Fionraella

The Two Sides

Nadia pauses and looks at him. "Nadia. That is my name." She says, deciding he was trustworthy enough. She raises her head and looks at him
"Ah yes. Spying. Learning little things about people without them knowing."

Hunter drops Ptelea and holds his hands up as the squad came in. "I thought we lost them!" He protests, looking the leader in the eye.

"Nobody move! We're here to save the girl." The leader points his prop at Hunter, seeing how hr had been holding Ptelea. "It's okay, honey. We're here to save you." He says, feigning good intentions.

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Ptelea whimpers and scrambles to her feet before running to the leader. She hides behind his legs, trembling. "I just want Rosey!" She whimpers, burying her face in his pant leg, sniffling, before looking up at him. "Will you take me to my brother?"

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The Boss nods slowly. "Well, Ambrose, any friend of yours is a friend of mine. I would equally protect your group as I would you, just as I would have Harvey's friends."

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Ambrose whirls to face the old man, frowning. "I'm confused sir..." He says arefully. "Why would you protect my group when you know nothing about them." He then turns his attention back to the laptop. "And if you'll excuse me, I need to make sure my sister is safe."

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At the intrusion of the rescue group, Brianna's acting skills switched into overdrive. After slipping the tooth into her labcoat pocket she threw her hands up. "Hunter?" she asks unsurely. "How on Earth did they find us?!"

"To be fair, we have hardly met enough for me to know those things." Marik kneels to be closer to her. "In fact, I do not think that I've even had the sense to ask your name." He hesitates a little at her question. "Sometimes it can be more interesting to watch a person than to talk to them. I hardly imagine that you would have shifted in the first place had you known of my presence."

"Your friends?" The Boss is pleased on the inside that Ambrose brought them up of his own will. "Ah, the ones that fight against the... Hm, Brauns was it?" He flubs the name to distract Ambrose from his prying.

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Ambrose watches the scene unfold in front of him, biting his lip. "Broms. The Broms are our enemy." He corrects, not even noticing the prying.

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The Boss opens up the laptop a little, so that Ambrose will be able to see Ptelea getting saved. "Don't worry about all that, Ambrose. Didn't I tell you? I'm the one person you can trust to help you in the whole world." He walks around the small room for a moment, stopping to stare out the window. Since the room was on the top floor it had quite an impressive view of the surrounding desert area. "I just want to help shifters, you know?"

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Ambrose watches the old man, nodding a bit. "Yes sir. I know you can..." he bites his lip. "I can trust my friends...you're not the only one I can trust..." he says hesitantly.

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Nadia calms slightly as she recognizes his voice. It was that Rabin that had stopped by awhile ago. She nods, pushing herself back into the water. She swims down the river and then pops her head to look at him directly. "There's a lot you don't know about me," she states calmy. Not a lot of forest dwellers have seen her shift before. "You like watching people often?"

Hunter hands the tooth over and nods, watching her closely. "Well, I got the job done. It's a bit hard to make all procedures prim and proper when your subject struggles," he states. He felt Ptelea curled up next to him, weeping, as he held her up.

The leader of the group reads their message and motions the others to begin. They slam the door open on the three, pointing the fake guns at Hunter and Brianna.

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Ptelea gasps at seeing the guns. She whimpers fearfully. "Rosey???" She whimpers.

"It's okay sweetie, theyre there to help." Ambrose promises.

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Noticing that Nadia was looking directly at him, Marik speaks loudly to address her across the river. "It has been a while since we last met. I must admit, I never would have consider that this was your animal form."

The moment when Hunter removed the tooth was obvious by the sound from the laptop. As soon as it was done, The Boss sent a text to the rescue squad. Go in now. The moment it was sent he pretended to have received a text. "Ambrose," he tells the boy quickly. "They think they've found her!"

Despite the headphones in her ears, Brianna still manages to hear Hunter. She takes them out of her ears and sees the small tooth. "Finally," she tells him, managing to put up a charade of nonchalance. "You take so much time with these things. As a scientist you should be quick and precise." She quickly puts on some plastic gloves and holds her hand out. "I'll make sure we put this somewhere safe."

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Ambrose glances at the old man, his eyes vacant. "I couldn't help her..." he whispers, trembling. He looks away, ashamed at himself. "My baby sister needed me..." he looks at the laptop. "Thank you for finding her sir..."

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Nadia finishes the fish in a few bites, as her leopard seal form was much bigger than any of the river fish. She licks her mouth clean quietly and sits for a moment. Her eyes began to skim the land and bank near her. Her eyes narrow as she spots Mariks form aways off, not realizing it was him. She scents the air momentarily, feeling cautious.

Hunter nods in approval as he grasps the baby tooth in the pliers, ignoring Ptelea's cries and whimpers. Maybe a few years ago it would have bothered him, but by now...
"There we are. Brianna-" he turns to give the tooth to her and noticed she had distracted herself. He looks at her crossly realizing how much Ptelea was affecting her. "Brianna, come here."

The makeshift rescue squad was waiting outside the room, with fake guns. They were going to storm the room and chase Hunter and Brianna out when they got the proper signal.

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Ptelea sobs softly as she tastes blood in her mouth. She buries her face in Hunter's chest, having no other way to express her fear. She grasps his shirt in her fist, crying. "Rosey...." she whimpers.

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The Boss pulls the laptop away from Ambrose, but he purposely lets the sound of Ptelea's crying carry on. Since Brianna and Hunter were relatively silent, it was the only sound that either of them could hear.

Brianna sighs, the crying getting to her. She pulls out her last resort from her pocket - a pair of headphones. She slips them in and plays some soothing classical music as she looks at the vial filled with red blood. She could almost pretend that she was in a nice clean lab, somewhere far away from here.

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Ambrose slowly begins rocking back and forth. "I'm here sweet sister, I'm here.." he whispers, closing his eyes. "Ptelea, I'm right here sweetie... I'm not leaving you."

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Nadia grasped a decent sized fish in her mouth, and rose to the surface to eat it. Raw fish didn't usually bother her so long as she was in this form. She swims along to bring herself to the shallow exspanse, still oblivious to Marik. For the moment. She goes to consume the fish.

Hunter grunts as Ptelea struggles, knowing it would just make it worse for the girl. He kept pulling, amd after a moment he felt the give of the baby tooth in the pliers. "There we are," he says calmy, going to remove the tooth entirely.

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Ptelea whimpers painfully, but her struggles stop. She squeezes her eyes shut. She whimpers softly in pain as she feels her tooth loosen.

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The Boss's pats Ambrose's shoulder. "Once again, I might suggest you look away now. Sometimes you have to accept that there is nothing you can do." The words were hardly appropriate coming from a man who'd never accepted that, but he still tried his best to make them sound comforting for Ambrose.

To distract herself, Brianna collected the syringe of blood that Hunter had taken earlier from Ptelea. It would be incredibly useful to look at the comparisons between the two siblings.

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Just below the rippled surface of the water Marik could sometimes spot the large grey shape moving swiftly around. He guessed from the way she moved that she was probably chasing fish. It was mesmerising to see how graceful she was in the water. He sat down, happy with just following her movements. It was like watching a deer pace through the forest, content being in it's natural habitat.

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Ambrose nods and looks away as the pliers enter Pteleas mouth. Tears roll down his cheeks, closing his eyes. He just wishes this nightmare would end. He had never felt more hopeless in his entire life. He couldn't even protect his baby sister, the one person he had always done everything for.

Ptelea screams loudly as she feels Hunter pull at the tooth. She tries to close her mouth to keep him from doing it, tears rolling down her cheeks. "R...rosey!" She sobs tearfully.