Aftermath (Claw, Zane)

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Seth gritted his teeth as he finally pushed open the doors, stumbling in and loosing his balance. A rather bad situation, with the body currently resting on his shoulders. Of course, before Clair could hit the ground, another person popped up and claimed the body, allowing Seth to hit the tiled floor with full force. He groaned slightly, closing his eyes, allowing the weariness of the situation to send him into a gentle slumber, or that was the intent anyways. The feeling of stilettos digging into the palm of his hand made that rather hard to do, and opening his eyes, he looked up to the nurse, who was already pulling out the caustic liquid from Clair's body. He blinked slightly, realizing that the girl's animalistic traits seemed to have dissipated, leaving behind a rather cute girl in place of the snarling animal.


"This defiantly looks like your handy work, you crazy little boy. Are you becoming masochistic as well now? Oh the horrors that must be going through that crazy mind of yours. It's no wonder you can't fixate upon a single...."

Seth let out a small sigh, slowly pushing up his body and tuning out the nurse, as he moved over to one of the various beds that were laid out in the nurse's office. It wasn't hard to tune out the lady's mutterings, but it was much harder to ignore the sudden pressure of fingers digging through his own skin, tearing into his rudimentary scabs that he had created. Opening his eyes to glare at the woman, he noticed that Claw was placed right next to him, and that the Nurse was looking over his recent accomplishments with quite a bit more interest that he usually earned.


"You've obviously improved in your bastardized healing. Why I could almost call this rudimentary first aid, but you're still destroying the cell walls. This is nothing more than flesh turned into fabric, you've done nothing more than use human materials to create bandages. Pathetic really, and if applied over vast areas would do more harm than good."

The criticism wasn't really appreciated at this point, in fact it was beyond redundant, and a bit late in coming. He had a punctured lung for crying out loud. "Stop focusing on the scratches and fix my..." Seth managed to cry out, before following up with a hacking cough that sprayed blood over the blankets. Luckily, with the burning touch of a certain annoyance, the coughing slowly subsided, along with Seth's head clearing up with the added oxygen. Now he was just utterly exhausted.

He watched as the Nurse started rambling on again, tuning out her voice out of habit, and turning towards the door. It wouldn't be too far of a stretch to say that he was worried about the other person who had been injured, he wondered if he'd make it here on his own, or if the students would be kind enough to help out that boy. Seth closed his eyes, figuring he'd look into it later if the boy didn't pop up soon.

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Claw groaned, and slowly opened her eyes. Her vision was blurred, and she rubbed her eyes, believing it was just because of her sleep. Her whole body felt like it weighed a million, no, a billion pounds. She moved so slowly it felt like she was barely moving at all. There was a heavy weight pressing down on her that she had never felt before. She couldn’t hear anything, everything was just a blur, it sounded like someone had stuffed cotton balls in her ears, but it didn’t feel like it. In fact, it didn’t feel like she had any ears at all, just those stupid, useless human ones.

That’s when she started to panic. She shot up out of her sleeping position as fast as she possibly could, which to her, felt as slow as a tortoise. She whipped her hands in front of her face and tried to extract her claws, without success. She started breathing at a million miles per hour. She looked around to see where she was. She was in a room with white walls and a white ceiling; white beds lined the white walls with what looked like people sleeping in them. She looked down at the white bed sheets in her lap, and faintly heard someone talking somewhere nearby. She whipped her head around, trying to find the source of the noise, and saw a person standing next to her wearing white clothing and white shoes. She tried to sniff, to smell something that would give away her location, but she couldn’t smell anything. She closed her eyes, not able to bear her blurry vision any longer. There was just too much white.

That’s when she noticed something she had missed before. It was him, the guy who had hurt her, the guy that she had beaten. She slowly opened her eyes and turned her head, she saw who the nurse was blabbering to. She wasn’t bleeding as badly as she remembered, but he still looked pretty beat up. She felt her anger grow inside of her, he must have brought her here; he must have weakened her. She tried to growl, but just couldn’t seem to find the right vocal cords for it. She had to do something, she had to get out. She jumped out of bed, and wobbled on her unsteady feet, almost falling over. She felt so weak and useless, she had to gain her strength back, but she didn’t know how, so she did the only thing she could think of, she ran. She saw no other options, she just had to run. She clumsily ran towards the door, slowly trying to make her way there. She was running even slower than a normal human, she just didn’t have the energy to go any faster. After a couple steps she stumbled, falling flat on her face. She groaned, and slowly lifted her face off the floor, snarling at her reflection in the shiny, white surface. She was weak, useless, she was never going to get out.

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Seth opened his eyes slowly, noticing that the nurse had actually stepped back to her desk and was jotting something down, more than likely a report on the injuries that the two students had sustained. Usually violent application of their abilities were recorded quite thoroughly, as a note to the governments of what the students were capable of when intending to do harm to others, but he ignored that. His file was plenty big enough as it was, and another foot note in his legacy at this school wouldn't matter much.

Instead he turned his attention to the noise that had awakened his interest in the world, and made him want to put off his sleep for a little bit longer. Seth watched slightly amused as the girl actually stumbled before falling to the floor. The caustic effects of his blood must have effected her a lot more than he had previously believed, or the Nurse wasn't as forgiving as she usually was in her application of healing powers.

Slowly getting off the bed revealed that it was at least the later of the two for Seth anyways, as he felt the numerous scabs and tight skin that resulted from scarring, and, as he stretched out his arms, felt a light trickling of warm liquid along his back. He ignored it though, and walked over to the little girl.

The young man couldn't help but frown at how small and fragile the girl seemed now that she wasn't all bite and claw, and felt a small pang of sympathy for her. She was almost like Calista, when the other girl was much younger. Drawing on that little thought, and blaming the lack of proper amounts of blood for his next actions, Seth managed to pick the girl up, and sit her on his lap as he sat back down on the bed. "You're in no condition to be running around Clair. In fact, I bet you and I are going to be stuck in her for at least another day."

He let out a small laugh, and started running his finger through the girl's hair. Even though she wasn't entirely cat-like at the moment, it would hopefully feel good enough to stop the girl from thrashing around, or at least keep her from biting him. Somehow, he felt that he would be bit though, it seemed almost inevitable.

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Coming into consciousness was so not fun. Actually, it was okay in the beginning, while the haze Zane felt was still covering up the pain. He could tell that he was in motion, though he wasn't the one doing the moving, was he floating somehow? Eh, it didn't really matter at the time, he was still in lala land. After what felt like days of strange motion -but was only half a minute- everything started to come back... well, almost everything. The last thing Zane remembered was laying on the floor for whatever reason, hearing someone fight. From there the memories were in clips.

First one blink, there were sounds of fighting, then blink it was silent, blink the word idiot floated over, blink two new presences were felt, blink he was being moved, and here he was.
Zane had missed the fight between Claw and Tony and remembered nothing from his drunken state. The two to find him were a couple new students roaming and happened upon the mess. The blue-haired boy restored the kitchen and Hall from any physical damage done, and the white-haired girl did her best to stabilize him, not knowing about Seth's odd handiwork. Together they were carrying him off to the Nurse's Office now.

In the painless Haze the world was tolerable, he was brought wordlessly into the Office and set on some kind of bed to stare lifelessly up at the ceiling he couldn't see. The two students explained how they'd found him lying unconscious in the bloody Dining Hall and left with quick glances at the second wounded Duo cuddling on the bed, leaving Zane in more capable hands.

At first he couldn't care less about some stranger who suddenly appeared at his side, muttering in an incoherent language about more bandages made of flesh before forcing him to sit up. He didn't even flinch at the consistent jabs and rips that reopened the scabbed over wounds across his chest. It was when the Nurse started working along his back that Zane suddenly let out a blood-curdling scream- obviously having back his sense of pain. He wasn't use to the intense amount of pain all at once, at least in his fight with Claw he received one wound at a time and after a certain point that pain had faded away. It was back now, with revenge.

When the painful procedure was finally finished Zane sat with his feet still over the side of the bed. He kept his head down, allowing the long black hairs to cover-up his expression though there wasn't anything he could do to hide the light tremor from his... recovery. For whatever reason the Nurse didn't seem to be in a very happy mood, using a limited amount of Healing power. A bed or two away he could hear another voice in the room that belonged to Seth. Having mixed feelings about the boy who'd both threatened and possibly saved his life, Zane wasn't exactly sure whether to thank him or not.

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Claw made a futile effort to get away from her enemy, but gave up just as quickly. She just didn’t have the will to get away, she couldn’t think straight, her head was filled with peace and comfort, she hated it. She wanted her bloodlust back, she wanted her hate. She curled up in a ball and let him stroke her, not even caring anymore. Part of her wanted to turn around and rip his throat out, and part of her wanted to cling to him for support. She curled her lip in disgust, he was her enemy, enemies were no source of support, but then why was he doing this?

Claw shuddered, she hated it, she hated it so much. She wanted to go; she wanted to be herself again. She was a weakling here, a useless little weakling, she needed her powers back. She looked up, and noticed the nurse was giving her dirty looks, scared dirty looks. At least, that’s what it looked like, it was hard to see anything through these blurry human eyes, and she couldn’t tell if she was scared because she couldn’t smell anything either. She glared back at the nurse, and she quickly looked away, Claw smiled. She must know about her and what she did, she must have figured it out, but she couldn’t do anything now. She felt just like that blind kid from earlier, speaking of which, where was he?

That’s when she heard him scream, and whipped her head around excitedly. It was so loud, it sounded just like someone was speaking to her before she came in here; it was at the exact same volume, maybe a little quieter. She frowned with disappointment when she couldn’t hear anything after, but at least she knew what happened to the blind guy from earlier. Someone had apparently brought him in here with Seth and herself. He was only a couple beds away, so she could see him much more clearer than the rest of the room, she had to get used to things being blurry when they were far away, but she didn’t want to, she really didn’t want to get used to this. She wanted out.

She buried her head in her knees and squeezed her eyes shut, a sudden wave of sadness sweeping over her emotions, sadness she had never felt before. This was torture for her, she was here in some cold, white room surrounded by her enemies and there was absolutely nothing she could do about. She faintly heard the guy say something about leaving in a day, and the wave washed over her again. She couldn’t wait another day, she couldn’t take it; she couldn’t take another hour of being in the miserable place.

She felt something hot and wet squeeze out from under her eyelid, and gasped in surprise, lifting her head back up. She gingerly touched the wetness running down her cheek and rubbed it between her fingers. That had never happened before, she felt her nose begin the fill up with something, and widened her eyes. She was going to suffocate if that stuff kept coming; they were going to kill her! She turned her head around and looked at the guy holding her in his lap. “Get me out of here.” She sniffed, and rubbed her wet eyes.

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Seth was in a bit of a quandry, and contined to run his fingers through claw's hair. It wasn't that he didn't understand the situation, Claw was more than likely dependent upon the enhanced senses that her mutations provided, and thus with the sudden lack of them, it would be quite the opressive atmosphere to be living through. There wasn't any chance of fixing that though, not while they were here.

Another problem was the boy in the bed close by. It didn't bother him that the boy was screaming, recognizing it as the effects of having so many nerve endings forcibly rebuild themselves, it made him lucky for his own internal injuries, not as much feelings there. Rather, it brought up the question of what he should do about the other boy. What retrbution would he ask for?

Deciding that nothing good could come of it, Seth gave Claw a small hug for comfort before muttering into her ear. "You know, you should really apologize to that boy."