A Digital Frontier [1x1 with Penguinluv01]

[starry--knight]

.:Kane:.

"Yeah I'm staying.....but. Oh It doesn't matter. It was stupid....." Kane said looking away feeling a blush moving in his cheeks.

.:Alyssa:.

"I want to be home, with my family, even if that means going back to that aweful neighborhood. Or to that crappy job. At least then....I knew I had a better chance at living. But if I could do anything at all, I'd go to Europe, and I'd take you with me." Alyssa said with a smirk.

[Pengu.]

{Omaigod! I was going to have John say the SAME thing!}

::Melissa::

Melissa bit her lip, narrowing her eyebrows. "Oh come on Kaneeeeee......" she sing songed, leaning in to pinh his cheek. "Okay...Fineeeeee..." she pouted sullenly, crossing her arms defiantly. "What are we going to do then....I am so bored." Mel grumbled.

::Johnathan::

John couldnt help but smile widely. "Is that so....." he murmured, wrapping her in an unbreakable bear-like hug. "If I could have anything..." John thought, closing his eyes. "I would wish for...a house." he grinned sheepishly. "A big house in the country, but close enough to the city where I could find a job. The house would be so big and there would be so much space, you and your whole family could live there...."

[starry--knight]

.:Kane:.

He placed his head in his hands. "I'll tell you later." He mumbled, happy on a change of subject. "Well, didn't Quinn say he was going to...train us?"

.:Alyssa:.

She blushed, feeling his arms wrap around her, and then when he began to talk about a house in the country, where they could live. "I would like that. I would like that a lot." she said with a smile, her fingers tracing the muscles on his arm.

[Pengu.]

::Melissa::

Melissa shot up out of the chair. "Oh thats right!" she said happily. "Quinn! Can you get your ass in here! Please!" she called, walking around the house looking for him. She was unusually chipper now, that she knew Kane as staying. He always made things easier for her, made her laugh at the most stupid things....Woah now Mel...Calm yourself.. she thought, feeling her cheeks go hot. Never had lying to someone been so hard....

::Johnathan::

Johnathan smiled, placing his head in the crook of her neck. "Me too..." he sighed, thinking of how great it would be. Johnathan lifed his hand, twirling her hair around his finger. "God..Now I want it to be real.." he laughed, but knew it may never be. The way he was raised...his record... Like he could ever get a job or anything of the sort. "What is your family like Alyssa...." John said too, imagining what a real family was.

[starry--knight]

.:Quinn:.

He came around the corner with a bemused expression on his face. "you all ready? Or you still need more time. By all means." He said, walking into the living room to join Kane and her.

.:Kane:.

He watched her wander off, that feeling in his gut refusing to leave him even at her missing presence. He twitched his fingers and leaned back in the chair until she returned with Quinn. He figured training was better then arguing.

.:Alyssa:.

She closed her eyes and tried to picture her family. "well....they are everything to me. I gave up a scholarship in order to keep them a-float. My mom works twenty four seven to provide but her boss doesn't pay her as much as she should be. My sister is a few years younger then me, she's quiet and doesn't say much. She's a genius but doesn't apply herself....and my brother. Well he's too young to understand right and wrong. He drives my mom insane, but we still love him you know.....we don't always get along, and we arnt always happy, but we are a family. That's what matters."

[Pengu.]

::Melissa::

Melissa nodded, smiling widely. "I think we are ready now, honestly. Fighting is a good way to release anger, right?" she replied, flinging herself onto the sofa. "So chief, what do we do first?" Mel asked, thoughts now totally zoned on learning how to stay alive.

::Johnathan::

John sighed trying to imagine what they looked like. How they acted. If they were like Alyssa. "Sounds...nice.." he said, looking up at the ceiling. He wondered if he had any siblings...or who his mother even was... "Okay, I asked you a question. You ask me one.."

[starry--knight]

.:Quinn:.

"we'll need Johnathan and Alyssa to join us, but I'm going to give you basic disk training. More advanced versions will come in the next few days." Quinn said.

.:Alyssa:.

Alyssa smiled as she thought about them, then was lost on trying to find a worthy question. "What's your life like. I mean, what do you do from dusk to dawn?" she asked.

[Pengu.]

::Melissa::

Melissa twirled her hair around her index finger, looking up ocasionally at Quinn or Kane. "Alright...." she said distantly, looking to Alyssa's room. "Kane..bet you any money they are both in there..." she laughed. "Well, I am not going to get them. Who knows what they are doing in there...."

::Johnathan::

John chuckled Could she have been anymore vague.... "It all depends. Some days I will stay at a friends house, who I knew from the orphanage. Its not much but its enough. Other days I am just all alone on the streets for twenty four hours. I will usually find a market or place to get something to eat, working odd jobs to get money. Then, I sit on the curb waiting to save a damsell in distress in a thunderstorm...." he replied. "Honestly...I just wander. I have no place.."

[starry--knight]

.:Kane:.

He shot her an awkward glance. "I don't think they know each other that well..." He said now looking at the door. "you want me to get them?"

.:Alyssa:.

She watched him with soft sympathetic eyes. She had never known anyone who had no family. No home. No money. Him talking about it broke her heart almost as much as it seemed to hurt him. "I'm so sorry....it must be really hard for you." she sighed.

[Pengu.]

::Melissa::

Mel nodded, snickering under her breath, which turned into a soft snort. In a cute kind of way, not abnoxious. Melissa covered her mouth, embarassed. "Yah, just...go and get them.." she whispered, trying to sink deeper into the couch.

::Johnathan::

John shrugged, breaking away from the embrace to lay on the opposite side of the bed. "It was hard, but it was all I knew. I got by, still do." he grinned, thinking of all of the hard times he always made into a michevious advent. "Its nothing, really..."