State of Panic ( Mekiel/Open )

[Ceraphine Davis]

She was back here.....her first day so to speak and for the most part it HAD been going good. Yet that had all changed and fast.

She should have known it would....She was a small girl, in a big school wearing a jacket with the name "Blaze" across the back of it. Not to mention she had tried so hard to keep to herself. Now, of course, people paid attention.

Not that it would have been such a bad thing, except when she had gone outside during lunch, sitting alone and simply hiding within the confines of her jacket, she had noted a group of guys not too far of staring at her, talking amongst themselves.

Now that it was time to go back inside, she was just about to round the corner that led to the front of the school, when a hand shot out and grabbed the back of her jacket. Jerking her back around the corner, that hood fell away, her black hair falling into her face and hiding her eyes.

As she was slammed back into the wall, she felt that panic rising...Too many guys...too close....and a hand on her.

Tears filled her eyes.....Yet they were hidden behind that hair....However it was clear she was panicking......Unable to breath....Fuck she was gonna have to start training soon or this was never going to end.......

[Mekiel Echigo]

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The battle cry of a beast. The rather large man rammed his shoulder into the guy holding the girl and continued going, creating not only a domino effect, but a train effect. Abruptly, he came to a stop and the five men continued forward, sliding across the ground.

"Choo Choo, assholes."

He walked toward the group, cracking his knuckles. The guys were fairly big, yeah, but definitely not as big as Mekky here. So, three of 'em were smart - I'm going to assume they couldn't fight - and ran. The other two were pissed - I'm going to guess it's because they messed up their perms - and stood up, looking the wildebeest in the eyes. He grinned, popping his neck, and for some reason, it released an intimidation factor. The guys looked as if they were about to crap themselves and ran off. If they were going to crap themselves, and they were running.. That was a bad combination.

"Hey, you alright?" He turned to face the girl now, running back to her. He didn't see everything so he thought a lot more happened than what did, but he hoped that nothing really happened. That make sense? Good.[/ul][/color]

[Ceraphine Davis]

Annnnnd then there was fighting......Ah always the one good guy for the five assholes of the school.

As soon as they were away from her, CJ would have slinked down that brick wall, now sitting there on the ground with her knees drawn up and her face buried into that jacket.

Breath.....just breath....

She kept telling herself that as she drew in deep, heavy drags of that scent. God she hated being this way, but after all that had happened.......all those nights......

No! She could not let her mind get lost in that or she would never calm down....

Part of her wanted to go and find David...He was in school...she knew that...But she was trying so hard to not be totally dependent on him.

As she let out a muffled whimper into the front of that jacket, she felt the heat of her tears rolling down her face.

Then there was a voice....the one who had saved her...for lack of a better term.....Slowly golden, tear filled eyes lifted and looked at him. As her hand came up, she would push her hair out of her face and nod slightly.

"I....I am fine...."

Yeah lie!!!! But not like anyone needed to be a mind reader to see that one. She tried to be alright....so that counted......Right? As she finally dropped the front of her jacket from her face she hugged her knees closer to her.

"Th...Thank you..."

[Mekiel Echigo]

[/b][/color] He'd grin, holding out his right arm, hand balled into a large fist. Truth be told, he'd defend anyone for no reason at all, this wasn't any different. Why would it be?

"You gotta seem confident, then they won't have the balls to approach you."[/ul][/color]

[Ceraphine Davis]

She watched cautiously as he took a seat beside her, his words making her grin slightly as she reached up and used the jacket sleeve to wipe away her tears.

To his final comment all she could think was that she knew that...Hell she USED to be one of the most confident girls in this place, or at least she had come across as such. Now, the only time she showed that confidence was around David......

But she was working on it......

"Yeah, you are probably right.....I have been working on it, but its been a bit harder than I thought it would be..."

Yeah, she was working on it, and it was harder than she had hoped, buuut she was sure she would get it soon enough. But she would never be totally the same....She just didn't see that ever happening.

"Of course it helps when you are built like a brick wall."

She laughed ever so lightly and turned her head away, eyes now looking at her hands as they twisted the ends of her sleeves about nervously.

[Mekiel Echigo]

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He smirked. There wasn't a point in starting anything and not goin' along to finish it. If you did that, you might as well have refrained from starting in the first place. Of course, the physique was one factor to take in to consideration, of course, but then there's also willpower. Luckily for Mekky here, he had both of 'em.

"Hey now, there's no cement or anything here. It's all me!" And good ol' science! But no one would ever know that ;]

"My name's Mekiel." He'd reach his left arm around to shake hers (If she so dared to accept the grip of a bear! ).[/ul][/color]

[Ceraphine Davis]

She laughed once more, shaking her head as she shot him a look out of the corner of her eye, her brow raising slightly as that grin curled upon her lips.

"No cement huh? Well better change that pretty fast. Brick walls aren't shit unless they got something solid holdin' them together."

She was a smart ass....always had been and probably always would be. Then his hand came out, to shake hers of course, though she could not help but look from him to his hand and bite her lower lip softly.

"I am Ceraphine. Though you can just call me CJ....and nothing personal, I just have this...um....fear of being touched..."

She held up her hand in an apologetic fashion as she sighed. She normally would have been all up on this guy....flirting and teasing to the best of her ability, buuuuut not anymore....Now she just sorta tried to make friends......in a different way...Heh....

"So, been going to school here long?"

Oh she knew he was new....she used to be the School Captain, she had known who was who, and she sure as hell would not have missed him....So yeah...definitely new.......

[Mekiel Echigo]

[/b][/color] He scratched the back of his head. Wall repellent would be horrible. It'd like, demoralize and disintegrate the thing!

"I've been here like.. wait.. A few weeks..? A month? I don't really remember, exactly.. Oh, yeah, just thought I'd mention; I'm not really the Chuga Chuga Train Dragon. I'm the Iron dragon." That had to be said.

"And what about you? How long have you been here?"[/ul][/color]

[Ceraphine Davis]

Ah men....such foolish and silly little things. Shaking her head she would raise her brow....Dragon huh? Well that was interesting, though she said nothing.......just kept it to herself...She knew David really didn't want people knowing his status just yet so she was not one to go blabbing about it...Besides, it was not her place.

Instead she would shrug softly to his question and sigh as she looked out ahead of them with now lavender eyes.

"Just started actually...Like.....today...heh"

She grinned once more before laying her head back against the wall and turning to face him...That fire that always burned in her eyes, once more sparking to life.....Why? Because she was finding this conversation interesting, and she had always been a sucker for anything interesting.

"And don't be so sure of yourself Iron Dragon. You say not even a tank could bring you down...but sometimes it is the smallest of things, with the lightest of touches that can make something so big and strong crumple to the ground..."

Oh yeah, she knew all too well how that went...How many men had she done that to over the years with just a simple touch or a kiss? Power was not always in how one threw a punch...Some just seemed to forget that.

[Mekiel Echigo]

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He didn't really give her a chance to talk, no, but he didn't think she'd mind it. All he said, he said in about five seconds, and it was pretty much "I'll help you cause I can." Not that he thought she was helpless, no, but it'd give him something to do, something to look forward to. That'd make two things in total.

"Well, honestly, this wall's been broken many a time by the simplest things, but it's built itself back up. I think that's why it's hard to take down." He took a look at his pendants, each with a pairing of letters etched into them.
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[Ceraphine Davis]

She didnt really get a chance to answer, and as she grinned and shook her head she would let him finish speaking before she bothered to offer up anything in return.

"Friend is good. I could use a few of those."

She nodded, thinking that as of right now......she only had one...David....Mischa had walked out, and all the other's thought she was dead. Heh.

Then came the comment about the wall again and once again she raised her brow lightly, watching as he looked at the pendants, and yet saying nothing. She was always the silent observer, always learning through what she saw.

"Then you have not found that one thing that has the power to cripple you beyond repair."

Ah yes, that one thing......that one person. For each strong, reliable person out there, there was one major weakness...One who captured their heart and soul so completely that no matter how hard they tried, once broken they could never again rebuild themselves the same. The greatest power also being the greatest weakness.

She figured he would learn that in time......They all did and so far she had yet to find her own.....though she had come dangerously close a few times.

[Mekiel Echigo]

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And that was what he seriously believed. Even after Valor and the.. outcome, he came out almost the same as before. Only, he grew a foot. And, lots of other.. things that wouldn't be mentioned. He let the pendants fall back to his chest, and smiled.

"If I ever got to that point of no return.. I'd probably do something drastic." Though what he didn't realize was that it was closer that he'd initially thought.

He stood up to his feet and made a motion for her to follow.

"We should walk around so we don't look like the kids who eat all the food at the parties. Though, that is kind of cool."[/ul][/color]

[Ceraphine Davis]

She rose to stand, her brow raising slightly as she ran her tongue over her lips and stuffed her hands into her pockets. A soft nod given in agreement to walking about.

Then, as she began a slow steady stroll she would let her head lower so that her eyes could watch her feet as the trudged through the grass.

"Ah, but thats the beauty of this weakness. It is only when it finally breaks you that you realize it was there to begin with and only then can you fully appreciate it for what it is. A double edged sword or sorts."

She smiled to herself, thinking of how something so amazing could be so devastating. Sure, she had never met that one person who could do such a thing to her, but she had her weaknesses, ones that she had hid away.....but that one day would come back to get her, she was sure.

"So, met anyone interesting in this hell hole yet?"

She tried, but it was hard to hide the contempt she felt for this place in her tone.

[Mekiel Echigo]

[/b][/color] All he could really say about that, without rambling on and on over things no one cared about.

"So, tell me about yourself. Y'know, things you don't think it'd be awkward for me to know."[/ul][/color]

[Ceraphine Davis]

"Eccentric does not even begin to define it..."

She muttered this softly before she would shrug and continue to walk along....Thinking about what she could really say about herself, all the while feeling those emotions he had.....hmm...sooomebody had something he wasnt talking about.....buuut perhaps she was reading too much into it.

Either way she would finally sigh and start in the best place she knew where to start at.

"Ummm....well was born here....raised here....sorta in and out of foster homes. Ended up locked up for awhile....annnd now I am living with my friend David and trying to get some basic form of a life going. Not much else to tell. Other than the fact that I have a phobia of being touched, have random panic attacks and am a walking mood ring."

She laughed, looking at him and pointing to her eyes. They had changed colors since he first came upon her, from golden to lavender....and they would change again if her mood warranted such. Damn her faulty genetics.

"What about you?"