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Who: Kim and Xael
When: Tuesday Afternoon
Where: House of Fire


It was different without his family in the school. Xael would be the first to admit that fact. There wasn't the worry about getting grounded at the same time as getting some crazy supernatural form of detention. There wasn't the little brother running around enjoying messing with Xael's stuff and there wasn't his mom who knew way too much sometimes. But mostly it was just... kind of empty now. Yeah, he could admit it. He loved his family and even though they were just somewhere else on the island there was a small chance he missed having them around.

It had him in a funk for the first week or so. Xael knew that he'd been quiet, holed up in his room for a while. Rocking a lot of xbox. The covenant aliens didn't know what had hit them. But a week later, it was gone and Xael was ready to emerge again. That and his right hand was a little tired of keeping him company. He might not have been a full fledged incubus like some he-whores around the school but there was some of that blood floating through his veins not to mention he just enjoyed the company of women as much as the next guy. Well not the next homosexual guy but you get it.

Xael's eye was currently on prize in particular. A nice leggy one. Taking said leggy brunette out before a full moon had been a great idea even if it was Kat's b-day and Xael was well aware that for some reason Kat and other girls didn't seem to play nice. Thankfully though, there was no such problem on Friday. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that there was drinking involved and Kat had a werelion glued to her? Might have factored in...

But taking a girl out when they were all ramped up for the full moon was a little on the cheap side and given the fact that he just plain enjoyed hanging out with Kim, Xael managed to remove his thoughts from the gutter completely and decided to get some shit together for a post-full moon chill session. In Xael's book the only things needed for this moment in time were... donuts (a hell of a lot of donuts) and some choice movies. Oh yeah and the willingness to go get more of whatever was required. He admitted it, he wasn't a chick and his body didn't change forms every month. He didn't exactly know what was key to the day after other than sleep and being bitchy. That had worked for his old roomie.

Box filled with glazed goodness and a bag with movies slung over his shoulder, Xael covertly (HAH) made his way to the girls side of the house of fire. He worked his way down the hall until he was pretty damn sure he was at the right door. Knocking, he waited rocking back on his heels. Here was to hoping her roommate was already gone... his room was passable but uh... he was a guy. No shame in that.

Who: Kim and Xael
When: Thursday night
Where: House of Fire common room

All week, Kim had been feeling even more restless than she usually did before the full moon. If anything, she should have come back from break more relaxed but that wasn’t the case. The first week of break was fine. A little weird at times because she wasn’t used to having adult figures genuinely care about her. And also weird because she and Ray were staying at Manny’s parents house without Manny there. That changed the second week of break but Manny didn’t show up alone. Jax had come along and that was something Kim was not expecting at all. Kim would be lying if she said that the other girl’s presence didn’t bother her. When she agreed to go to Salem for break, part of her did it because she was hoping to spend more time with Manny. Yeah, that mini crush was still alive and well. But with Jax being there, that semi-plan was all shot to hell and the rest of her time there felt pretty awkward and tense.

It didn’t get any better when she got back to Halcyon either. Her first three classes of the day were fine, but once she got to Combat class, the aggressiveness went into overdrive. The first day she had gotten hurt cuz she didn’t know what to expect, but every other day after that, she was ready. Grappling was kinda helping with the restlessness, but it didn’t do enough especially since she was matched up with girls her own size so she wouldn’t get “hurt”. She hoped that after going through four different partners this week that her professor would get the hint and give her a tougher partner.

After Combat class, she’d try different things to get rid of all this excess energy like running or weight training or swimming. They all helped for a bit, but then the next day she was back to the same level of energy.

And now, the night before the full, Kim couldn’t fall asleep yet again. After tossing and turning for an hour, she gave up and sat up in bed. She didn’t wanna wake Natalia up by being on her laptop the whole night so instead she reached for her cell and texted Xael, wondering if he was still awake.

Lucky for her, he was. After a few quick texts between them, Xael suggested they meet down in the common room to keep each other some company. Kim pushed the covers off her body and put her slippers on before getting off the bed. Grabbing her cardigan off the back of her desk chair, she put it on over her pajamas and headed downstairs. She settled herself on a couch, looking around the empty room as she waited for Xael to show up.

When: Late afternoon
Where: Their room to start, then med clinic
Who: Rozlyn, Axel, Aidan and Xael

Rozlyn had been taking it easy as directed. Not by any doctor no, but by a large demon named Axel that gave her a good glare anytime she got up for too long or tried to fuss around the house. Apparently he and Aidan could handle it. He didn’t seem to get what a scary thought that was. So of course more then once while he was at his classes she’d gotten up and cleaned up around the house or saw to work. She still had her class after all and work didn’t just do itself no matter how handy that would be. Aidan was quick to help in any way he could. She allowed him to write the scores on papers and even had let him type a few things up for her. Which was a rather slow and tricky process but he liked to help! Never mind that it made her have to take even more time on that current project then it would normally take. That wasn’t the point.

Still as active as Rozlyn liked to be she was not able to be up and about for too long anymore. The kid was well and truly kicking her ass. Apparently in the last week it had decided that it was going to try to beat Aidan’s title for baby that kicked the most. It made relaxing rather difficult and sleeping all but impossible. Not that Rozlyn was sleeping well regardless. The dreams were less then friendly…and so she took exhaustion over being woken all shaken up. It wasn’t the best choice really but the kid wasn’t given her many other options. When she became really exhausted she drank a few teas with sleep aid and tried to get a full nights rest. Sometimes it worked…sometimes it really didn’t.

“Aidan what are you doing?” Rozlyn called from the bedroom where she was currently laying. Axel would be back soon from his later afternoon class but until then Aidan would be likely trying to get away with sneaking himself some treats or grabbing a few for Goliath. He tried to be a helpful little bugger and tried so hard to behave but he just couldn’t seem to say no to that amble opportunity to sneak candy since mom wasn’t looking.

“Nooottthiinnnnnggg.” That long drawn out sound was nothing but confirmation that he was indeed doing something he shouldn’t be. He hadn’t quite caught onto that fact yet. Rozlyn sighed, pushing herself up to her feet slowly. Her robe was tugged on, though the entire place was hotter then most would like it Rozlyn still managed to find way to be cold. Happened when a little demon was sapping all the heat and energy away from you.

“Nothing huh?” Rozlyn questioned as she walked down the hallway and into the living room. “You’re supposed to be resting!” Aidan protested loudly…how he thought sending her back to bed would work when he was currently standing on top of one of the counters she had no idea. “And you’re not supposed to be on the counters, so it looks like we are both being bad children.” Rozlyn remarked, crossing her arms against her stomach and giving Aidan that well known motherly look. “I was….ummm getting you tea!” oh nice save for Aidan. She couldn’t say he hadn’t been since she caught him before he got into the treat cabinet. Couldn’t have all those goodie sweets in the normal cupboard or Aidan would gobble them all down the moment that they were put away.

“Oh you were? Well that is very sweet of you but I think I’m okay with the drinks I have.” Which meant of course that before Axel left he had brought her tea, juice, water, and damn near anything else he could think of in some hopes that she wouldn’t get up too much while he was gone. “Oh…Okay” Aidan remarked, managing to suppress a pout for being caught. He climbed on down and Rozlyn couldn’t help but smirk. Poor boy really did think he was so sly sometimes. “How about we go watch a movie and maybe afterwards you can get a treat before dinner, our secrete.” That made his eyes light up all too quickly. “Okay!”

In a rush he came over, taking Rozlyn’s hand and walking back with her to her room where he’d been hanging out a lot now. Keeping her company after all. Once in the room the little boy climbed up onto the bed as Rozlyn went to the tv. “What movie do you want to watch?” she questioned and Aidan in all his excited glory began to bounce on the bed. Bounce bounce “Lets watch…” bounce bounce “Aidan! What did I tell you about bouncing on the be...” quickly he dropped to the bed at that mom stern shout, no more bouncing. But Rozlyn groaned slightly, pressing a hand to the table top near her. “Mom?” Aidan crawled to the edge of the bed and saw water on the floor. Or at least it looked like water. Little eyes went wide and as he heard the front door open he went dashing out to find dad.

“Dad I broke mom!!! I was bouncing and she got that mom voice and I stopped but I broke her I think!” If Rozlyn's water hadn't just broken she might have laughed for the little boys description of the event.

Who: Frankie and Xael
When: Wednesday evening
Where: House of Fire

Frankie was still concerned about her powers. She had received reassurance from various people... all telling her that it wasn't likely she'd lose all control and set someone on fire, but the 'heated' feeling she got during recent make-out sessions made her nervous. She couldn't fight the fear of hurting someone. The plague of worried thoughts had actually caused her to bolt upright in bed early Wednesday morning. She'd been having a wonderful dream about Clove, but the dream quickly turned to a nightmare where her body burst into flames and killed him. She had to do something about these fears.

When in her fire use class that day, she'd considered talking to her teacher, but the whole thing was so horribly embarrassing. No, she couldn't talk to some old person about this! She decided she'd need to hit up Xael once again. He'd told her several times already that she wasn't likely to get her flame on while getting down with a guy, but she needed more reassurances. As soon as class was over, she begged him to meet up with her that evening so they could talk it over some more.

After classes, she'd done a bit of homework and got dinner, then, looking at the clock, she slipped on some fuzzy pink slippers that matched her pale tank top, and shuffled out to the common room. Her too-long jeans dragged along the floor behind her, tattered at the hem from getting stuck under her sneakers on a regular basis. Her blond and pink locks were thrown up into a messy ponytail not pulled all the way through the hair band. She looked about as chill as you could get, yet on the inside she was nervous. Xael was the person she felt closest to where powers were concerned. They were fairly evenly matched when it came to using fire. But that wasn't the only reason she trusted him for such a discussion. He was blunt about everything, and she knew he'd never tell her something just to ease her fears. He would tell it like it was.

Frankie plopped down on a couch and pulled her feet up, sitting cross-legged on the center cushion. Grabbing a throw pillow, she hugged it to her chest and waited for Xael to show up.

Who: Xael and Kalli
Where: Starting outside Terrene House
When: Wednesday Evening


Crap. He dropped the soap! Not in that whole don't drop the soap way but literally, dropped the soap and watched the little sliver that was left of the bar of whatever generic shit he'd bought go down the drain... well shit. Wasn't that great. Shampoo it was, good thing he was a guy and didn't exactly give a shit what he used, so long as he didn't smell like funk afterwards. Not that he worried too much about the whole funk thing, except for the fact that he was going to meet up with Kalli as soon as he got out of the damn shower.

Granted Wednesday was the one day of the week that he didn't have a sport club meeting after class, but that didn't mean he sat around on his ass and did nothing. Well he did that a lot too granted, he was technically still a teenager and as a demon that could live to who the hell knew how many years, he could be a teenager for a while huh? Maybe. With him... probably. But as much as Xael liked parking his ass in front of the tv and chowing on some doritos, he also like working out. So Wednesday he hit up the weight room. Did his usual set around the gym. So the shower was entirely necessary to get rid of the gym funk that had settled nicely on his skin.

Now he kind of smelled like Pert Plus. But whatever, he was clean. Shower done, his hair towel dried and artfully messed up with one clawed hand, Xael tossed on jeans, flip flops, and a t-shirt with a warm up jacket over it. Usual attire for the demon, but he made it work for him. Though he'd forgotten the belt and the jeans were having a few issues with that fact. He had clean boxers on, the world would live. And maybe Kalli would just take them off him anyway. Heh.

Though he didn't really think that was going to be the end result of their hanging out. But he'd be a liar if it wasn't always the hoped for end result. Uh... not his fault? Yeah he'd use that excuse for forever if he could. Xael didn't think himself particularly sensitive or any of that shit. Rather he often did stuff long before he thought about it and ended up screwing things all too often, no matter his intentions... but Kalli had asked him if maybe he could help with her whole not exactly a fan of fire thing and well he was going to do his best with that.

Showered and out the door, his shoes shuffled their way along the stone hallways until he made it to the Terrene house door. Waiting a few minutes had some dude who was on the baseball team with him letting him in so he could wait for Kalli inside, rather than standing in the hall like a complete tool. It was good to have friends in all the houses.

Even better to be meeting hot blondes in other houses.