the human voice said. Protect, came the bird. Yeah, I don’t think that’s happening, the human voice disagreed with the above. She’s gone. I know, he replied. But I’m not looking for you to state the obvious. You want advice, the human stated plainly. No, the useless one wants sympathy, the dark voice of his training spoke up. Shut up, Raven growled both mentally and audibly. There was a sharp pain in his head and he place his palm to his temple. Oh, how I love your creativity! Came the sarcastic reply. So useful. Helpful… And you make fun of my lack of originality. You still cling to the same nickname I’ve had since I was five. Because it bothers you, Useless.
Raven cleared his throat, looking back up. Something occurred to him as he noticed this other voice. “We don’t go after her.” he stated firmly. However, as he went on his tone became less clear and more distracted, for the voice was still going on inside of his head. “The…there was the…deal that… the deal your girlfriend made -” he ground his teeth, interrupting himself. “Would you shut up? I'm trying to talk.” he yelled at the voice, though it did not relent.
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Post by illyxmusicxloverx on Dec 3, 2010 23:36:45 GMT -5
i looked at her silently for a long time. "i know." i whispered, my fingers tracing the letter tattooed on me for the rest of my life. ---- Xavier reached into his jacket, and pulled out a pill bottle. "here. take two and they should get muffled." Xavier said, giving him two greenish-white pills that were resting in his hand.
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Post by Cheyenne on Dec 3, 2010 23:54:59 GMT -5
"Was it part of the deal that you could specifically no longer see him?" Kendra asked. "Technicalities work wonders when it comes to loppholes."
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Normally, Raven would have shook his head and not taken the pills. However, given his current mood and the irritating insults of the voice, he grabbed them eagerly and thankfully, downing them quickly. "Thanks, man." he replied. The voices soon began to get fuzzy and muffled, and raven knew that within a few minutes his thoughts would follow, but he didn't care. He could actually use some fuzziness at the moment. At least it would put his mind to something akin to rest.
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Post by illyxmusicxloverx on Dec 7, 2010 22:30:04 GMT -5
"it'll be a while before i can go out on my own. they're watching me like I'm a newbie that just survived a fresh round of experiments." i said, sighing and tracing it. ----------------- "best part about it is that the mind fuzzies stay to the corners, and it's actually pretty easy to think. Mara made them." X said, taking one himself. "helps dull the pain of too many voices in our heads." he murmured.
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Post by Cheyenne on Dec 8, 2010 15:38:45 GMT -5
“Social experiment?” Kendra offered, leaning back on her hands a little. She sighed. Then, in a very soft voice that only Vendetta could hear. “What were the conditions of this deal anyway? All of them?”
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"I don't really care." Raven replied. In fact, he could use some "mind fuzzies" at the moment. "But we will see. Avian-hybrids have fundamentally different body systems than mammals. I may be a little smaller than you, but I probably weigh less than half of what you do. I’m only abut ninety pounds. Everything is lighter. The annoying voice in my head is more than a technical disorder at this point. And what they did in the lab doesn't help anyway." he shook his bangs to the side to show where his eye was mutilated, the motion and his words indicating the affect was more than aesthetic. Rather, it as brain deep. He then could not help but grinned with another thought. “When Zee took ‘em, it had to be really bad, but it was funny as heck. She would never admit it to you guys, but she liked to dance. Or some weird ritual she would refer to as ‘dancing.’ She would wind up trying and knocking herself out on the cage or slipping on blood and fall head over heels or something.” his words were humorous, though grew grimmer in his last sentence and he frowned to himself.
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Post by illyxmusicxloverx on Dec 13, 2010 21:22:16 GMT -5
"it's more like injected with random chemicals to see if i could glow in the dark. that sounds more like something they would watch." i said, sighing. i heard the voice and replied in one that matched hers. “if I didn’t take the deal, she was going to kill my mate. The deal was this; I listen to their commands and do their deeds with compliance, and they give my pack safety. They won’t hunt them. They won’t send anyone after them. They’ll make sure the other agencies know not to touch them. There’s about eight or nine in our pack. That’s a fair trade for me. I’m supposed to lead the Animal pack; a bunch of hybrids they decided to let us keep our emotions. All of this, just for me.” I said, pulling out the picture and looking at my pack. I showed her the picture. “this is them. This is my family. I gave myself up for them.”
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Post by Cheyenne on Dec 13, 2010 21:47:58 GMT -5
"I heard about a kid who could do that actually." Kendra replied. She listened very closely to what Vendetta was saying. She was nodding slowly, clearly thinking. "Sucks for you." she finally said. She then looked at the pack's picture and smiled. "They look like a nice group." she commented. "I'm sure they appreciate it." However, quite on the contrary, Zipporah was ticked off, Casper was freaking out, Nick was contemplating binging out on Chico, Chico was sobbing like a baby, Aurora was skulking (as usual), and Diedra was curled up like a sad little puppy.
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Post by illyxmusicxloverx on Dec 13, 2010 23:15:21 GMT -5
i shook my head, chuckling darkly. "no, they don't realize it yet. the change will scare them, and they have no rock to hold onto. they would cling to me for safety, and i would cling to Xavier--my mate--and he would in turn cling to me. pull me out of the equation and you have a floundering pack. and i don't know how to tell them why. i told Xavier, but he wouldn't process it right. he doesn't see how i see." i said, "which is why we made a great team." --- X was staring up at the stars, bleakly. "why?" he murmured, tears slipping out as he stared up.
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Post by Cheyenne on Dec 14, 2010 15:33:26 GMT -5
"Not now perhaps. Maybe someday though." Kendra specified. "Should've told them the dark side has cookies. That's how it always works, right?" she mused to herself absentmindedly, watched her hand as she slowly drummed her fingers on the floor.
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Unfortunately for Xavier, time did not stop for his mourning. Chico was sobbing rather loudly (screaming would have been a more appropriate term for it) several yards away. Nick, having been hearing the screaming - for he also had no luck for the screaming to be higher pitched than he could hear - grew annoyed by the deafening racket. He was also rather hungry. It was not long before the latter, more predacious of the two decided that enough was enough and attempted to drag Chico off to a remote location where he could eat the small rodent boy.
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Post by illyxmusicxloverx on Dec 18, 2010 16:15:15 GMT -5
"maybe someday..." i murmured, looking up. ----- X stood up, hearing the wailing grow softer slowly. "NICK! DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE TRY TO EAT CHICO!" he screamed, running over to them. he grabbed Chico and put him behind him. "what the hell man?!? if you're fucking hungry go find some bird eggs or something! how many times has Ven--" he choked up on Vendetta's name, and Devilee walked over to him. she put a hand on his shoulder. "how many times has Vendetta told you not to eat him?" he choked out after a minute.
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Post by Cheyenne on Dec 18, 2010 17:42:49 GMT -5
Nick blinked. Come to think of it, he would probably have quite a fun time eating those bird eggs. After all, he could defintiely pretend one of them was Zipporah... He looked back at Xavier, coming back to the present. "But. He. Is. Evil." he stated. "His sobbing is so annyoing and high pitched. It had to be done." he then specified with a noble nod and a glance at Chico, who cowered in fear and let out a terrified squeak , clinging to Xavier as if for dear life and much like a child would.
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Post by illyxmusicxloverx on Dec 19, 2010 20:39:54 GMT -5
there was a sharp knock on the door, and Ven quickly chained up her companion and opened the door. "what? i've almost got the information and you break the line of interrogation. get out of here. now i have to start all over." I growled at a random scientest i knew was new. he scurried off and i unchained her. "sorry bout that." i said, locking the door again. --------------------- "evil and annoying are two different things." X snapped, rolling his eyes. "and if you wanted him quiet, you could have asked me and i would have either told him to shut up or duct tape his mouth shut. now go find some fucking bird eggs." X growled, picking Chico up by the scruff of his neck. "and is it really necessary to wail so loudly? we all miss V-" he choked on her name again. "Ven, me especially for reasons i'm not allowed to state in fear she would somehow get out and kill me for spilling, but you can sob quietly."
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Post by Cheyenne on Dec 19, 2010 20:47:43 GMT -5
"You probably should get me back to my cage now. Before they have your hide." Kendra commented. It only disturbed her several seconds after with how casually she was able to say "her cage." It was almost a verbal consent to being treated like an inhuman beast. Not even an animal; there were organizations protesting on their behalf. They had regulations. She had none.
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"That is a subjective statement." Nick commented before descending into the forest. "You don't have to. It's written all over your face." Casper suddenly piped up from where he sat, speaking in reference to Xavier's reasons. Previosuly, his presence had seemed nonexistent. Especially given his lack of intervention on part of the scenario with Nick and Chico, and the fact that Tori was not with him. In reality, he had purposely isolated himself from her for fear of worrying her. As it was plainly seen, his mind was in some far. far away place that no one wanted to dare find. At Xavier's statement, Chico's lip trembled and his eyes filled with water once more. Once more, he could not stop himself from bursting into tears and loud, toddler-like wails. "I want Vee back!" he sobbed despite Xavier's request and hugging him like a kid would. Not manly. At all.
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Post by illyxmusicxloverx on Dec 19, 2010 21:24:00 GMT -5
"nah. what's the worst they can do, make me do what they want? oh wait, too late? besides, i did get enough info out of you. you were on a mission. that's all i'm going to report. and besides, who knows how long it will before i get another good conversation?" --- Xavier shot Casper a look, telling him not to tell anyone. "not everyone is super observant." he growled, giving in and giving Chico a hug. "now please wail quietly." he asked, patting the squirrel-hybrid on the head like a dog.
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