Runaway Rescue

[Yoshomika]

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Name- Jewel "Mouse" McKenna
Age- 18
Image - http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y5/Yoshomika/RP%20Characters/Jewel.jpg
Other: Nothing special]]

Jewel sat back in her chair, but continued staring out the window. It was such a lovely day... Jewel closed her eyes and imagined she was surrounded by the dense wood that lay behind her house. That no electricity existed, that the only thing she knew were what her body told her. Today had been worse than yesterday, and yesterday had been worse than the day before. And to prove her point, she quickly stood and dashed to her closet as she heard her Mother's footsteps coming towards her room.

The clickity-clack struck terror in her heart, and she wondered everyday if today was the day things would break. Something kept her back every time, but things were getting worse. It stopped being spankings six years ago, it stopped being beatings when her mother put her head through the wall. Fourteen-year-old girls shouldn't fear for their lives, without knowing why.

"Good, you're just cleaning..."

Jewel shuddered at the voice. "What else would I have to do?" she asked quietly. She heard her mom come closer and she shrank into the tiny room, but her mother pulled her out by her long pale-blonde curls. Jewel jerked away, spinning to face her. She was shocked when her mother slapped her without a word, and she pushed her away hard. The girl's dark blue eyes flashed, staring at the woman towering over her. A hand raised to her stinging cheek and she growled, crouching into a defensive position. "You bitch!" she shrieked. "Don't touch me! You hit me again and I'll leave!"

"Whore! I saw you with that Perkins boy! Did you think I wouldn't? You're a dirty slut!" Her mother rained down blows which her daughter tried to block. The more she cowered, the harder the hits came.

"He's my friend!" Jewel cried. "He's just my friend!"

"LIAR!" Her mother grabbed Jewel by the arm and started dragging her out the door. "You're a whore, just like your father! If you want to be a whore, you'll get treated like a whore!"

Jewel screamed, but ultimately she was drug behind her mother. When they got to the stairs, Jewel struggled even more. She knew where they were headed... the kitchen. Jewel's mind raced. Anywhere but there... The kitchen was full of more dangerous things than belts and fists. Last she knew her mother hadn't bought new wooden utensils...

Jewel chose desperation over reason. She stopped pulling and pushed. She pushed hard, hoping that it would be enough to throw the woman off her balance. She didn't care if she ended up broken rather than her mother, in fact, she started wishing it from the first pull of unsteadiness to when they crashed down on the landing. It wasn't a long flight of stairs, no more than ten or so, but Jewel felt woozy when she sat up. She scrambled away when her Mother moved, then got to her feet and ran to the door, her limp slowing her a little.

Her mother hadn't moved and for a moment Jewel watched, before ripping the door open and fleeing into the streets. If her mother caught her, Jewel didn't want to know what would happen. And so, ignoring the stabbing pain in her knee, she pushed deeper into the forest, running the only direction her mother didn't know. If her mother was dead, Jewel didn't know... and she wondered more the further she got from the house if she had killed the woman. But in an instant she realized she didn't care if she ever went back. It'd be an unsolved murder/kidnapping for all of time. Jewel could only hope.

 

[Jugger82]

Name- Nathan Stone
Age- 19
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Other- Wolf anthro. Has physically sensitive ears.

Nathan was hiding in an alley. He had become an outcast of society after somehow growing wolf ears and a tail. Everyone hates him for becoming a person with wolf-like instincts and he wished he didn't mutate. His ears picked up the sound of a girl running down the street. He poked his head out to see a girl going down. He stayed low, hoping not to be seen because she might be a threat to him.

 

[Yoshomika]

[[Sorry it took me so long, I've had some personal shit going on... I'll try to stay consistent, but everyone's keeping me so busy. Some vacation... >.>]]

Jewel bumbled into the forest, her nose just starting to burn. She knew she was going to cry and she let the tears come until she could no longer see where she was going. She slowed to a walk and wiped her face, getting the tears out of her vision. She didn't care where she ended up, she simply didn't want to live here anymore. She wanted to be far away where no human could ever find her. If that meant the belly of an animal, so be it. Better dead than tortured by that evil woman. God my ass! she thought to herself, pushing branches out of her way. When's the last time God helped me

 

[Jugger82]

(Its ok, don't worry bout it.)

Nathan followed the girl out of curiosity. She seemed sad, yet he would still stay away. He still thought she might be a threat to him. He stayed behind her just enough to get a good view of her and just enough so that she couldn't see him if she suddenly looked back. He was using the trees as cover as he silently crept from one tree to the next following the girl.

 

[Yoshomika]

After a while of walking, (Jewel had no clue how long, only that it was getting dark and cold out) the girl decided to take a break and settle for the night under a tree. Se spread out, her tears finally dried and gone, and sighed in relief. Her mother hadn't followed... she wondered if she really killed the woman. In a moment, Jewel felt guilty. Even though her mother hadn't treated her well, she still hadn't meant to kill her. Only to escape.

"That's it," she said to herself, trying to keep her mind sane. "I can't go back. Not now. I'm an outcast, a criminal... A murderer..."

 

[Jugger82]

Nathan watched her from a tree above her. He was plainly seen there but she seemed not to notice him. He wondered why she sounded so sad saying this if she was a threat to him. She couldn't be harmful if she is regretting it...right?

Nathan- Whats wrong miss?

From the moonlight, all she could see, from her vantage point, is just a black figure with a humanoid body, ears like a wolf, and a long hairy tail that hung down low.

 

[Yoshomika]

Jewel gasped and whirled, her eyes following the sound of the voice. She yelped and stepped backwards, stumbling a little. He had heard her! "Think fast Jewel!" she thought frantically. "Sorry! I didn't see you!" she offered, wondering if the tail and ears she saw were fake. She had seen some strange people wander around with headbands with ears on them and fake tails... it wasn't too odd. "I..." she wondered if she could trust this person. Probably not, but out here in the woods, alone... "I ran away from home and figured I might live in these woods. No one will miss me... I just don't know my way around. Do you live near here? Maybe you could tell me the closest cave or river?"

 

[Jugger82]

Nathan listened to her and believe every word. He didn't find her way of acting odd.

Nathan- Hm...no...I don't live around here. I just followed you from the city haha...sorry for the stalking...you seemed sad and I wanted to come cheer you up...

He sat down on the ground near the tree he was in. He looked at her with eyes that said "Are you alright Miss?"

 

[Yoshomika]

Jewel found the boy odd, but he didn't frighten her, so she sat as well. "I'm fine," she lied. "Well... except for the fact I ran away. My mother liked to hit me, so I left. I pushed her as I tried to escape and I fear I've killed her... so I can't go back." She peeked up through her lashes at the boy. So he had been following her? Was he truly concerned? Or was he the kind to use her before he stabbed her and threw her in the river he supposedly didn't know existed.

She didn't really care, as long as she didn't have to go back. "I won't go back," she said more confidently. "Even if she is alive! She's a horrid woman who never loved me! So I've set out to find my fortune! Like all those characters in the stories you've heard about!"

 

[Jugger82]

At the end of her tale, Nathan went over and sat by her.

Nathan- Y'know, though she might not have loved you...Murder isn't the best choice of what you could have done.

He seem unfazed by anything in her story.

Nathan- And those stories are just stories...they don't actually come true. But if you're willing to try, try. You seem like a capable woman.

He was wagging his tail slowly.

 

[Yoshomika]

Jewel sniffed and hugged her knees. "Yeah, well, staying here is better than going back to something that could be worse. If I go back and she's alive, she'll kill me for sure. If she isn't and I don't go to prison, they'll stick me with another family. I'm a free girl, I don't answer to anyone out here. Why wouldn't I stay?" She leaned her head on his shoulder and sighed.

"You don't even know me, why are you helping me instead of trying to kill me, or hurt me?"

 

[Jugger82]

Nathan- Because I too am an outcast...haven't you seen it?

He had ignored the fact she was leaning her head on his shoulder. His ears twitched and his tail wrapped around his body and laid on her lap.

 

[Yoshomika]

Jewel sighed and nodded. "Yeah, I guess... I don't really know what an outcast looks like. You aren't surrounded by people, but... I've been kept inside my whole life. The only time I go outside is if I'm with my mother! She was awful. She never let me do anything unless she was there. It was like she was afraid I'd get a mind of my own." She turned to look at him closely. Reaching out, she touched his ears. Her fingers jerked back when she felt the soft fur, but she marveled, petting them and giggling. "That's so cute! They're real?! I wish I had ears like that!" She looked down at the tail resting on her lap and pet that too slowly. "You're a remarkable person... but you're alone? It's wrong, because I don't know you... But would you run away with me? We both hate it here, and you don't seem like the type that would try to take advantage of me... After all, you haven't tried to touch me yet. So how about it?!"

 

[Jugger82]

Nathan's body became numb at her touching his sensitive ears but he didn't show it. He couldn't move until she moved her hand though he could still talk. He smiled at her at her question, though puzzled that she automatically thought that random guys would try to take advantage of her. He shrugged off the feeling.

Nathan- Uh...sure I guess. If you want to, I have nothing here. I only stay to...well I don't know.

 

[Yoshomika]

[[Sorry I was gone so long, I had technicl poblems, but it's all fixed now. I'll be more constat now.]]

Jewel sighed and gave him her best smile. "Thanks. I don't know why this feels right, but I can't stay, I can't go back, and if left on my own, I'll die." She felt foolish telling him this, but truth is truth and she needed help. "I've never one anything on my own. I'm a sitting duck, there's no avoiding it. So... maybe if we stick together, we can make it. We need to find a cave to stay in tonight... But I have no clue where anything is." She looked into the darkness, listening as hard as hard as she could. "Do you hear the river? If we're going to find shelter, it should be close to water."

 

[Jugger82]

(Mkay.)

Nathan- Ha. I can hear things a mile away and then some. Though I kinda haven't been listening...

He began to listen and he looked in the direction where he heard rushing water.

Nathan- That way. Hold on miss.

He didn't know her name so he had no idea what to call her when addressing her. He picked her up gently and began to walk towards the river in a slight rush.

Nathan- I dunno if there's any caves 'round but I can dig us a burrow in a tree trunk.