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Another set of anti-depressants he needed to take, another set of pills to add to his rainbow of mood modifiers. He growled and threw the little pink slip into the safe near his bed. His roommates knew that his side of the dorm apartment was off limits under pain of dismemberment or an hour with the perky girl who came by twice a week. He slammed the safe door shut and twirled the lock and wiped the keypad down with a grimy looking soft cloth. Call him paranoid, but he had a small fortune worth of pill slips in that safe that he didn't want stolen.

Outside the remnants of that days storm dissipated slowly, the moody gray clouds lingering longer then they had any right to. It suited Tobias's mood perfectly. He growled and stalked out of the room and past his frantic roommates. They, as usual, waited until the last day to get their projects done. He was out the door before they noticed him. He climbed the stairs to the roof of the building, alone save for the one couple necking near the fire escape.

The cool air of dusk was a welcomed distraction, the metal of the chain link fence was still wet with rainwater. The dark haired youth leaned against it with a sigh, uncaring that his white shirt was becoming see through. His life might not have hit an alltime low, but it sure felt like it.

"Boo!"

Tobias's back straightened and his elbow jabbed backwards on instinct before he pulled his scattered wits together and aborted the motion halfway. He turned his head to peer at the idjit who'd snuck up on him, and couldn't help but stare. It was...a masked woman. Her hair was too long to be Seyonne, unless the girl paid for a wig or extensions.

"Do I know you?" He asked, his voice holding hints of curiosity. He turned so that his back was to the chain link fence, fingers poking through the holes. His gaze raked over the woman, eyes straining to make out details as night firmly started to settle in. The only prominent things he could make out was the mask and her figure.

In the distance the couple was slowly progressing from necking, if the feminine giggles were anything to go by, and King's City was slowly turning on the lights for the night. A part of Tobias wanted to ignore the woman, and go back to watching the city light up, killing the dazzling effects of starlight before it even had a chance to fully shine. But another part of him, the one that protested the medication, knew that he should pay attention to her. As always, he listened to the part that hated the mood modifiers.

Loony was one way to put it, this woman was so far outta her rocker she was halfway across the world! But she had a point, underneath all that psycho babble. Join the dark side, they were different and had cookies. Or so Seyonne often said. In this case, they had medical and friday night bingo. Really, what sort of evil was this woman if she offered Bingo? B6, BINGO! Congrats you've just won this super secret lazer gun guaranteed to stun that pesky do-gooder for sure this time.

But what else did he have to loose? His parents? Dead. Family? Dead for a long time. His sanity? People already thought he didn't have that, with the weekly visits and phone calls and pills. Can't forget those pills. If Tobias was lucky maybe...maybe joining this woman would help him come off as normal, unscarred, and mentally balanced. He was tired of those side looks he got when walking places. Tired of the constant need to be checked up on. He wasn't an invalid, a broken tool, damaged goods. He was himself, bent but not snapped, twisted but not yet tangled. God, what was with him and these metaphors?

"Why not." Tobias said after a moment of silent mulling of words. "It's bound to be more eventful than life in general." He bared a wrist and waved it like it was some sort of offering. "What do I do? Sell my soul, sign a contract in blood? Kidnap a young child and sacrifice them to the old gods?" He better not have to dance a jig or strip and pole dance, because that would get very awkward very fast.

"I agree to give up this dull monotonous life of mine to join the dark side." Tobias replied, his voice bland, it was clear that he didn't believe that such words were any sort of magical trigger. But he found himself saying it anyway. That was the funny thing about hope, no matter how ridicules the situation, that tiny little light inside always refused to go out and instead just shined a little brighter.

He waited a few seconds, which turned into a few minuets. "So. Now what?" He asked, breaking the short silence that had fallen between them, "Will I expect to suddenly sprout wings and horns and spew slime from my hands and blasphemy from my mouth every time I try to talk to someone?"

Moving over to peer inside the cage Tobias couldn't help but frown at the half-dead thing. "I'm sure there are laws about keeping animals in bags." He said dryly, taking the cage out of Theif!'s hands and opening it. The hybrid let out a pathetic sound as it was pulled out. It was darkly colored with a white tip on the end of its tail, which looked like a perpetual sign of defeat. Tobias hissed as he felt...something inside of him unlock, some ball of tension that had always existed inside his chest that he'd never been aware of.

The small animals eyes glowed, the blue turning almost electric shade before it faded again. "Yo." It whispered, voice weak. Suddenly the beast looked tired, "Make sure that crazy Lady doesn't put me back in that bag." It shuddered, paws coming up to cover its eyes as it hung from the scruff of its neck. It's tail was tucked between its legs but Tobias had a feeling that it was male and that he should be more startled then he was when it started to speak. But Thief! had been floating on the other side of the fence before she'd landed and he was supposedly a member of the Dark Side now. Stranger things would be happening to him he thought.

"I wont." He replied, eying the beast before setting it down. The fox hybrid flopped over once its paws touched the ground and was no longer being supported by Tobias.