Did you know you were my hero?

[petal_storm]

Who: Orchid and Jaeger
When: Age six or so.
What: Two children in an orphanage are lonely.

She eyed her fingers a long moment, liking how they were staying purple this time. She liked when she was purple, it felt...right. And the doctors the orphanage took them to said her skin seemed to hold more and more chromatophores as she aged. Soon, no doubt, she'd stay purple. She liked that idea. "Better?" she asked softly, fingers soothing in circles along Jaeger's temples.

They were in the attic, a place they went when it was raining so it was less intelligent to sneak out officially. The sound of rain was obvious up here, a pounding wash that made her sigh and breath deeply, "spring rains are here..." she crooned softly, fingers still working. "I missed them..." Some days it seemed there just wasn't enough water in the world, or her room. Jaeger was working on something to fix that though, and the doctors were tired of seeing her for dehydration.

Perhaps it was her meds, those seemed to have a dehydrating effect, and they weren't helping Jaeger's headaches much honestly. "Can you open the shutters?" she asked him softly, tucking a stolen blanket around him tighter. It would get cold with the slats open but the damp would be so nice...

...she hated to ask him to use his powers when he had a headache but if she didn't give his brain a path for the use it would start throwing things around and that...

...that didn't seem right honestly. But they managed yes, they tried to test their powers together instead of in labs because labs...

...labs scared her. And she couldn't really tell people WHY. She didn't need them to decide she was properly crazy because she had some very...bad memories in her head. "And I don't think we're eating enough," she admitted quietly. "We're burning too many calories when we use our powers, could be part if the headaches. I'll start growing things for us in a corner plot..."

Comments

Orphanage

[code_jaeger]

Jaeger blinked slowly. He liked to go to another place when the headaches got really bad, distance himself from the pain. But Orchid could always reach him. Always. He looked up at her and then to the shutters pulling them open.

"They'll find that if we do it on the grounds."

Re: Orphanage

[petal_storm]

She drew in a deep breath, shivering at the cool but the water was kind of desperately needed yes. Gods. "Find it at the park too..." she admitted quietly.

Re: Orphanage

[code_jaeger]

"Yeah...." He noted. "We'll just... have to make do."

Re: Orphanage

[petal_storm]

"No. I'll find something. You burn too much and with a test at the doctor's tomorrow you'll need more than we eat here." Even though they did eat WELL as far as the other orphans thought.

Re: Orphanage

[code_jaeger]

"I dont' want to go." He growled. "They're not doctors... I looked up the symbol on their badges. Its a fucking lab tech."

Re: Orphanage

[petal_storm]

"If they're subsidizing the orphanage then we have to go," she sighed. "But we can make sure they don't get anything useful from us?"

Re: Orphanage

[code_jaeger]

"They separate us. There's a reason for that!" He growled. "I don't want to."

Re: Orphanage

[petal_storm]

"Because we keep each other calm," she noted, poking his nose. "Calm is useful. And we can't stop going there, but we can make sure they don't try anything."

Re: Orphanage

[code_jaeger]

"Yeah they separate us because they don't' WANT us calm." He growled. "They want us to lose control, Orchid."

Re: Orphanage

[petal_storm]

"You. They just think I can barely make sunflowers grow," she noted softly. "Which is WHY I haven't been growing things for them. In case we need to bring down the lab."

Re: Orphanage

[code_jaeger]

"This is a bad idea..." He frowned. "A very bad idea."

Re: Orphanage

[petal_storm]

"Likely, but we're six. If we refuse to go they make our life hell, likely we go to delinquent halls, where it's HARDER to stay calm."

Re: Orphanage

[code_jaeger]

"So we sell ourselves to a lab instead." He frowned.

Re: Orphanage

[petal_storm]

"No, we make the lab understand recruiting children is not a good idea. And if we can show the head mistress what they are actually trying to do. She's worn out but she's not a bad person, she doesn't know."

Re: Orphanage

[code_jaeger]

"Why else would she be letting them give up experimental drugs?"

Re: Orphanage

[petal_storm]

"That's not what the bottles say, and the write ups are actually normal drug write ups from pharmacy," she noted quietly. "I think we heard that and weren't suppose to."

Re: Orphanage

[code_jaeger]

"The labels are wrong." He frowned.

Re: Orphanage

[petal_storm]

"Yeah, WE know that, but as far as anyone else knows it's normal stuff you give messed up kids."

Re: Orphanage

[code_jaeger]

Jaeger frowned. "Fine...."

Re: Orphanage

[petal_storm]

"Fine what? We weren't fighting!" she sniffed. "I just meant they're lying to everyone, no one KNOWS."

Re: Orphanage

[code_jaeger]

"Yeah and you want me to still go there and be their lab rat..."

Re: Orphanage

[petal_storm]

"One last time we don't give them what they want and we get proof. I'll break out of my room."

Re: Orphanage

[code_jaeger]

"If you say so."

Re: Orphanage

[petal_storm]

"To make it stop we have to convince the adults in our lives it needs to stop. Children can't do much alone," she noted softly.

Re: Orphanage

[code_jaeger]

"We could leave this place. We could just go..."