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Kalli

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December 2, 2014 at 10:15 am

Jet did not look happy at this idea, and didn’t answer right away. His eyes went from the girl to Kal, then back again, as his mouth and eyes grew hard. Mostly this was to cover up the fact that he was in pain and it was getting hard to think straight. Mostly, he just wanted to find somewhere to collapse and sleep this off. Her ‘place’ could have a beat-up old couch or something, but it could also have a drunk father or violent, jealous boyfriend.

Jet shut his eyes tightly, trying to clear his mind and remember what she’d said when he first discovered her in his apartment. She said she was alone, that she lived alone, and neither he nor Kal felt she was lying. It wasn’t unheard of for kids her age to be on their own, but he couldn’t be sure. Of course, if they could leave her in her place and head off on their own that particular problem was solved.

Rubbing his face for a moment, Jet winced as a shift in weight aggravated his wound, but he tried not to show it. His eyes fell once more on the girl, and he let out a heavy breath.

”Alright, we’ll chance it, but only if the place is empty. Kal will be scanning for anyone else in your apartment. The minute he says someone’s there we leave you on the roof and disappear.”


With that he gave a nod to Kal and slid the crutches over his arms so he could carry them on his shoulders. It was awkward to balance on one foot but it would only be for a moment.
Kalli

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November 14, 2014 at 11:04 am

The wait was nerve-wracking. Jet could do nothing but watch and try to keep out of sight, a position he hated. What made his teeth grind was the fact that the very person Kal was rescuing was the same one who had shot him, and lost Jet his home. If he hadn’t thought this was the best course of action he would have left the scene with Kal at once and let the kid fend for herself. Not that Jet could have done such a thing; she was, after all, still just a child.

Even so, the moment the girl was set down on the roof, Jet looked her up and down with a kind of cold gravity that was as far from friendliness as possible. Her glaring at Kal wasn’t helping matters.

”He just pulled you out of ‘that place’.” Jet reminded her, “And he’s also my friend. I’d turn off the nasty looks if I were you.” In the back of his mind he was impressed at the girl for not freaking out, and even more for standing up to Kal with surprisingly little fear.


Glancing at the creature himself, Jet’s expression softened somewhat. “Thanks, buddy. We should get going before the doctors come looking for her. However you can get us all out of here is fine.” Even if it meant being carried by Kal’s strange, long fingers. Jet shuddered a bit at that thought.
Kalli

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November 8, 2014 at 4:37 am

Jet frowned, but did nothing for a few moments but stare hard at the girl. She was still injured, but seemed able to move around, which was a good sign. Bringing her with them would be dangerous to her, but it might be even more dangerous if they left her there. Not only would Kal’s existence be discovered, but the girl could be tortured if she didn’t give them all the information they wanted. After what Jet had seen in the Underground he had every reason to believe that would happen.

”We’ll have to take her with us.” He growled after a long pause. Little as he liked it, Jet couldn’t think of any better options. Every instinct told him that this was the best way to go.

Ignoring the pain in his leg, Jet held the girl’s gaze and mimed the action of opening the window at which she now stood. It was large enough to pull someone small through the top-half, which was the only movable part. The bottom-half was secured for safety reasons. Jet mimed this a few times, mouthing, “Open window”, and then placing a finger to his lips to indicate that she should be quiet. He hoped she would understand even this much; it wasn’t like he’d be able to give her a longer explanation. What he wanted to avoid was making too much noise or drawing attention to what they were about to do.

When he was fairly sure she understood, Jet looked over his shoulder at Kal and said, “The only way I can think of is to go over to that roof, get your tail in the window and pull her out from there. We can bring her over here, or take her somewhere safe and talk…I hope. I just want to try and get her out without anyone noticing.”


If she screamed, if glass broke, if a nurse or doctor came running…things could be very bad. They would almost certainly be worse if she decided to talk to the doctors about Kal, and even if the doctors weren’t corrupt he could bet on other interested parties hearing about her story and getting involved.
Kalli

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November 5, 2014 at 8:24 pm

(Is everything ok over there?)
Kalli

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October 23, 2014 at 2:50 pm

(Sorry for the late reply; this week was hectic O_O)
Jet wasn’t sure Kal should trust his judgment too much, but he said nothing about it. At least the creature hadn’t ended up in the hands of a psychopath, who might have tried to use him as a weapon. But then Kal may not have gone along with it, anyway. He seemed to lean heavily toward not blindly attacking.
Jet’s thoughts were interrupted by the sound of Kal’s body hitting the roof, which caused him to automatically throw himself down as well. He hadn’t even thought about it, just reacting to the movement out of the corner of his eye, and the noise. As pain shot up his leg, Jet gritted his teeth, resisting the urge to clutch the area. Instead, he lifted his head and glanced up at Kal, who had moved several feet away from the roof’s edge. He didn’t see the girl until he had half-lifted his body up, and their eyes locked.
”Shit!” he hissed, eyes darting from Kal to the girl and back again. What should they do? He didn’t want her killed, nuisance as she was, and felt glad that Kal didn’t automatically shoot her or something, but he was beginning to wonder. With growing urgency, he glanced around at teh other roofs, trying to think of a strategy. If she wanted him to just mosey on over there and answer her obvious questions it was not going to happen. If she kept shouting, however, the noise might bring someone else to that window.
”Kal, can you knock her out from here? Like, not to hurt her, but just….use your sound stuff to knock her unconscious? Otherwise we just gotta bail before a nurse comes to see what she’s yelling about and hope no one believes her.” That was his trump-card in this case; the girl was young, she’d had a head injury, and her description of Kal would be written off as a hallucination. Unless…
”If any of the docs in the clinic were also working in the Underground we’re totally screwed.” he realized, grimacing. “Dammit…we might have to grab her and take her with us.” He wasn’t sure, though, he couldn’t be sure which course of action was the best.
Kalli

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October 14, 2014 at 12:28 pm

Jet looked at Kal, a grim smile quirking his lips at that familiar phrase, and the way the creature changed his voice.
”You’re good at that imitating stuff…we’ll have to use that sometime. Anyway, I agree on staying in the city. The forest is nice, but not at night. Not sure where else we’d go, though. It’s hard to find anything that’s squatter-free or structurally sound. Plus, we gotta keep you from being seen.”
With a heavy breath, he readjusted the crutches under his arms and limped a few feet closer to the edge of the roof. Gazing out at the rest of the city, he frowned and fell into a thoughtful silence. Where they were now Kal wasn’t likely to be seen until he took off from the roof, but that was the problem everywhere. How could they find a place that wasn’t taken, was reasonably livable, and out of the way of as much of the population as possible, without being completely cut off? they still needed supplies and power, and to avoid whatever was lurking in the forest.
Jet mulled these problems over in silence, feeling his leg throb more and more, and his body demand for rest. Eventually, he had to sit down on the edge of the roof, but it was a long time before he said anything. He was going over a map of the city in his mind for their options. The list was alarmingly short.
”I think our best bet is to head out to Thorn Hill….it’s near the outskirts where the water plant is. You remember that…you drank there. There’s some old houses nearby, built around the Rocks. People around here say there’s a compound or something built around the top of the Rocks. I don’t know if that’s true but we could at least look.”
Kalli

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October 8, 2014 at 8:23 am

Jet frowned at the floor for a bit. “Kids are… Well, it’s hard to explain. I’ve met more than one that’s seriously messed up in the head and ready to kill, but someone made them that way. Usually ’cause their dad’s a drunk bastard or something like that. Kids’ll steal and do all kinds of shit, but they’re just trying to survive. They have to be tough because they’re vulnerable out here. They have to grow up real fast.”

He’d met more than his share of very young children doing terrible things in order to stay alive, but in Jet’s mind it was different. Many of them still retained a portion of innocence that was lost to others, usually those who were being shielded by older siblings, friends or parents.


”Kids are more likely to be benevolent.” he clarified at length. “They don’t have enough experience to be as jacked up as the rest of us, but it depends. The girl down there…she was still young, and there might be a chance for her to get out of here before her life is destroyed. I didn’t want to ruin that for her.”
Kalli

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October 3, 2014 at 7:27 am

(Things are more settled on my end, but I want to warn you that I won’t be able to post every day. But I’ll be able to at least a few times a week. Work and such have gotten more demanding recently, among other things @_@)
Jet sighed, leaning more heavily on his crutches, and feeling rather dizzy. “It’s….complicated. I wasn’t gonna kill her if I could help it, just scare her so she wouldn’t want to come back and spy. If I had to I would’ve knocked her out or something, but it’s not my style to kill kids. Anyway, there are actual dangerous people around who want me dead. She was just being stupidly curious.”
Feeling like he couldn’t stand up much longer, Jet hobbled to the lip of the roof and eased down onto it, still leaning rather awkwardly against his crutches. His deep blue eyes studied Kal for awhile in silence as his expression turned thoughtful.
”I don’t know if those scientists down there meant to do it, or if you did it yourself, but you’ve got a lot of restraint for a weapon. I mean, the way they designed you it seems like you were just meant to destroy whatever got in your way, but you didn’t kill me when you could have. And then, later on, you decided I was worth keeping alive. You said I was…benevolent.” Jet’s shoulders raised briefly. “I dunno where you learned how to judge when someone is benevolent or not, but you made the decision not to kill me for reasons that made sense to you. It’s the same on my end; to me, kids….young humans…are ‘benevolent’. Better word is ‘innocent’. It’s hard to explain kids to someone who’s never been a kid.”
Kalli

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September 17, 2014 at 7:36 am

(Yeah, I have no idea why it’s posting like this. >_< I’ll have to ask the mods or something. Sprry about that!)
Kalli

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September 17, 2014 at 7:35 am

Jet actually looked alarmed at this suggestion and shook his head, wincing as it throbbed. His body had taken more than enough abuse the past few days, which meant a migraine.
”No…no, don’t destroy it. Sure it can be shitty but it’s all a lot of people have around here. Plus, we’re not always sure who’s in on the corruption. It could be all of them, but why kill a bunch of innocent nurses, and the patients still in there, unless we know they’re all scum?”
Jet rubbed his temples for a moment, eyes shut against the glare of the sun. “Good and bad are complicated around here. Anyway, who are we to decide who lives and who dies? I mean, unless they’re coming right at us with a gun or something.” He gave a weak chuckle at this. “Self-defense is different.”
Speaking of which. “Oh, you know that girl you brought here? She seems to be doing better now- you saved her life, buddy. I think she might’ve seen you, though, so we’ll have to maybe keep an eye on her. Lucky for us she got a knock on the head, and she’s a kid, so no one’s gonna listen to her if she says anything.”
Kalli

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September 15, 2014 at 7:14 am

”At least one of us is in one piece again.” Jet chuckled, choosing to lean on the very crutches he’d at first eschewed. Kal’s suggestion of rest was a welcome one, but he still wouldn’t connect it with the clinic.

”I’ll see if I can scrounge enough money for a burger or something.” he said dismissively, not because food wasn’t dreadfully important, but because he was used to starving. Probably not a good attitude to have after that much blood-loss. To Kal’s other question, he gave a short sigh and a frown. “The clinic’s funded by what used to be the government, which is responsible for all the bombings and shit that’s been going on around here. Sometimes the docs and nurses are really trying to help, but…” He shrugged a bit, shoulders rising above the armrests of the crutches for a moment. “Too many people have disappeared after going to these government clinics. Once they find out you’re homeless, or have no family, they’re likely to ship you off to government camps for ‘re-education’. Meaning they brainwash you into fighting their wars for them.” It would have sounded like conspiracy theories, even to his own jaded ears, had he not witnessed some things first-hand.


”Problem is, the government keeps splitting and getting back together, so you never know what’s gonna go down at any given time. It’s kinda like an abusive relationship, like the meth-head and his girlfriend who used to live below me. One minute they’d be all over each other, then next he’s got a gun to her head and she’s got a knife to his throat. So anything the government touches gets messed up, including the ‘free clinics’. I wouldn’t have sent that girl to this one except she probably woulda died otherwise.” Jet sincerely hoped she’d get out before anything happened.
Kalli

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September 14, 2014 at 7:35 am

Having not seen just how far Kal’s tail could stretch, Jet was both surprised and intrigued at its ability to pull him three stories up. His eyes were still on the tail, watching it slowly retract to its usual length when Kal spoke. Looking at him with some surprise, the boy shook his head.
”Nah, they just cleaned me up and gave me some medicine for it. Humans don’t get better that quick. I have to wait for it to heal on its own.” Suddenly, he realized something, and his eyes immediately brightened. “Not like you! Hey, when did your voice come back? Is your throat back to normal?”
Amazed, even though Kal had told him about his quick ability to heal, Jet leaned toward him with a curious smile, as though trying to see down his throat. Honestly, the boy was starting to smile a lot more often than he used to.
Kalli

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September 13, 2014 at 10:01 am

Sarah…. For some reason Jet thought it best to remember that name. Though he scowled at her obstinacy in the face of the nurse, he couldn’t help also finding a kindred spirit all the same. The girl seemed just as mulish as himself when it came to hospitals and nosy nurses and all that shit. Hearing the nurse mention strapping her in, he both grinned and shuddered, which was an odd combination. When there was further mention of the girl coming close to being paralyzed he had no inward smiles left. That…had been a close one for all of them, it seemed. Jet would have taken the blame for that because Kal didn’t know better.

With a shake of the head, Jet leaned on his crutches, planning to use them long enough to get out of there, at least. They were cumbersome and slow, but it was a good break to have the weight off his leg. Maybe he’d keep them a little longer…

He was glad to pass the secretary out front, and the doors, and to make his way to the alley again. Luckily there wasn’t anyone there, and his weapons and bag of belongings were still there. He wouldn’t have much time, though, before some vagrant or drunkard came by. Alleys around here tended to not be empty for long.


Looking up at the rooftops, he said in a stage whisper, “Kal!” It wasn’t the best pickup place, but he wasn’t sure how far he’d get in that neighborhood on crutches. Hopefully they could get out of there quick before anyone came by.
Kalli

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September 12, 2014 at 6:30 am

Jet leaped back almost comically, just avoiding an automatic blow to the girl’s neck as he whipped around, his eyes alight. She’d snuck up on him, and he didn’t like that at all, but at least his trained response to the unknown hadn’t ended with her and a busted esophagus.

”Idiot- what are you doing out here?” he hissed, ignoring her observation. He pretty much knew what he looked like and didn’t care. She looked far worse. If teh nurse hadn’t come back at that moment, he would have grabbed the girl and dragged her (gently) back to her gurney, strapping her down if he had to. The fact that he was so angry at her for moving at all showed he actually cared what happened to her.

His eyes followed her, even after the nurse came back, carrying his crutches. They were pretty beat up but still good enough for the present. He wasn’t planning on using them anyway.


As Jet took the crutches, he me the nurse’s gaze, then jerked his head toward the room where the girl had gone. “I think one of your patients escaped. Might wanna keep a closer eye on her.”
Kalli

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September 11, 2014 at 6:23 am

”I’m not staying.” he answered coldly. It wasn’t that he didn’t appreciate the concern, he just felt edgier the longer he stayed here. Clinics and hospitals had always given him the spooks. However, since she didn’t seem to want to drop the subject, he finally relented about the crutches just to get the nurse off his back.

Seemingly relieved, she went to get him a pair, making him promise to stay where he was or she’d hunt him down. As he knew very well he couldn’t outrun her in his condition he stayed in the hallway, leaning against the wall.


Jet hoped Kal was alright and where he had gone, if he was still on the roof or elsewhere. Jet wished there was some medicine here he could steal to help Kal’s throat, but knew that wasn’t possible. He’d seen sparking wires and grey…stuff…and where was the medicine for that?

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