Silver nodded and watched the guards around them, keeping an eye on their movements. The wind picked up, high above the city as they were, and Silver moved to stand between Gabe and the wind. She cringe as she saw the cuts and blood still on him. No doubt he still had shards of glass embedded in his skin. Silver cursed herself and her carelessness; he probably wouldn't have been hurt at all if she'd been smarter about their escape attempt.
–
Miki hid her smile and took a deep breath to keep her composure. "So." she finally said, turning around in her seat to keep talking to him. "I hear all you guys are special and stuff. What do you do?"
Kissa stares hard at it and it flickers a little, making Gabriel flinch. She looks up to him mouthing 'sorry'.
Airrow bursts through the door onto the roof with 4 more guards, angrily. "How can she just escape? Did you idiots even lock the cell?" A guard goes to answer, but Airrow interrupts, "I don't care, just get Kissa up here now. I want to know what her brother told her." two men nod and head back downstairs.
Airrow walks to the edge of the roof, glaring out.
Kissa stands up by Gabriel. "He has the key." She whispers. Gabriel nods.
He'd notice me, though.
She rolls her eyes, whispering again, "I'll get it." And before he can grab her arm she's already gracefully and carefully walking towards Airrow.
Gabriel tenses up.
Be careful.
Cage shrugs. "I'm not great. All I've really figured out how to do is move water a little and freeze it. Ben's really good with his though. He has heat and fire. I wanted him to cook us a ham for Thanksgiving to see what would happen but he didn't want to."
Silver sucked in a breath and put her hands on Gabriel's arms; whether to support him to keep herself still she didn't know. She could feel the key on Airrow's belt, but she didn't dare try to help Kissa. She didn't have such a fine control over her abilities to attempt something so delicate and dangerous.
–
Miki burst out laughing. When her peals died down, she unlatched her seat belt and turned all the way around, sitting cross legged and backward in her seat to look at Cage. "Oh, my goodness, that would be awesome though! Has he ever cooked anything? That would be so cool to be able to cook stuff with your brain."
Kissa inhales, holding her breath silently, and ever so gently takes the small usb shapes key from his belt. He turns his head to the side, glaring. Before he has a chance to move, she takes five quick steps back and he feels the air behind him- right where she’d been standing. She turns around and heads back to Silver and Gabriel, bending down and sliding it into the anklet. She catches the anklet before it hit the ground and hands it to Gabriel who slips it in his pocket.
“We have to fly. At least a mile, Gabriel. Can you do it?” She whispers.
He nods, inhaling and standing straighter. Just the thought made his lungs burn, but he was going to do it.
Cage grins. “He cooks a lot but he never uses his element. He says we shouldn’t use them much, for safety.”
Violet nods. “Which is right.”
Cage nods back to her, “Yeah I know, but that doesn’t mean it’s not boring. Anyways, I was thinking he could like at least try to cook with it since we’re in the house and no one would see. Where is Ben?”
Silver let out a sigh as Kissa got away safely. "You can do it, Gabriel. I'll help you. Come on." She whispered, letting go of him and stepped to the edge of the roof, giving her wings a good stretch to get ready.
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Miki nodded. "Yeah that does make sense. It's good that I can't do anything special cuz I'd have no self control. We left Ben at a cabin we're hiding at."
Leo also chipped in “ my name is Leo I have power over electricity and this is shadow” he pointed at Shadow who was looking out the window “ he has power over air and when he focuses really hard he can even turn into it for a few minutes”
Gabriel and Kiss walk to the edge, hand-in-hand, and slowly spread their wings. He takes a deep breath and stares out at the cold, rainy air.
It's fine. I can do this.
Kissa gracefully steps forward, letting her wings catch the air beneath her quietly, then raising herself to the roofs level.
Gabriel looks to Silver, "you first." He mouths.
Cage goes to reply to Miki, but turns his attention to Leo and Shadow. "Yeah, these are my buddies! They're super cool by the way. Leo tried to help me learn more of my powers earlier." He looks to Violet. "Wait, we're staying in a cabin?"
Violet purses her lips. "No, not really. It's more of a farm house. In the country, off the maps." She looks over her shoulder to Cage only for half a second. "You've been there."
Silver gave him a look, knowing flight would be agony for him in his current state, but they didn't have the time or the safety it would require to argue. Finally she nodded and crouched, spread her wings, and jumped off.
–
"Hey hey." Miki waved to them too, propping her chin on the corner of her seat. "Wow, electricity would a cool power to have."
Gabriel steps back and takes a look around for a moment.
there's still so many inside.
Can I help them?
Irritated, Kissa motions for him to come. And with that he silently runs forward and jumps into the air, catching the wind with the stretched, bleeding skin of his wings.
(cuz he has bat wings)
Kissa grabs his arm once he's in reach. "Only a mile, okay? We've got this."
He nods, wincing a little from the icy wind brushing over his cuts.
I'm fine, Kiss.
(Waiting till Rocky replies to skip forward and get them back to the house.)
Silver circled them, not having so much fine control, until they weren't so close to the buildings anymore. Then she dipped under Gabriel, to the opposite side as Kissa, and beat her wings in sync with his to help support his flight and keep him in the air.
(kk)
Tugging him, Kissa leads them forward. "We'll settle in the forest and walk from there. They'll be looking in the sky, not on the ground."
Gabriel nods, following along and keeping his breathing even. He glances over to Silver. "Are- Are you alright?"
Shadow just kept looking outside and he spoke “do you know if we are being followed”
(I’m fine if you want to skip anything)
Silver nodded, flashing him a smile in the hopes that he wouldn't see how worried she was for him. "Sounds good." She said to Kissa.
Violet shakes her head once, glancing into the review mirror. "Nobody is behind us, we'll be alright this time."
Cage sits back in his seat. "Sooo, what happened to the front of the car? It's a little smushed."
Silver nodded, flashing him a smile in the hopes that he wouldn't see how worried she was for him. "Sounds good." She said to Kissa.
Only a few moments later, they start to lower themselves down. "Gabriel, are we visible?"
He nods, evening his breath out, or at least trying.
"No, I- I can't keep focus ri- ight now."
She nods, planting her feet into the soft grass as he less-than-gracefully lands behind her.
Silver landed hard, not bothering to try to land easily or carefully, being more concerned about Gabe and whether there was anyone around to see them. She quickly scanned the area, as far as she could reach, and turned back to them.
"There's no one around." she said. "As far as I can feel, at least."
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Miki cleared her throat, throwing a glance at Violet. "We crashed."
Kissa nods. "It's alright. I'll make sure we're not seen."
Gabriel rubs his midsection, wincing a little at the pressure he's putting on his cuts, but otherwise seems fine. He looks to Silver, his purple eyes still sad and droopy as ever. He goes to speak, but stops himself for a moment. "I'm assuming you and, umhn…" He looks over to Kissa as his scratchy voice fades. "You've met."
Kissa turns to give Silver a less-than-impressed look over.
Silver tried to avoid looking at Kissa, but failed. She'd tried to keep her ire and annoyance pushed down inside because if Kissa was helping Gabe, and Gabe wasn't hunting Silver, then hopefully that meant Kissa wasn't going to hurt her.
But.
"Yeah she chased us when we were in the van." she said lightly, glancing over Gabe and taking in his cut up estate again. It was much easier to be worried about him than to be mad at Kissa.
Kissa rolls her eyes, but Gabriel doesn't seem fazed, "Is anyone hurt?"
Kiss scoffs. "You think I just let everyone stand there and picked one to bring back? Of course people are hurt, Gabriel. That's what happens in fights."
He turns his head, glaring hard at her, and she quickly looks to the ground.
Geez
"Nobody's dead."
He spreads his arms out, his chest bleeding more now from the strain of flying. "Yeah, I'm not dead either, Kiss. That doesn't me I don't hurt." He snaps.
She swallows, trying to look over him, but returning her eyes to the ground.
Silver opened her mouth to explain the crash and Ben and the motorcycle, but stopped as Gabriel and Kissa got into it. Her mouth hung open and she stared at Gabriel, pretty sure this was the most amount of words she'd ever heard him say out loud in an entire day.
He shakes his head, letting out a light sigh, "Kiss let's not fight."
She nods. "I need to take care of your wounds before you bleed out."
"That's dramatic." he mumbles under his breath as she instructs him to sit down and takes cloth from her pocket.
She looks up to Silver. "To be fair, your friends were being rather dull. One got very close to bursting into flame on the highway."
Silver sucked in a sharp breath, pressing her lips together as if to hold in the words she wanted to spew out. Slowly she knelt down beside Gabe to help, but almost instantly she shot to her feet and walked a few steps away.
"Dull?" she finally said, her voice low and quiet and much, much too calm. "Dull?" Her hands fisted at her sides and subconsciously her wings rose behind her, feathers ruffling up so they looked almost twice their normal size. "Maybe you would be a little bit dull and have panic attacks every day too if you'd been hunted for as long as you could remember."
Gabe goes to grab Silver's arm as she stands and marches away, but misses.
Oh great.
Kissa rolls her eyes. "Oh please, don't get me started on anxiety. I think a FULL GROWN man can deal with it, don't you Gabe?" He opens his mouth only for her to continue, "go roll in the ditch, kid, cause that doesn't attract attention! He had a heat wave around him! Do you guys not control yourselves at all?"
Gabriel closes his eyes and gulps.
Kissa shut up, you know nothing about anxiety.
Silver blinked at her, drawing in slow, deep breaths. Finally she let out a sigh and shook herself, her wings easing back down to a normal size. She looked away from Kiss and motioned toward Gabe. "He… finish helping him. Please. He needs…" she sighed again and walked farther away.
Gabriel looks up to Silver, as if to apologize with just his eyes, then looks to Kiss who is angrily dabbing the blood off of his chest.
"Cool it." he hisses lowly and quietly.
She shivers.
"I hate him." She whispers.
He tucks her bangs behind her ear so she can see better, then looks back to Silver, whispering to Kiss, "I can tell."
Silver sat down on the grass, her back still turned to them, and tried to sniff discretely as her eyes welled with tears. It didn't matter what Kissa thought. It didn't matter if she was a stupid kid who didn't know anything about their lives. Gabe mattered. Gabe was the most important. And Ben and Miki and the others. They were what mattered.
Slowly she tuned into Gabriel's body, detecting his wounds and trying to find the remaining pieces of glass embedded in his skin so she could ease them out.
Gabriel stares at Silver's back as she sadly sits away from them.
Kissa.
You hurt her.
Kissa slowly looks up to his face and furrows her brow.
But he doesn't return the look. He sleepily looks over to Silver and coughs a few times, blood returning to the surface of the wounds Kissa had just cleaned. She stands and walks around him, kneeling behind him and pulling a few small shards from his back.
She heaved another sigh and looked up at the trees, blinking furiously. Who knew what Kissa would do if she saw her cry. She tried to focus everything she had on Gabe, gently pulling the deepest shards of glass to the surface where Kissa could remove them.
Letting out a sigh, he stands up. Kissa gasps as the piece she was gently pulling out slices more through his skin.
"Gabriel." She hisses quietly.
He takes a seat next to Silver. "I'm sorry." He quietly states, his voice cracking.
