"I gotta a crush on half the guys in this town Az, you know me. I just can't keep it in my pants, but he needs help and I can give it. What kind of person would I be if I did otherwise?" Danielle said, shaking her head before checking the time again.
"I need to go downstairs, it's too close. I'll see you in a bit." Danielle said, putting her shoes back on and going outside, downstairs and into her cafe.
"Ready for midnight?" She asked, smiling at the four in her cafe. She passed Lee first, kissing him on the cheek on her way to get her lighter for when midnight comes.
"How are you Lee, I haven't seen you round here in awhile. You know I have a mug with your name on it." She said with a smile.

@Kaalee
"Hey Danni! As ready as I can be!" Echo called out to the Flame Bringer, waving. She couldn't wait for the stroke of the clock that would bring about the glorious Blue Time that they were all waiting for. She reached into her Track duffle and retrieved a few items from it, including Automatically Criminalizing Contamination which was the titanium field hockey stick. On her neck sat Extraordinary Exterminating Feminizations, a steel chain with 78 (It didn't take a Polymath to figure out that 13x6=78) links and 13 charms, one of which was a Tridecagram. On one arm were 13 thin steel bangles each with its own name. She got up and walked over to where the others were.

"Is there anything secret we're trying to keep from me and that's why we're all huddled over here?" Echo teased, giggling a little.

Ty just figured she was mad about the job interview that he believed he was supposed to be attending. Had he not just nearly stood her up he would have been making some joke or sly remark about there being enough time for 'both' of them but as this could potentially be his new employer he didn't want to push his luck.
The thought was still stuck in his mind however. -lucky they can't read his thoughts-

Tyler comes out with less then a minute to spare, pulling the tight shirt down over his still slightly damp torso. A glimps of his chest tattoo's would have reveal the familiar sight of the number 13 and a thirteen pointed star hidden amongst everything else.

Lee laughed a little. He was impressed at least one person remembered him. They all had met before but only in brief instances and passing. Or most knew Lee for being the weird professor of martial arts. Well at least some respected it that took his classes and benefited from it.

"Just checking the memory of a polymath. You better have a good one." He said to Abel ( @Prints Avoid )

"We have met on occasion to Ved, though I know you actively avoided me a few times, nothing held against you though. Your senses must be flaring with all the things I have on the counter there." Lee spoke to Ved in an interested tone of his power. ( @Hagroden )

He could see Abel looking at the pipe. The ever watchful Seer noticed more things than most. "You have a fascination with that pipe? I do have some good new for you then if you use that as a weapon and are comfortable with it.

"And yes everyone must be accounted for. Always...from now on." He said so all in the cafe could hear.

Ved
He cringed inwardly at the mention of his powers. He spent every second of everyday forcing himself to ignore the metals and minerals under his feet, and in doing so he could often be triggered into acknowledging them all in a surge of knowledge slamming into him with the force of a train. Sitting down, his wraps pulled tightly against his flesh, and due to the darkness of the corner he was in, and how similar his skin tone was to the cloth, he could easily be confused as naked. He moved his hand to his temple, rubbing small circles to ease the headache that the seer, likely aware of what he was doing, had given him in mentioning his abilities. It reminded him of why he wasn't a fan of the guy.
Looking up, he kept a close eye on the clock, seeing that the time was nearly approaching, then stood up and grabbed a short blade made of Malachite from the counter.
"Motherfucking Monomorphisms."
He said with a soft chuckle, he loved using the letter 'M' for weapon titles, as 'M' was the 13th letter of the alphabet, and allowed him to use the term 'motherfucking' in a non accusatory sense.

@Dark Light

“I can read your thoughts actually, do you mind not thinking so loud? You’re not helping my headache.” Aslynne said reaching for his hand to tug him outside if he’d go with her. Her backpack already over her shoulder. “Midnight is almost here and we don’t have much time to get you inside and safe.” Butterflies hit her stomach more like rocks than fluttering wings as she got hit by everyone’s tension about the coming midnight... was she the only person who enjoyed it?

It shuddered across the landscape as fast as a freight train and hit her just as hard. the sweet silence of midnight, only interrupted by the primal thoughts of Darklings and the irritating buzz of the other Midnighters. Lee’s arrogant sweet and sour taste floating over tongue five times as bad.

Eyes snapped over to Tyler, knowing his power would have taken effect as soon as midnight hit them. “Too late...” She said.

Midnight was here.

@hagroden@sk0m@Ryuzaki@Kaalee@Prints Avoid

Tyler was about to scoff and challenge that ridiculous comment about reading thoughts, even if it was well timed... but surely she couldn't see the saucy things he had in his head. "Oh yea so what.." He had began asking as she pulled on his hand. He wasn't ready, still a little hungover and caught off balance he stumbled into some unknown clutter before tripping over and falling straight towards Aslynne.
'Too late.' He heard her call from the open door as he frantically tried to bring his feet infront of himself and kicked at the floor to gain balance... But something was wrong,
He was no longer falling, but flying, crashing straight into Aslynne the two went tumbling out the open door and rolling down the stairs.
A dumbfound, confused and slightly panicked Tyler squeezed Aslynne's hand as she anchored him down while he frustratingly continued to try push or kick himself upright only to float around and be jerked back down by Aslynne or pull her off balance. The two continued this acrobatic tumble untill they lie at the bottom of the stairs with Aslynne on top, pinning Tyler down. His eyes wide, face painted white with shock, oblivious to any injuries he just incurred.
"I, I'm scared to move.."
He manages to stammer out in a whisper.

@Dark Light

The sound of their bodies crashing down the wooden stairs of Danielle’s apartment and onto the pavement below would be enough to break through the unearthly silence of the blue time for everyone in the cafe. The always full Midnight moon rising higher by the second Aslynne’s eyes flashing indigo in it’s eerie blue light as she blinked them open. Her head turned awkwardly to the side so she didn’t touch him skin to skin.

They were hurting enough didn’t need to add to it with some unintentional mind sharing.

“I’m sure you are, but you can let go of my hand now. My weight should keep you earthbound.” Aslynne said as she struggled sorely to get up and off Tyler, warm blood ran down from her hairline, turned a deep almost black purple as it ran down her pale white skin. “Shit...” She said as she rolled off him onto her back and kept a grip on his sleeve to keep him from accidentally floating away. Dizzy she didn’t want to get up yet. “I think I have a concussion...” she moaned out as her head started to pound for a whole new reason. Bruised, but thankfully not broken. “You’re okay though right?” Aslynne asked Tyler, “Despite the shock of being able to leap buildings in a single bound... and crashing down the stairs right?”

Ved
He watched as Tyler fell down the stairs, with Aslynne on top of him, and forced himself to keep a straight face, despite how damn funny this guy looked when he was scared shitless. Being the metallurge, he made it his job to stay as grounded as possible during the blue hour, and knew that whenever the darklings finally attacked, he would defend everyone he could. Watching them stand up, he stepped forward and asked them, a bit more concerned about one of them than the other.
"Ash, you ok?"
He asked gently, hoping that she wasn't registering his pain from the intensity of his powers.

After Aslynne rolled to the side Tyler lay still and silent for a moment, regaining his breath, taking in the sight, her words, recent events.
He lifted a leg in the air and let is slowly drift back down. He raised his free arm and sway it about studying the sensation.
"Wha, what the hell is going on?" He asks, visibly shaken.
Suddenly his arm slams down hitting the ground and shooting his upper body up into a seating position. He smiled and winced at the same time.
Bringing his arms around in front of himself he looks down at his shaking hands, "Ah SHIT!" He growls seeing a finger jutting off sideways from the first joint.

"Ahh, yea I think I'm ok," he responded to Ved without seeing him. "Are you?" He asks through gritted teeth as he twisted to look at Aslynne.
Questions ran through his head, tall buildings? Floating feeling? The colour? But his instincts to look after others overrode all that as he coped with the strangeness by doing what was natural for him.

With his good hand he reaches up to part her hair and inspect the wound.
"Oh god I'm so sorry"

“As okay as I can be after falling down the stairs.” Aslynne sat up and started brushing herself off. Freeing Tyler, sure that he wouldn’t float away. An object at rest stays at rest after all. Panic strikes her as she catches Tyler’s movements too late.

“No don’t touc-” She cried just as Tyler’s fingers brushed against her hair and lightly against her scalp. The feeling of the entirety of a being that is Tyler crashing into her mind like a mac truck, all his memories, feelings and how own pains, freezing her in place. Just as her own mind crashed straight into Tyler’s, showing him the thoughts of those around them and what the blue time tasted like tepid and sweet to her. It took Azzy a good few seconds before she was able to scramble away with a firm shove to Tyler’s chest, almost fainting from the over stimulation her injured brain couldn’t handle.

@Dark Light@hagroden

"What the hell is going on?" Dani went to the door of her cafe but no further until Tyler brushed against Aslynne. She went outside, put her sleeves over her hands, and pulled Azzy away from Tyler and into the cafe, and onto one of the couches in her cafe.
"Get Tyler in here so he doesn't go floating away." Danielle said, glancing at her unlit candles before going to grab her first aid kit.
"I'm putting gloves on Azzy, can I check out your head?" She asked, sliding the gloves onto her hands, showing them to Azzy.
@Ayla

@Kaalee

Aslynne tucked her head between her knees a hand over her head wound so she didn’t bleed on the floor. “Yeah...” She said to Dani. “Newbie is okay though right, I don’t think I got an answer from him before...” Aslynne shuddered and made an dry retching sound as her concussed mind tried to focus on all the tastes of the Midnighters all lashed with the sickly bile taste of pity and the sugary sweet taste of concern. All the while the feel of the Darklings battered at her throbbing mind.

The last vestiges of Tyler’s memories floated through her mind as she tried to keep herself from falling forward face first into the floor before the room finally stopped spinning and Aslynne could sit up for Danielle. Pulling of her now blood soaked leather glove from her hand, the five fingered appendages shook a little. “Tyler has a broken finger I’m going to have to reset.” Aslynne spoke as she recalled his worry over it when he’d touched her. “He lied and said he was fine...”

Lee was right there watching as the Midnighters started to interact as a group. It was fumbling but it was interesting to see the first interactions. Aslynne had been hurt and according to her Tyler was lying about his own well being. They were going to have to trust each other to get anywhere in the coming storm.

Lee stepped in. "Come here Tyler." He said in a commanding voice. He was going to reset that finger. "Don't worry Az you just settle your mind with Danielle's help." He said as Tyler came closer. Lee quickly took his hand and with a swift movement of his thumb on his finger the finger reset back into place. "Just don't put in pressure on it for awhile."

Lee had planned on taking the group out to experience and encounter with lesser darklings...but with what had happened it looked like more of an hour in the cafe.

@ayla @Dark Light

@sk0m@Ayla@Kaalee@hagroden
What had he just done to her! Tyler watched Danni take Aslynne away. Guilt turning in his gut. His head ached so incredibly that he was numb to everything else. Heck, what had she just done to him!? He had flown back and lay sprawled across the floor from her the sudden shove.

Those voices, those tastes!
JUST WHAT IN THE HELL WAS GOING ON!?

But he had just heard it, or felt it. The blue hour.
They all knew about it. Tyler just saw himself from Ved's eyes.
Afraid, helpless, useless. He could feel the way he looked down at him.
These were Danni's friends, the same Danni he imposed on and interrupted only a few hours ago. He didn't belong here or with these calm people. He looked towards Lee as he scampered further back across the floor, something in the mans voice and demeanour demanded attention so Tyler cautiously complied.

He let out a viscous groan through gritted teeth as his finger was straightened. Cradling the injured hand he slowly backs away, familiarising with his awkward steps.

He didn't know exactly what was going on but he did know what the people thought he could do.

'Leap tall buildings in a single bound' the words made sense now.
Tyler spun himself around almost spinning too far. He looks in the direction leading away from everyone and coil's himself up on his legs, ready to push off with a mighty leap and test this power...

Tyler had done many dangerous things, laughed in the face of unruly violent uneven odds, pushed cars and bikes beyond their speed limits just for a rush, seen his life flash before his eyes... and none of it scared him more then how he felt right now. This... This was just too much.
He had to get away from it all!

@Dark Light

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Danielle finished cleaning off Azzy's head wound, which would be fine and require no stitches. She pressed one of her many hand towels gently to her head to try and stem the bleeding. She turned around to observe the rest of the scene and saw Tyler, with the same look on his face she's seen on too many others.
"Hey Tyler," She started, putting Azzy's hand on her head to hold the cloth as she went to go over to Tyler.
"Tyler look at me." She said, putting herself in Tyler's line of sight.
"Don't focus on them or the hour, just focus on me. It's all good, yeah? No need to be hopping all over town." Danielle said with a small smile.
"Why don't you tell me what's going on in your head? We can talk this out, figure it out together okay?" Danielle asked him.

Echo was late to react to the ruckus outside on the stairs. By the time she had noticed the blue time had even struck, the other midnighters were all outside at the base of Dani's stairs. Echo rushed outside, practically a blur to the other midnighters. In less than a second she was behind Azzy. "You alright?" She asked the mindcaster before moving deliberately slowly to stand before her so that she wouldn't startle her more than she already was. "What exactly happened?"
@Ayla

She reaffirmed it, in her mannerism, in her voice.
A part of Tyler wanted to jump just because Dani didn't want him too, a part of him just wanted to see what he could do and lastly a part of him wanted to do an ordinary boring jump and realise this was all a bad trip or concussion.

There was too much attention on him, he didn't know what to do, how to act. More importantly he didn't know how to recover or explain his actions.
He felt that she was talking to him like some sort of child or mental patient. He felt the eyes of all of the others watching and waiting.
He couldn't be here, the image he built for himself was shattered and he didn't want to face the embarrassment of seeing these people any more.
There was no going back...

"Sorry doll, thanks for everything. But, I just, I can't."

With an explosive contraction in his leg muscles he pushes off of the ground as hard as he could. Tyler soars off into the sky.

@Ryuzaki

“Yeah, I’m fine.” She told Echo. “I’ve had worst.” Working with horses gave Aslynne her fair share of thrills and spills. Thankfully no lengthy hospital visit. “ Tyler, is an acrobat and just as I started to pull him down the stairs he tripped, midnight happened and we went tumbling down the stairs.” The mindcaster explained.

Her head tilted back eyes closed and she sniffed the air. “The Darklings are out hunting tonight... and Tyler is unarmed, defenseless he doesn’t know how to keep himself safe. Darkling Dinner in the making. We need to go after him.”

@sk0m@hagroden@Prints Avoid

Aslynne’s eye turned up towards Lee, Ved and Abel. “You guys have your bikes right?” If they didn’t have their bicycles Aslynne contemplated asking Echo to catch up with him before Tyler got too far, but she wasn’t sure if the young woman would be receptive to the idea. With the scent of new Midnighter on the air, Darklings were out on the hunt. It was getting dangerous again, like when Danielle had started to get comfortable with going outside back when they were kids. She could feel the Slithers snaking out of their holes, and the Darklings stretching like tame house cats.

“This night is about to get fun...” She said with a less than pleasant smirk.