Author's Note: Oh geez. I'm unbelievably sorry you guys. I'm such a lazy bum shakes head in shame I had terrible writer's block and school, then Finals. shakes head It's been a rough year, but I finally got back on the story wagon. Hehe.
A New Age. A New Team
Chapter 7: Southern Attractions
A young girl that looked about the age of eighteen, slid a piece of layered dark auburn hair, with lighter brown highlights, behind both of her ears revealing both her ears were double pierced and both the cartilages were pierced too. She was wearing flared jeans, a silverfish tank top, and her zip up hoodie was on the back of her chair. Normally, she would have concealed her black angel-like wings from everyone, but today she didn't feel like it. She kept her wings closed up as much as possible in order not to take up too much room.
She lazily flipped the page of her library book as her green-brown eyes read over the words, until she was interrupted by the voices of Tonya and Gabe talking. She raised her left eyebrow at them, which had a barbell in it. He's kind of cute. Jazmine, the girl, thought about Gabe. But I'm not going to start liking some boy without ever really getting to know him or talking to him… She smirked as she looked back down at her book and went on with her reading. But he is cute.
"Alright so everyone has a guilty pleasure." Tonya smirked to Gabe. "Mine's the Fantastic Four." She leaned on the history book that concealed the Fantastic Four inside of it. "So what's yours?" She raised her pierced eyebrow at the Georgia man.
"Hmm…" Gabe pondered as he looked up in the air at nothing in particular; it was just something he did when he pondered. "I would have to say…" He chuckled at the thought. "It's stupid. Never mind." He shook his head.
What the? That's not fair! "No I wanna know." Tonya sat up straight and had this irritated look on her face as her green eyes stared at Gabe. "I told you, and it's only fair that you tell me Gabriel." She smirked, as she knew he didn't like her using his full name.
"I already told you," his southern accent coming out clear, "its Gabe." He said as he picked up his philosophy book and went back to reading it.
Tonya slammed Gabe's philosophy book down out of his hands onto the table. "No." She said sternly as she kept her hand on top of the book so he couldn't pick it up again. "Tell me."
When the loud echo of the Tonya slamming Gabe's book against the wood of the desk echoed throughout the library, Jazmine slightly jumped in her seat and almost dropped her book on mystical creatures, but she caught it before it also hit the desk. Her greenish-brown eyes glanced over at Tonya and Gabe and she sighed in slight frustration. It was a library after all and you were supposed to be quiet, but Tonya wasn't. Jazmine quickly looked away when Tonya's green eyes looked over at her.
"Fine… it's poetry." Gabe said softly because many people made fun of him when he said that, but Tonya wasn't necessarily paying attention.
"Arg." Tonya huffed in frustration as she stared at the back of the girl who was at least two years older then Tonya, but that didn't seem to scare Tonya one bit.
"What?" Gabe asked. I don't think she heard me… Good.
"I hate it when people don't MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS." Tonya said loud enough so that Jazmine could hear it. However, in case Jazmine didn't hear it, Tonya glared at the back of Jazmine's head with her green eyes staring daggers at her.
Gabe raised an eyebrow at Tonya and then followed the direction of her green eyes with his ice blue eyes until they fell on the back of a girl who looked about the same age as he was. He glanced back at Tonya and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Oh, just forget about it Tonya." He smirked softly at her.
"Fine. Whatever." Tonya rolled her green eyes at the back of Hell's Angel and then looked back at Gabe. "So you like poetry, huh?" She smirked with a smile laced in it.
"Huh? What?" She heard me. Gabe's ice blue eyes went slightly large from Tonya's comment, but they quickly returned to normal. "What are you talking about?"
"Oh don't play dumb Gabe. I heard you." Tonya smirked. "Your guilty pleasure is poetry."
Jazmine rolled her greenish-brown eyes at her book; pretending it was Tonya, and then she went back to finishing her reading on mystical creatures.
The large wooden doors to the library slowly opened and Hecate entered through them. Her platinum blonde hair was left down without the blood red clip holding it back and her deep blue eyes looked around the library as she entered. She was dressed in a crimson red tub top and baggy black gangster pants that hung onto her hips; showing off her hipbones, which her left hip had small black cross on it. She walked over to the book drop-off and carefully began to fill out the card to return the book.
"Oh great." Tonya muttered as she rolled her green eyes at Hecate and then looked away from her.
Gabe didn't take his ice blue eyes off of Hecate as he watched her move around the library. "What's wrong?" He asked, though his eyes didn't leave Hecate.
Tonya glanced over at Gabe and then made him look at her. Her green eyes revealed it upset her that Gabe was looking at Hecate. "That's Hecate." She sighed being disgusted by even the name 'Hecate'. "You don't wanna know her."
Gabe glanced out of the corner of his eyes at Hecate who looked over at him for a moment, but then Gabe quickly looked back at Tonya. "Why not?"
Tonya scoffed as if everyone knew why and that it was some surprise that Gabe didn't. "Get this." She chuckled. "She thinks that I, Tonya Sorenson, am lighthearted, happy, and hyperactive." She said in offense and Gabe just chuckled at the thought. "Are you laughing at me?" Tonya said in shock.
"No. It's just funny that it upsets you that much." Gabe chuckled.
"Whatever." Tonya rolled her green eyes and looked back at Hecate, as did Gabe.
There's something about her. Gabe thought as he watched Hecate look over a shelf of books to find another one to check out. I can't put my finger on it, but there's something that intrigues me. He let out a tiny chuckle and then looked at the table then back over his shoulder to get one last glance at Hecate.
Hecate ran her fingers over the binding of each of the books on the shelf looking over each title of the mythology books. She pulled the occasional one out every now and then and flipped through the first couple of pages and then casually slipped it back into the shelf. Hecate's dark blue eyes looked over the bindings of the books and then stopped when she felt someone watching her. She paused for a moment and then very nonchalantly she turned around and headed back towards the front of the library.
She noticed it was Tonya and some new person who were staring at her. Hecate couldn't help but smirk to herself as she slightly looked down at the ground as she walked. Great. That hyperactive Tonya girl. She thought as she continued to walk. Hecate glanced over at the guy next to Tonya and noted the tattoo going down his arm like a tendril, wrapping around every now and then and twisting around. She softly smiled to herself. Tattoos. Not bad.
Tonya watched as Hecate walked passed her and Gabe's table and then Tonya's green eyes went wide as Hecate winked at Gabe and continued to walk passed them. SHE DID NOT JUST WINK AT HIM?!?! She did, didn't she? Tonya thought angrily as she glared daggers at the back of Hecate's platinum blonde head.
Gabe was just as shocked as Tonya was, except his was nowhere near as angry as hers was. Actually it was the exact opposite. Did she… I think she did. Gabe looked to either side of him as if someone was to tell him it was true. She did wink at me. His thoughts were interrupted when Tonya pushed her chair back from her and stood up. She picked up her history book, which held her Fantastic Four comic in it, and turned on her heel.
"I'm out of here." Tonya snarled as she stormed out of the library in irritation with Jazmine, but more with Hecate. Gabe's ice blue eyes followed Tonya out of the library, though he, himself, didn't get up from his spot at the now lonely table.
Hecate sat down at a table and then looked up to see Jazmine sitting across from her. Hecate's deep blue eyes stared at Jazmine's black angel wings and cringed slightly. "What are those?" She whispered in disgust.
Jazmine looked up at the platinum blonde sitting across from her. "What are what?" She followed the girl's deep blue eyes, looked at her wings, and laughed. "Oh. They're my wings." She smiled. Hecate rolled her deep blue eyes, looked at the girl's silverfish tank top, and shook her head in disgust. She opened her book up and began reading the mythology book.
What the hell is her problem? Jazmine thought as she rolled her eyes at the girl. "My name's Jazmine. My codename's Hell's Angel." Jazmine tried to say friendly towards the other girl.
Hecate didn't even look up from her book. "Your point is?" She said with her voice obviously not caring.
Jazmine's mouth fell open at how rude the girl was being towards her. "Look, what's your problem? I haven't done a damn thing to you and all you've been is mean to me." Jazmine said in irritation.
Hecate sighed in frustration that Jazmine wasn't letting her read in silence. She folded her arms on top of her book and looked up at Jazmine lazily. "What's my problem?" Hecate repeated with a chuckle. "To be honest…" She looked to either side of her as to make sure that no one was near to hear her. "I just don't like you." Hecate smirked sarcastically and then went back to reading her book.
Jazmine couldn't believe her ears and then just shook her head as she looked around. Bitch. She thought as she picked up her things and left the library, quietly.
Hecate paused from her reading and watched the girl leave; noticing she got to her because Jazmine's feathers were ruffling a lot as she left. Hecate's deep blue eyes glanced over at Gabe and their eyes locked on each other, which made Hecate smirk and then go back to her reading. Oops. Hecate thought with a slight smile; not feeling the least bit sorry for how she acted.
The large wooden doors to the library opened once again and an extremely thin girl, who looked no older then seventeen, with red curly hair and green eyes walked through the door. She looked around from side-to-side, which made her curls bounce. She seemed slightly frantic, but not overly frantic. Her green eyes locked on Hecate as she jogged over to her. "Hey Hecate." The redhead said in a thick Irish accent.
Hecate looked up at the redhead and gave a soft, slightly sympathetic smile to the girl, "Hey Aurora." She folded her hands on top of her book once again and looked up at Aurora. "What's wrong?"
"Have you seen Sean?"
"No. Go ask Cerebro." Hecate gestured to the front desk of the library where a large computer was filing books away. She turned her attention back towards her book before Aurora could say anything else.
"Alright." Aurora said softly and then slowly made her way towards the front of the library. Her green eyes glanced over at the young man (Gabe) and smiled softly at him.
Gabe's ice blue looked at the Irish girl who had just walked in and he felt himself smile at her presence. She was much different from the other girl's he had seen and met. She's pretty. He said and then laughed at how childish that sounded in his head. I sound like I'm a five-year-old boy. He smiled over at the redhead, named Aurora. Nevertheless, she is pretty.
Aurora looked over at the new young man who was obviously new to the institute. Her green eye twinkled nervously and she felt like a young schoolgirl as she kept looking over her shoulder back at the young man. Her high cheekbones began to show a soft rose color over them as she blushed when her green eyes would meet his ice blue eyes. She laughed lightly to herself as she stopped at the front desk were Cerebro was. "Um… Cerebro?"
"Yes Aurora Doyle?" The mechanical voice answered.
"Can you tell me where Sean is?"
"Locating Sean Parker…" Cerebro paused for a moment as it used it's sensors to located where Sean was in the institute. While Cerebro was busy locating Sean, Aurora glanced over her slightly pale shoulder over at the young man and blushed again as she looked away with a giggle. She looked down, which made some of her red curls fall forward over her green eyes, and then she glanced back at him through her curls. "Sean Parker located."
Aurora looked up at Cerebro, "Where is he?"
"Heading towards the Danger Room."