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(And I'm sorry, I know, this isn't the dance chapter) Next one!
The next day, two thirtyish. The Furan's esteemed guests were sitting in the main room, waiting for the time to get "ready" for the dance, or so party.
"Can I have your phone?" Shelby asked Raven. The assassin glanced up skeptically.
"No. Why in the world would I let you have my phone?" Raven replied.
"Hey, I'm not the computer freak." Shelby defended herself and then turned to Laura "Genius. Sorry."
Laura raised an eyebrow, but didn't say anything.
"I'm not going to break it." Shelby assured Raven "I just want to see it you have any music on it."
"I do." Raven informed her "There. Curiosity satisfied?"
"Really you do?" Shelby exclaimed "Lemme see!"
"When exactly did you become so brave? Or….stupid." Raven muttered the last part. "Why is it suddenly okay to grab at me?"
"It was sudden?" Shelby looked around "I thought we've been buddies for a while."
Raven shot her a look, eyes squinted and the student shrugged defensively.
Anastasia walked swiftly into the room from the west portion of the building. "Have you guys seen Pietor? He came back from work and disappeared."
Nero, Darkdoom, and Raven shook their heads and she continued with a big, exasperated breath to the bottom of the stairs. She ran up them and turned left toward her brother's room.
"Can I listen to your music?" Shelby asked, turning back to Raven.
"Why can't you be a good kid? Like Wing and Laura?" Raven asked, closing her eyes and tilting her head.
"I'm not being bad!" Shelby said indignantly, folding her arms "Why is it that everyone thinks I'm a juvenile delinquent?"
"Ooo! Ooo! Me!" Darkdoom raised his hand sarcastically "You attend H.I.V.E."
"So do they!" Shelby whipped a hand at Wing and Laura. Nero watched the conversation with amusement in his eyes.
"Yes, but they've proved less destructive." Raven explained to Shelby.
"What am I going to do to your phone?" the student asked in protest.
Raven let out a half sigh, half growl and pulled out her phone for her. Shelby smiled.
"Now what do you want?" Raven asked.
"I just want to see your music." Shelby said quickly. The assassin flipped through stuff on her screen and finally gave the phone to the student.
Shelby flipped through piano songs on Raven's phone, beginning to scowl. "Do you any good music?"
"It's all good music." Raven replied, knocking her across the head "I you want your kind of music, get out of my piano album."
"Oh." Shelby clicked out and got to another song.
"We clawed, we chained our hearts in vain
We jumped never asking why
We kissed, I fell under your spell.
A love no one could deny"
"Out of everything, you chose Miley Cyrus?" Raven asked.
"She's awesome." Shelby said. Darkdoom, Nero and Raven turned their heads to look at her.
"Her voice." Shelby added. "That's what I meant."
"I hope so." Raven muttered.
"Don't you ever say I just walked away
I will always want you
I can't live a lie, running for my life
I will always want you"
The door to the outside opened and a young-looking woman stepped in. Everyone sitting on the couches looked over. She jammed out to the music and shuffled over to the stairs.
"This music is wicked!" she exclaimed, closing her eyes and pumping her arms to the beat. Nero, Raven, and Darkdoom all gave each other a glance, before looking back over. Shelby was smiling in fascination. The woman cupped her hands around her mouth and leaned toward the stairs.
"Oh Furan man!" she called.
"I put you high up in the sky
And now, you're not coming down
It slowly turned, you let me burn
And now, we're ashes on the ground"
"Who is that?" Laura asked quietly, to no one particularly. Whoever it was, they had plenty of confidence.
The woman had long caramel hair with dark highlights at the top. Her skin was a nice tan color and her eyes were a chocolate brown.
She turned to the group and waved happily. They slowly waved back, but she had mostly turned away already.
Anastasia sauntered down the stairs "Hi, Iliana." she smiled.
"Hey! Where is your brother?" the woman asked, twisting her hand so the palm faced the ceiling in a gesture of why-isn't-he-down-here.
"He's coming." Anastasia patted her as she went by.
"I came in like a wrecking ball
I never hit so hard in love
All I wanted was to break your walls
All you ever did was wre-e-ck me"
"He needs to huurrry." Iliana sang, spinning around.
"Did you even introduce yourself?" Anastasia asked, looking at the group then back at the young woman.
"Oh...no." Iliana replied, still twirling.
Anastasia let out a huffy breath. "Guys, this is Iliana."
Iliana waved again, walking over and putting an arm around Anastasia's shoulders, smiling.
"I know your face." she pointed at Nero "I saw your face." she pointed at Raven. "And everyone else, I have no idea." she gave a big smile.
Anastasia pressed her lips together in amusement and ducked away from Iliana's arm, going over to her chair. Shelby changed the song a couple times.
"Max." Nero offered his hand and Iliana shook it firmly.
"Hi. I'm Iliana, but you guys probably already know that from the vague clue Anastasia gave you." she tapped her chin, looking intently at Raven.
"I've heard of you."
Raven raised her eyebrows.
"You're…..Raven….right?" Iliana asked slowly.
The assassin nodded.
"His…." Iliana waved a hand at Nero thoughtfully "…hmm…how do I say this in a way that it won't be unkind….?" she looked at the ceiling for a moment "Protector….friend? Is that mean?" she looked at Anastasia, then back at Raven "Is that mean?"
"No. No you're good." Raven replied, with a small smile and a half glance at Nero, who smiled back.
"God, you're pretty." Iliana still hadn't looked away from Raven. The assassin's eyes flicked from side to side for a second, looking high-strung.
"Umm…..thank you?" she replied, looking nervous and hopeful that was the right answer.
Iliana leaned forward "What's wrong with you? That's a compliment."
Raven made a no comment sound.
"Man, if someone had said that to meeeeee. I would've been like insanely happy." Iliana said, looking around. She pointed at Darkdoom again.
"You are….?" Iliana asked him.
"Diablous." he shook her hand.
"Diablous." she echoed "Cool!"
"And this is Wing, Shelby, and Laura." Nero nodded at the students in turn.
"Hello, children." Iliana waved once again. "Ya'll are coming to the gathering tonight?"
"Yes. Yes we are." Nero replied for all of them.
"Sweet." she replied lowly. "But that all depends on if we're actually going to get there and if Pietor's ever going to come down!" she trudged back over to the bottom of the stairs.
"Yo Pietor!" she yelled. "I need to practice and I don't want to be late for tonight either!"
"I know! I know! I'm coming!" came Pietor's voice back.
Iliana shed her jacket and put it at the bottom of the stairs.
A second later, Pietor hurried down the stairs. He stuck out a tongue at Iliana.
"Hey man. You're slow." she greeted him.
"Shut up!" Pietor walked past her and she followed him.
"Are you guys…uh..." Anastasia tilted her head back so she could see them.
"Yes. We're training. Be back out in a bit." Pietor said, as he opened the door to the massive gymnasium.
"Training?" Darkdoom asked.
"Oh, Iliana's training to enter the Olympics." Anastasia told them "Pietor and her are partners at work, we have a huge training area, and he's kind of the obvious choice here, sooo….yes. They are training."
"The Olympics? That's…awesome." Shelby said.
Yes the training room is the same one Raven was trained in…. :)
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