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Jason Wyngarde ([info]_mastermind_) wrote in [info]athinblackline,
@ 2009-03-11 21:22:00

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Entry tags:mastermind, wild child

Who: Mastermind OT Wild Child
What: Jason has a nightmare and it launches him into his illusions
When: 3am Wednesday March 11th
Where: Jason's manor
Notes: PG-13; mention of violence and sex



The night had gone smoothly, and after the more recent happening the old man had decided to forgo the liquor tonight. His common nightcap of brandy or whiskey had been replaced by a cup of strong tea, the extract having it's own logical properties. The man relaxed into his bed, pulling covers over his almost naked form. The comfort of satin sheets whispering over soft skin was it's own comfort as he huddled into blankets and pillows. It only took a few moments before he slept, the last thought on his mind touching upon each of the important people in his life. Images of memories, smiles, loving looks all danced about in his mind before his eyes closed and his mind turned off on it's conscious level.

It only took a moment to realize that he was dreaming, the softness of his bed felt like her skin again and he smiled to himself. He could hear her heart beating, it's soft rhythm slowly calming. Their love making had been vicious and soft, comforting and fierce, demanding and yielding in it's own right. They had always joked that it wasn't something that anyone else would have understood, but it was their way, and it would continue to be their way. She shifted under his weight, skin against skin, warning him that he was growing heavy for her before she turned on her side. He moved, sitting up, and looking to her face, his smile gentle. His fingers whispering across her stomach, his thoughts on the children they had mentioned and never fully discussed. "Yes." Her voice was sure, solid, and confident as it rang sounding suddenly wrong in the comfort of the room around him. "Yes, they are there. Two of them. Daughters." He blinked, the dawning realization of her statements growing over him as excitement started taking hold. "You mean...I...have daughters?" He grinned like a fool, his hands moving in an instant to hold her against him. She shifted away. "There are children, but they will never be yours, you sick freak." Her eyes turned hard and glittered malice and hate like jewels adorning her disposition. "I'm taking them back to my parents house, and they will never know what kind of a cold hearted bastard their father is." She shifted back, off their bed, her naked form supple and stunning in the fading daylight before she reached over and picked a small blade from the bedside table. It's metallic sound rang in his ears before he could think about it further, and she lunged at him shrieking. "All I wanted was your seed, your power for my own. All I needed was that and now you are worthless. Worthless. You fucking bastard, you sick fool. Did you believe that I loved you?" He screamed, he writhed, every pierce of the blade in his skin was agony as the tears spilled down his cheeks, falling as sweet rain for the desert.

And as fast as it had happened it was all over. There was still movement, however, and a soft touch on his cheeks. The pain from before dissipating like a strange dream that fades from the mind like the light of day. A scream died on his lips before he opened his eyes. No longer his wife, but Lilly met his gaze, her smile soft and gentle. She was always so gentle to him. "Are you alright?" Concern laced her voice, such a familiar tone. Those eyes always so comforting, so caring, so wonderful, looked on him again, and he melted to her. The tide of fear slipping away slowly as she curled into his chest and held him tight. Such a loving girl, such a pleasant woman, and in so many ways she could compliment him and his general desires. And so very often she did, just never in one specific manner. "Jason." Her tone had changed, rapt and direct, the annoyed sound she used when he had crossed a line. It was a warning to him usually, and blinking suddenly, he had no idea what he had done. "Lilly?" She looked up at him and used the back of her hand to shove his now erect member away from her hip. He flushed a bit, not realizing he was so very attentive at that moment, and shifted to keep himself a bit further away from her. "I'm sorry, my dear girl. I had no intention..." She snorted, a very unlady like habit she had learned from her brother at a younger age. "Stuff it. I don't believe you. You're such a liar." A slow sadness creeped over the man's face as he listened to his almost lover bullet him with ridicule. She talked him into a stupor, all the things he had ever done to hurt her, to make her feel like less than a woman, they were all coming out at him. He shrank back into the blankets groaning over and over and shaking his head. This wasn't real, this wasn't his Lilly. It couldn't be. A chorus of apologies filtered through his lips over and over again and she turned each one away with another verbal jab. "You just want my body, you disgusting old man." It had been the needle in the haystack, and he tore himself from the bed as she leaned into the only weak spot he had in regards to their situation. He had always been attracted to her, always desired her, and their ages had bothered him in so many ways. He had shared that with her, shared the fear, shared the turmoil, and she had once comforted him. Now she was throwing that same turmoil back at him with greater force behind it. "I know you too well to hide it from me you pedophile." She sneered as she said the word and he turned to her, his eyes full of indescribable emotions. He moved, taking her in his hands by her shoulders and started to shake her, denials screaming through his mind.

A slap to his face brought him out of his movement with a start. His eyes snapped open to look at Gibs standing over him, the boy's blond hair making a halo around their faces. Another pair of concerned eyes, this time Jason wasn't fooled. He scooted back immediately, huddling himself into the corner of his own bed, curled up into the headboard. "NO!" He ducked his head into his arms to protect his face, emotions too high and confidence too low to face the feral. There was no word of warning, no sense of change, but Jason could feel it. Kyle was going to kill him. He waited and waited, knowing it was there, just waiting for it to happen. After a long pause he looked up, one eye peeking out and saw no one. Nothing. He looked to the right where the boy had just been and unfuled his body from it's crouching position. His long legs uncurled to place his feet on the cool floor and he stood before looking straight ahead again, stopping to see his whelp there, scraps of a collar in shreds on the floor of his bedroom. The boy was bleeding everywhere from head to toe, the fluid pooling on the hardwood on the floor, his eyes holding a dark glint in them. The deadly edge of a knife was bared in the younger man's eyes. "Why are you so scared, Jason? This is what you wanted. I'm your creation, your pet after all. Here I am...why do you fear me?" The older man's hands flew to his mouth, stifling a shocked scream. He had wanted the boy to be safe, to be sound, to be whole, and to be happy. Never this. "Come and admire your handy work. You've taught me well. Fixed my voice, fixed my body, fixed my head..." Kyle stepped clearly into the light, showing his form mangled, twisted, and oozing from wounds that didn't heal. "Maybe it's my turn to teach you..." Faster than he could even see, Kyle lunged forward and knocked them both over, now pinning his owner onto the bed behind him. Long claws collected his body in a tight grip, nails sliding through his remaining garment as if it were air, the sensation of piercing his manhood made him shiver in delicious agony for a very brief moment before the onslaught of that grip shifting as if to pleasure him. A scream was ripped form his lips as his felsh was slowly ranked from his body in small pieces by all too sharp claws. It wasn't pleasure, it was torture.



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[info]feral_at_heart
2009-03-11 10:20 pm UTC (link)
Kyle had spent the last four days in a fury, snarling and breaking anything he thought might be halfway important to the elder. He had been avoiding Jason entirely, and in the few times he had to be in the gentleman's presence, he had delivered the most hateful of glares and threatening of growls. To say that he was not a happy feral was an understatement, Kyle was simply livid, feeling betrayed and lied to. Stupid Gibs had been taken for a fool once more, and the only person he currently hated more than Jason was himself.

He had not been working out, as really, what was the point? He was not going to be fighting, so why bother? It did nothing to help his current situation as it simply allowed his rage to simmer and build, leaving him restless and eager for destruction. He had been sleeping very little and had driven everyone, even Sean away by swiping a hair's breath away from the faces with razer sharp claws, directing his rage at anyone who would come close enough to be considered a target. Seemed the feral was well on his way to degenerating back into a full on animal once more.

His restlessness and anger had kept him from sleeping much at all, he locked away in the gym, as it was the only place he truly felt he belonged in the manor. It was late at night, he clawing away at one of the giant trunks in the gym, carving deep scars in it as he lashed out, trying to relieve his rage, wondering the state of Violet, wondering why the hell he had listened to the old man's lies once again. He was smoldering in his rage when a scream touched his enhanced senses.

He froze solid a moment, tensing and perking up as he tried to place it all. It took only a few seconds for it to register as Jason's strained voice, and the mutt was off in a flash. Yes, he hated Jason at the moment, yes he was enraged and betrayed and disgusted, but he still recognized that his fate was very reliant on Jason's well being. And perhaps more importantly, beneath all the rage and betrayal, Gibney still wanted to trust the man, still wanted to believe that this was all some big misunderstanding.

Wild Child snarled as he sprinted on all fours across the manor, eyes flecking with gold as his lips peeled back, showing sharp, dangerous fangs, claws shredding the ground as he ran. He raced down the hall and all but exploded into Jason's room, throwing the door open with his shoulder as he rolled into the room, coming up in a crouch, arms spread with his claws fully extended, roaring as his eyes shot around the darkened room, trying to locate the threat. Trying, searching, ready to lunge, attack and kill... and there was nothing...

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[info]_mastermind_
2009-03-11 10:32 pm UTC (link)
The old man was struggling with an all too different reality, his eyes wide open and the faint figure leaning over him was fully detailed and complete to his own eyes. Trapped, he was trapped in his nightmares, and his abilities had latched onto it as his mind started to believe it was real. His body started to crack and bleed as he struggled with the false Kyle, full out screaming in terror at the things in his vision as it started to seep into reality in front of the real whelp's eyes. The change was subtle and complete a few moments later as the illusioned feral started bleeding all over the bed, his mouth half open in a demented version of the snarl that the real Kyle had been doing only moments before. His eyes were touched with insanity, his wounds never completely closing, and his hands traced slow patterns over Jason's own flesh. "...I thought you enjoyed it." So very much like Kyle's real voice, and yet so very very different. Jason couldn't think, couldn't even respond except to attempt to fight off the illusion that he hadn't realized he was creating. To the somewhat blind fool, it was reality.

While Gibs had started to move into the room with him, the rest of the household was slowly waking up and making their way in that direction. Heather and a few of the kitchen staff specifically had ambled up the stairwell, worried about the noises coming from their master's room. He was a good man in their eyes, and the kind of screaming he was doing was abnormal for him. Worry was very clear in all of their expressions and Heather herself inched closer to peer into the room while the door was still wide open.

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[info]feral_at_heart
2009-03-11 10:43 pm UTC (link)
At long last Wild Child spotted... himself? He blinked once, fighting to understand just what was going on, only a fraction of a second and he decided it did not matter. Strange things happened, there were mutants who could mimic the appearance of others, the world was a fucked up place. All that mattered at the moment was that someone was carving Jason open, and if anyone was ever going to do that, it was Kyle himself. He was putting up with the crazy old fuck, if anyone had the right, it was him.

All at once the feral launched himself forward, slamming his shoulder hard into the body of the illusioned impersonator, his other hand whipping around to sink sharp claws deeply into the arm of the already bleeding feral. He reached out a back foot and shoved off the bed while still latched on to the illusion, throwing them both to the other side of the room as he attempted to slam the other to the ground and hold him there, pulling himself up far enough to start stripping the other's face and neck of any flesh he could sink his claws into, horribly aggressive snarling sounds leaving his throat as he poured all his rage into stripping the life away from the false Kyle. Blood, slivers of flesh and a mixture of fur and hair flung across the room, sticking to the walls and furniture, it probably producing a terribly gruesome scene for anyone peering into the room.

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[info]_mastermind_
2009-03-11 11:20 pm UTC (link)
Jason managed to peel his now bleeding pathetically aged looking form off the bed and started cowering on the floor. It was too much, far too much. It wasn't a dream at all. It was real. It was all real. So much hatred, so much violence, so much shame. He was violent, horrible, maybe...he deserved this? Maybe this was his price for being such a creepy old man, for not following society and their ideas of what was right. Maybe all his strange ways weren't such a good thing after all? A soft and gentle hand reached out and patted him on the head, and he looked up, full into the face of Lilly, that same crazed and vicious smirk playing across her lips. He stood up to go, turning around her to avoid her touch, and walked backwards towards the door, not seeing anyone else. He was aware that Gibs was in the corner killing himself, but everything else was a blur. That's when he tripped.

She had always warned him about that damn coffee table, and now it would be the death of him. Lilly shifted, her form changing from the fearsome girl to the violent woman he called his wife. She advanced upon him, bloody dagger in hand. He screamed again as all of his attention was averted to getting away from her while a part of him, a very small part of him wanted to stay and let her kill him.

Meanwhile, the illusioned form of Kyle had disappeared, and all it's fragmented scraps along the wall with it. The blood stains had vanished as well and all that was left was the smears from Jason himself. The sensation of shock lingered in the room before Heather called out. "He's stuck in it. He still thinks he's dreaming!" She was in the doorway completely now, unsure of how to progress, and somewhat afraid of what she would see if she got involved. She had however, been around Jason in a fit enough times to know that whenever her sister showed up it was the illusions taking control of the man and not the other way around. "You have to wake him up! Make him realize he's doing it."

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[info]feral_at_heart
2009-03-11 11:31 pm UTC (link)
Gibney nearly toppled forward when his 'scratching post' was suddenly gone. Just then, another set of screams struck his ears, he spinning and lunging himself forward without a moment of hesitation, hurling himself at the illusioned woman who he had never seen before. A clawed hand stretched out to curl those long claws into the wrist holding the knife, the scent of blood suddenly thick in the air. He moved to slam her against the wall, his right hand turning over to sink his claws into her ribs, aiming to puncture a lung. At the same time, his head descended to sink into her throat, tearing it open, leaving her drowning in her own blood.

He launched himself off that body then, letting it drop to the floor, he landing in a crouch just before Jason. His hands were held wide, claws extended, back to Jason in a highly defensive position. Heather's words were lost on him in his bloody rage, he snarling, as if challenging anyone else to try and attack Jason. The mutt in him was showing itself, he would defend his owner to the death. He licked his lips, the illusioned blood thick on his lips, staining his fangs odd colors as he heaved for air, waiting for the next wave of attacks.

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[info]_mastermind_
2009-03-14 08:38 am UTC (link)
His eyes settled on the feral before him, covered in the blood of his previous attacker, his unconscious mind and his conscious mind settling in with this image, his fear spiked, but no further illusions came at him. The emotions that flooded him snapped his control and his abilities faltered all in one sudden movement, the noise of it all echoing in his brain and suddenly the only blood or bodies left in the room were that of Jason and Kyle. Realizing the shift, Heather stepped into the room further, shutting the door, and attempting to give Jason his privacy back. She knew how badly his pride would hurt after he understood what had just happened, and to spare him some of the pain of it, she ushered the rest of the concerned household out and away from his bedroom door. They knew what had happened, and Kyle would be there to help their master pick up the pieces.

And pieces there would be as the man looked down at his now white gray hands, the look of almost feathery scaling flesh confusing him after the dream's expansive contact with the usual way he looked. The sight of himself, his real form and look, was like a cup of ice water in the face, and he sputtered for a moment. The wounds he had accidentally caused himself were still seeping, shallow, but more than visible against his aged form. The illusion couldn't cover or sustain the injuries, and wouldn't stand itself back up until he had healed more and the bleeding had stopped.

Confusion covered his face as tears pricked at the corners of his eyes before he turned to Kyle. "...I...what...," he fumbled at the mouth, lacking even a logical sentence to ask the boy who looked like he had taken on some kind of foe in this room that had once held so much comfort. His head hung as he looked down at himself, a man seemingly broken by the weight of all that had happened to him in life. The truth of his past had started him in the face and threatened his life. Was he that person? Was he that cruel sadistic bastard?

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[info]feral_at_heart
2009-03-14 01:10 pm UTC (link)
Gibney gave an almost dissatisfied grumble when nothing more came at him, shaking his head and rolling his shoulders in an attempt to shake down the impulse to attack. The threat was gone, now was not the time to be wanting to tear heads off, or he knew all too well that the head could be torn off of someone he cared about. Giving a long, low huff, he turned his gaze toward Jason, frowning as he saw that frail, brittle form.

Carefully, Gibney moved closer to the man, the rage he had been harboring the past several days ignored for the moment. The man was at his worst, there was no sense in adding more negative energy to the situation. He carefully scooped his crumpled body into his arms, padding quietly to the bed before laying him down, glancing around for something to treat the leaking wounds with.

"I dun really know whut happened," he answered the not fully formed question, the gruff, growling aggression still in his voice. "But 's over now, yer safe." A large part of him wanted to say I protected you, I fought for you, just as I want to fight for them, but for once Kyle was able to restrain his impulsive tongue. He moved away to gather and wet a towel and dropped to a crouch beside the elder, carefully cleaning the wounds with an expert hand, not so much as blinking at the sight of Jason's whithered form.

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[info]_mastermind_
2009-03-14 06:59 pm UTC (link)
The calm and caring way that Kyle had started taking care of his owner started to calm him from the hysteric edge that Jason had settled on. The elder man felt the change in the air before he moved from screaming and fearful to sobbing. He covered his face with his palms. Safe. Who needed to be safe? Who could be safe from him? From his cruelty? From his darkness? No one was safe if they were near, if they cared about him. There was no safe. Not now, not ever.

A pained hiss escaped his clamped lips as the whelp cleaned him off slowly. His face burned with reddened shame at his appearance, his eyes averted. "You don't have to do that. I can manage myself." Though he didn't fight the care, likely needing it more than he was willing to admit. Jason never handled trauma well, and something like this was so very painful to his psyche that it would often show up weeks if not months later all over again in something else he would do. His actions were heavily tied into his emotions, like most people, and those emotions would be on a raging high for the next few weeks from all of this.

Pedophile. Sick. He was sick. Maybe he should enroll himself in one of those programs they had for people like him. Rehabilitate himself? Worthless. He would need to fix it before it was too late. Too late. Already too late.

Wyngarde shook his head to attempt to get better control of himself and his mind. He needed control if he was ever going to get himself back to his illusioned normalcy. He would need to sleep at some point as well, but that was likely going to end up in nightmarish fits and insomniac tendencies until he got himself back to settled.

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[info]feral_at_heart
2009-03-14 07:08 pm UTC (link)
Gibney blinked as he watched the other simply fall apart, wide eyes going slightly blank. "Shit." He muttered, brows knitting faintly as he stared at the man a moment. He was crying. What the hell was he supposed to do with him crying? "Uh..." he muttered again, shaking his head before reaching to pat the other's arm awkwardly. "'S fine... yer fine... Jus' sit an' calm down."

He patched up the wounds as best he could, letting out a slow sigh, crouching back to look the other over. "Yer fine, so jus' don' panic." His brows knitted again, he licking his lips, glancing around the room again. "So uh... jus' what 'appened there?" He questioned. He was still rather slow to connect the dots, it very hard for him to think of Jason as "mutant," he all too easily forgetting about the man's powers.

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[info]_mastermind_
2009-03-14 07:28 pm UTC (link)
"Yes, you're quite right." A stiff upper lip was going to be necessary if he was going to explain all this. "It....I..." He sighed, exasperated with himself for falling apart at the seems, and cleared his throat before trying to continue again. "I had a nightmare. But if I start to believe what's happening, if it's too real, then it can blend into reality because, well, because of my mutation. And they...." He choked up again, but managed to swallow the tears. His face and hands were wet from crying as he realized when he tried to wipe at his eyes. His face shifted, a disgusted look as he looked at his own wrinkly form, then settled again before he continued. "What you saw was my nightmare attacking me." He flushed again, fidgeting, ashamed of his own weakness.

He hated having people see him like this, weak and naked without his illusions to cover him. He was disgusted by his own form, his looks giving him a sense of absolute discomfort. A sneer graced his lips as he looked over his visually deformed legs and wiggled his toes. Even the usually amusing look of that action was turned sour by his outward appearance. Whoever said 'it's what is inside that counts' had obviously not lived long enough to forget their own age.

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[info]feral_at_heart
2009-03-14 07:45 pm UTC (link)
Kyle listened a minute, a short snort leaving him before he turned to the bathroom, grabbing a washcloth and offering it to Jason for him to dry his face and hands with. Gibs knew the breakdown all too well, he not blaming the man for it. They all had their moments, Jason had seen Gibney at his worst more than once. He let out a slow sigh and shook his head, checking on one of the deeper cuts, still not seeming to notice the disgust in the elders features.

"Well, shit," he muttered, sighing as he settled into a more comfortable crouch beside the bed, leaning a furry elbow onto the mattress. "'M glad m' nightmares stay in m' sleep. It'd be a pretty fucked up place if they didn'," he muttered with a deep sigh. "Well now that yer thinkin' right, they're gonna stay not real, right?" They were real enough to his mind, after all, he'd been able to rip them open a few times, it made things real to his mind.

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[info]_mastermind_
2009-03-14 09:05 pm UTC (link)
"As far as I've ever experienced, yes. That's the good side to it." He heaved a heavy sigh and took the washcloth gently, scrubbing at his hands and face a moment. The cloth was a mild iron red color by the time it was all said and done. The bad side was that he wasn't going to sleep tonight.

Jason shuddered and reached out to grasp something, Kyle's clawed hand being the closest thing. It helped him anchor himself in the here and now without slipping back into the mild memories of what had happened in the nightmares. "Please...just sit here." He couldn't ask for anything more, but he did need Kyle close by for now. He needed the company and the companionship. He needed someone to talk to and above all, he needed someone he could trust in his moments of weakness.

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[info]feral_at_heart
2009-03-14 09:24 pm UTC (link)
Gibney nodded as he shifted into a slightly more comfortable crouch, taking the cloth and tossing it with the rest of the soiled towels he had used in cleaning up the old man. There was little chance that Kyle as going to sleep tonight, so at least he would be awake to provide that company. He probably would have laughed if he were privy to Jason's thoughts, he did not consider himself trustworthy in the least, always prone to flying off the handle and attacking even those he cared most about.

"'Kay," he muttered gruffly in reply to the request, licking his lips. "...'M still mad at you," he added after a long silence. It was important to him that Jason be aware of the fact. He had fought for him, defended him, but that did not mean he was happy with him. The comment was not overly rough, not aggressive, and certainly not threatening, just a simple reminder.

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[info]_mastermind_
2009-03-15 09:17 pm UTC (link)
"What did I do again?" It had been a very long evening and his mind wasn't about to reboot anytime soon. He was perplexed. He could remember fighting with the whelp, could remember arguing and likely breaking something, but the what about and why for was evading him completely. "I'm sorry, I..." He was going to finish that sentence with don't remember but his own why started invading his mind again as the memories of what had just happened threatened to overtake his conscious mind again. He laid empty palms against closed eyes, the pressure bringing him back to the here and now.

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[info]feral_at_heart
2009-03-15 09:31 pm UTC (link)
"Ya broke yer promise," he muttered, a half accusing tone. He did not push him away, did not even glare at him at the moment. In truth, Jason had never truly promised to allow Gibney to fight, but fighting was part of how he had presented the arrangement they were supposed to have, so Kyle had taken it as a contract, as a promise. "Yer refusin' t' let me fight anymore." His voice was a low growl again, a sneer tugging faintly at his lips. "...Yer makin' me a prisoner here." No, those were not at all the words the elder had used, but it was honestly the way Kyle saw things, and it bothered him oh so deeply. Stupid Gibs had fallen for his lies, and was now a prisoner, locked away from whatever good he might possibly be able to do his kind.

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[info]_mastermind_
2009-03-16 05:51 pm UTC (link)
"I don't want to see you hurt like last time. I..." The memory of the dream version of Kyle appeared to his mind again and he shuddered to the core. "I won't send you in there again." He shook his head, though his voice didn't sound very settled on the matter. "Watching them transport your unconscious body was worse than I thought it would be. You don't know what your life means to us all, to Heather, to Sean..." He paused a moment before looking back at the whelp,"...to me. It was terrifying to think that you'd never get up again and that while it wasn't fatal that time, it might be next time or the next time. You know I don't like it." He hated bloodshed and while it was sometimes necessary, this wasn't necessary. "I won't make you a prisioner in my household, but I can't handle watching you bleed to death like that either." There had to be a medium somewhere, but his tired mind wouldn't settle with it. "And I don't remember promising you that you could fight." A hesitant if not all together weak smile settled on his lips. "But I do remember telling you that if you wanted to then I would let you."

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[info]feral_at_heart
2009-03-16 09:10 pm UTC (link)
"Yer all fools," he growled lowly, the words rumbling deep in his chest, he closing his eyes, a sneer pulling sharply at his lips. There was nothing special about him, nothing worthy of such concern, if they chose to wrap so much worry around one furry mutt, that was their choice, it was not his problem. "I wanna fight." He pressed the words firmly, tone almost clipped as he fought another sneer which caused his lip to twitch. "I have t'. They need someone, an' I'm not much a one but... 'm here. I gotta do it, 's important." He turned troubled, passionate eyes to Jason, his jaw set and his face firm. "Until someone better comes along, I'm all they've got. Sucks for them, but 'm not gonna ignore it. I can't. I gotta do it." He spoke with all the passion in the world, hands pulling free of Jason and curling into balls as he spoke, that fierce determination shining in every feature.

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[info]_mastermind_
2009-03-16 09:55 pm UTC (link)
Jason could only nod. The boy was walking straight into the face of death, set against returning from it. The Vikings said that sometimes there is a call of battle in one's blood. Perhaps that is what there was to his whelp, and perhaps it was the sense of justice impending that bothering him so much. A lot of desire emprinted upon the shoulders of one so young. His mind spun as images of the broken and bloodied mass that the pup could become because of him were snarling into his vision and he could do nothing about it.

Damned if you do, to keep one such against their will, to imprision him to keep him from death at the hands of his captors.

Damned if you don't, to let him go and become that creature of his nightmares, that monster filled with strange lessons and cruelty.

The boy wanted the later. He desired to fly in the face of danger, to laugh at death, and above all to kill the killers and make Revolve plumet into destruction. But now Jason was standing in the way of that dream. The man who had delivered the boy from hell was denying him the heaven he desired to greatly.

He would not deny anyone their own heaven.

"We need to end that godforsaken island." There had been a long and undeveloped pause as Jason sat there, his eyes completely unfocused even as he spoke. Seeing without really seeing, he turned to the whelp, his mind superimposing the image of the other in his own vision. "And if that is what you choose so be it. I will not stop you. Hold me to it and hold me fast." The old face held a crumpled look as he announced his final decision, giving a half hearted and very broken smile. "I want you to be happy. Chase your dreams, Kyle Gibney. Be more than any mans tool for the rest of your life." The Illusionist breathed out, sighing as if there was nothing left for him now. Broken by his fear he leaned his head back against the headboard of the bed and closed his eyes.

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[info]feral_at_heart
2009-03-17 12:12 am UTC (link)
Kyle had reduced himself to a grumbling, surly, distant mass of crouched muscle, still breathing in heavy, huffy pattern. He had a bad habit of focusing entirely on one thing, and currently it was the swirling waves of anger, betrayal and helplessness which he seemed to be drowning in. He rolled his shoulders, ready to argue and growl more, ready to try and force his will, his desire on the other. It was his nature, but it was also pounded into his furry head after so long at Revolve.

Jason's words at last settled into his ears.

His head whipped quickly to look at Jason, eyes wide, his lips parted as a look of absolute shock as he stared at the other's face. "We" need to, he had said. We, he quite liked the sound of that, he calming almost immediately, breathing slowing and growing more steady, his bunched shoulders slowly relaxing. Once his walls had been broken down, even a little, he was far too trusting, far to eager to believe in those around him, and was proving it at this very moment.

"It's whut I've gotta do..." he muttered, reaching a big hand out to take Jason's whithered one again, intensity burning in those blue eyes. His pupils were dilated to slits, his concentration so apparent in his features, his energy. This was more than a desire for him, this was a need, something he needed to survive. "I can't jus' ignore 'em. I jus'... I can't." His voice was coming out rough and low, he squeezing Jason's had lightly again. "You'll help me? Really... 's not a trick?" He asked, wanting desperately to believe him, yet terrified to at the same time. The youth simply hated being let down, being tricked, being lied to, it frustrated and cut him to the very core.

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[info]_mastermind_
2009-03-17 01:35 am UTC (link)
Jason slightly winced at feeling the younger man's skin against his aged hand. It was like a silent reminder that he was as disfigured as he had become,and one that no one had meant to mention. His focus shifted, however, once Kyle leaned closer, the feeling of intensity quite strong in those blue eyes.

"I don't trick people if I can help it." It was true enough, the old man only did it when it was necessary. "And there is nothing but honesty between us. I've told you how I feel and why when I feel it. No trick. I don't want them hurting you and if that's what it takes then I will support you as best as I know how. I...." He paused shaking his head. "I can't have you be like that....never like that. That thing...in my nightmare. That thing was supposed to be you. Supposed to be how I had made you, formed you, tainted you. I can't...." He was starting to cry again, large tears rolled down his face as he attempted to compose himself. "I can't let that happen. Tell me how to stop it." The old man would do anything to prevent that future from happening.

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[info]feral_at_heart
2009-03-17 02:15 am UTC (link)
He paused a moment, taking the words in, trying to find something to say. He was actually thinking for once rather than just blurting out the first thing that came to mind, realizing the importance of this conversation. "They've already hurt me," he muttered out, voice gravel rough as his eyes averted slightly. "...More'n anythin' they could do t' m' body. I've... 's not jus' fer them." It was a hard confession, to himself much less to anyone else. "'S fer me as much as fer them..." He looked at Jason again, swallowing slowly before speaking with a hardened tone. "I want m' revenge."

He let out a faint sigh at the mention of the bloody creature Jason's mind had produced, his head shaking. "I could be 'at, 's what they wanted me t' be. An animal, a livin' killin' machine. I won' 'ave it, I won' be it." A snarl pulled at his lips as he spoke, the venom and hatred he carried for Revolve clear in every word, in every expression on his young yet hardened face. "Whut you saw's whut they tried t' make me. Yew gave me a way out, a way t' not be 'at. Jus'..." He trailed off, brow knitting up as he watched the old man, at a loss for what to do about his crying, at a loss for how to better explain things, but in the end there was really only one thing he could come up with. "Jus' lemme be me... an' I won' ever be that." It was almost too simple, but it was all the logic Kyle could produce on the subject. He would not be what Revolve wanted of him, so long as he could help himself.

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[info]_mastermind_
2009-03-17 11:09 pm UTC (link)
Revenge was a concept that Jason understood far too well. As a gentleman he attempted to avoid it as best as possible, trying to be good and to hang on to what was right. As a man he had embraced it like a lover and had taken it to bed more times than he could count. "Then revenge is what you shall have. That I would never stop you from attaining." He was assuming that it wasn't against him, as the phrases went, however the point was mute on such a night as that. At that point, even if it meant his death, Jason would have given anything for Kyle to smile again.

"...No. It was everything I could train you to be. Everything I could cause in your life, all the pain and suffering and misery that I would or could cause and had caused, apparently." Too much, it was just all too much.

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[info]feral_at_heart
2009-03-17 11:51 pm UTC (link)
Kyle shifted his weight, no longer crouching on the floor but now sitting beside him on the bed, still holding the man's gnarled hand. There were times when Gibney did want to physically injure Jason. He wanted to rage at him, he wanted to snarl and bare his fangs and make the man feel the range and the frustrations that he felt. Wanted to force him to understand so that he would stop questioning, stop trying to control him and prevent him from the things he wanted so desperately he could hardly breath. But he did not want to harm the man.

"'M not sayin I couldn' be a monster. 'M more 'n able t' be. I c'n be dangerous, I c'n be hateful..." he murmured, head drooping forward in shame. "But 'm not gonna be... not s' long as yer here t' let me get away from 'em. T' keep 'em from forcin' me int' bein' at." It was the truth so far as he was concerned. So long as he could get away from the crushing reality that was Revolve, he would remember to breath, remember to be human.

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[info]_mastermind_
2009-03-18 12:48 am UTC (link)
not s' long as yer here t' let me get away from 'em The boy's words echoed into his mind, clearing away the previous fright. It would come back and soon, more than likely, but for now it was gone. All he felt was a lingering sadness. How deeply he had no idea what he was saying. Jason shook his head, trying to deny it's possibility to himself while the concept had already pierced his heart.

"I'm not the one fighting them off, you are. Remember that before you start claiming that I'm the one saving you from anything. It's your strength getting you through." The old man was still partially trying to remove himself from the situation after the scene of his nightmares had scared him so badly. "You're a good kid, Gibs. A really good person. Don't let them get to you. Don't let them break you down." All the anxiety was going to start making him irrational if he wasn't careful.

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[info]feral_at_heart
2009-03-18 12:56 am UTC (link)
"I tried t' fight 'em... I couldn' do it. Not any real way, not 'till you pulled me 'way from there that I's able t' think right." He let out a sigh, still rather ashamed and quite frustrated with himself that he'd failed for so long. But, he was making a difference, making progress, even if it was an all too slow process for his liking. As much as Kyle would have liked to take all the credit for himself, but he knew it was simply not true, and hew as so painfully honest he simply could not lie about it, even to himself.

He sighed heavily, half turning away from Jason, shame and regret filled his features, his unwashed hair moving to help hide this. "They already did," he growled. It was one of his greatest regrets, they had gotten to him, they had broken him, he had truly snapped. "But I won' let 'em again." He was not a good person, not to his mind, but he was stubborn as the day was long, and he would not allow them to get to him again. Never again.

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[info]_mastermind_
2009-03-19 07:35 pm UTC (link)
"No, no. Not again." Jason moved, placing his arms around the boy. "I won't let them." Strong words in a gentle tone, and for a man who just had to be literally saved from himself and was still bleeding on the sheets, it didn't seem likely that he would stop anything at the moment. "I'm here. No matter how crazy I am, I'm still here for you."

The need of his friend was bringing that strength back out of the previously debilitated old man. Maybe it was the understanding that was finally taking hold of him. That which he had seen was not real, and this was life currently. It could be so confusing once you lost yourself in the illusions that were honed in to trap others. It could make or break someone once all reality changes, and Jason wasn't immune to his own ability.

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[info]feral_at_heart
2009-03-19 09:23 pm UTC (link)
He swallowed hard suddenly. He was not at all used to having anyone on his side, not at all used to any kind of support or friendship. He had quite literally been alone since he was thirteen, and while he did not look much older than that, he had lived quite a long while. "...don' let 'em..." he muttered suddenly, the words leaving his lips quite unbidden.

Kyle did still not fully understand just what had happened earlier, it was still difficult for Kyle to think of Jason as being a mutant, since he lived as a human. There were moments when the whelp could be very simple minded. The strength in the other did help to calm himself, he licking his lips as he looked into his eyes. "T'gether..." he murmured, voice rather rough. "We c'n do it t'gether.... I know it.."

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[info]_mastermind_
2009-03-19 10:07 pm UTC (link)
"I won't." His response was conscious and just as quiet as his arms wound around the whelp and held tight. He wanted to do something to feel more stable. He hadn't done that, hadn't caused the pain and the blood, hadn't forced his pup to become someone he wasn't. He hadn't been that evil, vile, of a man. Hadn't and wouldn't. Wouldn't. Couldn't. Not now. Not with his heart held in this set of claw tipped hands.

Jason looked back at Gib's gaze, not shifting or flinching away as he had done earlier. "I'll stand by you. No matter what. I'll stand by you. You just have to trust me." It was strange saying those words out of his own actual face, and not the illusion he usually wore. Though his skin was exceedingly different, he still had the same eyes and they bore out of his skull with the uptmost sincerity.

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[info]feral_at_heart
2009-03-19 10:56 pm UTC (link)
Gibney tensed instinctively as he was pulled closer to the tallers body. His instincts, formed and fused in the heat of Revolve, reminded him to keep people away, to keep a protective distance from anyone who would come near him. but at finding himself against that thin body, something in him could not push away, could not object.

He closed his eyes and took in a very slow breath, his eyes closing very tightly. "...I do.." he promised lowly, quietly. "I'll fight fer you. Jus' like I did t'night. I promise," he assured lowly again, voice grave rough, the idea of someone standing beside him strange enough to leave him very emotional to it all.

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