petal_storm | Did you know you were my hero?

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Did you know you were my hero?

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..."

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"He is an angry and hurt young man, but he settles down I promise."

"Can yeah." He nodded stepping out. "He's going to be a little disoriented for a few days."

"Why?" she asked, immediately worried. "Orchid with me," she noted tightly, spotting the girl coming up the walkway.

"Correcting the swelling in the brain those drugs did to him doesn't happen over night."

"We had those tested!" she growled. They had, she hadn't been lying to the boy!

"Where?"

"I honestly don't know your qualifications or even your name so I am certainly not releasing documents to you," she growled. "Move faster."

"Well, they were wrong." He noted.

"And I'm certain if I ask nicely and beg you'll give me proof of that," she snorted bitterly. "Get me to my boy, spook."

"You dont' have to." He shook his head. "We really are here to help..."

"People helping comes at a price and no one ever hides their names or affiliations casually." She'd had to defend far too many orphans to believe otherwise.

"Yeah well... not looking to end up in some government lab." He shrugged a little. "Times for people like me ... are not good here at the moment."

"So you understand my hesitation to take you at your word," she growled. AND THEY HAD HER BOY SOMEWHERE.

"He's a blank," Orchid offered, narrowing her eyes at the man. "Nothing to read."

"No, nothing so sinister as that." H chuckled flashing her his face and scales for just a second.

Orchid blinked, then glanced at the head mistress to see if she'd been allowed that peek too...

No, he'd just shown her for the moment. He needed to be sure the woman wasn't... going to call in the feds or anything first.

"You are being very cruel to a good person," the child noted quietly.

"Some people cannot handle what we are. Its not as simple as all that." He sighed.

"Nor is her life with her hands tied and everyone else already treats her very poorly."

"I'm trying to deal with that. Well... help but... I can't do that with lab sniffers on payroll here... and there is one..." He sighed.

"If you really wanted to help you'd adopt Jaeger instead of just kidnap him." Because kids could be...blunt. Very blunt. "Or you'd hand over the evidence Jaeger and I can't and then they wouldn't be able to pretend to be doctors anymore."

"You'll get the evidence... but I am a world walker. I can't stay here long." He noted.

"You're just a meddler then. You're shiny and special and you'll get Jaeger's hopes up about maybe you knowing his parents or leaving this world with you and then he'll hurt more."

"No, I've made him no such promises." He shook his head. "We talked... we helped with his headaches... he threw a toy ship at my friend... but he knows what we can and can't do for him. This is... not an easy road... and I'm sorry its not... you two deserve things easy for a while." He sighed.

"You say that like children don't get their hopes up about fairy tale endings," the head mistress noted hollowly. Oh the poor children...

"Jaeger's too angry to be that rational," Orchid agreed.

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