Chapter 5

The cry of a lost one

Adam's eyes started to become wet a little. Ceres smiled with honesty and moved her hand to his hair and took his cap away.

„The dye on your hair will disappear in a couple of days." - she said kindly.

„Why are you doing all of these things to me, I'm a monster!" - Adam yelled, grabbed her shoulders and knocked her to the ground - „And I can kill you any moment I want!"

„But you do not want to kill me."

Ceres did not look surprised. She was looking straight at him, not amused in any way. She was a brave person, familiar with insanity and madmen never scared her.

Or she was just stupid, guilt-driven girl without a sense of self preservation.

„And what if I wanted?" - he asked in a calm voice. His face was dangerously close to Ceres'.

„If you wanted I would sense that from a mile. You can never lie to me, Adam, for I always know the truth of your mind. Now please get off of me. You're too close."

But instead of getting away, he pulled himself closer to her and restricted her moves.

And he regretted it immediately, because for next couple of seconds he got trapped in that freaking dust mine again, and oh my God he was only five and that thing was burning-

Ceres released herself, smoothed her light pink skirt from the dirt and set food on Adam's neck. His vision stopped.

„You better listen when someone tells you to leave them alone." - Ceres said - „You are a victim and I pity you, but I won't hesitate to make your mind replay the worst memories of yours over and over again for the rest of your life if you do that again."

The next days merged into one for Adam. Ceres was not talking much, she was spending most of her time in her room doing drugs. She was barely eating, but she had no problem cooking for Adam.

„It prevents me from being poisoned by you." - she said one day.

„I actually never saw you eating." - Adam replied.

„The Dust I do is removing my appetite but I try to eat something every day." - Ceres sat down the chair on the other side of the table with coffee.

„How long have you been doing drugs?" - he asked out of pure curiosity. She looked at him in the eyes and replied in her normal voice.

„Close to ten years now. I started when I was like fourteen."

„Did you start doing this because of your semblance?"

„Not really." - her muscles tensed - „I have had no idea of my semblance then."

Ceres took a sip of her coffee.

„I'm going to get some groceries. Wanna go with me? There's a small town behind the woods." - she asked. Adam blinked in astonishment. She had never let him go outside the household. She kept saying it was dangerous for both of Adam and the town citizens.

„Do you trust me?" - he inquired, taking a sip of his tea - „You must be trusting me if you want to take me to the town."

„I don't trust you in the slightest." - she answered - „And don't take my kindness as weakness."

„I never saw you carry any weapon; do you have one?"

„I don't need one." - Ceres said - „Besides, I can't fight. I never learned, because my semblance works both on humans and Grimm."

„You can alter Grimm's thoughts?" - Adam seemed really interested - „How do you do it?"

Another sip of coffee.

„Grimm think in a different way humans and animals do. Their thoughts are drowned in negative emotions and they are filled with desire to destroy. I alter their emotions toward themselves."

„You turn them suicidal." - Adam was startled - „It's amazing!"

Taurus was freaking sure she blushed a little.

Adam was never really into ordinary life and it was showing. Both of them wasn't used to do shopping, mostly because Adam used to steal and during his time in White Fang it was others' job to provide him with supplies. In turn, Ceres used to steal mostly money using her semblance (was it really a stealth if they were giving it to her themselves?) and the thing she had in her throat predominately was Dust that dissolved in her nose anyway.

„Do I look like I'm sky high?" - she asked when they were omitting vegetable aisle.

„Absolutely not." - Adam replied - „I mean, I can see it anyway, so..."

„Shut up." - she sighed a bit and took a couple of dairy products.

„I'm lactose intolerant." - Adam pointed.

„These aren't for you." - she answered - „I can barely eat something else than yogurts."

Forty minutes later they were again next to a blue, four-wheeled car.

„Are you sure nobody will go to the police?" - asked Adam looking around - „You stole it."

„Previous owner of this baby was really happy to hand it to me. You think too much."

„Do I really have to wear this bizarre cap?" - Adam touched his head.

She chuckled.

„Look over there." - Ceres pointed her hand in a direction of a street lamp. Adam followed her fingers and saw his very face on a poster saying WANTED.

„Okay, I get it now." - he murmured and got into the car.

Adam Taurus was bored as hell. He even did the dishes. Ceres just woke up and was having her morning coffee.

„I'm bored." - he said, sitting in a chair - „You took me here; entertain me."

He noticed a small mirror on the table alongside the bank account cards. By a quick look, these weren't Ceres'.

„Go read a book." - she replied.

„I have read every book in this house." - he yawned.

„Do you want to fight?" - Ceres asked suddenly - „I watched your fight with the girls and I noticed something I found weird."

„What?"

„Why do you need your weapon to use your semblance?"

Adam's eyes opened wider.

She noticed.

He wasn't going to answer and she knew that.

„It's okay. It's not like I understand my semblance either."

Adam bit his lower lip.

„I noticed something about you too." - he said. She blinked. - „I noticed sometime when you are sober, coming down, your pupils don't disappear. Of course most of the time you need to intoxicate yourself to prevent them from doing this thus activating your semblance, but I have seen how it doesn't activate even if you are sober."

She sat in silence, looking the mirror with Dust leftovers.

„Your semblance isn't always on. I think it activates randomly when your mind is unstable, which is most of the time."

She laughed and relaxed her muscles. Ceres took a sip of her beverage and smiled with pain in her eyes.

„I'm impressed you noticed this. I'm mentally ill, Adam. I'm delusional and my illness took control over my semblance."