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huffle-dork · 5 years ago

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Heterochromiacs: The Beginning

In the futuristic town square of Brookline there's suddenly loud gasps and shrieks as a small body pushes itself through the crowd. Clothed in bright clothes, you can tell she's from the circus that lines the outskirts of the city, her bare feet scuffed up and bleeding slightly from running on the glass streets and patches of concrete. Bands of gold around her ankles clang loudly as she bounds through the streets, eyes blown wide in panic and breathing labored. She continuously looks behind her, like something could be after her but it's hard to make out what in the large crowd she weasels herself through. A large burn wound drips blood on her neck, grotesquely dripping on her pale yellow shirt and sending people backing away in disgust, just before they catch sight of her eyes- ... a Chromiac.

The girl manages to break out of the crowd and into a slightly less dense part of town, spending a couple groups of people rushing backwards in surprise. She gasps and looks around wildly, holding the hastily made bag around her shoulder like it was a lifeline. She starts to sprint again but she looks so confused and lost, like she has no idea where to go or run- and she doesn't notice as she runs right into-

Drew is taken aback by the younger girl who bumps into them. They first go defensive, wondering if it could be another official trying to get after them. Should they draw their sword? Drew’s hand goes towards the retractable object along their one belt, but stops considering they’re still in public. They look the girl over, fear but stillness in their half-hidden eyes. What could this girl be running from? Judged on her clothes, she could be easily mistaken for a young thief... Maybe she’s on the streets.

Drew brings their hand forward and brings it towards the girl. In a gesture of peace more or less. “Are you okay there?”

The girl startles back, pulling the bag close to her body and trembles. Her eyes are blown wide in panic and she has a hard time forming words. As she does though, what looks like almost-liquid fire drips from from her mouth and splats to the ground with a thick hissss. It burns the pavement like acid. She covers her mouth and looks down at it in semi-horror, her shaking getting worse. More of the strange orange red liquid starts to drip through her fingers as she mumbles out in a small broken voice, "I-I don't know what's h-happening-! W-What's happening to me...?”

Drew’s eyes widen as they look at the acid dripping down, over her fingers and to the ground. A Chromiac... Another one!!! Definitely not in the safest conditions but at least not in a camp.

Drew quickly looks around to see if people will notice what they’re about to attempt. After a clear look, Drew quickly pulls back his bang to reveal an earthy brown eye, one that contrasts their other forest green one. They quickly put it back and smile. “You’re like me! Well, not exactly.” Drew says with a hushed tone. They look over her once more and take in deep consideration of her eyes. “Hm, your powers say Inferno, yet your eyes... ... This is not the place to be talking about this.” Drew takes another quick peek and looks back to the girl. “Let’s get some place safe and I’ll explain.”

The girl tries to swallow the foul tasting acid, the burn on her tongue unbearable. She looked at the stranger and their hidden eye. There was maybe two or three other Chromiacs at the circus but... she wasn’t sure she ever saw one like this one. She gasps slightly then quickly nods, thinking it’s better to trust this stranger than take this city on her own. “ O...Okay-”

“Good.” Drew grabs the girl’s hand without warning and immediately starts walking through the streets, looking occasionally for an alleyway or relatively empty building. They have to at least stop there before even thinking about getting to the safe area: it’s too far from here at least without getting noticed by people. They keep occasionally looking back at the girl to see if they’re doing okay. “... You got a name?”

The girl presses close to the stranger, afraid of getting pulled away. Her eyes dart around wildly, like the shadows could jump out and grab them at any moment. She continuously reaches up to her burnt bloody neck as if to fiddle with something, like a nervous twitch, only to find nothing there and grabbing at air, or catching irritated and damaged skin and letting out a soft whimper. She nervously looks up at the stranger with wide eyes before she answers quietly, "... Mm-hm... It’s Kenna.

Darcio was loitering around a side alley waiting for the sun to go down so he could step out. He could hear commotion going on from somewhere nearby and popped his head out of the alley. Two people were running by and Darcio almost let them before noticing the burn mark on the ones neck where a captured Chromiac would have a collar. "Pssst! Hey over here!” Darcio waves an arm at them to get their attention.

Drew lets the name sit in their head before returning their answer. “Drew. Sorry we had to meet in situations like this.”

Drew looks over to see someone waving out from the shadows of an alleyway. ... Who is that? Drew halts their pace and keeps a hand near their belt just in case. “Who’s there?”

Kenna hides behind Drew and grips onto their robes, barely peeking out her head to stare at the other new stranger ahead. What could they want?

Darcio perked up at the voice and grinned. "Drew it's me. Come on and get over here before someone sees you both." Darcio glanced at the smaller one and grimaced at how beaten up they looked. Definitely a newly freed Chromiac.

Drew’s breath hitched as they recognize the voice and a smile crosses their face. Darcio. “He’s a safe one Kenna, I know him.” Drew adds in a hushed whisper. “He’s like us too.” Drew takes Kenna’s hand again and heads over to Darcio, smiling widely as relief washes over them.

Kenna shakes more but nods slowly, gripping into Drew’s hand tightly and following after them.

Darcio gives Kenna a gentle smile before grinning at Drew. "I would say long time no see but I have to see your face nearly every morning anyways." Darcio winks at Kenna.

Kenna hides behind Drew again-

Drew let’s out an annoyed huff before rolling their eyes, but they let out a slight smirk regardless. Drew looks down at Kenna and ruffles her already messy hair. “Hey it’s okay, I promise. Oh, uh-“ Drew looks up to Darcio again. “Show her your eyes.”

Darcio knocks himself in the head with a fist. "God I'm an idiot, here." He reaches up and pops out both of his contacts to reveal his central heterochromia of blue to a light brown. He again winks at Kenna. "Sorry about that but don't worry I'm one of you.

Kenna slowly peeks her head back out from behind Drew to glance at the new stranger's eyes. She's actually... quite fascinated to see the contacts. She's never seen anyone use them before to hide an eye color... She didn't know that was possible. Her eyes widen in surprise and she stumbles slightly out from behind Drew, "How.... How did you do that...?"

Darcio pops the contacts back in and blinks a few times to turn them on and hide their true color in all blue. "They're called contacts, little electronic glass that goes over your eye and can turn your eyes into other colors." Darcio blinks rapidly eight times and his eyes turn hazel.

Kenna stares in awe, her mouth hanging open, "I didn't know you could hide your eye color."

Drew nods. “Yeah! I never got any personally.” Drew then thinks over stuff in their head and comes up with something. “Kenna?” Drew looks over her scar. “Where did you come from?”

Kenna pauses and looks to the ground, her fingers reaching up to grab at her neck again- and again not catching anything, her fingers only ghosting over the drying blood and damaged skin. Her eyes start to get misty as the events that led her here flash before her eyes and she flinches and whimpers, shutting her eyes and ducking her head away.

Darcio reaches out for Kenna hesitantly. "Hey hey, everything's ok you're not there anymore you're here and we're gonna take you somewhere safe ok?"

Kenna flinches back again, drawing in on herself to make herself smaller. She shakes her head and presses her lips together, her fingers still ghosting over her wound as she stares at Drew and Darcio with big tear filled eyes.

Drew looks at Kenna and sympathy immediately fills their heart. One of the reasons why they wanted to help Chromies in the first place. Drew places both of their hands on Kenna’s shoulders and looks at her determinedly. “I am going to repay the hurt you’ve felt Kenna. Humankind is the worst...”

Kenna looks at a loss for words as she stares at Drew. She kinda shrugs their hands off, uncomfortable with so much physical contact so quickly. But eventually she nods back, though she keeps her hands to herself and stature small.

Darcio puts a hand on Drew's shoulder and tugs him back. "They always comes off a little strong but they got a good heart." He glances around and notices people passing by. "We should probably get out of here while we still can."

“Right.” Drew mutters before looking to see what’s nearby. Three people in an alleyway is suspicious, whether human or Chromiac. “You know the way better to the safe zone.” Drew takes a moment to look at Kenna. “We can take better care of her there.”

Kenna looks in between the two anxiously, gripping her makeshift bag. Her eyes dart to the alley’s exits in distress.

"This way then, found a new short cut here a while back." Darcio takes off deeper into the alley and then down a side alley. There's a door in the middle that Darcio opens and beckons them in. "Cut through here and we can make a beeline straight through." The interior is dimly lit with a few people sitting around. There's a counter with a woman behind it that Darcio nods at as he swiftly walks through and down a set of stairs into the basement.

Drew follows after Darcio, not grabbing Kenna’s hand this time but making sure she stays close. “I trust Darcio a lot Kenna, I know you’re scared but trust me, you’ll be okay.” As long as we aren’t caught that is.

“I...O..Okay…” Kenna whispers quickly following close behind drew. She hesitates before just barely grabbing a bit of their robes so she won’t lose them and then shyly ducks her head as she follows.

In the basement Darcio pulls up a grate and gestures at them. "Drew would you mind going first? I'll help Kenna down and gotta close the grate after me." Darcio smiles at Kenna. "This takes us down to a sewer passage that goes goes straight into safe territory."

“Gotcha.” Drew says and starts climbing down. They can’t use their wings fully yet, so gotta rely on the ladder descending down. How did Darcio even find this?

Kenna stares into the dark abyss and she starts to tremble, backing up until her back bumps into Darcio. She’s never been underground before- what could possibly be down there? What if they all was a trap??

"Hey everything's ok." Darcio says as he steadies Kenna. He grabs a flashlight from nearby and presses it into Kenna's hands. "Hit that button right there and point it down the hole."

Kenna swallows and shakily clicks the device on and shines it into darkness. She sees Drew below and she shines it around rapidly like a child looking for monsters under the bed. When she feels satisfied she lowers the flashlight and glances back to dracio before holding the device to her chest and starts to descend down the ladder to join drew.

Drew lands down onto the cement floor of the sewer passage, and looks up to Kenna clutching the flashlight. “I’m right down here Kenna! I’ll catch you if needed.”

Darcio watches Kenna go down in slight fear that she would just fall. "Be careful." Darcio called as he fidgeted in spot watching her descend.

Kenna descends down the ladder so slowly- the rust and rough texture of the rungs digs into her already cut up and bruised feet. The flashlight falls out of her hands and clacks loudly against the cement and she winces. She’s unsteady on the ladder for sure, focusing more on looking at the rungs then looking behind her and down to see where the next one should be. She doesn’t want to look down- she doesn’t- she doesn’t want to be here... But then her foot is catching on nothing and her hand misses and scrapes against the metal and she starts to fall backwards with a strangled cry.

“Kenna!!!” Drew’s eyes light up light blue to help illuminate the area, looking to find where her path to the ground is. Drew calculates accordingly and stands right underneath, and catches her just as she’s about to fall to the ground. Drew lets out a sigh of relief and dims down their eyes, but still keeps them glowing to help keep the darkness at bay. “You okay?”

Darcio shrieks when he sees Kenna fall. He doesn't even pause before he's jumping down the hall with the grate slamming shut behind him. Training has Darcio hitting the ground on his shoulder and rolling into a standing position.He rushes over to where Drew is holding her. "Are you ok?! Is anything hurt?!

Kenna is shaking like a leaf her eyes wide as saucers in Drew’s arms. She looks up to Drew and his glowing eyes with slight fear before nodding, whispering shakily, “Yeah.. Yeah I’m okay-”

Drew gently smiles and looks around at the area before returning their gentle gaze. “That’s good. You wanna walk or do you want me to keep carrying you?”

Darcio puts a hand on his chest and breaths out. He scoops the flashlight Kenna had dropped off the ground and plops it back into her hands. "I'm glad you're ok."

Kenna shuffles and sinks a little smaller into Drew’s arms. She mumbles quietly, “The... The metal kinda hurt my feet-” She then hides her face behind the flashlight, after mumbling a ‘thank you’ to Darcio, afraid to ask Drew for more help.

Drew nods. “It’s all good Kenna.” Drew looks towards Darcio and gives him a gentle smile. “Let’s get going, you good too? You took quite the fall.”

"Just a little fall. Won't even bruise." Darcio reassured Drew. He smiled at Kenna. "We'll have someone bandage you up soon." Darcio looked down the corridor before nodding and beginning to walk. "This way towards sanctuary!

Kenna settles in Drew’s arms, trying not to let herself get too comfortable- because she knows she can’t let herself get too attached to anyone... But Drew is really strong and warm. She watches Darcio’s back as they head to their destination.

Drew follows after Darcio, holding on to Kenna carefully and occasionally looking down to check on her. Thankfully their eyes keep the passage lit, so they’re able to follow safely. “How you manage to even find these impress me Darcio.”

Darcio glanced over his shoulder and winked at Drew. "It's a specialty of mine. It helps that I make friends with everyone." Darcio points at Drew and fake whispers to Kenna. "This person is crazy enough to take on camps by themselves but then again, so am I. I've managed to mostly make them accept help now after a few months of wearing them down with my cooking."

“Camps...?” Kenna asks with a small head tilt.

Drew rolls their eyes. “Sorry that I like saving peop-“ Drew’s voice drifts off as they hear Kenna’s statement. She... She doesn’t know the camps? “Kenna... Do you not know about the camps?”

Darcio pauses in walking to look at Kenna with wide eyes. He looks at Drew to share a look with him before staring at Kenna. Darcio audibly swallows as a pit forms in his stomach.

Kenna sinks smaller with the two staring at her had she shakes her head. “I... No....”

Drew tenses up and looks away, distress written all over their face. “The camps... they’re awful things. Humans lock them up, make em do horrible things, some are even...” Drew can’t finish the sentence and winces as they think about it. “I hate them so much.”

"They're bad places Kenna, where Chromiacs have no rights." Darcio says sadly. He looks forwards and begins walking again.

Kenna looks confused... but doesn’t have much to say on the matter. She kinda just stares at her tattered skirt and picks at it, pursing her lips. “Oh...”

Drew continues after Darcio and takes a deep breath. “So I go out and find these camps, take them over, and free everyone inside. Because everyone inside is like us, and we don’t deserve to be treated that way.”

"With help!" Darcio calls back. He runs his hand over graffiti on the wall. "Should only be another few miles before we get there."

Kenna is quiet, looking down at her hands with a strange expression. She ghost her hands over the burns on her neck again, her eyes blanking slightly. “W-We...we’re.. dangerous...” She says in a small voice, her shaking stopping for a second. “We should be put somewhere where no one will be hurt...”

Drew stares at Kenna, their eyes flickering in disbelief. She’s... not wrong. Not wrong at all, but. “We shouldn’t be locked up though! We haven’t done anything to hurt anybody, and it’s nothing that anybody should be killed over!!!” Drew spits the last bit with agony in their voice. They feel tears prick in their eyes and they sniff them away. “... I just want my sister back...”

"All people are dangerous though and I don't see them treating their criminals like this." Darcio says viciously. He bumps his shoulder into Drew's in solidarity. "You will find her Drew."

Kenna is quiet, a faraway look in her eyes. She starts scratching at her burns like she needs the metal collar back around it.

Drew looks away before giving a quick glance to Darcio. “Right...” Drew brightens their eyes and continues to walk. It’s a bit of some awkward silence before Drew sighs. “I’m sorry about my outburst, especially to you Kenna. I hope I didn’t hurt any feelings.”

Darcio reaches over to gently pull Kenna's hands away from her throat as he walked next to Drew. It was a bit awkward, especially with the atmosphere but he patted her hand. "Let's leave that alone until we get it checked out."

Kenna blinks and seems to wake to wake up slightly- she looks up at Darcio then back at her hands and the fresh blood and shudders, mumbling quietly, “Oh uh- r-right... ..Sorry...”

Drew dims once again so they don’t burn out their fellow Chromies eyes. They look more carefully at the burns, then make a mental note to potentially ask her about it later. However now is not the time. “It’s all good girl.”

Darcio glances to the wall and then around. "We're here. Entrance out should be just ahead. You good on lifting her out of here?" Darcio glances down at Kenna.

Kenna draws in on herself self consciously and wiggles slightly. “I-I can probably do it if I n-need to!”

Drew puts on a gentle but teasing smile. “You sure you can? I am just fine with carrying you.”

Darcio flicks the side of Drew's head. "Don't tease her she's been through enough without being subjected to your poor sense of humor. And you probably could Kenna but you shouldn't if you're injured." They reached a manhole cover and Darcio began climbing the ladder.

Kenna pouts slightly but nods, “O-Okay...”

Drew makes a completely done face at Darcio as they make fun of their sense of humor. But they have to admit they are right about the latter. “Just looking out for your safety is all, the more hurt you are the harder it will be to treat you.” Drew watches Darcio climb up, waiting for them to get to the top.

Darcio doesn't bother to try to push the manhole cover off he just bangs on it a few times and waits for footsteps. The cover makes a squeal as it's pulled off and Darcio squints at the light. He nods at the person above and ducks his head back down. "Ok you can come up!" Darcio hauls himself out and waits near the edge in case they need help.

Kenna looks up at the hold then back at Drew. “Uh... How are we gonna do this?”

Drew thinks a bit before an idea lights up. “I’m gonna move you, whatever you do don’t let go of my shoulders, and wrap your legs around my stomach for support.” Drew then lifts Kenna and shifts her so she’s holding onto Drew’s back like a chimpanzee. “Alright, let’s climb!” Drew then starts climbing upwards, not going too quick so Kenna doesn’t lose her grip.

Kenna holds on tightly and hides her face slightly against Drew’s shoulder so she doesn’t have to look down as they climb.

"That is adorable." Darcio whispered as they pulled a phone out and snapped a picture. "Total scrapbook materiel."

Drew reaches the top and pulls up over the edge, brushing down their jacket before noticing Darcio’s phone. “Oh my God no you didn’t.”

Kenna blinks up in confusion.

Darcio snaps another picture just to get Kenna's cute confused face properly and to annoy Drew. "Keep this up Drew and soon you might have an actual page in my scrapbook dedicated to your annoyance."

Drew lets out a groan of annoyance as they rub their face. “Darcio you’re gonna cause my death I swear.” Drew looks back to Kenna as best as they can. “You wanna keep on hanging onto my back? Or do you want me to carry ya?”

Kenna flushes slightly then kinda clings more to Drew’s back. “...I don’t wanna move…”

"Just keep clinging then hun." Darcio said as he snapped another picture just because it was so cute. "This way to the clinic." He stood and brushed himself off. Two men were already putting the manhole cover back on and Darcio called out a thank you before leading them out of what was a side street.

“All fine with me, haha.” Drew commented as they followed after Darcio. They haven’t been to this section of the sanctuary in a while, felt nice to revisit. ... Drew then smiled as they formed their wings to cover up Kenna behind her. They shimmer and twinkle like the cosmos, but due to Drew not being at their full potential, they can be easily seen through, and can’t be even used properly yet. “Figured these would make you feel a bit more protected.”

Kenna stares at the wings in awe, stars in her eyes. “Wow..” she whispers. “Is this your power...? ...I’ve never seen anything like it....”

"Show off." Darcio called to Drew. He waved them towards a nearby building as people passed by and didn't even stare. "Clinics right here."

Drew shrugs and stretches them out. “Well, partially! When I’m stronger they’ll be more visible and I’ll be able to fly with them. But as of right now they’re just mere decoration.” Drew taps their head nearby their visible eye. “I can glow my eyes as you saw in the sewers, and I can do a whole bunch of other light based stuff too. There’s a lot I can do but I’ll show it off later.” Drew states, adding a bit of bite to their words towards the end, directed towards Darcio. They look towards the clinic and smile. “Nice!”

Kenna sinks nervously against Drew and hides slightly.

Darcio holds the door open for them which chimes. There's a receptionist behind a counter who looks up with a smile to greet them and to please sign in.

Drew walks in and waves at the receptionist. They walk up and sign Kenna up for a quick examination and possible treatment. “We’ll have your burn checked and possibly helped in no time Kenna.” Drew says to her, trying to ease her nerves.

Kenna whines slightly and doesn’t lift her face from Drew’s shoulder, clingy tighter to them, starting to shake a bit more.

"Hey everything will be alright Kenna." Darcio said. They wanted to soothe her so bad but Darcio didn't think she would take well to touch. They looked around before grabbing something from the jar on the counter. "Here try this it's a lollipop!"

Drew smiles and points to it. “Oooh yeah, try it! Lollipops are nice and sweet!”

Kenna slowly lifts her head and peeks out her eyes at the lollipop offered to her. She hesitates then reaches for the treat. She stares at the surface pensively, her voice small. “...I haven’t had sweets in such a long time-“

Darcio gave Kenna a small smile as they took the treat to mask their anger at Kenna's words. "Well now you can have treats whenever you want. We'll both make sure to introduce you to ones you haven't had yet."

“Mm-hm! There’s a lot in the world out here, I’m sure you’ll like them all.” Drew commented, keeping some thoughts to themselves. In a long time? Drew collecting all these things Kenna has said has made them worry more for her: what kind of life had she been living? Was she poor? Abused? Sheltered? But this wasn’t the time for that.

Kenna giggles slightly and looks at both of them. “...I-I like the sound of that…” She doesn’t seem to really mean that though, or at least doesn’t look like she believes it. At least not yet. She sticks the lollipop in her mouth and her eyes light up at the flavor and she hugs on tighter to Drew, going to hide her face again.

Darcio catches Drew's eye and nods at Kenna. She still didn't believe them and it would take a while for it to sink in. For now all they could do was be there and try to help her. "A miss Kenna?" A nurse calls. "That's us then." Darcio leads the way towards the nurse.

Drew can’t help but let out a little smile at Kenna’s giggle, and when she hugs tighter Drew doesn’t mind one bit. A nurse comes out announcing Kenna’s name, and Drew proceeds to follow after her and Darcio. “You keep enjoying that lollipop okay?”

“Mmmhmm.” Kenna nods through her full mouth, gripping Drew tighter, but hearing her name has her tensing and shaking again. She refuses to look up.

Stepping past a door into a long hallway the nurse showed them to a room a few doors down. "The doctor should be by soon along with a counselor if you all would wait in here. There's also an attached bathroom with some simple clothes if you'd like to freshen up a little." The nurse directs the last part at Kenna with a cheery smile before walking away.

Drew gives them a simple nod and thanks before heading inside. As they recall what she had said, Drew perks up a bit. “Hey Kenna, did you hear what that nice lady said? She said they have nice clothes for you to put on it you want!”

Kenna lifts up her head fast and pushes the lollipop to the side of her mouth so she can talk around it. “Clothes? Y-yes please! I-I need to get out of these!” She squirms, suddenly desperate to get down. She apologizes to Drew as she pushes and climbs off them then winces as her injured feet touch the ground but she doesn’t care at this point. She hops to the bathroom and glances at them slightly before she rushes inside.

"Well that's good she wants to get out of the clothes." Darcio commented. They threw themselves into a nearby chair to play the waiting game and nudged the chair next to theirs with a foot. "Have a seat and kick up your feet,we're gonna be here a while."

Drew lets out a little smile as Kenna disappears into the bathroom to change, followed by a sigh of relief and honestly, happiness. Another one rescued, at least for now. Drew sits back onto the chair next to Darcio. They look around a bit before letting a playful puff of air fill their cheek. “Nothing to kick my feet up on...”

Darcio smiles at Drew. "Another one brought home. It's a good day." They hold their hand up for a fist bump and reply cheekily. "I'm sure if you think hard enough you can find something to kick your feet up on."

Kenna rushes into the bathroom and almost practically slams the door shut. She strips as fast as she can out of the clothes- almost ripping them off. She takes a second to catch her reflection in the mirror- to finally see the burn maring her neck and the blood staining her skin. Her eyes grow sad- and she catches the new patch of red in her right eye with a gasp of surprise. Is that from- her new powers? ...What the hell. Kenna takes a long time trying to understand what happened to her, but eventually she changes into the new clothes and hobbles back out into the office, blinking out at Drew and Dracio.

Drew returns the fist bump with a slight smirk, before deciding Darcio will be their foot rest and swinging their feet up onto their legs. “There, found something.” Drew says with a snarky grin. When Kenna comes out with her new clothes, Drew’s visible eye widens in surprise. “Well look at you!”

Darcio shoves at Drew's feet but lets them rest there with a playful glare. "You're an ass Drew." They smile widely at Kenna when she comes. "Looking better there, spitfire!"

Kenna picks and fidgets in her new clothes self consciously, a light flush coming to her face as she ducks it under her bangs, “Uh.. T-Thanks…” She blinks out and looks around the room curiously before scratching at her neck, a force a habit it seems- “Where should I.. I don’t.. know…” She looks uncomfortable... and still slightly scared.

Drew sticks their tongue out at Darcio’s comment, but then upon noticing Kenna’s anxiousness, they take their legs off of the fellow Heterochromiac, and make motions with their hands towards the Heavens user. “Here Kenna! You can, uh...” Drew studies to see how much space they have on the chair they’re sitting on, realizing they won’t have enough space to share one. “You can take my chair if you want! Or sit on my lap, I don’t care.”

"One of us can move for you if you want Kenna, or just hop into Drew's lap." Darcio raised an eyebrow at Drew. There was a knock at the door and a male peeked in. "Hello Doctor Marcus." Darcio called.

Kenna shifts even more uncomfortably, “Y-you don’t have to- I don’t want to-” The girl stiffens and jumps in surprise at the sound of a stranger and whips around, eyes wild and hand outstretched to try to blast magic out at him. But orange sparks just fizzle out of her palm and settle onto the floor and she flushes before quickly rushing off to the counter and hunkering down to hide-.

Drew watches Kenna run off and stands up to go after her, after acknowledging the doctor. “Kenna this is the nice man who will help you! He won’t harm you in any form, trust me.” Drew looks towards the doctor, signaling to him to make a remark of similar fashion.

Kenna shivers and shakes her head, covering it up her arms and crying out, “N-No!”

Entering the room the Doctor holds out both of his hands non threateningly. "Miss Kenna I know you may have had some bad experiences in ze past with Doctors but I am only here to look at your feet I vish you no harm." Darcio was halfway out of their chair watching Kenna watching from a distance though so that Kenna wouldn't get crowded.

Kenna cautiously looks back, her eyes brimming with terrified tears. She sniffles and rubs at her face, shoulders shaking, “I-I don’t know w-what a d-doctor i-is... I-I just... don’t want to be p-punished for g-getting hurt-”

Drew’s eyes light up as honest shock runs through them. Punished for being hurt???? Sweet Heavens what has this girl gone through? “K-Kenna no, he won’t punish you at all! All he’s going to do is check you over and then help you! Like using something that’ll help your neck get better!”

Doctor Marcus didn't approach Kenna but he spoke seriously. "I took an oath az all Doctor'z must to treat the ill and injured to ze best of my ability. I stand by zat oath. You vill not be punished for being hurt." The Doctor gestured to the patient bed against the wall. "Vhen you are ready ve can begin zen."

Darcio watched Kenna with sad eyes and mouth 'punished for being injured' a few times. It was another cruel punishment in a series showing how society viewed the Chromiacs.

Kenna shivers and grips her knees, her voice small. “You’re not... gonna tell the- the- higher ups? You’re not one of them?” She finally tries to look up at the doctor, trying to see if he’s a Chromiac too- ...That would mean.. she could be safe for now.

Drew flashed a look of concern to Darcio. Higher ups... They’re definitely talking this over later with Darcio, they have a bad feeling of what could’ve happened to Kenna by now, but this was not even close to the time to talk about it.

"I vill most certainly not tell anyone your information vithout your consent." Doctor Marcus gave Kenna a reassuring smile.

Kenna seems to relax slightly, though she’s still shaking and sniffling. She’s still terrified. But carefully she rises up off the floor and eyes the patient table and looks to Drew and Darcio for reassurance.

Drew nods towards Kenna. “You have every right to believe what he’s saying. If you can’t trust him, trust us.”

Darcio waved at Kenna. "We promised you we'd take care of ya and we promise Doctor Marcus will help with that."

Kenna nods and looks down at the table before swallowing and climbing up. She settles herself as comfortably as she can but she’s still stiff and uncertain looking. She looks to doctor Marcus with a flushed and expectant face.

Drew walks back over to where Darcio is and leans against the wall, ready to go to her rescue if she starts to feel uneasy. “We will be right here okay?”

Doctor Marcus pulls out a little bar from under the bed for Kenna to rest her feet on so he could look at them properly. "This should be over very quickly." He was already pulling supplies out.

Kenna squirms slightly, nervousness back on her face but she tries to stay still.

Drew crosses their arms and a serious gaze returns to their face. This will help her, she’ll be perfectly okay.

Doctor Marcus checked over the damage real quick before using some wipes to sanitize it and wipe any dirt free. A quick squirt of antibacterial spray and he was putting gauze pads on the bottom of Kenna's feet and wrapping it up. "I advise only a little valking but your feet are fine as long as you keep them clean." He gestured at Kenna's neck. "May I look at your other injury?"

Kenna flinches but slowly she sighs and lifts up her neck for the doctor to see. Her neck is badly burnt-like a hot object was ripped off her neck and left the wounds red and bleeding.

Drew continues to watch. Seeing Kenna comply was very relieving at least.

He checked over the burn closely before washing it. "The burns are not zhe most severe. I recommend if you experience high amounts of pain or it becomes infected to come see us again but just vashing it and drying it should take care of it." Doctor Marcus sets a tube down near Kenna for her to grab. "Vhen it starts scabbing and new skin appears use this lotion it vill help vith scarring.”

Kenna cautiously takes the tube from the doctor and looks at him in- well semi-awe. She blinks in confusion, looking down at the bottle and rubbing her finger over it thoughtfully. That was... so easy. And he was so gentle. She’s... never been treated so nicely. She looks back up to the doctor and chokes out quietly. “...T-Thank you…”

Drew has to hold back an urge to run over to her and scoop her up in a hug, as their eyes shine over. She did amazingly, and her response was genuine! “You did great Kenna!”

"If that is all I shall have the nurse come discharge you." Doctor Marcus nodded at Darcio and Drew and turned to Kenna. "I wish you well in your new life now." He walked out the door and Darcio clapped lightly. "You're an amazing person Kenna!"

Kenna blushed and pushed one of her messy braids behind her ears, fidgeting, “Ah... I-I wouldn’t say that…”

Okay, can no longer hold back. Drew walks over and hugs her gently, then ruffles the top of her already messy hair. “Oh shush, of course we would! We’re being truthful!”

Darcio patted Drew's shoulder teasingly. "You're gonna embarrass the poor girl like that, but you did do great Kenna we're very proud of you."

Kenna’s face turned even redder and she buries her face in Drew’s arm as they hug her. But then she peeks her face up at the both of them. “...Does this mean I get another lollipop...?”

Drew registers what she says and bolts through the hallways. The others can hear a faint ‘I NEED SOME LOLLIPOPS STAT!!!’

Darcio starts snorting in laughter before he bends over enveloped in loud guffaws. "Oh my god, that idiot!" A harassed looking nurse walked in to tell them that Kenna was officially discharged and that she had 72 hours to register as a new member of the sanctuary. Darcio began ushering Kenna off the bed and out the door before the nurse was done and listening for Drew. "We should go collect our wayward member before he turns over the entire place looking for lollipops."

Kenna outright laughs for what feels like the first time in forever. Her chest feels warm and she feels... safe. It’s a ...strange feeling. But she thinks she likes it. Before she can process it she’s being dragged on her newly bandaged feet after Darcio and she waves to the nurse and whispers that she’ll do the thing before they go looking for Drew.

Drew slides back into view, holding three lollipops, a huge stupid but dorky grin on their face. “Got some!” They walk over to them both and hold all three of them out for Kenna. “I got one for each of us but since Kenna did great, she gets first pick.”

"And how many people did you assault to get these poor lollipops?" Darcio asked with a knowing smirk. He had been wondering why that nurse looked so harried and judging by the expressions on people near them he could guess.

Kenna’s eyes spark as she sees the sweets and she quickly grabs a purple one out of Drew’s hand before popping into her mouth. She beams at them, “Thanks Drew!”

“Not many! ... Okay five but shhhh.” Drew replies with a snarky tone. They smile at Kenna. “Of course Kenna! Anything to make you feel better.” There’s a huge amount of comfort in their tone, not forced and natural. Drew holds the two remaining ones to Darcio. “Your pick next.”

Grabbing the green one Darcio decides it's time to make a tactical retreat before one of the nurses starts to try to come after them. "We still have some daylight to burn and there's a store right near here for new people open 24/7 so what do you think Kenna, want to go grab a few essentials you'll need?"

Kenna cocks her head in confusion, “What’re those?”

Drew’s about to pop the blue one into their mouth when they stop at Kenna’s comment. Oh Heavens this is bad. “You know, essentials! Things like clothes, food, things that we need to survive.”

Darcio smiles in emotional agony and starts herding both of the others out the doors. The shop is only a few doors down. "Well we'll just have to teach you and don't worry you can ride in the cart can't have you walking too much..." Or accidentally running off and getting lost.

“O-oh…” Kenna looks embarrassed. “I’ve... never had to shop for those before.. sorry.” She perks up at the thought of riding in the cart though- that sounds fun!

“It’s okay Kenna! Anything you don’t know we will help teach ya!” Drew says confidently, finally popping in the lollipop.

Holding open the door for them Darcio motioned for Drew to grab a cart. "I'm sure you'll like picking out your own stuff those. Let's start with shoes first though."

Kenna looks excited, “I’ve always wanted nicer shoes!”

Drew quickly dashes over to grab a cart. Then swings back around and rolls it up to the both of them. “Then let’s get you that nicer pair of shoes!” They chime in.

Darcio checks the signs and points dramatically. "That-uh way!" They declare and start stomping their way towards the shoe section.

Kenna jumps slightly then grins big, quickly climbing into the cart and bouncing excitedly, pointing after Darcio and looking back to Drew, “You heard them Drew! That way!!!”

#Chromiesstory #heterochromiacs #chapter 1 #the beginning #abuse tw #injury #burns tw #kenna rosales #drew hunte #darcio grierson #hurt comfort #original story #this is in an rp format since thars how we write!#hopefully the changing pov isn’t too jarring #the next chapter will be pretty lax cuz it was us figuring stuff out gfghb #but after that shit starts going down! :D #hufflewriting

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