petal_storm | 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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"...I can't fix that. It's my job and I can't."

"Oh honey," the mistress sighed. "You aren't responsible for his life."

"Time fixes most of it." He noted. "Lack of... his mother's guidance on how to act like an actual person is showing right now.. but it will level out."

"That just means more doctors and medicine because he'll hurt people otherwise," Orchid noted dully.

"No honey we'll try to work on that," the mistress sighed, letting the girl walk ahead of them a bit. "I need to get her somewhere safe for a while, otherwise she'll never grow up as a person herself."

Jaeger did look up at then when he noticed them blinking slowly for a second. "OH, hey."

Orchid rested her chin on the edge of the bed and glared at him yes, "you ran away!"

Well bench since they were out in the park... with a rather bemused tiny kraken in the bucket at his feet.

"The lab bastards were still there. They'd have kidnapped me or found a way to get me out of the hospital." He noted softly.

"You scared everyone. We'd have called the police," she growled.

"It'd be too late." He shook his head. "If I lost it and proved to them what they were trying to do to me you'd have lost custody of me anyway."

"I'd have gotten you back," she growled.

"I know..." he nodded.

"I'm angry," she noted quietly. "And you really upset Ms. Pedry."

He shrugged a little. "Tha's all I'm good for."

"That's not true!"

"Name once this last week I've been anything but," He sighed.

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"Wednesday, one thirty seven pm." He'd brought her a flower she'd never seen!

"Okay but one incident doesn't make up for everything else."

"You're very good at being angry, and that means everyone in your life is the bad guy," she admitted quietly.

"Hurt a lot of people to care and be bad guys anyway," she admitted quietly.

"I already told you..." He growled. "Nevermind..."

"I think we're having different conversations," she admitted quietly. "I'm sorry."

"I don't know...." He sighed dramatically.

"Are you going to come back?"

"Are they still there?"

"No."

"They're filing an investigation of the home though," the head mistress admitted. "Since i cannot keep track of the children. I"ll likely be removed or outright fired."

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