Rip It Off Like A Bandaid (Blake/GM?)

[Zack Asiv]

Bailey's body raises a hand to it's gaping black mouth kisses it and blows Blake a kiss with a wink of a large blacked out and cracked eye.

"Finally getting somewhere with you. Doesn't it ever get boring to keep pretending you are some righteous figure of rules and laws?"

Her other self would yawn as she stretched again.

"Well what if you could write new rules?"

Her other self would raise a finger to the sky.

"What if you could make a tornado. Right now, right here."

She would then point to the ground.

"Shake the ground beneath you? Rip the earth apart into fissures, raise a volcano?"

[Blake Oleander]

He felt the demon inside growling as the skinwalker blew him the kiss. The hair on the back of Blake's neck raising as his eyes narrowed. A growl starting to form at the base of his throat but suppressed. He knew what the demon wanted, the beast wanted to rip whatever was doing this to Bailey out through one of those black holes in her face. And there would be time enough for that if Bailey failed. But like how she cannot control his beast he can not control her chaos. It is a battle she needed to face on her own. As he did, as Sai and Brill did. And as others born here will need to do if they were chosen.

Blake could only stand here in silent support, and with the promise that he would take her down and end her before she became a threat to the future, they were building. Even if it cost them everything they were building for themselves. And everything he'd ever wanted in life. The future that was growing inside of her.

[Bailey Oleander]

“No.” Bailey frowned as her other self stretched as though it were bored or ready to break out.

“I don’t want to - and it has nothing to do with fear.” Her other self’s questions were interesting, but not tempting. Even the part of her that Bailey considered to be her morbid curiosity seemed muffled as she stared down the part of herself she feared and dreaded most - the part of her she saw whenever she thought of what would happen if she lost control. Maybe one day she may want or need to, but not today. Not now.

She started to ask why they wanted it, only to stop and blink. Did it matter? This dark being wanted her to want it. What if it needed that?

She thought of every time she had panicked at the sight of her powers changing, telling herself that what she saw wasn’t her, that blood and wounds instead of energy were some sort of invasion, an enemy. She fought it time and again and lost to it like she had lost control. So what good was being afraid of this thing? Why give it more strength in her weakness?

“You may be a part of me, but this is my body and my powers, and they’re mine to control. Nothing you offer is going to change that.” She squared her shoulders as she spoke. Somewhere, she had a partner and a life to get back to, and this part of herself wasn’t going to keep her from them any longer.

[Zack Asiv]

Blake would notice her eyes turn back to normal.

"Well Bails... What you say is true, but without me... You will never reach your true potential. So one of these days you will have to accept me."

With that the energy would run out and Bailey would go back to normal. Holding the half mask in her hand.

[Blake Oleander]

Blake nodded and relaxed.

"You did well."

[Bailey Oleander]

She couldn't deny it. If she wanted to use the power she just claimed was hers, she wouldn't be able to shun it at the same time. But that was for another day.

The darkness faded abruptly, leaving her in a space of earth surrounded by devastated forest, Blake standing nearby while everything else looked like it had been hit by more than one tornado. Trees cracked, broken, bent. Foliage thrown to the horizon and in heaps. She raised a hand to her face, feeling for any sign of the cracks she had seen on her other self that might remain until the familiar voice caught her attention. Her shoulders eased as she gave a small smile and nodded looking at the mast for a moment, letting it remain in hand for the time being.

"Thank you." She walked over to him, leaning up on her toes to kiss him. She knew he would have done what was necessary if she had been week, but they'd avoided that fate this time.

[Blake Oleander]

"Always."

He'd simply say leaning down to return her kiss.

/end

[Bailey Oleander]

Name: Squad Training
Requirements: Assigned a Squad
Job: It's time to get the squad together and hash out our problems. Be they in the field or with each other personally.
Bonus: Fight each other, discuss problems, and grow together or apart.
Payout: +5 exp, +$250

[Zack Asiv]

Approved

Bonus achieved

Payout
Bailey and Blake gain +1 to all stats when in the same thread.