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 Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 8:03 pm
Life felt... off. Ever since they had gotten back she had barely caught a glimpse of Amrita, and even less word about Israfel. Life had gone on again and nothing had changed. Except some of them knew the turn of events. Those who had been there captured. Surely they would know.
So Sammy waited in the hall just outside a room Amrita had class in waiting for the bell to dismiss the other students so she could catch a moment with her.
Just a moment, that couldn't be too much right?
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 8:29 pm
Amrita had been keeping up with life, but grudgingly. She had told herself that while Calder was gone she'd do her best to stay out and about; which to her meant Go to class and only class. Keep up appearances for that long (and far between, as there was actual work to do), and then go back to your room for the rest of the day. People would have seen you in class and therefore, won't get worried and bother you. That was her plan, and she was doing it to the best of her abilities.
She still didn't look herself though; her eyes were always distant and unfocused, her attention span shorter than it ever was. She wore unflattering clothing suited for comfort not looks, and her hair was down, thick waves going unchecked. All she did when she got home was lay down on her bed until it was time for class again, after all. She didn't try anything for no one.
When class was dismissed she was quick to grab her things and even quicker to leave the room, head down and eyes on the floor to avoid eye contact. As such, she walked right past Sammy without the slightest pause.
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 8:47 pm
Cool bone fingers reached out brushing an arm. Soft purple flames flickering in her eyes as she watched the ghoul slip by. Her own foot steps falling in synch with Amrita. She seemed lost in that hall moving from class to her room. It was written on her face and it pained Sammy to see that.
"Amrita? Ammi?" She spoke softly as she tried to follow the ghoul. "Please, it's me Sammy... c'mon don't just fly off like that..."
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 9:00 pm
The brush went unnoticed; it wasn't uncommon to be touched by strangers in the hallways, it just happened. It was school; same with the way Sammy fell into step beside her. It was a concidence, that was all. But the sudden sound of her name so close to her...
If it were possible for her to have a heart attack, it would have happened.
The ghoul let out a startled gasp, head snapping up to stare at Sammy as if she'd just realized she was there. She even turned away a little bit, clutching her books even tighter against her chest. "Sammy?" She managed, sounding as shocked and surprised as she looked. It was almost like her hero had materialized out of nowhere! "Err..h-hi. Wh...what's up?" Yes Amrita, pretend like Sammy didn't scare the hell out of you.
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 9:06 pm
She seemed completely unaware even as they came in near contact. The startled gasp confused her, why was she so jumpy even with a friend near by? It pained her to see how startled she was.
"Y-yeah it's me Ammi." She looked at the ghoul who seemed to curl up all the more once they stopped. Was she scared of her? Was it because of her or the event? Still it pained her to see the smaller ghoul like that. "Ammi I... I just..." suddenly her arms where around the ghoul tugging her into a hug.
Yes Amrita, Sammy was giving you a full on hug in the middle of the hall while you freaked out around her because she cares. She cares so much.
"I just wanted to talk and you've been hard to find I just wanted..." To ask where Israfel was. The question was there but she didn't want to bring it up, not yet, not here like this.
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 9:17 pm
To say she was confused was a massive understatement. She had never seen Sammy like this, not in her entire life... It was worrying and touching at the same time, and she wasn't sure whether she should comfort the ghoul or cry. So she did nothing, merely blinking in confusion at the tight hug (but she didn't try to move away, she really did like hugs!) and not even noticing where they were. Besides, she had hugged people in the middle of hallways before...it wasn't that big of a deal.
"...Ah." She breathed out, finally understanding. So Sammy heard about the kidnapping, huh? That was probably why the ghoul was here now, hugging her like this. One arm unwrapped from the books against her chest, reaching out instead to lightly pat Sammy's back. "I...I'm sorry. I've just...not been myself." That on it's own was an understatement. If they couldn't get this parasite off of her core, she would never be herself again. She would be doomed to be corrupted, a Hunter's weapon, until the end of days.
Or she was officially weaponized. Whichever happened first.
"What...did you wanna talk about?" Hesitations, she had them.
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 9:25 pm
Sammy had so many fears, conflicting thoughts. She sought just as much comfort as she gave in some cases. Jericho hadn't come back, Israfel was missing, the one friend who did come back was acting strange. How much had it cost them in the long run, that siege of revenge?
"Y-yeah I know that feeling huh. Feeling like you aren't the same anymore..." She looked around at all the students walking by. They should go elsewhere. "Yeah I have umm a lot I'd like to talk about but maybe, maybe we can go somewhere else while we talk?"
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 7:15 pm
Go somewhere else?
"Err...S-sure, if you want." She really, really didn't want to go anywhere with anyone. All she wanted to do was go back to her room and stay there until tomorrow's classes. But...this was Sammy. Sammy was her friend. She couldn't just refuse someone who was her hero, either. "Uhh...lead the way?"
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 7:25 pm
"I would yeah... I don't want others you know. To hear." She could sense the ghouls discomfort and it pained her to do this, but it would be better to do it away from the eyes and ears of others just encase the news wasn't well.
It took a bit of walking but it wasn't long before the two where standing outside a graveyard over looking the lake, a large tombstone cross marking the area as a central piece which Sammy leaned easily against.
"Ammi... I have to ask... and I know others might have but..." She pulled out her phone clicking it a few times. "Israfel... he hasn't picked up his phone and I haven't seen him since the whole... hunters island thing." She looked up at the other ghoul eyes flickering dimmer a sure sign of how she felt.
"What did they do to him?"
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 7:49 pm
Amrita knew what was coming when she heard the name. Sammy's following words and fears were barely listened to; she knew what the ghoul wanted, and it only made the cloud of gloom around the Vetala grow darker. Israfel. The one she had failed with. The one they lost.
"They gave him a choice. He...he chose them." She said simply, pain clear and evident in her voice. It wasn't something you could ever forget. "He...he isn't...one of us a-anymore..." This time she whimpered, slouching down to try and hide her face behind the books she still held.
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 8:33 pm
It felt like a hunters blade had slid between her ribs stabbing clean through and causing a pain that she had only felt before when Riley had died. Red had been harsh, losing Riley had been a peer, a friend, someone she grew with. Now Israfel too, and not only was he dead and gone, but a weapon to be turned against them?
She slumped back against the stone cross winding her arms around her waist. "Why... even he isn't... how could he do that?" She shook her head. "Dammit dammit we where there, we where late weren't we? We failed..."
Slowly she slid down the cross till she was sitting elbows on her knees hands covering her face shaking gently, either in sadness or rage, it was hard to tell.
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 8:57 pm
We were there. We were late. We failed.
All of these words hit home, hit deeper than anything anyone could have told her. Sammy had meant them as a group, but all Amrita could hear was all directed at her. She was there. She failed. The ghoul let out a choke, her legs feeling weak to the point that she fell to her knees, clutching her books like a lifeline. She failed. She couldn't stop him. She couldn't change his mind. She tried, but she failed...and now he was gone. He was one of them.
"I'm sorry...I...I'm s-so sorry..." Amrita whimpered out, gasping to choke back tears. "I tried...I tried to stop him...b-but he...he made up his mind. W-wouldn't listen...I...I should have...t-tried harder. I'm so sorry...I'm so sorry..."
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:01 pm
Amrita was gasping, choking back tears just across from her. The sound finally drew her attention causing her to look up seeing the ghoul as she practically collapsed before her shaking.
It took her a moment but she got up moving over to drop to her knees before the other ghoul arms winding around her pulling her into a hug pressing her cheek to the others. "N-no... there isn't, there isn't anything we can do now. H-he made his choice." She leaned back cupping Amrita's cheeks shaking still. "We got you back though. I still have you Amrita... if both of you... if they had..." she hiccuped a bit, she didn't want to say it, but if they had taken both of them...
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:12 pm
"Y-you almost didn't." She said quietly, her voice barely audible even to her. "I almost...chose..." Her voice was shaking as bad as her body was, and she was afraid to even lean against Sammy. What if the ghoul hated her for simply telling the truth? She couldn't very well leave it quiet after all; everyone had to know to be cautious around her. She couldn't pretend everything would be okay and just continue one.
"B-but it...it doesn't matter now. I...I'm still theirs. He said so, he said so...I...I might as well be a...a weapon." She was babbling, trying to make sense but unable to keep her own head straight enough to make it clear what she was trying to say. "I...I'm so sorry, Sammy. I'm so...so sorry..."
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:15 pm
Again the feeling of pain shot through her as her stomach tightened up in knots. She leaned back a bit from Amrita eyes half closed focusing frowning, "Why Ammi? Why would you do that?" She shivered slightly trying to understand, trying to fathom a single reason why someone would willing do such a thing let alone Amrita of all people.
"N-no you can't be theirs, you're here I won't let them take you again..." She ran a set of bone fingers through her hair tilting the ghouls head up looking into her eye. "No don't be sorry, please don't no no no. You where captured, you couldn't do anything we had to have the Horsemen, Medea, we could barely do this ourselves..." her own defense was a rambling series of thoughts. "W-we can do better. We can find a way. You won't get taken again I won't let them."
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