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River Tam (girl_albatross) wrote in labyrinth_rpg,
@ 2009-06-02 23:26:00

Current music:	Full Moon--The Black Ghosts
Entry tags:	active, day eleven, jacob black, river tam

Who: River and Jacob
What: Jacob learns his tribe's legends are not exactly legends...
When: Mid-morning
Where: Woods near the dorms
Rating: PG-13 to be safe
Status: active

River had been spending time on and off with her new best friend. She knew Wash and Kaylee were in the labyrinth somewhere but she hadn't had the luck to run into them yet. Rather she had stuck close to her brother and Jacob. It seemed that since the day in the field they have claimed that as their own meeting place or sometimes a place to play at or just simply talk. So it wasn't unusual for River to end up there after she had woken up and wait for him. After twenty minutes of waiting for him she became worried and searched for him. When she found him in the woods she was suddenly hit by his voice. It was so frantic and in pain. Frightened sudden she ran in the direction in which she could hear him as fast as she could.

Running this way and that she finally made it to where he was but he was...different. She stopped in her tracks and gasped at what she saw. Jacob was...changing...into an animal! That had to be the thing she felt in him that was so different. River just hadn't expected it to be this! "Jacob!" she screamed to him though it came out more of a long belting note. Though she was confused as to why it came out in that way she was more worried about him.

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black_moon
2009-06-18 12:12 pm UTC (link)

The exhausted boy had finally been lying so peacefully in his comforter's lap that the sudden movement was completely unexpected. As his head fell carelessly from River's lap, hitting the hard earth below him, his senses were jarred back to reality in an instant. What was happening?

He hard his companion's footsteps crackle against dead twigs and leaves with perfect clarity as she backed away from him. With a new sharpness, his ears picked up her sudden increase in respiration and racing heart. And she smelled different, she smelled...panicked!

Jacob instantly found his voice in the face of his friend's panic. "River, what's wrong?" Pushing himself up from the ground with his arms, Jacob pulled one knee under himself to stand, and then froze in mid motion. Staring down at the earth where his muscular arms held up his body, the boy gawked at the familiar skin, the normal forearm, the five fingers... He was back! He was back, he was human! Oh great spirits he wasn't doomed to live a half life as a mongrel. It was almost too good to be true.

Bringing his other leg under him, Jacob examined the brand new muscle mass of his body. He was bigger, bulkier, and his limbs looked longer. This was interesting. It must be a side effect from the shift. Well, he always had wanted to bulk up. With a great smile and a look of immense relief, Jacob looked up to River, only to spy an expression of horror on her face.

"River, what...?" At the uncomfortable shifting of her eyes from everywhere but him, the slow learner began to understand. "Oh, heh, um, I seam to be naked." Immediately crouching back down to the ground, the starclad boy lifted a knee up in front of him to keep some semblance of modesty and began searching the ground for his clothes. He didn't even remember taking them off, how strange. When his eyes fell on a crumpled pile of rags a few yards from him, he identified them as what was left of his outfit and his face fell a little as he realized that he hadn't taken his clothes off.

"oh man. Was all he could say as he crouched buck naked on the ground with River hovering uncomfortable in the distance.

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girl_albatross
2009-06-18 07:34 pm UTC (link)

River allowed herself to look back at Jacob once he moved his knee. She still didn't go near him but rather walked in a wide circle around him. her friend was huge now. Searching his head she knew it was the same Jacob but he just looked pysically larger. River held up a hand to tell him to stay and then turned to run back to the dorms.

Upon arriving to Jacob's room she litterally ran into it to force the door open for her. In the room she quickly ran in for a pair of pants and then ran back out. She had to pull hard on the door to make it close again. Jacob was going to have to fix that sometime later. Though River felt a little bad for breaking his door she worried more about Jacob and ran back to where he was in the trees.

When she returned she held the hand that had the jeans out to him, arms length away, while her head was turned in the opposite direction. River was a mixture of embarassed, shy, and unsure in the presence of her naked friend. She shook the hand a couple of times to show what she had brought it for him but still she just stared hard at the trees in front of her.

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black_moon
2009-06-22 07:20 pm UTC (link)

Without a word, River was off like a bat out of hell chasing a fallen Angel, and just like that, she was gone. A sudden wave of depression hit the boy hard and fast, like a ton of bricks. He was not liking these mood swings. She had left him, River must have found the whole situation of her friend transforming before her eyes into a non human mutt too much to handle. He really didn't blame her, not in the slightest. After all, River had her own stuff to deal with. It just made him sad and frustrated and angry, though he couldn't explain the angry part, it was just another emotion, churning in the pit of his stomach.

With self doubt and sorrow, Jacob stayed where he was while the reality of his situation sunk in. He was a freak, trapped in some crazy dimension, and now the only friends that meant something to him had split. This was not turning out to be a good day. He would have to get up eventually, but frankly, he just didn't feel like it right then.

After a few moments of listening to the sounds of the strange forest with a heavy heart, the troubled teen heard someone approaching from the dorms. Oh great, that was all that he needed, some stranger to see him completely nude next to a pile of shredded clothes. Feeling trapped and without any idea's on how to hide himself, he crouched even lower to the ground and visualized becoming a tree. Hell, maybe he would shift into that next.

On swift feet, River cam tromping into the woods with a pair of Jacob's pants over her arm. She hadn't left him? She hadn't left him! Oh jeez, he felt so overjoyed at that moment. Good, so he could still fee joy. That was a plus. Holding out her arm, she shook she pants at him and quickly looked away. The poor girl still looked painfully uncomfortable, and Jacob hoped that it was because of his nudity and not because of the wolfy thing.

quickly collecting jeans from her, he swiveled on his heels to turn around so that he didn't expose himself again, then slipped the pants on and zipped them up. It made him feel more comfy, so he hoped that it would work on his friend as well.

"I thought you were gone, River. Thank you so much for coming back. This really helps." He thought about how he was going to get out of the woods without any clothes and cringed at the thought of streaking their little community. "Really, thank you."

Now came the hard part. Shifting on his feet nervously, he kept a good distance from her as he spoke. He figured that she wouldn't want to be very close to him. "I appreciate you staying with me when I was all furry, that was amazing of you. I don't know what I would have done alone." He looked down and studied his bare feet in sadness. "I'll completely understand if your weirded out by me know, I mean, I'm weirded out by me! I'll stay away if you want." It was braking his hear to say the words, but he would do it... for her.

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girl_albatross
2009-06-22 07:52 pm UTC (link)

River waited with her head turned away from Jacob as he pulled on the jeans. She only turned around when she heard the quiet shuffle of his heels moving on the ground. She continued to stare at him as he awkwardly moved, unsure of what to say.

Unconciously she shifted through his head and could see the mood swings he had been feeling while she was away as well as he stood still. He had gone from upset to worried to relieved so quickly. River tilted her head as she watched him and continued to read the causes of the mood swings. River was never one to comment on the complicated subject of emotions, being someone at their mercy every second of the day, but Jacob's did interest her. The root interest was still unknown to her but the worry for her friend's well-being was what she cared about most at the moment. Something in him. Spirit animals. It all rooted back to the first ancestor who shared a body with a wolf. Two spirits became one and have since been passed down till Jacob experienced now in front of her.

His sudden warm voice pulled her away from her reading and thoughts to focus back on the present. She nodded to his thanks and still did not move. It was not that she was afraid of him it was just that she was trying to give him a moment to get back to being himself.

It surprised her that he would say he would leave her alone if she wanted. Didn't she just promise him she would stay with him even if he was a furry animal? Why would it suddenly change now that he is a shapeshifting human?

"I don't want you to stay away from me." she said/sang as she shook her head at the thought. Something already felt odd about today, Jacob turning into a wolf excepted, she did not want to add on losing her friend.

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