Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime)

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/6/2013, 8:29 pm

"Okay," Riley spoke, allowing her to lean against him. She seemed exhausted, and he was tired, but he wasn't so tired that he felt like he needed to sleep. He ran his fingers gently along her side, comfortable. He thought about bringing something up, starting a conversation, but the topic that he would have chosen probably would just have agitated her and she seemed too tired. "You seem tired," he said softly, though that was obvious. "you sure you don't want to get some sleep?"

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/6/2013, 8:51 pm

Salone mumbled something incoherent. But it sounded like it had to do something like a pillow but one couldn't be to sure since she had fallen asleep just as Riley asked the question. Her blonde hair was over her other shoulder and her hands laid curled in her lap, the bruised hand with the ice pack on top.

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/6/2013, 10:23 pm

Riley chuckled lightly as Salone fell asleep against him, and, with nothing better to do, he laid her down, head against her pillow, and sat beside her. He was careful of her hurt hand and adjusted her ice pack so that it wasn't directly on her hand. Riley was pretty sure you couldn't get frostbite from an ice pack, but it couldn't have been too comfortable on her hand for so long. Shoes off, he propped his feet up on the mattress and picked up one of Salone's Harry Potter books- the fifth. She'd probably kill him if she found him touching her book, because he was the same way, but she was sleeping now so he didn't see the harm. He read for maybe half an hour before he began to become drowsier. He ultimately fell asleep with his head titled back against the wooden cabin wall, the book propped open in one hand.

It was only maybe ten minutes before Riley started to dream. Vividly. He could've sworn that he was there, in the images... and before long he was. It was so real. It started off with whitewashed hospital corridors, reeking of bleach. As he made his way down them he entered a mortuary, and inside he could barely bare to look. Human bodies lay uncovered on tables, in all different preserved states; some seemed as if they'd died yesterday... and hadn't been cleaned up. Missing limbs, deformities, evidence of experimentation, and experiments in the process. Individual organs lied preserved in strange liquids within tanks, and the worst-off looking bodies were put behind glass. These must have been diseased, because it seemed as if they were the least experimented on out of all of them. It struck Riley. Demigods. These were demigods. Some were older, but the youngest body made him want to vomit. The kid couldn't have been much older than three years old.

His dream shifted. He made his way through rooms of half-conscious mortals and demigods. Some were having blood drawn, others strange procedures and x-rays and radiation galore. He didn't know what to make of this. It couldn't have been real. Signs were in Italian and English... the Hospital of Angels? He entered another room, and a gaunt, haunted looking Salone lay propped on a hospital bed, too far gone on drugs or anything that she could barely open her eyes. She wasn't conscious, not really. They were experimenting. He couldn't tell what they were doing with her, but it was awful. He knew it was awful by the way her skin paled and she could barely move, and her heart-rate fluttered on the machine. She needed a tube in her arm for nutrition, but it didn't seem as if it was helping much. Riley tried to reach out for her, but he couldn't. He was invisible.

Riley was falling backwards. Backwards in time. He didn't know how he could tell, but he could. He was tangible, again. He could feel. He felt awful. He tried to look down at his hand again, but he couldn't. He felt disgustingly nauseous, and he didn't know why. Things were poking from his arm, and he got the feeling it was an IV, of some sort, but he couldn't tell. He wanted to get out of there. He couldn't think straight. Weird images kept distorting themselves in his mind. There was a voice. A girl. She spoke to a guy. What were they saying? He didn't know. He strained his ears to hear them but only wound up becoming more nauseous. He felt someone cleanse his hand in water insistently and he had to strain with all his will to stop himself from shifting. It didn't work. They wouldn't stop. They wouldn't let him be. He was forced to shift. They took his blood, they took things from him and he couldn't tell you what they were because he didn't know, he was too far gone. Someone forced food down his throat. Riley threw up. All over them. His arm was stabbed with some sort of needle. Everything faded to black. Was he going to die?

Riley woke up.

Riley woke up yelling, calling out for someone, but he didn't know who.

Riley woke up crying, but he didn't realize it.

But Riley woke up next to Salone, who looked healthy and content, asleep with an ice pack across her knuckles.

Oh.

Oh.

Riley felt sick, again. He'd remembered. He'd remembered. He didn't want to remember. But he'd remembered.

He felt so so so sick he couldn't do this how could they do this to innocent people what had they done to him, and what worse had they done to Salone? To other demigods? To that three year old? His breath hitched. He needed to calm down. He needed to be quiet. How could he be quiet, when that had just happened?

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/6/2013, 10:53 pm

Salone's fingers tightened on Riley's shirt, her pulse raced wildly while she slept and Salone's eye's snapped open when she heard Riley cry out. Salone sat bolt up right and saw the terrified look on Riley's face and she attempted to calm her racing heart. She layed back down next to him and wrapped her arms around him, pulling him close she buried her nose in his hair.
"Shh," She murmured softly. "I'm here. It's okay. It wasn't real."
She murmured the sentences over and over again. Placing the ice pack on the bedside table she rubbed his back in circular motions.

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/6/2013, 11:03 pm

Riley forced himself not to be sick. He was okay. He wasn't there anymore. Salone held him to her and all he could do was stare at the floor because if he closed his eyes the visions might come back. "You don't understand," Riley spoke softly, choking back tears. Gods, this was embarrassing. "It wasn't just a dream. It was real. It really happened." His voice was just barely over a whisper, and he pulled away from her for a moment to wipe the tears off of his face. His neck killed from leaning against the wall. He laid down flat on the bed next to her and tried to calm down, his breathing ragged. How could he just sit here, now, after he'd seen all of that? He didn't even know the half of it, either. His stomach turned. He felt sick. "We can't let them do that, anymore," he murmured, even though she probably wouldn't really understand what he was talking about. His eyes moved from staring at the boards of the bunk above him to look at her face. It looked clean, and mostly unbruised, so different from what he'd seen. Her scars were gone too, while they'd been there in his vision. He reached out with one hand and traced her cheek gently with his thumb, like he'd done before. She was real. Her scars were gone. She was beautiful. But he wondered what she'd had to have gone through to get them removed.

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/6/2013, 11:37 pm

Salone let him push away from her, she turned on her side to look at him better. Riley looked emotionally drained and exhausted as he traced her cheek. She offered him a small smile and she slid closer to him, Salone kissed him softly.
"I'm here, not a dream," the brown eyed girl whispered their foreheads touching. "Here, not back at the hospital. Here. "
She too had been dreaming of the hospital, about the knives, the Apollo surgeries, and the fact they found her DNA most fascinating... but why?

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/7/2013, 12:15 am

Riley let her kiss him, trying to forget. He kissed her. She pulled away. He couldn't forget. The shifting had probably been the worst part, it was so draining and humiliating, and they'd made him shift over and over and over again. He wished he hadn't remembered it in the first place. He listened to her words carefully, meeting her eyes, and even though she told him that he was here, it didn't matter. He was here. But so much had happened there. And so much was still happening there, and he didn't know if he could let it continue to happen without intervening. His expression was pained, but he tried to pay attention to Salone, who seemed a little shaken as well.

"Do you remember it, everything that happened to you?" Riley asked her softly. He hadn't expected to remember. He hadn't expected to find out so much more. He closed his eyes for a moment. A three year old demigod with a beaten expression stared blankly up at him. He forced his eyes open. Here was Salone. Alive. Salone was here, like she was saying to him. The hand that he'd had tracing her cheek searched for hers in the dim, hazy light of the Egyptian cabin.

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/7/2013, 1:19 am

"How could I ever forget?" Salone answered quietly, looking into his eyes. An emotion in their depths... what was is... fear? sadness? She felt their fingers intertwine. "They sliced my face open time after time again until they got it right. Then they brought in a five year old child to heal me each time... "
She shuddered, taking in a deep breath, "They wanted to try an genetic experiment. Crossing over my DNA with someone different... If you were to look at my back you could see bruises, small ones were the needles went in... they wanted to check my blood type... see if it was compatible."
Her grip tightened on his, "At first the person in charge was mad, he kept saying 'you brought me the wrong one.' But then he realized what I could do and he changed his mind... but there was one moment, right after they had done my face for the last time, I was in the room they kept me and I was awake. I was just laying there, listening and I rolled over and I saw you in the water jug. It was only for a spit second and you said my name... then you were gone."
She stared at him, eyes searching... at that moment Salone realized she was trembling slightly, not by much, but trembling none the less. She forced herself to stop and study his face, taking in every detail his wide brown eyes, the angle of his cheekbones...

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/7/2013, 7:13 pm

Riley's brow furrowed as she spoke to him, horror registering in his features. She gripped his hand, and he held onto hers firmly. She needed him. Anger welled up in his chest and he forced himself to suppress his tears again. How could they exploit young children and force them to work for them? How could they kill innocent demigods? How could they slice someone's face open over and over, just for experimentation? He couldn't help but soften, though, when she talked about seeing him. She'd seen him. He felt her trembling and he pulled her closer to him, pressing a kiss on her forehead. "It was me," he whispered softly, meeting her eyes as best he could. "I tried to Iris message you, and I saw you for maybe 30 seconds before you disappeared. I didn't know if you saw me." He spoke softly, welling up. He needed to stop.

"The bruises... I don't need to see yours. When I took of the brace for my sprained wrist, I saw that my arm was full of them. It was awful. I didn't even think to look at my back, at the time, but..." he trailed off. He wouldn't doubt that his back had been full of them, too. "They took me, forced me to shift. A lot. I don't remember a lot of it. I'm glad I don't. The drugs I was on must have been heavy. I think they wanted me to try and unravel the aging process or something of the sort, but I'm not sure how far they got. I wasn't nearly as abused as you were, but it wasn't good. I can't imagine. You were so lucky, though. So lucky." He looked away, looking up at the boards in the bunk above him. He blinked again, quickly. This time he saw nothing. He was so glad he saw nothing.

"Three year olds, Salone. They're killing three year olds. And not just killing, mutilating-" Riley choked on his words, the memory of the child's lifeless face knocking the breath out of him. "So many people. I saw-" Riley stopped. He didn't want to talk about this, not with Salone, who'd been taken advantage of and abused and hurt and scarred, even as her scars were removed. He became angry once again, and to hold it down he kissed her softly. He needed to calm down. He wasn't thinking straight. It was a quick kiss, and he pulled away and looked at her. "I think I've told you this already, but I am so grateful that you're here right now."

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/7/2013, 9:55 pm

Salone pressed her head into the crook of his neck, feeling the heat radiate off of him. She looked up at him just as he kissed her.
"I think I've told you this already, but I am so grateful that you're here right now."
Salone layed her head on his chest, "I'm glad your here too."
She could hear his heart beat warm and alive underneath his shirt, "Thanks for saving me. I guess I owe you one. Now what on earth would such a hero want from me?"
She asked making an effort to turn the conversation away from such dark memories. Salone propped her head up on her hand, elbow on her pillow.

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/8/2013, 12:50 am

"You don't owe me anything, gorgeous," he spoke, with a crooked grin in her direction. "Danielle did most of the work, with the FBI agents. I just did the distracting, which proved to be relatively easy. You were more of a hero than me, surviving all of that time...." He reached out and played with a strand of her hair against his t-shirt. He needed to forget the hospital, and it was obvious that she was trying to help him do that, but he couldn't. He needed to talk to Danielle before she left.

"But," he continued, "if you insist upon rewarding me for my heroism, I think it'd be nice if you'd let me take you on a date. A real date, like in hokey tv shows with full mortals. Not like trips to Disneyworld where you wind up getting attacked by serpopards and nearly killed." Riley frowned. "I don't know if it would be smart to leave camp, but I think I can come up with something," Riley smirked deviously. Oh gods, he was going to have to come up with something. What was he getting himself into? He almost found himself praying she'd deny his offer. But, then again, he'd get to be with her and he'd get to see her in a nice outfit, probably, (and not looking like Danielle's identical twin) and they could forget about the hospital for maybe a couple of hours, which could be nice. Though they had been spending a lot of time together, lately.

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/8/2013, 1:18 am

Salone poked him in the ribs for calling her gorgeous and she pretended to think about his offer.
"Hmm, I might be free Thursday. I have a whole bunch of other boys at my beck and call so you better make it good Casanova. " She was obviously joking and Salone crossed her eyes and stuck out her tongue at him. "But, I vote yes. It sounds nice."
Get way from all this craziness of camp and possibly have safe fun... When was the last time I had safe fun? Salone couldn't remember. She let her head and arm flop back on to the pillow, watching him.

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/8/2013, 6:33 pm

Riley laughed wholeheartedly. "Great, now you're calling me Casanova. I promise, I'll make it good, though I did have Italian girls lining up around the block to get a chance to talk to Damion White, my rich alter ego." Riley rolled his eyes, turning on his side and looking at her. "It'll be nice. But why Thursday?" He'd dismissed his thoughts about the hospital for now, but it'd been difficult. He was still distracted, and by nature he wasn't always sharp when it came to things that were obvious. Thus, he had no idea why Thursday could possibly be significant.

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/8/2013, 7:06 pm

"Oh do tell, who also called you Casanova?" Salone asked, poking him gently in the chest. "I also heard Damion White was a player so I wouldn't compare yourself to him."
She tickled his nose with a strand of her hair before saying, "I was being sarcastic about Thursday."
Now it was her turn to roll her eyes.

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/8/2013, 11:25 pm

"Oh, right, you weren't there then..." Riley spoke, trailing off and laughing at the memory. "Danielle, Danielle called me Casanova. Who else?" he smirked. "But how can I not compare myself to him. I was him, for a bit. Don't worry, though, I didn't follow through with the player persona." He smirked. "Okay, though. I had thought Thursday was a special date, or something. I guess I was wrong..." he trailed off. Was he wrong? Probably.

((our time/date schedule is all askew so riley probably is wrong about that date LOL))

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/9/2013, 12:44 am

"Oh I dunno. Old flings... girlfriends..." She smirked at him. "Danni happened to pick this up from Italy and had it sent over, via Fabian." She pulled a news paper and opened it a few pages, then showed him a grainy picture of themselves holding hands, without Danni. Both her and Riley knew she was standing a few paces away before boarding the plane.
"Player." She teased, handing it to him. To be honest, she had gotten a kick out of the article. Danni had read it to her. The other picture next to it with Riley holding the sparkly banded fedora over Danni's head made her laugh even harder. Danni had wrapped her arms around Riley's neck and was close enough to kiss him, but Salone could detect a hint of panic in Riley's facial expression... but it was barely there so one would have to know him well before they could pick it up.

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/9/2013, 1:53 am

Riley looked at her, confused. "What are you- oh." She handed him the article, which was chock full of images of he and Danielle shopping together as a couple. It was kind of hilarious, and they'd portrayed him really well. Apparently, he was a decent actor, as was she. "I'm a player? Of course. I had to play the game, pretend to be some rich dude and be engaged to Danielle, of all people, but I did it all to get you back. I played the game, and helped us win. I think that's a reasonable exchange." He grinned, looking down at the pictures once again. Oh gods, the one of he and Danielle nearly kissing, how embarrassing. He looked to Salone, who looked quite amused by the whole thing. "People do crazy things, when they're in love." Riley smirked, laughing softly. "If you don't get that reference, I swear to you-"

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/9/2013, 2:29 am

Salone grinned at the look on Riley's face and she laughed hard when she saw his facial expression at the picture of him and Danni.
"She was totally black mailing you wasn't she. If you didn't give her that hat back..."
Salone shifted her position slightly on her arms.
People do crazy things, when they're in love." Riley smirked, laughing softly. "If you don't get that reference, I swear to you-"

"Isn't that-" Salone winced. She hadn't seen many movies, not much when she was a kid or now. She didn't necessarily have mortal money coming out of her ears. "-Spider-Man? Wait no- Star wars?"

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/9/2013, 2:36 am

"Oh my gods, you didn't get that reference." Riley frowned, as he hadn't been counting on that, before he laughed and shifted closer to her. "Hercules. It's from Hercules. Spiderman, seriously?" He tilted his head upwards and kissed her, realizing that he still had the credit card that Danielle had given him with all of the money in the world for him to spend. Did he have to give it back? Probably. Though it would be nice to be able to kiss it. He pulled away from Salone, cheeks flushed. He realized that he'd woken her up abruptly, which brought him back to hospital thoughts. Great. "Did I wake you up, before?" he asked softly, looking at her. She didn't seem like she was about to fall asleep, but she still seemed a little tired, though that was probably normal after all she'd been through.

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/9/2013, 3:10 am

"Sorry," She squealed like a little kid, suppressing laughter. Riley leaned in and kissed Salone, He happened to be very enthusiastic about this particular kiss, he managed to leave her lips tingling and her heart racing.
"What?" She asked breathlessly, her cheeks slightly pink. "Oh, that. You did wake me, but I'd rather not travel down that dreams path again. It was rather unpleasant."
Salone smiled at him with her large brown eyes, "Saved me from catastrophe again, didn't you."

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/9/2013, 2:42 pm

The look on Salone's face was priceless, and Riley blushed again as she claimed his saved her from catastrophe again. "I'm pretty sure a dream is not a catastrophe," he spoke, sitting up and leaning his back against the wall behind her bunk. "But I guess I did, inadvertently." He winked at her, stretching slightly as he adjusted to sitting up. His side still pained him a little, but it was barely noticeable. The nectar had done its job. Unable to resist, he leaned over and kissed the top of her head. "Weren't you going to go spend the day with Danielle, since she's leaving soon?" he asked, content just to sit here as long as she wanted him here. But she needed to say goodbye to her friend, and he definitely needed to talk to her before she left. He just didn't know what he was going to say.

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/9/2013, 3:53 pm

She closed her eyes again. "Yeah," She answered while breathing out.
Salone opened her eyes and got off the bed. There was a new terror behind the Angel hospital for her, she had seen second hand what they had done and then had experienced it first hand. Salone pulled a clean pair of jeans and a clean long sleeved shirt. Then, went into the bathroom and changed. Pulling off her shirt, Salone looked at her back in the mirror, it was clean and smooth apart from the scar that curved her lower back. She sighed pulling on the clean pale blue shirt. Salone came out of the bathroom, changed, and she pulled on her socks and boots.
"Lets go find her."
She folded Danni's clothes and put them on top of her dresser.

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/10/2013, 1:34 am

Riley waited for Salone, changing his own t-shirt while she was gone- it wasn't like anyone cared. He didn't bother with his jeans, which weren't rumpled or dirty at all. When he got the chance to shower later he'd change. He felt for her, she seemed so anxious for Danielle... and then, Riley felt a bit anxious, even though he didn't know her that well. He knew that for Salone to be this nervous it'd have to some pretty serious stuff she was getting herself into, and he didn't want her to die. She could be annoying, but she was good and she knew what she was doing. Salone emerged from the bathroom and Riley waited for her to fold her clothes before he got up, himself. "I just need to talk with Danielle, before she goes. I get that you want to spend time with her without me, but I need to talk to her," he resolved, looking at her.

((well I thought I posted this around like 8 but I guess not, sorry! also, I know you're rping danielle with dragon we could probably just do 2 rps at the same time, with the time different, if you don't care!))

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/10/2013, 2:12 am

((Fine by me. This is based on a real conversation I had...))

Salone shot him a smile, "I already had my private conversation with her, it's your turn. As long as you wanna get your toes painted its fine by if you wanna hang around. I was thinking..." She pretended to muse. "Hot pink?"
She smiled and opened the door, and nearly ran into Danni.
"Woah. Were's the fire?" Salone demanded. Then she took in Danni's dress. She was slightly soggy (So she had been swimming), her hair was down, and her cheeks flushed. Danni's shoulder had been fixed too.
"Boys! Stupid boys the lot of them." Danni fumed letting herself in.
"Oh no, Danni met a boy who obviously made quiet an impression." Salone responded sarcastically. "The world must have stopped spinning."
She looked at Riley over her shoulder, eyebrow arched.
"Ha, Ha." Danni muttered, Sitting on the floor.
"Is he a good kisser?"
"SALONE!"
"Sorry," Salone attempted a look of sheepishness. She was failing... by a lot.

Subject: Re: Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime) 2/10/2013, 3:08 am

"Hm, I think a red would suit me better," Riley spoke with a grin before Salone burst through the door. Riley was obviously amused as Danielle burst through the door, fuming. He couldn't quite determine what she'd been up to, but he assumed she'd been swimming since she looked a bit wet.

"Thanks," he murmured as she ranted about boys, though he couldn't suppress his smile. It was so funny, because she was pretty straight-laced... except when she got angry. Then she went a little bit crazy. Salone looked at him and he grinned at her, trying to stop himself from laughing. She was obviously trying not to express her amusement but he couldn't help himself. "Looks like you moved on petty quickly from me, Danielle. Should I be offended?" Riley asked jokingly, raising an eyebrow. She was going to be pissed at him, but he didn't care. How was this girl going off to fight in a war in less than 24 hours? He could see it, she was strong and cunning, but it just seemed ridiculous that she was apparently going to be involved in dangerous, front line combat at her age and state. Still, he needed to talk to her, but he couldn't see that happening in the immediate future. He figured he'd have to wait.

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