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Post by Penny Royals on Oct 4, 2013 19:54:54 GMT -8
The blonde boy was also trying not to cry, having been taken by great surprise by the projectile, and a much more painful one than the one Terra had thrown, at that. His breathing was fast and heavy, and his face red and puffy, but he wasn't crying (yet) at least.
Ezer looked concerned, crawling over to the group with Phryx and looking around at them all to see if they were okay.
Sue seemed relatively content that his work was done, and so he walked away, nonchalant and whistling like few schoolyard bullies do.
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Post by Alastor on Oct 4, 2013 20:19:02 GMT -8
"I-It's okay..." The girl replied to the two boys, drying her tears with the arms of her pink coat as she stopped crying. "I'm sorry for throwing snow balls at you..."
Of course, that was right before the six year old was pelted with the other two children, getting knocked over into the snow by the various chunks. She pushed herself out of the snow and onto her feet, face bright red with tears streaming down it again, holding the back of her head.
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Post by lovely corte on Oct 4, 2013 20:40:24 GMT -8
"Oh, sweetheart." Bryci grimaced, looking at the girl and squatting to her level. She looked at the girl, attempting to turn her around to look at her head. "It's alright. How bad does it hurt?"
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Post by Alastor on Oct 4, 2013 20:45:29 GMT -8
"R-r-really bad." The girl sobbed to Bryci. "I-I need to find my muh-mom!"
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Post by lovely corte on Oct 4, 2013 20:57:27 GMT -8
"Oh, sweetheart. Come here. Let's go find your mom, alright?" Bryci said, turning the girl and scooping her gently into her arms, one hand supporting her, the other holding her head. "Your mom is May, right? Let's go look for her."
Turning, she looked at Ben and Ryan.
"You two alright? You want to come with? Get you checked out, have a talk with May about him." She said. "You guys on?"
Ben looked at Ryan for a response, holding his own sore head. Phryx waddled next to him, holding his beloved baby boy.
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Post by Penny Royals on Oct 4, 2013 21:05:55 GMT -8
Still heaving, he nodded.
"Y-y-yes," he told Bryci, before picking up Ezer and breaking into a coughing fit on its back. If possible, the orifices on its face dipped into even sadder shapes.
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Post by Alastor on Oct 4, 2013 21:33:43 GMT -8
Terra leaned up against Bryci as the four walked inside, climbing up the staircase to the second floor and into the office where the girl's mother worked. The four would find May just... sitting at her desk, watching the morning news as she sipped on her coffee while Lenny ran around the room, gathering books and binder's from the woman's shelf as he dropped them on her desk.
The woman's attention was grabbed suddenly when she heard her daughter run to her, sobbing. "MOMMY, MOMMY, MOMMYYYY!" The girl cried, burying her face into her mother's top.
"Baby! What happened?" She asked the girl, putting her hand on the back of the girl's head. She felt quite the big lump there as her daughter gave her the story, unintelligible from a mixture of the sobs and being muffled by May's shirt. May shifted arms a bit as she stood up, carrying her daughter as she grabbed an ice pack.
"What happened?" May asked the others as she placed the pack on the sobbing girl's head.
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Post by Penny Royals on Oct 4, 2013 21:44:01 GMT -8
"W-we were... we were playing and we t-threw snowballs at each other... a-a-and we ran over here and w-w-we were apologizing a-and an older boy... h-he threw something great big at us!" The blonde replied to the question between coughs and sniffles, rubbing his face on his grotesque companion and looking up with big, wet eyes.
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Post by lovely corte on Oct 5, 2013 6:16:08 GMT -8
Following, Ben kept a steady pace. He had one hand on his head albeit he was the luckiest of them all, having only received a bruise on his cheek and some scrapes from the ice chips ricocheting. When that was compared to the others, he got off easy.
The entire time Phryx was musing about ways to hurt the older boy. While Bryci may have only managed to shove him, no doubt that the large, hulking metal machination of heat could put the fear into him.
"It's alright, sweetheart." Bryci attempted to ease the girl, squeezing her close. She allowed her to run from her arms when she got close to her mother. "There."
Looking at May, Bryci slid her beanie off her head. She was almost sweating bullets from the heat transition from the abject cold to the temperate room, due to the rapid change.
"May, Sue threw a chunk of ice at the kids." She said, looking at Ryan. She just kept it to what happened between him and the kids. "I'm not sure why, he just did. He's been a real... dick lately, May. He's been hurting everyone a lot."
Looking at all the kids with big, tearful eyes, Bryci used her own intelligent to stare into the older figure of May.
"Should I get them something?" She asked. "For the bruises?"
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Post by Alastor on Oct 5, 2013 11:17:39 GMT -8
May nodded at Bryci as she set Terra down on a bed, gathering more ice packs and bandages, as well as various disinfectant, for the children.
"Dammit, he's doing it again? When the hell is that brat going to learn..." The nurse sighed as she herded Ben and Ryan to sit on a bed, applying peroxide and other disinfectant to their cuts. "Bryci, can you be a dear and go bring it up to Elijah or Ted while I patch these kids up?"
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Post by Penny Royals on Oct 5, 2013 11:47:05 GMT -8
"Hey, May, I brought you-" The man who'd walked in - Elijah, in fact - stopped in his tracks, looking from nurse to teenage girl to the teary-eyed gaggle of children. He quirked an eyebrow. "Well, isn't this a party?"
Moving to sit down on one of the beds next to the kids, he looked up to Bryci.
"What happened? I'm assuming Sue's up to the same old thing?"
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Post by Alastor on Oct 5, 2013 12:06:31 GMT -8
"Seems so, Elijah." May chimed in, treating Ryan's split lip. "How hard did he hit you kids anyway?"
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Post by lovely corte on Oct 5, 2013 17:19:14 GMT -8
"Yeah. I'll go find them." Bryci said, pushing her beanie into her coat pocket as she took a sharp turn and went to go look for the two older men, before she nearly promptly smacked into the appearing figure. "Oh... yeah. He's being a cunt."
"He threw a chunk of ice at them." She said. "He just... did it. That's a psychopath trait, May. He did it because he could."
"Pretty fucking hard." She said, before she noted the fact that she was in present company of children. "Sorry."
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Post by Penny Royals on Oct 5, 2013 17:46:53 GMT -8
Ryan rubbed his eyes, still sniffling and trying not to cough while May doctored up his split lip. He looked over to Ben, to see what he was doing, or how he was taking all of this. After all, he hadn't cried or anything like he or Terra did.
Elijah sighed, arms around the children on both sides. He gave Bryci a small, sympathetic smile to show that it was okay, mixed with a knowing look of pride.
"It's definitely a trait of budding psychopathy, you're right. The scary thing is, this may be the worst it's gotten so far, at least as long as I've been here." His brow furrowed, before he looked down to the kids. "At least they're alright. We just need to make sure to take precautions. There's not much else we can do." He looked back to both Bryci and May. "It feels like we've tried everything. Thomas had that rewards system, and that worked for a while, when he was younger, you remember that? Candy or spare change for every good deed any kid did - and he worked hard to stay on top of that, until a few years ago. And Teddy's resorted to punishments, but that doesn't seem to work either. I've tried talking to him, but he doesn't let anything out... it's all a very confusing sort of thing."
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Post by Alastor on Oct 5, 2013 17:57:14 GMT -8
"If he keeps getting worse," The nurse said, taking note of Ryan's held back cough as she finished treating the boy and moving to clean up her daughter's wounds (who had at this point stopped crying). "We'd be best of taking him to the hos-- That little brat knocked out one of her teeth!"
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Post by lovely corte on Oct 5, 2013 19:15:11 GMT -8
Sitting somewhat away from the others, Ben appeared to be in good health. He was tired and a bit shaken from the blow, but ultimately he was fine. He had a bit of bruising on his face and some scrapes, but that was about it. He more so just looked frightened. He looked up at Ryan when he turned to look for him and smiled shyly, before he found a chair to sit on with Phryx.
"You need to get him on something, Elijah." She said. "He just threw an ice block at kids who are barely half his age! People don't do that sort of shi-... stuff."
"Huh? What!?" Bryci said when May went off. She squatted to her level, attempting to see inside of her mouth. "Are you sure? It-... is there any blood or anything? I... couldn't see any when I was outside. Oh my God. I'm so sorry. At least they're still her baby teeth."
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Post by Penny Royals on Oct 5, 2013 19:41:56 GMT -8
The blonde boy felt a bitter better now that the other boy had smiled at him. He gave him a smile too, and, still clinging to Ezer, moved a bit closer to the edge of the bed, taking Ben's old spot.
"We're trying. I placed on order for a couple of mood enhancers a few weeks ago - but since they're coming in to Stonewick from a bigger city, there's no telling WHEN we'll be able to go get them, especially with the snow being what it is. I'll talk to Teddy and see if, until then, we might be able to put him under... heavier restrictions."
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Post by Alastor on Oct 5, 2013 20:12:27 GMT -8
Terra gave a groan as she found her mother and Bryci both inspecting her mouth. Bryci was right- there was just a bit of blood where her right front tooth used to be, but not enough to be of much concern. May gave the girl a cotton ball to hold in her mouth and moved over to treat Ben's few wounds.
"Define 'heavier restrictions'."
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Post by Penny Royals on Oct 5, 2013 20:32:44 GMT -8
"Most likely keeping him in his room unless it's at meal times."
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Post by lovely corte on Oct 5, 2013 22:28:32 GMT -8
"You'll be alright, sweetheart." Bryci said, smiling at the girl kindly and flashing her intelligent eyes at Terra, standing up straight and stretching. "At least she wasn't seriously hurt."
"He's a psychopath, May." She continued. "He needs help right now. He just hurt them."
"I-I'm fine." Benjamin murmured quietly, shifting as May gave him attention. "It's amazing."
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Post by Alastor on Oct 5, 2013 22:31:06 GMT -8
"Oh, I'm not denying that." May replied, not hearing Ben. "I'm just wondering if that's code for 'wringing his neck out', darling."
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Post by Penny Royals on Oct 5, 2013 22:33:15 GMT -8
"May, I know you're a mom, but we can't just do that," Elijah scolded. If it was a joke, he obviously didn't understand that.
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Post by Alastor on Oct 5, 2013 22:45:56 GMT -8
"I'm joking, I'm joking!" The redhead, sounding slightly offended retorted as she finished patching up Ben and moved back to her desk. Mind you, she really was at least a little serious about that remark.
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Post by lovely corte on Oct 6, 2013 7:04:07 GMT -8
"As much as I'd like to kill him, I'm not sure the police would be very fond of us for doing that." Bryci joked, laughing before she stood up, looking around. She set Gentleman Franklin onto the ground carefully. She flashed her intelligent eyes around the room. "Should I go get him or something?"
"Ma'am, are you quite alright?" Franklin said, looking up at Terra. He placed his cotton Knight's helmet under his arm. "I hope that the pain was not excruciating."
Ben sat there with patches on his face from the scratches where ice had ricocheted and slashed him from the impact. He sat there quietly, just waiting for a response.
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Post by Penny Royals on Oct 6, 2013 8:13:23 GMT -8
"That won't be necessary, Bryci," Elijah said, standing up and straightening his (sweater)vest. "I'll go head down and talk to Teddy... make sure you guys all get some of the peppermints on my desk, alright?" He gave her a wink, and left the room.
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Post by lovely corte on Oct 6, 2013 8:31:22 GMT -8
"You act like I haven't considered taking them all." Bryci said, before she readjusted her coat and slapped her beanie back onto her head, pulling it over and fixing her hair slightly. "Although, I'm sure It's a smart move to keep these kids under watch. Especially with him still being out there and all, and to make sure they did alright, health wise. Could be face first in the snow next thing for all we know."
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Post by Alastor on Oct 6, 2013 9:15:28 GMT -8
"Ma'am, are you quite alright?" Franklin said, looking up at Terra. He placed his cotton Knight's helmet under his arm. "I hope that the pain was not excruciating." Terra looked down at the suddenly animate teddy bear, her eyes growing wide as she did. "...You're cute!" The girl replied with glee. May nodded as she heard Bryci talk. "I can keep them in here for a few hours. Give 'em flu shots, let them rest."
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Post by lovely corte on Oct 6, 2013 9:27:05 GMT -8
"Why, thank you ma'am." Franklin said, chest thrust outwards as he looked up at the younger girl. He placed his helmet on the bed, before he hopped up onto it. "I hope the pain has soon come to pass, child. For all of us."
"Oh, boy. Flu shots." Bryci said. "Glad I didn't get hit."
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Post by Alastor on Oct 6, 2013 9:44:54 GMT -8
"Oh, don't worry. You'll be getting one tomorrow~" May replied as she got the new syringes out of the drawer of her desk.
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Post by Penny Royals on Oct 6, 2013 9:46:01 GMT -8
The blonde boy stared at the moving teddy bear, eyes big.
"He's so cool!" He cried, before hearing May mention something about flu shots, and then go to her desk to grab out things. "...W-we need to get those?" He asked, suddenly quite distressed.
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