Jeda was almost finished when she heard a knocking at the door. She swore loudly and winced as she hurried to put her tangled shirt back on. She had cut gaps in all her t-shirts to stop aggrivation to the cursed wound. She tore the gloves off before placing them back on the hook and tripping over her skateboard. Her left shoulder pulsed once and she swore even louder and grabbed her hair brush. She looked at the appearing bruise and sighed, this was going to be hard to explain. Sitting on the chair in front of her study desk she started brushing her hair. The silky strands of red and slightly less noticable blonde fell down to her shoulder blades in length.
"Come in!" Jeda called and continued brushing her hair. She swivelled her chair around and sat staring at the gloves by the door. They were ignition gloves, custom made. The gloves were used for fighting and healing in a manner of speaking. Her pair of white gloves pulled her attention and she put them on. Never touch one white glove with the other if you are putting them on or taking them off. The red sun symbol on both the black and the white pairs of gloves were the symbols for fire.

Jeda smiled and flexed her hands. "They are fire proof, these stop me from subconciously using my powers. The black ones are for fighting and healing." she suddenly threw a stress ball at Sawyer, aiming for his head. She removed all the loose hair from her brush, rolled it into a ball and put it in the bin. Jed tiedher hair in a loose ponytail and bounced on her bed. a twang came from beneath the bed and she disappeared for a few moments as she fished out her guitar case, a sleepy black kitten and several dust bunnies. She dumped the kitten gently on Sawyer's chest and it stared at him with gold eyes. "Could you hold onto him for a sec? I've got to find my guitar under the bed. Don't you dare eat him Leo." She wriggled under the bed and sneezed. She grabbed the neck of the guitar and dragged it back out with her. It was a beautiful instrument with the black and tan wood. Jeda laughed lightly as the kitten tried to crawl under Sawyer's shirt, trying to find warmth. "Come 'ere Leo! Stop that you little fiend." The kitten mewled cutely and rubbed its head on Sawyer's jaw, obviously taking a liking to the strange boy. "Oh...Leo this is Sawyer. Sawyer this is Leo." The black kitten yawned and his little pink tongue rolled out as he sniffed Sawyer's t-shirt.

Jeda smiled and nodded as Leo came scampering over to her. He bunched up his haunches, his little tail waving comically as he prepared to jump onto her bed. Jed hurriedly picked him up by the scruff of the neck and plopped him down on the quilt cover. Her phone rang and she picked it up, but was too late and it went to voice mail. She turned the phone off and looked at Leo. "Hello stinky Leo. I am going to be giving you a bath tomorrow! Now where'd Smokey go? Speak of the devil! Here she is." A slightly older cat was lounging on top of her wardrobe and was watching Leo with something close to indifference. Smokey slid down the gap between the wardrobe and the wall. She sat on the floor, watching Jeda with light blue eyes...the colour of ice shards. Leo bounded over to Smokey and Smokey batted his ears with sheathed paws. The older cat loped to Jeda's side and looked up at her mistress, demanding a pat or two. Her light grey coat tightened and rolled over Smokey's muscles as she leapt onto Jeda's bed and completely ignored Sawyer until this point. "Hello Sawyer." She looked at the boy and sat down on the quilt, her tail around her paws. "Smokey is my animal guardian. All elemental users are supposed to have one. Hey...you want those scratch marks healed shut?" Jed used her teeth to take off one glove and removed the other with the other now gloveless hand.

"Jeda you have not done your nightly power practise." Smokey reminded and Jeda laughed. A spark of fire began on her long fingers and worked its way up the girl's arm. The fire looked like red, moving jelly as it seeped back down her arm and back to the tip of her finger. Smokey saw the exausted look on Jeda's face and head butted her mistress, encouraging her to stop.

Jeda smiled grimly and grabbed the black gloves from the hook beside the door. "This will hurt. i am going to be literally burning the skin shut. Grab my right shoulder and squeeze it if you want. Don't scream, Benson will think that I'm commiting murder." She put on the left hand glove and placed Sawyer's hand on your shoulder with hre right hand, holding it there gently. A tingling sensation went through the young girl as she placed her gloved hand on his scratch marks and pressed lightly. A warmth spread from her body, to the glove and then into the scratches. Jeda pressed a little harder and felt the flesh knit back together. She quickly took her hand away and put on the right glove, removing the left. The girl pressed a finger to her lips and clasped her hand onto her left shoulder, finishing the burning of the skewer mark. Her face creased lightly in pain and she felt the scolding heat of the fire licking gently at the scars. "I'm used to burning these scars shut. You feeling better or worse from the rainy encounter. Thank you for saving me back there. Really...if there is anything you want from me or need just say the word alright?" She turned and stretched before hanging the gloves up once more and climbing onto the bed. Grabbing the guitar neck and dragging it onto the bed, she played a little melody. "My mother used to play this tune on her guitar...to try to get me to sleep. It made me think of mythical creatures and stuff. You don't mind if I play it do you?" She looked at Sawyer and began to laugh, Leo was looking at sawyer's hair in a confused manner. To him it might have looked like a wig. He pounced and tugged gently on it, intent on seeing if the hair was real. Leo then quickly let go, avoiding the cushion that jeda playfully threw at him.

Jeda smiled and looked at her digital alarm clock. "It's 9:30. You want to go to bed or stay up and talk?" Subconciously she plucked delicately at the strings and started singing along with it...just vowels. She then stopped and walked toward Sawyer. She sat beside him on the spare bed and gently hugged him. "I hate it when I remember my old life. It was always so...bothersome. I had no friends and my only family is Benson." She turned her face into his shirt and closed her eyes. Her eyes suddenly felt wet and she pulled her face away. "Am I...crying?!" She suddenly hugged him tigher and sobbed gently into Sawyer's chest. Her soul had been longing for a friend...was he a friend or foe? She sobbed harder and buried her face deeper into his chest. Smokey hissed and batted the air with her paws. "Jeda! Jeda stop that infernal racket at once!" The cat demanded, her tail lashing about as she blocked her ears with her front paws. Smokey grabbed Leo by the scruff of the neck and dumped him into their shared bed and did something similar to an anime sweat drop as Jeda kept crying. "Leo...I've never heard her cry before. Ever! How do we stop her???" Smokey yowled softly in Leo's ear and he looked sympathetic.

Jeda's sobs became softer and she barely even shuddered any more. she subconciously felt him clam up but kept her curiousity from bothering him. It was his business...not hers. She lay down gently on the bed and nervously looked away from Sawyer, occasionally making small sniffling sounds. Jed looked up at the ceiling and quickly sat up again before looking at Sawyer and smiling. "Hey Sawyer...do you trust me? Will you tell me why you clammed up for a second or two just then?" She looked slightly dishivelled, her hair had left the ponytail and strewn itself all around and on her shoulders. She then smiled, closing her eyes. Her shoulder bared the scar and the hair hung everywhere except on that part of her left shoulder.

Jeda smiled softly and hugged him for no reason. She closed her eyes and sighed gently. Her eyes reopened and she looked him in the eyes again. "I give you hugs because you need or deserrve one. Right now...you're the one who should be crying, not me." She let go of him and searched around in a draw before holding out a silver chain to Sawyer. "You can have it if you like. It is supposed to give you inner peace or something like that." She then unclasped it and put it around his neck before reclasping it and hitting him gently with a pillow.

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