[M] Lies of a Tenant (H)

[Kicks]

When necessary. Jerome laughed at her remark reflecting back on the incident between her and Carson. Well, if she believed it was necessary then he would take her word for it. He hadn't been there to really witness the thing, he had only heard about it. The truth was: he found it funny.
When she asked if he were really going to try it, Jerome had to nod in response.
"Of course!" He told her, "We can't let something in and not know what it is! Especially if that thing can open cell doors like that." What a freak. Jerome still couldn't get over that.
Thomas had even tried to unsuccessfully escape. How could a mad genius like that be outsmarted by some weird kid?
"Well, even if he is, there are some hybrids that use their position for evil." Jerome said, "Some are convinced they're monsters, so they'll give into it. I just want to know what we're dealing with."

[Lil]

Faye nodded her head. "Okay. You do have a point." Faye obliged. She was going to be nice and kind for once though and give this kid the benefit of the doubt for now though. If Blake trusted him enough then Faye should to, at least until they find out more about him. "Don't be surprised if he's reluctant or like sarcastic about it. He can be pretty... Yeah." Faye wasn't even sure how to describe the kid. It was weird!

[Kicks]

Well, at least she wasn't fighting him on it. If there was one thing Jerome had learned about Faye and her husband: they could fight. Faye threw people around, and apparently Blake knew hand-to-hand. And nobody ever decided to warn Jerome!
Though he did take her words into consideration. Okay. Don't be surprised if he's sarcastic or reluctant. Nah... if anything, he'd be most surprised if the kid was hugging them and telling them that everything was okay and that he loved them.
That would surprise Jerome. Or maybe not. The kid was weird.
Either way, Jerome was out of the greenhouse and back into the jail now. He was excited to get some information out of the kid. He wanted to be sure this wasn't some kind of monster that convinced Blake otherwise. Yea! He wanted to protect the fort against evils!
Still... when he walked into the jail, he wasn't expecting the cell door to be open and the teenager inside even though Faye had told him about it. Yes, he was inside. He was inside and slowly eating the dried fruit Jerome had put into the bag. He was laying on his back now, staring up at the ceiling with one finger pointed up at it and the other hand preoccupied holding a piece of dried fruit up to his mouth.
Jerome stepped into the cell cautiously, "Whatcha doing?" He asked slowly.
"Drawing." Nico answered without taking his eyes away from the ceiling.
Drawing? Jerome turned his eyes up towards the ceiling and froze. All of his muscles tensed up and his hand started reaching towards his gun. Yes, the teenager certainly was drawing. But how... what even... Jerome didn't know. All he knew was that there was fresh blood on the ceiling.

[Lil]

Faye arrived at the jail a little after Jerome. She stopped by to check on Logan first who was thankfully still sound asleep. When she did enter the jail however she was met with an unsettling sight. Jerome had his hand on his gun and looked fairly mortified while Nico, well he seemed as calm and collected as ever. "Jerome?" Faye asked quietly in attempt to assess what was happening here.

[Kicks]

Jerome pulled out his gun and pointed it towards the teenager. “What the hell is this?” He demanded, trying to keep his voice steady but it was hard to control the shake in it after seeing that… after witnessing… that.
Nico dropped his hand from the air and let it fall above his head limply. The blood on the ceiling crashed down in droplets, almost like it was raining blood down on him.
When he turned his head towards Jerome, his eyes were red.
“I’m drawing.” Nico told him again. “Well… not anymore. You ruined it.” He sighed and looked up again.
What the hell was this kid? A monster? No, but wait. His eyes weren’t red earlier. Was he a hybrid then?
Nico looked at him again, his eyes hazel once more. The blood drops had stopped raining down and were now… climbing up on his wrist. Jerome watched in horror as they disappeared into a slit on his wrist, then watched as the slit closed itself up. Not even a scar remained.
“You won’t shoot.” Nico said, almost like he was bored. “Because I have yet to do anything that would cause you to.” He looked around the cell, “Well, besides opening the door. But I warned you. It’s not my fault you didn’t listen.”
“What the hell was that just now?” Jerome demanded, “That wasn’t okay. Just-... wh…” He didn’t know what to say to this kid.
Nico sat up and looked at the two of them. “I was drawing. I thought it was okay. I wasn’t breaking any rules, was I?”

[Lil]

Faye watched almost mesmerized by the scene. That was... Incredible. And also extremely, extremely creepy. "Nico. You're not a dumb kid. You know what he's referring to. How do you do... That? That whole blood thing." Faye stated very bluntly. "Are you a hybrid?" She asked him but she felt pretty certain that was the answer. If he wasn't hybrid then he was some new found phenomenon and that was fairly frightening.

[DizzyMaelstrom!]

Zakai waited patiently, keeping as still as possible as he stood on the platform. He didn't really know if he needed to be still or not, but it seemed like a good idea. For some reason, even high up and hidden by trees, he still felt very exposed. It wasn't really his fault though, as he was not entirely sure whether he was completely hidden or not, or if someone could see him from below. That was the least of his problems though.
What he needed to do was keep watch for an arrow. So far, none had gone up, but it also hadn't been very long since Spring left. Without any accurate way to tell time, he wasn't sure if he could measure five minutes out exactly, but he was pretty sure it wasn't up yet. The only thing was, when in anticipation, time seemed to move more slowly than usual, and he needed to remind himself of that before he decided to try and take off.
Other than that, the only other thing that he noticed was that no one else seemed to be zip lining to the platform.

Danny marched all the way to the fort in an effort to hide his defeat. He honestly didn't know how marching was helping his case, but it was making him feel better about it for some reason... and maybe that could help him. As he marched, he kept glancing back to make sure that Carson was following because there was no way he was going to go to the fort alone and sleep when Carson got to stay awake and have all the fun! What if Carson went exploring without him? He would be so mad if Carson went exploring without him! That just wasn't fair!
When he reached the fort, he stared at it dejectedly, no longer in awe of how great of a creation it was... though it was still pretty great.
He turned and gave Carson one last pleading look, "Do I have to go to sleep?"

[Kicks]

Nico almost smiled at the woman when she said that. He found her comment remarkably hilarious. He even almost laughed, but he stifled it. No, he would say he was a fairly dumb kid. But if people thought otherwise, he would choose to be flattered.
He glanced down at his wrist again, putting up a finger towards Jerome. Then he slowly slid out a knife from his pocket. He slit his wrist with it. Instead of gushing out, it ran into a line and then he whipped the air with it.
"Hybrid?" He echoed almost with a voice of awe, "If I weren't adopted, I might know that answer. But it's hard to determine who you are when it's a closed adoption." The blood whipped back into his wrist and the cut closed with it.
"So that makes you... what? A mutant? Or a human with just a lot of knowledge?" He asked slowly.

[Kicks]

Once they were all joined together again (except for the teens), Colton began to speak. This was probably the only chance to go over the plan again. “Here’s how it’s going to happen. Once we have the refugees, we split up into our pairs. Alec and Spring, Richard and I, Ada and Zakai. Richard and I will take the refugees will take the long way back to the trucks. The other truck will go to Zakai and Adalia. The two teenagers will tail the military, keeping in the shadows. Just in case they come after us for any reason, the teens will be a distraction to lead them away.”
“The military will start by posting snipers in the trees before dragging out their victims.” Richard now spoke. “Those snipers will take care of any unwanted undead too close to the poles. They’ll carefully watch their comrades as they bring the victims to the poles, and then watch them as they head back to their caravan. The snipers will withdraw from their posts when their comrades are safely back at the caravan. All of this takes roughly minutes to happen. The second the snipers are gone or undead start to feast on the victims, we move. Colton and I will take the victims and everyone else will disembark.”
Colton, while his brother was talking, had become impatient. Every second wasted was a second the military was closer. And so he moved to the zip-line and went down it.

The boy seemed to be listening to him fairly well. He marched to the fort, anyways. And Carson decided to take that as a good thing. But then, at the last moment, he turned around and appeared to try and plead with Carson.
That look was so cute. But Carson couldn't fall for it.. he couldn't... he wouldn't! He had to make sure that Danny stayed healthy and happy for Zakai! He had to do that for the man! The man had greater things to worry about! And because of this, Carson had to make sure that Danny stayed healthy and safe.
"Yes!" He answered the boy, "You have to sleep!"

[DizzyMaelstrom!]

Zakai listened carefully, knowing that they wouldn't have a chance to mess up, still keeping an eye out for that arrow, but it didn't seem to be coming. When the explanation was done, he thought of waiting a moment longer for the arrow, but... Colton zip lined down before he could say anything. He thought of yelling to him to come back, but that was the stupidest idea he'd ever had. The only other option was to go after him and hope that Spring had already calculated whether they were in danger or not... and that the calculation was no, they were not in danger and there was no red arrow to b shot.
He looked at Richard, then Adalia, nodding, "Alright. Good luck then," and he zip lined down.
He so badly didn't want there to be any problems, but with a mission like this, no problems at all seemed impossible. In the end, though, maybe it was best to just think 'whatever' and keep remembering that he had someone waiting for him back at the base. So long as he thought that, he knew he wouldn't die.

Danny sighed then went slowly and sadly into the fort, "Okay."
He really didn't want to go to sleep, but he lied down all the same... he didn't close his eyes though. He just stared into space and thought about how much he didn't want to go to sleep... and then sleeping reminded him of Zakai and he was suddenly so worried. He'd never figured it out. Why was everything so much scarier right before you went to sleep? Why was he mostly okay hunting for monsters and drinking hot chocolate, but now that he was going to go to sleep, he was worried?
He lied there in thought for a few seconds, then turned and looked at Carson, "Carson? When do you think Daddy's going to get back?"