Bad luck: dangerous waters [Open]

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Axe was one person she was referring to, but also some others who wouldn’t put up with Lucas no matter what. His roommate, Rylee, was pretty strong herself, despite her small size. And Safia…Marcus feared to see what condition Luke ended up in if he ever crossed her path. He wouldn’t even have to make a bad impression with that dragon-girl, she’d cut him down to size before he had a chance to offend her.

Marcus had no idea why that made her more appealing to him. Somehow.

Marcus scoffed at his excuses. “You just have an answer for everything, don’t you?” Whatever, if that’s the way he wanted to be, then let him. Marcus didn’t have to listen or pay attention to a word of it. Why should she trust the word of someone who never seemed to take anything seriously?

Again, Marcus had to reflect how much that line of thinking sounded like the stuff his grandfather would drench him in. Maybe she should go easier on the guy? Well, wasn’t that why she was helping him in the first place? It’d leave a bad taste in her mouth if she just left him there to flail. Even if Luke was a dick, that didn’t mean Marcus had to be one too.

Or maybe he spoke too soon? Marcus blinked at the sudden apology, having expected that to be the last thing to come from the boy’s mouth. Her arm lowered slowly, having not received the pants she was supposed to help Luke into, and her eyes did as well. She had no idea how she was supposed to react to that. “…thank you,” she said finally, lifting her gaze to meet his again. “It means a lot that you said that.” Even if he didn’t mean it, it at least showed that he had the decency to say it when it needed to be said.

Marcus slipped into a thin smile. “Okay, humpty-dumpty, let’s get you put back together already.” She chuckled lightly and took the liberty of grabbing those pants herself. “How do you wanna do this?”

[Lucas Blacke]

He figured it was difficult to accept an apology from someone who was half naked in the shower and pretty vulnerable in terms of position. But still she did, and without laughing. To Luke it wasn't a laughing matter either but it had clearly been getting her down judging by how she responded. But it wasn't just for her, Luke felt like a major dick everyday since that happened and part of the reason was everything he had done and not apologized for, so in a way this was for himself as it took a significant weight off of his shoulders.

She thanked him, though not with those exact words and quickly went on to make a joke and compare him to humpty dumpty. ''Hey now, I ain't a fuckin' egg!'' He replied with a smile. How quickly everything could change, he figured. It'd take time to fully heal despite the fact they were well under way. He did chuckle a little bit though as she asked him how he wanted to do this.

''Iunno..'' He replied as if he was confused and just trying for random answers. ''One leg at a time?'' However, he was still quite hurt and he wasn't exactly comfortable, so all he did was waste his own time in the hopes of making someone laugh. Not a smart move. ''I think it goes over my underwear.. sooo..''

He smiled as he balanced on his good leg and attempted jumping over to her, but his leg put up too much of a fight. ''Yup, 'kay, not gonna hop over to ya, I'm right 'ere if ya wanna help me.''

''I also suggest just keepin' my pants under my legs an' I'll simply lower into them.''

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It wasn’t a laughing matter. And to be honest, she had her doubts that it was something that he could take seriously. He seemed to like to treat everything half-heartedly and cover things up with jokes. Even though there was a slight joke in there(was he thinking that she’d be more sympathetic or agreeable because he was wounded?), it took a lot of strength…willpower…courage…to be able to admit when you were in the wrong. Marcus’ mom taught him that. It was why there were so many misunderstandings between people, because nobody wanted to admit where they were at fault, always wanting to push the blame to everywhere else.

Marcus smiled as he protested her comparison. “Well, why don’t you remind me, how did that rhyme go again?” she asked with a squint of amusement. “Humpty dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty dumpty had a big fall.” Marcus kept the smile on her face as she took the pants and rolled short, so Lucas wouldn’t have to spend so much time shoving and flailing his leg through a long pant. Marcus nodded at his instructions, and stepped closer. “Seems to apply to you right now, don’t you think?” she said as she kneeled down and held the pants open. “I guess the difference is that you don’t got the incompetence of the king’s horses and men there to try and fix you up.”

She looked up at him, a small smile. “You got me instead.”

Enough joking around though. Marcus lowered here gaze again(mostly too keep his ‘purity’ intact, the poor fellow), and concentrated more on holding open the pants for Lucas to step into them. “Just don’t fall on me. Hold onto the wall, or use my head for support if you need to. But if you collapse on me, I probably can’t pick you up again, so don’t botch this, okay?” Marcus was not a very strong individual. She'd be trapped under the other boy's weight until he figured out how to move himself.

[Lucas Blacke]

''I never sat on a wall,'' He said as he put his hand on her head and painfully lifted his injured leg. Had it been that bad that it hurt even when simply moving it? Maybe he shouldn't have tried to stand on it in that case. His leg was slowly and with a grimace lowered into the rolled up pant leg. He did offer up a smile when it hurt some more but that was only because he had a girl kneeling in front of him with his hand on her head. Were he not injured he'd make some kind of inappropriate joke about the situation.

''I never had a great fall,'' He murmured as his leg had cleared the fabric, though now came the hardest part. ''Might've been great to you, but it really, really wasn't.'' His second and non-injured leg was hesitantly raised as he kept holding onto her head to hopefully minimize what he would feel from putting his weight on his no-no leg. He flinched a bit and quickly put his foot back down, removing his hand from her head. Pain shot through him and a shudder followed as he quickly tried again, see if he couldn't work through the pain.

But before he tried it a second time he was told that he shouldn't botch this up because he'd likely fall on top of her and she wouldn't be able to pick him up again. Oddly enough Luke hadn't thought of that yet. ''Can't or won't?'' A joke to lighten the mood a bit. Hopefully. It was likely the first though as he was pretty sure she didn't want a repeat of what happened with the mountain dew without the dew.

''In that case I should stop tryin'. Hurts like hell.''

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“Suure you didn’t.” Marcus wasn’t fooled. Besides, that whole poem was a metaphor anyways, wasn’t it? She remembered reading about that somewhere, maybe? Or was she getting it confused with something else? Marcus didn’t have the best memory. Hence why she was still at Hammel despite being 20 years old already. Sigh…

“Yeah, I’d say that fall was pretty great. Actually, I’d say it was pretty damn epic.” She was teasing, yes, and had no plans to let up on it anytime soon. Marcus watched carefully as Lucas raised his leg and slipped it into the open pant leg, and then as he attempted to switch to the other. This was going to be the hard part. “Can’t, she clarified with a wry smile. “Sorry to disappoint, but you’re not my type.” Though the truth was closer to that Marcus was hardly even sure what his/her type was.

Aaand he gave up. Marcus wasn’t sure if she should be disappointed that he couldn’t do it, or proud that he actually admitted it before hurting himself. Marcus stood up. “Ugh…” she grunted, frustrated. She put a palm to her forehead, thinking. “If only we had a….hold on a sec. I’ll be right back.” The both of them were boobs, apparently, for not thinking of this before. Marcus traipsed out of the shower area, on a hunt for something that could be used as a sitting device. A stool or folding chair preferable. What kind of sense did it make for them to not have them readily available in the shower room?

Marcus returned after a few minutes with a stool. She set it on the tile behind Lucas then whacked the seat with her palm. “There. Plant it. C’mon, let’s go.” Hopefully the boy didn’t need her to spell it out for him.

[Lucas Blacke]

''No it wasn't.'' He very nearly defended himself even as he knew it was nothing more than a simple jest, those words hit the ball a smidge too far and reminded the boy of people who would probably didn't mind if his neck broke in the process. Yeah, he was pretty dark at times and this wasn't helping. He wasn't sexist or anything, but getting help.. ugh. He somewhere found himself glad for it, even if she didn't have the physical prowess to help him but still couldn't help like she couldn't help him at all, it was a mindset he had. You could try, but helping him would only prove to be temporary.

That comment from her very nearly caused him to listen past the comment about him not being her type, though he should have missed it for his own health. The current mindset he was in made sure that this was another serious blow to his ego. But why? He didn't even..- With a slight sigh he decided to let it go as best he could because he did not feel like knowing why he cared so much. ''I bet.'' He shot back. It was hard for him to think of anyone whose type he was.

When he tried to put weight on his pained leg though and stopped himself out of the fear of falling over, to which she had made it painfully clear she couldn't help him with, she spoke and very nearly facepalmed before darting out of the shower area leaving Lucas alone with one leg in his pants and no one else around to turn to. This really was a bad day, he figured as he mouthed 'what the fuck.'

When she got back though Luke sighed with relief as she didn't leave him to his own devices, which was a plus, and had brought a stool for him to sit on. She put it down behind him and tapped it before saying he should ''plant it'', it was slightly odd but still it wasn't hard to figure out what she meant by it. The things were made for sitting, right? Maybe he could make it easier for himself if his weight wasn't resting on his legs.

He sat down and smiled. ''This feels leagues better.''

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“Fine, fine,” Marcus relented, still smirking. “You’re not an egg.” Really, this guy was so sensitive. Then again, Marcus was pretty sensitive herself, especially when it came to sexist stereotypes. And then, she was starting to notice, even more when she was a girl, which just made things even more confusing than they were before.

She also expected a little better of a comeback in regards to her ‘not her type’ comment. She thought it was fairly obvious why she’d say that. After all, she was really a he, and most straight men were pretty uncomfortable with that kind of male attention. She decided to ignore whatever sour mood she sense from Luke and just continue on like normal. “Like, seriously. If we’re talking guys, I tend to go more for the blonde ‘Disney prince’-like characters,” she continued on in a ramble. “Like that guy, Salem, I don’t know if you know him or not. But girls, welll, I think with them I’d pretty much take anyone who’d be willing to take me, you know? But, arg! They have this annoying tendency to just treat me as yet another one of their cliquy girl-friends, not even an option most of the time and it’s just….grrr, it’s frustrating.” That last part, Marcus was clenching his fist pretty tightly to demonstrate that frustration. She seemed to be pretty upset by her lack of luck with females.

That wasn’t too much information, was it? Too bad, Marcus was rambling and when she rambled, it was always tmi.

Either way, it was something to fill the silence while they figured out what to do about getting some damn pants on him. Luckily, they didn’t have to fumble for too long before Marcus went and got the stool to assist. And boy did it assist. They really should have thought of it sooner. “Good,” she said softly. “I hope it helps. I mean, it should, you know? Just…I don’t know, just get dressed and let’s get you to the infirmary before that leg of yours gets any worse.”

[Lucas Blacke]

''Salem?'' He repeated it as she said she liked him. Okay, she really just used him as an example, but still. Luke knew who she was talking about even when she asked if he knew him. He grew a smirk and simply nodded as she continued. ''I know this blonde guy. Salem.'' They were roommates and had exchanged some words together in the past. They weren't really friendly but they weren't exactly enemies either, not that he knew anyway. ''He's my roommate.'' He told her with a smile, if she was after this Salem guy she'd likely be around Luke a lot more. But alas, it couldn't be, or so he thought. ''Pretty sure he's gay though. So I don't really know 'bout yer chances.'' Or well, he did and they were pretty much as high as Luke making out with a guy. Hold on..

''So guys an' girls, aye? So yer bi? Pitch for both teams?'' He joked a little bit but he didn't mind it at all, the most hurtful thought he knew he had about the subject was that he felt like knowing how the hell you did that. He sure couldn't. ''Promise me that when ya hook a with a girl ya record it.'' He winked and stuck out his tongue. ''Wouldn't mind seein' some good ol' girl on girl action.''

''But yeah, I get that ya feel like going with the first person who accepts ya for who ya are. I think everyone has that at some point or other. An' I think that straight girls kinda outnumber the gay or bi ones.'' Still, it was a fun idea to think that this girl could land a femal rather than a male, but that was mainly for selfish reasons. Seeing two girls together had always been a fantasy for him and he made damn sure everyone even mildly interested knew that. ''Wouldn't mind helpin' ya if ya need it.'' He offered right before she took off.

He had his small moment of confusion and annoyance that the subject was dropped just like that but when she did return it made it all the more easy for him to poke his leg through his pants, getting up and making sure it stayed on for the trek they would surely have to make.

''Yeah yeah, infirmary.'' He shrugged it away with a smile. ''Yer just gonna lead me to yer room, right? Get a taste of the goods?'' He didn't like to admit it, but she had seen him naked. ''Just admit it, I look pretty damn tasty.''

Not unlike an egg.

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“Mmmhmm. He’s been a bit touchy lately, though.” They weren’t close friends, but Marcus knew that Salem had been going through a hard time the past several months. “Oh? He’s your roommate? Huh, I wonder how I never noticed. Well, we aren’t that close, barely even friends, and he’s been pretty distant overall, so I guess I’m just too intimidated to go talk to him again. “Oh, well, yeah. Kinda figured, I got that vibe from him.” Lucky for Marcus, that wasn’t as much of a problem as it was for most girls. Because most girls weren’t really guys.

Marcus blinked up at the question. “Hmm? Well, yeah. I guess….it’s just…easier to think that way, I think. Less confusing.” Though Marcus was starting to get the feeling he/she preferred girls overall…guys were just easier to get into bed. She rolled her eyes. “No fucking way. Besides, I have a strict rule that says “no sexing as a girl’.” She was still too scared to go through with it, no matter her partner. It was like if she did it, then that would make her less of a guy…

Listening to Lucas talk, Marcus had to smile. “Yeah, I think so too. That’s what my mom always told me too.” It both made her happy and sad at the same time. Marcus shook her head. “Nah, don’t need it. Besides, the girl I have my eye on is a huuuuge man-hater. She’d rip your eyes out before you could even think about winking at her.” It made Marcus damn scared for his life, but….Safia was just so damn cute and pretty and awesome! If only she never had to find out that Marcus was a dude!

She was glad that the stool seemed to help and that Lucas was quickly able to get himself dressed with it. “Ah-ha-ha-ha,” she laughed, though probably not for the reason Lucas thought. “My room? Sure, uh….if we can find it, that is. It’s kinda…buried under my own private landfill.” Not to be crude, but Marcus was horrible when it came to cleaning and organization. At least she didn’t leave food in there rotting for weeks at a time. A couple days at the most!

Marcus gave Luke a supportive pat on the back as she guided him out of the shower room and into the hallway, making sure he didn’t take yet another great fall. Especially not down the stairs…wait, didn’t they have elevators? Marcus never used them. “I think the elevators are over there.” She pointed in some direction.

[Lucas Blacke]

''Aww man. Girl sex is the best.'' He rolled his eyes. ''I've been told.'' And to have two girls being a part of it.. the only thing that could make that better was if he was the third party, but that thought had come and gone plenty of times as most of the girls he had met so far were utter prudes. He'd never met someone who didn't force him to pull on the brakes, he had always found the need to slow down on his jokes and treat girls all loving-like. Perhaps he needed to find a girl he could just be a friend with, someone he could be himself around.

Maybe she could be that friend, but there was the tiny hitch that she didn't seem to be picking up what he had been throwing down. Though in all honesty he had only been doing that because he had failed to realize what she had told him before. And when he finally did, he took to blaming the pain. ''I'm sure yer room ain't that bad.'' He assured her as she helped him up when he had finally finished putting on pants.

Wait, was she actually going to take him to her room? Why? Sure he had asked, but he wasn't being serious? As he thought on it he realized he didn't even know where the nurse's office was. He'd been there before but he never really took the time to memorize the place. He could just think about the place and if he walked there before he would do so on auto-pilot. ''So where we goin'?'' He finally asked as she pointed in a random direction, saying there were elevators over there.

''Yer not kidnappin' me, are ya?''

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“Ha! You would say that.” Though Marcus totally understood. Two girls making out was pretty damn hot! Just as long as one of those girls wasn’t Marcus. She didn’t think she could ever cross that line.

Lucas was right in his thinking. Marcus had completely missed the ball he was throwing at her, thinking that it was all just him fooling around. Because Lucas did remember that Marcus was a guy, right? And she was fairly certain that he wasn’t gay, or even bi. So of course, none of that stuff was to be taken seriously, right? “Uh, yeah it is,” she contested. “I’m pretty sure that’s where the Lost Ark got lost, you know?” Just to paint a picture.

And no, they were not going to her room. Infirmary was the priority, and that was in the main school building last she checked. Marcus raised an eyebrow, looking at Luke incredulously. “Um…where do you think? The infirmary.” Marcus snickered. “What? Did you think we’d take a little side trip to my room or something?” she joked, following it up with yet another playful laugh. “Oh, sir!” Marcus continued the joke, speaking in an uncharacteristically feminine (and somehow southern) voice. “I’m not that kind of gurl~” Cue the dramatic hand atop the forehead.

[Lucas Blacke]

He chuckled at the lost ark bit, it was funny that she joked like this even when he was injured and couldn't walk properly. He knew she was not the most glad with having to help him, but the fact she did meant a lot to Luke even if he didn't like accepting help to do something as mundane as walking. Still, knowing it was a joke and anything and she probably wouldn't, he wouldn't say no to a trip to her/his room. Could be fun to see how his friends live, he had ofcourse only seen one other room before, and that opportunity had sailed a long time ago. Relatively.

''Side trip?'' He asked. ''Pretty sure the infirmary would be a side trip there,'' He joked as he broke out a smile. ''If it's that much of a mess there's bound to be as first aid kit in there or somethin'.'' He joked, not sure if she'd see it as one or a serious comment.

He paused momentarily in his thought though when she continued on and used that southern voice in a joking fashion. He knew it was nothing but a joke, but still.. Damn. There was no way she could have known, but southern voices and accents did something to him and not only because he happened to have one, but they reminded him of what was and all the girls he had ever known back home and.. He shivered. Looking at her though he felt the need to remind himself she wasn't a girl. Not really anyway. She had boobs and everything else that girls consisted of, but she wasn't really.. was she? What was she actually, a guy or a girl? He needed to ask that sometime.

''I ain't that kinda guy either, so don't worry 'bout that.'' He finally replied. ''But would ya really complain if I.. I dunno.. was?''

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Why not joke? She figured it would make Lucas feel a little more at ease and less like Marcus was concentrating on the fact that she’d seen him naked and had to land a swift blow to his man-pride.  “Hmm…you know what, you’re probably right.  I have a vague memory of buying one a few years ago. Lord knows where it is now, though. It’d be quicker taking a trip to Maddock General than it would be trying to dig that thing up.”  One of these day, Marcus was going to go through and organize her whole living space,  sort through everything, throw stuff out, and turn it into an OCD’s dream.   Who knew when that would be, though.  It could be tomorrow or a year from now. Presumably, it would be whenever Marcus finally decided to drop out of school and leave(assuming his power control was good enough), but even that was up in the air of when it would be.  Sigh…
 
Either way, Marcus was enjoying herself, despite the awkward circumstances.  It was something like this lightness that made her think that maybe these two could be friends.  Yeah, Lucas was a prideful jerk sometimes, but he was also pretty fun to talk to.  

“Hmm?” Was that a serious question? “Seriously? I don’t know,” she answered with a shrug, wondering what he was getting at. “Is it really my business to care?” Marcus my not have been that kind of girl, but that kind of guy? Marcus had plenty of experience in that area, though not once had he gone steady with a single one, so he didn’t really have room to complain either.

They reached the elevators, and Marcus pressed the ‘down’ button. It’d take about a minute for the doors to open, then she’d tote the other boy inside.

[Lucas Blacke]

Why had he said that? Maybe it was how there were so many gay people at the school that he felt there was something he missed, or that he needed to do this because of being liked and all, take one for the team. Part of him blamed it on being insecure, and part of him blamed it on.. Marcus not knowing what to go for, or that was what Luke assumed. Maybe he needed a certain something that much that he had begun preying around people who could tolerate him, and since Marcus had alreaddy kissed him..

He turned his gaze and scolded himself mentally. He had kissed her and not the other way around. She didn't want it, wanted to stop him even and never gave in, and part of him knew that was because she didn't like him that way, or that he wasn't in control. Lousy excuse, he needed to work on that one.

Either way it was, this was not something he should currently contemplate as, while she was helping him his foot still hurt and he was just trying to hardball his way through the entire ordeal. ''Guess not.'' He waved the comment away like nothing serious, as he was sure Marcus saw it too. He wasn't being serious. Right?

''Thanks for helpin' me.'' He told her with a nod as she pressed the button for the elevator to come. The doors finally opened and she helped him inside, and as the door closed she pressed where they needed to go for his leg. He trusted her to do the right thing at this point. Paying attention wasn't his greatest feat.

''So..'' He sighed. ''Yer okay with helpin' the school dick?''

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Marcus would claim to still be in the experimental stage, but….at 20 years old, he still hadn’t figured out what his preferences were, and that was disturbing. To him. His concern was that he wasn’t going to find anybody who he actually liked…who actually like him back. And not in the “you’d be an interesting thing to fuck and try out” way. Most people s/he got in bed with were just trying to satisfy some twisted sense of curiosity or get off on some kink. And while s/he didn’t mind it entirely, it was a serious stab to his/her pride and self-esteem every time.

Maybe that’s why Marcus hadn’t been doing it much lately? She wasn’t figuring anything out, and was just feeling worse about it the longer it continued without finding….anything.

Besides, Marcus did have a girl s/he liked….great taste in women, Marcus, your crush would sooner kill you than fuck you. If she never found out that Marcus was really a dude, then…but that was exactly what Dr. N said not to do….so Marcus was back at square one with that.

As for Lucas….who knew? He really wasn’t her type, even though she didn’t quite know what her type was. He was…honestly reminded her a lot of the dicks who were just momentarily intrigued by something exotic or whatever, though more accurately, she was quite certain that he wasn’t interested in guys, much less girls who were really guys. That was the impression she got from him when he ‘accidentally’ kissed her, considering how upset he was about it afterwards. First impressions were lasting, so any interest he showed later Marcus was inclined to take it as a joke.

But she didn’t think he was all bad. Obviously he could be a very decent person. Marcus looked up at him when he expressed his thanks. “Anytime,” she replied with a squinting-eyed smile. She laughed and gave Lucas a friendly pat on the back. “Trust me, you are far from the worst person I’ve met at this school, so it’s really not that big a deal.” There were so many students with problems and tempers who were just generally dislikable people, it wasn’t even funny. She’d treat it as such, though. “A lot of those guys have graduated though.” Jerks left her behind. “So, I guess it’s time for the new generation of dickbags to make their legacy?” She chuckled again. The elevator dinged at the bottom floor and the doors opened.