Dreary Day

[Hyperactivefox]

"Hm?" Rory asked, sparing a glance at her before focusing his gaze back on the hawk. He had caught the words but he was distracted and hadn't understood them, so he thought he must have heard wrong. "Who?"

Haru kept glancing uncomfortably over his shoulder and was now at the head of the group, trying to urge the others along. They were pretty close to a seven-eleven and Haru would be happy to just get there if he could get these two to move a little faster. "Come on, guys!" he hissed impatiently.

[Silent Dove]

Alice paled a bit, realizing she said it out loud. 'I'm so stupid!'She thought to herself, feeling like a true idiot at the moment. "Um...nothing...Just talking to myself..heh.."She said. Ok, not the greatest explanation she could come up with, but oh well. Hopefully Rory would buy it.

Alice looked ahead. "Sorry, Haru."She said hearing the impatient tone in the boy's voice. It was still raining, and it was getting a bit cold out in the weather.

The hawk was still following. Yes, a great amount of stubborness was added to its personality. Now for a few second, its human instincts completely left it. It was one of those moments when the full animal took over, and the full animal was still a bit angry about earlier. It then for the second time dove dove near the group.

((I like causing trouble..muwahaha.))

[Hyperactivefox]

((Heh, two can play at that game.))

Haru shouted again and Rory didn't hesitate this time, grunting as he hurled the broken bottle, which, for better or worse, acctually flew straight and true towards the hawk. "Get out of here!" he shouted even as his eyes watched the path of his throw. For obvious reasons it didn't occur to him how Alice would react or the concequences of this act, he only knew that this thing was trying to hurt them and that was enough.

[Silent Dove]

(I'd hate to be the Hawk right now ><))

The Hawk shrieked as the broken glass stabbed into the left wing. Naturally, this hurt greatly and it is terribly difficult for any bird to fly on a wounded wing. The bird continued to shriek as it was obviously in pain. It then flew away into a small alley near by, dissappearing from any public sight.

Alice winced. How would Haven explain that wound at home when he was a human? "RORY YOU IDIOT!"She yelled. She knew it was not really his fault since he did not know, but Alice was just upset and worried about Haven. It was not Haven's fault either, he could not control when he was a bird and what he really did in that form.

She then went after the bird following it into a the little alley.

[Hyperactivefox]

Rory jumped at the sudden venom in Alice's voice. For a second he stared at her, his heart pounding in his chest as he felt inexplainably like he had done something terribly wrong. But he'd only been trying to help! "Alice, I--" he cut off as she ran off into the alleyway. Rory braced himself to go after her but suddenly Haru grabbed him by the arm, halting him.

"No, no, dude," Haru said as he himself walked after Alice. "You stay, trust me. I'll talk to her."

"But--" Rory was cut off again as yet another person ran out of his sight. Great, Rory, just great! he thought angrily. What did I do? asked another, hurt and defensive voice inside of him. Rory sighed. "Girls," he muttered as he kicked up a rock that went banging into a parked car near the side walk. His eyes widened as he saw the dent that it left and he whistled as he walked away slowly, rounding a corner and leaning heavily against the brick wall of a bank.

Haru walked casually after Alice, his hands in his pockets again. He was in no hurry to meet a sensitive and sobbing girl with a bleeding and possibly dying bird that had tried to claw his face. "Alice?" he called out.

[Silent Dove]

Where the hawk had landed had suddenly changed. Now there was a male there, on the ground clutching mainly his left arm which was badly injured. One way of tell was from the constant flow of blood pouring onto the ground. "Crap.."He muttered. His blond hair was already damp and his eyes were shut.

Alice had just witnessed her brother turn back into a human. She was thankful Rory or Haru had not hopefully seen it. If they did...Alice was not sure what would happen. Both were nice, but..it was just a strange situation. Seeing Haven's arm, her brown eyes widened. "Haven!"

She went over to him. Haven looked at her. "So..what did I do now?"HJe asked, not really remebering what had happened.

[Hyperactivefox]

((Ooh man, I feel sorry for Haven. And for some reason I can just picture this! XD ))

"Alice!" Haru repeated loudly. There were acutally a few alleyways branching off the one he was in and he took had just taken the wrong one to a dead end. Slipping off down another route, he said, "Oh come on, I'm sure he didn't mean it. We can still fix the bird, get it in a box and take it to the vet!" More quietly and hopefully he added, "Maybe they'll put it to sleep."

He rounded the corner where Alice was with Haven. "Alice?"

[Silent Dove]

((Same same...Not sure why. Heh. ><))

Alice did not get a chance to answer her brother. She heard Haru and turned her head to see the younger boy just coming around the corner. Ok, so now what was she supposed to do?

1: Fix's Haven's arm.

2: Come up with an excuse for Haru and Rory.

Yeah, that sounded good when Alice thought about it inside her head.

"Hey, that kid..something about a wallet?"Haven asked suddenly. He vaguely remebered a scene of a young child running away from the sirens because of theft or so.

Alice turned back to Haven and nodded. "Um..Chit chat later, ok?"She said. She looked back at his arm. Alice winced at the amount of blood that had let out. Alice looked over to Haru. "Hey! Do you have any cloth I can use!?"She asked.

[Hyperactivefox]

Haru had been staring at Haven with wide eyes and he jumped when the wallet was mentioned. Had this guy been at the store when he'd stolen it? And where was that dumb bird?

He snapped his head towards Alice when she adressed him, though. "What? Oh, er...cloth, yea. Haru didn't have a cloth but he took off his cotton overshirt and tossed that to her. It was dirty and wet, but it was all he had...and probably more than either of these two had at the moment.

Leaning down over the pair of them, Haru frowned in puzzlement. "Wait a second, who are you? And what the heck happened ot your arm? Get in a knife fight?"

[Silent Dove]

Alice didn't care that it was dirty and wet, it would be just fine for the time being. "Thanks."She said. She had wrung it out a bit at first, trying to get some of the excess dirt and water out and placed it around Haven's arm. The cut was already dirty since the broken bottle probably wasn't clean in the first place.

Haven winced. It stung a bit when the foreign material was placed on his wound. Hearing what the yopunger boy said, he did not respond at first. "Yeah you could say that.."He said, referring to the fact that he was in a "knife fight". He looked at Alice. "I'll be fine now for now, sis. I don't think it hit anywhere that could be too bad."He said.

[Hyperactivefox]

"Crazy," Haru whispered, his eyes wide as he watched the blood soak the shirt that they were using. Then he drew back into a corner, his eyes glazed over.

Haru was thinking, and thinking deep. It had never occured to him that there might be other shifters like him, and he still didn't come to that conclusion, but he would if they let him think about it long enough. After all, bird falling, now guy with a gash in his arm. Haru frowned as the pieces began to come together. He didn't have it yet, but in a few more seconds....

[Silent Dove]

Haven stood up now. He still was applying some pressure to his left arm, to keep from losing too much blood. He was a bit light-headed, but still alright. He looked at Haru. "I'm sorry about your shirt. I can give you money to buy a new one if you'd lie."He offered.

[Hyperactivefox]

Haru jumped when he was adressed, the thought slipping out of reach just before he was able to grab it. He could puzzle it out later, after all. Right now there was a bleeding guy who probably had quite the story to tell, so the rest could wait! "Oh, that's ok..." Haru's good manners trailed off as he remembered that he did need money. "But you know...I mean...I won't say no to some cash." He gave a cheesy smile of innocence. Before Haven could object, he continued, "So what exaclty happened?" he asked shamelessly.

[Silent Dove]

Haven nodded. "Alright. I'll stop by my house later on and get you some then."He said. He paused, when Haru asked about what happened. "I accidently got on the wrong side of some guys to the extent where they didn't want to put up with any bull. I didn't mean to, but I guess you could say I gave them the idea that I was a threat or something, so they did a human thing and protected themselves."He said, shrugging.

Alice glanced over at Haven. 'Nice save.'she thought.

[Hyperactivefox]

"That's it?" Haru asked, clearly a bit more disappointed. "What about the blood and...the fight? What about all that? Did you get back at any of them? I'll bet you did! That's why there's none around now, you scared the heck out of them! Yes, that's it!" Haru could come up with his own story no problem, and already he had conjured up one in his mind involving a gang of twenty--no, fifty!

Haru finnally realized that he was acting completely out of it and he blinked rappidly to bring himself back to the real world. "Oh, er, yea. Why I came here..." The bird was apparently forgotten and after what it had done Haru wasn't keen to talk about it again. "Um...Rory's back by the street, said he's sorry. Anyways, let's get out of the rain, shall we?"