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POV Jinx
I woke up and immediately felt like shit. My whole body felt heavy and as if I was encased in concrete.
You know your body needs the shimmer you make. The voice in my head said.
Or I need my HRT which is at the base, fuck me. I thought back.
A knock at the door stopped my thought process.
“What the fuck do you want?” I called out.
“Um, Pow-Jinx, I was asked to deliver you your medicine,” Kin’s voice said. “I um, also wanted to see if we could just talk for a bit. Izumi and I talked last night and I wanted to ask you a couple of questions.”
“Come on in,” I said, getting out of bed in just my underwear and grabbing my shorts, putting them back on as the door opened.
“They’re um, HRT,” Kin said, looking away from me probably since I didn’t have a shirt or bra on at the moment.
“Thanks,” I took the bottle from her. I downed one of the pills quickly. “So, what cha want to know?”
“Why didn’t you tell me anything?”
“Simple, you wouldn’t understand.”
“But still-”
“You were born with a golden spoon in your mouth. How could you understand what a kid who was born to a family that lived in poverty was going through? How I felt every time someone made a comment or looked at me as if I was a shit stain?” I asked. “You can’t, you were always showered with praise, looked at and treated as a princess. You don’t know what it feels to be thrown back to an orphanage while your sisters are kept by a family that doesn’t deserve to take them away from you just because you want to be who you truly are even if it wasn’t how you were born, but the worst part is when you learn that they have another sister from the people who adopted them and treat her better than they ever did you!” I shouted as my anger rose from my spying on my “sisters”.
“I-”
“You don’t know what it’s like to be abandoned by your own family.”
“But that’s what you did to me,” she said. “I thought that we were basically a family, but I guess that’s not what you all thought.”
“We are a family, you weren’t one of us,” I declared.
She stood there for a moment as tears pricked the edges of her eyes. Then she silently left.
I stood there as I tried to figure out how to make some more shimmer before I got dressed.
POV Izumi
“So, when can we recover the rest of our gear?” I asked, looking at Ahri.
“Nezu hasn’t told us, this was all tossed together yesterday,” Evelynn said, walking down with the blue haired girl behind her.
“Hey, sorry about what Jinx said yesterday. Honestly we aren’t all that excited to be living with them again after last time but most of us are willing to try to put that to the side for now. She’s just not the type to keep her thoughts in her head,” I explained.
“Why do you keep calling Powder Jinx?” Ahri asked.
“It’s her name, I’m sure you read her file, but there’s a lot that you don’t know since it wasn’t put in her file and she only explained it to me given reasons,” I said.
“It’s fine, I suppose given their not so normal relationship that she might assume that, but no, I am just part of the band,” she said. “Your name is Izumi right?”
“Yeah, Seraphine?”
“Correct,” she said. “So, what exactly have you been doing as vigilantes?”
“Well, we spend most of our time in the areas of Japan where heroes avoid going. Kamino, Zaun, and places like that,” I explained. “We’ve been protecting the people there that are forgotten.”
“Isn’t Zaun where I-Island is docked?” she asked.
“Yeah, it’s the slums with zero heroes. Crime runs rampant there. Drug dealers at every turn, killers in every alley, rapists in every bar, it’s a crime den,” Goichi said, walking into the room without his cane.
“Ok, so- um, I had a brief explanation of your quirks, but are you really blind?” Seraphine asked, looking at him.
“Well yes, but actually no,” Goichi chuckled. “My eyes don’t work, but with my quirk all of my senses were enhanced to the extreme. I can make a model of the world around me in my head. I can tell that you have long hair, skin smooth by a lotion with coconut oil, and either you accidentally used some of Ahri’s shampoo and conditioner or you were-”
“I-I think that’s e-enough. I think I understand,” she said, her face blushing and I noticed a small shake in her voice.
“Oh, hey Kin,” I said as she walked down the stairs slowly. “How was your talk with Jinx?”
“It was something,” she said, her voice rough as if she was crying.
“Jinx doesn’t mince words, she comes off as an ass when she can’t say something only in a nice way. Don’t take everything personal from her. Doesn’t help she’s been having to take street HRT and not the regular stuff a doctor prescribes,” I explained. “It makes her mood swings a lot worse.”
“Then there are the days she’s just a bitch,” Hokage added.
“That too,” I admitted.
“When did all of you change?” Kin asked.
“We haven’t changed a bit, we just were able to drop our masks around others,” Anna spoke up, her southern American accent cutting through the air with her words. “When we had to be around rich folk we had to act as if we were normal folk, sugah.”
“Really? But why didn’t you act like this around us?” Kin asked.
“You guys are rich and famous, do you really think anyone would act like this around you?” Yugo asked. “When you have fan meet and greets do they tend to treat you all as if you are higher than them and never curse in any form?” he asked, looking at Akali.
“Yeah, basically. Never really understood or cared why,” Akali said.
“See, now we just don’t care,” I said. “Other than our shadows.”
“Shadows?” Kai’Sa asked.
“Blake, Ilya, Kiniko, and Himiko. They all work purely in the shadows and sneak around everywhere they can so we call them shadows,” Yume said.
“Nezu said that a couple of your new classmates will be arriving later today, try not to kill them or make them kill you was his only request,” Ahri sighed, looking at her phone.
“No promises other than we will try our best,” I offered.
“Better than I expected,” Evelynn sighed.
AN-
Three fic updates in a single day, that might be a record for me. I hope you all enjoyed some nice slow conversations. Make sure to follow, favorite, comment, and kudos! Link Out!
… now do i have a fourth fic to update?