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 Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:13 pm
"I... I... I d-don't know! I d-don't know, I d-don't know... I j-just... I'm j-just... " He swallowed, and his tender swollen neck jiggled under his jaw. He was going to be sick. He sat up ever so slowly, wrapping his arms around his exposed belly in a mortified fashion, trying to pull his jumper closed around his fresh girth.
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:17 pm
The bat-man nods a few times, knowing the feeling. "How about this then...we go outside and we'll walk over to your duplex. The fresh air'll do us both good, eh? And I...I uh...s**t, I'm sorry...are...are you feeling up to moving right now? 'cause I don't wanna pressure you into doing anything you don't want to..."
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:22 pm
"N-no... no, th-thank you... th-thank you.. I... I c-can do it..." Newt said softly. He didn't look down. He could feel the changes but he didn't want to look at them. He wanted to go to the lake. He'd go to the lake and he'd hide from that crabby octopus in the mud on the far bank where no one would find him. And he'd swim real deep and hide.
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:25 pm
s**t...I really made a mess of this...I just...goddamnit...I just want to help somone out...once...
Tommy sighs and steps out of the way of the door, opening it for Newt. Tommy could think all he wants about how he just wants to help out a person...but really all he wants is to make a friend...he's had so few around here and it's starting to get to him.
The bat-man gives a closed lipped smile to hide his teeth and just nods, "Go for it, man..."
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:30 pm
And if what was left of Newt's head of hair wasn't laying about the floor or tangled in his torn jumper's shoulders, Newt would have been apt to stay and chat. He needed to get away. Instinct told him to jump and he needed to. He let go of his stomach, his whole body aching and burning as though everything that had swollen was a wound and tentitively hopped towards the door. The weight was different and he stumbled and landed on his belly halfway past the polite bat-man.
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:32 pm
Thankfully, Tommy had some sense off tact and decided against asking Newt if he was alright. He just pretended he was looking at something interesting inside the entertainment room. He looks back to Newt once he'd righted himself and just nods to him. "Take care, Newt," he mutters out quietly.
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:39 pm
"Th-th-thank y-you... er..." He hesitated a moment, giant eyes trembling, "T-tommy..." Once regathered, he resituated, recalculated and hopped again, trying to ignore the pain and sickening lurch of his flesh as the momentum caught it. For a man who had been nearly bone skinny his entire life, he felt as though someone had shoved a heavy pillow nder his skin. It was difficult to learn to compensate when his muscles weren't used to his change in build. But he'd make it. A nice cold soak to wet his skin, get out of the stupid ruined jumper, and pretend this was just another average occurence in their daily lives. Because it was.
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:42 pm
Tommy watches the man go and sighs as he shuts the door behind him. His pent up emotions after seeing Newt change slowly melts away as he takes a deep breath inside the darkened entertainment center...his...cave...
I wonder if they have any of those old sci-fi horror movies from the fifties...
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