|Captured Creatures|Semi-Lit+ to Literate|Accepting|

[SabrinaB]

Varias was getting bored again. And worse of all: he couldn't use his ability here! He sighed and looked around. This was the most boring room he has ever seen! Not even a chair, not even a bed... Just walls.
He rested his eyes on the door. He walked to it started to tick his fingers against it. He knew it would irritate the guards outside, but what else did he had to do? Staring at the wall, counting the bricks? Or jurt bite off his nails? He wouldn't do that. He wasn't that bored. Yet... That female worker should bring him a blanket and pillow... Right!
He remembered something his father said to him once. Never trust anyone, or you will be stabbed in the back. He was right, He had friend before, but he ner trusted anyone completely. And he would never trust anyone enough to let them in his trustworld.

[Moved </3 D:]

I'm leaving for a week, but will be able to get on the computer

[Aniki]

{ Thanks for letting us know, Sparrow! }

[Dafna]

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For a few seconds Daniel thought he saw something in the walls but shook the thought out of his head knowing that only Freak and him were in the locked room, for now. It frustrated him that he couldn’t use his powers but he could deal with it or the time being. His only worry was really that he could get bored quite quickly. It wasn’t a good thing since his boredom can become somewhat destructive but the room was plan and nothing would most likely suffer his boredom. Unless he continuously poked Freak when if he fell asleep in the room.

To be honest the man looked like he could be about to pass out any second. It confused him a little but he blamed it on the powers that Freak had. Maybe if he went through what he and the other creatures go through almost every day, then he become stronger. The downside to the thought was that who would want Freak to be strong enough to use his powers? The powers the man had might be able to do various amounts of things. At the thought a small possible image flashed through his mind, only he was broken out of his thoughts by what Freak said. Only catching half of what he said.

Thinking a little it took him a little while to reply. What time was it anyway? “Um, sure? Well whatever good quality it is… It’s one of my good qualities that you want and you can’t have it” Daniel muttered wondering if he even made any sense to himself. One of the effects of tiredness. Rough day right? Maybe tomorrow he can go and start to think of a new plan. He heard Freak talk again and couldn’t help but let a laugh escape his lips. “Yes it is your fault, their your reflexes” Daniel muttered smiling a little as he said it.

Hearing a reply to his question about whether or not he could be able to melt down the bars to his cage it made him smile a little. He could see that Freak didn’t seem to pleased about his question or the idea following it but he couldn’t help it. His curiosity had gotten the better of him and it was a question he had been meaning to test. Leaning forward a little he smiled slightly, “Couldn’t I just, you know lean up against the bars or sit against them all day while on fire and then by the end of the day they should be hot enough for me to just push through them and essentially escape?” he asked. The smile he had on before showing at the corners of his lips as he talked. He wasn’t kidding around with this as he would try it when he got bored enough, most likely when he got out of the room he was in now and back in his old cage.

As he thought about the small story he had been telling Freak about, Pinocchio. A bedtime tale that his sister used to read to him no matter how old he was. Even though the thought of his family was a soft subject it was a good memory and no matter what it was a memory of the outside world. “My family had an old book of fairytales and one of my elder siblings would read me a story when I was little. My sister mostly, her favourite one was Pinocchio. Well no promises in burning the library down, sometimes I just cant help it went the flames start to appear. Like when you get to deep in thought, just when I get to deep in thought I can accidentally start a fire.” Daniel muttered. Moving a hand around so it was on the top of his head, half way through his hair.

A small chuckle escaped his lips when he heard Freak groan after he gently shoved the man. He looked like he was about to go to sleep personally but Daniel couldn’t blame the man for being like that. It just would be helpful if he could use his powers once more to open the door before he fell asleep. That way Daniel could walk out of the room once the man escaped. “That’s the problem, you pushed yourself. I have an idea, if you let me train you for a week or so. By the end of the day you could possibly be hoping you couldn’t feel anything… Why crush a dream when you try to do it yourself? Nothing stays buried for long Freak” Daniel asked. A small mischievous glint in his eyes when he spoke of the topic. “Try and open and close a door more often and you might just be able to get better at sleeping.” Daniel joked a little. Making an attempt to try and bring a lighter mood to the room.

As he listened to what Freak said about his past he smiled a little before looking around. “I heard the foster care system wasn’t exactly the best in the world. A last resort in some context. It could be that but the people who occupied the houses and locations could have gone somewhere else? You never really know unless you have contacts. People who know other people, if you get what I mean.” Daniel muttered running a hand over his pant legs seeing ifhe would be able to move them sooner or later. Glancing back up to Freak he couldn’t help but laugh when he heard him. “So you were like a male nurse?” he asked smiling when he said it. After a few seconds his memory was sparked a little, as well as his curiosity about Freak’s past. “When you were there in the hospital did you ever come across a few Salvatore’s?” he asked , thinking about his older brothers and his father. He tried not to seem hopeful since the chance of him knowing them were thin but you never know.

Looking up when he heard the door open he stared at Aasiyah as he came through. So they weren’t alone any more. His eyes stayed focused on her form when she spoke, so they must have had a close history then. Shrugging his head a little he glanced around her towards the door. Making a face as he stretched a little he used the wall to help him stand up, getting his legs used to use again after what Freak had done. Pushing against the wall until he was up right he stood up straight. Pushing off against the wall he moved to the middle of the room, a little wobbly as he did so. Gaining his balance, even if he was a little woozy he looked at Freak and Aasiyah before smiling a little. He could make a break for it, lock them both in the room.

[~Everlasting~]

{Sorry, guys. I'm sick, but I'll try to get my reply up later tonight.}

[SabrinaB]

((Awww, get well soon!))

[~Everlasting~]

{Sorry it took me so long, guys. Being sick sucks.}

||Freak||

In the spaces between their conversation, Freak's tired mind wandered back to his first memory of his ability. He had created a sort of miniature training building in the side room of his apartment. He was poor at the time, so it only contained a few things. But he had hoped it was enough to increase his ability. The day he remembered consisted of him trying to close the door to the room. He made sure to be sitting down, because he had never tried something this hard before, and could easily pass out. And that was exactly what happened. He tried to close the door and woke up on his couch 2 hours later, feeling like the wind had gotten knocked out of him.
Daniel's voice brought Freak back to a drowsy sense of reality. His energy level had stopped plummeting, but he still felt extremely weak. He thought of attempting to lift his head up, but stopped when Daniel's words hit his ears. He decided to ignore the first half of sentence, which made little sense. The boy was probably just tired. Even without windows, he could tell it was getting late. "Yeah, they're mine. But it's my fault that they're good? I don't really control them."
At the end of the sentence, Freak tried to lift his head. It took all of his concentration, but it slowly raised. He leaned it back against the wall, not bothering to open his eyes, although Daniel's next words almost made him want to. He was never going to stop trying to get out, even faced with the fact that his entire family may be gone. Determination had no boundaries in him. "But what's the fun in that?" he asked, rolling his eyes under his eyelids. "If you want to get out, don't you want to do it the right way? Like actually fighting for it? Just running is a bit cowardly, don't you think?" He knew he might be going a bit too far with that comment. But Daniel had pushed him on multiple occasions. So he decided to push him back.
Freak's lips rose a bit at the corners when Daniel talked about his past. "It's good that you still have some memories. I can't remember anything. Even 19 is a little blurry. I remembered at the time, though. I know I did. So it wasn't amnesia," he mumbled, rubbing his eyes. They stung a bit from the smoke that the two had just been in. "Yeah. You're one of the kids who is great at using his ability, but not so great at controlling it. It'll get easier, though. Once you learn how to maintain your emotions."
Freak opened his eyes for a moment, glancing around the room. He hadn't had to use this room for a creature before. But then again, today was full of firsts. The first time a worker had been burned, at least that he had seen. The first time two buildings were burnt in one day. The first time a creature had actually managed to get outside of the gates of the property. Reminding himself that he had to go chat with Varias in a few minutes, he sighed and closed his eyes again.
Freak moaned at what Daniel said next. Would he ever give him a break? "Do you have an off switch?" he groaned, rolling his eyes. He might be better at being annoying than at controlling fire. "I don't want to improve my ability anymore. And if it wasn't for you burning everything in sight, I might get some more sleep."
Freak grimaced through the annoyance when Daniel began talking about the foster care system. "It was used a lot during the war. A lot of kids were left alone when their parents went off to war, so they entered the foster care system and stayed with other people. I think it said on my record that it was just my father who left, but that I had no mother. She had died several years before," he said, sighing. He didn't like talking about his past very much. Or, more accurately, the things he knew about his past. Talking about his mother was especially painful--he hated the fact that she had died before his father. That just made it more likely that his father could've been abusive. And if that was true, his father had probably killed his mother. "Well. . .sort of a nurse, yes. But I never saw any of your family. Sorry."
At this point, Freak heard someone coming down the steps. But he wasn't afraid this time. He knew it was Aasiyah. His knowledge was confirmed when she spoke, and he opened his eyes to look at her. "That's right,"he said, smiling wide. He assumed she had come down here to keep the two from fighting. But that was okay. He liked her company. Even if she made him feel confused.
Freak wasn't angered when Daniel rose from the floor and stepped to the middle of the room, smiling at him mischevously. In fact, he was kind of happy that he would get another chance to knock the boy out. He began to contemplate which pressure points to use. There was a good one on the palm of the hand that could knock someone out. Or he had the option to use the spine again. Wherever he pressed, he was going to have to stand up to do it. Rising on shaky legs, Freak held onto the wall for a few moments before using all of his strength to throw himself at Daniel. He shoved the boy into the wall and fought through the exhaustion. He pinned his shoulders down so he couldn't move. "You're more of an idiot than I thought you were if you think you're going to get away with that," he said, looking him in the eye. He then brought the boy's right hand up and pressed down on his palm. It would knock him out, or get him pretty close to it. "Fight it all you want, but you'll be out in a few minutes."

[Aniki]

Aasiyah Sari Valeska || Worker

Not usually the one to break rank and order Freak around, Aasiyah saw it was time to step in. He made her in charge of the creature’s health and he was pushing Daniel way too far. Opening the door to the special room and calling in four guards to help her out, Aasiyah ordered two to drag out Freak and the other two to keep Daniel in the room.
Bringing the boy a cot and a water bottle along with a plate of fresh fruits, Aasiyah kissed the top of Daniel’s head and softly whispered against his hair.
“Sleep.” She used what little amount of power she had in the room to send him waves of sleepiness. As the boy grew sleepier she backed out of the room. Gaining control of herself once outside the room she ordered the guards to take the half asleep Freak to his chambers.
Closing the curtains and taking off her boots so she didn’t make a sound moving around the room, Aasiyah ushered the guards out and gave them the signal for lights out. Freak was mumbling something about Daniel and learning respect. Rolling her eyes, Aasiyah walked over to the edge of the bed and gently dotted his forehead with a damp cloth.
“You need to remember you too have limits…”

[Dafna]

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Daniel couldn’t help but let a yawn out of his system. Even if there was no windows or no clock around, his body was still able to tell that it was night time. Like a routine, once you got used to it you could somehow start to feel what time it was without having to look at the clock. From what he felt it was late and he was already wanting Freak to just leave him and go away. Maybe Aasiyah too but she hadn’t really done anything wrong? Unless he had forgotten, but that wouldn’t be the first time something like that had been forgotten. He wouldn’t be surprised if he had forgotten anything she had done, but it wouldn’t bother him that much.

Daniel smiled a little “Show off” he whispered smiling a little jokingly when he said it to Freak. Maybe if he worked hard enough he could get his own reflexes, of course he wasn’t that interested in getting his own so the option was out of the question. There were other important matters at hand that Daniel would prefer to spend his time on, rather than trying to develop some silly reactions that most likely wouldn’t do anything for him. One thing Daniel had noted since he had been in the room was that his skin temperature was colder? When he was in the cage his normal temperature would be somewhat dangerous to the average human, potentially life threatening. Daniel just felt like a warm blanket when he had his powers, only at the moment he really didn’t have any powers. He was human, and he hated it.

Watching Freak he could tell that the man was exhausted and it made him smile a little. If Aasiyah wasn’t in the middle of them he would most likely be ready to dive over the top of the man to get to the door but no she was in the way. It only made him groan in annoyance, “Fighting and running from this felicity get the same results, they get you out of the felicity and away from the felicity. Sure one isn’t as brave as the other but the fighting way is going to get people hurt, shown but Aasiayh over there” he muttered glancing at the red mark he had left on the girl’s skin. For some reason it was nice to know that the man wasn’t trying to be nice but it felt like they were having a mini rival almost. It made him smile a little that he knew know that Freak wasn’t going to be pushed over anymore, at least there was more a of challenge now.

“You could have one of those stress things, you know where a person forgets something because of a tramatic event in their life. Though they can’t even recall the event themselves” Daniel muttered wondering if it helped a little. He wasn’t that mean to others of course. Moving a hand and rubbing his eyes he blinked a few times before listening to Freak. “I think I have a good hand on my emotions, I think it would be better to be emotional than rather being a stone cold person, similar to you. But then even you show little signs of emotion. Emotion is what makes us all the more human” Daniel muttered looking down a little when he spoke of emotions.

A small laugh escaped his lips when he heard Freak, “No sorry I’m not a television” he muttered, “But I can be hyper if you want me to?” he asked smiling cheekily when he said it. If he got a good sleep and a lot of energy he could be on fire for a long time. A small smile appeared on his face when he listened to freak, “Hey you know what if I burnt everything in sight then is Aasiyah alive? Think Freak I only burnt her to leave a small hand print and yet I could of burnt her until she died or suffered far worse injuries then what she has now” Daniel muttered not even sure if he got what he was trying to say through. He had chances to completely destroy people and buildings and yet he didn’t.

He listened to Freak when he talked about the foster care system. If he escaped maybe he could get into one of the buildings and go from there, get away from Freak himself and well hide for a fair amount of time before he started to hunt down the building and destroy it. Of course he would have to be more powerful but you never know. He might be able to get some other creatures out with him, even that was a high risk though. Not everyone would be able to get out of the building in enough time. Freak was smart, especially with his workers, they were also smart.

Shrugging a little he was brought back into reality when he heard what Freak said, a small smile on his face “Nurse Freak” he muttered smiling. He had noted the interacting that Freak and Aasiyah had done and he made sure that he would remember that for the rest of his time here. Even now he knew of what Freak’s weakness was, if he pushed Aasiyah away then he would only probably hurt himself and Aasiyah, but the more he stayed around her the more he got attached. It was a rough guess of Daniel’s thoughts but he could work something out. Maybe tomorrow he would be able to trap Aasiyah in the room he was in now. He could but thinking about it now just seemed to be confusing him even more. His thoughts were already crowded.

He wasn’t expecting Freak to get up like he had. He was already off balance so it didn’t take much effort for Freak to probably push him into the wall. Grunting a little at the pressure and unexpectedness of Freak’s actions he managed to hit Freak as hard as he could before he was unable to move. Listening carefully he glared at Freak, before smiling when he heard him. Wincing a little as he felt a sharp pain in his hand. Darn, he should really learn pressure points himself, that way he might be able to try them out on Freak. “Everything I do is for a reason, you fell for it and you will pay for it later. I’ll tell you this, one day you will be hurting more then you are now, Aasiyah won’t be able to help you out anymore if she gets burnt again” He growled his eyes flashing towards Aasiyah. He was struggling to stay awake and no matter what he knew that he would be out like a light in a matter of seconds. He noticed the guards coming into the room and leaned a little closer to Freak so only he could hear. “Let her out of your sight and it might be the last time you see her” he whispered into Freak’s ear before his eyes started to close.

He felt himself being placed on a cot near the ground. The darkness was edging closer and he flinched a little when he felt Aasiyah close to him. Out of the corner of his eyes he could see the two guards before Freak’s actions took over and he was out like a light. Sleeping on the cot for who knows how long, unless someone tried to wake him up in a few hours.

[Raella]

Hearing noises in the room, Ryu's eyes flew open and she tensed, ready as always to spring. But it was just the guards, with their loud tread, and Aasiyah, who's footsteps were silent. Ryu liked Aasiyah; the orange haired young woman had the same respect for Freak and the same drive to work as she did. Her full attention was on Freak at the moment, purple eyes fixed unwaveringly on his scarred face as Aasiyah tended to him.
He must have pushed himself too far, she thought cooly. Continuing to watch, Ryu studied Freak's posture and expression, alert for anything that might be amiss. But he appeared to be sound; just tired.
"Do you need help?" she asked in her flat, empty voice, eyes glinting purple in the dark. Ryu didn't mean to sound cold or uninterested, for though she had learned the correct words, Ryu's voice was simply devoid of emotion. She shifted into a standing position beside her bed, eyes fixed -as always- on her master.