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Avery walked side by side with Snake Eyes, she may have trusted him to cary the picture but she kept looking at it to make sure he still had it. It meant a lot to her. She had been around ten, several days after the picture was taken she would be turning so, and the boy in it was twelve. The woman was about twenty-six, she had been real young when her and a twenty year old Hawk had been together. Sara, Avery's mother, had been sixteen at the time, close to seventeen, and at seventeen when Hawk had to leave. But in the picture the twenty-six year old Sara was laughing at Avery and the boy, Jhonny. Jhonny was laying on his back and laughing hard with his hand up to defend his face. He had even been hansom at that young age. His big green eyes held so much life in them that they sparkled and would draw girls in, in a way that a light draws moths at night. His brown hair was shoulder length and had a sheen to it. And his perfect white teeth showed as he howled in laughter. He had on dark blue jeans and the normal Converses, his shirt was a navy blue. And on his pinky he had a blue ring that looked like it came out of a twenty-five cent machine.
Avery on the other hand had an extremely anger look on her face. She had on clothes close to Jhonny's. Her dark blue jeans blended in with his as she straddled the obviously stronger boy. That wasn't the way it would be thought to, a girl straddling a boy was thought to be sexual. But Avery's left hand at Jhonny's throat and her right fist raised, ready to deliver a blow, told another story. Avery too had on a blue shirt but it was a baby blue and not navy. And she had the same Converses as Jhonny on. Her orange hair was long, unlike the shortness it currently was or the the slightly longer than shoulder length of her army picture, and tied up in a high ponytail. Even as high up as it had to have been it cascaded down her back and stopped inches above the waistband of her pants. The green eyes of Avery's was able to bee seen in the picture. And upon a closer look one would see a blue ribbon in her back pocket.
And Sara was standing up strait, an arm wrapped around her midsection and a hand covering her mouth. Sara had black hair that was about chest length, not that Snake Eyes was looking, and dark green eyes. Her shirt was green and she had on light blue jeans. She looked nothing like Avery and Snake Eyes wondered where that Avery got her looks. But then he also wondered why Sara was laughing so hard and who was holding the camera. And what had gotten Avery so angry. Why had Jhonny been laughing when Avery was so evidently about to hit him. Snake Eyes proceeded to ask Avery this. "I'll tell you the full story behind that picture when we get to my room. Then I can put this in there. Better yet, after I drop this off, we can go over to your room for some of that wonderful tea?" She looked at him, hope was in her eyes, but she easily covered it up. Yet Snake Eyes was close enough to her to be able to see that little pool in her eyes that was always there, and in it he saw that she wanted to go to his room for tea. And he nodded.
Inside his stomach clenched and he felt like it was fluttering. He had always craved human companionship, maybe not love but someone that would be there for him as he would be there for them. And he saw this in Avery. She had been given so much and forced to loose it that she too craved what he did. Even if they only became friends he wouldn't mind. Yeah he and Scarlet were friends but there was this little barricade between them. She only used him and left. It was unknowing because he wanted someone to ask and not just push it on them. Scarlet would come to him and tell him her problems, drink a bit of tea, get his advice, and then she would leave. And now Snake Eyes hoped that Avery would be different. In his heart he wanted her to care, hell he wanted anyone to care but he would rather it be her. He didn't know why he wanted it to be this tiny orange haired girl but he did.
And now they were at their destination. Avery opened the door and looked around. Snake Eyes didn't look at her face to see what she had thought of it but her eyes. Originally this had been designed for Cannon and the man had had a love for japanese things so it was made like a the interior of some of the older Japanese houses. In Avery's eyes he saw awe. She stepped forward and realized that there was a step up then he saw her thinking. She looked for the bed and he saw her fingers moving, almost as if he was counting. Then her eyes hardened and she nodded. And it looked like she was testing the weight of the bag. Once she finished that her fingers started to twitch again. "Got it." Stepping back two carefully placed steps she threw her bag and it landed perfectly on the bed. "You aren't supposed to walk in here with shoes, right?" Snake Eyes was shocked and nodded. "I used to read too much manga and watch too much anime. They always removed their shoes as a sign of uh respect right?" Once more he nodded. "Then I shall respect that and do the same, but right now we have a different room to go to."
There was hope in her eyes again and fear. It took him a moment to realize that she feared he had decided otherwise. He grabbed her hand and pulled her towards his room. And he couldn't help but marvel at how perfect her small hand felt within his larger one. And then he was at his door and he opened it and let her in. He lead her to the table, the one that she had showed him how to wrap a burn at, and had her sit down. Quickly he put the pot of water on and got to work crushing the ingredients and putting them into the filter and finally putting the filter into the pot. "Ah. That's an interesting mix. Any way, the picture. You probably guessed who everyone was, right?" And Snake Eyes nodded. He got up and grabbed a cloth out of a cabinet and signed to her in a joking manner. He got what he wanted from her, a laugh. "Yes, we don't want any more burns. It should be good in a week or two.
"You must know before I start to explain this story a few things. Jhonny's mother had recently committed suicide, his parents had broken up not long before that, and my mother had unofficially adapted him. I am almost ten, he is twelve and my mothers age doesn't matter. That is all I think. Shall I go on?" Snake Eyes nodded eagerly as he searched through a drawer in the other room. "Then sit your ass down and listen." He held up a finger then found what he was looking for. With his back to her he removed the hard visor and his dirty blond hair fell limply around his head. Then in one swift movement it was covered again with a cloth mask. As soon as he sat down Avery continued. "We were at the park that day and had been just walking around. Then Jhonny got the smart idea to make fun of everything. He always did that, made fun of everything. It was his way of coping and when he was serious I hated it. He wasn't Jhonny in my eyes when he was that way. And right here, in that spot in the park, He stopped all of us." Avery had pointed to the picture to let him know that she had given all the need background. Snake Eyes was eager to know what was going on when the tea started to whistle he glared at it. Avery nodded to the tea and continued her as he dealt with it. And he was glad that she kept talking.