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Omega - Consoling...?


Christian watched as the grass around Sophia gradually shrank back to normalcy. Always was he in awe of what abilities God have given her. Whatever it was that was bothering her must really have shook her to the core, the tears that flowed from her eyes said enough in that regards. He wanted to refute her claim of uselessness the moment she said it, but he refrained, waiting to hear whatever it was she said.

The words Sophia spoke were true. He did go too far, of that he was relatively certain. But those idiots got what was coming to them… didn’t they? Christian couldn’t shake the feelings of guilt, not for what he did, but for causing this disturbance, this uncertainty in one of his closest friends. The way she look at him, her tear-filled gray eyes piercing his own…

Still, as he stood there with his hand on her shoulder, he listened to every single word she said, absorbing it all like a sponge. The feelings of guilt intensified when he felt her shoulder move ever so slightly, the sadness in her voice overwhelming… then she turned herself away from his touched and stepped away. All the while he stood there, gathering his own thoughts, trying to form the words. He wanted to say something. No, he knew he had to say something. He couldn’t just let things be where they were.

“…I didn’t mean to imply anythin’ by askin’ what was wrong,” Christian said quietly. “And you’re sure as heck ain’t useless. I’ve seen what you can do. You’re far from that… I can assure ya.”

With her back to him, Christian slid his hands into his pockets and continued speaking to Sophie.

“I wasn’t just followin’ Narcissa’s lead on that,” Christian said slowly. “I did what I did… to protect a friend. Someone I care about. They had every intention on hurtin’ one or both of us… I wasn’t gonna allow that to happen. Even if Cissa had the situation under control.” After he said that, he inhaled sharply before letting a soft sigh escape his lips.

“I know you don’t wish to hurt anyone,” he continued on, “I’ve known ya too long to think otherwise.” Granted, she may have stepped away from him and slouched a bit, but Christian wanted to at least look at her, not the back of her head as he continued to speak. He wasn’t going to force the issue.

“And that’s what makes you… you.” Christian said. Just say it you damned moron. His subconscious was screaming at him while he stood there, looking at his diminutive friend.

“If I may… I don’t wish to overstep anythin’…” Christian’s voice hushed even further, but there was a certainty, a determination in what he was saying. He wanted to reassure Sophia, let her know she was more than what she thought she was. “You’re gentle. That’s why I’m guessin’ things like this bother ya. Cause I know you don’t like it when things like we had to deal with happen. Not only that, you’re strong as well. Stronger than I am… strong enough to show restraint.” That was a lesson Christian would obviously need to learn, but being around the team he was in… it was certainly hard to not hold back. Even from the get go, even knowing that Cissa was more than likely wrong in her train of thought, he was told the Omegas were better… stronger. But was hurting people really a path to strength? Perhaps it was, if it meant keeping the people he cared about… his friends and teammates safe.

“I’m sorry, Munchkin,” Christian said to Sophia, referring to her by the nickname that always got her slightly riled up. “I… I honestly didn’t mean to frighten ya back there.”

Christian looked over his shoulder briefly when he heard Raine’s voice cresting through the air. He smiled a bit, comforted by the fact that another good friend of theirs was showing up. He had heard the question Raine asked him, but he neglected to answer, knowing full well that it wasn’t his place to answer for Sophia.

When Raine rested her hand on Christian’s shoulder, he felt a bit more at ease. She asked if he was alright, and suggested giving her some time. It was as solid a suggestion as he had heard in a long time.

“Yea,” he said, feeling quite reassured when she rested her head on his shoulder momentarily, “I’m alright” That was the one blessing he had concerning his stay at the Academy; the solid friendships he had forged with people and the fact that they always seemed to show up at the right time.

Christian looked from one friend to the other, before speaking to Sophia one last time before he got himself ready to leave her to herself for the time being. “Take your time, Soph… talk to either of us when you feel up to it…” Just as he was finishing saying what he needed to say, he heard Raine’s laugh and excited exclamation over knowing the song that was booming across the dance party near the bonfire.

“Well then,” Christian said as he stepped back and turned away to head back towards the party, “Miss Raine, if you wouldn’t mind an escort back down to the party, I’d be more than happy to join ya.”

With a smile on his face and the offer on the table, he hoped that what time Raine and himself let Sophia have to herself would be enough.

Omega - Warm Surprises

Carlos smirked, it looked evil with his eyes as they were but he opened his mouth and sounded amused, as he usually would with friendly banter. " We're both stubborn chica. Besides if your worried about me being cold it's kinda redundant to make me teleport when it gets real cold doing that.", Even if she said not to that was a valid argument from his end. He stood up and stretched shaking less and more tolerate of the cold. His eyes scanned around the area taking in the cave and finding other details he missed with his distractions. It was a good front, but hopefully she wouldn't push it. Even though He seemingly baited her to continue arguing. He refrained from over thinking that and found it hard. As a child soldier he could put up a good front and deal with difficulties like the cold when he needed to. This wasn't a battle situation though, and he was pressing on merely for her company. That realization made him worry. He was acting on latent feelings, that seemed stronger than everything else he should be feeling.

Thinking and not keeping himself aware he strode over and crouched down near one of the isolated pools, dipped his hand in. The Fish were unique, the water was warm. He let his feet slip in and he relaxed not feeling the cold as much there. He could use his power but rather hazard to guess it was something geothermal involved. An Underground hot spring, that wasn't entirely uncommon but an underwater underground hot spring that had to be rare. Further out and a pool or two later the rising steam gave to a fog, he could guess it was hotter over there. He looked back at Evie ready to to interrupt her from being her stubborn self. " I'll Teleport you if we stay alittle longer and enjoy the sauna. Come here and try this, it's relaxing."

He was going to win out over her stubbornness this time. a bribe and the last few words out of his mouth, he pushed all the specific buttons that appealed to Evie. Besides once she tried the warmer pool and maybe explored the hotter fishless once she might change her mind. Her power had to make such things far more pleasant then they would even for him. Still he'd keep to his word and as soon as it came to that point he would own up and move them both out. He atleast bought a few more minutes. Like the many before it since she tracked him it would be pleasant.

Omega: What just Happened?

Jacen looked about, still unsure what they were waiting for. He usually did anything to stay Cissa’s wrath, but unless you spelled directions like ‘stay put’ out for him he wouldn’t really understand. He tapped his foot as he turned back to face the others. Or more specifically one other. A really close face-

“Mmmgggffmmm!” Jacen tried saying, eyes widening as he was ninja-kissed. It took all his willpower not to spit ink into Leion’s face from the shock of the movement. As Leion crumpled to the ground, Jacen just stared, a look of utter astonishment burnt into his face. He turned a glare towards Maddy at her little comment.

“Alemeauamaoinauatupofaafuasei!” He said, a stream of unintelligible samoan. What had just happened? He looked to Shandra, hoping for some sort of clarification here, though she seemed more concerned with stopping Wilbur. Right. Unconscious people first. Wait, No! His friend had just resolved what seemed like some major drunken UST, how on earth was he supposed to react to that?

And was Alek being helpful? Was it just him or had The Junior X-men reached a brand new level of insanity. Shandra seemed to be playing tug-of-war with Wilbur. And Leion had still kissed him.

It took a second for him to realize his jaw had taken a hard line, giving the impression he was pissed off as opposed to confused. He liked girls. He knew that… Didn’t he? Well, he atleast didn’t find Leion attractive… But would his friend feel the same when he sobered up?

“Thanks Alek, but we will take care of it.” Any other circumstances he would have felt sorry for the boy and believed his sudden heel face turn to the light side, but right now he didn’t want to deal with the Ice-man's evil twin. He turned to Shandra, “What are we going to do with him?” He asked, “Take him back to the house?”

Omega-Fire is FunThere was nothing like a good fight to get ones blood flowing, a philosophy shared by many of the Omegas, most likely why they were seen as the 'bad team'. Antonio was not the first person to condone violence, stealing was alright, fighting not so much. But some people deserved it. And when people went out of there way to threaten people who were in love with him, which everyone was, they needed extra punishment. Now Antonio was not a Kleptomaniac, but things tended to find their way into his pockets when he was not looking. Now the trick to stealing was to not show the goods to anyone else, because stolen things were easy to recognize as such. All he had to do was take them off of his person and place them on the thugs and lets the cops have a field day, it was not like he was planning on doing with anything, most of the things were knick knacks that were completely worthless. Still he was happy with his work which meant that he could leave.

He was a little late to the bonfire, his pockets needed some restocking, but he was fine with this. There were many things that Antonio was known for, but promptness was not one of them. Fashionably late was more his style, that was when the most people, or in his current case the least people, would notice you. Arms on his hips, he stood off to the side, surveying the people in front of him. Most of them were people from the Academy, but there was more than a handful of humans mixed in. The question was who to spend time with. Normally he would chase after Shandrabut she was expecting him to do that. He needed to start surprising her or she would loose interest in him, which was not what he wanted. She was one of the few people who evaded him over the years, and he refused to let her keep winning.

It was then that he saw Sophia off to the side with Chirstian. They had spent some time together in limbo, and it seemed like the girl was interested in him, not that he was really surprised. But that was not the real reason why he wanted to talk to her. He knew that he did not lure all of the thugs away, and he wanted to make sure that they managed to get out fine. They looked fine, but one could never be sure until they looked at things closer. Smiling he walked over to The Alpha and Omega.

By the time he reached them. Raine and Christian seemed to be leaving, probably to give Sophia time on her own. Antonio could see why, the girl looked like she was going to break down at any second. He paused for a second, deciding what to do. Antonio was not known for his amazing thinking ability, as most of his thoughts revolved around one subject, him. So it was no surprise when he decided that what Sophia really needed was a healthy serving of Antonio attention. It was guaranteed to make anyone feel better, he was just that good.

"What's wrong Linda?" He asked softly, walking over to her. "Those thugs did not hurt you did they?" His voice was filled with concern that was reflected in his eyes. She did not look hurt, there was no cuts or bruises that his eyes could locate. But sometimes the worse injuries were the ones that could not see, even he knew that.

Omega: Off to See the Wizard - Silly Alpha

Narcissa was already dancing with someone else by the time Gideon started coming towards her… The Islander was cute, a freckle faced girl who seemed to blush at the fact that the blond sun goddess even looked at her… Let alone danced with her. Everyone was packed so tightly though, that she might as well have been dancing with four other people at the same time. But she faced the round faced girl—So Cissa took the easiest explanation.

Her fierce gaze was taken from her current object, replaced, unsurprisingly with the white haired Tin Man. If it weren’t for the fact that she almost liked him…She would have deliberately burned him for getting in her way. What did she care if it put a hole through him. A nice, gaping hole.

He healed.

When he spoke, she didn’t stop dancing—Reveling in the feeling of the fire light, of warm bodies—Almost as if she taken a bath in icy hot before coming out to the bonfire. Perhaps that was left over adrenaline from the fight.

Her gaze was murderous, before it turned, becoming something else as she placed her overly warm hand with the slit wrist on his chest, one on his shoulder as she twisted towards him. “If you wanted me to play Dorothy, Tin Man, all you had to do was ask…”

She grinned at him, the look dark, and not at all friendly… He would regret calling her out. She would make sure of that. Either physically, since he did still feel pain, or emotionally… She knew the link that he and the Alpha leader shared… Knew that if he were her other—With some one else on the dance floor, just this close, that she would be jealous. By product… She knew that he had just left Isabella to come play her therapist…

Oh yes, Isabella would be jealous.

He didn’t fear her by her powers—And that was fine. There were others reasons to fear her.

“I get it now…”, she went on, her voice a combination of steel and cream—Comforting and cruel. “Stone is a closet kink… I bet that’s how you like her. With nothing but the red sparkling heels.”

“And here I thought you Alpha’s were boring…”

She twisted her body—Not caring if he moved or not. Her actions were sharp, not at all fluid like his precious little b***h of a girl friend. Narcissa would dance, and have her fun, and move—Whether he wanted to dance with her or not. He wanted to get into her space, into her mind, he could do it on her terms… So he would either have to dance with her, Or enjoy the near lap dance he was getting infront of his girlfriend, Or carry her off away if he actually insisted on having this bull s**t little heart to heart.

Especially since, she couldn't very well talk about another dimension in the middle of a group of civilians.

All of these options, she was rather amused by.

“Tell me… Since now I’m curious… What kind of safe words do you have? Does she call you Toto? Tell you there’s no place like home?”, she taunted further, her back pressed flush against his chest—Hands over her head as she moved her hips with the beat of the song. It was something more clubbish than the native drum crap they’d first started playing… And that was fine by her. If she wanted interpretive dance, she’d go join a yoga class.

She drew her right hand down the side of his face, the injured one, and let heat surge through it—Hearing a sizzling sound. She stopped it, before her light showed—But it was enough to make him. He would have blistered if he didn’t heal near instantly.

Narcissa tossed her hair back, uncaring.

Gideon was strong, and durable, though apparently not that bright—He made a good toy. An unbreakable toy. Perhaps she should have done more than just kissed him before the prom.

Alpha - Fun

Jack resisted the urge to roll his eyes as Kerrigan pranced up and took her shots at him. " Yep Sonja, I am. Time of my life. What about you? Came all the way here to keep me company?" It came as quick as he thought it and his eyes avoided her and went back to group of girls that passed him by. Good a time as any to elevate this little game they have going on. " Maybe I should go after them, huh? Not like anyone else has eyes for me. Could be a hoot, having my own private party with three gorgeous locals.", He was of course trying to see if it would crawl under the redhead's skin. She looks at him and steals glances when she thinks he ain't lookin, but he noticed. He was just now seeing what that meant. If only there was like alittle kit put together to do this kinda thing. He didn't glance down or back at her as he paused trying to find a little nudge he could use. " Then again whats the point? We go back to school, Never to see them again likely. hmmm.... Decisions decisions...."

Hopefully the feigning of indecision wasn't so apparent. He didn't know what to expect though anyway, so he was playing it rather recklessly. But hey, a large fleshy tank like him had a nice cushion to be reckless when he wanted to. Fire was something he liked to play with and his fall back plan for most things in his life. He finally looked back down to Kerrigan then past her, and smirked. " Besides, ya got your own admirers. Why should my type concern you?" There were indeed a few boys looking after the redhead. He sipped at his drink waiting for a response, wondering where it would be going in the end. She was a barrel of fun, poked with a stick, but she seemed a little oblivious to his obvious interest. He didn't blame her, he was good at acting, at poking. He could fish a little more, but reeling the big catch worked best with patience, and from his experience hoopla.

 
Raine’s hazel eyes lingered on Sophia’s form, hunched away from herself and Christian.  She desperately wanted to say something that would help the girl figure out what she needed to, but Raine knew that there was nothing.  At the end of the day, Sophia would have to work through whatever was ailing her on her own and all Raine could do was support the girl in whatever decision she made.  It pained her to have to walk away from the girl when she was still in so much distress, but lingering and trying to draw more out of her than she had already revealed would probably do nothing more than force her to linger on those same thoughts that upset her in the first place.  Christian said what she left silent – whenever she wanted to talk, about anything, they would be waiting for her.
 
Determined to keep her mood up, if only to inspire her friends to do the same, Raine smiled at Christian as he asked if she wanted an escort back down to the bonfire, the brunette chuckling softly.
 
“And who says chivalry is dead?”  She glanced back at their friend, a silent invitation for her to come along, though she had a feeling that they would be making their trio a duo for the time being.  Hopefully their friend would join them again soon with a resolution to the problems that so clearly plagued her conscience and made her unhappy.  Sophie was too sweet to be unhappy.
 
She trudged through the sand back towards the bonfire, her curls blowing in the wind as she tucked her hands innocently in her back pockets.  For the moment it kept her from flailing them about in time to the song she knew.  It wasn’t too long before they reached the dancing crowd, drinks passing freely from one person to the next.  Everything was louder now that they were closer to the main action of the party, and when she tried to speak she had to almost yell to hear her own voice.
 
“What do you think the chances are of finding anything to drink that doesn’t have alcohol in it,” she asked Christian with a slight grin, no longer able to help herself as her whole body swayed to the song.  It was nowhere near the dancing she saw going on closer to the fire, namely the dancing going on between Narcissa and Bella’s boyfriend, but it seemed to fit her a little more.  Out of the corner of her eye she saw the blonde Omega leader literally carried off the floor by Gideon, Raine giving a slight wince as she motioned for Christian to look. Beyond the scuffle she saw Sophie and Antonio talking,
 
“That isn’t going to go over well,” she said, though she couldn’t really hide the amusement in her features.  Sure, she knew from her limited interactions with the Omega leader there was going to be hell to pay for what just happened, but it was a pretty funny sight. The song changed to another fast paced tune, though she was slightly disappointed to realize that had not heard it. Still, the smile did not disappear from her features as she linked her arm through Christian's her gaze completely turning to him.

"Come on cowboy, let's loosen up a little," she said with a laugh, an innocent invitation for the two friends to dance and enjoy themselves like those around them. The only thing that could make this better would be if their trio was complete, and she continued to hope that it would happen sooner rather than later.