Encroaching Evil (Stefani)

[Andrea Peterson]

They continued driving, the beach to the left of them. After driving past the main strip, there were a large number of warehouses, stacked from side to side to side. Looking at them, Andrea got the most horrible feeling in her stomach. Did this have anything to do with Stefani?

”Stop here. Park the car, and keep quiet.”

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Andrea listened to him, and brought the car over to park a good distance away, cutting off another car in the process of pulling off the road. She turned off the car completely after parking it, and got out a bit after Koryu. Walking up behind him, she saw him holding Stefani’s phone, which he’d just picked up from the ground here. The feeling pounded through her stomach again. Koryu then said, "She's probably close by - or the people who took her is." and when Andrea realized that there was a very real possibility that she could’ve been taken here against her will, she felt her heart race in a whole new way. Adrenaline built up within her, especially as she looked the warehouse Koryu was heading towards.

She knew... inside, she just knew...

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Stefani could barely listen to this man anymore. The way he spoke, she knew that there was no longer anything she could do to keep him here. His mind was set and this was, clearly, not his first time doing this. How many others have had their brains blown out by this man? Or maybe he’d used other weapons in the past... maybe even torture... Her heart pounded too heavily in her ears. She was going to die. And her brother and sister would eventually follow. Perhaps there was some sort of other-worldly power that would allow them to see each other on the other side...

She couldn’t stop crying. Her eyes shut out of fear. And she felt him move, and knew the gun was pointed at her head. She whispered one final world, knowing it would be her last.

”Andrea..”[/color]

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And that was when Andrea shoved past Koryu and busted through the door. She couldn’t just stand there anymore. Inside she just knew her sister was inside of this warehouse, even if she hadn’t been able to hear anything from inside, or see past Koryu’s head. ”STEFANI!”[/color] she screamed as she ran in, and saw the man, the gun, and her sister’s form in a chair. From a fight or flight standpoint, Andrea was clearly fighting, not pausing for even a second to think about what it was she was doing. All it would take is one touch, one hand, even laying one finger on this man, and he’d be done. She’d inject enough poison into his body in that one instant, and he’d be on the floor dying, in pure agony.

Stefani whirled her head around, hearing the voice, and through her blurry vision she could see the red mane of her sister running towards the man. ”Andrea, no!”[/color] she called back, her voice still muffled by the tape.

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WORDS! 525
STATUS! complete
TAGS! Hayate
NOTES! N/A
INSPIRATION! Get Back by Demi Lovato
CREDITS! Template By arro @ Caution!
Pic By PIC CREDIT GOES HERE
LYRICS! "If You Can't Live Without Me,
Why Aren't You Dead Yet?" by Mayday Parade

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[john]

Unfortunately, John was fast. As soon as heard the scream and the door open, he turned his gun toward the doorway - in time to see another girl, just like the one he tied up to the chair. He reflexively fired at her. But then he saw a blur... in the next moment, a boy was in front of him, kicking the pistol out of his hand and faster than his eyes could follow, punched him. the additional speed caused him to slide all the way to the other side of the place.

Damn... looks like he couldn't stay for too much longer. The boy rushed toward him in a blur again, but John grabbed a modified taser from his belt and shot out two strong wires with barbs, which the boy dodged - but it gave John enough time to escape through the back door, get in his car and drove off. Damnit, he missed his chance... Fortunately, he did have a bit of a backup plan, to eradicate the evidence. He took out another thing from his pocket - a trigger. And he pressed it.

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Koryu scowled. Great, he got away. Andrea had been shot a couple times, but he rushed over to rip the tape off Stefani. "It's alright, we're here now." He hurriedly undid the ropes around her wrists and legs, then went over to Andrea - just when a number of barrels around them started exploding, setting everything on fire. Damnit, the guy had a back up plan!

"We need to get out of here," he said quickly.

[Stefani Peterson]

Shots. More than one.

”NO!!!”

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Stefani immediately moved on reflex, trying to get to her, but she couldn’t move much with her limbs tied to the chair. The ropes dug deeply into her flesh and even began to bleed, but she couldn’t feel any of it. She just screamed and struggled, with no sign of stopping. Her energy was merely fuelled by the sight of her sister having been shot and falling to the ground. She struggled and struggled, the man the last thing from her mind, until out of nowhere, Koryu was in front of her, tearing the tape off her mouth. ”It’s alright, we’re here now.”[/i] he said to her.

She couldn’t think of anything to say to him besides a hurried whisper to call an ambulance. Once he untied the ropes, she raced towards her sister. She was no longer scared, or fearful, or crying. Stefani had immediately gone into big sister mode, and was kneeling by her sister’s bleeding body. She was breathing, but it was raged, and she was clearly in pain and shock. She was losing blood fast. ”Everything’s going to be fine Andy, okay?”[/color] she told her sister, touching her face, trying to do what she could to bring her comfort, and wasn’t even aware of the fire that was starting around them. All she could see was his sister.

”You’re going to be okay... you’re gonna be okay...”[/color]

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Everything after that was a blur.

Moving. Flashing lights. Pain. Various conversations.

Police.

”We’ve had a few cases of homicides recently, seemingly random unless you look at the fact that they all had powers. Rest assured, Miss Peterson, we’re doing everything we can to find this guy. And there’s no need to worry, your sister will be safe during her stay at the hospital. And we’ll make sure you and others in your family are protected as well.”[/color]

Doctor.

”Your sister was only hit by two of the bullets fired. One merely grazed her side, but the other went through her right side, just below the rib cage. Her gallbladder and intestines were repaired successfully by the surgery, and she will be able to recover just fine. We’d like to keep her here for about 2 weeks post-op, and she’ll be recovering for another 6 weeks at home. No heavy lifting. Make sure that she’ll be taking it easy.”[/color]

Andrea...

”Don’t worry so much, Sis. I get to sit in a comfy bed for a couple weeks, that’s not so bad when you think about it... Might mean more homework for you for a couple weeks, but you don’t mind, right?”[/color]

There were others, but she couldn’t remember them

Stefani sat in the waiting room, after having visited Stefani. She’d sat here for hours waiting to hear if she was going to be okay, and now, at 4 AM, she had the answer; she was. But Stefani didn’t have a clue how she was doing right now... It was like she was detached from her body and was just observing the world around her, but couldn’t see herself in any way, or feel much of anything. She just sat there, staring blankly at her folded hands in her lap.

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WORDS! 545
STATUS! complete
TAGS! Hayate
NOTES! N/A
INSPIRATION! Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap
CREDITS! Template By arro @ Caution!
Pic By PIC CREDIT GOES HERE
LYRICS! "If You Can't Live Without Me,
Why Aren't You Dead Yet?" by Mayday Parade

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[koryu]

Koryu had gottent he girls out before they were incinerated alive and called 911. They were asked for information from the police, but frankly, none of them had too much info on the guy. He was careful and subtle, no doubt. Even the gun that he kicked away from him was no use - it was destroyed in the ensuing fire.

He waited with Stefani for the result. What stunk was that he could nto speed up time, make the suffering less painful for everyone. Thankfully, Andrea hadn't been hit too bad and was expected to make a full recovery. He was thankful for that. However, he could still see Stefani traumatized. He wasn't even sure what to do or say through the whole situation.

With that, he simply patted her shoulder and said quietly, "I'm going outside for a smoke." With that, he went out, took out a cigarette and lit it up. He could feel his stress melting a bit as he blew out the smoke. What a crazy day... who was that nut? They had came in the nick of time, no doubt about that. If they had been even one second later...

That thought scared Koryu the most.

[kc1892]

Stefani continued to sit there, silent, not being of much help to anyone. Not like it was too bad a thing as she was sitting out of the way in the hospital waiting room. Her wrists and ankles had been bandaged by the paramedic, but the pain behind them was still there, dull but with a slight throbbing. Koryu said something to her, but she didn’t hear it.

Meanwhile, a teenage boy ran through the hospital, hurrying towards the floor where Stefani and Andrea currently were. He raced off the elevator, and soon saw his sister sitting in the waiting room. ”Stefani!”

[/color] His booming, worried voice made Stefani look up, and she instantly recognized her brother Robert. Stefani stood up, saying in an exhausted yet relieved whisper, ”Robert...”[/color] and moved to embrace him tightly. His arms enveloped her and he held onto her, perhaps a bit too tightly, and soon he broke away, saying, ”Is she okay? Have they come to talk to you yet?”[/color] Stefani nodded, still in her big sister mode. Though her brother was technically the eldest of the triplets, but she still felt like the big sister right now.

”It’ll take a while to recover, but she’s going to be okay?”[/color] Robert sighed with relief, looking like he was so close to crying but he was doing his best to be strong. He held onto her again and said, ”Oh thank God... She’s okay, thank God...”[/color] At the moment, she didn’t want to hear the word ‘God’ ever again after the day she’d had, but she wasn’t going to say anything about it. He then let go of her, and Stefani wiped away one tear that had escaped from his eyes. ”What happened?”[/color] Hearing that, Stefani let go of him. He couldn’t see into what happened without touching her, and... if he saw things from her point of view, he’d be enraged. In all honesty, he was better off not knowing.

”Stefani’s awake. Ask her, she’ll probably let you see.”[/color] she told him, and Stefani then walked with him towards the room.

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WORDS! 545
STATUS! complete
TAGS! Hayate
NOTES! Koryu can easily have watched the conversation and walk up as they’re heading back to Andy’s room, either before they get there or after.
INSPIRATION! [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnE14nUEx5E Hide and Seek

[/url] by Imogen Heap
CREDITS! Template By arro @ Caution!
Pic By PIC CREDIT GOES HERE
LYRICS! "If You Can't Live Without Me,
Why Aren't You Dead Yet?" by Mayday Parade
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[koryu]

Koryu took another drag on his cigarette. He was thankful he managed to react in time. Being a higher-up on the Light of Shadows organization meant that one had to have high combat skills because many assassins would come after you. Or rather, you managed to survive long enough to develop the skills to be a higher-up. Koryu was one of those. His other two friends were the same, considering they were in their positions by blood.

He didn't have any healing skills, and like everyone, there were times where he wished he switched out his powers... but he realized after a bit of thinking, his powers were more or less the exact ones for the job. Like finding Stefani's cellphone and stopping her death in the nick of time. Really, this was the second time he saved her life. Not like he was going to get a big head about it. He was simply relieved that she was alright.

He finished his cigarette and was thinking of heading in... but instead decided to take another smoke instead. Stressful times called for a double dose of smokes. Unhealthy, maybe. But still.

[Stefani Peterson]

Stefani didn’t spend a lot of time with Robert and Andrea together. She knew that Robert was going to take Andy’s hand to see from her perspective what happened, and she knew he was going to want to know what happened with her as well. But it would enrage him to know what happened, especially seeing it from her eyes. He didn’t need to deal with that, he was going through enough as is. Looking around the waiting room, she wondered where Koryu had gone to. As she thought about it, she had a vague memory of him saying he was going to go out for a cigarette.

Soon she found her way towards a courtyard on the main floor of the hospital, where there was grass and trees and various spots to deposit ashes and butts of cigarettes. It wasn’t hard to spot Koryu, given that he was the only one who was here smoking at such an hour. She walked over to where he was, but didn’t say anything else. Soon, she looked up at him, noticed his cigarette and knew right then what could probably help. ”Give me one.”

[/color] she told him, extending a hand.

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WORDS! 198
STATUS! complete
TAGS! Hayate
NOTES! Short, sorry XP
INSPIRATION! [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnE14nUEx5E Hide and Seek

[/url] by Imogen Heap
CREDITS! Template By arro @ Caution!
Pic By PIC CREDIT GOES HERE
LYRICS! "If You Can't Live Without Me,
Why Aren't You Dead Yet?" by Mayday Parade
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[koryu]

Koryu was almost done with his second cigarette. He thought he heard mentions of their brother in conversations, but no matter. No doubt her family wanted to know about this whole situation. He wondered if there was any other family they had that lived here. Well, probably not. After all, any normal people had regular lives to go about.

Give me one.

He nearly jumped with surprise. "Oh, didn't expect you there," he said, blinking. Then he considered her request. She wasn't a smoker, he knew that much from talking to her. So why would she wanted a cigarette? He took one out, however, and gave it to her, even lighting it up for her. "Don't think it's a good idea to pick up a bad habit," he said, trying to lighten ht emood a bit. He couldn't be blamed, considering that this whole situation was about as ugly as it could get.

Well, nevermind. Could be uglier.

[Stefani Peterson]

Clearly she’d surprised Koryu by coming over, but that didn’t change her lack of expression or make her pull her hand back. She was still waiting for him to hand her a cigarette. However, he soon did give it to her, and he even lit it for her without putting up a fight. All he said was, "Don't think it's a good idea to pick up a bad habit," Stefani merely replied by saying, ”I can’t possibly think of a better time to get into a bad habit, can you?”

[/color] The question was rhetorical, and she put the cigarette to her lips.

She coughed at first after inhaling from it, then when the coughing subsided she commented, ”Yikes, don’t see how you can do this and look so cool at the same time.”[/color] After taking a deep breath, she tried taking another drag of the cigarette. It went a lot more smoothly the second time around. Then, out of nowhere, she could feel tears pricking at her eyes. ”Damn smoke is making my eyes water...”[/color] Stefani said, and wiped her eyes with her free hand. Then she took another drag. Her eyes watered again. She went to wipe the again, but this time, they wouldn’t stop coming, and soon they pooled over. In an instant, she dropped her cigarette and brought her right arm over her eyes. She couldn’t stop herself from crying anymore; and what was worse, it was happening in front of Koryu.

”Damnit...”[/color] Her voice cracked as she spoke, and her shoulders shook from the sobs she could no longer bite back. She cried for her sister and for her brother and for herself and everything that had happened in the short span of one day.

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WORDS! 289
STATUS! complete
TAGS! Hayate
NOTES! Short, sorry XP
INSPIRATION! [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnE14nUEx5E Hide and Seek

[/url] by Imogen Heap
CREDITS! Template By arro @ Caution!
Pic By PIC CREDIT GOES HERE
LYRICS! "If You Can't Live Without Me,
Why Aren't You Dead Yet?" by Mayday Parade
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[koryu]

I can’t possibly think of a better time to get into a bad habit, can you?

Koryu shrugged, and thew away his cigarette, stomping it underneath his foot. He watched as she began smoking. She coughed at first - perfectly understandable. It must be her first time smoking. Then she complained about smoke getting in her eyes and knew that it wasn't that simple. He knew what was going on, that she was trying to make an excuse to cry over the whole situation.

With a small sigh, he walked over and hugged her, allowing her to cry into his body. He liked her a lot, and didn't mind at all. He would always be there for her, he knew that much. While he was at it, he also stepped out the cigarette she dropped. Might as well. She probably wasn't going to end up a smoker and there was no need to start any fires around here.

[Stefani Peterson]

Stefani just stood there for a moment, crying into her arm and just trying to pretend she was invisible. Though of course, she wasn’t Koryu was right there. And he could see everything. But instead of walking away or trying to say something to her, he just stepped closer to her and suddenly held her in his arms. Stefani couldn’t stop herself from crying, and soon enough she found herself clinging tightly to Koryu and crying into his chest. Once the tears started, she was unable to stop them, and they just kept coming and coming. She held herself tightly against him, and let everything out that she’d been holding in since she’d seen her sister get shot.

Finally there was somebody here to confirm the fear she felt when she’d been taken and drugged by that man and then held there in that dark warehouse. She cried at having her life threatened and the feeling of having a gun pointed at her head. And she cried from the earlier fear of almost losing her sister, as well as the fear that still remained within her, as certainly as the blood that ran through her veins, that the man would return to finish what he’d started, not only with her but with her other siblings, and anybody else she knew. After all, Koryu must’ve done something to him to keep him from shooting her. He was in danger too. And she cried because she hated herself for putting his life in danger too.

She clung to Koryu, almost for dear life, still crying and feeling incredibly greatful for him being here for her in this moment. She doubted she could cry in front of anybody else and feel this relaxed and comfortable. Stefani soon held onto Koryu more like an embrace, still crying. It kept going and going until she began to tire herself out and hold onto Koryu a bit tighter to keep from falling over.

WORDS! 327
STATUS! complete
TAGS! Hayate
NOTES! N/A
INSPIRATION! [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnE14nUEx5E Hide and Seek

[/url] by Imogen Heap
CREDITS! Template By arro @ Caution!
Pic By PIC CREDIT GOES HERE
LYRICS! "If You Can't Live Without Me,
Why Aren't You Dead Yet?" by Mayday Parade
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