Taste of Freedom{open}

[ssowls4]

It wasn't everyday that students of the academy got to go to the mainland. And they only got to go if they were being escorted by a prefect or a teacher. Now many students often thought of it as a pain and violation being watched by the school no matter where they go. Well they didn't often think of the prefects point of view. Yes they all wanted to lurk in the shadows or socialize with someone they hardly even knew for a day before parting their ways. More importantly they didn't want to babysit other kids when they could be doing something else much more important.

At least that's what Phoenix was feeling at the moment. He had been assigned to take some kid to the mainland for the day, he didn't even know the reason why, but being a responsible prefect he took the job non the less. Yet that didn't mean he couldn't enjoy himself a bit along the way right? Right he was due to have a little fun since he had been working some extra night shifts. That's what Phee had been thinking when he let his student wander a head a bit when he saw a bike shop.

Now fixing up bikes being a passion of his he could just pass up the opportunity to gawk at some of the nicest parts around them. So it really was justified to take a moment and observe the materials he so longed to work with. Now if only that had been a moment and not twenty minutes wondering around the store wishing for things he couldn't afford at the moment. Coming out of the shop empty handed and smelling of mechanic parts and the slight hint of rubber he looked around for the student he was chaperoning. And of course i can't find you... He thought icy blue eyes scanning the crowd before going searching.

[terezi]

It was annoying that one must be guided to the mainland by a perfect. She was lucky she got to go at all so she couldn't complain. Coraline had her normal earmuffs on along with her gloves. She could tell people probably thought she was weird, oh well. This was a crowded place and she didn't want to freak out in front of all of them. She had been obedient and had not run away for a while, but that got boring after a while. One simply could not go to the mainland without stirring things up a little. So when the person who was guiding her stopped to look at bikes she took off running.

Coraline started to look for things that she liked. Sharp stuff, things that were quiet, things that didn't have people around them. She was dashing through the mall when she saw a book store. She skidded to a stop and looked back. That guy had to be at least out of her sight before she could stop. She looked at the faces and saw none to be even semi familiar. Perfect. She strolled into the store with a bounce in her step. He was going to have to look for her if he wanted to bring her back to Ashford.

Wait a second. She was away from Ashford, away from the perfect who was supposed to be watching her, and away from anybody who would even know what Ashford was. Now was her chance to get away. She looked around for an exit of some sort, but couldn't see one. Dang it was she going to have to go back the way she came? She frowned. As long as she didn't get caught. Coraline put down the book she had been looking at and walked out of the store. Now or never. She took off running again and laughed at the people looking at her. Probably thought she was shoplifting.

[ssowls4]

Okay so he hadn't been the most responsible. But whatever the girl in earmuffs he was babysitting shouldn't be to far ahead of him right? Right. Or at least in eye sight for the time he spend drooling over the bike parts. Yet as his icy gaze drifted lazily over the crowd he didn't see her. Actually he didn't see anyone he knew. Well shiz this was pretty darn bad now wasn't it? Sighing heavily he started down the hall in a low jog at least he wasn't in his uniform. Yes he had his badge on but it was over a black long sleeve hugging his form as well as a very comfortable pair of jeans.

So now running down the hall he started calling out the girls name, "Coraline! Cooooooraline!" He shouted down the halls getting quiet a few looks but what else could he do. Sliding to a stop he looked around seeing nothing of use. "Now where the hell is she now?" He growled quietly. She was far beyond his current line of site and the path a crowd would have formed to make way for a running girl was long since gone. Jeez this sucked and he was going to get into so much trouble for simply letting her out of his site.

Unless no one found out a thin smile formed on his lips as he noticed someone coming up the other side of the hall. He saw a girl dart out of a book store not to far a head of him and luckily she had a distinguishing pair of earmuffs on. Now running he crossed the path being careful not to touch anybody, didn't want to get any unwanted memories or paralyze anyone now did he? "Hey slow down!" He called up slowly gaining ground on her. His slim fingers shot out and grabbed the collar of her shirt trying not to touch her as best he could he pulled back. "SLOW DOWN!" he shouted in her face, really he didn't feel like fighting but would if it came to it. The next item he reached for was her earmuffs dislodging them slighlty but not enough to make any real difference.

[terezi]

Coraline noticed that the perfect guy had caught up. She frowned. And she had been so close to getting away too. She was sprinting away from him and she was going to stop and turn around to face him, explanation on why she had been running ready, when she felt him grab the collar of her shirt. She was stopped in her tracks and sighed. She guessed that was that. She was probably going to have to go back to Ashford now. She rolled her eyes. Perfects always seemed so obtuse while at the same time so did everybody else. Coraline suddenly felt him touch her headphones. No, just no.

Coraline's first instinct was to jump away. This in itself made the earmuffs come the rest of the way off. The voices almost instantly rushed into her mind. Somebody wanting to buy a dress, some perv thinking of a girl. All the thoughts of everybody around her. Coraline crumpled to the ground and covered her ears. This only muffled the voices. She muttered a few curse words under her breath and grabbed her earmuffs away from him.

She slipped them on and stood up. Her breath was a little ragged after that experience. She then glared to him. She didn't even care that he was a perfect he was getting an earful now. "What the hell dude? Don't. Touch. My. Earmuffs! Yelling at me is one thing, but really, I have them for a reason!" She yelled at him. It was common sense, somebody wears earmuffs everyday they must have them for a reason. She adjusted her gloves too. He was already on her bad side. Suddenly she aimed a hard kick for his shins.

[ssowls4]

For a moment he wasn't aware what was going on. All Phee knew he was simply disturbing the earmuffs to make sure she would stop. As she jumped away he thought it only natural if someone touched you unexpectedly. He always did it anyway.. then again he did hate to be touched. Yet even he didn't expect such a large reaction from the simple action. A jump, a little yelp at most was what he was thinking. Nix never expected her to drop to the ground.

He bent down quickly picking up the earmuffs and was about to hand them back to her but stopped eyes blinking with the sudden memory flooding back into his mind. Phee saw her running again... another escape maybe? It didn't last long as the object he was receiving the memory from was yanked out of his hand and placed onto a certain girls head. Shaking his head a slight frowned formed on his lips before his pale blue eyes drifted over to her.

Oh the glare was expected, most defiantly with the whole dropping to the floor thing, so he didn't move or flinch when her voice rose to yell at him. Though he stayed slight it wasn't like his eyes were down cast in an 'oh i'm sorry' puppy sort of way. Instead he stood straight and eyes stayed locked with her's surely showing how bored he was with maybe a tinge of regret around the edges. Was that for the memory he saw or that he had caused her pain? Maybe both...

Try to decide that was cut off when she tried causing him harm. Quickly back stepping his left leg so she missed he twisted and pulled his legs closer together so her ankle was trapped between his shins. "I would prefer if you didn't yell at me in public much less try to hurt me. That could get you hurt." His voice was calm and deadly serious as he released her legs. "I'm sorry, they didn't tell me anything of you or your gifts." What ever he reason was he wasn't sure if he wanted to know anyway. Tucking his hand in his sleeve he pushed her back gently. "I think that's a enough freedom for one day, i hope you got what you came here for." Keeping a hand hovering around her back he started walking towards an exit. Sucks for her since they really hadn't spent much time in the mall.

[terezi]

He easily dodged her kick and she was kind of glad, she didn't exactly want to hurt the guy, but she absolutely hated it when people touched her earmuffs or gloves. She was annoyed at him having her ankle between his shins though. It made her off balance and awkward. She was adjusting her earmuffs so she never heard him talking, as was obvious. Maybe it was better when people yelled at her, at least that was she might remotely hear them. She could still read lips so that helped. When she looked up again she noticed him talking. "What?" She asked. She had only caught the last two words.

Coraline was the being herded towards the door. Snap, did this mean that the mall time was over? She smirked. What else had she suspected would happen. She had only been in the bookstore for a short moment and she hadn't even gotten one. Then she realized something. He wasn't touching her, only her shirt and earmuffs. She stopped abruptly and whipped around, now facing him. Coraline searched his expression. Right now he just looked serious. Stuck up perfect. She thought idly.

"So what do you do?" She asked him. If he was a perfect then he had to have some pretty awesome powers, unlike her, even though she suspected that one of her powers matched up with his. There was a name that the people had told her, but she could never remember the scientific stuff. Something about being psycho and the other one was Telepathy. That one was easy to remember. Now she actually wanted to get out of the mall, it'd be easier to talk then and she wouldn't have to read his lips the whole time, even though she'd have to hear his thoughts, so here was fine.

[ssowls4]

He had wondered if the girl beside him would be able to hear him. And apparently she could not. Well that wouldn't be a pain at all. Perhaps he just shouldn't talk a small smirk played on his lips. That would be interesting to say the least, easy for him as he never quite felt a need to talk and that quite annoyed some people. It didn't matter anyway she didn't seem to be in the friendliest mood. Had that been Phee's fault? Maybe, probably, sucks for her.

Suddenly she turned to him and his hand fell back to place by his side. He raised an eyebrow to the young girl, what could she possibly want? Now he was getting questioned. Really she had just run away and he was getting questioned. That totally seemed right. Rolling his eyes he shrugged nudging her along with him. "I can do a lot of things, it depends on what you want to know." He said watching her carefully.

He had asked about her gift so that what he was going on for a more specific answer as the headed out the door. Here, outside the mall, it was much quieter as well as less populated. Stopping he looked down at her and answered her question with a real answer this time. "Psychometry, AKA don't touch me i don't feel like knowing your life story. Paralysis Inducement, I can paralyze you. And lastly Enhanced Combat, i can kick your ass if you bolt on me again." The last part came out a little harsh but he didn't particularly care as it was mostly a threat to keep her safe, who knows what could happen if she did. Whether she got hurt or lost it would be on him and no he didn't care about getting in trouble but mainly he would hate himself if something happened on his watch.

Crossing his arms over his chest he raised another eyebrow. "Eye for an eye, what about you?" A smile played about on his lip as he asked. Guessing she had something to do with an telepathic ability. Yet he wanted to know what else as well as how strong she was. "I'm Phoenix by the way." He added thinking about it he never did introduce himself.

[terezi]

Coraline managed to read his lips before she had to turn around and he herded her out of the mall again. Gosh he was no fun at all. She rolled her eyes and walked out of the mall as he had wanted. She guessed that this was kind of his punishment too, getting stuck with the kid who hates people in general. She sighed, it was still her punishment though, getting the guy who was such a buzz-kill. She shrugged. Could have been worse. She could have gotten some guy who just shoved her around. At least this guy wasn't too too mean.

When the two were outside Coraline streched her arms and turned just in time to catch Phoenix start talking. Psychometry! She knew it. When he finished his statement Coraline could barely hold back bursting into laughter. This guy wasn't as much of a completly boring person as she thought. Even though she was pretty sure by his facial expression that he was trying to be serious. To her he was failing miserably. She straightened and put on a serious face, trying her best to match his. Gosh how she wanted to be away from people for like the next two million years.

Coraline was about to start walking again, happy with his answer, when she caught him talking again, or rather, his mouth moving. A question for her, huh? She cupped her hand behind her earmuff and acted as if she couldn't hear him. She hated her powers and she didn't want other people to know them, expesially not some guy she just met and was supposed to have more comand over her. She also saw his name, but she skipped off beforehe could get mad.