[IC] Purgatory

[xXSINXx]

"Thats what they all say," Rayne said with a smirk, she then backed into the shadowed part of the cell, becoming nearly invisible. "Then when the situation arises where they are hopeless, they realize that it would of been wise to accept help when given. It would be wise to keep my offer in mind for we are as fragile as we are strong."

[thornblackwell]

Thorn snarls with her back still turned. "I LEFT MY NEST TO COME HERE TO SHARE A CELL WITH A CRAZY GIRL WHEN MY OLD CELL MATE ACTUALLY WASN'T THAT BAD!" She hisses in frustration and turns around to be alone and she sneers. "Great! Another thing I don't have and someone else has! I don't know how long I'll be here for, but I really don't need to be put with a show off!"

Thorn sniffs the room and cartwheels towards the door, she puts her hands in positions as she claws at the door. "I want out! I was curious as to what this crazy was laughing at. I did no harm to anyone and I got too cocky."

The quicker she got out of here, the better. Thorn had been in many incidents where the Clown wanted her dead. Now she was in a room with the spawn of nightmares itself, she would have better luck with a sapling that doesn't disappear.

[xXSINXx]

"Yet the crazy girl tended to your wounds, rather than killing you and painting these walls with your blood." Rayne said in a soft tone. "Now to be honest I tried being nice, which is rare for me to do. I did so because you where hurt, now that I've seen that pretty face of yours beaten and bruised, I figured you would need a friend"

Rayne then stepped out of the darkness hugging herself. "Being alone gets quite depressing after a few years of living this twisted life."

[thornblackwell]

Thorn glares at her. "I'm not your enemy, I'm here for my reasons too... I prefer to drink rather than smear the walls with blood. It makes up for the milk I don't drink...I also have had worse than a few bruises before."

She stops clawing at the door and turns to Rayne, sneering at the girl. "I also don't need someone to mother me. I know what it feels like to be alone and I prefer it. I hate most humans. They are too loud and cause problems. All we need in this awful world is Cats.Like you. You are causing me a problem as I left what I had, which wasn't much, to see you. I could of freed you, but I just wanted a closer look and now I'm stuck in here too."

Thorn moves away from the door and goes towards the beds and jumps up to the top one. She starts to knead the bedding making a nest for herself.

[xXSINXx]

"If you only knew." Rayne said, now sitting against the wall, hugging her knees to her chest. "Truth is, I never wanted any of this. I remember as a child growing up in the orphanage." She smiled with a tear running down her cheek. "A young girl with hopes and dreams of singing her heart out in front of millions, shouting her words back to her in harmony. Just to be made fun of because her words spoke of seeking her one true love." She then sighed.

"Then depression came," Rayne said, examining old scars from her wrists. "After the first cut, I wanted more, not just for the pain, but my unusual interest for blood, the very essence of life, that's where the night terrors came. I was shunned away and even beat by the other orphans and no one cared because of my parents' evil reign of terror. That's why I kill, its the only thing keeping me from suicide attempts. I guess you shun me too then."

Rayne then started to crawling back into the darkness. "I'm not gonna bother you anymore. Sleep well."

[thornblackwell]

Thorn stares at the girl. "I don't trust you. I'm not trying to shun you, I just don't trust you. I don't trust people. When I show trust it means that I have to or I feel at ease. I don't know you. I may have heard your name, but I personally don't know you."

She sits up on her bed and removes her underbust corset. "But, since you told me your childhood, I feel as though...inclined to tell you mine..I was abandoned by my mother and left with my father who is my mother's henchman. He owns the fencing place in West Gotham. I grew up there with him and many different women, every night Catwoman would watch me as I slept...It was creepy...I was given a cat and taught how to fence. My father decided to show me how to be a criminal, like him, but he showed me how to be like Catwoman."

Thorn sighs. "I would help him with jobs and he would dress me like this, he named me Black Cat. He gave me aliaises to hide my identity. When I got older he would start to drink and get drunk. So I stopped going home and started out on the streets. Some man tried to take me away. He told me he was going to take me home...that's when I first killed...I was 16..I kinda went down hill from there. My fathers mistakes as he replaced me and how I was just a mistake to my mother..."

She stares at the ground. "I wish I killed my parents. They sent me here, when I was only doing what they made me do. It's all their fault and I got the blame."

[xXSINXx]

Rayne slowly came out of the darkness and she knelled in-front of thorn. "Well seeing as we share this cell now, how about we start again? She slowly presented her hand to horn to shake it. After-all, it doesn't hurt to have a friend, you don't have to trust me, just know I have your back here.

[thornblackwell]

Thorn jumps down. "Fine, but it's only for the night. Then I'm back in my other cell." She slowly goes to shake Rayne's hand. "Tomorrow I am out of here and back to roam freely around."

[xXSINXx]

"However my word stands." Rayne said. "once I give my word I never break it, that way I can earn my trust. Rayne then crawled back into the darkness and she curled up against the wall.

"Sleep well Thorn, maybe we can talk again when they let me roam freely like you." She said closing her eyes.

[thornblackwell]

Thorn nods and crawls up to her bed. "Goodnight..Rayne." She slowly closes her eyes.

When tne morning breaks through, Thorn wakes up and stares at Rayne till she wakes up.

[xXSINXx]

Rayne begins shaking in her slumber, as the shaking became more fierce, tears streamed down her face. Rayne was experiencing another night terror. A dream of the orphanage, years after its been abandoned. As a child she sat in a long dark hallway. One one side stood her father and the other side stood her mother. As the dream continued, they both fell as if they were murdered and their blood traveled and circled around the young, terrified Rayne, making her clinch herself in her sleep like a scared child.

[thornblackwell]

Thorn frowns and crawls close to Rayne before stroking her cheeks and arms while softly whispering. "Wake up, please wake up. The darkness has cleared and now there is light..please wake up.."

[xXSINXx]

Rayne softly awoke, still clinching herself in fear. The dreams... they seem so real said said, now clinching to Thorn, she buried her face into Thorn's shoulder, crying softly

[thornblackwell]

Thorn slowly wraps her arms around Rayne and softly stroking her, in a weird sloth kike way, whispering. "There..there..dreams are odd things. You either remember them t forget them...Nightmares are troublesome...you know that they aren't real, you have to fight your fears..."

[xXSINXx]

Rayne began to calm down, yet she still held Thorn close."Thank you Thorn." She said softly. "'Tis the first time anyone has consoled me after a night terror."

[thornblackwell]

Thorn nods and strokes Rayne like a cat. "Oh, that's okay...a first time for everything?..."

[xXSINXx]

"Yeah, you could say that." Rayne said, finally giving a bright smile. In-fact it was the first time in a long while she felt a bit of happiness. "Honestly, I wish we could of met on better terms. You seem very nice just misunderstood, and you're quite beautiful, take that as a compliment from a friend."

[thornblackwell]

Thorn nods again. "Thank you very much. I'm not nice to many...I just have a weakness. It's not tolerated...I would free you, but what's the point? No where to run, no where to hide. We'll both end up back here..."

She stands up and walks towards the door and knocks on it. "Let me out now!"
The guards open the cell and Thorn walks out.

[WizardGirl]

Lily turns around as two guards walk up behind her, closing the doors to the garden before chuckling. "You killed two of our friends...now we are gonna return the favor..." One of the guards says, while the other grabs her arm. Lily chuckles as the guard who was speaking punches her in the stomach. As he goes for another punch, she pulls the other guard to her and kisses him, her lips bright green as she does. The other guard panics and turns towards the doors, Lily just grinning as a vine stretches out to him and pulls him towards her. Leaning down, she kisses his cheek, before letting the plants pull the two men into them, allowing them to decompose into the soil, feeding these plants.

[gowia]

Jack had been watching the events outside of his cell unfold with some interest. Rebelling for the sake of rebelling was never going to work. You learn everything about the environment first, then you hit the weak spot as hard as you can. Antagonising guards and getting yourself sent to solitary accomplished nothing unless it was all a distraction for something else. Craning his head out of his bars Jack watched as the Cat girl from earlier left the cell that seemed locked down. Whistling briefly he stuck out one of the cartons of milk he had acquired.

"A peace offering?"