The year is 819 A.S., or After Sirius. What we once knew as 'Earth' was destroyed, the whole universe was destroyed. Five nations sent out sleeper ships to try and save humanity. Four nations established themselves close to one another. Germany became Rheinland, What was America is now Liberty, The United Nations has become Bretonia and Japan is now Kusari. It wasn't until recently the French, now Gallia, made themselves known. Each nation took over one main planet, in a home system. Expansion is a natural thing, and it happened here. Most planets we know of are inhabited, and if they aren't, they will be soon. Space stations have been built for ease of access for supplies, and to cope with the rapid population increases.
Space travel has become more accessible to the every day citizen, this has allowed people to leave the home planets, and make their own groups. Pirates have begun to rule the skys, fighting among themselves as they try to gain territory to be able to survive. Militarys have been rebuilt costing millions of people lives through wars at a much larger scale then what was happening back on Earth. People who are interested in profit have been able to create business', trading goods with neighboring planets, and systems.
I was born into the Liberty Rogues, a pirate group based in the Republic of Liberty. We use to rule the skys here, the navy hadn't been able to eradicate us, and although we may now be far and few between, we are still here. Things were good, we were living lives of luxury when Moka was in charge, we weren't scared of what would happen if we were ambushed by the navy here. Times changed, and Moka was exiled for fighting for what he believed in. One of the lesser Rogues pushed him out of power, exiling him. A group of us left when he did. We fled to Padua, as we still believed in his 'laws', we were worried about how we would be treated there with the rest of the group. We were suffering on Padua, the people were losing hope, we eventually grew to believe Moka was never to return..... We were wrong, he eventually did, bringing with him the new hope of the Padua Liberty Rogues, the disaster. A Liberty Dreadnought, making us the most powerful group of 'pirates' in Liberty space. Now we have the task of re-building. We are the superior, and we will reign again. Liberty is ours.
Tori lay still on the floor in one of the rooms on the station, her eyes shut. She had just regained consciousness again and was unaware of her surroundings. He had hit her head and she was having trouble remembering what was happening. Cautiously tried to straighten one of her legs, crying out in pain as she did so.
The man heard her cry out and grinned as he walked back across the room to her. Grabbing her arm, he pulled her up off the floor before he forced her back across to where she had been hanging in front of the camera. He re-cuffed her wrists and watched her and she opened her eyes. He loved the confused look she had, it made him feel more in control. She could just reach the floor on her toes where she was now, he was use to taller victims.
She had stopped fighting him after he had hit her across the back of the head with the metal pole, and this disappointed him. The fight was half the fun. Shrugging to himself he walked across to a small table, picking up a knife. He walked back across to her and gently brushed the hair out of her face.
"Where should we start, love..... Jason, he suggested that I just kill you and be done with it. It's a pity, I thought you would have meant something to him. After all, you obviously think highly of him......"
He pauses trying to gauge her reaction, and smiled when he saw the tears rolling down her cheeks.
"Don't worry.... I don't like that idea, I'm not going to kill you, yet. I want to have a bit of fun first."
Tori frowns, she could remember pulling the gun on him, and then nothing. She glances around the room quickly, looking for an escape. He had turned away, back to the table. She took the time to put weight on her injured leg, swearing under her breath as she did so. Realizing even if she did manage to free herself, escaping would be impossible. She tries to keep a steady voice as she mumbles,
"He..... He's not going to let you get away with this...."
He laughs at her before slowly walking back towards her, swinging a pole, hitting her on her left side. She whimpers as she collapses, only the cuffs holding her upright. He stands next to her and pulls her hair back, making her look at him.
"You will not talk unless talked to while you are here....."
She glares at him and stands up again, taking the strain off her arms, but keeping silent. He throws the pole on the floor and she flinches when it makes a noise. He holds the knife out where she can see it, trying to get a reaction and swore at her when she didn't move. The man walks around behind her holding the knife to her throat. He whispers something in her ear and for a moment she looked worried, before putting on the stony expression she had before, only this time she was biting her lip.
"Give it up already, love. He isn't coming to save you. Play the game.... Have a bit of fun already."
She shook her head, and he frowned. The man pulled the knife away from her kneck, running it down her back. She tried not to react but failed and flinched, trying to pull away from the blade.
"That's better...."
He ran his hand through her hair. She closed her eyes forcing herself to take a few shallow breaths.
"Please.... No more...." She says quietly, only to have him laugh at her.
"Please don't what? Do this?"
He throws another two punches, both connecting with a thud making her cry out again. She was struggling to stay on her feet now, the pain had become too much for her. She thought she heard a noise, but as she slips in and out of consciousnesses, she decides it was all in her mind.
"What the.....?!" The man looks around trying to find what had made the noise. Not seeing anything he turned back to Tori, pushing the tip of the knife into her shoulder.
"You should know I'm not a fan of tricks..... Especailly ones like that. Come on.... Get up." He taunted before kicking her feet out from underneath her as she tried.
As Jason hears the man taunting her, he quickly gets up in full view from behind the couch and fires the crossbow. The taster darts fly at him and land one on his neck and the other penetrating his cloths and arm. Jason then pulls down on the trigger. The man drops the knife, before realizing Jason was there. The man went to pull out Tori's gun but Jason pulled the trigger before he could even aim it. He fell to the floor convulsing as the electrical current ran through his body.
Jason spits on the floor with his eyes locked on the man. As he steps closer he keeps on pulling the trigger and watching him shiver with the electricity going through him. continuing this he walks over to Tori quickly and looks at the cuffs keeping her standing. He face saddens.
"Did he even give you a dink of water?"
She shakes her head slightly, struggling to understand what he was saying. She wanted to sleep. "He w... no..." She says quietly before stopping, not having the energy to finish the sentence.
Jason turns around hiding the anger showing from his face from Tori. He goes back to the man still being sent shocks every couple of seconds and start to kick him in the side."YOU... SON.... OF A.... " He knees down and searches his pockets finally finding a ring with keys. He then gets up and starts reaches up and tries to see which one fits finally finding the one that does to the cuffs. Pulling the trigger on his crossbow once more for good measure, he puts the crossbow down on the floor a good way away from the man and puts one of his arms under Tori's legs. He stops suddenly and looks at Tori with worry.
"Tori... did your legs break? Can.. can you move your toes?"
She looks down with a bit of a frown, "Only the left one...." She smiles slightly "Right one is ok." Tori looks across at the man for a moment before flinching as she tried to put weight on her left leg. "It hurts......" She mumbles, dropping her head so her hair covers some of her face.
"Alright... then when i get the cuffs off you gotta wrap your arms around my neck ok?" Without saying anything more hey turns the lock on the cuffs hand her hands fall down. He holds her by her waist till she she can stabilize herself. "I'm gonna get you to that couch alright? Just hang on tight." He helps to support her left leg as he starts walking with her.
Tori nodded slightly and wrapped her arms around his neck, she almost falls as the pain from the sudden change in position hits her. She moves one arm away from around his neck and pulls it up to guard her ribcage. She walks as best she could with Jason, Trying to focus on getting to where they were heading.
"I... I feel like I'm going to pass out or something...." she managed to say quietly as they reached the couch. She closes her eyes for a moment and almost looses balance. Jason, alarmed, quickly helps her lie down on the couch. He watches her for a moment to make sure she is still breathing before looking back at the man on the floor. He turns to Tori and sits on the couch and leans in to kiss her on the cheek. "Relax now... it will be over soon..." Tori nods ever so slightly before giving in to the pain and falling back into unconsciousness.
Jason sighs and now turns to the man on the floor. He starts walking towards him, his anger building inside him. "Hey you! Are you SHOCKED to see me?" The man stands up, shaky on his feet from the shocks. He scowls at Jason. Muttering something about Tori being a dead girl walking. He pulls at the tazer darts, frowning as he removed them from his skin. A small trickle of blood from each of the punctures can be seen. He picks up the knife and spits in Jason's direction before walking towards Tori.
Jason stops a few meters away. He then quickly reaches for his knives and draws them, holding one upside down in his left wrist and the larger on upright in his right. He Looks at his crossbow at the side but far away form him to get it and swears. "Hey you! I want a refund!"
"Refund for what?" He growls and stops walking towards Tori, turning to look at Jason. "What do you think Baldy? For not keeping your end of the deal!" Jason steps to the right, inching his way closer to the crossbow on the floor. "She's not dead. Yet. Quit your moanin' " he turns his back to Jason and shakes his head, watching Tori's breathing patterns. He smirks "even if you take her, she wont make it... shes screwed" he said in a taunting voice. Jason turns to the side and spits on the floor again then squishes it into the floorboards rudely. "I'll keep your remarks in mind when you'll be almost dead and moaning about it. Now how would you like it done? Smashed or stabbed?" Jason returns the grin as he steps a step closer to him. "Or should I just suprise you?"
He smirks and walks over to Her. "You try and touch me, and shes a gonner." Tori moves slightly whimpering as she does. Without hesitation Jason spins his smaller dagger in his left hand and throws it at the man, hitting him in the shoulder. Jason then charges at him with his larger dagger. The man puts his hand over where the dagger was still embedded in his shoulder. He swears and looks to be in pain. He sees Jason charging and braces for impact, readying his own knife. Jason sees his knife being taken out at the last moment and swings his dagger, clashing with his and with the force making him flinch and moving his hand with the knife to the side. He then gets ready for the man's counter lunge at him with the knife in the man's hand.
He does as Jason predicted and lunged back, he was weaker then normal as he was having to use his less dominant hand. Jason blocks the blade with his own and pushes it back, giving it a twist around the mans blade making him loose control and make its slip out of his hands. He laughs and grabs the mans shirt pulling it close to him while lifting his dagger up to his chin and then grabbing the dagger stuck in his shoulder and twisting it. The man swears and goes to fall to his knees as Jason twists the dagger. Realizing Jason also had one pressed under his chin he stayed on his feet. Just. "You kill me and you'll be a dead man" he warns, trying to keep his voice steady.
"Let me tell you something..." With the flat side of the blade by pulls on is chin to lift it up to look at him. "She's leaving here alive whether you like it or not. I kept a woman alive for a month before I let her die once. A MONTH! You think I can't stop her from ending up dead?" He smirks and leans into him closer. "You think I cant jsut cut your head clean off right now and be done with you?"
"and what happens when that 'month' is up..... she wont survive long" The man spits at Jason.
"You're all talk, kiddo." He smirks, hiding the pain of the knife in his shoulder well. "You wont kill me".
"I'm all talk? Is that right...." Jason's smile widens. "Goodnight Bates." With the hand holding the dagger, the takes it from under his neck and punches him in the side of the head with the end of the handle of dagger. He smashes it to his head with such force that the man gets knocked out and falls onto the floor. Jason then acts quick and takes off the cuffs from Tori's wrist and comes back to Bates and cuffs his hands behind his back.
Tori woke, keeping her eyes closed. She was more comfortable then she had been. On a bed, perhaps. She opens her eyes and doesn't recognize where she was, she tried to move, deciding it wasn't a good idea. "Jason?" She says anxiously. He didn't answer, and she eventually fell into a light sleep. The sound of the door opening woke her. "Tori? Are you awake?"
She nods slightly. "It hurts...." She says quietly trying not to move any more then she has to, even her breathing was dangerously shallow. "don't let him hurt me anymore..... please?" she mumbles. It was clear that she wasnt aware of where she was. Jason walks up to the bed. "Don't worry, hes not gonna hurt you anymore......." He looks over her again half sighing but catching himself doing so. "Just try to relax as best you can Tori, you'll be okay now. Your safe with me and I'm gonna get us back... Here you need.... here let me help."
Jason takes a oxygen mask from the wall that linked to a tank of extra air supply. Carefully he puts it on Tori. "That should help a bit... let me get you some water. You look dehydrated...." She closes her eyes, and keeps them shut, wincing in pain when he puts the mask on. She smiles slightly, as a thanks. Jason leaves the room and quickly comes back with a cup of warm water in his hands. He helps her to sit up really slowly and places the cup to her mouth to drink. Tori opens her eyes finally and watches Jason, wondering why he risked his life for hers. He returns with the drink and helps her sit up. She bites her lip trying to hide how much pain she was in. She pulls the mask down and takes a few sips before shaking her head. "I... cant. Please.. I need to lie down.... Where is he?"
Jason helps her back down gently and puts the mask back on. He ignores her question for now since he didn't want her to think about what she had been through."Alright, your gonna have to take a deep breath every hour or so... Can you do that? I know it will hurt but you need to try... Hold on let me get you something to help the pain....." He walks over to a shelf and gets a bottle with some tablets in it then walks back to her taking one out and leaving the bottle on the shelf. "This will help... Can you sit up one more time?"
"Ill try to...." she says quietly about the breaths and shakes her head "I want to but I cant sit up.... it hurts here.... " she holds her hands over the right side of her ribs. "It really hurts" she says starting to get upset. Jason nods and says in a calm, gentle tone. "The right side huh? Yeah its gonna hurt, that's why I wana give you this to die down the pain...." He notices she is getting more and more upset and sits next to her. He runs her hand through her hair gently, moving the hair from her eyes and with his thumb wiping off away tear.
"You know... This one time back on Crete... I'm at this bar right? And there was this fat big guy always drunk there. He saw me once there with a friend of mine and got pissed ... for what ever reason..." He said smirking to himself "... Anyway, there was a bar fight. After it i came out with a few broken ribs while protecting my bud that was already down. Lucky though he was alright cause he helped me get back..." He smiles a comforting smile at Tori. "Its gonna be alright... How about if i tilt your head a bit and get you a straw? Would that be alright?"
"I think that would work...... The straw." Tori nods slightly after listening to his story, trying to smile slightly, "It will help the pain...... And its going to be ok?" She looks at him for confirmation. She stops and frowns slightly for a moment, while looking at Jason "Why did you come after me?" She looked genuinely confused, unable to make sense of this. "You didn't have to put yourself in danger because I was stupid and got caught.."
"Honestly,... I couldnt stop thinking about you.. if you were safe. Then when I saw you I... nothing else mattered to me." He smiles and gets a straw from a drawer in the room and walks back to her. "Its gonna be ok..." He puts the straw in the cup and helps her lift her head to sip, then gives her the pill to swallow. Tori pulls the mask down, and takes the pill before closing her eyes again, poking out her tongue slightly "I'm not that unforgettable, you know." She murmurs as she puts the mask back on.
She sighs "I'm sorry I screwed up.... I shouldn't have mentioned you, but he....." She stops and shakes her head, not wanting to finish the sentence. "I don't see why your sorry. If you hadn't said anything then who knows what he'd do...." He gets up and gets an IV fluid bag, sets it up on a stand and pulls it over to her. "Im gonna have to poke a needle in you... its just gonna sting ok? Nothing major."
"I still shouldn't have mentioned you there.... That could have... he might have hurt you, and I don't think I could deal with that...." She shrugs weakly. "Needles are ok" She moves her arm from her ribs and straightens it so he can put the IV lure into it. He takes some rubbing alcohol first and cleans her arm, then sticks the needle in and covers it with a band-aid. "Yea he could have hurt me... but that possibility didn't really matter much to me. I had worse things done to me anyway than whatever he could have done...
All that mattered was to get you out of there."
She flinches as he puts the needle into her arm, and looks at it, shaking her head. She didn't like being unwell at the best of times and hated this. "I still dont understand why..." she says quietly. "Where are we?" She asks, trying to change the topic. He hears her quiet voice and sits back next to her. He slowly takes off her mask, pulling it up, and then leans and kisses her. He sits up again and smiles looking into her eyes. "That's why I came... I love you."
Tori bites her lip when he pulls back. "I.... Really?" She frowns and falls silent for a moment. "I love you too" She says quietly. She still didn't know where she was, but didn't care about that anymore, she tries to stop smiling, but can't. She thinks for a moment and shakes her head "Since when?"
"That one time when you sang that song on your guitar. You sounded amazing, but when I tried to compliment you, you kept saying it was nothing really." He smiles warmly. "I still think you sounded beautiful."
Tori smiles sheepishly, "I'm not that good, really.... It's just something I do to take up time."
"yea keep saying that too yourself." He says teasing her. He then turns and walks over to one of the drawers."I gotta get that leg now looked at... For now I'll make a splint." She watches him wondering what he was going to do, hoping it wouldn't hurt too much.He finds three pieces of stiff cardboard and some bandage fabric. He gets one of the extra pillows lying around and walks back to Tori, putting the things on the bed next to her leg. "Which one is it again?"
"The left one..." She tries to pull her jeans leg up a little bit, but deciding not to. the little bit that she had showed bruising starting to come out, and dried blood. She shook her head "My foot has pins and needles now. "
"Hmm... I need to take a look at it... I'm gonna have to cut it open." He places his hand on the handle of his smaller dagger on his chest's strap. "You can close your eyes if you don't wana look at it, but i promise I wont even scratch you." Tori nods hesitantly seeing him reach for the knife.He takes it out, his blade reflecting a bit of the light as he does, then moves to place the tip of it halfway between her knee and her waist. He then presses ever so gently on the dagger and moves it towards him, only slitting the fabric and not what is underneath. Tori closes her eyes, and tries not to think about the knife and the memories it brought back with it. Just below her knee a piece of bone was sticking through the skin, blood had pooled and dried around, her leg was almost entirely bruised. Tori hadn't looked at this yet, she knew it was bad but didn't want to see it.
"Yea Tori, I don't want you to look alright?" Jason stared a bit at her leg looking at what he could do but then decides to stick with the splint for now. He presses down on the bed in the middle of where her leg is and starts to move the pillow underneath. He watches to see her reaction as he does so. Tori nods and flinches as he moves the bed and puts the pillow under her leg. She bites her lip trying not to let on with how much it was hurting. He finishes moving the pillow under her leg and then slides the first board under it. He the places the other two pieces of cardboard on both sides of her leg an takes the bandage fabric in his hands thinking of how to do it without moving her leg too much. He grabs a bit of tape, sticks one end of the bandage to one cardboard side, pressing it the pillow against her leg and starts wrapping it around, keeping in mind to get the other side pressing on her leg as well. He tries to move her leg as little as possible when moving the bandages under her leg when wrapping. He then finishes and looks at his work. "Alright... that's good for now..."
Tori didn't realize she was holding her breath until he was finished. "That really kinda hurt...." She says quietly. "Is it bad?" She looks up at Jason, looking slightly concerned. "Its not really THAT bad.... You'll recover." He looks at her smiling a bit weakly, trying to hide his worry for her. "I gotta get you some ice though. I'll be right back alright? After this we are taking off from here." He turns and walks out from the room. Tori shivers, not sure if it was from the cold or the pain. She smiles slightly back "Alright"
She watches him walk out and looks up at the saline fluids, watching it slowly drip into tube and ultimately her system. She wasn't sure if it was that that was making her feel better, or the fact that she knew she was safe. Either way, the fuzzyness in her head was starting to fade. Jason returns wit a small bag of ice and places it next to her on the bed. "I'm gonna check where it hurts. I'm gonna have to press a bit on your chest so just tell me where you feel the pain alright?" He starts to do so, pressing with his palm gently, enough for her to tell him where it hurts.
"Yep.... It hurts there......" She says quietly when he gets to the lower right side of her ribs. "Does it get a bit worse now?" He presses on it a bit more watching her reaction. She nods, staying silent, trying not to tear up again. "Really really sore...." He stops pressing on it and nods. "Im not gonna get you any ice then on it then...." He watches her in pain and feels sad for her. "Hey... we are getting out of here... Jackson's got his ship jsut outside of this system in Texas. When we jump he'll be there to picks us up... as well as Siren." His tone gets a bit serious when he says Siren's name. He sighs heavily when he notices Tori frown at the seriousness in his voice. "Too much going on.... I just....... We are getting back to the Scylla." He turns to leave.
"Jason....." Tori frowns. "Don't go...."Jason looks back with one hand on the door frame. He seems a bit worried and with a bunch of stuff on his mind but still manages a slight smile. Tori see's his stress, and tilts her head sideways slightly, with a slight grin. "Don't worry too much alright....." She pauses for a moment. "I love you.."
"I love you too..." He smiles a bit more warmly. "I gotta get the ship running or we'll be here for a bit since you know... There's only three people on board." He walks out but you can still hear his footsteps. he leaves the door open. Tori nods slightly, not saying anything more as he walks away.
Some time passed, and the ship began to move. The occasional jolts hurt her. Jason poked his head through the door, "Hey, how are you holding up?" Tori keeps her eyes shut "I'll say I'm doing fine...." She says quietly.He stays quiet for a bit as he hears sometimes the ship getting his by a space rock or two. "It hurts really bad doesn't it?..." She nods "really bad." She tries to smile slightly before opening her eyes and looking over to see where he was. "I'll be fine though..." She adds sounding unconvinced. He walks to the bed and sits down, taking a hold of her hand. "You have no choice BUT being fine." He says this with a weak smile. "I know....." She nods. "I can't not be ok now."
She smiles a bit and squeezes his hand slightly. "Thank you." He squeezes back gently. "You don't have to thank me... I just didnt like seeing you that way and... Hey, you got really soft hands."
"It was my own fault anyway" She shrugs before giggling at his change of topic "Really?" He grins. "Yeah really." He says teasing her and starts moving his thumb rubbing the back of her hand gently, ignoring her as she argued what he was saying. "You know, sooner or later your gonna accept one of my compliments." Tori's cheeks go slightly pinker then they were. "I don't have to, you know....." He runs his hand up from her's, running up her arms to her shoulder as he leans to kiss her. She kisses him back with a smile on her face, bringing one of her arms up and resting it on his shoulder carefully, in a sort of hug. It was the best she could manage with the pain. He pulls back a bit and frows worryingly. "I'm not making the paint worse am I?" Tori shakes her head looking slightly disappointed. "Cant be any worse then it is already, you know."
He sits back next to her and is quiet for a moment looking down but then looks back to her. "So.... what actually.... happened. You know... with caterpillar face over there." Tori looked away for a moment and bites her lip. "I don't really remember....." She starts before pausing trying to collect her thoughts. "I know he shot my ship.... I don't think its salvagable.... And took in my escape pod. It kinda went bad from there." She thinks for a moment, and motions to her ribs "This happened when he was trying to find out who to talk to.... to, I don't know, I guess he wanted money. He kept saying that you just didn't care, and that you weren't going to pay up, so he would have to make money another way... But you did..."
She rubs her forehead, looking like she didn't really want to talk about it. "He, um, he wanted me to stand up, so he made me, with the cuffs." She held her left wrist, marks were visible on both of them. "I really don't know.... I know he hit me in the head, hard... At least I think he did. I don't know if that's making me not be able to remember or something...." She shrugs apologetically. Jason nods. "Don't worry about it, i'll squeeze it out of him." He looks at her wrists and runs his thumb over he raw marks while holding her hand again."Does it hurt?"
She shook her head and looked down, watching him run his thumb over the marks on her wrists. "Honestly, that's probably the one part that is bearable...."
"I think I should wrap a bit of bandage on your wrists just to be safe. Is it just soar or does it really hurt when u move them?" She tells him her left one is worse, and watches as he takes the bandage in one hand and her left wrist in the other and starting to wrap it. "Just let me know if there is anything else alright? I wana know whats hurting to I can take care of you well." Tori shrugs "my head.... but that's everything, i think..." He stops and looks at her, frowning with concern. "Cause he hit you there right? Thats probably bruised up a bit. Does it hurt real bad still though or just like a head-ache?"
"Just a little bit" she thinks a bit " my mind is a little bit.... fuzzy? I think thatd be the best way to say it." He looks back seeing the ice-pack still in the room. "How about I put some ice on it for you? That should help a bit." She nods and once he finishes wrapping her other wrist in bandage then places the ice pack on her head. "Hows that? A bit better?" She complains about the cold, making Jason laugh. "I'm pretty sure we are nearing the Jump Gate... I gotta go check and get us back quickly. Your gonna be alright for now? If you need anything just press that button over there right under that speaker and i'll hear you."
[align=justify][color=#d0cec2] Tori closes her eyes, and it doesn't take her long to fall into a deep but restless sleep. After Jason docks he walks back to the Med-bay and sees her asleep. He smiles to himself and checks the IV fluid before leaving the room not wanting to disturb her. He goes then to his weaponry storage room and replaces is crossbow with a shotgun and locks the door behind him as he then makes his way down and out of the ship. Two and a half hours later, Tori wakes with a fright and goes to sit up. She cries out in pain and covers her face with her hands.
"Jason?" she says sounding wounded, she soon realized he wasn't in the room and moved her hands to guard her ribs having a quick look around the room. happy she knew where she was, she relaxed a little while trying to remember what that man had done to her. She flinched as she remembered hearing what she thought was Jason and then struggling to breathe after he hit her with a metal bar. Tori shook her head slightly, there must have been something she could have done differently, something to stop herself from getting caught by him. A tear rolled down her cheek as she thought about how much her stupidity could have put Jason at risk.
Jason and Tori are in what resembled a bar on Alcatraz, it was more of an eatery, but it was the best available at that time. Siren had helped 'heal' Tori, with the use of her nanites. It had almost killed her, but sped up the recovery process considerably. Jason orders the two of them a drink, and a light meal, once it arrives, she takes a sip of the coffee. Watching a girl walk into the room, she looked unimpressed with what passed as a bar here. "I think that's Thing over there.." He takes another sip looking back to Tori. "we had a small talk before.."
"Right, just a talk" Tori asks slightly raising an eyebrow. Thing walks across past their table. Before she reaches the next table along from them she stops for a moment and turns around to look back at the two "Jason.... Hi." she thinks for a moment and says to Tori "Hi.. Uh, sorry, I'm useless with names.". Tori shrugged, she never remembered anyone to remember her. "Tori. Hi." She smiles and glances at Jason before taking a sip of her drink. Jason nods a hello. "I see your not hiding as much now Thing. How have you been?"
"Im on Padua, last I checked it was pretty safe here." She shrugs and takes a seat opposite the two. "I'm doing alright, you're keeping out of trouble?" Tori nods, vaguely remembering her from 'Traz. "Trouble?" He takes a sip of his drink again. "Define 'trouble'."
"You're not dead so thats a good start." She shrugs and starts to drink her drink. "Well Tori's not thank god..... Ow!" Tori elbows him and looks across at Thing wondering what he was playing at. Jason quickly tries to dismiss what he had just said. "Its nothing really that you'd be interested in though...." He says rubing his side a bit.Thing frowns slightly "Right...." She puts her coffee mug down on the table and looks across at Tori. "Almost dying is a part of the lifestyle here. Your a Rogue, Rogues get shot, right?" Tori shrugs and replies quietly. "For the most part."
"Rogues should also deal with their own issues and ask for help if needed..." He sips some more. "And not go through another Rogues pockets to get information." Thing adds bluntly. "Its a good thing i did." He puts the beer down on the table looking a bit serious. Thing raises an eyebrow and looks at him. "What exactly are you trying to say here, Jason. Don't try convince me to get help with it again, its not going to happen." Tori sits there looking lost. Deciding not to try to follow the conversation anymore she sips away at her coffee.
"Well. Too late for that. Its over with." He reaches for a Calamari, looking smug. "What do you mean -over with-" Thing asks sounding slightly concerned. "Lets just say he wont be a bother anymore....." He takes a piece and chews. "You and I both know there would only be two reasons for that, Jason. What have you gone and done this time?" She starts to sound slightly aggravated at this point, and Tori takes an interest to the conversation again having decided she had enough to eat. "Oh nothing. Hes just on my ship." He shrugs as if it was no big deal hiding him being a bit ticked Tori was in danger before because of this whole thing. Thing puts her coffee down and leans in slightly towards him, resting her arms on the table. "What do you mean, hes on your ship? Why the hell would he be there?"
"Cause I put him there. Why else?" He reaches for another piece of his food. Thing lowers her voice "So you went looking for him. After I told you to drop it?" He stops his hand over the food, retracts it and leans forward to her with a straight serious look. "I had no choice. Because you didn't say anything, Tori was gonna die because we didn't deal with this problem earlier. Its over now....... Oh right... and he owes me about 30 million too."
"How long have you had him on your bloody ship for then, she looks fine." She still sounded aggravated. "And you gave him money?!" Thing shakes her head. Tori looked like she was going to say something, but decided against it, shaking her head slightly. "Four days. And I gave him money so Tori wouldn't get a knife stuck up her throat! She already had her leg and ribs broken once I got to her!" Tori rubs the back of her head subconsciously as she thinks about what happened. Thing sits up and crosses her arms "Four days, those injuries.... She wouldn't have healed up that much already. Jason, your full of shit."
"Yea that's what Jackson said to Siren ... in a sense. She healed Tori..." He shrugs "Don't believe me then why not just see for yourself?" Thing shakes her head "Healed... Right... Ok." She picks up her coffee and takes a drink of it "Why the hell would you go out of your way to keep him alive here rather then just.... Actually, I don't want to know."
"Yea you don't... I'm not done with him yet." he finishes his beer. "Right....." She finishes her coffee and puts it down on the table, looking across at Tori who seemed to be lost in thought, running her finger around the rim of her mug. Thing sighs "You know, your borderline crazy Jason. How you haven't been killed yet, I don't know." He shrugs "A bit of training never hurt." he laughs. "Funny. I dont see why your not relieved by this news. Not my problem though." Tori looks across at Jason. "I'll be back in a moment...." She stands up and steps outside the door of the building trying to find anything to take her mind off what they were talking about.
Thing watches her stand up and looks back at Jason. "I'm relieved, Jason... And I'm trying to figure out how the hell you both got out of there alive. If he got to that point of messing her up...." Thing pauses for a moment trying to think how to word it. "He has a routine, I've seen it before, I was warned about it from other people before I even saw him initially. Broken bones will have been the nicer part of what hes done.... He.... Just hope that for her sake, she doesn't remember most of it."
"You think I don't have a routine?" He leans back now smirking but watching Tori leave with slight concern. "He'll regret every minute of his life when I'm done with him." Thing shrugs "I'm just warning you. since you don't listen to a bloody thing I say anyway I don't expect you to listen to this."
"Right. So in your point of view what COULD I have done?" She shakes her head and sighs slightly. "I don't know.... How did she get involved anyway?" Jason shrugs "She doesn't remember. Only that she got caught somehow and taken to the freeport on Bering." Thing nods "Right." She looks up at the door to see if she could see Tori. "Who is she anyway?" Jason raises an eyebrow. "I thought you knew her."
"I know shes some Rogue. Met her a few times on 'Traz. Didn't think she was anyone important." Jason leans back putting down his beer staring at it for a moment. "Shes important to me... Excuse me for a moment..." He gets up to leave. Thing thinks for a moment and nods "You like her, don't you?." She watches him stand up and sighs "I'm sorry, Jason. I didn't realize it would have gotten to this point." She watches him leave, wondering if they would be back.
Tori is sitting outside around the corner of the building hidden from most people. Shes sitting on the ground her back against the wall, hugging her knees, watching people walk past. Jason walks out looking around over peoples heads to see if he could spot Tori. He then notices her up against the wall sitting on the cold floor alone. he runs up to her but then walks when a few meters away form her. "Tori..." She looks up at him, a lost look in her eyes "Hey. Sorry... I just needed some air" She smiles slightly. "No... Im sorry. I shouldn't have done what i did." He sits next to her. "You alright?" She shrugs "Yeah"
"You must feel awful..." He reaches his hand around her and hugs her with one arm hulling her towards him. "Me and my big mouth..." He says quietly but Tori can hear him. "No... Its fine. Just remembering things I don't really want to remember is all." She looks across watching the people walk past again. "You want to talk about it?" he holds her hand rubbing the back of it with his thumb. She shrugs "Not really... I mean he just...." She pauses a moment. "I don't know."
"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to...." He hugs er a bit tighter not saying anything else. She nods quietly. "I don't know whats worse. Remembering what he did, or not knowing." He keeps quiet for a while and then talks softly. "It happened... you cant do anything now.... but your safe. That's what counts."
"Yeah.... I'm still here which has got to count for something." She smiles slightly "Is she waiting for you?" Jason had forgot about Thing or that they were still outside sitting on the floor, the look on his face showed he didn't know who she was talking about. All he was thinking of was of Tori at the moment. "That girl... Thing." She looks down at the ground biting her lip. "mm... She can wait..." Tori nods deciding whether to say what she was thinking or not. "Your more important to me than her anyway..." He gently kisses her cheek. "I'm not sure if...." She pauses for a moment "I heard you, when I was there with... him.. I don't know if I was going crazy or what was going on." She shrugs "Its frustrating. I can only remember parts, I keep trying to piece it together, but I just cant make sense of what I know." She looks at Jason "One moment hes breaking my ribs, the next thing I can remember he was moving my hair out of my face and being.... Nice. Too nice.... Like he thought I was his...." She shakes her head not wanting to finish what she was saying. Jason nods keeping quiet listening to her. "You must have been really confused...."
"I didn't know what he was going to do next" She cuddles into Jason some more, letting her hair fall across her face. "Before you came in... I was about to just give up.... It felt like it had been forever... I don't know how long it ended up being... From what Siren was saying, only a week or so... But I didn't think I was going to get out of there..." She moves her hand up to her face wiping a tear away. He moves her hair gently from her face. "Hey... Look at me... you got out... don't cry..." She looks at him "I was scared."
"You don't have to be scared anymore..." He forces a slight smile trying to make her feel at least a bit better. Tori looks at Jason "I.... I was talking to Siren. Kinda remembered some stuff." She frowns for a moment "Stuff you probably wont want to know about..." Jason stays silent for a moment. "Is it about what he did to you..?" She nods, not saying anything, not sure how to tell him. "He.. he did something else than break your bones... didn't he.." She nods again, cuddling into him a bit more still not sure what to say. "he did more than hurt you with his knife and metal pole.. didn't he..." Jason starts then to analyse and think of possibilities.... he couldn't stop thinking of one that was in the back of his mind that he kept trying to remove. She stays quiet for a moment "yeah." She says just loud enough for him to hear. He remembers what the man said. That if it was on different terms he'd marry her. He remembered the man's look. The fact that he wanted her dead so bad but hadn't killed her that quickly. The fact that she didn't want to tell him more and that she said if was more tan just pain dealt by an item....
He had seen this type of things done before by men who tortured and then did what they wanted before they finally killed their victim....
He remembers her says he was hurting her and then was... nice....
Jason inhales. "He had that look in his eye..." She looks at Jason, a lost look on her face, still silent. "Tori.... if you don't tell me... I'm gonna assume.... and I don't want to assume right now... because I don't want to think that what I'm thinking right now is true..." She looks away, hair falling across her face again "He....." She shakes her head and lowers her voice so he can just hear her again "He did stuff, Jason.... and...." She took a breath, trying to hide the fact she was crying "Why did he do it?" After hearing what Tori said his eyes opened wider and he lost some of is pull on Tori letting her go a bit without knowing. Tori feels him loosen her grip and covers her face with her hands, she had stopped trying to hide that she was crying.
Jason snaps out of it for a few moments noticing shes crying and hugs her tighter than before now. In his mind though he is still getting more and more angry at the hunter. She stays silent, wiping her eyes but keeping her hands over her face. After a few moments she shakes her head and murmurs "Why did he do it..." Jason trys to comfort Tori as best he can as his mind wanders off to whats hes gonna do. Tori starts to calm down, and stops crying. She wipes her eyes and looks at Jason, her face tear stained. "Don't let him hurt me again?" She says quietly almost sounded wounded. She knew Jason wouldn't be letting him go free again, but she needed the reassurance. ".... he wont. He will regret it too..." He says quietly. She nods and moved slightly so she was hugging him back. "My legs have gone to sleep..." She mumbles before realizing it was probably completely inappropriate considering the situation. She shakes her head. Jason just nods trying to control his emotions.
"I... I've got to... we need find Thing or someone to be with you will I get back..." She nods slightly, not sure what to say, or why he all of a sudden needs to go. She can't help but for a moment to think it was whats happened. "I'll.... I'll just go back to the ship... Siren is there." Jason shakes his head. "You probably don't want to do that now... go back to the bar. Find Thing. She'll keep you company." She nods, feeling emotionally numb. She pulls away from his hug and stands up "You'll be back...?" She asks quietly. He stands up after her. "I'll be back..." Tori nods and hesitates for a moment before walking back into the cafe taking a seat in the corner away from where Thing was sitting. Thing frowns as she sees Tori walk in without Jason. She stands up, ordering two coffees before walking across and taking a seat next to her, making sure she was alright. Tori didn't talk, and she let the coffee go cold.
Tori walks back down to the medical room, to check on Pita. The first thing she notices is the doctor and the dead guard, looking at the bed she sees pita gone and Sorrin attacking himself. She swears "What has he done this time....." She jumps on the comms device in a panic "I need men. medical..... now...." She hangs up and runs to the door, fumbling with the card on the hook next to it she exentually unlocks it but stays outside, watching him. As soon as the first man enters the room she yells at them "In here!". Two of the bigger men grab him one arm each, and pick him up off the floor. Tori, having just got off the comms device again talks to the third man "Room 108, lock up. I want people outside. No one is to get in there without my go ahead, I don't want this happening again...." she looks at the guard and nurse on the floor next to the bed "Not even if he is dying." She leaves the guards to take him to lock up and begins searching the rooms for Pita, the thought of him hurting her again had crossed her mind.
Sorrin starts kicking and screaming He gets one hand free and tries to punch the other guard out. Sorrin isn’t a very physically strong man being so skinny and fit it has little effect of the guards. Continuing his aggressive behaviour the guards continue to struggle to apprehend him, he breaks away momentarily and starts clenching his eyes he grabs one of the guards guns and aims it as his head. Tori notices the guards struggling with him and runs over. She pulls her gun from her holster and hesitated a moment before realizing he wasn't paying attention to her. She moved around behind him and knocked him on the back of his head. He fell still, no longer fighting. She raises an eyebrow and looks at the guard on the left "There, that wasn't so hard.... Was it?.... Get moving." Tori’s knock wasn’t quite enough to knock Sorrin out but it had calmed him down for a brief moment. Before he loses consciousness He uses his last breath to speak. “I… I’m… Sorry…”. He then lets out a deafening scream of pain as Tori knocks him out for good. She double check this time. “If you do anything right in life, let this be it. Make sure he gets to Room 108. I’m counting on you.”. She looks back around the medical bay and find the dead guard with Jackson Gun in his hand, blood has recently been pouring out of his head it looks to be self inflicted.
She sighs and picks up the gun before having a look around the room. A part of her was hoping not to find Pita. If she wasn't here, there was a chance she would be ok. After half an hour of searching and being unable to find her, Tori is relieved, yet at the same time slightly annoyed. After calling a clean up team she goes to lock up to make sure Sorrin made it without killing any more of the guards. Sorrin still rather unwell from his ordeal with himself. is sitting trembling in the corner unable to get a real grip on what he did to himself. He can sense tori just out side the cell. He turns into the corner so he can't see anyone or hurt them. Tori sees he is in there and on her way out walks past the surveillance room. She stops and takes two steps backwards before opening the door and stepping inside. She finds the right channel for the medical room and re-winds, hoping to see what happened to Pita. She eventually finds the footage she was looking for, and watched it 4 times before pausing it. "What is wrong with that child....." Tori mutters, trying to make sense of it all. She didn't understand why Pita was trying so hard to defend this man who kept killing people.
Tori takes the keys to his cell off a hook on the wall and fills up a plastic cup with chilled water from the surveillance room before walking back to his cell and unlocking the door. Taking the keys in with her, she locks it again afterwards before going and sitting in the corner opposite him, waiting for him to say something. Sorrin doesn't initially make and attempt to acknowledge her. Still very shaken up from before he shakes in the corner as if he has just seen a ghost. He scratches at his arm and which is now red raw slightly from continuous scratching. “You wouldn't believe me, even if I told you” He mutters "At the moment, I don't know what to believe." She shrugs "I saw the footage from the ward. You hardly touched them and they fell over either unconcious or dead.... In both rooms." Tori pauses a moment, if she offered him a drink, she would have to get close. She decided she would. After all by the looks of the recordings, if this man wanted to hurt her, she would already be dead. "Would you like some water... It might do you some good.."
Sorrin tilts his head back so he can see he with his right eye without moving the look is cold and dead. It instill fears. However he choses not to hurt Tori. Tori can clearly see his eye is a glowly red. Sorrin doesnt beleive she is trying to drug him so his places his hgand out backwards so he cant she here to acceot the cup of water. Tori Hestitantly walks over and gives it to him. In one fell swoop the water is gone and cup placed neatly by his side. "I'll bring in some more before I leave." She goes and takes a seat back in the corner "If you won't tell me what happened.... Can you tell me why your eyes..." She hesitates "Why they do what they do...." Tori almost sounded uncomfortable asking, she had always told herself to never ask about why people look different. To her, it was rude, but curiosity had finally gotten the better of her. "I wish I could show you. What I am... But you'd lock me up and throw away the key .For sure." his shoulders drop. “I don't expect you to trust me. But if you want to know I will show you.It will not be peaceful.”
Tori is silent for a few minutes. "I believe you helped Pita. She didn't die.... But I don't know where she is now. I know you have killed most of my best guards.... And you better have a good reason for it.... I saw the photo, and as much as I don't want to believe it... Right now you are looking pretty guilty as far as being from the security force goes....." She looks at Sorrin with a slight frown, weighing up her options "I Know you would have killed me way before now if you had wanted to.... And if it will help me understand what the hell has been going on here..... I want you to show me" Tension builds in the room as Sorrin takes huge breath in. He stands up still facing away from Tori. “Tell me Tori…” His confidence regained. “What colour are your eyes?” She doesn’t reply to him. He quickly jumps behind her restraining her in a hold, the remains of her water splash up in a flurry. “Again, Tori Tell me the colour of your eyes.” He says more intently this time.
Tori trys to get free from the hold, not entirely sure what he was doing. After fighting him for a few minutes she gives in to him "Brown...." She says quietly, almost sounding scared. “Blood from the south flows within your veins”. Sorrin lets her go. Realizing she can’t control Sorrin’s power he was planning on giving her. “How disappointing..” he mutters. Sorrin kneels down in front of Tori and places one hand out in front of her. He nods towards it indicating she needs to do the same. :Now would be a good time to sit down” Its going to get a bit hot in here. As Tori sits her hands start sweating the heat from Sorrin is almost burning her. She can feel his pulse rise a little worried but she continues to hold. Tori doesn't take her eyes off him, she didn't know what he was doing, but a part of her hoped it would help his cause. She wasn't sure why, after all he was causing more problems and death here then what was needed. The heat was intense and she wanted to move her hand, but she didn't.
Sorrin's Eye glowing the bloodthirsty red she was expecting. Penetrate her. She loses all control of her limbs and feels mostly harmless ”Could this be what he was after all along using his power to get to her” Memories start forcing themselves inside her head some more unpleasant than others. One memory comes back stronger than all other. Of when Sorrin was captured by nomads in Alaska. The surgery they performed on him then the devastating results of him killing everyone in room and everyone in his way to escape the facility. The rages make Tori feel scared but is helpless to do anything. The next few memories are of Sorrin manipulating his foes to beat them. Many and quite disturbing and sick, many of them are Sorrin making the enemies commit suicide. The final memory is of him getting his mission to find the rogue base and eliminate the occupants. A mission done behind closed doors. This was only a few years ago just before he first came to this base. Sorrin then lets her hand go and falls, Tori falls with him and she lays there, her eyes closed as she takes a few breaths. She puts her arm around him and rolls over slightly to move him off her. "You're here to kill us....." Tori says as she slowly stands up and steps away from him, wishing she had bought a gun in with her. Sorrin mutters "Looks like I failed that too..." Taking the keys to the door out from her back pocket she shakes her head "No.... You've killed our guards..... Pita..... Until now, you've been doing exactly what you've been sent here to do...."
"and yet... you're all still here..." Sorrin grabs Tori's survival knife from its holster on her leg. He holds it stead but pointing towards himself. "I've my mission..." He closes his eyes She watches and for a moment considers letting him do it, but without thinking she steps over to him and puts her hand on his, making him lower it before taking the knife with her other hand, throwing it across the room. She keeps his hand in hers. "Don't...." she speaks quietly. Trying to think of an excuse as to why she stopped him. She looks at him confused "I don't know wh...." Tori sighs "I should let you do it, it would make everyones life here so much easier.... But I can't, and...." She shrugs, trying to brush it off "I don't want to have to do the paperwork...." This sounded unconvincing, a lie she was telling to make herself feel better.
The heat from Sorrin became too much for Tori, who quickly moves her hands away however falls on top of him in the process. Noticing this Sorrin quickly diffuses his power so Tori doesn’t get hurt. The look of innocence cuts deep into Tori as their eyes meet for a brief moment. They both sit up. "Look at yourself. You have the power to Kill us all", she stops for a moment." Have you even seen your eyes before" She says quietly. Tori pulls a small blue disk looking item out of her front pocket, flicking the cover open revealing a mirror. "You can't blame me for this.... For wanting to protect the kid.... You're dangerous...."
Sorrin knowing the pain of what happened last time he looked in the mirror. "Nooo please... Don't do that." But it was already too late. "Run away tori" he almost breaks into a yell. Tori looks concerned shes backs to the door ready for a quick exit. Sorrin starts screaming in pain, the noise is Deafening. He runs over to a small windon the room and starts violently banging his head on it. And screaming completely out of control. Tori watches him, she put the keys in the lock on the door and bites her lip. She sees the mirror in pieces on the ground "I... I'm sorry." Instead of running away as he told her to, she walks cautiously towards him, ready to run for the door. Once she gets to him she knows it would be too late to leave. She puts her hand on his shoulder and trys to pull him into the center of the room.
"Nooo.. W...What have you done to me...." He clenches his eyes. His eyes start bleeding and blood flows through his fingers as he kicks and screams. Being dragged to the center of the room after minutes of the tantrum he lays still lifeless on the floor. No sooner than it started Hes back screaming and banging his head on the floor. Seeing him start again, she did the only thing she could think of doing and crouches down next to him hesitating a moment before mumbling "If Jason sees this, we are both dead....." No sooner then she had said that, she moved and lay ontop of him, trying to keep him still. She puts one arm over his head, her hand on his forehead, and strokes his hair with her thumb. She had hoped this would keep his head on the ground and trying to calm him at the same time. It was only now that she thought about the fact that he would likely be able to push her off if he wanted to.
Not having much collection of what is going on he can feel someone ontop of him. He calms down and starts to shakes instead of kick and scream. He breaths Heavy still. Tori keeps stroking his hair "It's ok......" She reasures him "You're ok......" after a few minutes she props herself with her elbow on the floor and gently wipes some of the blood off his face the hand she had been holding his head with, watching him carefully to make sure she doesn't hurt him again. "I'm so sorry....." Sorrin now coming to can see what tori is doing. he doesn't understand why she is on top oh him. He feels safe and comfortable. He takes the opportunity and slides his hand up her back to the base of her neck and pulls her closer. Their eyes meet again Tori unsure of what is going on but feels okay about it. Sorrin pull himself up to meet with Tori. In a heartbeat theirs lips connects and share a warth of passion.
After a few moments she pulls herself away, and ends up sitting on the floor near his feet. She looks terrified and bites her lip "If Jason....." She begins to say but shakes her head unable to finish her sentance. "I.... I have to go." She eventually gets to her feet, and walks across to the door, unlocking it. Her voice was trembling slightly, "I'm sorry." Sorrin lays in stunned silence amazed that he just did that. He longed for her to do that again. But is content He gives her one last look before she scuttles out. Tori Says to the guard. "I'll be holding on to the keys... for now". She blushes slightly, and ignores the guards comments about that being a bad idea and pockets the key anyway. She makes her way to the room, pulling out Heidies key card. She stops at the door, and rubs her forehead "You just kissed the man that was sent here to kill us all..... Way to go, moron" she mutters to herself. She unlocks the door and pushes it open enough to step through before quietly closing it behind her, her eyes taking some time to adjust to the dimness of the room.
Tori steps into the room and sees Sorrin standing there, bloodied and blocking their path to Pita. Tori pulls her gun and points it at him "Get the hell away from the girl" Her usual self was replaced with a cold look. She sees the state Pita is in and shakes her head, she sounded furious "You took a kid hostage and did this to her." He doesn't move, still standing between Tori, Jackson and Pita. “I said get that hell away from her! How could you do that to a child? I won’t let you!" The desperation in Tori’s voice was obvious. Tori pulls her gun, and shoots him. Not a fatal wound as she wants him interrogated but badly enough for Sorrin to collapse on the floor. The blood splashes over Pita’s face. Pita cry's out as she falls down with him. She doesn't wipe the blood off her face, and moves so she is in a position to be able to get in Tori's way if she try's anything else.
"Pita....." She steps forward towards the two, holding one hand out for Pita, the other still holding the gun pointed at Sorrin. Pita shook her head slightly "L.... Leave him alone..." She manages to say just loud enough for Tori to hear. She rests her head against Sorrin's chest, silently pleading that he be ok. Sorrin manages enough strength to place his bloodied hand on Pita’s arm. “It’s okay kid. I can take of Tori.” He whispers and gives off a last wink before dropping his hand. “I don’t know what he has done to you Pita. But you’d better come to the medical bay to get checked out. You don’t look very well.” She says very concerned. Pita shakes her head, refusing to leave. She didn't want to leave him alone with either of them. She couldn't explain why, but she knew leaving him with the others would be bad.
Tori sighs and steps forward closer to the two, lowering her gun she puts her arm around Pita's waist she tries to pick her up. Pita unable to stop Tori allows her to take her to the medical unit. It’s not like she had a choice she couldn’t fight against it. Tori Picks her up and carries her. While Jackson Picks Sorrin up and drapes Sorrin’s body over his should like a heavy curtain, with no respect for his body at all. Sorrin lets out a huge gulp of blood and groans in pains. Tori stops to look at Sorrin who is in an unbearable amount of pain and blood tricking down from his face still. Tori wonders how he could be bleeding from his face when she shot him in the stomach. The holding cell where they placed Sorrin is right near her bed as there is limited room on Padua there is a small observation booth in the medical unit so Sorrin can recover before getting taken away to the prison section. Jackson drags Sorrin’s body in front of Tori and Pita to the medical bay. Pita requests the bed closest to the observation booth. Tori agrees that way she can be watched if she had been hurt by Sorrin.
Pita gets hooked up to a drip and ordered to be bedridden while she rests overnight suffering from extreme exhaustion. Tired as Pita is she opens her eyes to look at Sorrin. Who is now semi-conscious in the booth next to her. Sorrin hasn’t been given anything to treat his injuries just a bandage and some water by Jackson who then drops him on the floor of the glass observation booth with much disrespect for him. A roar followed by a deep growl is hear from the doorway where Jackson is standing, taking account of everything in the room that he can with is arms under his poncho except for a pillow sticking out that he was holding. He tosses it forwards and Fluffy walks into the room with his head down and sharp teeth visable. He circles around Tori once and then stands between her and Sorrin. Jackson says in a lower voice than usual. “You better have been playing darts with her.”
Tori gets a fright as she hears the growl, she does well at not showing this. She watches Jackson from the bed she was in. Pita stirred slightly in her sleep, she was fighting her dreams, knowing she needed to wake up. Tori and Jackson. both standing between Pita and the Sorrin staring at him wondering how they are going to get any information out of him. "You're going to have to go in there Jackson. We need to know what he knows and what he's been doing here" Tori points at Sorrin on the ground still but awake. "I'll watch him from here. Be as rough as you need. But he must stay alive." Jackson goes to enter the room.
He takes his gun out holding it loosely in his hand as he enters the room and closes the glass door behind him. The room was already smelling with blood even though there was a ventilation system in it and Jackson already felt slightly repulsed. Walking in he looks at him again and then nudges him with his foot to get his attention. “Hey maggot. Wake up.” He places one of his feet on his leg and applies a bit of pressure. “Or I’ll start squishing.” Sorrin initially resists Jackson to test him. Jackson then applies some pressure on his leg. Sorrin lets out a cry of pain loud for Tori to hear and enough to Pita to wake up. Sorrin tries to focus some energy through his pan. “I’m awake already.” He says just loud enough for Jackson to hear. “What do you want with me?” He questions as he sits up against the wall facing Jackson. “Depends. Me personaly? Or Rogue business?” Jackson asks as he applies a bit more pressure to make his point.
Sorrin frowns with the pain starting to come through to his face.. "You would do well to watch your tone with me Boy. Did Tori put you up to this?" Sorrin closes his eyes and looks away from Jackson. Smirking Jackson holsters his gun and then with a pulse of furry he grabs him by his shirts lifting him up and slams him against the wall followed by dropping him again on the ground. “You call me Boy again... just try...” He kicks him in the gut for good measure. Sorrin spits blood on the window. Coughing and clenching his stomach. Pita watching intently lets out a small cry. Pita stares at Sorrin’s face from her bed as if it holds a secret.
Tori looks away feeling slightly nervous. Tori glances at Pita noticing she is awake watching Sorrin. Slowly she turns to see what Pita is looking at when Sorrin faces changes prowess. His eyes are a deep red like blood. This wasn’t what he looked like only a few moments ago.
Still coughing blood Sorrin Spits a mouthful of blood on Jackson in arrogance. His confidence puts Jackson off edge for a moment. Enough time for Sorrin to grab his leg just above the ankle and trip him over. Jackson doesn’t fall completely but is now closer to Sorrin’s face when Sorrin opens his eyes this time they shine a deep red. ”Try it again, I dare you” he whispers, “I’m going to kill you” He says loud enough for the girls to hear. In that moment, his eyes almost have a glow about them and then sends a feeling of deep fear into Jackson.
“Aahhhh... nooooo!” Jackson's hands start to tremble as he stares into his eyes transfixed for several moments before managing to push his face away with his hand and managing to stand up, eyes shut closed and now his hands on his ears. He slams to one of the glass walls, banging his head on the glass as if going insane. “AAHHHHHHHH!!! MAKE IS STOP!!! MAKE IT F***ING STOP!!!! STOP SCREAMING!!!! JASSSONNN!!!!! AHHHHH!!!” With trembling hands he takes out his revolver and opens his eyes trying to take aim. What he sees though is not really what is infront of him. He is in another point in time... a point in time he can get out of. His hand loosens and the gun falls onto the floor. He walks backwards and then manages to find the door, banging on it until he finds the knob and opens it, barley walking out and slamming it behind him, still banding his head trying to get rid of whatever that had entered it. “MAKE IT .... MAKE IT STOP!!! YOU PEICE OF ....... !!!"
He calms down a bit slowly still closing his eyes but when he opens them again he sees that his own hands are covered in blood. Soaking and drenched in it. He shakes his head again and its gone. He looks up staring at Tori. “Your on your own! You found the picture, your problem! Maybe get your shitty boyfriend to fucking help! I'm DONE and NOT going back in there!!” He doesn't realize what he is yelling, and doesn't care. All he wants to do is leave. he doesn't even realize his gun is left behind. Walking out a doctor tries to stop him as he heard the commotion, motioning him to lay down but Jackson shoves him off, pushing him and he slams into a wall, shaken by the impact. Everyone else makes way for him in fear as he leaves cursing.
Pita is silently crying in her bed she feels a heavy sadness for Sorrin. She wipes her eyes to get rid of the tears and makes eye contact with Sorrin for a brief moment before he falls. She is struck with the same fear as Jackson accidentally. Instantly she freezes up scared for her life. The machines hooked up to her check her pulse and blood pressure start showing signs of increase. Pita doesn't see memories of fear but instead she sees memories of Sorrin’s past. Unable to grasp what is going on focuses her energy on staying quiet.
Tori watches Jackson as he yells at her. Crosing her arms as he storms out of the room "Jerk....." She mutters and looks over at Pita, the machines had begun to quieten down again, all her vitals returning to normal. Pita didn't understand what was happening to her, and she was scared. Tori noticed the confusion on Pita's face and frowned as she saw Pita move the blankets aside, and start trying to remove the various wires and sensors attached to her. "Pita. What are you doing?" Pita stays silent, starting to get frustrated at how tired she was, and how useless it made her feel.
Sorrin clenches his gut where Jackson had kicked him, picking out a few shards of glass in his back from the window. His eyes return to normal. Panting from the exhaustion of using his eyes he falls face first flat on the floor too exhausted to move. “You’re a lucky Man. Jackson” he says under his breath.
Pita looks at Tori with fury in her eyes. Tori notices the red in her eyes but remembers Pita had deep blue eyes. Confused Tori stand in silence as Pita from nowhere gains the strength to rid all the remaining cords out at once and gets up and rushes to the window where Sorrin had been slammed into shortly beforehand. Pita put her hand up against the window feeling the cracks in her fingertips as she cries out to Sorrin who is exhausted on the floor.
Tori crosses her arms, watching Pita "Get back into bed Pita..... I don't want to have to make you...." Tori watches Pita and knows that she has no intention of listening. She waves a doctor over and motions for him to get in closer so she could speak quietly. "You need to get her back into bed. Restrain her in it if you must, I don't care. She needs to rest and get better." The doctor nods and calls over a nurse for assistance. Pita hadn't noticed what was happening behind her.
Sorrin rolls over on his back. Blood trickling down from both his eyes down his check and drips on the floor. his pupil dilated and eyes eye still red. he stares into the ceiling lights semi conscious. "Pita.... "He whispers. as he can sense her close by but can't see anything. Pita sees the door and makes her way there.
As she goes to open the door the doctor puts his arms around her waist and picks her up "Little miss.... You need rest." He says calmly. Once Pita realizes what has happened she lets out a high pitched scream "Let me go!" The doctor is seemingly unconcerned by her kicking and hitting at him, and demands the nurse hurry up. She grabs the first thing she could find and makes her way back to the bed, attaching one side of the handcuffs to each side the bed. Eventually the doctor gets her back onto the bed with Tori's help. The nurse cuffs Pitas hands, mentioning the use of sedatives to make her calm down. Tori nods "Do whatever you have to to keep her here." The nurse leaves to find the appropriate medication while the doctor trys to calm her, and re-attach the wires. Once the nurse returns, Tori helps hold Pita still while the doctor injects the liquid into her. It took a matter of seconds before Pita fell silent, now fighting to stay awake.
Tori had been told there was a disturbance near the bar. Going to see what the problem was, she walked down the corridor past his door, stopping as she saw the note. "No....." She mumbled and pushed the unlocked door open. Tori saw the room in more of a state then it was when she was searching for the PDA. "No... no, no..... This is not happening......." She spoke quietly to herself. Tori heard sobbing, coming from the closed bathroom door. She makes her way over and cautiously opens it. Pita is sitting on the floor crying her outs eye shes looks at Tori. and races up to hug her. "He took Sorrin!" Shes starts sobbing uncontrollably "He looked dead..." She falls the floor crying with her head buried in her hands.
"Jackson...?" Tori asked almost not wanting to know the answer. Pita nods, unable to speak through the tears. Tori walks over to Pita and picks her up, hugging her tightly. She carries Pita out of the room, heading to Jackson's ship "Pita.... I need your help.... Will you be brave for me... And Sorrin?" Tori was speaking quietly to her as they searched the base. "He will be ok." Pita nods, and after some time of searching, Tori hears the noise and realizes it was coming from the hanger "Sorrin....." she mumbles and changes path to find the Scylla, feeling silly that she hadn't thought of it before now. Pita buried her face into Tori's shoulder "He's hurting....." Pita mumbles just loud enough for Tori to hear.
"You know Sorrin. I didn't mind you at first..." He ignores his screams at lets go of his eyes finally. "But then you went too far and made mistakes. Comming hear and revealing to be from the LSF is one major one." He spits. again but this time it was on Sorrin. "I don't like navy. they tend to get in the way and meddle with business. You know, I even got to see one of their prisons once... What are you doing here." Sorrin still suffering the effects of his power now seems to not be in control of himself. He starts Dripping blood from his mouth. "I came here..t...to KILL YOU ALL" He starts screaming again even though his eyes are closed its too much for him.
Tori heard Sorrin shouting about killing everyone and remembered the memories of him the last time he said that. She feared for both of theirs lives. She find his ships. Hesitantly she say to Pita. "Wait here, its too dangerous for you". she turns to enter the ship. Pita hears Jackson roar out laughing. "Kill us??? Kill ME!? HAHAHAAA!!! How? Dieing of LAUGHTER!? HAAHAAAAAA! Oh god..... woo...... You sir......" He voice gets cold. "Have just signed your own death warrant. Maybe you can kill the average rogue. But your underestimation will be your downfall."
His final blow is dealt to Sorrin's ribs. already crushed from before. Sorrin starts vomiting blood everywhere, "This could finally be it..." He mutters to himself. Jackson Put more force than necessary to the final blown and Sorrin becomes lifeless, blood spewing from his mouth. Tori rushes in to witness what just happened. Pita can't wait outside any longer, she couldn't hear what was happening, and was scared for Sorrins life. She comes racing in to the ship, Tori tries to shield her from seeing Sorrin. However it doesn't work. Pita sees him lying on the table, covered in blood, lifeless. "He...He's not dead...Tori You have to save him!"
Jackson laughs, and Pitas outburst distracted Tori. She looks at Sorrin, taking her eyes of Jackson for a moment. Jackson takes a chance and clenching his brass knuckles he spins around hitting his mark dead on. The gun goes flying to the side. Jackson now stands as if towering over Tori. "I don't believe you have..." Tori trys to take a step back, but behind her is the table Sorrin is lying on. "You wont hurt me...." the slight quiver in her voice gives her fear away. He steps forward. "You come on my ship with my gun threatening to shoot me because im taking care of a man that threatened to kill everyone on this base... and you think I wont hurt you?"
Pita lets out a scream, yelling at the both of them to stop. Tori doesn't want to see what could happen. "Pita, I told you to wait outside..... Go." Pita goes to argue but Tori snaps at her "Get out." Pita stands stunned for a second before leaving, she stays where she can see them, out of sight. Tori feels uncomfortable not having any way to get away from Jackson. She sounds slightly braver "You won't hurt me."
He crosses his arms. "Maybe. But you says my crew wont." She hesitates enough for Jackson to realize she was worried about this. She reaches behind her and takes hold of one of Sorrins hands. "You wont let them do that." Sorrin squeezes her hand to show he isn't actually dead subtly "You can control a riot only so far." Jackson shrugs, "Its funny Tori.. that your protecting a man that's been sent to kill us all. I could even start to think your with this guy.... Its a shame... it really is. And to think you were the one telling me to get rid of him in the first place when I didn't want to get involved."
"Hes not trying to kill us." She mumbles, not letting go of Sorrin's hand. The heat was reassuring, so was knowing he wasn't dead. "I think he's smart enough to not yell "I came to kill you all" If he doesn't really intend to." Jackson said, sounding very 'matter of fact' about the situation. "Whatever you have done obviously didn't help..." Tori looked up at him "I'd kill you if I still had the gun." She smirked "Anyway.... I'm not moving....." Jackson laughs. "Fine. Don't move. I don't care. I already told him that I'm the only one that can free I'm anyway. Unless you wana cut all of his limbs off." He moves back and picks up his gun off the ground. "Either way without medical attention hes dead. Your just making it worse for him Tori. Tell me why he deserves to live, or stand by im as he dies. I dont give two shits." Making sure there are no other wepons in the room he moves to walk out, gun in hand.
Tori stops, watching him in silence. Unable to believe he is just going to let him die. "You can't......" She realizes he isn't going to stop and notices the mirrors. She moves one slightly to stop Sorrin hurting himself, not realizing it was enough for Sorrin to see Jackson "He's not from the LSF...... I saw the report... they think hes dead..." Sorrin opens an eye enough to see Tori had moved the mirror away. He squeezes her hand tighter. Jackson stops but doesn't turn around. "First off. Where did you get that report? Second... Looks like they'll be right soon enough wont they?" She squeezes his hand back "I went through his stuff, alright. It was on his PDA.... Which was on top of a filing cabinet in his room...." She shrugs slightly, not moving from Sorrins side, not sure how long she had. "The password was easy to guess..." She hesitated a moment "There were reports and stuff on there.... A lot were unfinished, and the report of him being killed.... Look, if you'll let him go, I'll get him to medical and show you the report..... Just don't let him die here, Jackson." By the end she was pleading with him, trying not to cry.
He turns around but the look on his face is cold and without emotion. "I'll let him go, and hes gonna try his best to kill me again. I still have the scream in the back of my head. I still can sometimes see my arms covered in blood. I even saw Thing hang by a rope. He doesn't respect me. Why should I him?" 'Hes listening' Pita thought, relieved. She watched Tori as she pleaded "We... That's my fault... I should have been sure before getting you involved.... And I'm sorry." She shakes her head "It will stop... I will make him stop.... Just please don't let him die here." A tear rolled down her cheek "Just give me a chance to explain.... please....."
He walks up to her still cold. "You ever threaten me again while I'm doing my job protecting everyone in this base, and your gonna find yourself thrown out into space. Got it?" Tori looks away, avoiding eye contact, obviously not happy with herself for doing that "I didn't know what else to do.... I'm sorry...." She mumbles. Sorrin's grip on Tori's hand Starts to loosen. Tori squeezes his hand, silently pleading for him to be ok.
He growls and walks to the control panel, swiping his finger on it and with a clink the restraints are opened. Jackson sighs though suddenly in his own world again, looking across the room seeing the same hung person again. He takes out his gun shooting at the imaginary rope and seeing it cut, and then walks to pick up the body and leave. Out the door there is a commotion as some crew say what he was doing. There is rustling, but then Jackson can be heard yelling. "SHUT UP AND LEAVE ME ALONE YOU PIECES OF.......!!! MY HEAD HURTS! MY WHOLE BODY IS SOAR FROM ALL ----! GET OUT! I SWEAR TO GOD I'LL JOIN HER! I WILL!" After the outburst, there is silence.
Tori sighs. He would be safe. She looks at one of the men, still looking at the door Jackson had walked through. She sounded confident again, hoping that the falseness of it wouldn't be recognized. "Get me either something I can use to get him to medical in the next 30 seconds, or you will be helping me." He just stares blankly at her, not knowing what to think of what just happened. Tori frowns "Are you volunteering to help? Good.... Times up." Tori points at Sorrin. "Your helping me get him to medical....." She saw he wasn't listening "NOW."
"Uh......T..Tori.." Sorrin tries to talk he is completely delirious and a bit more blood pours from his mouth. Tori spins around "Sorrin...." She wipes the blood from around his mouth, realizing the man was not going to help her in a hurry. "Am I dead yet...?" He whispers. Tori cant help but to smile slightly "No... You're not dead yet... And you wont be either...." She hesitates as she weighs up her options, trying not to sound disheartened "I don't know how I can get you to medical...."
"I... I can walk" he mutters. He goes to stand up with Toris help and falls a bit as Tori tries to steady him. "It's a good thing your not any heavier or I would have dropped you" Tori grumbles The door of the ship opens some more as Pita sticks her head in hesitantly. Pita runs up to Sorrin who is just barely standing with Tori. She goes to jump on him. Then mid air realizes he badly hurt. Even though Sorrin is beat up he manages to find the strength to hug her as he falls backwards back onto the table. Tori smiles at them both who seem to share a brief moment of happiness. "Come on Pita.... Can you help him walk?" Tori asks her, feeling bad for snapping at her earlier. The two girls help Sorrin stand "We need to get you to medical...." Tori explains, not sure if Sorrin would appreciate the idea.
By the time they get Sorrin to the Medical he had already passed out again. They resorted to dragging him in. The nurses and Doctor stood stunned. that this Man was allowed back in here after killing so many before. They all hesitantly go about there duties ignoring Tori and until she makes an order. Tori demanded the doctors help get him onto a bed. Once he was lying down, she walked over to one doctor and pointed in his direction "If he dies, you and your family will be following....." She threatens. Pita didn't leave his side. Holding onto his hand, reassuring him quietly. After being given some heavy medication. Sorrin starts to talk. He calls for Tori. shes comes over quickly. Tori sits on the edge of the bed, opposite Pita and takes his hand. She leans down and kisses it gently. "I'm here."
"Im sorry I dragged you into this..." She looks across at Pita who was sleeping, her head resting on the bed mush like Tori had been earlier. She smiles. "I'd rather you had.... and you be alive.... Just stop driving Jackson insane...... If not for you, for the kid...." He squeezes her hand "But why are you helping me...When I hurt everyone else. Why keep me alive.. " He was hoping for her to say something to relieve his pain. "Because I......" She couldn't bring herself to say what she wanted to, instead she fell silent for a moment, thinking about what she was doing. "I care about you." As soon as she said it, she knew her voice gave away that there was more to it then that. Sorrin puts his other hand on Pita's head as she sleeps. "Can you do me a favor". he nods at Pita. and smiles.
"Depends what the favour is...." Pita smiled slightly in her sleep, her dreams were relaxed, there was no fear anymore. "Can you watch over Pita for me" Untill I can Return to my room. that is.... I promise I'll protect her." he smiles at Tori. "I.... Yeah. Of course." Tori looks at Pita, who even though how she was lying looked uncomfortable, she looked peaceful. "One more thing.." Can you put her on the bed with me, she looks uncomfortable." Sorrin moves over so Pita can lay down down next to him. Tori stands up and carefully picks Pita up, placing her on the bed. She doesn't seem to wake up as she cuddles into Sorrin "Thank you" She takes a seat back on the side of the bed silently, smiling as she watches the two rest.
Tori sits on the end of Sorrins bed and looks up at the door as it opens. She was expecting to see Sorrin, ready to growl him for not resting. "Sorrin, You were meant to be resting. That was pa....." She stops as she notices Jason leaning up against the door frame "Hey." She says looking at him sideways, wondering what he was doing there. Jason looks up and sees her, quite surprised by it and doesn't know what to say. He looks from her to Sorrin who had followed him in, and back and then takes a deep breath that slowly changes his face from the more neutral look he was using to hide anything from Sorrin to now a colder one."Sorrin needs his pain relief..." Tori points to some papers on the couch, using it partially as an excuse as to what she was doing there "The conditions of his release said someone had to...."
"Don't worry Jason. She's only here to watch over Pita." He says as he points to Pita, sleeping on the couch. Sorrin turns to Jason. with a glint in his eye. "I'm not here to hurt you,, believe it or not." The red from sorrins eyes dazes Jason a little bit getting a small glimpse of his abilities. "However I do wish to be left alone." He says a bit more confidently. The glimpse sends Jason dazed slightly, but the image he saw in front of him where Sorrin was standing was not Sorrin anymore, but a man he had met in his own childhood. An Outcast. And more importantly the outcast that had been responsible for his capture and parents death. As quickly as it came it had left but it was enough for Jason to reach for his dagger from his side and hold it in a back-hand grip. The blade now more noticeable was not of Rogue design at all . "You wish to be left alone... with her and several bottles of beer."
"You can take your.... Outcast memories. And leave." He stares into Jason reading the memory he just had, "The beer isnt for her. Like I said I like to drink alone..." he says coldly as if hes been alone his whole life. Tori glances at Pita, making sure they hadn't woken her up. "I'm not sure I want to leave now..." Jason says stepping forward and flicking the dagger to the forward position. "I've been waiting my whole life for this." Jason squints his eyes even more, running the flat side the the blade up and under Sorrins chin, lifting up up. The tip of the blade barely touches his skin but its enough to have a trickle of blood run down the blade, as if to give the blade a taste of his blood. "Why don't you give me that memory again? I was quite enjoying it actually... or maybe another." Sorrin stares into Jason. He can see the bloodthirst in Jasons eyes. "Your eyes... They're Just like mine..." Sorrin now realizes his powers wont work on Jason. He realized he wasn't going to win this. "Please..." he begs. "Not in front of T..Tori".
Tori stands up and hesitantly takes a step toward them "Jason.... You don't need to do this." He looks to Tori and most of his momentum fades, downing out. He looks back to Sorrin and pushes him back. Gripping the blade he turns his head facing straight at Tori. "If this is some kind of sick revenge still for what Rosa did, I already appologiesed it happened that way and didnt see it comming." With that he turns hiding his face from her and Sorrin, the coat turning with him as he pulls his hood up and leaves, not even bothering to show any emotion by closing the door behind him. Tori shakes her head slightly, not noticing she was holding her breath, ever so slightly shaking, until the door was closed. Sorrin being a bit dazed wipe his skin the the blade had cut him. Not completely with he looks at his hands Which look like they are covered in blood(there isnt actually any blood its all in his head) "No.. not again... Not now.." he starts shaking against the wall as if he was tramuatised.
Tori watches him from a distance "Sorrin.... Sit down. I need to give you your medication and... And leave." She wasn't doing a good job at covering the pain of the situation from her voice. "No... No mds toda.. I failed..." Sorrin shuns her "If you need to go. I can take care of myself..." He mutters. Tori walks over to him and puts her hand hesitantly on his shoulder. "please, sit. If nothing else, let me do this....." He ignores her expecting her to continue anyway, "Can you take Pita with you. I need to be a lone for a while..."
"I will take Pita after I give you your medication.... I will not have you here in pain." She walks over to the couch and picks up the syringe with a needle attached, filled with pain medication. Tori gave him a look that says 'don't make me do it' Reluanctly he hold his arm out. She wishes she took medical lessons in life and sighed. It was only going under the skin anyway. "This will hurt a bit...." She stuck the needle and and slowly injected the liquid, rubbing just above the syringe to disperse the liquid to help with the pain. "You're not a good liar Tori. That hurt alot." His clenches the site of injection. He gets up still shaky. "You'll feel better for it......" She watches him wake Pita up and Tori walks over taking her hand and crouching in front of her "Come on, He needs to rest.... We will visit later, ok?" The pair of them get to the door, Tori doesn't look at Sorrin when he speaks "If anything happens I'll page you.ok?"
Pita takes a breath, ready to argue that she wanted to stay. She looks at Sorrin, and decides against it. Eventually makes her way to the door to the door and motions for Sorrin to get down to her level. She gives him a hug and speaks just loud enough for him to hear "She only wants to make sure you're ok...." With that she pulled away from the hug and steps back from him taking Tori's hand again. Tori and Pita leave, walking down the corridor towards Tori's room. The two don't speak to each other.
Pita races out into the living area of Tori's Room "TORI!" She yells "Tori! It's Sorrin...... We...." Pita hesitated, hoping Tori would believe her "He's not ok.... Please, we need to go and check on him...." Tori frowns and looks at the screen of her PDA, there was still no messages from either Jason or Sorrin. Tori looks at Pita, slightly saddened "Pita, he doesn't want us there at the moment. He needs time al....." Pita cuts her off "FINE. I'll go myself!" With that she turns to the door and begins to run towards his room.
"No, Pita...... Ah come on, really....." She gets up and chases after her. Once they get to the room, Tori knocks on the door. Hearing no answer she shrugs "See, Pita? Hes probably just sleeping...." Pita shakes her head "No..... No. Something's wrong....."
"Pita, Wait i'll check up on him so I don't wake him up. Okay?" Tori Opens the door. She dosn’t even need to see the mess she can already smell it. The place had smell of heavy liquor flavour mix with fresh blood. She can see bottles on the floor next to the couch the bed hadn't been touched since she left. She hesitantly follows the trail of blood smeared on the floor to the bathroom. She pushes the door open further. Sorrin had stabbed himself in the arm with his half blade. Tori couldn’t take it out for fear of hurting him more. He seemed pretty out of it yet his pulse was still strong and he hands warm. She sits there in silence for moment before planning on what to do
She curses herself for forgetting her comms device. She stands up and runs to the door, telling herself she has to keep calm to not startle Pita. Tori forgot about her hands being covered in blood from where she had made sure she was still alive. Pita saw this and froze. Tori sounded calm as she spoke to her "I need you to go to the medical ward and find a doctor, ok, Pita?" Pita nodded but didn't move "Now Pita, please, it is important..." With this Pita turns and runs off. Tori runs back into the room, picking up a shirt off the floor, not finding anything else she takes her one off. Leaving her wearing only a sports bra on her top half. She puts her hand on his shoulder and reassures him "You're going to be ok... It's not that bad...." Not sure how long Pita will be, she rolls one of the shirts up and try's to tear the other, failing she decides it wasn't too important anyway. She wraps the rolled up shirt around the knife, tying it in place, also applying enough pressure, with the other shirt. She quickly checks him for other injuries, noticing the remainder of a few pills scatters across the basin and floor. She holds his hand to keep his arm still, and gently shakes his shoulder, hoping he was awake and he hadn't taken any. "Sorrin...? Wake up....... Please?"
Sorrin coughs and spurs a little bit of blood over his side. Still not awake. As Tor is holding him in her lap she can see blood starting to form and run down his face. It originates at his eyes. She continues looking for any other things that might give he a clue as to what happened. She notices the symbol drawn in blood on the mirror and frowns slightly, not recognizing it, she wondered what its importance was. It takes her a few moments to realize it was drawn on a mirror. Remembering what happened with the compact one she used in the cells she shakes her head "What have you done...." She murmurs, hoping Pita would be back soon, trying to think of something she could do to help him. Sorrin starts having a nightmare he starts sweating and mumbling.Tori Spots an epi-pen nearby in he medical cabinet She goes for it. She has a quick look over the instructions, It doesn't say what it would be helpful for, but she knew it was adrenalin. She hoped it would counter the effects of the sleeping pills.She jabs the needle into Sorrins thigh. Sorrin slowly wakes up. coughing an sweating.
A few moments pass. He starts screaming in pain like last time in the cell. He clenches his sword and pulls it out by the blade cutting his fingers in the process. He doesn't initially see Tori. Tori falls over backwards after getting a fright as he starts screaming. She was no longer crouching, but sitting on the floor. She didn't realize how bloodied she had become while trying to help him. Tori moves her hair out of her eyes, staining that red with blood too. "Sorrin..... Calm down....." She says as she moves towards him, picking up one of the shirts that had come off when he pulled out the blade, hoping she wouldn't have to fight him to put pressure on the wound that was now bleeding severely.
"My eyes.... leave them alone.... Please leave me alone..." He screams and starts panicking. "I don't want to kill anyone... anymore..." Just as quick as it had started his illusions disappear.He backs himself up to the corner of the room and starts panting unable to comprehend what he just went through. Blood streaming down from his arm where the blade was the t-shirt had come off and the wound exposed. “Tori? What happened…”
"I..... I don't know...." She shakes her head slightly, concerned for him "I came in here and you were out cold, blood everywhere..... Look, We have to stop the bleeding." She looked down at his arm, sounding panicked "Pass me that box.. "He points to a medical pack. Tori gives it to him. "Can you please hold my arm.. still.." As he begins to stick the wound back together very neatly"Tori was very surprised how much medical he knew. and yet he still did this to himself. "I saw things... Things I don't want to remember..." He says as he fixes his arm. She nods slightly, holding his arm still, realizing just how much blood she was covered in, and how much was around the bathroom "You've lost so much blood....." She murmurs, watching him with interest, thinking to herself she decides at the rate of people getting hurt, she needed to learn. "What did you see?"
He hesitates, “I saw the surgical table…. I killed everyone in that outpost just by looking at them… What kind of monster am I.“ He finishes stitching himself up. "You're not a monster...." Once he finished, she brushed her fringe behind her ears. "I don't care what anyone says." She moves and sits with her back leaning against the wall, closing her eyes. "I wont be leaving you alone here again.... Not until you get better...." He looks down at himself as if to say-I don't believe you-. "Why did you do that.... The blade....?" She asked just as Pita ran back into Sorrins room, trying to catch her breath. "I.... The doctor... He wasn't there.... I got this...." She made it to the bathroom door and saw all of the blood. She dropped the first responce kit on the ground, freezing in her tracks.
"Uh I'm sorry Pita... I had abit of an accident.I'll be okay." He turns to Tori. "I'm losing control of it...Everyday...little by little" Pita runs across to him and gives him a hug, sitting next to him she doesn't let go. "Why now.... What is making you loose control?" Tori frowns slightly "How can we help....?"
"Theres something in my blood...It's not right. My body rejects its...I'm sorry It felt so much better when I was bleeding. I didnt feel out of control then.". Tori orders Sorrin to have his blood taken for analysis. She suspects he has some kind of poison in him. "Its been getting worse since that doctor gave me that shot the otherday" He sounded not trying to jump to conclusions. "What shot. I didn't tell them to give you any shots....." She looks at Pita who was still hugging him. She looked calm, almost as if she was sleeping. "they gave me some green sedative because i threatening to kill everyone...." She frowns "Sedative isn't....." Tori stands up, but hesitates "I.... I told you I wasn't going to leave you again" She moves her fringe out of her eyes again, it was starting to become a solid mass with dried blood.
"I.. don't know how long I can hold it in...Its more and more frequent..."He looks down at pool of blood. Tori sighs "Will you be ok for an hour? If I get you to your bed?" She looked as if she was concentrating on something, making a plan in her mind. "I..can only try..." He looks at Tori with real pain on his face.
Tori nods and kneels down next to Pita, telling her that they were moving. She offers to help Sorrin up, to get him somewhere more comfortable. They get him to his bed. and bandage him with some proper bandage that Pita brought. "Please hurry Tori... I don't want to be left alone... for long...". Tori rush to grab some equipment for blood testing. As they leave the room she can see the blood seeping through the bandages, Pita sits on the edge of the bed, watching Sorrin, a stoney expression on her face "I want to help..."
Tori has found what she was looking for. The sight of a woman half dressed running into the medical department covered in blood after everything that had happened was off putting. She demanded they give her the equipment she was after. They refused, trying to get her to be seen by a doctor, until she threatened them, wishing she had a gun. Thirty minutes after she had left the room, she returned. Setting up the equipment silently, looking over to check on the two every so often. Pita was talking to him, reassuring him it was going to be ok, that Tori was back now. Sorrin begs pita for his blade back. "I'll let you do it even please just a little bit "
"No." Pita says, leaning over and putting the blade on the floor. "It's making it worse...." Sorrin starts to get a bit angry. the pain starts up again."Tori You're going to have to restrain me if this keeps up. I dont know how long I can hold it.I dont want to hurt you..." Pita moves closer to the edge of the bed. She didn't like him being angry. Tori glances over at him, staying quiet while she was pulling some empty viles out of her pocket. It took a few more moments for her to walk across to him "It's not me I'm worried about... Here, I need to take some blood samples.... Find out what he gave you...." She holds out a needle, and the viles as if to say 'I can't do it'
Sorrin takes the needle and jabs the inner part of his elbow the tension smoothing his immediate pain. He pulls on the syringe to the draw the blood out. Its Purpleish red colour much darker and off colour than the blood in the bathroom from before. Sorrin doesn't say anything hoping nobody would really notice his blood had been infused with that of a nomads for the transfer of the eye powers. "Here he says looking away from the viles" the pain had died down a bit. Tori nods and takes the viles back over to a pocket sized machine she had set up. The doctor had told her how to use it. She tips a few drops onto a slide, and pushes the slide into the machine. "This will take about 5 minutes." Tori smiles slightly "I'd make it faster if I could....." Sorrin starts heating up again even faster than last time. "Tori."Sorrin almost yells but doesn't. "I Can't keep going on like this..... Please get away from here.... I don't want to hurt anyone." a bit of blood trickles down his face. "Please Tori I cant handle it..." Tori tries to think what to do.
Pita puts her hand on his shoulder, and looks up at Tori "How much longer......" Tori checks the timer "2 minutes. Pita.... I think you should wait outside...." Pita looks at her defiantly. "I'm not leaving him." Sorrin's eyes start to glow. The type that you dont want to mess with. -He really is losing it- Tori thinks to herself. Sorrin tries to fight it off holding his eyes shut. Tori can see Pita might be in danger if he looks at her. "Pita, outside... Now." Pita crosses her arms, And gives Tori a 'make me' look. Tori glances at Sorrin, seeing he wasn't doing well. "Pita. Don't make me do it.... Just go outside please." Pita grumbles but leaves, shutting the door a lot more aggressively then she needed to. Tori sighs as the machine beeps and a strip of paper is printed with the results. Sorrin tries to blind fold himself with the sheets. "well Tori, what is it."
"He's... the doctor poisoned you... " she turns and looks at him, not sure what to do. She knew Jason will know what to do, thinking to herself out loud she mumbles "Jason wants to kill you....." Sorrin unholsters his gun. He holds it out to Tori "Then shoot me '" Tori takes his gun and frowns, trying to decide if he was being serious. "I'm not going to shoot you...... I'll get Jason....." Sorrin looks at her with -At least knock me out before you leave face- At least then he can't hurt himself she thought. She hesitantly nods, before raising her hand with the gun.She hesitates and shakes her head, lowering her hand again. Turning and walking over to the kit Pita dropped earlier, not saying a word. She couldn't brink herself to knock him out physically, and was hoping there was something in the kit that would help. She eventually finds something she is looking for and walks over to the bed. Not finding anything else, she dampens the edge of the sheet with the clear, colorless, heavy, sweet-smelling liquid in the bottle. She puts the lid back on the bottle and puts it down on the bed 'CHCl3' is seen on the lable. "Breathe this." She cuddles up next to him and holds the sheet up over his mouth and nose.
Jason makes his way straight from the bar to his room and opens the door. He undresses, taking off everything except a back undershirt and his boxers and tosses it on a chair to the side. Walking to a small cabinet he pulls out a few bottles of wine and a candle and walks to his bed. He gets on and it leaning on a wall and placing the bottles on a side drawer and the candle on the bed. he takes off his necklace and tosses it on the bed too next to the candle. He get up again and decides to get his acoustic guitar. Turning off the lights he walks back to his bed as his eyes adjust and lights the candle on the bed, the warm glow reaching into the darkness of the room. He turns on the small amulet and a hologram shoots up from it showing a 3D map of Sirius. It revolves slowly in the darkness and Jason finds the small spot in the whole galaxy he connected with the most. Sighing he starts playing his guitar, a slow and saddening tone in the music.
He stares at the hologram and then at the candle, its sent filling the room and making him a bit relaxed. In between he reaches for a bottle and drinks the wine straight from it, sometimes stopping in mid song just to take another sip. At times he sings with the melody. After playing the melody a few times he changes to playing "Stairway to Heaven", humming first the lyrics an then singing quietly and softly, feeling the tune. He is interrupted by a knock at the door. "Jason.....? Open the door..." She sounded on edge, as if something was wrong.
He looks up into the dark and then starts playing again. "Its open..." She had finally holstered the gun by this point, and opened the door, closing it quietly behind her after stepping into the room. He doesn't say anything but just looks back again at the hologram. She walks over to to the light switch and flicks it on, she crosses her arms and looks at him. "I need your help." Jason shuts his eyes as the light shines suddenly in the room. He grumbles to have at least given him a warning. Tori shakes her head walking across to him "At least your paying attention now." He strums a cord on the guitar. "I was getting to the good part." He reaches for the wine bottles on the bed, already 1 finished. Tori smirks and sits on the bed, taking the wine bottle off him, and sculling some, she was thirsty and the smell of alcohol made her want it. "Like I said, I need your help...."
"Why else would you be here?" He shrugs. Reaching for another new wine bottle he grabs it and his crow, Nightmare appears just then perched on his arm, claws digging into his skin. Jason doesn't flinch though as he sees his pet stab the cork and pull it out with its beak, then vanish dropping the cork. "Thank you." Tori raised an eyebrow "To see you...... Would you rather I didn't?" She almost sounded hurt. He shakes his head. "Its not that... you know thats not true." He sighs not taking a drink from the bottle he just opened and places it on the small drawer. He puts the guitar to the side too and slides down a bit as he sits leaning on the wall, staring at the hologram.
Tori has another drink from the bottle, staying quite. After some time of silence she looks at where she was sitting "Sorry.... I got blood on your bed." The place where Nightmare had perched on him did start beading a bit but Jason barely noticed. Breaking from looking at the hologram and looking back at her he smirks and rubs some of his blood on the bed as well. "It happens... Its not yours is it... you dont seem hurt." She shrugs slightly, after all she had been through she wasn't sure. "I don't know if any of it is mine or not." He gets a slightly worried look on his face. "You should wash it off... might get infected if you really do have an open cut somewhere." Tori looks away "I don't really care at the moment."
"I do." He gets up from the bed and walks to the small washroom connecting to the room, coming back with a wet towel. "What happened anyway?" She sighs slightly when she looks at him seeing the wet towel "I went to give..... him... his pain meds, and he had lost it.... Blood everywhere." He starts wiping gently the blood of of her as he walks up and sits next to her on the bed. "Who? That Sorrin guy?" he wipes some of the blood from behind her neck and sneaks a kiss there. She nods. "Yeah." He wipes the rest of the blood off that he can see from where he is. He ignores that she has no shirt on, but still bugs him a little as to why. "I'm guessing your here then because of him then... am I right?"
"Yeah...." She hands him the paper of his blood results "He told me to come get your help or to shoot him." *He looks at the paper studying it. "You know he lied to me. He said he tried to help fix Jackson up from what he did before... I saw how he was looking at him though."
"He hurt Jackson more?"
"He might as well have. I went looking for Jackson and found him in his ship cursing, locking himself in his room. I walked in and saw he was about to kill himself with a rope... about to step off the stool he was on." She shakes her head "He's ok though, right? I mean... I just saw him in the bar."
"Yeah, I put him in the bar so he wouldn't try to kill himself quietly and without anyone stopping him. I stopped him twice." He sighs "He wont walk without help, he doesnt wana eat anything, and when I ask what he sees he just says its hell and death. I even had to blindfold him."
"That's..... I had no idea he was that bad....."
"Its bad. And then he has the nerve to tell me he tried to fix it but couldn't because hes too weak. Weak but strong enough to insist to carry all those bottles of beer? Weak but managing to walk all that way with the pain he has? Weak but managing to use his power on me."
He looks back at the Hologram of Sirius slowly rotating and sighs. "I wish i knew them better..." Tori looks across at the hologram as well "Sometimes it'd be nice to be able to just go away somewhere different." He nods "Maybe if you want... you can come with me next time... instead of you know..." he smirks* "not sleeping and drinking all that coffee." He says in a teasing voice. She shrugs "I couldn't sleep, and then by the time I wanted to it was too late, so needed the coffee to keep me awake." *He smirks a bit. "There's some neat places." He reaches for his necklace and pulls it forwards, then hovers his hand over the hologram and zooms with it. "Sigma-17 for instance"
Zooming in closer, the hologram shows a 3D map of the system and how it looks. She watches, "That looks nice.. " She looses herself in the hologram for a moment, remembering why she was there "Can you help.....?"
"Help what?" He says folding the towel casually. "Sorrin...." She says quietly. "Just take him to medical." He says, avoiding the question. "Im sure the doctors there that are left alive can help him." She crosses her arms "Considering it was the doctors that caused him the problem? I don't think so....."
"Guess he should have thought of not killing them then huh? You know that directly affected me right? I litteraly could have died waiting for a cure to be found. You thing I LIKE calling Rosa for help?" Tori stiffens slightly at the mention of her name "Yeah, I'm sure you hate calling her." She stands up, still holding onto the bottle of wine "Look.... If you aren't going to help, I'll just do it myself." She walks towards the door, looking back at him "Thanks...." He sighs, putting his head down. "Wait..."
"I don't have time to wait, Jason." She sounded stressed. "Then you should listen. I have a few extra antidots that got delivered... Its in the closet. Bottom left. Silver breifcase." She hesitates before walking over to the closet, finding the briefcase. She brings it over to where Jason was still sitting. He looks up to her seeing she is holding it. "Same place as where you poked me... That antidote in the case is more universal.. so it works against more than one poison. I uhh..." He looks down again. "I hope he gets better soon... and doesn't experience the late stages like i did..." He lifts his head up a bit again, managing to smile reassuringly slightly. She smiles and hugs him before standing up and making her way back to the door "Thank you..... I need to go and make sure he's.... I have to help him"
"You can take a shirt from my closet then on your way out." He grins. "Although the look could suit you." He says smirking remembering she said that about his medical gown. She realizes why he made the comment "Oh.... Uh.... Thanks......" She grabbed the first shirt she saw and put it on "I'll be back.... ok?" With that she leaves the room, closing the door behind her. Jason lies down on the bed, thinking to himself if he made the right discussion or if he'd be getting stabbed in the back later for it. He remembers what Rosa has said to him when she found out he was in a relationship with Tori but shakes it off completely, cursing her name once more, as he had multiple times.
There is a knock on the door, not loud but enough to notice. Tori doesn't notice the knock and continues deep in thought, not realizing she was doing. After a moment there's another knock on the door; a bit louder this time. Tori looks up and stops walking in circles, the knock bought her out of her thoughts. "Were not interested in your girl scout cookies, go away."
"Fine then. I'll eat them all myself and im not sharing. Your loss." Jason's voice is heard from the other side of the door. Tori makes her way to the door and opens it slightly, "What are you doing here?" Jason was looking to the side when she opened the door slightly. He turns and gives a slight smile. "Your really gonna ask me that when you came asking for help?"
"The last time you were......" She sighs "Alright." She opens the door enough to let him come into the room. "Last time I was here he just got a little poke." He grumbles to himself as he enters the room with his hands in his coat's pockets. Sorrin begins to sweat and tremble again as if the antidote Pita gave him wasn't enough. He looks over at him with the corner of his eye and then back at Tori. "You gave him the shot yet?"
"Pita gave him one..... She was telling me about it" She pulls the other from her pocket "I still have it" Jason looks seeing Pita cuddled next to him and he felt slightly uncomfortable for a brief moment before hiding it and smiling at the kid before turning back to Tori. "Give it to him... a bit more wont hurt him. Not this shot anyway. He looks like he needs it." She holds it out "You know what your doing more then I do....." Sorrin starts getting restless like hes in a nightmare requiring someone to hold him down while the other gives him the shot. Jason looks at her as if saying "seriously?" but takes the shot and walking up to his bed. "Pita.. your gonna have to move over a bit for a sec." Pita grumbles as she wakes up as much as she needs to, and goes to sit on the couch. Jason sits down next to him looking over him. He notices the bandage on his arm and hows its bleeding. "Tori... how was the would here dressed? Just a bandage?"
"It was a shirt.... Until he pulled the knife out.... But yeah... Just a bandage." He sighs putting his hand on his face dragging it down as if saying "Really? really?" Sighing again he starts to take out some stuff from his pockets in his coat "See.. this is why you should listen to me when I said to clean blood of first." He mumbles but Tori can hear him. Tori rolls her eyes at him, getting defensive. She thought she had done an alright job "Yeah, its not exactly like I know what I'm doing.... "
"And seriously how much blood did you let him dish out anyway." He looks at the bandage work, shaking his head. She points toward the open bathroom door, from the small area of the bathroom they could see blood was all over the floor and across the wall. "It's not like I let him. Like I said, I got here and that's how I found him...." He wasn't looking up but was now talking the stuff he needed out and laying it on the bed in front of him. Fresh bandage fabric in a roll, his main dagger, whiskey bottle, and a needle and thread. "Yeah.. just hold him from the other side alright?" Tori doesn't say anything, she was annoyed, but she moved and held him like Jason had told her to. Cutting first some bandage as a rag he puts it in arms reach and then takes him arm in his hand and holds it up vertically. He then reaches and takes his dagger starting to lace the blade against his arm.*
"If you hurt him......" Tori growls quietly. Jason glares back starting to get annoyed himself. "Im sorry, who treated your leg till Siren fixed it fully? Yeah."
"Yeah, what did you do after that, hmm?" She glared at him. "Oh wait.... That's right... Tortured her, just like the hunter." He rolls his eyes. "Oh yeah blame it all on me. Like I was supposed to know she wasn't spying on us all? Everything pointed to it, Tori."
"You were the on....." She takes a breath, trying to calm herself, she still had a taunting tone to her voice "Just keep him alive, shouldn't be hard since your so well practiced....." He cuts her off "If I wanted him dead I would have done it by now. For goodness sake Tori! Jeeze!" Sorrin starts acting up even more aggressively than before. He starts panting really heavily and his hands start to warm up rapidly. Tori mutters a curse under her breath. She knew what was happening, and looks around and finds something she can use as a blindfold. She ties it around his head, covering his eyes. "We need to get this done soon.... Otherwise it'll be that all over....." she nods in the direction of the bathroom agian.
Jason ignores the heat and completely now ignores Tori. Not saying anything, he continues. Swiftly without hesitation he cuts wit his dagger, first as if he cut the whole arm but then only the make-shift bandage falls off and everything else is untouched. He looks at the wound shaking his head. "... idiot. Why would you." He reaches for the whiskey flask while holding Sorrins arm up still, gripping the bottom applying pressure and reducing blood flow. "You're reaching for a drink at a time like this....." She mutters. He looks up hearing this. "Assuming I like to drink 100% Alcohol? Not likely." He ignores her and dampens the bandage that he had cut earlier and continues ahead to clean the wound with it.
"Wouldn't suprise me....." She says not quite loud enough for him to hear. "Come here and grip where I'm gripping." He waits for her to do to and then with both hands free he takes the needle and thread and starts stitching the wound. Finishing to stitch the cut he get the rest of the bandage and starts to wrap it quickly but neatly around his arm where the cut is. Once he's done he cuts of the rest and ties the bandage in place. He plays with his knife twirling it. "Alright arms all good... now just the shot. Go back to where you were before." Tori glares at him but does what she is told. He squints back already annoyed. He was already forcing himself to do all this to help. He didnt want an more attitude.
Taking the cyringe and holding his side of Sorrin down, he hovers the needle over his chests.
Tori watches him fighting to keep Sorrin still as he was becoming aggressive again. Finally sure of the spot he pokes the needle in and empties the drug in him, taking the needle out and cutting another piece of bandage and soaking it in alcohol. He then cleans it too and steps back a big, still holding his side down. "He should quiet down soon." No sooner had he said this, Sorrin starts to quiet down. He mumbles Jacksons name a few times before being subdued. Jason ignores that he said his name, putting it in the back of his mind, and finally lets go of his arm seeing he wont fight back now. Sorrin starts to groan as if hes waking up.he moves his hand over his eyes trying to figure out what it was being used a blind fold. He is still very groggy. Jason didn't know either why there was a blindfold on in the first place and starts to take it off. Jason catches a glimmer of his red eyes that Jackson spoke of. Sorrin quickly sensing the blind fold coming off looks away before any damage can be done. "Jason...?"
"Don't ... you need your rest. And some fluids if u can..." He gets up and comes back with a glass of water. Sorrin points to a beer. "Yea not now. Trust me I did that before. Bad idea." He gets him to sit up just enough for him to drink and puts the cup against his mouth. "Drink. You lost a lot of blood."
"It's because I'm a monster... Isn't it.." Sorrin mutters as he has the drink. "Yeah monsters only drink water." Jason says sarcastically. Sorrin lays back down and rolls to face the wall. "I don't know why you are helping me... But... Thank you...If you ever need my help call my name, I'll come running. "Sorrin drops his head as if to say he hopes the next time he sees Jason he isn't going to kill him. "I'm going to check on Pita....." Tori finally moves from where she was sitting and sits on the couch next to where Pita is curled up sleeping, again 'poor kid' Tori though, wondering what she had been through. Jason lays him back but doesn't say anything. He simply ignores it and walks to one corner where a chair is and sits watching him and then around the room.
Tori looks across at Jason and sighs quietly. She didn't like being mad, but the stress had got to her. She didn't know what to say to him so looks back down at Pita. Twirling his dagger casually he notices her attention on her. "Hows the little girl holding up with all this?"
"Considering she was admitted to hospital, and has put up with more in the last 3 days then most kids do in a lifetime...." Tori shrugs "Shes holding up well." He doesn't say anything, clearly picking up on the tone in her voice. "Sorry...." She shakes her head slightly, as she realizes he was trying to start a conversation. "I don't feel well..." She mumbles as an after thought "...I'm not like the hunter." He says quietly but loud enough. He stands up. "He should be fine now........." He looks up at her. The stuff that was said was now finally catching up to him. "... I'm gonna go." He gets up and leaves, closing the door behind him. He leaves everything besides his dagger that be brought to help.
Tori had been keeping her distance from the bar lately, she hadn't told Jason what she had done, but she figured he already knew. It was those eyes she lost herself in them every time and she couldn't understand why. It had started out innocent enough, she was only there to look after him while he was recovering. It had got out of hand too quickly, and she felt guilty for it. She hadn't wanted to hurt anyone, and she didn't want to ruin her relationship with Jason. She figured that the situation making it look like she was sleeping with the enemy probably wasn't a good way to go about keeping it.
She knew she had messed up when she told Jason he was like the hunter. In her defense, he was likely to have hurt Sorrin more. She knew it was a bad reason to have done it, and she should have been thankful for his help, not throw it back at him. He made that clear when he had a knife through a heart, dug into Sorrins door. The necklace he bought her as a gift hanging off the blade. Tori knew why he acted the way he did. Sorrin was an ex-LSF. Something he failed to mention, because of this he was accused of being a spy. She still couldn't figure out what he had done to Pita, the girl was in a bad way when she found them. While she trusted he didn't do anything bad, she couldn't make sense of it. She shook her head, it was all too overwhelming at the moment. She eventually decided her need for coffee was more then the need to avoid everyone.
Tori walks into the bar, not noticing the two as she was typing on her comms unit, hearing the conversation around her, but not paying it any attention. "She even healed you... You tell me that's Pathetic.."He can see through his eyes what she had done. He grunts and looks up to see Tori walking in. he sits back a bit more relaxed. "Yeah?" He gets off the seat and walks right up to him almost touching him with his chest. "And what were you doing to Heidi that got you knocked out by her?" He says in a low tone.
Tori, ignoring what was happening in the bar as she was still seemingly more interested in the PDA, walks up to the bar and puts credits on the counter for the bar tender - who already knew what she was going to order. "None of your business buddy." He snaps, he gets up and looks him in eye before moving to sit with Tori. He slides his hand down her back as he walks behind her right down to her butt in an obvious ploy to upset Jason and pecks her on the cheek before sitting down having a bit of a smirk. Tori gets a fright, not expecting that. Flinching slightly she turns off the PDA in a hurry and turns to see who it was "Oh.... He-" She sees Jason and frowns slightly not quite sure what was going on.
Sorrin picks up another drink and raises it to towards Jason whilst tipping the bar tender. "Cheers bud." He winks. Jason walks up to him as he says cheers and flips his bottle, making Sorrin lose his grip on the bottle. "Right back at you, -bud-." He completely ignores Tori, not wanting anything to do with her or any emotion to come up from him. He walks past the two of them as the bottle crashes on the floor, smashing. Tori looks across and sees Heidi sitting in the corner, calling out to Jason. She pockets the PDA and looks up at Sorrin, an eyebrow raised "So, what'd I miss....?"
"Well Tori, That lovely boyfriend of yours happens to have taken my sister's charm. I'm still not sure even he even likes her or if hes just doing it to anger me." he says in a frustrated voice. "Otherwise.. The usual stuff" Tori frowns "Taken to your sisters charm huh?" she takes a sip of her coffee and looks over at the two in the corner. She was quite upset about this, but trying to hide that. "Good to know....."
On Heidi's Table she gives him a stern look as if to say please don't stir my brother. "Don't worry he'll come around..." She looks down at the ground for a moment. "I... I've missed you." She says slightly awkwardly. as she pats the seat next to her.Jason gets up again goes to sit next to her. "I missed you too..." Heidi leans into him getting herself under his arm. "So that date... When do we leave handsome". she smiles and doesn't even bother to look at her brother, Tori frowns, still watching them, and puts her coffee on the counter, not looking at Sorrin she stands up "I have to go, I'll talk to you later....."
Sorrin stands up and glares at Jason before walking over to the table he was at. "You're a real piece of work bud." Heidi interrupts by smacking Sorrin in the side of the head. "Lay off Sorrin... Wouldn't it make more sense to go after her?" She meets his eyes with her own. "This isn't a battle you can win by yourself. Go..." Jason watches Tori making her way to the door, and Sorrin come up to him. He interrupts Heidi. "Oh yeah I'm a piece of work. I'M the peice of work huh? " he stands up mad grabbing Sorrin by the shirt "I show I care for a girl. I save her from a man that only wanted her for his ..... for some quick cash! I loved her. I did what I could. And she calls me the man that abused her and leaves me or a rat like you. Well excuse me, KID!!" He pushes him back. Hes angry as ever now.
She didn't hear any more of the events in the bar, she was now too far away. She was in tears long before she reached the door, and she just wanted to get away from them all. A part of her hoped Heidi would be ok, but she shook that thought away quickly. She quickly realized she wouldn't have a problem if Heidi was killed in action. Tori didn't know where she was going, but wanted to get away, somewhere Jason or Sorrin would not be able to find her. She made her way to the hanger, realizing she didn't have a ship on the station she made her way to a corner, and sat down on the floor, sobbing quietly into her hands.
Tori enters the bar again, making her way up to the counter to order a coffee. She glances across to the table Jason was at before, seeing he wasn't there she relaxed a little more. She takes her drink and goes to the corner table, avoiding the group of people already in the bar. She didn't want to talk to anyone, the only reason she was there was so she could have a drink to stay awake longer.
Jason walks into the bar quietly and looks around. He notices Tori at a corner table looking pretty sad and lonely by herself. He still didn't like seeing her like that. Even after everything, he still couldn't get her fully out of her head. Not after seeing her cry yesterday. He wondered if she felt even a little bit the same back. He had to know though. He had to know if what he was doing was right... or if he was making a big mistake. He goes to the counter and orders a coffee. The kind he knew Tori liked but added his own little touches to it, with some whipped cream and some syrup in it for extra taste. He takes it and walks over to her, inviting himself to the table even though he saw her look at him and half thought to turn back. Sitting down he switches her coffee with the one he got and takes a sip of hers, making a face regretting to drink since he didn't like coffee much. "I dont know how you drink this stuff."
She doesn't look up at him. "It's supposed to keep me awake." She mumbles, shaking her head "I am happy with the other coffee, you didn't have to come over here with this....."
"I know I don't have to..." he says interrupting her quietly "Doesn't mean don't want to." She shakes her head slightly, still not looking at him, hoping he wont see how much it hurt her "I'm sure Heidi won't like this....."
"Well she didn't at first... but I told her I needed time to think. Haven't seen her since yesterday." She finally looks up, a tear running down her cheek. "Time to think about what, Jason. You two looked happy, why not just go with it?" Heidi Leans against the door of the bar watching them. She notices them talking she smiles. Knowing what he was talking about without even hearing him. she turns around and leaves before being seen. He was heartbroken seeing her cry. He reaches and attempts to whip the tear from her cheek. "Because... because your not happy... I thought you were happy with Sorrin..."
Tori looks away, moving out of his reach, she didn't want him to touch her. "I was helping him....." She mumbles. He retracts his hand sitting back down. "I mean... at least tell me where I went wrong... why I almost didnt see you at all after I got better from Kusari... I.... I missed you Tori... and when I saw you were with him..."
"I've been looking after So... After him." She shakes her head "You saw what he did to himself..... And then Pita too.... I couldn't leave her with him alone." She shakes her head "I messed up.... I know that. You don't have to sit here pretending to be nice about it all...."
"Tori... look at me..." He interupts her again. "Just .....just look." She reluctantly does what he says and look across at him, biting her lip, trying to put on a brave face. "I don't need your pity, Jason...."
"Don't even... all I wana know is one thing. Did you mean what you said to me before? Do you..." he sighs "do you love Sorrin over me?" She shakes her head speaking quietly, just loud enough for him to hear her "I... I didn't mean that.... I'm sorry I said it..... And I couldn't possibly love anyone more then you....." She picks up the coffee mug and has a sip of the drink, smiling slightly, he always did make the best coffees. He sits for a second slightly stunned kinda not knowing what to say before getting up off his chair, going to the other end out the table, and as he slides over kissing her. "And im not pretending either..." She kisses him back before looking at him, confused. She was studying his face, trying to find something to explain this "I.... Why are you doing this, Jason.... What about Heidi....?"
"Because I wouldn't be able to forgive myself if I kept seeing you like this... and Heidi understood..." Tori shakes her head "You wouldn't be able to forgive yourself..... Jason, that's not a good reason to give her up.... especially if you're happy..... I mean, thats all I ever wanted for you."
"Tori... the only reason I went to look for someone else... I thought you hated me... I don't like seeing you not happy either... and yesterday I realized I might have been wrong... I still love you Tori..." He gives her a quick kiss saying this. "your more important to me than anyone else..."
"You're... I'm not going to pretend I understand why." She moves closer to him. Sounding hesitant, she asked "Are you sure you want to do this...?" He tilts his head a little slightly confused. "I've done a lot of thinking Tori..." He smirks a bit "Why so hesitant?"
"You looked happy with her....." She says simply, shrugging slightly. "I just don't understand why you'd give that up...." He smiles slightly, placing his hand on her cheek and with his thumb finally wiping some of her tears off. Tori smiles slightly, letting him do that this time. He sighs "Nothing makes me more happy than seeing you smile ,Tori. I love being with you... more than anyone ... more than her..."
"I really didn't mean what I said....." Moving gently her hair to the side kisses her again. ".... forget about it." Tori kisses him back before she cuddles into him, making herself comfortable. "I really did miss you...." She smiles, feeling happier then she had been for days. He cuddles back, squeezing her a bit in the embrace but gently. "I missed you too... and your snuggles... sorry about the um........ door thing." She frowns slightly, but shrugs "Yeah..... Its alright....."
Heidi and Sorrin are seen walking past the bar. However the pair of them aren't wearing their normal colors. Sorrin has his full LSF uniform on and Heidi has Navy style suit on. She also has Katana that Sorrin normally keeps in his ship on her back. Although the 2 in the bar only see them walk past they can tell they will be gone for some time judging by the equipment they had. Tori watches them "You.... Do you want to go and see what she's doing?"
"And give up this moment?" He smirks "Not on your life." He cuddles more and kisses her forehead. She grins and seems to relax more. Eventually she puts on a playful pout "I can't reach my coffee...." He almost laughs and reaches for the cup, handing her it. "I still dont know how you can drink that stuff." He says teasingly.
Siren walks in looking a bit shaken, her hand clasped tightly on the butt of her gun. She shrugs slightly, taking a sip of the drink "I dunno.... I like it." she looks up and sees Siren, frowning slightly, wondering what happened. Siren looks around quickly, her eyes actually glowing a golden color as she scans the room. Tori had to keep reminding herself Siren wasn't human. Siren sees Tori and Jason. She seems to calm down a bit, closing her eyes, then as they open once again, her usual bright green eyes have returned. She moves over to Tori and Jason in a quick smooth motion. "Tori, did you see... what the hell are Navy personnel doing on the station?" Jason starts to say something but stops not bothering. Tori shrugs "They're fine..... They know what they are doing....."
"Huh?? But.. Navy.. and LSF.. and.. they.. I... " She lowers her head with a deep sigh. "I need a drink..."
"Trust me.... We know who they are...." She glances across at Jason. Siren looks up a bit, "Rogue spies?" she asks with a hopefull hint to her voice. Jason finally decided to say what was on his mind. "If you feel like it Siren, feel free to kill off the LSF guy-" Tori turns and slaps Jason across the face, just hard enough to cut his sentence short. "You won't kill the LSF guy", she muttered. "At the end of the day, hes still one of us....." Although she was speaking quietly, Jason hears her well enough and rubs his cheek a little. "Alright alright..."
After a few minutes Heidi walks into the bar quickly, she was going to say goodbye to Jason but noticing everyone there she just orders a few drinks to take on her trip with her instead. She stands at the counter for a moment ordering. Siren hadn't even looked though her hand was already firmly gripping her pistol. "If this goes any other way than pleasant, then there will be blood all over this room." She says quietly, before taking a deep breath, turning and with a smile, walking up to and around the bar. "There anything I can get you officer?" She asks with a slight evil to her voice, a tone that had only ever been heard once before by Jason back on Jacksons Scylla. "Officer eh... I could get used to that.... Two bottles of unopened whisky please. ya know... The un-made stuff..."
Jason kisses Tori and squeezes her a bit before getting up, seeing the hostility in Siren, he was fearing things were going to get a bit ugly. He walks over to the counter next to Heidi. "Siren allow me alright?" He jump up on the counter, sliding across to the other side and goes under the counter. Watching Jason from the corner of her eye for a moment, Siren then turns her full attention to Heidi "So... Fleet Admiral Sanders still in command... or has Polstari finaly got his job?"
"Classified..." Heidi says with a grudge and stares at Siren. Tori watches what was happening from where she was sitting, sipping away at her coffee, a part of her wished Jason was there with her still, but she knew he had things to be done. Jason takes out four bottles of a whiskey with non-libertonian letters on them and puts them on the table. "You wont find these in liberty... its on me." He smirks a bit. "and thanks..." She looks at Jason for a moment, not paying the slightest bit of attention to the bottles. "Thanks for what?" She asks, her fist gripped tightly on the counter, wanting to know exactly what he was thanking the navy officer for.
"Corsairs finest... I owe you one." She smiles at him while she puts the bottles in a small shoulder back. She goes to hand over some money anway to Siren but changes her mind. She digs into her pocket and pull out some notes underneath the notes is her door card she puts it in Jason's hand and closes it so no one else can see it. "It's been a blast Jason, but times have changed. You rogues do me proud okay?" she sounded a little upset as if she won't see them again. She turn back to Siren and tosses a coin at her face. "That's captain when you address and officer of the law." She says in a stern voice. She turns to leave when a slight tear in her eye. Jason pockets what she gave him and watches her leave. He smirks to himself but nods slightly a tad saddened himself.
Siren watches Heidi move across the room. She looks down at the coin Heidi ahd thrown at her, glimpsing the face of one of Liberty's ex-presidents, it happens. Without a single noise, Siren springs over the counter and is at Heidi's back in less than a second. She grabs the back of her uniform, pulls and spins Heidi around and pinns her to the ground, back to the floor. she swings her fist towards the womans face, though as she gets close, an inch wide, foot long blade slices out of her arm and impales the steel deck plating, barely cutting her cheek. "YOU'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE!?!?" Seeing how Heidi fought before, Jason gets near them but keeps his distance. He knows whats gonna happen soon...
Heidi Takes a deep breath in... and starts clenching her fist on near the ground she does it so hard a little bit of her blood trickles through her knuckles... Taking her time to to gather energy. "You don't want to this..." She stares directly into Siren's eyes. "Oooh I'm sure I do... its been 4 years since I got to kill a navy with what you people gave me." She leans the blade a bit closer to her face, the strange metal actually cutting the deck as easily as butter. With the hand that has the blood on it she quickly grabs Sirens wrist and shoves it away. The blood coming into contact with Sirens starts to burn and fizzle. Whilst gripping her wrist she musters up the strength to punch Siren in the chest sending her into the counter a little. This creates enough time for Heidi to stand up. "I'm Telling you... Don't..." she stretches her arm out with the bloodied and open palmed she shows Siren the blood. She can sense something about Siren is like her but doesn't know what. "An besides.... I'm not from the navy...". She sounds a bit angry now.
Shaking her head from the shock of hitting the counter, Siren quickly regains her balance and moves to swing at Heidi, though where she strikes is at least a meter to the left. "Huh??" Heidi notices Siren is having a reaction to the blood she's seen this happen before. She picks Siren up by the collar with one hand and runs a bit of blood down her face. "Drop it... I have places to be now..." She says as her anger builds up. She put Siren back on the ground however Siren still isnt seeing things right. She turns away from Siren and heads for the door but not before picking up her bag. Jason just shakes his head, remembering how the burns felt from the blood. Siren falls to the floor, grasping at her face as her skin sizzles, she goes to scream at Heidi, though what happens is something she didn't expect.
Heidi turns around noticing her with more attention this time she backs to her seeing her on the floor she picks up one of Siren's hands with her clean hand and inspects it "Looks like you're one of us after all... Heh. Who would have figured". She says to siren in her mind. before chucking the hand back down. She walks out. Jason offers Siren a hand "Oh and um by the way... that's LR-'s second in command, Siren...." He smirks a tad. Siren watches Heidi walk out, her vision a bit blurred with a strange purple hue around everything she sees. "Wha... what was... that..." she asks aloud. She drops her hand from her face as the burned skin can be seen actually reforming, healing itself on the spot.
Heidi gets to the door, Sorrin is standing there watching her, he looks a bit surprised but keep his calm. The 2 of them look back into the bar watching Siren for a moment. Sorrin's eyes the deepest Red they been in a long time. "Take a last look Sorrin. It will be the last you see of them for some time..." After a minute or so she turn back to Sorrin "Lets go.." They dissappear to the hanger The roar of Heidi's ship rumbles throughout the base. Modififed again to perfection they leave the base seemingly for good. Shaking his head a bit, Jason walks back to where Tori is and goes to sit next to her again, letting her cuddle into him once more.
Tori cuddles into Jason again, not saying anything about what had just happened. He stays quiet a while enjoying the small silence and their embrace. He notices her coffee is almost done. "Did you like the syrup I added?" he asks, trying to divert the topic from what happened moments before. She nods "It tastes a lot better then the normal coffee.... Thanks." He sees a bit of whipped cream on her the tip of her nose and kisses it gently. "mmm.. much better yeah." She grins. Before looking serious again, "I don't want to lose you again..."
Jason nods slowly "Neither do I..." Tori's PDA beeps from her pocket and she sighs, pulling it out, quickly reading the message, she tenses up. "They can wait...." She mutters. He grins a bit to himself. "How about we go over my room. You look a bit tired and tense..." He leans in closer and whispers quietly in her ear. "Maybe a little message can fix that." She smiles, and puts the mug back on the table "Sure.... If your offering."
"I'm offering." He lifts her chin up just a bit and kisses her with a more longing kiss. She kisses him back, and eventually stands up. "You're room.... or mine?" She asks, looking around the bar to see who else was there. Ivan was drifting in and out of sleep in the corner. Jason stands up after her. "We could go to mine if you want. Either way I dont mine. Whichever your more comfortable with." He stretches a bit too, feeling a bit tired as well. "Your's is better." She nods, She had spent most of the last 12 hours in her room in tears, she didn't want to go back there quite yet. She nods, and takes his hand, leading him out of the bar.
Walking out he could feel her hands a bit tense. "You need to relax a little." At the door he picks her up, surprising her a bit by it but hears her laugh while he did it so swiftly. He smiles as the two make their way back to his room.