Michael Sykes & Harlow Grey
Harley leaned back slowly.
"Most everyone got powers at some point yesterday or this morning. The commander can heal anything as far as we can tell. He healed Ryder and he had cancerous tumors all over him." She said looking down at the dog. Her arms were still around Mikey's waist and she felt a blush creeping up.
"Jae got fire, Audrianna got force fields, Grayson got...." The look on her face changed and she looked up at Mikey. Harley was kind of at a loss for words for a moment and she took a deep breath and just said what was on her mind.
"I kissed a guy yesterday that I liked but I really thought he was going to die. I hope that doesn't become a problem." She bit her lip and waited for him to scream at her.
Mikey looked down to her.
"Dont worry about it, we can deal with that problem as it comes. For now we dont have to worry about anything" he said holding her closer.
"You know whats strange though. Y'all got some cool powers and I didnt. Its kinda weird you know" He said as he laid down on his bed and pulled Harley down with him.
"You know your really cute right?" Harley grinned as he pulled her with him and she was laying practically on top of him because the bed was so small. She was almost positive if she moved even a little she would fall off of the side of the bed.
"I think I've heard that before."She thought about the powers a moment.
"I bet you got your powers but you just haven't stumbled on them though. Mine and Jae's are obvious powers but the commander and Grayson got powers that took a little work to figure out. Grayson can Astral Project himself. It sounds cool but it is more dangerous than it sounds.I bet yours is just trickier to figure out." Harley kept trying to keep her mind off of how much of their bodies were touching each other so she wrapped his hair around her fingers to distract her. That wasn't working very well either.
"Dinner should be ready soon, I think." She said trying to distract herself. Just as she finished saying this there was a big paw that landed on her back as Ryder stood up and smacked her in the back to tell her he was still there.
Mikey laughed a little and shook his head.
"Looks like we better get up before we miss it then huh?" he said as he helped her to her feet before stumbling backwards onto the bed himself.
"Yeah i really need to get one of those double rooms like you, theres no where near enough room in here." "You know, it really is weird how we've never crossed paths even at dinner you know. They say small world but for so many people to be in here its a surprise we havent met until now" He said as he picked up his guitar from across the room.
"You wanna head out now?"Harley nodded and took his hand in hers.
"There are actually enough double's now to accomodate everyone. I believe the one next door to mine is empty." She hinted flirting a little.
"It's not really all that surprising. When the elders were still alive our population was more than doubled and I usually helped out in the kitchen on cleanup and so I rarely ate in the cafeteria when most others did. I hung out with a lot of the older people mostly because they always astonished me at how much they knew how to do. Technology really has spoiled us. I actually feel rather helpless other than my power."Mikey laughed slightly as he swung his guitar over his back.
"You may have to escort me to this room you speak of madam" He smiled opening the door to the room for her to go through.
"So its been a year since we last saw each other which means you've not heard me play either in a year. The cafeteria should be quiet enough for you to hear the guitar if you would like a private gig?" he said as he winked at her, flirting back. Hopefully he could take the room next to Harley's before anyone else had the chance to. Especially that Grayson fellow he had heard about.
"Come on, let's go get you a key." She pulled him with her and headed towards the commander's office. Once she opened the door she explained.
"I help the commander with maintenance issues, mostly water related ones so he is cool with me coming in here when he isn't in here." She took a key to the double next to hers and handed it to him.
"There you go." She said while handing him the key.
"Do you want to move over now or after we eat? I can help you if you would like." Harley was feeling that giddy butterfly sensation in her stomach that new relationships usually bring. She felt like a teenager suddenly and wasn't sure what to make of that. She smiled at him and closed the door as they entered the hallway again.
Mikey smiled back
"Lets move it later after dinner, I would hate to move on an empty stomach." He said as he put his arm around her.
He began to walk with her when he thought about something.
"You know before all of this what did you do, like job wise or were you a student?" It didnt really bother him either way he just wanted to know more about her, about who she was and what she was about. All the kind of things you'd want to know when you start dating someone new.
Harley put her arm around his waist as they walked.
"Hm, well I graduated then I went to community college for a couple of years. After that I took a year off and backpacked around Europe. I learned a lot about myself and about life in general that way. I was a life guard during the summers and I was scheduled to start at University for Marine biology in the fall of last year." She thought about the future she was never going to have and shook it off.
"What about you?" She asked watching her dog round the bend into the cafeteria. When Harley rounded the corner into the cafeteria she found her dog watching someone bouncing a ball against the wall.
She looked up and realized that Audrianna was not in the kitchen. There was another girl serving dinner tonight. Harley recognized her but had never spoken to her.
"I guess Audrianna took the night off? Good for her!" Mikey shrugged.
"Didnt really do anything other than music. I dropped out of highschool in my senior year to persue music. My dad kicked me out cause of it so i crashed at my brothers most nights, so i dont really speak to anyone in my family other than my brother. It's why i laid that asshole out back then cause i just kept thinking what if she was family" He led her to the corner of the cafeteria and sat her down.
"Now, do you have any requests?"Harley smiled and said,
"What about Dance Dance by Fall out Boy?"Mikey began to play the song. As he played he noticed the general atmosphere of the room turn more happy from the dreary depressing atmosphere it was before. People actually got up from their seats and began to dance with the people sitting opposite.
As he came to the end of the song the once dancing people went back to their dreary depressing meals.
"Do you have any other requests? Maybe something a bit heavier?""Light em up!" Harley said happily watching the others react to the music.
"On it. Keep an eye on the crowd for me im gonna test something with this song" He said. As he began to play the now dreary people began to get angry and mad and started fighting one another. As the song got heavier the fighting got worse. Mikey quickly stopped the song out of fear of someone getting hurt and immediately the crowd stopped fighting instantly.
"What the fuck?"Harley was as perplexed as he was. It was almost as if they went into a trance based on the music's darkness or lightness.
"Could that be your power? To manipulate people's moods?" She looked at him and moved a little closer to him as one guy appeared to be pissed off that he was hit in the face.
"Let's go move your things over and come back to eat later. It's still a little early yet." Harley was clearly a little shaken by the turn of events. When the commander walked in she curiously said.
"Can you do it again? I want to see what the commander does.""I dont know, i dont know what i did to make it happen... wait, why werent you effected by it?" he asked, if this were a trance power surely everyone in his vicinity would have been affected. He just hoped he played something calm for the commander.
"Lets just head back to my place and get my things then we can talk to the commander" He said as he grabbed her by the hand and led her away from the disaster zone that was the cafeteria.
Harley was about to call Ryder but the commander was feeding him and she left him there for now. She felt confused on how it had made everyone so angry.
"Can you imagine if you had played Metallica. People would have been killing each other!" When they got to his single Harley grabbed his things as he did and she lead him to his new room.
As soon as he opened the door and they walked in she put his things down and turned around to find him right behind her. She could see the worry and questions in his eyes and she wrapped her arms around his waist and leaned against his chest.
"You okay?""Yeah, yeah just a little shook thats all. Why hadnt you been effected Harley. Surely it should have right?" Mikey said as he sat down on his new bed and pulled her down to sit with him.
"What happens now, what if i want to play something and i couldnt predict if it would frenzy people. I could lose everything, i could lose you." "You aren't going to lose me. I'm not sure why I wasn't effected the same way. Since I know it can do that though maybe that is why? Maybe this is your gift...to somehow be able to change people's moods, to stop or start fights? I'm not sure. We can always go somewhere so you can play without changing others' moods."
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