Daybreak

<SavanahHolland> The sun looked to be going down, right at the moment where the last peak of sunlight shone through while it went down, getting dark. It was a pretty scene for someone feeling so alone. Wendy sitting on the very edge of the roof, on the railing. She wore her usual sweater, flats, jeans, everything was as usual, but it really wasn't. She was facing away from the door, watching the sky in fro
<SavanahHolland> nt of her playing out, it was more of a blank stare than anything, as if her mind wasn't completely there. Somehow her skin seemed paler, her hair just a little messer than usual, the dark circles under her eyes actually having gotten worse, she doesn't remember the last time she was guided to the abyss, no matter how hard she tried her mind was always racing in thought. The way her sweate
<SavanahHolland> r was, it clinged a little to her side, prehaps just the breeze and Wendy not fixing it, it would be easy to tell she's gotten skinnier, really the only time she did eat was when Akemi made her, and she couldn't even get it down most of the time. She didn't even understand herself why she felt so horrible, a loss to have any drive for anything, maybe it was just depression, perhaps. From h
<SavanahHolland> er little spot so close to the edge, her feet dangling, one might assume she would jump at any moment, Wendy herself had thought of it, but she can't do it, it's such a easy way out, deciding just to sit there under the lowering sun. It of course was all perception, one could assume she was just sitting there as any other, maybe a little more brave with her seat at least.
<DrabberRogue> That obnoxious ache was back again, odd how loneliness can drive one to seek an area of solitude. His black coat swished behind him as he made his way up the stairs toward the roof, an odd dream he'd had on his mind. Something had made him put on a dark blue shirt earlier, rather than the usual black, a dark color that seemed to contrast the icy blue of his eyes. Eyes that swirled with a concept that very clearly conflicted him, like a
<DrabberRogue> blizzard whirling in his mind. As he finally reached the top, he beheld a sight that he hadn't expected to see, a familiar girl sitting atop the ledge of the roof. Though she looked far less vibrant than when he'd last seen he-...his mind's image of her.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy still sits on the edge, she doesn't hear him, maybe she just wasn't even listening for anyone. She was far from what you imagined in that moment, not dress, no sparkle in her eyes or twirl in her step. Just sitting there, watching the sun, you can't see her face yet, maybe that's a good thing. Though after a moment it processes through her mind "hello?" she says rather quietly, her v
<SavanahHolland> oice much more dulled and monotone, curiousity wasn't even present.
<DrabberRogue> "Hello...Wendy...what brings you here?" Jace steps slowly toward where she's sitting, taking in her disheveled appearance. His voice usually doesn't do concerned, but right now that's probably the only thing it could be compared to.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy's head moves softly to face him, you can finally see her face, the dark circles under her eyes looked bad, making you wonder when was the last time she even slept, somewhat pale, perhaps just from holing herself in Akemi and her dorm room often after what had happened. "Just.. watching the sun go down." she says, moving to look back in front of her at the sky. Her voice has a subtle
<SavanahHolland> somberness that seeps through the monotone, a depressing tone to imagine the girl of flames with.
<DrabberRogue> Jace is filled with an uncharacteristic worry as he sees her face, but it doesn't show as he reaches the railing, putting his hands on it and turning to face her. "You alright? You're looking a little less bright." Seems he's decided to adopt the fire puns when talking to her...
<SavanahHolland> Wendy hears the pun, for a brief second a smile almost curling on her face like a wisp of smoke, but not so, falling back to her face that had little expression other than sunken in and slightly dulled eyes. "I don't know." her voice adopts a little more somberness to it, she doesn't know if she's alright, or even can be right now, hell she thought about just jumping earlier, she probably
<SavanahHolland> isn't alright at all.
<DrabberRogue> "You don't know? Well, you certainly don't look alright, have you even eaten or...slept at all?" Jace's face starts to show some of that concern, he doesn't like how she answered, it sounds like giving up.
<SavanahHolland> "I can't, I tried." she says in a smaller voice, moving her hand down to her stomach, moving with the oversized fabric until she closes in and feels her stomach, just watching might make you relise that Wendy not eating might have gotten out of hand, she usually lost weight rather quickly, the only reason she used to be able to eat sweets all the time and still keep thin was because of tha
<SavanahHolland> t, but just barely eating at all has done a number on her. She couldn't even sleep, too many nightmares waiting for her, she could handle, back when it was just a few, like the screaming, or the ash, sometimes she couldn't remember in the morning if it were the actual event of where the ash came from, or when Jan stole it from her. But now, she had Lilith waiting for her, she had Akemi wai
<SavanahHolland> ting for her, not Akemi, but a different one, playing out her worse fears.
<DrabberRogue> "Wendy..." ~Oh dear, am I /really/ doing this?~ "It's my turn to be concerned, what's wrong?" Jace's tone picks up in urgency, he's not quite sure why he's so concerned about this girl. Perhaps because she tried to help him, perhaps because of his dream...
<SavanahHolland> Wendy moves slowly, turning her head to look at him, her eyes dulling more, the painful feeling growing as she recalls all that happened to her in her own mind. She then quickly turns back, at least not to look at him when she talked. "Everything." she says rather softly, perhaps being to broad in her words. She could hardly know where to start, and why she would tell Jace, maybe he was th
<SavanahHolland> e closest one to talk to, after having only contact with Akemi for days, seeing Katlyn only once.
<DrabberRogue> Jace processes that for a couple seconds before swinging his own legs over the railing and taking a seat next to her, ignoring the uncomfortable feeling of being so vulnerable. "Really, that would make me part of the problem as well...sorry..." He sounds slightly teasing as he points out her little logic error, trying to bring her mood up with a bit of wit.
<SavanahHolland> wendy lets out the smallest laugh for a moment, only to disappear like her last smile at had almost appeared. "you're not part of the problem." she takes a deep breath "just enough problems that make it feel like enough to be everything."
<DrabberRogue> Jace sits there for a few seconds, he still had that aching, memories from his dream still oddly vivid in his mind. He needed to do just one thing first before trying to help her, perhaps even comfort her in the process. Before he knew it he'd wrapped his arms around the girl, taking a disturbed note of just how thin she is.
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<SavanahHolland> Wendy lets him, she doesn't mind, perhaps it made her feel a little less horrible, she felt tired, maybe more so of everything that's happened rather than just needing sleep, but probably both at once. She leans her forehead on him, looking down, her voice quieter than it had been, as if afraid of anyone other than him hearing "thank you..".
<DrabberRogue> He chuckles, at this, holding her just a bit tighter. "We are friends aren't we?" His voice is soft, softer than one would expect of him, and just as quiet as hers.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy smiles very faintly, instead of letting it disappear, she keeps it, maybe giving it the chance to grow. She moves to slowly move her own arms, wrapping them loosely around him to return the hug in some way "Of course.." her voice goes even quieter, to the point where you probably can't hear it until listening well "i'm just glad you're here.."
<DrabberRogue> It felt nice to hold her in his arms in person, how odd... "Do you want to talk about it?" His own smile grows a bit as she returns the embrace, the aching starts to fade a bit, it's no longer as noticeable.
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<Endorb> Malissa is working on a little trick of her: using her wings to look like she's sitting midair. It's not quite perfect yet, but it isn't too bad.
<FakemixRed> Out in the courtyard, it appears a girl with pale skin and green hair is getting harassed by a boy who's pulling her hair and generally being a real nuisance "Please....stop....it." she says as the other boy kicks her "Then Get outta here! No one wants you here!"
<Endorb> (retcon my previous post, then)
<Endorb> Malissa walks into the courtyard from the dorm, and sees what's going on, deciding to quickly intervene, flying up to the two. "Hey, don't hit people like that! That's not how society is supposed to work!" She tries to distract the boy with her outfit as she gets between the two
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<SavanahHolland> Wendy closes her eyes slightly, leaving them open a crack as she looks down and holds him a little tighter. "I don't really know where to begin.." she says in the same whisper she had spoke in.
<DrabberRogue> "Well...there's always the beginning..." He tries prompting her in a soft, what he hopes is comforting, voice. Somewhat wondering just how far back her problems go.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy squeezes her eyes shut, most of her problems go back to even before Sunnybrook, everything adding and adding to the pile of her own self loathing and no matter how many times she cried could never get it off her back. There was where most of it began, her teacher when she was about seven or eight, then the fire and the screaming in her home at night, it was her own fault. She wouldn'
<SavanahHolland> t tell Jace this, skipping everything else, the clouds of ash, waking up into the infirmary and being told nothing, being cheated on by her first love and staying with her even then. Too many things to count, too many things to even say. She decided to start at some beinging, one of the main things that eat away at her soul at night was a picture of Lilith's face that she knew was always w
<SavanahHolland> aiting for her in the abyss she and everyone else called sleep. "Did you ever.. meet Lilith?"
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<DrabberRogue> DrabberRogue> "I...heard of her...in passing..." He'd only ever heard mention of her once, he couldn't even remember who, something about trying to escape from the school. "What about her?"
<SavanahHolland> Wendy shakes very faintly, taking a few deep breaths to keep herself composed. "I'm- I used to date her... before.. she 'escaped'..." the way she says escaped, sounds strange, as if she doesn't mean it, as if she means something different, in her mind, Lilith was dead, she didn't escape like everyone said she did. But she did escape, to the olive grove, like Jan had said.
<DrabberRogue> "What...happened?" Jace holds the girl a little tighter as he feels her shaking, hoping to act as a bit of an anchor for her self control. ~See, this is why I don't date...~
<SavanahHolland> Wendy's voice goes smaller, her arms going loose around Jace but still there as she shakes more, it's obvious, the deep breaths not helping in trying to keep composed. "She's dead.. she died..." she takes another breath, continuing "everyone.. everyone says she's still alive.. she can't be.. they didn't find her body.. I don't think they will.. they've stopped searching by now.."
<DrabberRogue> Jace finds himself getting a little pale as he realizes just how bad the things that have happened to her are. "If they didn't find a body, then it means there's a possibility that she's still alive. The GWU are idiots, but I don't think they're /that/ incompetent." He reaches up his hand to stroke the back of her head, almost not even realizing he was doing it. "Besides, there's no way she could die with such a bright flame in her heart."
<SavanahHolland> Wendy takes a shaking breath, just trying to keep from crying, she knew it wouldn't help even if it did, all it would do for her is make her look worse than she already did. She squeezes her eyes closed tighter, the comforting hand on the back of her head at least keeping any tears at bay. "The woman.. in charge.. when Akemi and me accidentally broke curfew.. when they sent me in.. alone..
<SavanahHolland>  the woman told me Lilith was dead.. she couldn't have surived.." her face goes a little darker as he says his last words, saying to the point that it can barely be heard "i wasn't in her heart..."
<DrabberRogue> Jace didn't really know what to say at this point, so he just holds her, stroking her head in his attempt at a tender manner. As he sits there and processes what she's said so far, he starts to worry that Wendy may have come up to the roof to do more than just lament on her life.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy's thin body by now shaking in his arms much worse, trying to say it, trying to admit it to Jace, she could trust him, that he wouldn't be scared, she didn't mean to do it. Her voice horribly bone chillingly quiet "She's dead because of me." she can't keep down tears, wishing they wouldn't stream down her face like they were, they didn't even help, they never helped.
<DrabberRogue> Jace's stroking of his head falters, he wasn't expecting that. "What do you mean?" His voice is still soft, but he begins to feel like he's stepped into something he really doesn't want to get involved in.
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<SavanahHolland> Wendy slowly looks up, into his eyes, her own red with the black circles under them much worse, tears staining her cheeks. "If.. I didn't visit her.. If I didn't push her.. she wouldn't have had to go.. to the basement.. she wouldn't have /had/ to escape.. It wouldn't have happened.." Wendy looks down, sobbing quietly.
<DrabberRogue> Jace just tightens his embrace around her, he hated seeing her cry like that. "That sounds like it was her fault for losing control, not yours." Sure, perhaps Wendy did play a part in it in his mind, but a white lie couldn't hurt...especially the state she's in now.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy lays her forehead on his chest, the tears streaming down her cheeks and down her neck until disappearing completely into the fabric of the start of her sweater. "if I just.. choose her.. I couldn't.. I couldn't.." she tightens her closed eyes more, her chest hurting. "I should have just.. ran.. she.. wouldn't have had to do it if i just.. ran.." her voice after a moment disappears in
<SavanahHolland> to rambles until it lowers once more "I won't sleep.. I /can't/ sleep... I know she's there.. waiting for me.."
<DrabberRogue> "Wendy, you shouldn't have been forced into that position anyway." He lowers his head to speak softly into her ear, trying to be as comforting as possible. "I'm sure you had no idea that she'd react that way regardless, you can't regret making a mistake you didn't even know you were making."
<SavanahHolland> Her chest started hurting worse, leaning more into him as her arms get tight around him, the tears finally stopping only leaving the girl sobbing with a tear striken face. She did know, Lilith had the scissors, Wendy wanted her to do it even, but Lilith wouldn't until Wendy made the mistake of grabbing the girl's arm so she wouldn't leave. The scissors going to her arm, then her thigh, and
<SavanahHolland>  when she ran with Akemi, in her lower back, twisted in by the girl she trusted. She slowly looks back up at Jace, shaking, everything about her looked terrible still, but she looked at him, as if he could do something to help her, even if she knew he couldn't.
<DrabberRogue> Jace tries to put on a reassuring smile as she looks up at him, but it doesn't do much to hide his worry. "You...knew what you were doing?" He hoped for a little more explanation, wanting her to reveal something he could use to prove she wasn't at fault, he didn't want to think of her as a killer.
<SavanahHolland> "I.." she looks back down, she couldn't look at him, not like this "She had.. the scissors.. she was pointing them at me.. I /wanted/ her to do it.. she didn't.. I tried.. to grab her.. her arm to keep her from leaving me.. I should have just left.. I should have just ran when I saw it.. Akemi came.. and Lilith didn't stop.." the chest pains only get worse, for a second she feels horribly
<SavanahHolland> cold in your arms.
<DrabberRogue> He lets out a shaky breath, this is bothering him a lot more than it should. He couldn't find a way to pass this off as an ignorant blunder, it was pretty clear she held a lot of the blame. "You...wanted her to..." The reality of the little flame in his arms was drastically different from the one in his dream, he found himself conflicted again as he felt an unusual cold from her.
<SavanahHolland> Her chest felt horrible, like something was crushing it, she takes a deep breath, her eyes closing as she somehow gets colder, like a flame flickering out, why was it so far to just, talk about what happened, why was she scared of telling him now, his reactions, he would leave her alone on the roof. After a minute of silence, you feel her go limp, her grip around you going completely loose.
<DrabberRogue> Jace's conflict is quickly replaced by concern again as he feels the girl go limp in his arms. "W-Wendy...are you okay?" His voice is panicked, an over observance of symbolism in his mind drawing a quick conclusion from the fading heat.
<SavanahHolland> She doesn't answer, if the past, she had had it happen to her a few times, just from stress, sadness alone. She's been through worse, by why did /this/ feel so horrible out of all the others? She's just, cold, no body heat. Her breathing shallow but still there, and for a moment with the sound of the wind of the now night breeze, you hear the second of someone trying to start a match from
<SavanahHolland> her, body, over and over, as if each one was a failure.
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<DrabberRogue> ~W-Well...she's still alive...~ Jace hugs her closer to himself, perhaps just trying to use his own will to reignite her, his own breathing becoming shaky for who knows why. "Don't die out on me Wendy...I'm not going to lose my first friend to her damn back story..." His shaky voice manages to force out a determined fire pun, hoping a bit of reassuring might bring her back.
<SavanahHolland> The two by now shrouded with the darkness, the sun was gone as the moon tries to rise up. She lays in Jace's arms, not responding as she tries to reignite, she needed time like always, time for her body to shut down and restart, though something kept her from the process of it. You hardly notice it, the smallest blue flame at her feet, becomming her sweet Neru that Jace had seen before. Lo
<SavanahHolland> oking rather.. small. Probably the size of a kitten as it slowly moves, looking at Jace in a sitting position.
<DrabberRogue> Jace's eyes wander to the fox as he holds the smoldering embers in his arms, that loneliness coming back with Wendy becoming non-responsive. "Hello...Neru, right?" His words are slow and deliberate, his voice cracking a bit. ~W-Why did I get caught up in this? Now I'm getting sucked into her drama and I actually care!...Why the hell did let myself care about this girl?~
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<SavanahHolland> Wendy stays in her place, ever so slightly warming up, but still cold to the touch, her breathing going a little slower as the sound of a match trying to be lit echos through the dark roof. The little blue fox stares at Jace, then looking down, it's body was small, not even on purpose, weak. It then slowly moves a few steps closer to Jace, it looked like a scared animal, though it just kee
<SavanahHolland> ps moving closer.
<DrabberRogue> Jace watches the fox as it moves a bit toward him, taking some solace in Wendy's returning body temperature. He figures he isn't really affecting the girl much just holding her, so he slowly reaches out one of his hands toward the fox, balancing Wendy against himself with the other. It seems his eyes don't need a flame to thaw, as his feelings of loneliness and worry are expressed very obviously in them, though he isn't doing much to keep the
<DrabberRogue> rest of his face from showing them anymore.
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<SavanahHolland> The fox moves slowly, as Jace's hand gets close it moves it's head to rub under his hand like most cats would do. Despite the blue and cold color, the fox touchin you give a small feeling of warmth off, that faintly blossoms into your veins. Wendy's body heat rises very slightly, just a little under room temp at this point at least, some color comming to her cheeks as the sound of a match
<SavanahHolland> trying to be lit goes quiet.
<DrabberRogue> Jace's eyes snap back to Wendy as the sound stops, taking note of her heat. "W-Wendy?" Seems he's abandoned any pretense of not caring, his voice actually quivering as he says her name.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy's eyes crack open, her body just needed to shut down for a few minutes, at least so she doesn't freeze to death or worse. Her forehead starting to warm as her body now seems to be a alright heat, if only a little colder.
<DrabberRogue> Jace feels a surge of relief, a really uncharacteristic surge of relief, but at the moment he doesn't really care. "Rise and shine, Little Flame." He whispers to her, hoping she's awake enough to hear his archaic reference.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy seems awake, her eyes opening a little more as her heat warms through much more than her body, she slowly tries to move her head, trying to look Jace in the eyes, her cheeks and forehead a little blushed, probably from the cold and fever she would get sometimes after flickering out. The fox next to the duo waits a few moments, and as a breeze passes, it disappears, back into Wendy li
<SavanahHolland> ke a very faint blue mist.
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<DrabberRogue> Jace just hugs her...again...he'd been afraid that his only friend had died out as she lost her heat. He'd probably kick himself later for letting himself get so hung up about someone else, but right now he was just glad that his worry was for nothing.
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<SavanahHolland> Wendy's breathing comes to a normal speed, if not a little heavier as she leans more into Jace, closing her eyes. "Sorry.. sorry.." her words come out more as mumbles than anything else, she worried him pretty bad, she was fine and she would be fine, probably.
<DrabberRogue> Jace takes a deep breath, letting it out in a heavy, shaky sigh as he tries to regain some semblance of control over himself. "T-There's better places to take an n-nap...than on the r-roof..." He smiles as he whispers a reference that she'll probably never understand, holding her a bit tighter as that persistent ache grows ever so slightly.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy smiles very faintly into Jace, much like in the dream, she was tired. "You're right.." she half laughs, perhaps regaining some spark of the Wendy that Jace had orginally met. The loose arms around him tighten, the girl returning the hug once more.
<DrabberRogue> Jace's smile grows, his expression softening as Wendy regains a little of the girl that he-...n-no...that was just a dream, she's...just a friend to him...his only friend...but still just a friend. "Better now?"
<SavanahHolland> Wendy squeezes him slightly in her arms. "yeah.. better.." she says softly, closing her eyes tight before reopening them "sorry.. I didn't.. mean to worry you.. that doesn't happen often.."
<DrabberRogue> "That's...good..." He cares that she's okay, seriously, something's off with him... "What /was/ that anyway?" He tries to phrase it as tenderly as possible, but he's gotta press the subject somehow.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy makes it so her eyes are open a crack, there was little to see in the darkness of the roof, the moon tonight not out in full. "I don't.. know.. It just.. happens sometimes.."
<DrabberRogue> Jace looks down at her, hugging her a little tighter. "Well...I have a theory, if you'd care to listen." His voice is laced with that tone he uses in his humor, one could guess this theory probably isn't that accurate, and he'd just thought of something that amused him somehow. He has a weird sense of humor...
<SavanahHolland> Wendy smiles a little more, looking up to him with the faintest laugh "Share it with me?" she asks, curiously but with the same joking undertones the boy carried in his words.
<DrabberRogue> "Well, a flame needs fuel doesn't it? Otherwise it'll burn out." One would probably be confused as to how he saw this comparison amusing, he's such a nerd. "So, with the theory of the problem comes the theory of the solution." His smile grows a bit, this guy and his symbolism...
<SavanahHolland> "If.. that could be true... then why did I burn out..?" she asks quietly, looking down to wonder to herself, maybe it was the subject that made her chest hurt, body grow cold. Or perhaps, it was something more.
<DrabberRogue> Jace's smile fades a bit, he doesn't want her to go back to pondering what's wrong with her. "Because you're running on empty, I guarantee you'll feel at least slightly better on a full stomach." He squeezes her a bit tight for a second. "Besides, you need something to cushion those bones, I feel like I'm hugging a mannequin..." His joking tone is back, perhaps even exaggerated, to make sure she doesn't take that last comment the wrong way.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy giggles faintly at the joke, looking down at her own stomach, barely remembering the last time she actually ate. "I've tried to eat, I don't think I can get much down anyways..."
<DrabberRogue> "Well, you could always try again, there's a nice pizza place I found in town." He's finally arrived at the point he was building up to. "If you can't get pizza down your throat then I'm not sure what to do." The aching is gone again, his smile growing with Wendy's giggle. Dream or no, she has a really pretty smile...
<SavanahHolland> Wendy smiles a little more, looking into his eyes with her own as the slight reddness from the tears tries to clear up in her blue eyes. "I might be able to eat pizza.. it's been a long time since I've had it.."
<DrabberRogue> A glint shines in Jace's eyes, what little moon light there is sparkling of them. "Well, it's around dinner time, and I don't think either of us have had anything to eat..." The weirdest part? He doesn't even realize he's basically asking her on a date...
<SavanahHolland> Wendy feels her stomach grumble a little, though it makes no noise, she blushes a tad, realising just how hungry she might actually turn out to be. "We.. could go now.. if you want..?"
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<DrabberRogue> "Sure, beats getting blown out by the wind up here." He hugs her a bit tighter for a few seconds before drawing away, leaving one of his arms around her as he moves so he's just siting next to her. ~Hopefully I can get her to forget about her worries long enough to get some food in her, then I can try to help with her problems from there...~
<SavanahHolland> Wendy laughs a little, feeling him move and closing her eyes for a full minute before opening them and gazing at the darkened sky. She smiles to him before turning her body on the rail and getting to her feet, making sure he comes down with her.
<DrabberRogue> Jace's expression brightens at Wendy's laugh, swinging himself off the rail and on to the roof. "This'll be much easier than the first time I tried to get pizza around here." He says in an amused tone.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy smirks very slightly "Why? What happened?" she laughs, taking his wrist with her hand as she pulls him along, opening the door and well, pulls him inside so they can make their way to town.
<DrabberRogue> Jace actually blushes as Wendy pulls him along, getting a bit of deja vu from his dream. "Well Liz, Eira, and myself wanted pizza but none of us could find a pizza place. So I crafted a beautiful and completely unnecessary plan to slip in to the college, order pizza, and slip out without anyone realizing we weren't supposed to be there." He explains with a bright smile on his face, he prefers when she's like this.
<SavanahHolland> "A.. pizza heist?" she half snickers, pulling him down the stairs and out of the dorms with ease. "How did it turn out, did you get it?" she uses her other hand that isn't pulling him, trying to stifle laughter.
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<DrabberRogue> "Yes actually, it was disappointingly easy...I was pretty much able to walk in with no one stopping me." His blush grows gradually as she drags him along, she's stronger than he expected, he hadn't seen such an insistent side of her before. "Though I think Liz and Eira had a lot more fun than I did."
<SavanahHolland> Wendy walks through the courtyard with him, the lights now on and the sound of the breeze rolling past her ears. "Really? I would think at least someone would try to stop you." she half laughs the last part, seeming in a better mood with a sparkle in her eye, at least enough to tell from her terrible appearence. "Yeah, though Eira sees everything as fun, she's good to be around."
<DrabberRogue> "Yeah, she can certainly find something fun in any situation." He says, laughing a bit himself. Jace finds himself staring at Wendy's eyes a little too much as they walk along through the courtyard. "So how'd you two get to know each other anyway?"
<SavanahHolland> They get their ankle braces on, Wendy seeming a little unsettled by them or the guards that even get close. As they finally exit the school, Wendy regains her smile and stops looking uncomfortable from the short encounter with the guards, balling up her fist that wasn't connected to Jace and putting it to her heart "She taught me how to protect myself."
<DrabberRogue> "Ahh, so that's how you know how to fight, best to learn from the strongest." Some subtle part of Jace that even he isn't aware of flicks his wrist ever so slightly so that his hand ends up in hers, he's too busy staring at her eyes and making an Eira joke to notice.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy notices the hand, but doesn't pay too much mind to it, holding, or rather using it to drag Jace along instead, well until they close in on town, he knew where to go much more than she did. "Yeah, I still owe her a lot for it, she's the only reason I know how."
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<DrabberRogue> Jace's turn to lead, he takes point and starts pulling Wendy to the pizza place in which he had met with Kelly a few days earlier. Passing by various streetlights and people giving odd looks to the guy dragging a cute girl around town. "I take it you're pretty good at it then, considering you had the strongest teacher?" He's only half joking, Eira is pretty imressive.
<DrabberRogue> *impressive
<SavanahHolland> Wendy grins, hardly noticing the weird looks from people, at least it wasn't as bad as that time she wore a dress into town during winter. "Of course, Eira taught me everything I know, she /is/ the strongest." she moves her hand to her mouth, the one that wasn't pulled by the boy in front of her as she follows along with a bounce in her step. The hand at her mouth keeping down giggles at t
<SavanahHolland> he conversation, the street lights shining rather dimly on the pair.
<DrabberRogue> Jace stops in front of a nice looking restaurant, the smells of pizza wafting out from within. "Here we are." He turns to face her, his hand still in hers. His icy eyes oddly fitting considering the scene behind him, a street covered in snow glistening from the lights of the town, complete with a shining smile on his face.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy smells the air, actually getting kinda sorta hungry, even if she wouldn't fully admit it. "It smells good." she says with the same smile, looking to his with the faintest color on her cheeks from it. She then moves to open the door, pulling him in and looking around.
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<DrabberRogue> "So, what toppings do you want?" He asks, pulling her over to the counter to place their orders. Fancy pizza place is fancy.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy bites her bottom lip, a little more red comming to her cheeks from the shine of the lights in the resturant, or just the fact that she doesn't know what she wants, it really has been forever. "I'm not sure.. What are you getting?" she asks curiously.
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<DrabberRogue> Jace can't help but smile at how cute her expression is. "I usually just get pepperoni and olive, is that okay?"
<SavanahHolland> Wendy smiles back, though more so from Jace's smiling paired with remembering her father always getting something similar. She nods, her smile brightening a little more "Sounds good."
<DrabberRogue> Jace's gaze lingers on her smile for a bit longer than he should before he turns away to place their orders, soon after leading her off to his preferred table in the corner of the restaurant. "So...what good things have happened to you recently?" ~/Please/ have had something good happen to you...~
<SavanahHolland> Wendy moves to sit down, rather next to him instead of across from him in the booth, the girl taking almost no space in the seat anyways. She bites her lip, and looks away from him very slightly, she didn't want to tell him what little good has actually happened, probably one of the better things she could say consisted of Akemi not being dead or holed up in her body for a long time. She t
<SavanahHolland> akes a deep breath, then turns back to smile at him, more of a grin than anything "Well, I'm here right now with you, so that's a good thing that's happened to me recently."
<DrabberRogue> Jace smiles back, but his brow creases in worry, he doesn't feel like hiding it at the moment. "This...is the only thing?" His voice is soft, he doesn't want to trigger a burn out again.
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<SavanahHolland> Wendy takes a shaking breath, but doesn't let her smile faulter, she needed it right now, she needed to smile. "Yes, but I think this counts, I'm glad I'm here with you."
<DrabberRogue> Jace hugs her for a couple seconds. "I'm glad to hear that..." He blushes a bit at her words, and at his own confirmation. "So...what do you like to do when you're not staring angstily into the sunset?" He changes the subject in a joking manner, giving her a teasing smile.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy giggles at the idea of her looking angstily looking into the sunset like the average teen. "I like to cook sometimes, usually sweets though."
<DrabberRogue> Jace's expression softens with her giggle, it just never gets old for him. "Cooking huh?...Oh right, you and A-..." ~Shit...~ "You and Akemi cooked those cupcakes that one time." He tries to recover with an encouraging voice, like nothing was wrong. Unfortunately, that doesn't fix the fact that he stumbled over Akemi's name.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy's face pales /ever/ so slightly at the mention of Akemi's name, remembering all that happened, though you can hardly tell if at all. Nodding slightly "Yeah, it's something that's fun to do, I should make you some muffins or something sometime."
<DrabberRogue> "That'd be great, those cup cakes were amazing, I can't wait to see what else you can cook." He tries to put on a charming smile and hope the conversation doesn't go in a bad direction, the whole point of this was to provide a base to try to help her out of her depression.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy at this point is almost beaming with a smile, looking at the booth seat across from them, but still stealing glances at the boy next to her. "I'm glad you liked it, they were a little thrown together though, I think."
<DrabberRogue> It's right about this moment that their rather well cooked pizza shows up in front of them, shortly after which Jace lifts about three slices of it onto his plate. "If those were thrown together, they must be incredible when you try." He says with a smile, taking a bite of his pizza.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy stares at the pizza for a moment, it smelt better than it had when they were /outside/ the resturant. She then slowly moves her hand over, grabbing herself a single slice and putting it on her plate, taking a small bite of the crust first. "Then I'll have to try harder one of these days, what kinda of sweets do you like?" she asks curiously.
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<DrabberRogue> Another bite of pizza. "Anything that tastes good really, I'm not too picky when it comes to sugar, you?" He casts a worried eye to her reluctant nibbling, leaning over and bumping into her playfully, a smile on his face.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy blushes as he bumps into her, though smiles at him, taking a bit of a larger bite, well, large for Wendy, who usually takes forever to eat, chewing on it before swallowing and answering. "Tarts, I really like any kind, cakes too, but that might be just because I like decorating them." she giggles.
<DrabberRogue> Jace actually gives his own little chuckle to Wendy's giggling, it's rather infectious...to him anyway. "Rather sophisticated tastes you've got there, tarts and cakes." He folds his piece in half and takes another rather large bite from it.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy continues giggling, though it might be his jokes than anything else before finally settling down with a smile curled on her face. She then watches him fold his pizza, then girl doing the same and biting into it, too much to chew, seeing as it takes much longer to get down. Literally biting off more than she can chew.
<DrabberRogue> ~Yes! I've gotten her to eat something...sorta...~ Jace does a bit of a mental fist pump as he sees the girl at least try to eat the pizza. "Do you like it?" He watches with a slight bit of amusement as she struggles with her massive bite.
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<SavanahHolland> Wendy has barely eating that much, but at least she was taking bigger bites, or really bites in general. Finally finishing the peice in her mouth and going to sip some water, not even half way done with her pizza. She nods with a small smile "It's good, though I don't know if I'll be able to eat it all.."
<DrabberRogue> "Are you sure? Might as well try." His face returns to a worried expression, he isn't even really trying to hide it anymore.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy bites her lip for a minute, taking, or more so trying to take another bite, and suceeding despite it looking a little more labored to force herself to swallow. "I think I can get more down."
<DrabberRogue> "I-I don't want to force you...if you don't want to..." Jace begins to realize just how much of a problem this really is. ~Is she...anorexic?~
<SavanahHolland> "It's fine, I should probably try to eat more anyways.." she takes another bite, much smaller, but at least by now she's almost eaten half of her slice. By now looking uncomfortable just eating small bites.
<DrabberRogue> Jace notices how uncomfortable Wendy appears as she tries just to eat, taking a bite of his own pizza before putting his arm around her, hoping an attempt at comfort might aid her eating. "Do you have a favorite movie?" Small talk, almost never fails.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy takes another small bite, at this point having been reduced to nibbling. Enjoying the arm around her and leaning a little into him. She remembers her favorite movie, blushing a little at the name, despite it being mostly a comedy in her mind. "The princess bride.. but I also liked the movie Goonies." despite the most recent times she watched them leading to disaster, Akemi and her br
<SavanahHolland> eaking curfew and being somewhat traumatised from a taser-happy cop and another was her and Lilith side by side in a mini theater watching it together, looking back gives her a bittersweet feeling, despite it, she still smiled at Jace. "what about you?"
<DrabberRogue> Jace takes another bite of his own pizza he's almost finished the slice at this point. "My favorite movie...is probably...well, I dunno. I guess I like a lot of movies, I don't really care enough to have a favorite..." He smiles back at her as she leans into him, reminding him a little too well of his dream.
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<SavanahHolland> "Really?" she asks with some surpise in her voice "You might like goonies... I should show you it sometime." she says with a nod, looking to her pizza that she set back on her pale, she couldn't finish. Moving to take another drink of her water, a little more of a sip this time around.
<DrabberRogue> "Are you...sure you're done?" ~She didn't even eat one piece...~ He absentmindedly squeezes her a little tighter in his arm. "But yeah, we should definitely watch that sometime..." He sounds a bit scared with how little she ate, a flame can't live without fuel, after all.
<SavanahHolland> She looks at at the pizza, feeling a little disappointed in herself, she at least ate a little more than half, and a bite of crust too. She takes a deep breath, feeling full. "I don't think.. I can eat anymore.."
<DrabberRogue> "Well...it was a good shot, I guess I'll get a box for it then..." He sounds kind of dejected, but he tries to give a charming smile as he exits the booth to do as he said he would, coming back with the remaining pizza in a box. "You wanna finish your drink or...?"
<SavanahHolland> Wendy takes another sip, at least she was pretty well hydrated seeing as she drank more water than ate pizza. She looks a little more reserved at his voice sounding dejection, putting on a faint frown "Sorry.."
<DrabberRogue> Jace sits down next to her, still trying to keep up a carefree smile. "There's no reason to be sorry, if you're full then you're full..." This time he manages to veil any negative emotions from his voice, the end result being something akin to reassuring.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy doesn't seem reasurred enough, she didn't eat much, it had been more than she managed at all for most of the week, but still.. almost barely anything compaired to what she used to, which was at *least* a slice. She crosses her arms in front of herself, more in a subtle hugging fashion than anything. "I know.. You just took me out and everything.. I just wish I could have at least fin
<SavanahHolland> ished the peice..."
<DrabberRogue> Jace leans against her, adding his own arm to her little self hug. "Well it's not like anything's going to waste, and if you haven't eaten in a while than maybe this is something that needs to be fixed gradually." Only Jace would start formulating a long term strategy for these kinds of things in conversation. "Maybe we could do this more often, perhaps later on we could sit down and watch Goonies with some leftover pizza?"
<SavanahHolland> Wendy smiles at him, thinking about it, she could watch that movie and million times over, with Jace, and trying to get herself back on track? It sounded really good. "That sounds fun, I think you'd love the movie.." she says, leaning her head on his upper arm.
<DrabberRogue> Jace smiles back, he quite likes the idea of helping her recover, and for some odd reason he really wants to. "Well, it'll be hard to do that if we never leave here, so whenever you're ready."
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<SavanahHolland> Wendy closes her eyes for a moment, then opening them to look at Jace with a small nod, getting up in her seat and dusting off her pants before just taking his hand instead of wrist this time. "Lets go then."
<DrabberRogue> Jace stands up with her, blushing as she takes his hand, stepping out of the booth to give her room to get out herself. "Shall we?" He chimes with a smile.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy nods, giving a pleased 'mhm' sound, before dragging him out the building and onto the street, slowly down a tad just to stroll next to him, keeping close seeing as it was dark. "Thanks.. for taking me out.. I enjoyed this a lot."
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<DrabberRogue> Jace smiles at this, still blushing a bit from the hand holding. "I enjoyed it myself..." He gets a little chill down his spine as they walk, the though suddenly occurring to him that it's rather cold outside, and Wendy's only wearing a sweater. Despite the fact that she's a pyromancer and doesn't seem to be at all affected by the cold, some strange part of Jace decides to take his coat off and put it on her, possibly the strangest thing he's
<DrabberRogue> done so far...
<SavanahHolland> Wendy feels the Jacket on her back, a gesture she used before when she wore her leather jacket often, having given it to Twelve sometimes to keep her warm, Lilith a few times as well. She thought it was nice, a smile on her lips, closing her eyes for a moment, squeezing the hand as a slight breeze picks up, soaking up the silence and the sounds, letting her powers work, it was a cold night
<SavanahHolland> , probably for the body as well. Her warmth traveling from her veins to his hand, blossoming into him with a sweet warmth that would make anyone feel bubbly inside.
<DrabberRogue> Jace closes his eyes and leans a bit closer to Wendy as he feels the warmth spread from her hand, giving somewhat of a high pitched sigh, though with a bit of imagination one could have seen it as a swoon...how odd.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy keeps her eyes closed for a moment longer before opening them a crack as they start approaching the school a little more. Leaning into him slightly, feeling the coat on her shoulders. It was a pretty night, the moon now fully out and the stars above, it was nice. "We.. should do something like this.. more often."
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