Don't Mess Up (Mari)

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She was lurking in one of the empty rooms just beside some laboratories and functional classrooms. She had no choice, because only there could she try out and finally practice her other ability without messing up with other items. She was just going to try it on the one she had, an old phone she acquired from the black market. It was only one of the many items she was able to get at a... 'very low price'.

She sat on the old table in front of the board, and tried to read the old gadget the way she'd read minds.

But her head always starts hurting just after a couple of minutes. Little did she know, she might not be working well with the phone she had, but her mind had started producing waves that slightly disturbed the radio waves around her and the building, and ruined signals. They constantly fluctuated, with Mizuko not being in control of this yet.

Her temples beginning to throb, Mizuko decided to let it go for now. She went out to the hallway, thinking of any approach she can take so she can master this ability already. If only someone understood how this works, then maybe she can seek help from them. But she didn't know anyone like that.
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Erik...was sober. Which considering everything that had happened wasn't really a bad thing, but it wasn't good either. Another letter returned to sender, another confirmation that his parents thought he was a monster. If only they lived on the island with him, they would see that he wasn't even the tip of the iceberg. There were others that were so much worse than him, so much scary and much more powerful. Hell he ran into a chick with wi-, he paused mid thought as the grid he was following mess up and the signals he was so used to reading sounded like nails on a chalkboard.

He followed the waves, wincing as he tried to restore the balance of the signals and then he realized why everything was going haywire. He stopped when he almost walked into the girl with an old phone in her hand. "...I should probably have more of an introduction here, but whatever you were trying to do isn't going to work because that phone's not really giving out any signals...it's off the grid." He said looking at the phone. He could already tell it was one of those disposable do business without being traced blackmarket phones. They always found a way to jam the freaking signal and he had to work twice as hard to hack at.

"..Uhm I'm Erik?" He asked staring at her, not angry though she did give him a headache, it was more concern. If he got a headache from the screeching signals...what had happened to her? Normally he was a cold person, but someone potentially going through the same things as him..was king of a soft spot for him.

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The Japanese girl flinched. She didn't sense the guy she almost bumped into, which was weird, but she blamed the headache. She looked up, wondering what he was talking about until she realized...

He was talking about what she just did. Holy cow! He sensed what she did and he understood and...

Mizuko's eyes widened. The guy in front of her suddenly looked like a gift from the heavens. "You... know what I just did?" she asked, her Japanese-European-English accent slipping through her words. She eyed the phone for a moment, and tossed it to the trash bin that was conveniently just beside her.

And then she made a slight bow in return for this man named Erik's introduction. "I'm Mizuko," she replied. The movement of her upper body caused a batch of irritating throbbing on her head again, and she visibly winced as they momentarily got stronger. "I messed up... Eriku-san I hope what I did didn't hurt you..?"

She looked him in the eye, while her own revealed anxiety and worry. If Erik felt what she did, did it hurt him, too?
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Erik nodded "Well i don't know what you were trying to do but you managed to scrambled the builds radio waves and electrical pulse" He was postive that she wasnt trying to do that, about sixty precent sure. That want alot but it was still more than half. He noticed the accent and the school uniform and the features and heforced himself to worry about her scambling the schools grid. He had managed to put it back it the way it was but he was worried about her doing it again.

"Nice to meet you Mizuko, and no I'm fine. Im actually used to the headaches its why I carry these." He explained holding up a bottle if fast acting painkillers and the handing them to her. He had more in his dresser drawer and she needed them more than him.

"Perhaps if you tell me what you were trying to do and what you can actualy do I can give you pointers?" He asked, mostly out of the want to not have splitting headaches every time she used her power. It didn't even matter where he was in the school, he'd still get the headaches.

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Whatever Erik was saying didn't sound so good, and he would see it on Mizuko's face-- she felt like she was in trouble, and was absolutely guilty of what she caused. Her eyebrows were tensed above her nose, her eyes lowered in shame, and her lower lip helplessly stuck between her teeth.

"I wasn't trying to do that... Sorry..." she mumbled, before the bottle of painkillers caught her attention. She looked at it just in time to realize that Erik was handing it to her. She did need that now, while the headache wasn't so terrible yet. She took the bottle hesitantly. Looked Erik in the eyes for one moment, reading his thoughts just to check if they really were painkillers. It wouldn't hurt to be cautious.

"...Thank you," she said, for everything so far. How nice for someone who was technically still a stranger to be concerned. "I was just trying to see if I can affect the gadget somehow if I try to communicate with it... I've done it once by accident. I lost all data in my psp. I think... my brain can mess with waves and data somehow. I think I know how it works but I have no idea how to control it."

She regarded the bottle of painkillers again. She really needed to take one, so she quickly took one out and dry-swallowed it.
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Erik smiled kindly, which was kind of out of character for him when he was sober. Still he couldn't help but feel for the girl a bit. She hadn't meant to basically mentally attack him, no matter how much it actually felt like that. "Don't worry, it's normally for people to make mistakes when they're first learning how to do something." He tried to reassure her but he wasn't sure it would work. Admittedly outside of charming girls into doing what he wanted sex wise he was a bit at lost as to what to say to actually cheer her up. It was kind, of weird to be nice to girl and not want something in return. It was like he was actually a normal person...if the stupid grid wasn't there or the pulses but no they were always there unless he was faded.

He handed her the can of sprite he had gotten from the soda machine down the hall. He hadn't opened it yet because he was on his way to buy himself lunch. Dry-swallowing pills was horrible and he wanted to see where the whole nice train was going for him. "Well it sounds like you just scrambled the waves and then...were you in a panic? That's probably why, most of the time when hacking using technopathy or transducing..which is what I am a transducer and a technopath. If I Panic it scrambles the phone signals and manipulates it to erase all the data, and its near impossible to get it back." He studied her and then tilted his head.

"Then again, it was mostly the radio waves and signals that were off and giving me the headache so maybe you can just scramble waves...with focus so mental?" He was mostly talking to himself not really her but she was free to chime in and then he came to a solution after a few minutes of trying to guess what she could do and in what limitations.

"I could always show you how to use your power if we're both right about how it works"


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Mizuko felt her face flush. She was too embarrassed to accept the soda, but honestly dry swallowing a pill hurt her throat and a drink was impossible to refuse. She took the can, but looked up at Erik with unsure eyes. "Thank you. Please let me pay for all this?"

She opened the can and took a few gulps almost immediately. She felt the pill get stuck in her esophagus before the drink pushed it down to her stomach. She sighed as she finished.

"Anou... I think that's all I was supposed to do..? My problem is that I can't control it or... or concentrate it in one spot." She frowned apologetically. It felt bad that she had caused trouble to someone because of her incompetence. "There was a time when I destroyed all data in my psp," she faked a sob, "I lost all my files. But I think that's how it's supposed to work."

She looked at the bottle of meds and the can before offering it to Erik. "Won't you drink some medicine too? You're having a headache, right?"
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Erik nodded and took out his phone and saved all his data to his sd card before taking it out and handing it to her. "This phone is on the grid, it's also a brand new smart phone so it should work" He said waiting for her to take the phone.

"Dont worry about paying me back, if we manage to get you some sort of control it'll help me in the long run" He said smiling at her. He was really wondering why he hadnt thought of something dirty to say but he was just...not thinking that way in that moment. Which was weird for him becauses he always thinking that way.
"Dont try and focus it in one spot in particular persay, imagine it as a wave, and that wave washing over the phone... its hard to focus eavesand signals in one spot because they don't move in a straight inline...ever.." He said rubbing his forehead head. His headache was still there but fading albeit slowly.

He smiled at her and took the pills "Pretty and kind, thats an amazing combination" he said after he took a drink and handed both items back to her. "You'll need them..."

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"Oh. Oh no, I can't." The girl shook her head and pushed his phone away. She can't accept all this; that would be too much and she'd be taking too much advantage of Erik's help. "It wouldn't feel right, Eriku-san. Don't worry about it, I have... I have more gadgets I can work on. I have my own working phone, for starters."

She took her phone from her pocket and showed it to him. "See?" She tried to turn it on but... Huh. It won't turn on. She frowned. She tried a few times more before realizing, "I... think I just destroyed it."

She sighed. She can get it repaired but she wasn't getting her hopes up for getting her files back. Dejected, she put it back to her pocket and took the medicine and the items Erik was giving her. But not his phone. She heard his compliment. She can't help but feel shy, mostly because she didn't know how to handle compliments like that.

"Uh... Thank you, really," she muttered. "How about... How about coming with me to the dormitory? I can get a few things from my room that could help."
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Erik sighed and ran a hand through his hair "Honestly, you can use the phone, I have bunch more. Besides if you destroy i backed up my files and part of my power is fixing technology so it's really not a loss" It wasn't often that he was actually nice enough to offer help so it shocked him when it was accepted. He wasn't sure if it was because she didn't want it or she just too proud to accept his help. Either way it would be too cruel to just turn away since it wasn't going his way. There for he was going to just go along with it, and see where being nice was going to lead him.

"Sure if that's what you're most comfortable with" He said gesturing for her to lead the way. It was the first time he had even gotten invited to a girls dorm, and it not be for sex related things. He wasn't even sure how he was supposed to feel about that.

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