{Time Warp}Cannonball!!!!!! [Damia]

[Dom Edmonds]

It had been raining for most of day by now at three in the afternoon, and Dominic was getting a little bit irritated being stuck inside with all these meta's around. And his room mate hasn't been around either so there was very little in the means of pain relief that he could do without popping more pills. God damn he really needed to do something to get his mind off the growing headache he was getting. In the past two years being at the institute, he really hadn't gained much progress in the means of controlling his abilities. Okay he was able to control them enough to get a two hour sleep every other night, but it still wasn't enough for him, it just wasn't.

Bored stiff with nothing to do, he figured that he would bug his surrogate sister for a while. It's been about a week or two since he last hung out with Damia, and he was about due to bring a shadow down on tinkerbell's day. So Dom took his phone off his night stand and started typing away at those little buttons. Hey, what are you doing today? Nothing good, get your swim suit and meet me at the gym's pool. You got thirty minutes before I tell everyone you work with that you wet the bed still. Thirty minutes, I'm timing you. A grin crept onto his face as his fingers scurried across the key pad, and happy with the message, Dom pressed the send button.

After the text message was sent to Damia, Dom rolled off his bed and packed up his gym bag with his swimming trunks and a oversized blue towel. "She better not think I'm kidding, she knows I will" he said to himself as he put on his hoodie and made his way out of the dormitory. Luckily enough for him, the walk from the dorms to the gym was the perfect distance for him to enjoy a smoke if he took his time. However he wasn't so lucky as when he pulled out his smoke pack, they all seemed to fall out and onto the soaking wet ground. Dammit all he said to himself as he tossed the empty pack to the ground and pulled his phone back out. Please bring me some smoke too, me loves you long time if you do

[Damia Owens]

Rainy days weren’t so bad. There was something almost soothing about them. It was like the whole world retreated for a while and there was only the sound of the rain and the soft light of the sun diffused by the thick clouds. Damia probably wouldn’t go so far as to call it her perfect medium but it was certainly in her benefit. With a quieter mind and the lull of the rain the exhaustion finally crept up on her and by noon she was asleep.

Unhindered sleep at last.

Then there was a buzzing - a soft, repetitive buzzing. Damia rolled over. She tried to ignore the phone but couldn’t. Literally couldn’t. The buzzing had stopped but she could still hear it. What did it say? Who was it? No…. sleep. Fall asleep again. But Damia had already lost. Her mind wouldn’t let her go back to sleep until she checked.

Looking at the message, she rolled onto her back and let out a deep sigh. There was certainly no going back to sleep now. There was no way Dom could do it. No way. He couldn’t possibly know anyone she worked with, let alone have their contact info and she doubted he knew where the Academic Support Center was. Wait - did he even know she tutored there?! No, just…. No.

Still, Damia found herself looking between the time of the message and the clock. Half an hour? She’d already lost two and a half minutes. Five minutes to get her stuff, another couple to get ready, then at least twenty to get to the school. That didn’t include finding a way to get a ride there, actually getting it, walking outside, getting into the school, over to the gym or into the pool. It just wasn’t possible. Surely Dom knew that.

45 minutes, she texted back and then rolled out of bed. 43 minutes later Damia pushed the door to the pool area open and peeked inside. Surely Dom was already here. Spotting him, she made her way over to the side bench and landed her bag next to her

”You’re lucky my mom works from home,” and that she was still overly concerned about her only child. And no, I wasn’t going to ask her to make a cigarette stop. Whether or not Damia might have stopped otherwise, just to make Dom happy, was a question of mood anyways and favor was against him thanks to interrupted sleep.

[Dom Edmonds]

Dominic was already getting changed in the locker room when he got Damia's text saying she was going to take 45 minutes, and when he saw it he couldn't help but grin. "Oh she is so going to get it" he said to himself as he tossed the phone into his locker. But how was he going to do it, that was the problem, a problem he would have to figure out before she went back home. So after getting ready which took about fifteen minutes, he went to the pool and dove in.

Swimming was always a good pass time for him, well when he got the time to spend any ways. Helped to clear his mind it made him focus on making it to the other end of the pool, then again it always reminded him of splashing around as a kid. God life was so much more simple when we were young wasn't it? Not having to do much but eat, go watch tv, and sleep. Oh god sleep, stop thinking about sleep stop thinking about sleep. DAMMIT He thought about sleep, but then it hit him, how he was going to get Damia, and it was perfect.

He just finished doing laps when he heard Damia walk into the pool and toss her bag on the bench, looking rather haggard and sleepless. "Your 23 Damia and you don't have a car yet. I'm 17 and got a truck and a Ducati. What I'm trying to say is your late, and you owe me smokes. Now get changed and get in the pool" Oh he was so going to get her now, not only being late, but forgetting his smokes too, so going down.

[Damia Owens]

Damia couldn’t help but roll her eyes. Of course she didn’t have a car… she didn’t even have a license. The Ducati she could only assume was his bike. As for what any of that had to do with her being late was entirely beyond her. Surely Dom knew that he wasn’t making any sense, right? But the truth was that Damia didn’t really care. Despite not understanding him his point had been made clear. She was expected to get in the pool.

With a bit of a sigh, she turned and laid on the bench with her head on her bag. ”In a minute,” she assured him, but there was no rush in her voice. Hopefully she could just relax for a bit. There was no chance she’d fall asleep again but at least she might be able to wait for some of the lingering sleepiness to wear off.

The question was whether or not Dom would leave her be long enough. It was doubtful, given the way things were going, but it didn’t hurt to try. Besides, Damia didn’t mind the pestering all that much. It was just Dom being Dom. However, it certainly would have been easier to deal with had she been more awake…. or had caffeine. Oh how much she missed caffeine now.

”Dom…. You have way too much energy.” She didn’t mean anything by it. In fact, Damia was smiling a little at the thought. She could never keep up entirely.