Hawk Wings (Jinahi and Avery)

[Jinahi Fletcher]

(Thursday, November 04, 2010 4:17 pm.)

Jinahi stretched, walking out of his last class for the day. It’d been an interesting week so far. He’d met one of his roommates, a little albino Chinese girl that could manipulate light, and … Fifi. Ever since then, Gavin had been strangely quiet. It was almost unnatural for Jinahi to know silence in his own head, except while dancing.

His art required so much muscle control and concentration that he was able to shut Gavin out. He’d been aching to dance since he got here, but wasn’t sure if there was even a club for ballet, let alone a seriously dedicated performance group. Jinahi Looked up at the sun and smiled. It was one of the last warm days in November here, or so he’d been told. His vanity prompted him to take off his collared shirt and find a spot to lie in the grass and tan while he still could.

He lay down with his head barely in the shadow of a tree arms splayed like the tattooed wings on his back and let his calves and shoulder blades soak in what sun they could. (Not like his dark Arabic complexion needed it.)

[Avery Sainsbury]

Today was a good day so far for Avery. Her favorite part of the day was she was wearing her new outfit. Since her mom felt bad and gave her money Avery decided she would buy a new outfit. Her blonde-ish hair bounced as she walked outside from the school. She was smiling as she walked. Wearing her pink school girl skirt a white short sleeved blouse and black high heels. Avery wasn't even watching where she was going.

As it was a nice day and warm she decided to go threw the courtyard instead of straight back to her room. The flowers looked different in the day time then when she first met Stella. Avery was slowly walking threw the courtyard running her hand over mostly everything. Still not paying attention. Soon she felt her foot hit something and all she saw was the pavement. Her hands went up instictivley as she hit the ground. She couldn't tell if she hit grass or pavement.

Sitting up she blinked at the handsome guy. Her face turned a slight shade of red as she clumsily fixed her hair. "I'm so sorry. I wasn't paying attention. I really do apologize. Did I hurt you?" Avery was trying to fix her skirt after she ran a hand threw her hair.

[Jinahi Fletcher]

Jinahi was almost asleep when the high-heel bit into his ankle and demanded his attention. He whipped his head around just in time to catch a glimpse of a tumbling mass of pink and blonde. Scrape the pavement. He’d been so engrossed in the sun when he laid down that he didn’t notice his feet were on the sidewalk where people could step on them.

“No it was my fault” he said, hurriedly sliding to his knees and then standing, “my legs were out on the sidewalk.” He quickly offered his hand to the girl to help her up. The first thing he noticed (aside from her legs due to the skirt) was her dirty blond hair. It was obviously well cared for even if slightly tousled from the fall. When she flipped it out of her face he saw the delicate cheek bones and beautiful hazel eyes.

“Hi, I’m Jinahi,” he said to this beautiful young girl.

[Avery Sainsbury]

Avery took his hand and slowly stood up. She couldn't help but notice how good looking he was. Even with the little bit of a go-tee, at least thats what she thought they called it. She smiled and held out her hand. "Hi Jinahi, I'm Avery. I apologize still. I was really just glade today was beautiful." Her smile widened and showed her tinny dimples.

Today was really a good day for her. It made her happy to meet new people even really gorgeous new people. Just like Talen she was distracted by the no shirt thing. Her cheeks where still slightly red. "Are you new here?" Guys really where probably her number one distraction of late. She didn't even know what to say other then are you new. Her mind was still thinking about how good looking he was. His hair was so dark and exotic looking with his light blue eyes that seemed to look like the ocean. Really crystal blue like.

(this is her outfit if it helps. www.polyvore.com/avery/set?id=24646770 )

[Jinahi Fletcher]

The keys on her necklace jingled as Jinahi pulled Avery to her feet, catching his attention. The dark metal was starkly contrasted against her white shirt. “Really it’s alright he insisted. Nice to meet you Avery. And yes, it is a very beautiful day.” He ran his hand through his hair, to make sure it was still gelled up. Pretty girls were always worth a nervous primp.

/Damn if the skirt was any shorter she wouldn’t have to bend over to see her butt./ Gavin snidely remarked, appearing in Jinahi’s consciousness spontaneously. Jinahi was slightly aggravated by this, when he actually wanted Gavin around to talk to him the impulsive prick disappeared. But as soon as a pretty girl with a short skirt showed up, he was there. \Go back to sleep\ Jinahi snapped and boxed Gavin from sensory input. /Well that wasn't very nice/ Gavin pouted from his mental cell.

Jinahi stretched his arms behind his back after he finished the statement and bent over to pick up his nalgene bottle and took a swig. As he screwed the cap back on he answered her question. “Yeah, I’m a new student here at Hammel. I just transferred from Kocher in Switzerland. I’ll be graduating in May.” He turned and set the nalgene bottle back down. As he did, the sun gleamed off the hawk wings peeking from under his tank-top. “What about you?” he asked, “Been at Hammel long?"

[Avery Sainsbury]

Avery started to nervously play with her hair. He was older then her and she wondered if that would make him shy away. However she knew she couldn't lie. She didn't like it. Lieing just didn't settle right, it was like eating a lot of onion and having heartburn. Still smiling and showing her white teeth and her full lips she finally spoke up. "I'm new here too. Only I have a couple years to go yet. Which is ok. I don't mind it here really. Hammel is kind of like my family now." She didn't want to go into the whole "Never accepted thing" yet.

Avery sighed and pulled down her skirt slightly. "So if you don't mind me asking, what your ability?" She was always looking for someone like her. Avery knew that there had to be another weather manipulator out there. However Jinahi didn't look like he controlled the weather. She wasn't quite sure what he would say. All she could think about was how good he looked in just a tank top.

He was definitely distracting her. He had much more appeal then Talen. Jinahi had tattoo's. Avery didn't know what it was but thats what made her more attracted to him. It was inevitable. She had to give him a once over. She let her eyes go up to his and then down to his feet, slowly and then back up. It took all she had not to go 'mm mm'. For the first time Avery was starting to crush on him. So far just based on his looks. However his personally looked promising to her.

[Jinahi Fletcher]

“New? Really how long have you been here at Hammel? I just moved back to the States on Saturday.” Jinahi smiled, “I don’t know if you can be newer than that.” He hadn’t even been to his first training session yet. He was anxious to use his powers legitimately. The small bit he’d channeled before… Gavin blacked him out wasn’t nearly his limit. It was a muscle that needed stretching just like his arms.

“I’m an Aquakinetic. What about you Avery?” He said specifically using her name as her eyes went up and down his body. He started to nerd out under her considering gaze. \What was with American girls\ he thought, \they all (yes all constituted 2) seemed so.. forward and blatant with their sexual attraction.\ Not that he minded getting checked out. Especially by a gorgeous blond who had to be less of a bitch than Fifi. He knew better than to get caught up with M.E.B.s like her.

(ooc : MEB = Man Eating Bitch)

[Avery Sainsbury]

Relaxing a little She smiled more "Well, I've been her around a week. Maybe. Although I have always lived in the united states. Not in Vermont, but out in the country." She nodded wishing she could say that she had been to places like that. Avery felt a little under educated but she couldn't let that get to her. One day she wanted to go to places like that so she could say 'Switzerland is nice this time of year.'

Avery blushed even more when she realized that he caught her checking him out. "Water control? That has to be cool. I well... control weather. Its scary sometimes because well, I don't control it my emotions do. Its like if I let myself cry and cry and cry, I look out side and there is a storm brewing. Its neat I guess." Avery was just yammering away because she was becoming shy again. It was really the first time she checked any one out like that. She's had crushes before but it was the first time she looked at a man like that.

[Jinahi Fletcher]

“Interesting, so you lived with your family then?” He asked, curious about what a normal childhood was like. One with two stable parents that loved you and actually wanted you to be around.

“How’d you come to Hammel?” he asked. Avery looked a bit old for this to be her first week too. Most powers manifested from 9-12 in natural metas. And Jinahi had personal experience with the fanaticism of Hammel’s recruiters. They found him in Italy of all places.

“You control all weather?” Jinahi asked amazed. He’d always wanted to talk with a weather worker. His powers were kind of similar, but more localized and concentrated. “How does it work for you?” he managed to slip in through her stream of words. “Oh, so your weather ability is tied to your emotional state.” Jinahi stated kind of dejected. He was used to his classmates in Kocher who had 7-11 years of practice under their belts and could get beyond emotional influence. Although, through his own experience emotions helped channel his abilities more than hindered them.

[Avery Sainsbury]

Avery lowered her head to all of those questions. She hated to show emotions so she put on a smile. The brought her head back up. It was a tough pill for her to swallow. Both her parents gone, an Uncle she never met, her animals taken away, her home for sixteen years destroyed by a tornado she caused. "Well....to be honest. I lived with them. My father never really payed attention to me after my brother was born. Jr. gets what ever he wanted. My mother was the only one who loved me or payed me attention. However, after I came here she found she was pregnant with another man's baby, got engaged to him divorced from my dad and moved to Maine. She sends me money and pictures of my dog and cat."


Avery sighed and thought about the next question. "Well both are easy questions. My powers just appeared. My parents where fighting, about me again. Jr. just pushed me and my dad well didn't care. My mom came down and yelled at Jr. then my dad yelled at her for yelling at Jr. I got mad at my dad and I wanted him to be gone and hurt and my brother too. The next thing I know My mom was holding my hand. her hand was shaking and we where coming out of a closet. A tornado just went threw our house. We all almost died. Later a person showed up and I was brought here, where I discovered that I caused the tornado. Thats why I'm here any way. Oh and I found out very recently that I have an uncle that lives nearby here. My mom never told me because he was a meta. She told me he will take care of me now." Avery held back her tears as she saw a little dark cloud. She hoped that it was mother nature's doing and not hers.

[Jinahi Fletcher]

“Woah,” Jinahi said, started by the similarity of their stories. It prompted him to open up. “My dad never wanted me and sent me off to boarding school when I was in primaries. He didn’t want my tainted skin ruining the family portraits with his new wonder-bread family.” He reached down and picked up his bag and shirt, covertly taking in Avery’s figure while he did.

Jinahi was touched by her story. It was like his, but the torment was probably greater because she had the possibility of normalcy slapping her in the face and being denied every day. He had always been without family. Jinahi had started to get nervous and anxious over her questions about his past. He really didn’t like to think back to Cairo. He tried shifting the direction of the conversation slightly, “So your uncle’s a meta? What’s he do?”

[Avery Sainsbury]

Avery sighed and let out a tiny laugh. "I don't know. I don't even know his name yet. I never met him, I never saw him in my mom's family pictures. I always thought my mother was an only child. He is somewhat a mystery to me." Avery put her purse on her shoulder and dusted off her shoulders. Avery shook her head. She couldn't believe that she looked like a mess.

"Sorry I just have a pet peeve about my appearance. I know it sounds very vein but other then that I'm a very nice person." Once every heard about his father she felt bad. "I'm sorry you had to go threw that. I wish I didn't have to go threw stuff like that. If I could I would want to be normal. Do you like it here so far? I bet its no Switzerland."

[Jinahi Fletcher]

“So let me get this straight: You’re mom let the Hammel recruiters run off with you and gave some dude you’ve never met legal guardianship of you?!” He asked in credulously. Not that it should have been hard to believe for him. Jinahi had basically been abandoned in the same manner, except his legal guardianship changed with the schools he went too. His dad had tried to control his life even though he wasn’t in it.

“Being vain doesn’t make you a bad person,” Jinahi laughed. Avery seemed slightly on the ditzy side, but who knew what she could be hiding under that blond façade?

[Avery Sainsbury]

Avery nodded "Yea. I think she figured out that the tornado was my fault before I did. Well I don't know if he has legal guardianship of me but that's basically what she wrote her letter. It was a long letter about how she felt bad and couldn't handle it or something like that. I read it a couple times because well, I couldn't understand what she was saying. The funny thing is after the tornado I kind of expected it. After I was gone my mom was free. I try to put it all behind me. I try not to let anything get me down. However, if I did, I might cause a flood, so that a good reason not to wallow in self pity."

Once again Avery smiled and shook of her bad thoughts. She was the type of person to not let things get to her. "However some would say being vain can indicate that your not a very wise person. Well that what they told me in my old school. I guess I figured I had one thing in this world, which is my good looks. Although there are a lot of people that look better then me don't get me wrong." Avery's blush got bigger. "I'm sorry I must sound like a complete and utter fool. Sometimes I can just keep talking and talking. Its either that or I make a lot of awkward silences."

[Jinahi Fletcher]

“Oh I wouldn’t say that at all,” he laughed obviously referring to his own physical appearance. “I’ve found that attractive people are underestimated intellectually and physically. That can be its own advantage if you don’t mind playing stupid once in a while,” he advised. Avery seemed to recognize her faults even if she didn’t do anything about them.

“Anyways, I’m going to head home,” Jinahi said. Avery seemed interesting enough, maybe he should get her number before he left. “Do you ah… have a cell phone number I could call?” He asked a little nervously.