Pain Behind The Blue Eyes

Saber

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He sat against a wall out side the school, his head in his hands, his breath heavy. The flashbacks had been worse lately, seeing his family die again and again, and seeing little snippets of his time in labs, being experimented on.

He pulled himself to his feet, he didn't feel like driving back to his apartment yet, so he headed around the corner and into the main building. Maybe walking the halls would clear his head.


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Emily wandered around the corridors of the school, clutching her book bag to her chest as her steps quickened. She had been here so long already, how could he still be getting lost. She was lucky that she had already finished her last class for the day or she'd be fraught with panic right now.

She rounded a corner and suddenly was no longer sure if she wasn't panicking. A small noise from her throat was the first outward indication of the amazing wave of emotions that had struck her. Tangs and sours and bittersweets all began to cloud her mind as the alighted on her tongue.

Her vision lost focused and she stumbled as her legs began to shake. Her equilibrium left her next, and soon she was sliding down the wall as several books and tarot cards splayed themselves across the floor as her bag hit the ground.

Several seconds went by before the bulk of the emotions past, or perhaps she simply acclimated to it, and her vision began to clear again. "Oh... O-Oh dear..."

She reached out and feebly tried to gather her things again, bringing most of them into a loose pile, before she cast her gaze around the passage again to try and discern the origin of such intense emotions.

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As he turned a corner his glowing blue eyes catching sight of a girl gathering her things on the floor. He approached her, leaning over to help her pick her things, "are you ok?" he asked in genuine concern. It was ironic, he was an emotional mess, yet he still felt more concern for others, "did you fall?" He handed her a book, "your not hurt are you?"

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Emily glanced up at Aedan, fidgeting slightly as her face reddened with embarrassment. Her eyes began to dart around and her tongue danced across her lips breifly. "... U-um... I th-think I'm al... Alright..." She rubbed the back of her head a little. It didn't hurt, but there was the phantom feeling of the impact there.

She hurridly began gathering her things again when she realized he was helping clean them up. As she gathered the cards into a deck once again, she drew the top card and glanced shyly between it and Aedan. It almost looked like she was confirming something.

"... Uh... U-u-um... A-are... You a-alright...?" She let her gaze rest on Aedan as she asked this, then she got flustered and her eyes started darting around again. "I-I-I m-mean... U-um... Y-you taste um..... Y-y-you seem.... S-seem..."
 

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He cocked his head a bit at her question, she had just fallen yet was asking him if he was ok, "I'm fine, more worried about you falling." It wasn't a convincing lie, he wasn't well.

He looked at her the glow of his eyes shifting slightly, "why would you ask if I was ok?" Aedan wasn't stupid, he'd just had a flashback so her asking him if he wasn't ok couldn't be coincidence. "Are you telepath?" he asked calmly, he disliked the idea of others getting in his head.

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The questions just seemed to get Emily more flustered. Instead of answering immediately she sorted her things back into her bag. Once everything was back in it's place, she took a deep breath and got back to her feet.

She licked her lips again, and finally began to speak again. "N-no... It's n-nothing like that... W-well... I-it's kind of l-like that... I can... Um... T-taste... Emotions... A-and... And y-you seem to have... A-a-a lot of them... A lot of... M-maybe not good o-ones... S-sometimes this i-is normal... For s-some p-people... I-I-I wanted to... To s-see if I c-could help... S-somehow..." her eyes drifted off to the side slightly as she spoke, avoiding meeting Aedan's gaze.
 

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He listened as she explained her ability to taste emotions and how detected a lot of bad ones coming from him, she even stated she wanted to help.

He looked at her for a sec, uncertain how to reply, he was about to say no but sighed, he knew his friends were beginning to notice his PTSD getting worse, "we dont even know each others name....I'm Aedan Drago."

He offered his hand to shake, "and yea.... I don't want to admit it...but I'm not doing well."

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Here face flushed red again as he pointed out they didn't know each other. "O-oh... Y-yes... Th-that's true... Um... I'm s-sorry... I-I'm Emily" She glanced down at the hand and hesitated a little bit, but then stuck out her own small hand and shook it.

"W-well... It's not g-good to... Keep things secret and b-bottled up for l-long periods of t-time... I-I don't... Kn-know your situ... S-situation... But t-t-talking about things can o-often help... A-and there are o-other things t-too..."
 

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He shook her hand and nodded, "yea......I dont like my friends seeing me like this." He sighed, he'd distanced himself lately in attempt to hide his PTSD.

He looked at her, the glow of his dimming a bit, "so....." he leaned against the wall rubbing the back of his head, uncertain of what say next. He gave a slight smile, "damn.....where do I even start?" He looked at her and closed his eyes, "what would we normally talk about?"

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Emily fidgeted a little bit. "W-Well... Th-Things like... Situations like this... C-Can be hard to sh-share... B-But it's better that s-s-someone know about them... T-To help you th-through them..."

She returned his smile reassuringly, her eyes finally seeming to be comfortable resting on his form. "'Begin at the b-beginning'... T-To quote Lewis Carroll... W-W-Well... I-If we were just ch-chatting as... As f-friends... I would express a c-concern for how you were doing... A-A-And then you might dismiss it... A-At first... B-But bring it up again i-if you... Wanted a-advice..."

"If it w-were a more... P-Professional situation... I might ask y-you to t-tell me what... what you b-believe to be the s-s-source of your... Strong e-emotions... Or I-I might ask how... You were feeling... And h-how life was..."
 
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