Chapter Nine
You Were Never What I Thought
DivineAngel
She walked in fast. She wanted to get in. Everyone gave her a different story, a separate comment as a reason she shouldn't go in. Everything will be fine. Everything is fine. There is nothing to worry about. There may be a serious problem. You should let him rest. You should talk to him. Who were these people she kept listening to? These people that confused her out of her mind and took every decision she turned over and over in her head. The one she finally decided was right and what she should do, and smashed it up with their comments of self opinion, of rumor, of assumption. People who looked weird, who came from trashy places, guttered places, classy places. Unfamiliar faces who came to say small things to the outlaw or give a report on what they could do to help and how they'd lend some money if business slowed for any reason..for any reason...Why did they bother to lie? When they knew the reason, when she knew the reason.
When she stood, wide hurt green eyes two feet from the door she had just come in. Watching the blonde hair lean into the wall, tightly gripping the shoulders of the thin worn gray hair. Who blocked everything from his upper chest down as she stood crouching in front of him. Doing something that would hurt now as much as it would help later. Blue eyes jammed closed, grit teeth tilting back into the wall, breathing through hard fast grunts and breaths. Legs separated slightly for the experienced understanding hands who knew him for twelve years. Who he trusted and separated from everyone else there as the only one he would allow anywhere near him as long as there was anyway to move or fight under his own power.
This was the reason. Why should they lie about it? She had made up her mind. Despite the comments and expressions she had just gotten she had made up her mind she was not going to ignore this. Not let Jim weasel his way out of this by being smart or cute or sweet with her. This was not a dirty little secret, and she wasn't going to play like it was. Whether he liked it or not, adapted or didn't, he was going to have to live with this cause she wasn't leaving. Not now, cause she had known him for twelve years too. Now it was too damn bad if he didn't want to deal with the fact *she* had decided without him. That *she* was going to deal with it because she would be damned if she gave up on him now. Not now.
__*~*~*~INTO THE PAST~*~*~*__
Her frowned watching Iris's happy face as she opened the door as she saw him coming back. "So?" She smiled "How did it go huh?" She frowned as he pushed back into the warehouse. He had only been gone for some twenty minutes. His scarred hand shoving Jim in. Irritated blue eyes just ignoring him from underneath the seven year old patch of blonde hair.
"It was a god damn bust Iris." He growled heading for the kitchen, frowning blue eyes flicking up to watch him go. "Genius here lost his intercom and I didn't have any back up." He growled, Daniella's thin red hair move out of his way as he stomped by her.
"Gene! It's too small! I told you I can't hold it!" His eyes snapped a squint at Jim's snap that started following him. Pushing right into the kitchen to argue with him. "Why don't you try holding yours huh?!" The blue eyes frowned at him as he turned around.
"Because *mine* is in my *ear* where it goes!" He was yelling, scarred hand pulling a small wad of cash out of their bread box.
"Yeah." the blonde hair grunted at him, sly blue eyes giving him a look.
"How much money you got?" He shot a glance at the blonde as he pushed some of the money back into the bread box; but it was long enough to see the small arms drop from the light chest with a fast frown.
"AhWhat Gene?!" the blue eyes snapped at him, shoving him hard as he glared.
"You lost it, you'll help pay for it damnt! Now how much!?" He growled watching the light face give him a sour look as the light hand dug into the baggy pocket of its pants shoving crumpled bills at him. "30 Wong!?" He flashed a skeptical glance. "That's it!"
"Shut up! This never would have happened if you had stuck to the original plan and waited for the *loser* to come to you!" the blue eyes growled at him as he simply frowned exhuasted.
"...No, this never would have happened if *you* hadn't lost your intercom and could hear the new plan." His dark eyes growled down, slamming the bread box closed.
"I told you I can't hang onto it cause it's the size of a pea!" The growled words snapped at his hand to snap a five back. Blue eyes giving him a dirty look as he yanked his hand away with a sharp glare.
"What!? You got little fingers like toothpicks! You should be able to hold it fine!" He chuckled his retort as Jim started storming for the living room.
"You such a loser Gene!" The Wong that slid into his pocket went in under the grin on his face. His strong form taking a moment to sigh before casually following.
"Yeah right. I'll remember that." Sighing his words out with a sly grunt as he continued past the blue glare. Strong firm walk ignoring the hurt blue eyes sitting on the bottom of the stairs glaring at him as he opened the front door and left.
"...LOSER!" His sudden loud scream made Iris jump, and his eyes snapped at her as the first thing to move. Silently staring at her from where he had quickly stood up with his scream. Nothing but his small wife beater and loose jean shorts growling that Gene had just left him behind becuase he messed up.
"Shut up!" He snapped over at Daniella who suddenly sat up on the couch looking at him. Her thin face smiling brightly, watching him frown as she giggled flicking off the tv. Green eyes glancing for her aunt who was already back in the kitchen, focusing hard on trying to make some kinda food she couldn't pronounce. Blue eyes watching her walk towards him. Green eyes watching him harden. Face and body as if she would shove him when she got there, before blinking. Blue eyes watching her walk past, small pink skirt and white tank top heading up the stairs.
"Stay out of my room." He growled at her as she turned around smiling at him.
"Gene said I could go in." She giggled teasing him.
"I don't care." He frowned quickly starting up after her, moving faster as she started bolting for his bedroom. Giggling as he growled hard, bolting after her before stopping as she ran past the bedroom doorway. Turning around to him watching him just frown. She was playing.
"Will you play with me?" She smiled watching him just do a fast hard sigh as he walked into the bedroom, green eyes watching him go. "Jim come ooon I am boored." She frowned leaning into the doorway as she watched him climb onto the king sized bed. Blonde hair flopping into the sheets exhausted and irritated as he stared at the ceiling.
"What." He spit flat and mad. Maybe if she had something fun to play he would. Maybe. "What is that?" He sighed, looking at the book she held. She didn't look like she was going anywhere.
"It's the Webster's Pocket Medical and First Aid Dictionary." He frowned at her, watching her green eyes appear along side of him as she climbed onto the bed. "Play with me." She shot a frown with her order, jumping as he yanked the book from her sitting up. Blue eyes flipping through it before moving slower running through pages "What are you looking for?" She frowned watching him ignore her. "Does this mean your gonna play Jim?" She smiled.
"No" She frowned. "Hey!" She yanked the book from him.
"You can't look at it if you won't play with me." Her frown watching him just sigh heavily before his face brightened.
"Fine. What do I do?" He frowned as he laid back to her small hand pushing against his shoulder.
She smiled "Your going to be my patient. I am the doctor and you got hit by a truck." She watched him laugh at her as she opened the small book.
"I would be dead." He grinned.
"Shhh!" She snapped at him, smiling. "You can't talk." She giggled. Thin hands pretending to put a stethoscope into her ear before leaning down and pressing her ear into his chest.
He frowned immediately, blue eyes glaring at her as she listened to his heart beat. "Get off me!" He growled fast, uneasy. Watching her sit up smiling at him.
"I could hear your heart in there." She smiled as he shot her a -no you think?- expression. Watching her squint annoyed in responce before straightening up to give her diagnoses as he opened the small book. "OH cause I am the doctor it seems my patient has smallpox, a highly conta-g- ious viral disease cate-go-rized by high fever and.red spots." She trailed lightly green eyes frowning as she read into the random page she had opened. "Eww Jim your gross" She frowned as she read how the spots would turn into boils on his body. New patient!" She giggled standing up as he grinned. Blonde hair grabbing her book as she walked over to the pillow and shoved it onto the bed. Glancing up for him to read his diagnosis.
"This patient has ep-il-ep-sy, a neurological disorder!" He laughed, you couldn't get that if you were hit by a truck.
"Oh no." He frowned as she shoved him fast, snapping the book from him. "What do we do doctor?" She giggled flipping through the small pages. Green eyes glancing up as he stood.
He grinned kicking the pillow off the bed. "Our patient has died" Blue color grinning down at her baffled green eyes that leaned over the edge to look at the pillow on the floor.
"Jim!" She frowned slightly. "You killed the patient!" She smiled watching him shrug.
"That's cause I am not a good doctor." He chuckled, watching her stand up grabbing a pillow.
"Good thing I am not a doctor either. I was really a cop all along and now I am gonna hall your butt down to the hanger for murder!" She laughed watching him frown as she hit him with the pillow. Blonde hair growling at her.
"Cheater!" He frowned at her as she drug his pillow back across the bed for the other one. "That's mine Daniella, give it to me!" He growled reaching for it. Watching her stop momentarily. Green eyes listening to Iris call up -she was running out for Chime spice!-
"Okaaay!" She smiled calling back to her aunt as the backdoor shut. "What's a chime mice?"
He frowned, duh everyone knew that. "Those things that blow in the wind and make music." She giggled suddenly, oh yeah, wind chimes.
"Oh yeah, I knew." She smiled at him, watching him yank the pillow from her. "You know how to play cops and robbers?" She watched him sigh heavily as he started back for the top of the bed. Shaking his head no as he turned back around dropping the pillow where it belonged. She just raised her eyebrows at him.
"No. That sounds dumb." She frowned slightly.
"Alright, I am gonna be the cop and your gonna be the robber." She giggled suddenly hopping off the bed. Watching his blue eyes frown as she opened the closet. "Come on you have to look like a robber." She frowned as his baffled light face just moved his arms out. Giving her a look like -this isn't enough?- "No. Now I gotta look more like a cop so what do you have?" She giggled moving into their closet.
"Hey!" He snapped, green eyes turning back around to look at him as he hopped off the bed. Shoving her away from the closet before shutting the doors. "Come on." He sighed lightly. "We can play downstairs I don't want to do." He frowned slightly at the sound of his name being yelled up from downstairs.
"Jim!" His expression slumped. How was it he always seemed to come back to an empty joint? His dark eyes sinking to a -figures- expression before glancing up as the bedroom door opened. Blonde and thin red hair coming out to the banister looking at him. "Hey you, come down here." He grinned lightly, he didn't want to scare the blue eyes away before he got to give him the new intercom.
He grinned watching the loose jean shorts and white wife beater just come down the stairs, green eyes following him. "My aunt went out to buy wind chimes." She smiled, watching the familiar scarred face jam to a baffled expression.
"Wind chimes?" He frowned, starting for the kitchen. "Jim go get me a size 9c nail." He flashed the blonde hair a lop sided grin.
"Gene...What do you need it for?" the blue eyes frowned confused stumbling lightly as Daniella shoved past them into the kitchen talking.
"I don't know why she wanted to buy them. She just said she was so I said ok." Her thin read hair smiled, sitting down at the kitchen table. Dark eyes listening to her before glancing back at the blonde.
"Just go get it." He grinned watching Jim give him a dull look before starting for the garage. "Danny?" She glanced over at him. "You got pierced ears?" He chuckled watching her smile. Thin hand pulling her ear lobs lightly. Tugging the small holes in each one so he could see them. "Yeah." He grinned, scarred form twisting the stove knob and kicking it through the clicking the burner made watching it light up. Her soft giggling laughing at him as the garage door shut to the blonde coming back in. "When did you have them pierced?" He flashed her another grin.
"When I was an infant. My mom had them done." She watched him raise his eyebrows, congratulating her soft smile.
"Nice." He smiled as Jim came back in handing him the nail.
"I still don't see what your going to do with *one* nail Gene." the blonde hair snickered slouching into the small kitchen table watching.
"Your right." He grinned. "Go get me another." He chuckled watching the blonde hair frown at him as it sat straight up fast.
"Whaat?" the light face whined watching the unruly hair nod towards the garage again. Dark eyes grinning hard as the blonde hair got back up annoyed. Stomping past Daniella towards the kitchen doorway and garage. Deep chuckling watching him go as he let the small nail sit protruding into the hot burner. Slowly heating up.
"What are you gonna do with them Gene?" His dark eyes glanced back looking at her thin small face.
"Do you know if piercing your ears hurts?" He flashed her a lop sided grin watching her shake her head no. She was an infant, she couldn't remember. "It does." He grinned at her, scarred hand pointing to the small hole and intercom in his ear. "A lot because of our gravity here." He frowned watching her green eyes flash a concerned expression at him. "I did this myself, and now I am gonna do Jim's too." His dark eyes looked back down at the stove and heating nail as his finger dropped from his ear.
"No Gene." He glanced back at her quick plea not to. "That will hurt him." She frowned concerned, small pink skirt getting out of the chair, watching him just look at her.
"I know." He sighed heavily. "But I need this in his ear Daniella." He sent a soft frown directly into her eyes, telling her straight. "So when he finds out this is what I am doing. You can't help him fight me alright?" He watched her frown upset as he raised his eyebrows. "Just tell him." he trailed lightly shrugging. "Tell him it's brave or something like that." He chuckled silencing as the garage door shut as Jim came back in. Strong sly expression running over his face as he watched her blink upset, slowly sitting down.
"Gene I am not getting anymore." His blue eyes frowned as they came back in. Handing Gene the other nail that wasn't needed. Gene only needed one hole for the intercom, if Jim wanted another one later he could do it himself. "You should have just got the box if you needed some." He sighed annoyed, blue eyes slouching into the kitchen table before glancing up at the soft green eyes staring at him. "What's wrong with you?" He frowned, grinning slightly at her worried expression. "Daniella?" He laughed.
"Hey Jim?" He grinned watching the blue eyes turn to look at him. "We got anything about this thick around here?" He smiled watching the blue eyes flash him a baffled -what are you an idiot?- expression as he separated his scarred hands about the width of a decent text book.
"What Gene?" the blue eyes sighed exhausted with these dumb games. "I don't know." His blue eyes frowned watching Gene just grin at him.
"Well go get." He trailed, dark eyes falling on the thick hard telephone book. "Never mind" He grinned listening to the small irritated -what the hell are you doing?- growl.
"Gene?...I said what are you doing?" the blue eyes frowned watching the scarred face just sigh. Leaning into the stove arms crossed over the strong chest.
"Jim, how'd you like to have your ear pierced." He grinned lightly watching the blue eyes do a small blink, caught off guard with the question.
"Huh? Well." The blue eyes trailed lightly watching the scarred fingers fiddle with the scarred ear, pulling out the small intercom. "See?" He grinned watching the blue eyes focus in on the small hole in his ear. The ones he made himself with the specially thin, hard and sharp 9c nails. "You want one?" He grinned strong, watching the blue eyes glance away thinking to the small -well... -that trailed. "Danny's got some." He grinned watching the blue eyes look back at him. As he motioned towards Daniella who moced letting Jim see the small holes in her ears. "Your the only one without any." He chuckled watching the blonde hair stand up. Moving closer to Daniella before gently grasping her ear. His dark eyes grinning to the small feminine -ow!- before the light skin and wife beater stepped back to her shove. "Well?" he cocked an eyebrow at the blonde hair who seemed reluctant. Blue eyes turning back to look at him before running over what was behind him. The small thin 9c nails now cooling off on the stove so they would be clean and not get his ear infected.
"No." the blonde hair shook no watching the him just shoot a flat expression. "I don't want one."
"Ah come on Jim what's the big deal?" He shrugged lightly keeping his grin. Talking Jim into this would be the easiest way to get it done. "You don't think you can handle it?" He cocked an eyebrow at the blonde hair studying him over the frowning blue eyes.
"Gene! I just don't *want* one." the blue eyes frowned harder before looking towards the ground as he gave it a -don't be a wimp- look. "Ok maybe.just.yeah maybe."
He grinned at the small mumbles. "Maybe?" Cocking an eyebrow at the nodding blonde hair that looked up at him. "Maybe like tomorrow?" The light face relaxed some as it nodded. "Well...what's different about today?" He grinned watching the blue eyes take a step back at his tone.
"If I say you can't you better listen Gene!" The blue eyes suddenly frowned upset. Already catching all the hints Gene looked like he was just biding his time.
"Aaa" The scarred face growled at him watching him back up a little more. Daniella's concerned green eyes watching all of this from where she sat behind them. "Fine." He growled watching the blonde hair quickly lick it's lips. Standing light, ready to run. "Daniella did Iris say when she's coming back?" He frowned at the soft red hair that switched her gaze back to him from where she had been watching the blonde hair.
"Um.." She trailed before swallowing. "No but-"
"-How long does it take to buy wind chimes right?" He flashed a grin watching her nod. Not that long, he didn't want Iris here when he did it. Come to think of it, maybe Danny was why Jim was so reluctant. "Alright come here." He sighed heavily beckoning for the blonde hair to come to him. Blue eyes snapping a hard defensive growl. "Come on no games blast it." He frowned watching the blue eyes glare at him hard as they came forward. Keeping space between them.
"Ah!" the light skin jumped as he yanked it over fast before releasing his grip. Watching the blonde hair panic for a second before growling irritated it had gotten scared.
"Why don't you want this?" He frowned slightly, whispering down to the blonde hair that stood next to him in front of the stove. "Just let me pierce your ear." He grinned nudging the small wife beater that looked up at him stressed.
"Gene I don't want you to do anything to my ears!" The blue eyes frowned up through the irritated whisper. "They're mine! I said no." The blue eyes scowled at how dumb all this sounded but it's what he meant.
"Yeah sure." He spit his words with a growl before relaxing. "You think you could take it?" He glanced down at the blonde hair. Watching it look up at him slightly from where they both stood, speaking directly ahead rather then keeping eye contact. "Huh?" He nudged the light arm, watching it shrug. "It stings." He softened his expression watching the small face grimace.
"Gene." the light face swallowed rephrasing "How much does it, well like what does feel-"
"-It stings pretty bad." He shrugged lightly. "Would you want Danniella here?" He glanced down at the blonde hair watching the blue eyes try and sneak a look back at her.
She was watching them, green eyes silently wishing Aunt Iris never left cause she forgot how scary they got sometimes. Idiot boys, Iris was right. She frowned slightly watching the unruly color nudge the blonde hair that seemed upset to her.
"Hey you gonna answer me at all?" He frowned looking down at the blonde that had fallen completely silent for the last three questions. Blue eyes glancing back at Daniella again. He didn't want her there if he couldn't take it. Gene said it hurt. Gene didn't usually say stuff like that, so it must.hurt a lot. She shouldn't be there if he started to cry, if he couldn't take it. "Hey?" the scarred elbow cut into his thoughts as it nudged him, watching him look up. "We're going to do this pretty fast alright?" He grinned down at the overloaded stressed expression. "I am going to take this nail cause it's clean and we're just going to make a small hole right into your ear." He shrugged casually watching Jim nod unsteadily before he frowned. Watching the blue eyes glance at the door, his scarred hand snapping for the small wife beater, missing it by a hair as it bolted from him. "Hey!" He snapped scarred chest bolting after the thin blonde tearing for the door.
"ARRH!" The light skin growled at him as he caught it by the arm. Her thin red hair hopping out of her chair, running to the kitchen doorway and stopping. Watching the blonde hair spin around and bite the scarred hand grabbing it before tearing for the front door as it let go. She blinked hard.
"Ahh stupid wind chimes!" She screamed her concern but they couldn't hear her. Small wife beater sending pillows at the unruly color coming for it before bolting over the back of the couch.
"Ah!" The blue eyes closed as they hit the ground. Scarred hand catching the back of its pants as it hopped over the blue couch apulstry, causing the blonde to trip. Hard floor smacking against the back of the light skin suddenly, knocking the wind out.
"Idiot." His dark eyes frowned down at the light face that suddenly sucked in air as if it had been drowning. Blue eyes blinking hard as his scarred hands yanked it up fast. Letting Jim stand coughing for a second.
Thin light arms hugging the small chest as it gagged. His scarred arm rapping under the light elbows and yanking the blonde hair off its feet as he started heading for the kitchen. "Don't help." He frowned at her thin red hair as he walked by, listening to her quickly follow him.
"Ah." the light face choked a small sound as it finally started getting voice back. Small legs starting to activate, kicking. "Ah Gene! I said NO! I don't waaant one!" The light face growled at him as he snatched the small nail off the stove. Flinching lightly as it burn him, the damn things were still hot. "GEEENE!" the light weight in his arms was fighting strong now. Smaller back arching to the fast kicking, hands and arms caught under his unable to fight and get free.
"Shut up." He growled moving the nail around in his fingers so he would have it just right. Strong scarred form moving towards the kitchen table before swinging the loose jean shorts and wife beater onto the top of it. Watching the blonde hair sit up immediately to get off before slamming back down to the strength of his scarred hand. "Cut it out!" He growled, yelling over the grunting and fighting strains the blonde hair made. Panicked blue eyes suddenly looking dead at him as he moved the small body. Swinging it fast, small legs separating to either side of his waste as he pulled the figure down to him. Holding the Jim to lie directly under his chest as he leaned onto the table slighlty. Moving the strong phonebook over and placing it against the side of the blonde hair so he could move the small ear lobe ontop of it and have a nice back when he plunged the nail in.
"Gene! Stop don't! DON'T! Stooop it! Geeeene!" the light legs kicked screaming at him but they were next to useless. Caught on either side of his strong body as he leaned into the table top holding the small arching back down as it repeatedly tried to get up.
"Alright! SHUT UP!" He yelled watching the screaming stop for a moment to listen to him. Blue eyes blinking from where they were welling with tears of stress and frustrated defeat. Gene wasn't listening to him..just...overpowering him. "Don't move your head unless you want me to miss." He growled down at the blonde hair as he moved it. Brushing its hair back from the light ear. "Danny get me some paper towel." He barked his order hard, hearing a small, little girl squeak of alarmed surprise quickly move towards their cabinet before he looked down at the panicking blonde hair underneath him. Breathing fast through it's mouth as the upset blue eyes just watching him. "It's going to hurt but it's nothing you can't handle." His dark eyes frowned as they caught the innocently scared expression looking up at him. The small throat swallowing at his command. Dark eyes glancing up at the thin hand offering him some paper towel. "Sit that there." He grinned slightly, watching her sit the paper towel down as the small light hands stopped trying to shove him off. Slowly grabbing onto his red shirt as the light skin braced. "Daniella can you do me a big favor?" He flashed her a strong grin as he looked up. Watching her panicked green eyes just nod fast. "When I say, your going to count to sixty, real evenly alright?" He grinned to reassure her as he spoke watching her nod. Dark eyes remaining on her as he felt the small light chest shake slowly, starting to cave under the pressure and anticipation something sharp and hot was going to stab a hole threw part of its body, and though Gene hadn't said anything it was going to bleed enough for him to remember he wanted paper towels near by. "Yeah? You can do that?" He grinned at her watching her nod, blue eyes darting to the side slightly. Straining to see the thin red hair from where the scarred hands held its head on either side, keeping it still. Small light chest shaking under his as he looked back down, thin feminine girl hand running up his scarred arm slightly. Looking for the blonde hair. He grinned feeling it disappear before the small -Ow Jim, not so hard- whisphered next to him as Jim's small hand dropped his shirt and snapped at her hand instead. Blue eyes closing hard as he watched the small teeth grit to the feeling its earlobe gently pulling over the phone book as he steadied the nail over it. "You got this right Jim?" He grinned watching the small face nod ever so slightly. "Not scared huh? He chuckled before glancing at the green eyes. "What's that?" He frowned slightly shifting his gaze to the cabinets behind her. Watching her turn to look at them confused as he looked down. Pulling the nail back now that Daniella was distracted. -She shouldn't have to see that go in- Jamming it down with as much strength as he could in such a small spot.
"Ahh!" the light face screamed fast. Closed blue eyes jamming harder as the small body moved, arching it's back with the pain to get away. "Ahhhaaa that's hot Geeene! AH!" the small face screamed at him as he felt the small form pressing up from where it was under him, trying to get away even through it was now bolted to the phone book.
"Count Danny!" He snapped fast feeling the blonde hair squirm under him to the soft feminine voice that slowly started counting to his right. Dark eyes glaring down at the blue eyes cringing through the stinging pain cutting it. His scarred face frowning harder at the small amount of blood trickling onto the phone book as the light hands yanked at his shirt and chest. But the nail had to stay in for a few seconds, sixty seconds to make a good hole.
"Ahhah! OK! AHHGET IT OOOut! GEEENE!"
He frowned, dark eyes looking down glancing at the wide horrified green eyes to his side slowly counting.
"Sixty! Sixty Geeene!" She whined, his dark eyes glancing back to the sudden pink skirt hopping on his side as he gently pushed the small swollen and bloody ear lob down before yanking the nail out.
"AH!" the light face screamed as it disappeared. Wincing and shaking to the hard paper towel suddenly running around its ear as the strong force pressing it to the table started disappearing. Blonde hair slowly sitting up, struggling to hold the paper towel to itself as the wild blue eyes cringed to the blood smearing over the light hands.
"Gene!" He jumped lightly at the high pitched squeaky feminine cry from behind him as the garage door slammed. "What the hell did you do to him you animal!?" she frowned quickly rushing past her upset niece towards the crying bleeding blonde hair teetering on the edge of the kitchen table in front of the scarred chest. "Jimmy." She whined moving forward to the hiccupping blonde hair that cried more so upset then hurt. Mad and scared Gene had chased him down to jab him with a nail and now concerned with all the blood and horrific stinging and burning that seemed to over take the side of his head.
"Ah come on Iris all I did was pierce his ear." He groaned, pulling the blonde hair into his chest and moving it towards the counter. Scarred hands slowly letting the weight lower in his arms until the blonde hair was standing, leaning into the kitchen sink. "Keep you head there ok?" Her soft navy eyes watched Gene lean to the side to get a look at the light face before backing up as the small hand tried to shove him fast. Crying blue eyes growling mad at him as they flicked up, watching the scarred features only flash a dull flat expression. "Yeah fine." He grunted turning to look up at the frowning navy color staring at him concerned.
"Gene I can't believe you poked a hole in him with a nail!" He frowned at her squeaky whining as she shook the bloody nail at him. Watching his scarred hand just take it and flick it into the trash casually before looking back at her with a sigh. "On the kitchen table too!" She frowned at him. "I can't believe you two!" She watched him grin at her cute frowny face as she whined at him. Thin red hair standing behind her silently. Small upset green eyes hugging the small book as she watched the blonde hair lean into the sink. Blue eyes silently crying upset as they watched their blood trickle down the drain in a small thin red line. "Come on sweetie." He frowned watching Iris bend down to the blue eyes crying into the silver square and drain. Lightly grasping the thin shoulders as the small shaky light hand moved the piece of stained paper towel back to its ear. His dark eyes frowning as the light hand sent him a hard shove before continuing to walk past him. Towards the stairs with Iris saying something.
"Geez." He growled annoyed, glaring at where Jim and Iris had just disappeared around the corner. Scarred features smirking annoyed before looking down at the thin red hair still watching him. Green upset eyes looking up at him, the rough dark man she had known for so long. Who had just pinned Jim to a table and cut him so he was bleeding. He frowned watching her step back lightly as she continued studying him before offering a small sweet smile. Green eyes smiling at him lightly before holding out the small book she had started hugging when the whole mess started.
"Gene I think that you should keep this." He frowned slightly looking down at it.
"Yeah, what is it?" He flashed a baffled face taking it from her as he leaned back into the kitchen table.
"It's the Webster's Pocket and Medical First Aid dictionary." She smiled "I found it, but it looks like you need it." He groaned.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Come on Jim it's ok sweetie." She frowned upset watching his small, skinny form trudge into the bathroom from where he was walking in front of her. Hidden light face leaning into the sink immediately as the light hands moved the small piece of paper towel. "Gene pierced your ear?" She frowned moving next to the small face sniffling into the white porcelain and gray drain. Her thin soft hands gently moving his hair to look at the bloody hole. "Pretty lucky I know how to fix this.huh?" She watched his blue eyes look up at her as she smiled at him. Gently rubbing his back before standing up and opening the medicine cabinet.
His blue eyes listening to her move things above him as he looked down at the small red line moving towards the drain. His blood leaking into the sink before quickly sliding in as the salt water of his tears helped it along. Gene didn't listen to him, Gene didn't listen to anything he said! He made him, made him when he said no! It wasn't important if he had the damn intercom or not! "I hate it! HATE IT! Ahaa."
Her navy eyes jumped at the sudden scream into the sink before the small sob. "Huh?" She squeaked lightly looking down, bringing the small q-tip with her.
"Geene didn't, I Told him I DIDN'T WANT IT!" He screamed into the sink again, stepping back as she gently guided him. "Ahha." Soft navy eyes watching him jump as she pressed the alcohol soaked q-tip against his ear. His blue eyes closing as he moved. Squeezing the side of the sink and fidgeting as he growled out hard pain as she moved the soft stinging cotton of alcohal the best she could into the new hole. "AHha ok Iriiis." Her frowning focused navy eyes switched to his face as he groaned at her. The soft alcohal q-tip dropping slightly before she tossed it into the trash. Watching him flinch a "Aha" as she ran her thumb and pointer finger over his ear lob gently squeezing it before tightening and squeezing as hard as she could. "Ahha Iriiiis!" the light hands shoved at her suddenly "Stooop that whaat are you dooing!?" The blue eyes cried, one hand gently tugging at her wrist as she squeezed hard. Watching the skin around her fingertips whiten to the pressure before she let go. His skinny form leaning back into the wall whining to keep from sobbing before glancing up with her to the open doorway as the unruly red hair came in.
"Gene" she frowned at him watching just growl at her.
"Get out! GET OUT GENE!" the blonde hair moved fast, quickly steeping forward and shoving the unruly color away. "Get out of my sight! You! I! ARRH!" the light face growled at him, furious with the dark eyes that just watched. "Stupid looser! Piece of shiiitAh" the light face sobbed again backing into the wall as Iris's smooth hand pushed him gently. Dark eyes still frowning down at the blonde hair that had gotten more upset then he imagined-but the kid had felt pain like that before. So what was the problem?
He frowned, dark eyes snapping at her upset navy color as she slowly took the small intercom from him. Not saying a word. Neither admitting or denying she approved, or liked any of the situation as she backed towards the sink again. Slowly rubbing the small blue circle with alcohol to clean it before bending down to the blonde hair silently standing. Soft thin hands gently guiding the small upset chin towards her, watching the wet blue eyes move to the side. "Ahha" flinching heavily as she slid the small intercom into the small red hole that had since she squeezed it reduced in blood dramatically.
"Gene." He looked at the blue eyes that suddenly shot his name at him. "Get out of my way." the small light hand shoved him as it stomped past towards the bedroom. Startling Daniella who had been silently lingering in the hall concerned for the bleeding mess of blonde hair she had grown fond of. "Come on." She squeaked as he yanked her. Strong light hand grabbing hers and pulling her into the bedroom with him. Sniffling blue eyes cramming stuff into a small bag fast before looking at her. "Can I-"
"-Are you sleeping over with me?" She frowned watching him suddenly grin. Clear tears running down his face stopping lightly as his skin moved, smiling. His light hands snapping to his face, wiping them off quickly before zipping his book bag up and stomping towards the hall. Blue eyes snapping a hard glare at he unruly color lazily watching, though slightly interested to see where in the world the blonde hair thought it was going.
Iris's slightly concerned navy blue eyes moving along side of him as he watched Jim growl down the stairs. Yanking Daniella along before disappearing into the garage.
"Jim where are? Are you coming home with me?" She frowned, watching his blonde hair yank open Iris's car door and throw his bag in. Upset blue eyes ignoring her comment as his hand yanked her forward, shoving her in before getting in and slamming the door behind them. "Can you drive Jim?" She frowned slightly, watching his upset face just look down.
Blonde hair shaking no fast but not looking up at her. Blue eyes focusing in on their fingers and hands that slightly fidgeted before looking up at the garage door that hadn't moved. "I don't want to stay with Gene tonight." He growled feeling her shift her weight from where she sat. Moving to buckle up as she pushed his bag to the floor before looking back up at him.
Blonde hair still sitting just as he was, not moving to the occasional hard sniffles and light hands wiping tears off his face. "I am *not* crying cause it hurts." He growled his words at her, blue eyes snapping at her with his frown. "I am not crying." He frowned hard as the small tears rolled down his face, her thin light skin just nodding slowly at him.
"I didn't say you were." She shook her head no fast watching him do a hard good nod as he looked away. "Did that hurt...a lot Jim?" She watched the blue color try and sneak a look at her, catching sight of her concerned green eyes.
"Stuff doesn't hurt as much when...well it would have hurt you more than, it hurts me cause it's different." He watched her frown confused with his answer. "It's just...there's a difference cause your a girl so it hurts you more and boys are stronger..so it doesn't, can't let it...show...so it's different." The blue eyes looked back down at its hands again.
"If it hurt you enough to cry how much would it have hurt me?" She frowned concerned, watching him grit his teeth annoyed.
"I am NOT crying!" She frowned at his fast growl and yell.
"Don't yell at me!" Leaning closer to him to yell back, he growled. Blonde hair slumping back into his seat upset.
"I didn't. You yelled at me." He scowled, blue eyes closing as he let out a shaky sigh. Rubbing more tears off his face as he glanced up to the opening garage door. Watching Iris's thin form come out before closing the door behind her. Silent feminine blonde hair moving around the car before getting in and sliding in the key. Soft navy blue eyes sitting perfectly still for a moment before turning around and looking at them.
"...........Ok." she squeaked lightly to a shrug twisting the key. Soft hand shifting the car into drive as the headlights turned on. Small feminine sandal pressing onto the gas.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Hey wake up back there." She smiled turning around to look at the awake blonde hair watching Daniella sleep, leaning into his shoulder slightly. "Come on you two, Iris is going to bed with or without you and it has to be with cause I don't want any noise." She squeaked her giggle as she got out. Watching the back door open to the blonde hair climbing out before the thin red hair followed him. Her navy eyes frowning slightly as she opened the door to the small place she was sharing with May. It wasn't like she had any extra bedrooms. She frowned turning around to look at Daniella who normally slept with her before watching Jim come in. "Hmm." The blue and green eyes looked up at her small thinking hum. She couldn't put him on the couch cause who knew what May would come home doing. She didn't have any extra cots so...and she couldn't send him to sleep with May cause he didn't know her.
"Aunt Iris?" Daniella frowned as she just stood there motionless thinking.
"Jim you have a few choices as to how you can sleep here on such short notice." She frowned watching him look down upset he *was* sleeping there. "You can sleep on the floor in my room, cause Danny and I get the bed, you can sleep on the bathroom, or upstairs hall floor...or you can talk Danny into sleeping with you and I'll share a bed with May. Or you can sleep with me and Dan can share with May." She shrugged lightly turning around for the kitchen. "Got five minutes!" She giggled back at the frowning blue eyes watching her go before looking back down at the floor. None of those sounded good.
"Do you want to sleep with my aunt? I don't mind May." The green eyes smiled at him as he glanced up to her voice. Green eyes watching his unsure expression shift his weight. No he didn't want to sleep with Iris, that didn't sound good. His blue eyes closed recalling Gene's words about sleeping with Iris and something about how good she looked without a bra and then something about candy between her legs.
"No." The green eyes frowned slightly at his fast snap and small shudder.
"Your gonna sleep on the floor?" She scrunched her nose at him watching him just make a not to happy expression that was leaning towards a- looks like I am gonna half to- "Jim?" She frowned suddenly. "I'll make a deal with you ok?" She watched him look at her from under his blonde hair. "You say you'll play with me five times I wanna and I'll bunk with you." She smiled watching his thin mouth just open slightly looking around as if trying to find other options. He didn't want to share with her either. "Come on!" She frowned her fast snap at him. "I want to go to sleep and your the one making it difficult so say you'll play with me!" He nodded fast, temporarily to preoccupied with home to argue with her fast snapping. "Yeah five times?" She smiled suddenly, skeptically asking again to make sure.
"Yeah, yes I want to...Danny shut up I am tired!" He snapped at her suddenly, trailing as he lost thought of what was going on before frowning. He did know she was still talking and looking at him, and that was enough.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
He frowned, small glass eyes of the fluffy, white, stuffed, kitty shining in the small amount of light coming in from the window. Almost making them look like they were glowing, it was freaky. "Move your damn cat!" He growled sitting up fast. Blonde hair running back into his face as he sat up on his side of the queen bed. Shoving her cat away fast towards where she was sleeping on her side separated from him by a small thin pink pillow.
"Don't shove it!" She frowned at him hugging that cat over to her as he frowned. "Your just mad you don't have any kitties." She frowned sticking her tongue at him as he laid down. Blue eyes rolling to look away from her in his shirt and boxers. Green eyes giggling at his response from where she was in a loose white t-shirt and pink shorts, It was warm, any blankets they would need were down by there feet. "Jim?" she smiled watching his blonde hair move, trying to block more of her voice.
"Danny? What time do you think Iris will make me go tomorrow?" He frowned, rolling onto his back to look at her from above she was on her side facing him, hugging the soft white cat.
"Iris said she had to go to the bar early tomorrow mourning, so maybe eightish or nineish or tenish...something ish." She shrugged smiling at him. "Why do you wanna know?" The soft frown watching him just look at the ceiling as he listened to her.
"I didn't want Gene to be there when I got back." He frowned as she listened. Gene was probably going to be mad at him, and thought he wouldn't say anything direct or yell he would probably slam some stuff around or mention mean stuff. "I don't wanna talk to him." He frowned glancing at her.
"Cause he poked you?" she raised her eyebrows with her question, watching him frown hard at her word choice.
"No." He spit sourly. "Cause he didn't listen to me." he scowled .
"You don't listen to me." She smiled at him watching him shake his head no.
"That's different." He sighed matter o'factly.
"How is that different? If I tell you I don't want any lizard on me then I don't want the lizard on me!" she growled at him, sitting up to look at his frowning eyes that were slowly starting to grin. Remembering that, the lizard was cool. There was no reason why she should miss out on getting to hold it just cause she was being all girly.
"The lizard liked you." He shrugged poorly justifying how he had thrown it at her when she screamed. Laughing hysterical as it's small sticky feet clung to her shirt until it finally fell off five minutes later to her upset dancing. "You shouldn't have screamed so loud." He laughed watching her just squint at him as she scrunched her nose. Green eyes that had been studying him lying back into the bed to a small sigh,
"Jim?" she glanced at him. "Can I ask you a question?" He frowned as he nodded. "Why does you underwear look like shorts?" she watched him frown hard at her, his cheeks warming to a red color as he sat up fast. Ripping the blanket from his end of the bed up hard as her green eyes ran over his boxers as she talked to him.
"They just do." He frowned, spitting his answer as he pulled the covers over him. "How come yours look so stupid." Her mouth opening to give an answer before blinking a frown.
"You pervert!" she frowned as she sat up watching his blue eyes lighten immediately. His face raising his eyebrows at her as she sat up fast. "When did you see my underwear!?" She frowned at him watching him shrug.
"I didn't." Her green eyes blinked lightly, squinting skeptically at his answer before lowering back into the bed to a small calm oh. "I just saw what..." he trailed, it was probably better not even to say he knew what they looked like. Then he would have to explain who's he had seen and the most common person was her aunts. He frowned slightly as he looked at her thinking, that wouldn't go over very well. "Now can I ask you something?" He frowned watching her sigh.
"Yes but this is the last question then I want to go to sleep." she frowned at him watching him open his mouth slowly.
"Do you have...strawberry syrup?" His braced himself fast for a reaction. Not sure what to expect but she just looked at him dully.
"Maybe in the fridge." Her green eyes looked back at him blankly watching him frown.
"No Danny do *you*, *you* have some?" He frowned, bracing himself again.
"No." She frowned baffled. "It has to be refrigerated retard." she frowned at him, that's what he thought too. Gene had to be insane, all the strawberry syrup he knew had to go in the fridge and Danny was a girl and that's what she thought too.
"What does it mean to plug someone?" He frowned at her confused watching her scowl at him.
"I don't know but that was more then your last question!" She frowned at him shaking the cat around annoyed as she sighed heavily. "Now I don't have anything to eat or drink and I don't know anything about electricity!" She frowned at him, watching his face lighten to her irritated answers. Blonde hair lying back in the bed the small amount he had come up to look at her. Gene was an idiot. What ever he was talking about must have been in some kinda code for morons like him. He grinned slightly, don't ever plug a girl who's manufacturing strawberry syrup what the hell was he talking about. He grinned, choking a small laugh before sighing heavily. Glancing at her loose white t-shirt as she rolled over onto her stomach. Thin arms hugging the cat as they started to fall asleep on the other side of the thin pink pillow.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Well then.." he sighed heavily. "Where are you going after Iris?" He frowned at her, following her quick busy walking from the kitchen as she chewed toast up the stairs.
"Jim I have to go." She sighed heavily. "I have to go that's it. I am going to the bar, I have to be there for an hour or so and then I am going to work." she shrugged, navy eyes glancing back at him as he continued following her concerned. He didn't want to go home yet.
Blue eyes following her into the upstairs bathroom, watching her lean into the mirror as she picked up her eye lashy thing. "Yeah but maybe I could go with you?" He shrugged watching her.
"I have to work till nine tonight." She shot him a skeptical glance.
"Well can I stay here?" He frowned at her as she started quickly flicking the small blackened comb through her eyelashes, focusing on her own reflection. "Or I could go with you and stay in the car?"
"Don't think so kido." She sighed heavily dropping the mascara from the small thin container of eye shadow. "Your just going to have to go home." She spoke matter o' factly, blonde hair sitting onto the side of the tub behind her upset. "Gene's not going to be mad." She smiled as she turned around at him. Pausing momentarily at his pouty attitude. "For real, last night he didn't seem all to bothered you came back with us." She sent him a warm smile.
"He didn't pierce my other ear." The blue eyes frowned concerned at her, watching her navy eyes travel to his pierced ear. Watching him flinch slightly as she touched it, moving the earring slightly to look at the red swollen skin. "Maybe you can come back over when you get off work?" He frowned concerned at her, watching her navy color just look back at him.
"I can't love, I am going out with Danny. You are just going to have to go home and face Gene. That's what you don't want to do right?" Her soft smile made his eyes dart away fast. "Just walk back in like nothing happened and if he comes at you with another nail.lock yourself in the bathroom and climb out the window while he's trying to get in." She giggled hard, smiling as she watched his face relaxed. Calming as she gave him a option he could try, and strong feeling she wasn't going to be that far away. "He scared you doing that huh?" She watched him shake his head no fast, denying it. "No?" She frowned slightly.
"No." He frowned. "He just really pissed me off cause he didn't listen." He frowned hard looking down. It scared him, scared the hell out of him that Gene did that. So easily and so swiftly, like he was nothing but a small toy. Next to powerless in the Gene's arms. More scared then he could remember when Gene ripped him off the floor and held the hot sharp nail above his face while he talked to Dan. Who stood right there and saw everything when he couldn't take it. Wasn't sure what to expect so the hot burning sting that stabbed through him caught him off guard.
"Well that's good." She smiled at him moving back toward the sink and spritzing perfume at her tight clothing. "Cause I got to go and your going home." She smiled, sighing as she turned around. "Get your bag and get in the car." She frowned as she learned back into the mirror. Double checking her eye shadow. Frowning blonde hair getting up and stomping back downstairs for his bag before heading into the garage and getting into the car. Danny was still sleeping it was 8:00.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
She smiled warmly as she opened her red eyes, glancing over at the scarred chest sleeping next to her. Unruly red hair lazily leaning into the scarred forehead that had just had her up until at least four last night. Her freckled face smiling immediately as she sat up, looking around for her clothes as the room smeared back into view. Her thick auburn hair tripping slightly as she stepped over the side of the bed, feeling the empty beer bottles move away from her feet. Thin aqua bra running under her hand as she drug it over. Slipping her arms in before reaching behind to snap the back. Red eyes searching for her underwear, or at least the skirt she wore last night.
Freckled face yawning into the hall as she walked into it. Long jean shirt and revealing aqua bra trudging towards the stairs for food. Ahh she was starving, stupid Gene, he had said he would go get something around eleven last night but then never made it out of room. She frowned slightly glancing at the tv. She didn't remember leaving that on.
He grinned cocking an eyebrow at the other side of the bed before frowning slightly at the missing thick auburn hair and red eyes he had done all night till five or so. "Allison?" He mumbled her name lightly before glancing at the open bedroom door to the small sounds from downstairs. Dark eyes grinning, maybe she was having trouble walking. He chuckled suddenly sitting up slowly before feeling the rush of everything slide downward in his head. Ahh, he was still exhausted.
He frowned hard, blue eyes glaring at the tv annoyed as she walked by toward the kitchen. Dumb Allison, he turned around lightly, looking at her back as she went in the doorway. She looked slightly drunk and she was walking kinda funny. He frowned harder glancing up at the open bedroom door. So that was what Gene was doing all last night while he was at Iris's "Go figure." He growled before jumping at her small -Hey?- frown as she heard him.
Red eyes looking over at him as he remained leaning into the back of the couch, not hiding from her. "I thought Gene said." She slurred lightly. "We were here alone, I was going last night and..." she trailed walking towards him and the couch as he frowned. Gene saw something in Allison, he certainly spent enough on her and wasted enough time with her. He frowned, he couldn't think of what the hell was so great with her, there were plenty of other girls Gene had over that were better and nicer. She was always snappy and irritated, at least with him.
"Hey when did you get back?" The dark eyes yawned their question at him as he looked over. "Thought you'd be with Iris all day." The scarred face grinned still sleepily. Hurt blue eyes just glaring at him before glancing at the bathroom. The door was open, all he'd have to do was run right to it. "Yeah good mourning to you to." He glanced back at the unruly hair as it said something else to him. Scarred form lazily heading towards the kitchen exhausted.
"Hey." he frowned as he turned back to the auburn hair now drinking his coffee on a different channel. "Allison that was mine." He frowned at her watching her drink the last of it before handing him the cup.
"Yeah here you go." She yawned as he took the cup from her before glancing at how she had started taking over the tv too. Red eyes ignoring his growling as he got up stomping towards the kitchen.
"Gene." He frowned slightly watching the scarred eyebrow just cock at him as the loose black shirt and gray boxers strolled out of the kitchen towards his voice. Sleepy dark eyes chewing a piece of chicken watching him come over. "How long is Allison staying?" He frowned, following the scarred shoulders into the kitchen. Watching them shrug as they pulled weird items out of the fridge. His blue eyes recognizing them immediately, Gene had a hangover.
"Beats the hell out of me." the scarred face slurred its answer at him as it cracked a raw egg into the cup it would drink when all the junk was in there. "I was plugging her all night so who cares if she stays all day." He grinned watching another egg fall into the clear cup as he yawned before glancing at the silent blonde hair to his right watching him. Light face flushed a deep red. That's what plugging meant, and he asked Danny. "You sick?" The dark eyes frowned their slurred question at him before sniffling as they looked back down at the cup, pulling out some type of sick spice.
"Your, your going to let her stay all day?" He cringed lightly, Allison was mean to him. "Are you leaving?" The scarred shoulders shrugged, measuring a lazy teaspoon of the black stuff before dropping it into the cup.
"I have to work for four hours." The scarred chest leaned into the stove, temporarily pausing from the discolored drink to just relax.
"Where are we going?" His dark eyes glanced at the blue color watching him.
"*I am* going down to the loading docks and your not coming." The blue eyes frowned upset at him. "You know the guy takes half our pay for insurance when you come." He cocked an eyebrow at the blonde hair listening to him.
"Gene." the blue color frowned mad at him suddenly. "I don't invite people over and just let them live here!" the small hand shoved him hard. Blue eyes watching the scarred form shuffle back with it, over run from the beer. "I don't want Allison here if your not going to stay! I don't like her" His dark eyes frowned down, ahh Jim was loud.
"What?" He slurred watching the upset orange t-shirt and jeans just slouch into the kitchen table, light forehead leaning onto the top annoyed and upset. "Jim so what, it's not like she's here for you." He chuckled suddenly, that was a good one.
"She's trashy Gene." the blue eyes frowned down at the table, sitting still. "Her clothes are too small for her."
He shrugged glancing back. "Yeah so what. So are Iris's and you don't complain about her." He chuckled picking up the cup of sticky off colored crap.
"Yeah but she doesn't push it in my face." The blue eyes frowned at him as they looked up. Grimacing slightly at the unruly color drinking that garbage. It helped though. Dark eyes laughing silently as they drank before swallowing hard to laugh.
"Yeah like you don't want to see." He grinned letting the cup slide into the sink as the small face watching him blushed slightly.
"Not like that I *don't* Gene!" the blue eyes frowned annoyed as he shrugged again. Scarred shoulders sighing heavily. If Allison left there would be no one to screw when he got home. If Jim had to look at some feminine skin while he was out it was no big deal.
"Well just, use your imagination or close your eyes or something blast it. She's staying." He frowned, slightly irritated by the stupid complaining. Blue eyes frowning as they watched Gene just lazily trudge out towards the thick auburn hair half clothed on their couch.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
He growled, blue eyes peering down at the loose revealing bra on the couch watching tv. She had been there for four hours. There was nothing left to do upstairs. "Allison?" He watched her look up at him bored. "Aren't you going to.." He shrugged, she looked bored too. "Go out or something?" He made a face watching her just raise her eyebrows at him.
"I am tired kid." She frowned glancing back at the tv ignoring him. "Go out by yourself if you want." She frowned at the tv screen as the blue eyes continued looking at her. "Kid you got a problem? You need something?" She frowned, at the annoying blonde hair bothering her. "Say why you always here anyway?" She frowned. "Don't you got someplace to go?" She made a face shrugging. Gene had said he wasn't his kid. "Your not Gene's problem stopping bugging me.and him." She sighed sinking into the couch, watching the pudgy woman add the dish of butter to the concoctions she was making on screen. Her red eyes frowning slightly as she listened to the stomping come all the way down the stairs.
Her face flicking up at him as he moved directly in front of the tv. "You're my problem." He watched her frown up at his words. "Stop bugging me, and Gene said.he thinks you're trash." He frowned at her, maybe she would leave now.
Her red eyes growled immediately, sitting up straighter as he spoke. "What did you just say?" She sneered standing u, watching him take a step back as she became bigger but his hard features didn't relax.
"I am *not* a problem and I live here! So if you want to stay you have to be nice or get out until Gene comes back!" He growled at her watching her eyebrows just raised at him. Ccompletely baffled at his statement but absolutely pissed it was from a seven year old bastard calling her trash.
"You think I am trashy?" She scoffed suddenly leaning towards him, watching him just take another quick step back. Blue eyes frowning harder as she slowly played with the bra that hardly covered her anyway. "Does this look like trash to you?" She frowned hard, snickering at him as she pulled her top down. Watching his face just tighten up as he stood his ground but started fidgeting slightly. Blue eyes fighting to avoid her exposed breasts as she leaned at him more. Smiling as he instinctively looked at what she moved before blushing hard and trying to ignore it as he switched back to her face upset. "You think I look trashy?" She made a face at him. "You tried looking a mirror." She frowned as she spit her words at him watching him quickly stumble back as she stood up. "I hear you got marks all over you. Scars all over you." She frowned down at him watching him look up at her suddenly upset. "So before you want to pass judgment on me kid, maybe you oughta think about what your packing." She scoffed at him. Small skinny figure trying to kick her out, stung by her words. Gene must have told her, told her that private information that was none of her business!
"Get out!" He growled at her. "Get out and don't come back till Gene gets here! Or better don't *ever*come back!" He growled at her, blue eyes rushing with tears as he tried to think straight through all she just said. How humiliated and betrayed he felt that Gene had just told something so personal to someone so insignificant and so trashy! It was none of her business! None of Gene's business either! "Go!" He growled at her as she fixed her top looking at him annoyed. Thick auburn hair just turning around and heading towards the stairs ignoring him. He wasn't her problem either. "AhHey!" He frowned at her, snapping his hands up to his eyes to push the salt water out. He couldn't see her well. "I said you have to get out!"
His dark eyes frowned from under his unruly red hair as he trudged back into the kitchen. Dark eyes glancing back at the clock frowning, he was only gone for four hours did Jim have to start on her. He growled listening to the Jim yell at her to leave a he dropped his cape into the chair.
"You know kid just get lost ok!" She frowned at him, snapping around as he started following her up the stairs. He tripped lightly, surprised by her fast turn but stood hard just the same. "Your annoying and your giving me a headache and I don't want to look at you. Now I am only here to see Gene, your just a pain. I happen to like that guy cause he's a lot of fun even *with* you still here!" She frowned hard watching the light frowning hurt face cry as it listened to her. "So just go occupy yourself with something out of my sight." She sighed heavily, pushing him hard as she started around him back down the stairs annoyed. Frowning as she heard him follow her. Red eyes snapping around to him, snapping at the remote he held and yanking. Watching him come forward with it as he gripped tight.
"Get out." He growled at her as she yanked it again. Red eyes squinting furious with it as she pulled, yanking him with her as she swung the remote trying to pry it from his grasp.
He growled leaning into the kitchen doorway. Watching Jim follow her down the stairs before starting a fight with her over the remote. "All over the tv?" He growled at them but they couldn't hear him. Blonde hair suddenly yelling at her to leave before leaning forward and biting her hand hard so she would let go.
"Ah!" She screamed pulling her hand back and looking at the sharp teeth marks in it before looking up at him. "You little." She trailed watching the blue eyes just let out a fast sigh as she stopped pulling him. Blue eyes looking up upset before tripping back into the step with her hard slap.
His dark eyes flickered immediately. Sparking his whole body with the loud slap of the hard thin hand against the softer baby skin of Jim's cheek. His scarred form pushing off the doorway fast and moving towards them. Watching Jim just sit where it fell. Light hand slowly reaching up towards its face before the red eyes snapped up at him with a squeak. Surprised and slightly frightened by the tight grip suddenly grabbing her arms and shoving her fast.
"Get out." He growled, dark eyes pointing at the door as she frowned at him. His furious scarred face just watching her open her mouth to speak as he shot forward. He had given her three seconds to start moving and she hadn't.
He heard her squeak lightly as he ripped the front door open yanking her thin figure with him before shoving her out. Watching her outraged freckled face spin around. "Don't think I am ever coming back Starwind!" She growled hard at him watching his dark eyes just frown mad as hell with her but sad he was loosing her. There was something about Allison he liked, but she couldn't hit, no way.
He looked up, the warm moisture of his tears stinging the sharp red handprint covering the side of his face as they rolled over it. Blue eyes looking up toward the door, watching Gene say something to Allison as he shoved her out. Probably apologizing for all this. Gene was going to be so pissed with him when he came back He felt his stomach tighten up getting ready for something, the shove, the words Gene was going to spit at him. His breath picking up as he braced to the hard heavy walk coming back at him as the door slammed. Frowning dark eyes glaring down at him as he looked up. "Did you tell her to get out earlier?" The deep voice frowned mad. "Did you!?" The scarred face growled watching the panicked blue eyes just nod, one cheek swelling up lightly. "How many times did you do that!?" He growled baffled she didn't listen when Jim kept at it. Blonde hair retaliating into the steps as he reached down yanking the light arm and form up fast.
"Gene! I wouldn't have yeeelled at her but she waaas geeeting weeeierd!" the blonde hair started moving with him, coming along up the stairs to his hard pulling. "She took off her shirt and she waaaas." His dark eyes frowned, no longer listening as he pulled Jim with him into the bathroom. Watching the blonde hair stumble forward fast as the crying blue eyes turned around to him. Bracing an impact that may be coming.
"Yeah well, she's not coming back anymore." He growled pushing past the blue eyes that stopped walking, just shaking lightly as they stood looking at him as though they had committed murder and were caught. Scowling dark eyes ripping open the medicine cabinet and pulling out a washcloth and turning on the sink. Letting the cold water run over it as he held the cloth, his gaze still down. That was it, that was it with Allison. He felt his chest ache slightly as he thought about loosing her, she was so sweet.to him. Something about her was really great, and it was more so his irritation he couldn't keep her, that she couldn't be what he wanted that made him growl. His sad expression vanishing as he jerked the water off and in one quick moment decided his abandoned relationship with Allison was reason enough to abandon her from his mind.hopefully. Turning to look at the blonde hair staring at him in disbelief, he decided to soften his expression anymore. Nothing but wide blue eyes confused by everything that had just happenedvstumbling backward fast as he moved towards them. "Hey will you relax." His scarred face frowned suddenly. "Put this on your face." A humored grin watching the shaky blue eyes look down at the cold cloth he offered before slowly taking it. "And I am not going to pierce your other ear." He grinned watching the alarmed light face flick up at him, blinking suddenly confused. How did Gene know he was worried about that? "Iris told me." He chuckled lightly watching the expression as the loose orange shirt backed up, leaning into the tub as it pressed the cold cloth to the reddened skin of its face. Blue eyes looking up at the heavy sigh above him. Scarred hand rubbing his face, but it was different from all the other times he did it. Cause he looked upset now.
"Gene?" the dark eyes didn't resurface to look at him like they always did. Like they had always did to see what he wanted or hear what he had to say. Even if it was to spit an insult or sly answer that was totally unhelpful or irritating. "You can.well maybe you can still have her come back when I am not here?" He frowned slightly, feeling guilty now.
The unruly hair shook no. "No. You want her to move in? Then where are you going to go?" He frowned at the blonde hair that only silenced, it didn't have an answer for that. "Yeah she's just not coming back.ever." He growled shaking his head no as he nudged the small shoulder. Watching it instinctively stand up and start out of the bathroom as it continued to hold the cold cloth against its warm swollen cheek. Heavy walking following him down the stairs, sinking into the couch next to him. Dark eyes watching the blonde hair just pull together as it sat down. Loose jeans and light arms pulling in as the one hand held the cloth looking at the tv hurt. "Don't even think about her alright?" His dark eyes glanced at the quiet blonde hair looking ahead at the tv. "I saw her hit you, so that's it." He watched the blue eyes look down with his comment, thinking.
"How come you told Allison about my scars?" The blue eyes became suddenly upset as they mumbled their question, gaze dropping to the couch.
He frowned off guard. Did he tell Allison? "I didn't." He frowned, taking the remote from the light hand still squeezing it, but the blue eyes shot up mad.
"You're a liar." Jim growled a frown up at him as his expression just slumped
"No I am not. I am never told her, Iris did." He frowned, glaring hard at the tv before glancing down at the blonde hair that leaned into his side.
"How does Iris know I have them?" the voice sounded confused suddenly before the blonde hair moved. Frowning up mad "Unless you told her." They growled their accusation at him watching him frown. His head running to an idiot, no she saw them when you were younger before stopping. Frowning blue eyes glaring at him for an answer.
"I told her once cause I wanted to know about maybe something we could get for them." He shrugged, quickly thinking up his lie as he spoke it. "So maybe they could reduce or something." He shrugged again watching the blue eyes drop to a more absorbed look. Was that possible? "And I never told her where they were she figured it out for herself cause she said.well you know she said she had never seen any scars on you." He shrugged again watching the blonde hair half listen to the rest of his lie as it continued turning over the thought they could reduce them somehow.
"Well what did she say?" the blue eyes looked at him, engrossed. "Did she know? Know of how we could do that?" the orange shirt shifted it's weight suddenly. Turning to look dead at him before frowning as the unruly hair shook no.
"No. She didn't have any ideas and she didn't think there were any crèmes or anything. Just a type of surgery that was real expensive." He frowned watching the blonde hair think for a moment before slouching back into the couch disappointed but happy Gene supposedly hadn't told anything like that about him. Dark eyes frowning as they knew they had to a trashy babe who hit him and no doubt said something mean about it to him. Scarred face grinning to a small punch and muttered -sorry about Allison.- "Yeah right." He grunted lightly slinging his arm around the small neck. Roughing it lightly to the smile underneath him. Blonde hair not disappointed a bit Allison was gone for good. Just sympathetic it meant something Gene.
"Plenty a other fish in the sea Gene." His scarred face laughed, squeezing the small upper body under his arm to the grinning blonde hair leaning into him. Laughing an ooww as it smiled through its swollen cheek.
__*~*~*~PRESENT DATE~*~*~*__
"Ow ow" He grit his teeth tighter, hoping that somehow if he bit down harder on nothing the pain would ease somehow. Her smooth gloves even touching him as light as she was sent sparks of pain up threw him. Her hand suddenly gripping his hip tightly from where he leaned into the wall doubling over slightly as she stood in front of him. Her thin gray hair becoming aware of how weak his legs were becoming in the pain. "Judith." He grunted her name lightly as she rubbed the small alcohol coated cotton ball onto the low raw skin he preferred not to look at. Her white doctor coated figure hanging onto him as she stayed right in front of him and the small amount she had undone his jean and pulled them and his boxers down. Unaware of how hard he was growling in his head at the pain he went threw to get them on, up, and together. "Caaan't you go faster." He groaned at her suddenly, closing his eyes to the sharp needle he saw coming right at his sensitive male skin. Her smooth gloved hand squeezing his hip lightly to hang onto him. Feeling him brace himself at the indirect statement he was going to feel this.
She blinked slowly, watching him. His strong hands balling small fistfuls of her white doctor coat in his hands as the needle she held disappeared between them to the hard pained expression and jammed blue eyes that held it's breath.
Her own chest rising and falling fast in the pain she felt just watching him. As thought someone were stabbing him and he couldn't make a sound. Her wide green eyes and thin red hair slowly walking over, keeping her view solely on his face. Jammed blue eyes oblivious to her as the now empty needle slowly pulled out of swollen right side of private skin. Her thin form leaning towards him slowly. Watching the aged gray hair blink almost in shock with her presence. Neither of them had heard her come over. Thin gray hair watching her young feminine figure lean towards the hurting blonde that was hers.
"Ahha" He choked fast at the sudden contact. Blue eyes blinking hard to rid the tears as they rolled cross eyed to look at the closed green eyes and soft heat running against his mouth. Her thin red hair gently kissing him before letting her mouth gap slightly as it pressed into his. Feeling him suck air from around and inside her mouth as he choked his sound. Strong light hands suddenly snapping at her arms, squeezing them tight. Her closed relaxed green eyes frowning ever so slightly as she felt him shaking. Her smooth moist tongue gently running over his lips and the roofs of his teeth as she let it slip into his mouth ever so slightly. Feeling his face continue to shake as the small warm drops of water ran onto her cheeks from his eyes. His breathing running in and out of her as his mouth gapped in a sad smile. His breaths running with no pattern as they sucked and gulped and hiccupped unsteadily. His light, pained, slightly out of focus, wet blue eyes smearing into view as she opened her eyes. Feeling his hands quickly let go of her arms to the sounds of his pants moving. His voice grunting a sharp "Ah" to the small clink sounds of his jeans moving up slowly as he tried to pull them up fast. Her thin face smiling at the heat she felt radiating from his cheeks. Her eyes smiling at him because thought she could not see it, he was blushing. His blue eyes staring at her half an inch away, never blinking or needing to as they were already filled with the deep salty moisture of tears just waiting to fall.
"I have a secret." She whispered slowly, moving his mouth and lips with hers as she exaggerated her movements pressing into him. Making his jaw move as he left it weak and relaxed. "Promise, you will have an answer." She smiled slowly. Feeling the tips of her lips run into his mouth more as her smile pulled them upward. His throat only swallowing slowly as he made a small step forward to her inch backward. Immediately pressing his mouth back into her the small amount they had separated. Her thin hair sighing fast, relieved, happy and upset as his strong familiar hands took hers. Moving in slow shuffles with her towards the clean white bed. Her green eyes running to the corners of her eyes as she pulled him along with her, shifting him to the front of her and walking forward, backing his legs into the bed. Feeling him frown immediately, he didn't want to be back in there. Back under people looking down at him. "Will you answer me?" He felt her giggled question huff into his mouth with sweet breaths of air as she spoke. His throat swallowing hard.
"Ahyes." He grunted his answer back to her feeling her pull back from him. His face moving forward fast, moving back to where it was. *He* didn't want her to see the rest of him. He didn't want to see the rest of him. It was gross, swollen, light.wrong. She smiled as she pulled back from his playing. Watching him only blink slowly to her smiling, standing gingerly in front of her, bed behind him.
"Will you answer me honestly please?" She frowned concerned at him, watching his face slowly regain it's normal tones as the antithetic started pumping through him steadily. Blue eyes regaining the strength and firm air she loved.
"Always." He swallowed hard, trying to get rid of the rough raspy tones that kept coming back into his voice because he was upset earlier. His blue eyes watching her smile before letting it grow warm and natural around her face. Her thin red hair stepping up to him slightly, gently pressing her palms against his chest to ease him back. Watching him make a small ssss of pain as he sat back into the bed for her. Watching her thin fingers trail small groves down his shirt as she let them slide down it slow and gentle. Tickling his chest underneath with her affection. Green eyes looking down at the floor steadying herself for what she was going to say. Blue eyes bracing for what she had to say. For what excuse she was going to give for leaving him for Cameron. Because he was to weak to fight, to stupid to get away, because he was disgusting before, too busy before, always working, always logical, less fun and less action in everyway. No action sexually because he wouldn't let her touch him, wouldn't let her come near him and this was why. Why he was going to loose her in everyway because he was failing in everyway that she needed him. He had failed to provide and hold what little weight he was supposed to carry. "Jim I *love* you." Her green eyes flicked up warmly with her sentence watching him just look at her from where he had been patiently waiting. She would have a good life with Cameron, despite how much of a dick he was he cared about her and would provide for her. Maybe she would have a little girl fir.what? His brain stopped dead, blue eyes casually blinking at her. He had misheard. "Jim?" She frowned slightly, as no reaction came. When no anything came. That was supposed to be big, that was supposed to be significant, at least enough for a grunt damnt. "Jim did you hear what I said to you?" She felt her eyes cringe now, Jim never lied, if he didn't open his mouth and say he loved her back, that meant he didn't and just refused to lie about it. "Jim." She spit his name hard and fast grabbing his shoulder with her hand. Feeling the familiar strong muscles underneath coming back to her with the blue eyes that looked up at her confused. "I.I love you.ok?" She whispered lightly, this was the last try.
He blinked hard, how could he not have failed her? "How do you? How do you love me?" He frowned upset with her, shoving her hand off him as he stood up. Her upset green eyes watching his face pinch with sharp pain as he stood up fast before leaning into his legs slowly. "You.." He trailed, you shouldn't love me, you don't know. She didn't know, know what he really looked like underneath, all the scars he had. She didn't know where he came from, know his parents, how could she love him? His shook his head no, watching her glare up at him horrified. His mouth opening to tell her all these things. To tell her how badly she was wrong, just as he had when she said she wanted to marry him when she was seven. "Ah please love me." He choked fast, blue eyes blinking. That wasn't what he planned on saying.
"I do damnt." She whispered back, staring up at him confused. Her heart slamming in her chest, this had to be love. Why else would she have been dying to kill every cop in that room when she found them. Be dying to shot Cameron right in the head for ever doing this to her. And it was to her, deliberately to crush Jim and win her. "I love you. I have always loved you." She smiled warmly at him, feeling his strong hand just run up her face gently. Blue eyes looking at her as if she were an angel, thin red hair and beautiful green eyes staring up at him in a white spaghetti strap dress and white sneakers. "I've loved you for so long Jim." She choked her words out this time, fighting back tears. "If you.if you weren't such a stubborn butt you would have known thaaat." She tried not to whine her last sentence. Familiar tones from her aunt bleeding into her words as she looked at the blonde hair taller then her since she could remember, that she loved since she could remember. Even though he locked her in a closet for five hours once, and chased her with that ugly ugly bug he found. And threw lizards at her, and spit at her ,and laughed at her and tripped her, and kicked her out of his room ,and held her toys above his head so she couldn't reach them.
She loved him, since she could remember, since she knew what it was, since she first started watching his butt and recognizing his smell, because he was hers, since and.since and always.
You Were Never What I Thought
DivineAngel
She walked in fast. She wanted to get in. Everyone gave her a different story, a separate comment as a reason she shouldn't go in. Everything will be fine. Everything is fine. There is nothing to worry about. There may be a serious problem. You should let him rest. You should talk to him. Who were these people she kept listening to? These people that confused her out of her mind and took every decision she turned over and over in her head. The one she finally decided was right and what she should do, and smashed it up with their comments of self opinion, of rumor, of assumption. People who looked weird, who came from trashy places, guttered places, classy places. Unfamiliar faces who came to say small things to the outlaw or give a report on what they could do to help and how they'd lend some money if business slowed for any reason..for any reason...Why did they bother to lie? When they knew the reason, when she knew the reason.
When she stood, wide hurt green eyes two feet from the door she had just come in. Watching the blonde hair lean into the wall, tightly gripping the shoulders of the thin worn gray hair. Who blocked everything from his upper chest down as she stood crouching in front of him. Doing something that would hurt now as much as it would help later. Blue eyes jammed closed, grit teeth tilting back into the wall, breathing through hard fast grunts and breaths. Legs separated slightly for the experienced understanding hands who knew him for twelve years. Who he trusted and separated from everyone else there as the only one he would allow anywhere near him as long as there was anyway to move or fight under his own power.
This was the reason. Why should they lie about it? She had made up her mind. Despite the comments and expressions she had just gotten she had made up her mind she was not going to ignore this. Not let Jim weasel his way out of this by being smart or cute or sweet with her. This was not a dirty little secret, and she wasn't going to play like it was. Whether he liked it or not, adapted or didn't, he was going to have to live with this cause she wasn't leaving. Not now, cause she had known him for twelve years too. Now it was too damn bad if he didn't want to deal with the fact *she* had decided without him. That *she* was going to deal with it because she would be damned if she gave up on him now. Not now.
__*~*~*~INTO THE PAST~*~*~*__
Her frowned watching Iris's happy face as she opened the door as she saw him coming back. "So?" She smiled "How did it go huh?" She frowned as he pushed back into the warehouse. He had only been gone for some twenty minutes. His scarred hand shoving Jim in. Irritated blue eyes just ignoring him from underneath the seven year old patch of blonde hair.
"It was a god damn bust Iris." He growled heading for the kitchen, frowning blue eyes flicking up to watch him go. "Genius here lost his intercom and I didn't have any back up." He growled, Daniella's thin red hair move out of his way as he stomped by her.
"Gene! It's too small! I told you I can't hold it!" His eyes snapped a squint at Jim's snap that started following him. Pushing right into the kitchen to argue with him. "Why don't you try holding yours huh?!" The blue eyes frowned at him as he turned around.
"Because *mine* is in my *ear* where it goes!" He was yelling, scarred hand pulling a small wad of cash out of their bread box.
"Yeah." the blonde hair grunted at him, sly blue eyes giving him a look.
"How much money you got?" He shot a glance at the blonde as he pushed some of the money back into the bread box; but it was long enough to see the small arms drop from the light chest with a fast frown.
"AhWhat Gene?!" the blue eyes snapped at him, shoving him hard as he glared.
"You lost it, you'll help pay for it damnt! Now how much!?" He growled watching the light face give him a sour look as the light hand dug into the baggy pocket of its pants shoving crumpled bills at him. "30 Wong!?" He flashed a skeptical glance. "That's it!"
"Shut up! This never would have happened if you had stuck to the original plan and waited for the *loser* to come to you!" the blue eyes growled at him as he simply frowned exhuasted.
"...No, this never would have happened if *you* hadn't lost your intercom and could hear the new plan." His dark eyes growled down, slamming the bread box closed.
"I told you I can't hang onto it cause it's the size of a pea!" The growled words snapped at his hand to snap a five back. Blue eyes giving him a dirty look as he yanked his hand away with a sharp glare.
"What!? You got little fingers like toothpicks! You should be able to hold it fine!" He chuckled his retort as Jim started storming for the living room.
"You such a loser Gene!" The Wong that slid into his pocket went in under the grin on his face. His strong form taking a moment to sigh before casually following.
"Yeah right. I'll remember that." Sighing his words out with a sly grunt as he continued past the blue glare. Strong firm walk ignoring the hurt blue eyes sitting on the bottom of the stairs glaring at him as he opened the front door and left.
"...LOSER!" His sudden loud scream made Iris jump, and his eyes snapped at her as the first thing to move. Silently staring at her from where he had quickly stood up with his scream. Nothing but his small wife beater and loose jean shorts growling that Gene had just left him behind becuase he messed up.
"Shut up!" He snapped over at Daniella who suddenly sat up on the couch looking at him. Her thin face smiling brightly, watching him frown as she giggled flicking off the tv. Green eyes glancing for her aunt who was already back in the kitchen, focusing hard on trying to make some kinda food she couldn't pronounce. Blue eyes watching her walk towards him. Green eyes watching him harden. Face and body as if she would shove him when she got there, before blinking. Blue eyes watching her walk past, small pink skirt and white tank top heading up the stairs.
"Stay out of my room." He growled at her as she turned around smiling at him.
"Gene said I could go in." She giggled teasing him.
"I don't care." He frowned quickly starting up after her, moving faster as she started bolting for his bedroom. Giggling as he growled hard, bolting after her before stopping as she ran past the bedroom doorway. Turning around to him watching him just frown. She was playing.
"Will you play with me?" She smiled watching him just do a fast hard sigh as he walked into the bedroom, green eyes watching him go. "Jim come ooon I am boored." She frowned leaning into the doorway as she watched him climb onto the king sized bed. Blonde hair flopping into the sheets exhausted and irritated as he stared at the ceiling.
"What." He spit flat and mad. Maybe if she had something fun to play he would. Maybe. "What is that?" He sighed, looking at the book she held. She didn't look like she was going anywhere.
"It's the Webster's Pocket Medical and First Aid Dictionary." He frowned at her, watching her green eyes appear along side of him as she climbed onto the bed. "Play with me." She shot a frown with her order, jumping as he yanked the book from her sitting up. Blue eyes flipping through it before moving slower running through pages "What are you looking for?" She frowned watching him ignore her. "Does this mean your gonna play Jim?" She smiled.
"No" She frowned. "Hey!" She yanked the book from him.
"You can't look at it if you won't play with me." Her frown watching him just sigh heavily before his face brightened.
"Fine. What do I do?" He frowned as he laid back to her small hand pushing against his shoulder.
She smiled "Your going to be my patient. I am the doctor and you got hit by a truck." She watched him laugh at her as she opened the small book.
"I would be dead." He grinned.
"Shhh!" She snapped at him, smiling. "You can't talk." She giggled. Thin hands pretending to put a stethoscope into her ear before leaning down and pressing her ear into his chest.
He frowned immediately, blue eyes glaring at her as she listened to his heart beat. "Get off me!" He growled fast, uneasy. Watching her sit up smiling at him.
"I could hear your heart in there." She smiled as he shot her a -no you think?- expression. Watching her squint annoyed in responce before straightening up to give her diagnoses as he opened the small book. "OH cause I am the doctor it seems my patient has smallpox, a highly conta-g- ious viral disease cate-go-rized by high fever and.red spots." She trailed lightly green eyes frowning as she read into the random page she had opened. "Eww Jim your gross" She frowned as she read how the spots would turn into boils on his body. New patient!" She giggled standing up as he grinned. Blonde hair grabbing her book as she walked over to the pillow and shoved it onto the bed. Glancing up for him to read his diagnosis.
"This patient has ep-il-ep-sy, a neurological disorder!" He laughed, you couldn't get that if you were hit by a truck.
"Oh no." He frowned as she shoved him fast, snapping the book from him. "What do we do doctor?" She giggled flipping through the small pages. Green eyes glancing up as he stood.
He grinned kicking the pillow off the bed. "Our patient has died" Blue color grinning down at her baffled green eyes that leaned over the edge to look at the pillow on the floor.
"Jim!" She frowned slightly. "You killed the patient!" She smiled watching him shrug.
"That's cause I am not a good doctor." He chuckled, watching her stand up grabbing a pillow.
"Good thing I am not a doctor either. I was really a cop all along and now I am gonna hall your butt down to the hanger for murder!" She laughed watching him frown as she hit him with the pillow. Blonde hair growling at her.
"Cheater!" He frowned at her as she drug his pillow back across the bed for the other one. "That's mine Daniella, give it to me!" He growled reaching for it. Watching her stop momentarily. Green eyes listening to Iris call up -she was running out for Chime spice!-
"Okaaay!" She smiled calling back to her aunt as the backdoor shut. "What's a chime mice?"
He frowned, duh everyone knew that. "Those things that blow in the wind and make music." She giggled suddenly, oh yeah, wind chimes.
"Oh yeah, I knew." She smiled at him, watching him yank the pillow from her. "You know how to play cops and robbers?" She watched him sigh heavily as he started back for the top of the bed. Shaking his head no as he turned back around dropping the pillow where it belonged. She just raised her eyebrows at him.
"No. That sounds dumb." She frowned slightly.
"Alright, I am gonna be the cop and your gonna be the robber." She giggled suddenly hopping off the bed. Watching his blue eyes frown as she opened the closet. "Come on you have to look like a robber." She frowned as his baffled light face just moved his arms out. Giving her a look like -this isn't enough?- "No. Now I gotta look more like a cop so what do you have?" She giggled moving into their closet.
"Hey!" He snapped, green eyes turning back around to look at him as he hopped off the bed. Shoving her away from the closet before shutting the doors. "Come on." He sighed lightly. "We can play downstairs I don't want to do." He frowned slightly at the sound of his name being yelled up from downstairs.
"Jim!" His expression slumped. How was it he always seemed to come back to an empty joint? His dark eyes sinking to a -figures- expression before glancing up as the bedroom door opened. Blonde and thin red hair coming out to the banister looking at him. "Hey you, come down here." He grinned lightly, he didn't want to scare the blue eyes away before he got to give him the new intercom.
He grinned watching the loose jean shorts and white wife beater just come down the stairs, green eyes following him. "My aunt went out to buy wind chimes." She smiled, watching the familiar scarred face jam to a baffled expression.
"Wind chimes?" He frowned, starting for the kitchen. "Jim go get me a size 9c nail." He flashed the blonde hair a lop sided grin.
"Gene...What do you need it for?" the blue eyes frowned confused stumbling lightly as Daniella shoved past them into the kitchen talking.
"I don't know why she wanted to buy them. She just said she was so I said ok." Her thin read hair smiled, sitting down at the kitchen table. Dark eyes listening to her before glancing back at the blonde.
"Just go get it." He grinned watching Jim give him a dull look before starting for the garage. "Danny?" She glanced over at him. "You got pierced ears?" He chuckled watching her smile. Thin hand pulling her ear lobs lightly. Tugging the small holes in each one so he could see them. "Yeah." He grinned, scarred form twisting the stove knob and kicking it through the clicking the burner made watching it light up. Her soft giggling laughing at him as the garage door shut to the blonde coming back in. "When did you have them pierced?" He flashed her another grin.
"When I was an infant. My mom had them done." She watched him raise his eyebrows, congratulating her soft smile.
"Nice." He smiled as Jim came back in handing him the nail.
"I still don't see what your going to do with *one* nail Gene." the blonde hair snickered slouching into the small kitchen table watching.
"Your right." He grinned. "Go get me another." He chuckled watching the blonde hair frown at him as it sat straight up fast.
"Whaat?" the light face whined watching the unruly hair nod towards the garage again. Dark eyes grinning hard as the blonde hair got back up annoyed. Stomping past Daniella towards the kitchen doorway and garage. Deep chuckling watching him go as he let the small nail sit protruding into the hot burner. Slowly heating up.
"What are you gonna do with them Gene?" His dark eyes glanced back looking at her thin small face.
"Do you know if piercing your ears hurts?" He flashed her a lop sided grin watching her shake her head no. She was an infant, she couldn't remember. "It does." He grinned at her, scarred hand pointing to the small hole and intercom in his ear. "A lot because of our gravity here." He frowned watching her green eyes flash a concerned expression at him. "I did this myself, and now I am gonna do Jim's too." His dark eyes looked back down at the stove and heating nail as his finger dropped from his ear.
"No Gene." He glanced back at her quick plea not to. "That will hurt him." She frowned concerned, small pink skirt getting out of the chair, watching him just look at her.
"I know." He sighed heavily. "But I need this in his ear Daniella." He sent a soft frown directly into her eyes, telling her straight. "So when he finds out this is what I am doing. You can't help him fight me alright?" He watched her frown upset as he raised his eyebrows. "Just tell him." he trailed lightly shrugging. "Tell him it's brave or something like that." He chuckled silencing as the garage door shut as Jim came back in. Strong sly expression running over his face as he watched her blink upset, slowly sitting down.
"Gene I am not getting anymore." His blue eyes frowned as they came back in. Handing Gene the other nail that wasn't needed. Gene only needed one hole for the intercom, if Jim wanted another one later he could do it himself. "You should have just got the box if you needed some." He sighed annoyed, blue eyes slouching into the kitchen table before glancing up at the soft green eyes staring at him. "What's wrong with you?" He frowned, grinning slightly at her worried expression. "Daniella?" He laughed.
"Hey Jim?" He grinned watching the blue eyes turn to look at him. "We got anything about this thick around here?" He smiled watching the blue eyes flash him a baffled -what are you an idiot?- expression as he separated his scarred hands about the width of a decent text book.
"What Gene?" the blue eyes sighed exhausted with these dumb games. "I don't know." His blue eyes frowned watching Gene just grin at him.
"Well go get." He trailed, dark eyes falling on the thick hard telephone book. "Never mind" He grinned listening to the small irritated -what the hell are you doing?- growl.
"Gene?...I said what are you doing?" the blue eyes frowned watching the scarred face just sigh. Leaning into the stove arms crossed over the strong chest.
"Jim, how'd you like to have your ear pierced." He grinned lightly watching the blue eyes do a small blink, caught off guard with the question.
"Huh? Well." The blue eyes trailed lightly watching the scarred fingers fiddle with the scarred ear, pulling out the small intercom. "See?" He grinned watching the blue eyes focus in on the small hole in his ear. The ones he made himself with the specially thin, hard and sharp 9c nails. "You want one?" He grinned strong, watching the blue eyes glance away thinking to the small -well... -that trailed. "Danny's got some." He grinned watching the blue eyes look back at him. As he motioned towards Daniella who moced letting Jim see the small holes in her ears. "Your the only one without any." He chuckled watching the blonde hair stand up. Moving closer to Daniella before gently grasping her ear. His dark eyes grinning to the small feminine -ow!- before the light skin and wife beater stepped back to her shove. "Well?" he cocked an eyebrow at the blonde hair who seemed reluctant. Blue eyes turning back to look at him before running over what was behind him. The small thin 9c nails now cooling off on the stove so they would be clean and not get his ear infected.
"No." the blonde hair shook no watching the him just shoot a flat expression. "I don't want one."
"Ah come on Jim what's the big deal?" He shrugged lightly keeping his grin. Talking Jim into this would be the easiest way to get it done. "You don't think you can handle it?" He cocked an eyebrow at the blonde hair studying him over the frowning blue eyes.
"Gene! I just don't *want* one." the blue eyes frowned harder before looking towards the ground as he gave it a -don't be a wimp- look. "Ok maybe.just.yeah maybe."
He grinned at the small mumbles. "Maybe?" Cocking an eyebrow at the nodding blonde hair that looked up at him. "Maybe like tomorrow?" The light face relaxed some as it nodded. "Well...what's different about today?" He grinned watching the blue eyes take a step back at his tone.
"If I say you can't you better listen Gene!" The blue eyes suddenly frowned upset. Already catching all the hints Gene looked like he was just biding his time.
"Aaa" The scarred face growled at him watching him back up a little more. Daniella's concerned green eyes watching all of this from where she sat behind them. "Fine." He growled watching the blonde hair quickly lick it's lips. Standing light, ready to run. "Daniella did Iris say when she's coming back?" He frowned at the soft red hair that switched her gaze back to him from where she had been watching the blonde hair.
"Um.." She trailed before swallowing. "No but-"
"-How long does it take to buy wind chimes right?" He flashed a grin watching her nod. Not that long, he didn't want Iris here when he did it. Come to think of it, maybe Danny was why Jim was so reluctant. "Alright come here." He sighed heavily beckoning for the blonde hair to come to him. Blue eyes snapping a hard defensive growl. "Come on no games blast it." He frowned watching the blue eyes glare at him hard as they came forward. Keeping space between them.
"Ah!" the light skin jumped as he yanked it over fast before releasing his grip. Watching the blonde hair panic for a second before growling irritated it had gotten scared.
"Why don't you want this?" He frowned slightly, whispering down to the blonde hair that stood next to him in front of the stove. "Just let me pierce your ear." He grinned nudging the small wife beater that looked up at him stressed.
"Gene I don't want you to do anything to my ears!" The blue eyes frowned up through the irritated whisper. "They're mine! I said no." The blue eyes scowled at how dumb all this sounded but it's what he meant.
"Yeah sure." He spit his words with a growl before relaxing. "You think you could take it?" He glanced down at the blonde hair. Watching it look up at him slightly from where they both stood, speaking directly ahead rather then keeping eye contact. "Huh?" He nudged the light arm, watching it shrug. "It stings." He softened his expression watching the small face grimace.
"Gene." the light face swallowed rephrasing "How much does it, well like what does feel-"
"-It stings pretty bad." He shrugged lightly. "Would you want Danniella here?" He glanced down at the blonde hair watching the blue eyes try and sneak a look back at her.
She was watching them, green eyes silently wishing Aunt Iris never left cause she forgot how scary they got sometimes. Idiot boys, Iris was right. She frowned slightly watching the unruly color nudge the blonde hair that seemed upset to her.
"Hey you gonna answer me at all?" He frowned looking down at the blonde that had fallen completely silent for the last three questions. Blue eyes glancing back at Daniella again. He didn't want her there if he couldn't take it. Gene said it hurt. Gene didn't usually say stuff like that, so it must.hurt a lot. She shouldn't be there if he started to cry, if he couldn't take it. "Hey?" the scarred elbow cut into his thoughts as it nudged him, watching him look up. "We're going to do this pretty fast alright?" He grinned down at the overloaded stressed expression. "I am going to take this nail cause it's clean and we're just going to make a small hole right into your ear." He shrugged casually watching Jim nod unsteadily before he frowned. Watching the blue eyes glance at the door, his scarred hand snapping for the small wife beater, missing it by a hair as it bolted from him. "Hey!" He snapped scarred chest bolting after the thin blonde tearing for the door.
"ARRH!" The light skin growled at him as he caught it by the arm. Her thin red hair hopping out of her chair, running to the kitchen doorway and stopping. Watching the blonde hair spin around and bite the scarred hand grabbing it before tearing for the front door as it let go. She blinked hard.
"Ahh stupid wind chimes!" She screamed her concern but they couldn't hear her. Small wife beater sending pillows at the unruly color coming for it before bolting over the back of the couch.
"Ah!" The blue eyes closed as they hit the ground. Scarred hand catching the back of its pants as it hopped over the blue couch apulstry, causing the blonde to trip. Hard floor smacking against the back of the light skin suddenly, knocking the wind out.
"Idiot." His dark eyes frowned down at the light face that suddenly sucked in air as if it had been drowning. Blue eyes blinking hard as his scarred hands yanked it up fast. Letting Jim stand coughing for a second.
Thin light arms hugging the small chest as it gagged. His scarred arm rapping under the light elbows and yanking the blonde hair off its feet as he started heading for the kitchen. "Don't help." He frowned at her thin red hair as he walked by, listening to her quickly follow him.
"Ah." the light face choked a small sound as it finally started getting voice back. Small legs starting to activate, kicking. "Ah Gene! I said NO! I don't waaant one!" The light face growled at him as he snatched the small nail off the stove. Flinching lightly as it burn him, the damn things were still hot. "GEEENE!" the light weight in his arms was fighting strong now. Smaller back arching to the fast kicking, hands and arms caught under his unable to fight and get free.
"Shut up." He growled moving the nail around in his fingers so he would have it just right. Strong scarred form moving towards the kitchen table before swinging the loose jean shorts and wife beater onto the top of it. Watching the blonde hair sit up immediately to get off before slamming back down to the strength of his scarred hand. "Cut it out!" He growled, yelling over the grunting and fighting strains the blonde hair made. Panicked blue eyes suddenly looking dead at him as he moved the small body. Swinging it fast, small legs separating to either side of his waste as he pulled the figure down to him. Holding the Jim to lie directly under his chest as he leaned onto the table slighlty. Moving the strong phonebook over and placing it against the side of the blonde hair so he could move the small ear lobe ontop of it and have a nice back when he plunged the nail in.
"Gene! Stop don't! DON'T! Stooop it! Geeeene!" the light legs kicked screaming at him but they were next to useless. Caught on either side of his strong body as he leaned into the table top holding the small arching back down as it repeatedly tried to get up.
"Alright! SHUT UP!" He yelled watching the screaming stop for a moment to listen to him. Blue eyes blinking from where they were welling with tears of stress and frustrated defeat. Gene wasn't listening to him..just...overpowering him. "Don't move your head unless you want me to miss." He growled down at the blonde hair as he moved it. Brushing its hair back from the light ear. "Danny get me some paper towel." He barked his order hard, hearing a small, little girl squeak of alarmed surprise quickly move towards their cabinet before he looked down at the panicking blonde hair underneath him. Breathing fast through it's mouth as the upset blue eyes just watching him. "It's going to hurt but it's nothing you can't handle." His dark eyes frowned as they caught the innocently scared expression looking up at him. The small throat swallowing at his command. Dark eyes glancing up at the thin hand offering him some paper towel. "Sit that there." He grinned slightly, watching her sit the paper towel down as the small light hands stopped trying to shove him off. Slowly grabbing onto his red shirt as the light skin braced. "Daniella can you do me a big favor?" He flashed her a strong grin as he looked up. Watching her panicked green eyes just nod fast. "When I say, your going to count to sixty, real evenly alright?" He grinned to reassure her as he spoke watching her nod. Dark eyes remaining on her as he felt the small light chest shake slowly, starting to cave under the pressure and anticipation something sharp and hot was going to stab a hole threw part of its body, and though Gene hadn't said anything it was going to bleed enough for him to remember he wanted paper towels near by. "Yeah? You can do that?" He grinned at her watching her nod, blue eyes darting to the side slightly. Straining to see the thin red hair from where the scarred hands held its head on either side, keeping it still. Small light chest shaking under his as he looked back down, thin feminine girl hand running up his scarred arm slightly. Looking for the blonde hair. He grinned feeling it disappear before the small -Ow Jim, not so hard- whisphered next to him as Jim's small hand dropped his shirt and snapped at her hand instead. Blue eyes closing hard as he watched the small teeth grit to the feeling its earlobe gently pulling over the phone book as he steadied the nail over it. "You got this right Jim?" He grinned watching the small face nod ever so slightly. "Not scared huh? He chuckled before glancing at the green eyes. "What's that?" He frowned slightly shifting his gaze to the cabinets behind her. Watching her turn to look at them confused as he looked down. Pulling the nail back now that Daniella was distracted. -She shouldn't have to see that go in- Jamming it down with as much strength as he could in such a small spot.
"Ahh!" the light face screamed fast. Closed blue eyes jamming harder as the small body moved, arching it's back with the pain to get away. "Ahhhaaa that's hot Geeene! AH!" the small face screamed at him as he felt the small form pressing up from where it was under him, trying to get away even through it was now bolted to the phone book.
"Count Danny!" He snapped fast feeling the blonde hair squirm under him to the soft feminine voice that slowly started counting to his right. Dark eyes glaring down at the blue eyes cringing through the stinging pain cutting it. His scarred face frowning harder at the small amount of blood trickling onto the phone book as the light hands yanked at his shirt and chest. But the nail had to stay in for a few seconds, sixty seconds to make a good hole.
"Ahhah! OK! AHHGET IT OOOut! GEEENE!"
He frowned, dark eyes looking down glancing at the wide horrified green eyes to his side slowly counting.
"Sixty! Sixty Geeene!" She whined, his dark eyes glancing back to the sudden pink skirt hopping on his side as he gently pushed the small swollen and bloody ear lob down before yanking the nail out.
"AH!" the light face screamed as it disappeared. Wincing and shaking to the hard paper towel suddenly running around its ear as the strong force pressing it to the table started disappearing. Blonde hair slowly sitting up, struggling to hold the paper towel to itself as the wild blue eyes cringed to the blood smearing over the light hands.
"Gene!" He jumped lightly at the high pitched squeaky feminine cry from behind him as the garage door slammed. "What the hell did you do to him you animal!?" she frowned quickly rushing past her upset niece towards the crying bleeding blonde hair teetering on the edge of the kitchen table in front of the scarred chest. "Jimmy." She whined moving forward to the hiccupping blonde hair that cried more so upset then hurt. Mad and scared Gene had chased him down to jab him with a nail and now concerned with all the blood and horrific stinging and burning that seemed to over take the side of his head.
"Ah come on Iris all I did was pierce his ear." He groaned, pulling the blonde hair into his chest and moving it towards the counter. Scarred hands slowly letting the weight lower in his arms until the blonde hair was standing, leaning into the kitchen sink. "Keep you head there ok?" Her soft navy eyes watched Gene lean to the side to get a look at the light face before backing up as the small hand tried to shove him fast. Crying blue eyes growling mad at him as they flicked up, watching the scarred features only flash a dull flat expression. "Yeah fine." He grunted turning to look up at the frowning navy color staring at him concerned.
"Gene I can't believe you poked a hole in him with a nail!" He frowned at her squeaky whining as she shook the bloody nail at him. Watching his scarred hand just take it and flick it into the trash casually before looking back at her with a sigh. "On the kitchen table too!" She frowned at him. "I can't believe you two!" She watched him grin at her cute frowny face as she whined at him. Thin red hair standing behind her silently. Small upset green eyes hugging the small book as she watched the blonde hair lean into the sink. Blue eyes silently crying upset as they watched their blood trickle down the drain in a small thin red line. "Come on sweetie." He frowned watching Iris bend down to the blue eyes crying into the silver square and drain. Lightly grasping the thin shoulders as the small shaky light hand moved the piece of stained paper towel back to its ear. His dark eyes frowning as the light hand sent him a hard shove before continuing to walk past him. Towards the stairs with Iris saying something.
"Geez." He growled annoyed, glaring at where Jim and Iris had just disappeared around the corner. Scarred features smirking annoyed before looking down at the thin red hair still watching him. Green upset eyes looking up at him, the rough dark man she had known for so long. Who had just pinned Jim to a table and cut him so he was bleeding. He frowned watching her step back lightly as she continued studying him before offering a small sweet smile. Green eyes smiling at him lightly before holding out the small book she had started hugging when the whole mess started.
"Gene I think that you should keep this." He frowned slightly looking down at it.
"Yeah, what is it?" He flashed a baffled face taking it from her as he leaned back into the kitchen table.
"It's the Webster's Pocket and Medical First Aid dictionary." She smiled "I found it, but it looks like you need it." He groaned.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Come on Jim it's ok sweetie." She frowned upset watching his small, skinny form trudge into the bathroom from where he was walking in front of her. Hidden light face leaning into the sink immediately as the light hands moved the small piece of paper towel. "Gene pierced your ear?" She frowned moving next to the small face sniffling into the white porcelain and gray drain. Her thin soft hands gently moving his hair to look at the bloody hole. "Pretty lucky I know how to fix this.huh?" She watched his blue eyes look up at her as she smiled at him. Gently rubbing his back before standing up and opening the medicine cabinet.
His blue eyes listening to her move things above him as he looked down at the small red line moving towards the drain. His blood leaking into the sink before quickly sliding in as the salt water of his tears helped it along. Gene didn't listen to him, Gene didn't listen to anything he said! He made him, made him when he said no! It wasn't important if he had the damn intercom or not! "I hate it! HATE IT! Ahaa."
Her navy eyes jumped at the sudden scream into the sink before the small sob. "Huh?" She squeaked lightly looking down, bringing the small q-tip with her.
"Geene didn't, I Told him I DIDN'T WANT IT!" He screamed into the sink again, stepping back as she gently guided him. "Ahha." Soft navy eyes watching him jump as she pressed the alcohol soaked q-tip against his ear. His blue eyes closing as he moved. Squeezing the side of the sink and fidgeting as he growled out hard pain as she moved the soft stinging cotton of alcohal the best she could into the new hole. "AHha ok Iriiis." Her frowning focused navy eyes switched to his face as he groaned at her. The soft alcohal q-tip dropping slightly before she tossed it into the trash. Watching him flinch a "Aha" as she ran her thumb and pointer finger over his ear lob gently squeezing it before tightening and squeezing as hard as she could. "Ahha Iriiiis!" the light hands shoved at her suddenly "Stooop that whaat are you dooing!?" The blue eyes cried, one hand gently tugging at her wrist as she squeezed hard. Watching the skin around her fingertips whiten to the pressure before she let go. His skinny form leaning back into the wall whining to keep from sobbing before glancing up with her to the open doorway as the unruly red hair came in.
"Gene" she frowned at him watching just growl at her.
"Get out! GET OUT GENE!" the blonde hair moved fast, quickly steeping forward and shoving the unruly color away. "Get out of my sight! You! I! ARRH!" the light face growled at him, furious with the dark eyes that just watched. "Stupid looser! Piece of shiiitAh" the light face sobbed again backing into the wall as Iris's smooth hand pushed him gently. Dark eyes still frowning down at the blonde hair that had gotten more upset then he imagined-but the kid had felt pain like that before. So what was the problem?
He frowned, dark eyes snapping at her upset navy color as she slowly took the small intercom from him. Not saying a word. Neither admitting or denying she approved, or liked any of the situation as she backed towards the sink again. Slowly rubbing the small blue circle with alcohol to clean it before bending down to the blonde hair silently standing. Soft thin hands gently guiding the small upset chin towards her, watching the wet blue eyes move to the side. "Ahha" flinching heavily as she slid the small intercom into the small red hole that had since she squeezed it reduced in blood dramatically.
"Gene." He looked at the blue eyes that suddenly shot his name at him. "Get out of my way." the small light hand shoved him as it stomped past towards the bedroom. Startling Daniella who had been silently lingering in the hall concerned for the bleeding mess of blonde hair she had grown fond of. "Come on." She squeaked as he yanked her. Strong light hand grabbing hers and pulling her into the bedroom with him. Sniffling blue eyes cramming stuff into a small bag fast before looking at her. "Can I-"
"-Are you sleeping over with me?" She frowned watching him suddenly grin. Clear tears running down his face stopping lightly as his skin moved, smiling. His light hands snapping to his face, wiping them off quickly before zipping his book bag up and stomping towards the hall. Blue eyes snapping a hard glare at he unruly color lazily watching, though slightly interested to see where in the world the blonde hair thought it was going.
Iris's slightly concerned navy blue eyes moving along side of him as he watched Jim growl down the stairs. Yanking Daniella along before disappearing into the garage.
"Jim where are? Are you coming home with me?" She frowned, watching his blonde hair yank open Iris's car door and throw his bag in. Upset blue eyes ignoring her comment as his hand yanked her forward, shoving her in before getting in and slamming the door behind them. "Can you drive Jim?" She frowned slightly, watching his upset face just look down.
Blonde hair shaking no fast but not looking up at her. Blue eyes focusing in on their fingers and hands that slightly fidgeted before looking up at the garage door that hadn't moved. "I don't want to stay with Gene tonight." He growled feeling her shift her weight from where she sat. Moving to buckle up as she pushed his bag to the floor before looking back up at him.
Blonde hair still sitting just as he was, not moving to the occasional hard sniffles and light hands wiping tears off his face. "I am *not* crying cause it hurts." He growled his words at her, blue eyes snapping at her with his frown. "I am not crying." He frowned hard as the small tears rolled down his face, her thin light skin just nodding slowly at him.
"I didn't say you were." She shook her head no fast watching him do a hard good nod as he looked away. "Did that hurt...a lot Jim?" She watched the blue color try and sneak a look at her, catching sight of her concerned green eyes.
"Stuff doesn't hurt as much when...well it would have hurt you more than, it hurts me cause it's different." He watched her frown confused with his answer. "It's just...there's a difference cause your a girl so it hurts you more and boys are stronger..so it doesn't, can't let it...show...so it's different." The blue eyes looked back down at its hands again.
"If it hurt you enough to cry how much would it have hurt me?" She frowned concerned, watching him grit his teeth annoyed.
"I am NOT crying!" She frowned at his fast growl and yell.
"Don't yell at me!" Leaning closer to him to yell back, he growled. Blonde hair slumping back into his seat upset.
"I didn't. You yelled at me." He scowled, blue eyes closing as he let out a shaky sigh. Rubbing more tears off his face as he glanced up to the opening garage door. Watching Iris's thin form come out before closing the door behind her. Silent feminine blonde hair moving around the car before getting in and sliding in the key. Soft navy blue eyes sitting perfectly still for a moment before turning around and looking at them.
"...........Ok." she squeaked lightly to a shrug twisting the key. Soft hand shifting the car into drive as the headlights turned on. Small feminine sandal pressing onto the gas.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Hey wake up back there." She smiled turning around to look at the awake blonde hair watching Daniella sleep, leaning into his shoulder slightly. "Come on you two, Iris is going to bed with or without you and it has to be with cause I don't want any noise." She squeaked her giggle as she got out. Watching the back door open to the blonde hair climbing out before the thin red hair followed him. Her navy eyes frowning slightly as she opened the door to the small place she was sharing with May. It wasn't like she had any extra bedrooms. She frowned turning around to look at Daniella who normally slept with her before watching Jim come in. "Hmm." The blue and green eyes looked up at her small thinking hum. She couldn't put him on the couch cause who knew what May would come home doing. She didn't have any extra cots so...and she couldn't send him to sleep with May cause he didn't know her.
"Aunt Iris?" Daniella frowned as she just stood there motionless thinking.
"Jim you have a few choices as to how you can sleep here on such short notice." She frowned watching him look down upset he *was* sleeping there. "You can sleep on the floor in my room, cause Danny and I get the bed, you can sleep on the bathroom, or upstairs hall floor...or you can talk Danny into sleeping with you and I'll share a bed with May. Or you can sleep with me and Dan can share with May." She shrugged lightly turning around for the kitchen. "Got five minutes!" She giggled back at the frowning blue eyes watching her go before looking back down at the floor. None of those sounded good.
"Do you want to sleep with my aunt? I don't mind May." The green eyes smiled at him as he glanced up to her voice. Green eyes watching his unsure expression shift his weight. No he didn't want to sleep with Iris, that didn't sound good. His blue eyes closed recalling Gene's words about sleeping with Iris and something about how good she looked without a bra and then something about candy between her legs.
"No." The green eyes frowned slightly at his fast snap and small shudder.
"Your gonna sleep on the floor?" She scrunched her nose at him watching him just make a not to happy expression that was leaning towards a- looks like I am gonna half to- "Jim?" She frowned suddenly. "I'll make a deal with you ok?" She watched him look at her from under his blonde hair. "You say you'll play with me five times I wanna and I'll bunk with you." She smiled watching his thin mouth just open slightly looking around as if trying to find other options. He didn't want to share with her either. "Come on!" She frowned her fast snap at him. "I want to go to sleep and your the one making it difficult so say you'll play with me!" He nodded fast, temporarily to preoccupied with home to argue with her fast snapping. "Yeah five times?" She smiled suddenly, skeptically asking again to make sure.
"Yeah, yes I want to...Danny shut up I am tired!" He snapped at her suddenly, trailing as he lost thought of what was going on before frowning. He did know she was still talking and looking at him, and that was enough.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
He frowned, small glass eyes of the fluffy, white, stuffed, kitty shining in the small amount of light coming in from the window. Almost making them look like they were glowing, it was freaky. "Move your damn cat!" He growled sitting up fast. Blonde hair running back into his face as he sat up on his side of the queen bed. Shoving her cat away fast towards where she was sleeping on her side separated from him by a small thin pink pillow.
"Don't shove it!" She frowned at him hugging that cat over to her as he frowned. "Your just mad you don't have any kitties." She frowned sticking her tongue at him as he laid down. Blue eyes rolling to look away from her in his shirt and boxers. Green eyes giggling at his response from where she was in a loose white t-shirt and pink shorts, It was warm, any blankets they would need were down by there feet. "Jim?" she smiled watching his blonde hair move, trying to block more of her voice.
"Danny? What time do you think Iris will make me go tomorrow?" He frowned, rolling onto his back to look at her from above she was on her side facing him, hugging the soft white cat.
"Iris said she had to go to the bar early tomorrow mourning, so maybe eightish or nineish or tenish...something ish." She shrugged smiling at him. "Why do you wanna know?" The soft frown watching him just look at the ceiling as he listened to her.
"I didn't want Gene to be there when I got back." He frowned as she listened. Gene was probably going to be mad at him, and thought he wouldn't say anything direct or yell he would probably slam some stuff around or mention mean stuff. "I don't wanna talk to him." He frowned glancing at her.
"Cause he poked you?" she raised her eyebrows with her question, watching him frown hard at her word choice.
"No." He spit sourly. "Cause he didn't listen to me." he scowled .
"You don't listen to me." She smiled at him watching him shake his head no.
"That's different." He sighed matter o'factly.
"How is that different? If I tell you I don't want any lizard on me then I don't want the lizard on me!" she growled at him, sitting up to look at his frowning eyes that were slowly starting to grin. Remembering that, the lizard was cool. There was no reason why she should miss out on getting to hold it just cause she was being all girly.
"The lizard liked you." He shrugged poorly justifying how he had thrown it at her when she screamed. Laughing hysterical as it's small sticky feet clung to her shirt until it finally fell off five minutes later to her upset dancing. "You shouldn't have screamed so loud." He laughed watching her just squint at him as she scrunched her nose. Green eyes that had been studying him lying back into the bed to a small sigh,
"Jim?" she glanced at him. "Can I ask you a question?" He frowned as he nodded. "Why does you underwear look like shorts?" she watched him frown hard at her, his cheeks warming to a red color as he sat up fast. Ripping the blanket from his end of the bed up hard as her green eyes ran over his boxers as she talked to him.
"They just do." He frowned, spitting his answer as he pulled the covers over him. "How come yours look so stupid." Her mouth opening to give an answer before blinking a frown.
"You pervert!" she frowned as she sat up watching his blue eyes lighten immediately. His face raising his eyebrows at her as she sat up fast. "When did you see my underwear!?" She frowned at him watching him shrug.
"I didn't." Her green eyes blinked lightly, squinting skeptically at his answer before lowering back into the bed to a small calm oh. "I just saw what..." he trailed, it was probably better not even to say he knew what they looked like. Then he would have to explain who's he had seen and the most common person was her aunts. He frowned slightly as he looked at her thinking, that wouldn't go over very well. "Now can I ask you something?" He frowned watching her sigh.
"Yes but this is the last question then I want to go to sleep." she frowned at him watching him open his mouth slowly.
"Do you have...strawberry syrup?" His braced himself fast for a reaction. Not sure what to expect but she just looked at him dully.
"Maybe in the fridge." Her green eyes looked back at him blankly watching him frown.
"No Danny do *you*, *you* have some?" He frowned, bracing himself again.
"No." She frowned baffled. "It has to be refrigerated retard." she frowned at him, that's what he thought too. Gene had to be insane, all the strawberry syrup he knew had to go in the fridge and Danny was a girl and that's what she thought too.
"What does it mean to plug someone?" He frowned at her confused watching her scowl at him.
"I don't know but that was more then your last question!" She frowned at him shaking the cat around annoyed as she sighed heavily. "Now I don't have anything to eat or drink and I don't know anything about electricity!" She frowned at him, watching his face lighten to her irritated answers. Blonde hair lying back in the bed the small amount he had come up to look at her. Gene was an idiot. What ever he was talking about must have been in some kinda code for morons like him. He grinned slightly, don't ever plug a girl who's manufacturing strawberry syrup what the hell was he talking about. He grinned, choking a small laugh before sighing heavily. Glancing at her loose white t-shirt as she rolled over onto her stomach. Thin arms hugging the cat as they started to fall asleep on the other side of the thin pink pillow.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Well then.." he sighed heavily. "Where are you going after Iris?" He frowned at her, following her quick busy walking from the kitchen as she chewed toast up the stairs.
"Jim I have to go." She sighed heavily. "I have to go that's it. I am going to the bar, I have to be there for an hour or so and then I am going to work." she shrugged, navy eyes glancing back at him as he continued following her concerned. He didn't want to go home yet.
Blue eyes following her into the upstairs bathroom, watching her lean into the mirror as she picked up her eye lashy thing. "Yeah but maybe I could go with you?" He shrugged watching her.
"I have to work till nine tonight." She shot him a skeptical glance.
"Well can I stay here?" He frowned at her as she started quickly flicking the small blackened comb through her eyelashes, focusing on her own reflection. "Or I could go with you and stay in the car?"
"Don't think so kido." She sighed heavily dropping the mascara from the small thin container of eye shadow. "Your just going to have to go home." She spoke matter o' factly, blonde hair sitting onto the side of the tub behind her upset. "Gene's not going to be mad." She smiled as she turned around at him. Pausing momentarily at his pouty attitude. "For real, last night he didn't seem all to bothered you came back with us." She sent him a warm smile.
"He didn't pierce my other ear." The blue eyes frowned concerned at her, watching her navy eyes travel to his pierced ear. Watching him flinch slightly as she touched it, moving the earring slightly to look at the red swollen skin. "Maybe you can come back over when you get off work?" He frowned concerned at her, watching her navy color just look back at him.
"I can't love, I am going out with Danny. You are just going to have to go home and face Gene. That's what you don't want to do right?" Her soft smile made his eyes dart away fast. "Just walk back in like nothing happened and if he comes at you with another nail.lock yourself in the bathroom and climb out the window while he's trying to get in." She giggled hard, smiling as she watched his face relaxed. Calming as she gave him a option he could try, and strong feeling she wasn't going to be that far away. "He scared you doing that huh?" She watched him shake his head no fast, denying it. "No?" She frowned slightly.
"No." He frowned. "He just really pissed me off cause he didn't listen." He frowned hard looking down. It scared him, scared the hell out of him that Gene did that. So easily and so swiftly, like he was nothing but a small toy. Next to powerless in the Gene's arms. More scared then he could remember when Gene ripped him off the floor and held the hot sharp nail above his face while he talked to Dan. Who stood right there and saw everything when he couldn't take it. Wasn't sure what to expect so the hot burning sting that stabbed through him caught him off guard.
"Well that's good." She smiled at him moving back toward the sink and spritzing perfume at her tight clothing. "Cause I got to go and your going home." She smiled, sighing as she turned around. "Get your bag and get in the car." She frowned as she learned back into the mirror. Double checking her eye shadow. Frowning blonde hair getting up and stomping back downstairs for his bag before heading into the garage and getting into the car. Danny was still sleeping it was 8:00.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
She smiled warmly as she opened her red eyes, glancing over at the scarred chest sleeping next to her. Unruly red hair lazily leaning into the scarred forehead that had just had her up until at least four last night. Her freckled face smiling immediately as she sat up, looking around for her clothes as the room smeared back into view. Her thick auburn hair tripping slightly as she stepped over the side of the bed, feeling the empty beer bottles move away from her feet. Thin aqua bra running under her hand as she drug it over. Slipping her arms in before reaching behind to snap the back. Red eyes searching for her underwear, or at least the skirt she wore last night.
Freckled face yawning into the hall as she walked into it. Long jean shirt and revealing aqua bra trudging towards the stairs for food. Ahh she was starving, stupid Gene, he had said he would go get something around eleven last night but then never made it out of room. She frowned slightly glancing at the tv. She didn't remember leaving that on.
He grinned cocking an eyebrow at the other side of the bed before frowning slightly at the missing thick auburn hair and red eyes he had done all night till five or so. "Allison?" He mumbled her name lightly before glancing at the open bedroom door to the small sounds from downstairs. Dark eyes grinning, maybe she was having trouble walking. He chuckled suddenly sitting up slowly before feeling the rush of everything slide downward in his head. Ahh, he was still exhausted.
He frowned hard, blue eyes glaring at the tv annoyed as she walked by toward the kitchen. Dumb Allison, he turned around lightly, looking at her back as she went in the doorway. She looked slightly drunk and she was walking kinda funny. He frowned harder glancing up at the open bedroom door. So that was what Gene was doing all last night while he was at Iris's "Go figure." He growled before jumping at her small -Hey?- frown as she heard him.
Red eyes looking over at him as he remained leaning into the back of the couch, not hiding from her. "I thought Gene said." She slurred lightly. "We were here alone, I was going last night and..." she trailed walking towards him and the couch as he frowned. Gene saw something in Allison, he certainly spent enough on her and wasted enough time with her. He frowned, he couldn't think of what the hell was so great with her, there were plenty of other girls Gene had over that were better and nicer. She was always snappy and irritated, at least with him.
"Hey when did you get back?" The dark eyes yawned their question at him as he looked over. "Thought you'd be with Iris all day." The scarred face grinned still sleepily. Hurt blue eyes just glaring at him before glancing at the bathroom. The door was open, all he'd have to do was run right to it. "Yeah good mourning to you to." He glanced back at the unruly hair as it said something else to him. Scarred form lazily heading towards the kitchen exhausted.
"Hey." he frowned as he turned back to the auburn hair now drinking his coffee on a different channel. "Allison that was mine." He frowned at her watching her drink the last of it before handing him the cup.
"Yeah here you go." She yawned as he took the cup from her before glancing at how she had started taking over the tv too. Red eyes ignoring his growling as he got up stomping towards the kitchen.
"Gene." He frowned slightly watching the scarred eyebrow just cock at him as the loose black shirt and gray boxers strolled out of the kitchen towards his voice. Sleepy dark eyes chewing a piece of chicken watching him come over. "How long is Allison staying?" He frowned, following the scarred shoulders into the kitchen. Watching them shrug as they pulled weird items out of the fridge. His blue eyes recognizing them immediately, Gene had a hangover.
"Beats the hell out of me." the scarred face slurred its answer at him as it cracked a raw egg into the cup it would drink when all the junk was in there. "I was plugging her all night so who cares if she stays all day." He grinned watching another egg fall into the clear cup as he yawned before glancing at the silent blonde hair to his right watching him. Light face flushed a deep red. That's what plugging meant, and he asked Danny. "You sick?" The dark eyes frowned their slurred question at him before sniffling as they looked back down at the cup, pulling out some type of sick spice.
"Your, your going to let her stay all day?" He cringed lightly, Allison was mean to him. "Are you leaving?" The scarred shoulders shrugged, measuring a lazy teaspoon of the black stuff before dropping it into the cup.
"I have to work for four hours." The scarred chest leaned into the stove, temporarily pausing from the discolored drink to just relax.
"Where are we going?" His dark eyes glanced at the blue color watching him.
"*I am* going down to the loading docks and your not coming." The blue eyes frowned upset at him. "You know the guy takes half our pay for insurance when you come." He cocked an eyebrow at the blonde hair listening to him.
"Gene." the blue color frowned mad at him suddenly. "I don't invite people over and just let them live here!" the small hand shoved him hard. Blue eyes watching the scarred form shuffle back with it, over run from the beer. "I don't want Allison here if your not going to stay! I don't like her" His dark eyes frowned down, ahh Jim was loud.
"What?" He slurred watching the upset orange t-shirt and jeans just slouch into the kitchen table, light forehead leaning onto the top annoyed and upset. "Jim so what, it's not like she's here for you." He chuckled suddenly, that was a good one.
"She's trashy Gene." the blue eyes frowned down at the table, sitting still. "Her clothes are too small for her."
He shrugged glancing back. "Yeah so what. So are Iris's and you don't complain about her." He chuckled picking up the cup of sticky off colored crap.
"Yeah but she doesn't push it in my face." The blue eyes frowned at him as they looked up. Grimacing slightly at the unruly color drinking that garbage. It helped though. Dark eyes laughing silently as they drank before swallowing hard to laugh.
"Yeah like you don't want to see." He grinned letting the cup slide into the sink as the small face watching him blushed slightly.
"Not like that I *don't* Gene!" the blue eyes frowned annoyed as he shrugged again. Scarred shoulders sighing heavily. If Allison left there would be no one to screw when he got home. If Jim had to look at some feminine skin while he was out it was no big deal.
"Well just, use your imagination or close your eyes or something blast it. She's staying." He frowned, slightly irritated by the stupid complaining. Blue eyes frowning as they watched Gene just lazily trudge out towards the thick auburn hair half clothed on their couch.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
He growled, blue eyes peering down at the loose revealing bra on the couch watching tv. She had been there for four hours. There was nothing left to do upstairs. "Allison?" He watched her look up at him bored. "Aren't you going to.." He shrugged, she looked bored too. "Go out or something?" He made a face watching her just raise her eyebrows at him.
"I am tired kid." She frowned glancing back at the tv ignoring him. "Go out by yourself if you want." She frowned at the tv screen as the blue eyes continued looking at her. "Kid you got a problem? You need something?" She frowned, at the annoying blonde hair bothering her. "Say why you always here anyway?" She frowned. "Don't you got someplace to go?" She made a face shrugging. Gene had said he wasn't his kid. "Your not Gene's problem stopping bugging me.and him." She sighed sinking into the couch, watching the pudgy woman add the dish of butter to the concoctions she was making on screen. Her red eyes frowning slightly as she listened to the stomping come all the way down the stairs.
Her face flicking up at him as he moved directly in front of the tv. "You're my problem." He watched her frown up at his words. "Stop bugging me, and Gene said.he thinks you're trash." He frowned at her, maybe she would leave now.
Her red eyes growled immediately, sitting up straighter as he spoke. "What did you just say?" She sneered standing u, watching him take a step back as she became bigger but his hard features didn't relax.
"I am *not* a problem and I live here! So if you want to stay you have to be nice or get out until Gene comes back!" He growled at her watching her eyebrows just raised at him. Ccompletely baffled at his statement but absolutely pissed it was from a seven year old bastard calling her trash.
"You think I am trashy?" She scoffed suddenly leaning towards him, watching him just take another quick step back. Blue eyes frowning harder as she slowly played with the bra that hardly covered her anyway. "Does this look like trash to you?" She frowned hard, snickering at him as she pulled her top down. Watching his face just tighten up as he stood his ground but started fidgeting slightly. Blue eyes fighting to avoid her exposed breasts as she leaned at him more. Smiling as he instinctively looked at what she moved before blushing hard and trying to ignore it as he switched back to her face upset. "You think I look trashy?" She made a face at him. "You tried looking a mirror." She frowned as she spit her words at him watching him quickly stumble back as she stood up. "I hear you got marks all over you. Scars all over you." She frowned down at him watching him look up at her suddenly upset. "So before you want to pass judgment on me kid, maybe you oughta think about what your packing." She scoffed at him. Small skinny figure trying to kick her out, stung by her words. Gene must have told her, told her that private information that was none of her business!
"Get out!" He growled at her. "Get out and don't come back till Gene gets here! Or better don't *ever*come back!" He growled at her, blue eyes rushing with tears as he tried to think straight through all she just said. How humiliated and betrayed he felt that Gene had just told something so personal to someone so insignificant and so trashy! It was none of her business! None of Gene's business either! "Go!" He growled at her as she fixed her top looking at him annoyed. Thick auburn hair just turning around and heading towards the stairs ignoring him. He wasn't her problem either. "AhHey!" He frowned at her, snapping his hands up to his eyes to push the salt water out. He couldn't see her well. "I said you have to get out!"
His dark eyes frowned from under his unruly red hair as he trudged back into the kitchen. Dark eyes glancing back at the clock frowning, he was only gone for four hours did Jim have to start on her. He growled listening to the Jim yell at her to leave a he dropped his cape into the chair.
"You know kid just get lost ok!" She frowned at him, snapping around as he started following her up the stairs. He tripped lightly, surprised by her fast turn but stood hard just the same. "Your annoying and your giving me a headache and I don't want to look at you. Now I am only here to see Gene, your just a pain. I happen to like that guy cause he's a lot of fun even *with* you still here!" She frowned hard watching the light frowning hurt face cry as it listened to her. "So just go occupy yourself with something out of my sight." She sighed heavily, pushing him hard as she started around him back down the stairs annoyed. Frowning as she heard him follow her. Red eyes snapping around to him, snapping at the remote he held and yanking. Watching him come forward with it as he gripped tight.
"Get out." He growled at her as she yanked it again. Red eyes squinting furious with it as she pulled, yanking him with her as she swung the remote trying to pry it from his grasp.
He growled leaning into the kitchen doorway. Watching Jim follow her down the stairs before starting a fight with her over the remote. "All over the tv?" He growled at them but they couldn't hear him. Blonde hair suddenly yelling at her to leave before leaning forward and biting her hand hard so she would let go.
"Ah!" She screamed pulling her hand back and looking at the sharp teeth marks in it before looking up at him. "You little." She trailed watching the blue eyes just let out a fast sigh as she stopped pulling him. Blue eyes looking up upset before tripping back into the step with her hard slap.
His dark eyes flickered immediately. Sparking his whole body with the loud slap of the hard thin hand against the softer baby skin of Jim's cheek. His scarred form pushing off the doorway fast and moving towards them. Watching Jim just sit where it fell. Light hand slowly reaching up towards its face before the red eyes snapped up at him with a squeak. Surprised and slightly frightened by the tight grip suddenly grabbing her arms and shoving her fast.
"Get out." He growled, dark eyes pointing at the door as she frowned at him. His furious scarred face just watching her open her mouth to speak as he shot forward. He had given her three seconds to start moving and she hadn't.
He heard her squeak lightly as he ripped the front door open yanking her thin figure with him before shoving her out. Watching her outraged freckled face spin around. "Don't think I am ever coming back Starwind!" She growled hard at him watching his dark eyes just frown mad as hell with her but sad he was loosing her. There was something about Allison he liked, but she couldn't hit, no way.
He looked up, the warm moisture of his tears stinging the sharp red handprint covering the side of his face as they rolled over it. Blue eyes looking up toward the door, watching Gene say something to Allison as he shoved her out. Probably apologizing for all this. Gene was going to be so pissed with him when he came back He felt his stomach tighten up getting ready for something, the shove, the words Gene was going to spit at him. His breath picking up as he braced to the hard heavy walk coming back at him as the door slammed. Frowning dark eyes glaring down at him as he looked up. "Did you tell her to get out earlier?" The deep voice frowned mad. "Did you!?" The scarred face growled watching the panicked blue eyes just nod, one cheek swelling up lightly. "How many times did you do that!?" He growled baffled she didn't listen when Jim kept at it. Blonde hair retaliating into the steps as he reached down yanking the light arm and form up fast.
"Gene! I wouldn't have yeeelled at her but she waaas geeeting weeeierd!" the blonde hair started moving with him, coming along up the stairs to his hard pulling. "She took off her shirt and she waaaas." His dark eyes frowned, no longer listening as he pulled Jim with him into the bathroom. Watching the blonde hair stumble forward fast as the crying blue eyes turned around to him. Bracing an impact that may be coming.
"Yeah well, she's not coming back anymore." He growled pushing past the blue eyes that stopped walking, just shaking lightly as they stood looking at him as though they had committed murder and were caught. Scowling dark eyes ripping open the medicine cabinet and pulling out a washcloth and turning on the sink. Letting the cold water run over it as he held the cloth, his gaze still down. That was it, that was it with Allison. He felt his chest ache slightly as he thought about loosing her, she was so sweet.to him. Something about her was really great, and it was more so his irritation he couldn't keep her, that she couldn't be what he wanted that made him growl. His sad expression vanishing as he jerked the water off and in one quick moment decided his abandoned relationship with Allison was reason enough to abandon her from his mind.hopefully. Turning to look at the blonde hair staring at him in disbelief, he decided to soften his expression anymore. Nothing but wide blue eyes confused by everything that had just happenedvstumbling backward fast as he moved towards them. "Hey will you relax." His scarred face frowned suddenly. "Put this on your face." A humored grin watching the shaky blue eyes look down at the cold cloth he offered before slowly taking it. "And I am not going to pierce your other ear." He grinned watching the alarmed light face flick up at him, blinking suddenly confused. How did Gene know he was worried about that? "Iris told me." He chuckled lightly watching the expression as the loose orange shirt backed up, leaning into the tub as it pressed the cold cloth to the reddened skin of its face. Blue eyes looking up at the heavy sigh above him. Scarred hand rubbing his face, but it was different from all the other times he did it. Cause he looked upset now.
"Gene?" the dark eyes didn't resurface to look at him like they always did. Like they had always did to see what he wanted or hear what he had to say. Even if it was to spit an insult or sly answer that was totally unhelpful or irritating. "You can.well maybe you can still have her come back when I am not here?" He frowned slightly, feeling guilty now.
The unruly hair shook no. "No. You want her to move in? Then where are you going to go?" He frowned at the blonde hair that only silenced, it didn't have an answer for that. "Yeah she's just not coming back.ever." He growled shaking his head no as he nudged the small shoulder. Watching it instinctively stand up and start out of the bathroom as it continued to hold the cold cloth against its warm swollen cheek. Heavy walking following him down the stairs, sinking into the couch next to him. Dark eyes watching the blonde hair just pull together as it sat down. Loose jeans and light arms pulling in as the one hand held the cloth looking at the tv hurt. "Don't even think about her alright?" His dark eyes glanced at the quiet blonde hair looking ahead at the tv. "I saw her hit you, so that's it." He watched the blue eyes look down with his comment, thinking.
"How come you told Allison about my scars?" The blue eyes became suddenly upset as they mumbled their question, gaze dropping to the couch.
He frowned off guard. Did he tell Allison? "I didn't." He frowned, taking the remote from the light hand still squeezing it, but the blue eyes shot up mad.
"You're a liar." Jim growled a frown up at him as his expression just slumped
"No I am not. I am never told her, Iris did." He frowned, glaring hard at the tv before glancing down at the blonde hair that leaned into his side.
"How does Iris know I have them?" the voice sounded confused suddenly before the blonde hair moved. Frowning up mad "Unless you told her." They growled their accusation at him watching him frown. His head running to an idiot, no she saw them when you were younger before stopping. Frowning blue eyes glaring at him for an answer.
"I told her once cause I wanted to know about maybe something we could get for them." He shrugged, quickly thinking up his lie as he spoke it. "So maybe they could reduce or something." He shrugged again watching the blue eyes drop to a more absorbed look. Was that possible? "And I never told her where they were she figured it out for herself cause she said.well you know she said she had never seen any scars on you." He shrugged again watching the blonde hair half listen to the rest of his lie as it continued turning over the thought they could reduce them somehow.
"Well what did she say?" the blue eyes looked at him, engrossed. "Did she know? Know of how we could do that?" the orange shirt shifted it's weight suddenly. Turning to look dead at him before frowning as the unruly hair shook no.
"No. She didn't have any ideas and she didn't think there were any crèmes or anything. Just a type of surgery that was real expensive." He frowned watching the blonde hair think for a moment before slouching back into the couch disappointed but happy Gene supposedly hadn't told anything like that about him. Dark eyes frowning as they knew they had to a trashy babe who hit him and no doubt said something mean about it to him. Scarred face grinning to a small punch and muttered -sorry about Allison.- "Yeah right." He grunted lightly slinging his arm around the small neck. Roughing it lightly to the smile underneath him. Blonde hair not disappointed a bit Allison was gone for good. Just sympathetic it meant something Gene.
"Plenty a other fish in the sea Gene." His scarred face laughed, squeezing the small upper body under his arm to the grinning blonde hair leaning into him. Laughing an ooww as it smiled through its swollen cheek.
__*~*~*~PRESENT DATE~*~*~*__
"Ow ow" He grit his teeth tighter, hoping that somehow if he bit down harder on nothing the pain would ease somehow. Her smooth gloves even touching him as light as she was sent sparks of pain up threw him. Her hand suddenly gripping his hip tightly from where he leaned into the wall doubling over slightly as she stood in front of him. Her thin gray hair becoming aware of how weak his legs were becoming in the pain. "Judith." He grunted her name lightly as she rubbed the small alcohol coated cotton ball onto the low raw skin he preferred not to look at. Her white doctor coated figure hanging onto him as she stayed right in front of him and the small amount she had undone his jean and pulled them and his boxers down. Unaware of how hard he was growling in his head at the pain he went threw to get them on, up, and together. "Caaan't you go faster." He groaned at her suddenly, closing his eyes to the sharp needle he saw coming right at his sensitive male skin. Her smooth gloved hand squeezing his hip lightly to hang onto him. Feeling him brace himself at the indirect statement he was going to feel this.
She blinked slowly, watching him. His strong hands balling small fistfuls of her white doctor coat in his hands as the needle she held disappeared between them to the hard pained expression and jammed blue eyes that held it's breath.
Her own chest rising and falling fast in the pain she felt just watching him. As thought someone were stabbing him and he couldn't make a sound. Her wide green eyes and thin red hair slowly walking over, keeping her view solely on his face. Jammed blue eyes oblivious to her as the now empty needle slowly pulled out of swollen right side of private skin. Her thin form leaning towards him slowly. Watching the aged gray hair blink almost in shock with her presence. Neither of them had heard her come over. Thin gray hair watching her young feminine figure lean towards the hurting blonde that was hers.
"Ahha" He choked fast at the sudden contact. Blue eyes blinking hard to rid the tears as they rolled cross eyed to look at the closed green eyes and soft heat running against his mouth. Her thin red hair gently kissing him before letting her mouth gap slightly as it pressed into his. Feeling him suck air from around and inside her mouth as he choked his sound. Strong light hands suddenly snapping at her arms, squeezing them tight. Her closed relaxed green eyes frowning ever so slightly as she felt him shaking. Her smooth moist tongue gently running over his lips and the roofs of his teeth as she let it slip into his mouth ever so slightly. Feeling his face continue to shake as the small warm drops of water ran onto her cheeks from his eyes. His breathing running in and out of her as his mouth gapped in a sad smile. His breaths running with no pattern as they sucked and gulped and hiccupped unsteadily. His light, pained, slightly out of focus, wet blue eyes smearing into view as she opened her eyes. Feeling his hands quickly let go of her arms to the sounds of his pants moving. His voice grunting a sharp "Ah" to the small clink sounds of his jeans moving up slowly as he tried to pull them up fast. Her thin face smiling at the heat she felt radiating from his cheeks. Her eyes smiling at him because thought she could not see it, he was blushing. His blue eyes staring at her half an inch away, never blinking or needing to as they were already filled with the deep salty moisture of tears just waiting to fall.
"I have a secret." She whispered slowly, moving his mouth and lips with hers as she exaggerated her movements pressing into him. Making his jaw move as he left it weak and relaxed. "Promise, you will have an answer." She smiled slowly. Feeling the tips of her lips run into his mouth more as her smile pulled them upward. His throat only swallowing slowly as he made a small step forward to her inch backward. Immediately pressing his mouth back into her the small amount they had separated. Her thin hair sighing fast, relieved, happy and upset as his strong familiar hands took hers. Moving in slow shuffles with her towards the clean white bed. Her green eyes running to the corners of her eyes as she pulled him along with her, shifting him to the front of her and walking forward, backing his legs into the bed. Feeling him frown immediately, he didn't want to be back in there. Back under people looking down at him. "Will you answer me?" He felt her giggled question huff into his mouth with sweet breaths of air as she spoke. His throat swallowing hard.
"Ahyes." He grunted his answer back to her feeling her pull back from him. His face moving forward fast, moving back to where it was. *He* didn't want her to see the rest of him. He didn't want to see the rest of him. It was gross, swollen, light.wrong. She smiled as she pulled back from his playing. Watching him only blink slowly to her smiling, standing gingerly in front of her, bed behind him.
"Will you answer me honestly please?" She frowned concerned at him, watching his face slowly regain it's normal tones as the antithetic started pumping through him steadily. Blue eyes regaining the strength and firm air she loved.
"Always." He swallowed hard, trying to get rid of the rough raspy tones that kept coming back into his voice because he was upset earlier. His blue eyes watching her smile before letting it grow warm and natural around her face. Her thin red hair stepping up to him slightly, gently pressing her palms against his chest to ease him back. Watching him make a small ssss of pain as he sat back into the bed for her. Watching her thin fingers trail small groves down his shirt as she let them slide down it slow and gentle. Tickling his chest underneath with her affection. Green eyes looking down at the floor steadying herself for what she was going to say. Blue eyes bracing for what she had to say. For what excuse she was going to give for leaving him for Cameron. Because he was to weak to fight, to stupid to get away, because he was disgusting before, too busy before, always working, always logical, less fun and less action in everyway. No action sexually because he wouldn't let her touch him, wouldn't let her come near him and this was why. Why he was going to loose her in everyway because he was failing in everyway that she needed him. He had failed to provide and hold what little weight he was supposed to carry. "Jim I *love* you." Her green eyes flicked up warmly with her sentence watching him just look at her from where he had been patiently waiting. She would have a good life with Cameron, despite how much of a dick he was he cared about her and would provide for her. Maybe she would have a little girl fir.what? His brain stopped dead, blue eyes casually blinking at her. He had misheard. "Jim?" She frowned slightly, as no reaction came. When no anything came. That was supposed to be big, that was supposed to be significant, at least enough for a grunt damnt. "Jim did you hear what I said to you?" She felt her eyes cringe now, Jim never lied, if he didn't open his mouth and say he loved her back, that meant he didn't and just refused to lie about it. "Jim." She spit his name hard and fast grabbing his shoulder with her hand. Feeling the familiar strong muscles underneath coming back to her with the blue eyes that looked up at her confused. "I.I love you.ok?" She whispered lightly, this was the last try.
He blinked hard, how could he not have failed her? "How do you? How do you love me?" He frowned upset with her, shoving her hand off him as he stood up. Her upset green eyes watching his face pinch with sharp pain as he stood up fast before leaning into his legs slowly. "You.." He trailed, you shouldn't love me, you don't know. She didn't know, know what he really looked like underneath, all the scars he had. She didn't know where he came from, know his parents, how could she love him? His shook his head no, watching her glare up at him horrified. His mouth opening to tell her all these things. To tell her how badly she was wrong, just as he had when she said she wanted to marry him when she was seven. "Ah please love me." He choked fast, blue eyes blinking. That wasn't what he planned on saying.
"I do damnt." She whispered back, staring up at him confused. Her heart slamming in her chest, this had to be love. Why else would she have been dying to kill every cop in that room when she found them. Be dying to shot Cameron right in the head for ever doing this to her. And it was to her, deliberately to crush Jim and win her. "I love you. I have always loved you." She smiled warmly at him, feeling his strong hand just run up her face gently. Blue eyes looking at her as if she were an angel, thin red hair and beautiful green eyes staring up at him in a white spaghetti strap dress and white sneakers. "I've loved you for so long Jim." She choked her words out this time, fighting back tears. "If you.if you weren't such a stubborn butt you would have known thaaat." She tried not to whine her last sentence. Familiar tones from her aunt bleeding into her words as she looked at the blonde hair taller then her since she could remember, that she loved since she could remember. Even though he locked her in a closet for five hours once, and chased her with that ugly ugly bug he found. And threw lizards at her, and spit at her ,and laughed at her and tripped her, and kicked her out of his room ,and held her toys above his head so she couldn't reach them.
She loved him, since she could remember, since she knew what it was, since she first started watching his butt and recognizing his smell, because he was hers, since and.since and always.
