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 Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 9:20 pm
It had been a sobering experience, walking home from Blackfriar's with her literal tail between her legs. She hadn't planned on needing a jacket in the late May weather, and she'd managed to lose her backpack when she'd turned into an actual animal, so she was grossly unprepared for the whole espionage thing. Still, she somehow managed to slip away in the chaos of the lights and sirens of the authorities, coming home to an empty house in clothes that were covered in blood. The first order of business was a long, hot shower, made interesting by the presence of her new-grown tail. Then came her first confrontation with the bathroom mirror, a gaunt stare at the strangeness of her ears, the hair on her body, the fangs she felt in her mouth. Was this...going to be her new normal? Were she and the others going to always have to deal with this? She tried not to think about Lucas too much--it was a confrontation she was not ready to deal with. Lily had been putting on her pajamas when she'd heard the mechanism of the locks to her front door click, signalling her roommate was home. Even in the privacy of her room, she suddenly felt incredibly vulnerable and exposed, and with a tank top thrown over her shoulders she was unlatching her window and climbing out before she even heard the other girl's purse hit the couch. It was possible that she'd even been at the job fair, too, but trying to talk to her roommate after all that had happened was also a confrontation she was not ready to deal with. She couldn't stay home and she couldn't go out, which really left one place to go. Lily couldn't in good conscience knock on Nasir's door, not when she knew he'd been around when things had started to get hairy, but thankfully she'd been left with claws that were sturdy enough to make climbing easier. She hoisted herself up onto his roof, where sure enough they'd made something of a patio, and without ceremony or invitation let herself slump into the makeshift hammock. It didn't take long for sleep to find her, and she curled her body in as restful a position as she could find, her fuzz-covered ears twitching on occasion in her sleep.
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Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:53 pm
Nasir slept deeply, curled up against Wil after everything that had happened. It had not been an easy night's sleep, his arm still hurt, and eventually it was what woke him. Slipping out of bed, not really wanting to be awake, he went downstairs to the kitchen first to get a cup of tea. It had not been easy but at least, for the moment, Wil was deeply asleep. Tea in hand once it was made (something warm, something soothing, something that would likely help him get back to sleep), he headed back up the stairs. Instead of sitting on the bed, however, he made a detour for the roof set up. It was a trap door with a steep pair of stairs and he was pushing up on the hatch to get to the roof. Except that hurt more than he thought. His arm was definitely messed up and this reminded him. Still he eventually got the door open and was up on the roof patio. It took him a moment to focus, his glasses left down in the bedroom, before he realized that there definitely was someone in the hammock. It only took a few seconds for him to realize who it was and that she had- "Lily?"
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Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2016 12:41 pm
Lily's ears flickered and her face contorted into a grown, but she stirred in the hammock, rubbing a hand on her eyes and smearing what little makeup she still had on. She looked up and her heart dropped, biting her lip. It was still dark out, which meant she'd woken him up somehow, and just like everything else it was coming back to being her fault. "...Yeah," she responded lowly, tucking her tail behind her as an afterthought. "I'm sorry. I couldn't sleep."
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Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2016 10:30 pm
"No sorry, Lily." Nasir was looked pale and tired, the bandaging on the bicep of his left arm obvious but he was more concerned about her. "Scoot," he told her, not even bothered by the ears and tails. If anything they were fitting. Nasir was going to plant himself next to her on the hammock. "You want a drink of this?" It was just tea in a mug but it was warm and it was supposed to be calming.
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2016 8:47 am
Wordlessly Lily complied, shuffling to the side to surrender half of the hammock to its rightful owner. She flicked her tail away to give him more space, then graciously accepted the mug, taking a sip before lifting it back up. "I told you there was a tail," she began, trying to chuckle, but it only took a moment before any attempt at amusement faded from her expression. "Everything is so ********," she said lowly, looking down at her clawed toes. "The job fair, all those people..." It was there fault, it was her fault, but she couldn't bear to tell that to Nasir, to disappoint him any worse than she'd disappointed herself. They could have looked harder, but they didn't, and now people were dead.
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2016 6:00 pm
When Lily took the drink, Nasir wormed a warm arm around her and tugged her up against him. The cup was taken back when she was done, taking a sip himself and then settling it against his thigh. "You still look like you to me," he told her with a smile, head tilting against hers and nudging towards an ear that was tipped in fur. Lily was Lily and that was all that mattered. At the mention of the job fair, Nasir went still and his head ducked down before he raised it back up. "I know, I was there ..." His arm ached still, the bandaging just barely visible on his left bicep, and his face was clean shaven due to removing the make-up and glue they had put on him. "I was helping downstairs, I saw Eve, and-" Well, Lily had come up and that meant he had known she was there but he had been injured and not able to do much beyond what he had done. "I'm glad you're okay, Lily, I was worried." With all the people that had been injured, with all the blood- It had been a rather large concern.
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2016 1:12 pm
Lily nearly let out a sob when he leaned into her, nuzzling her head into his shoulder as she breathed in the air around him. She'd been holding back on everything to block out the fighting and maiming they'd had to do to the other rogues, the people that in the end weren't even saved by their efforts, but in his embrace those walls began to crumble and crack, told by the whispered sounds of her ragged breathing. She caught sight of the bandage just as Nasir admitted he'd been there, and her body went cold. "I thought we kept them all from going downstairs," she protested firmly, snatching at the bandaged arm, watching his body for telltale signs of hair. "No one bit you, did they?" Her heart began to pound as she looked up at his face, noting the clean shave, but it did little to dissuade the panic in her gut. "That's how--all those people, they weren't supposed to be like us, they got bitten." Never mind that for most people the change took immediately--all of this was so new and unknown, there was no telling what else could go wrong.
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2016 7:21 pm
His grip on her tightened a little, picking up on her breathing and the way Lily trembled in his hold. Nasir frowned briefly but then it smoothed into a reassuring smile even if he winced when she grabbed at his arm. "No, no bite," Nasir reassured her quickly (he remembered the talk about contagion and how it spread by a bite and-). "It was ... Someone changed?" He did not know how to phrase it. "... downstairs. He attacked people, like he had gone berserk, and I was in the way. He sliced my arm up trying to get through the crowd." The young man was still paler than he should be because of blood loss but he was fine, aside from the deep slashes that had been stitched up on his left bicep. "I ... ah ... I had to do something to help you guys," make sure they weren't taken in or worse, "and the injured people ... Eve was going to go out so that they would think that it was just someone with wolfman syndrome but she had ears and a tail and-" Nasir let out a breath, gently taking Lily's hand into his own. If Eve had gone out, it would have been bad, he just knew it. "I've always been a little hairier than most and I've got that one patch on my arm." It was there, just a patch of hair that was thicker and darker than everywhere else but it was a mole so far as he knew. "Eve and another woman," Maeve? he thought, "put makeup on me and made me look like I was, uh ... like one of the characters from Teen Wolf. So I looked like someone with that syndrome, like we were saying someone had seen and everyone had just overreacted and assumed and ... That you guys weren't-" Nasir let out a breath, leaning against Lily a moment. "You guys didn't do this stuff, you didn't attack people. Let them think we just overreacted and people got hurt because of that. I didn't want anything happening to you."
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 10:05 am
His words weren't immediately enough to dissuade the rolling fear in her gut, and so as he explained Lily continued to look him over, her mouth wrought in a tight frown. She leaned forward, thinking she might be able to smell the wolverine on him if only she got close enough, but she caught herself short of actually taking a sniff. Nasir said he was fine. He was fine. And besides, friends didn't sniff friends without their permission. "Eve did what?" Lily blinked, looking over the features of his clean-shaven face. "I knew the police showed up, but I thought they just sort of bust in, all cop-like and stuff." The cops thought they were...wolf men? That was a thing? It really only applied to Lucas, but if she looked down at her tail and squinted, she could maybe pass it off. It wasn't like anyone on this side of weirdsville was going to see how she really looked. "So the cops, they really thought you were one of us?" Lily asked, an incredulous tone to her voice. Nevertheless, she made the basic attempt at a smile, close-lipped and toothless. "That's...that's a lot. It means a lot. Thank you." But her expression was quick to fade, and she wrapped an arm around Nasir as her gaze went outwards to the rest of the patio. "It's..." She looked farther off, wincing. "It's kind of our fault, though. We were supposed to find everyone, and this Michael kid...we didn't find him, and I guess he went berserk, and..." She looked back, only to fixate on the bandage wrapped around his arm, and her face paled. "A lot of people are messed up. Permanently." It was too much to say dead, too much to acknowledge the most final of these truths.
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 11:25 pm
Nasir let her look him over. Lily was family to him and he knew, in her place, he would be doing the exact same thing in looking her over to make sure she was alright. That she had not fallen to what had plagued those that had gone berserk at Blackfriars. "Yeah, she put make-up on me with another woman and ... it did work." His head ducked down a moment, feeling a little sheepish. Heat suffused his face for a moment, darkening it with a ruddy red. "They took some blood to make sure I did not have some disease like they thought people had." The contagion that supposedly was going around. "They believed it though and people were able to get medical attention." Lily's arm around him meant he was putting one around her, letting their heads fall together (though he was careful of her ears, assuming they might be a little more sensitive than they usually were). "I know," he said quietly, "that people are hurt but ..." His lips pressed together, his arm squeezing her lightly. Nasir tilted his head and pressed a gentle kiss to Lily's forehead, something he had done before and entirely meant to be soothing and reassuring. I'm here, I'm fine, this injury is not the end of me. "I don't think it's your fault. You or Eve or anyone else," he said after he pulled away. "You were all trying to help deal with a situation that went very wrong." Or so he assumed from what he had pieced together of conversations that had happened around him and were overheard. "I didn't even see you there when the first guy changed. It was right at," he let out a breath, "moon rise, I think." Nasir had looked before bed, his curiousity getting the better of him.
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