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Post by remingtons on Nov 11, 2015 16:15:12 GMT -5
Sinclair helped the crying girl up, leading her through the lab to the medical room. The servants they passed by gave strange looks, some of them fainting upon sight of the lost hand. Sinclair left those servants to be assisted by the other servants, after all a melted hand is much more important than a simple faint.
"Sit on the bed and i'll have a look at it," she spoke as she typed into a computer to bring up the research they had found from examining Katelyn's finger. In the room was a bed much similar to what you'd find in a doctor's office. Sinclair had placed the Jar-O-Kin in a containment unit that was used for scans.
After performing some medical work on Katelyn and giving her some things to relieve the pain while she explained everything she was doing to Katelyn so she would not panic she said, "If your hand does grow back it would take a while, I don't know if it really will grow back though. The studies on your finger provided a lot of information, but not enough for me to tell anything about your entire body. Quite frankly it's a miracle you didn't bleed to death on the way here. There's also the matter of the introduction of the foreign acidic substances into your system, it might slow down your healing for your hand a bit if it doesn't completely stop it as well. There might also be some side affects like dizziness, nausea, and death maybe some hallucinations but i'm not sure."
Sinclair looked to the jar, "However it was most definitely trying to eat you. I can say that for certain judging from how it kept saying 'hungry' in the footage. It was breaking down your hand with digestive acids and absorbing your hand. That thing is entirely one big half-solid pile of stomach acids," she was more of thinking out loud than explaining to Katelyn what happened.
The woman was typing into a computer, examining the creature and trying to figure out what sort of abomination this thing was. After she finished typing, she left the computer at the lines of 'subject is sentenced to termination if reform or communication continues to prove impossible.'
This thing was too dangerous to keep around. They didn't know what it was, what its intentions were, but it was obviously out to eat humans.
Sinclair looked to Katelyn, a curious question coming to mind, "Did...did that thing speak to you?" she asked.
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Post by Katelyn Dimeo on Nov 11, 2015 16:40:30 GMT -5
Katelyn found herself stiffening a bit as the blonde came over, but makes no attempt to scurry back or get away from the other woman as she reaches down to grip Kate's good arm at the shoulder. As she allows the woman to help pull her up to her feet, the girl finds her stance and legs shaky, and as she's lead out and away from the cell, Kate leans against the older female, most of her efforts focused on blocking out the pain. As she walks side by side with the still unknown woman, she is unable to even focus much on her surroundings, her gaze locked unwaveringly on her still bloody stump. She barely even registers the presence of the other people they come across during the trip to what appears to be a medical room.
When they come to a stop and the blonde removes herself from Kate's side and instructs her to sit on the 'bed' in the middle of the room, the teenager gives a shaky nod and complies, moving forward a couple feet and then turning before dropping heavily upon the cushioned piece of medical furniture. She had managed to stop crying during the walk as the pain receded somewhat, but still was shaking visibly, and the tremors intensify noticeably at the thought that her hand and the part of her wrist that had been consumed by the creature might not grow back due to whatever the acid the creature used was made up of.
"Oh.." She murmurs out with a sad tone, not sure of what she could possibly add that would have any value to this whole situation. Kate remained a bit hopeful though, as while she had never made mention of it, just a day or two following her initial discovery that she was regenerative, Kate had severed the tip of one of her toes to test how much she could heal, and it had been regrown by the following morning. She had 'cremated' the piece of toe the following day and never mentioned it to anyone else, though she had a feeling that Nic had somehow known with a couple questions he'd asked her following that that she had avoided answering.
She remains silent for a couple minutes, listening intently as the blonde continues to speak while examining her, and gratefully accepts the painkiller pills the woman offers, quickly swallowing them down.
When the blonde asked if she had been speaking with the creature, Katelyn hesitates for a moment to glance over at the jar that now held it, and then as she tears her gaze away and back to the blonde, she gives a shaky nod of confirmation.
"So..." She says softly a moment following, her gaze dropping to the floor and expression turning resigned again. "Think that having my wrist severed off is maybe punishment enough for the crime of running away? I... I'm not a bad person, or at least try not to be. I'm just trying to survive, you know? I only grabbed the pipe cause you cornered me.. I'm sorry." She adds before suddenly bursting into tears again, the trauma of it all catching up to her finally.
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Post by remingtons on Nov 11, 2015 17:01:46 GMT -5
Sinclair felt guilt tear at her heart, she sighed, "I'm really sorry about all that," the woman reached out to hug the girl. She needed to make it up to her for making her life a living hell for the past day.
An idea clicked into Sinclair's mind, "I know we've done all these horrible things to you and all, but how about I make it up to you hm? Education funding? Help around the house? Financial help in general?" Sinclair did not know whether or not the girl had a home of her own. That's when it finally dawned to Sinclair that maybe, just maybe, her parents were worried sick for her.
"Oh your parents must be worried about you, right? Do you need a phone or something? I'd like to keep you here at least a little bit longer in case the acid starts doing some unexpected things as well, we're the only ones with the slightest bit of research on that monster, so going to a hospital isn't exactly going to help if you start having some strange side effects..." Sinclair added on.
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Post by Katelyn Dimeo on Nov 11, 2015 17:56:15 GMT -5
Katelyn gave a sad nod but kept her gaze downward as she heard the blonde woman speak, giving an apology of her own. She gives a slight shrug in reply, figuring the blonde was one of two people out of the dozen or so she'd met in more than a passing that didn't owe her some form of apology. Leon was nice enough but had hit her with a car, then the kid from his gang that had looked at Kate like she was a rare species of animal, the five at the store, Shellie, Victor, the creature... The only other one that had treated with kindness without wanting something from her since her arrival had been Fayte, and Katelyn blinked suddenly at realizing that her fellow teen must be worried sick over Kate's abrupt disappearance.
She finds herself looking up and blinking again as the woman comes close and wraps her in a hug, and after a moment of hesitance, Kate's remaining complete arm comes up in a half-embrace, the girl taking care not to put any real pressure behind her hold so as not to hurt the obviously full human woman.
When the blonde pulls away and begins speaking again, Katelyn tilts her head to the side in slight confusion as the woman's offer indicated a complete turnaround from the pair's originally voiced intentions of sending her off to prison.
"I..." She trails off, unsure of how to respond to the whole thing, and then her face falls again at the mention of her parents, though she continues to listen to the blonde speak until she herself trails off.
"I'd like to think they were, but both of them are dead, have been for years. My adopted dad, he's a good guy but likely he's in prison by now too." She says softly, a bit of worry building up in her mind with the woman's mention of the possible side-effects that the acid that had taken her hand off at mid-wrist. "See I'm kinda blood related to an organized crime family, most of them are busted now so there's no harm in saying. The last time I saw my adopted dad, he'd been tipped off about the feds coming down on a bunch of people and shoved a few grand in my hand before pushing me out the back door of our house in New Jersey. He didn't want anyone to find out about me and what I can do, fearing much the same as I did about becoming government property to cure diseases or whatever else. I got to Reighs City a little over a week ago, just a few hours before you saw me get hit by Le... that car. I lost the money on the train, someone raided my luggage while I was sleeping, and while I'd like to maybe go back to school and be normal again, or pretend I am, I don't even have any identification. Tossed it before leaving Jersey..."
She pauses for a long moment before deciding to take a chance and tell the woman who she was.
"I'm Katelyn.. or Kate Dimeo."
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Post by remingtons on Nov 11, 2015 18:10:24 GMT -5
Sinclair allowed the girl to speak, her eyes widening a bit upon hearing this poor girl's background. The girl introduced herself, so Sinclair responded, "I'm Sinclair Remington, the man you saw earlier was Victor Remington, he's my husband. If you need a place to stay then I'd be happy to let you stay here until you have your own place to go to, in an actual room of course and not in the containment units. We have plenty of extra rooms in this godforsaken house," the woman offered with a hopeful smile.
"Of course there's going to be a rule or two, like breaking that addiction to those cancer-inducing sticks or at the very least not smoking inside the house, and some check up requirements in case acid-induced side-effects, but those would only be for your own health," Sinclair attempted to reassure her before Katelyn jumped to some wild conclusion.
She glanced to the jar, the creature was being awfully unresponsive. Did she kill it with that shock? No, it seemed to be much tougher to kill than that. It was definitely going back into the containment unit once she was done analyzing it. No bed, no stalls, they would be removing everything from that room most likely. Maybe she could get it to talk? Figure out what it wants and learn more about it?
Her attention turned back to Katelyn, "What do you think?"
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Post by Katelyn Dimeo on Nov 11, 2015 18:23:28 GMT -5
Katelyn looked up again to meet the woman's gaze as she introduced herself in kind as Sinclair Remington, and then gave a proper introduction for her currently absent husband, though the teenager already knew the name of the man as she'd heard the blonde yell it through her haze of pain as Kate had begged to not be shot with the tranq again as she'd been laying pretty much helpless on the floor of the cell after the creature had eaten her hand and a good chunk of her wrist.
Her hopes flare up for a brief moment at the offer that comes from the woman, knowing that likely whatever this place was would be more of a comfort for her as her arm regrew itself, if it was even going to, much more than the junkyard. But then the thoughts of abandoning Fayte and what the reaction of the man- Victor, would be upon discovering his wife had offered the 'dangerous and unpredictable' girl a place to live for at least as long as it took her to recover pop into her mind, and she adopts a light frown, belaying her insecurity.
When Sinclair asks what she thought, Kate remains silent for a moment as she held her gaze on the blonde for a few seconds before letting her eyes drift back to the floor.
"I don't think your husband would be very happy with that arrangement." She says in a sad but slightly hopeful tone despite herself, and she shifts her stumped arm from her chest to lay across her lap before adding in a dry voice "I don't think he likes me very much.."
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Post by remingtons on Nov 11, 2015 18:35:43 GMT -5
"Well then he can go fuck himself and enjoy a bit of outdoor camping until he agrees," Sinclair laughed casting a mischievous glance towards a corner of the room, she figured her husband was watching them from a different room. He was too cautious to just abandon his wife like that, and she knew it. If he was going to object to the idea so badly he would have likely said something over the intercom.
"Very Funny," came the rather angered response that echoed throughout the corridors of the home.
"As I was saying, he may have been a quite a bit rough but he's a big grumpy coward once you get to know him. He's probably realized by now that you really don't mean to hurt anyone here, and he's just sour because he wasn't right about his theories. Riiight hun?" she laughed, imagining the angry face on Victor's expression.
"Fuck off," was the response.
Sinclair had already forgiven her husband for his actions earlier, but that did not mean she wasn't going to poke fun at him for it. He likely would have done the same anyways.
"Fine. Just make sure Subject G-Zero-One gets put back into a containment unit before it ends up finishing where it left off," Victor grumbled from over the intercom.
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Post by Katelyn Dimeo on Nov 11, 2015 18:51:20 GMT -5
At hearing the reply that comes from Sinclair, Katelyn's eyes widened a bit and she let out a muffled giggle that she quickly stifles behind her remaining hand, but then finds herself stiffening as she heard Victor's still angry voice pipe up from nearby. Without a thought, the girl finds herself bringing her legs up to her chest again and wrapping both her full and stumped arms around her knees upon the medical table in an attempt to make herself as small as possible. It wasn't hard to do, given her relative shortness, and then her gaze shakily moves to look in the direction of the voice with wary eyes.
She listens to Sinclair continue to speak, explaining that her husband was just overprotectively rough, and an assurance that all would be well now that Katelyn had been allowed to explain herself in full with words that weren't falling on deaf ears or preconcieved opinions on the content of her character.
After a few moments of conversation between the pair during which Katelyn remains silent and rigid where she sat upon the table, she manages a small nod of acceptance and relaxes slightly when it becomes evident that Victor wasn't just waiting for Sinclair to leave her unattended to come back and shoot her full of sedatives again before forcing her back in her glass cage.
"I guess..." She says, still feeling uncertain about the whole thing, but knowing that her chances were likely better in the care of Sinclair and her mildly psycho husband than living at the junkyard and stealing to eat and such. Still, there was Fayte and Katelyn knew already she would miss her friend if she did stay.
"I uh... I have another friend who might.. could use a similar offer maybe." She says slowly, her gaze moving slowly back to Sinclair, keeping her voice low as she feared her request might set Victor off again. "I don't suppose you might have any friends who could maybe help her too?"
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Post by remingtons on Nov 11, 2015 19:11:29 GMT -5
"She could just come here, we've got plenty of room to go around!" Sinclair offered rather than sending that friend to some other household.
"Oh sure let's bring an entire ORPHANAGE into the house why don't we? I'm sure the staff will just be THRILLED" came the response from Victor over the intercom.
"That's a yes from Victor as well," Sinclair translated for Katelyn. Sinclair stepped away from Katelyn, typing a pass-code into the containment unit and causing it to open and release the jar that contained G01. She spoke up, "Come on, we need to put this thing back and then we could get you something to eat or a phone or something along with your other stuff."
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Kin felt his jar move again. He had been hearing the entire conversation. At least his 'friend' was getting it good with the Remingtons. He did not know whether to still consider her a friend or not, he would have liked to, but he figured that she felt differently.
Once he heard that he was going back into the cell, he began to panic. He didn't want to go back there! His body began moving about in the jar, trying to maybe throw himself out of the woman's hands or break the glass in his weak form. It was useless as a pile of goop. He changed into a rat, useless. Squirrel? Useless. Ok how about a chipmunk? Nope. He couldn't break out of the glass jar. Shit. Shit Shit! What was he going to do?!
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Post by Katelyn Dimeo on Nov 11, 2015 22:25:45 GMT -5
Katelyn gave the barest of smiles to Sinclair despite everything that had happened to her in the past day, and then her gaze drops back down to her severed wrist as she let her legs slide back down over the side of the table as she releases her hold. Her remaining hand slowly goes to the stump and she rubs at the now fully scabbed over end of it as a concerned expression returns. What was she going to do if the blonde was correct in that the acid might interfere with her healing it back, and she was left as a uno-peligic for the rest of her life? It would be especially inconvinent as her missing hand was the one she favored for writing and handling utensils and the like.
She looks up shakily a moment later as Sinclair mentions bringing the now jar-encased creature, and shivers just slightly at seeing the thing. Kate would be a fool to deny being scared shitless of whatever the shapeshifter was now, but at the same time feels a bit of pity for it. She had heard the near-agonized complaints of hunger, and knew that if it had really wanted to it likely could have done her much worse damage than it had, even remembering that it had allowed her free after taking her arm. All her struggle to pull away had done was to cost her a larger piece of herself as the goo had slid further up her arm as she'd tried.
In the end, Kate decides that she needed to know more about the thing before trying to voice a defence for it's actions, but feels a need to say something.
"I think you should leave some food for it if you're gonna let it out of the jar once it's back in the cell.." She murmurs out, holding her terrified gaze on the jar for a moment before letting it fall back to her ruined arm. "I wonder what... what am I gonna do if I can't grow this back after all? I'll be half-useless." Kate then wonders aloud without meaning to do anything but think it as she continues to rub at her stump's scabby end.
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Post by remingtons on Nov 11, 2015 23:01:54 GMT -5
"I don't even know what it eats, well i haven an idea but, i'm certainly not feeding it a human being. It's done absolutely nothing but hide in the stalls since we brought him here and took it out of a jar other than take the shape of one of the housekeepers. We didn't even think it could even communicate at first, it's never spoken before. We didn't think it was self-aware, an interesting thing it is..." Sinclair responded to her, examining the jar she held as the creature tried to take the shape of various small creatures to try and break out. It seemed to give up however, and revert to the semi-solid state.
"Don't think that way, there's plenty of people who've learned to use their other hand instead! There's also the option of robotics, if people can make functioning hearts out of robots then surely a simple hand could be done. If not i'll look into it myself and see if I can get one functioning properly," Sinclair chimed optimistically.
They arrived at the containment. Sinclair looked down at the jar, "Stay back now, don't want this thing to get you again," Sinclair warned. She passed by the two broken chambers to the fourth one, one that had obviously recently been emptied of all luxuries in it like the bed, the toilet, and the stalls for privacy. She opened the door, quickly throwing while opening the jar inside before swiftly closing it as the pile of white goo shifted in mid-air into a rather large kitty cat known as a leopard, though it looked more like a less fluffy snow-leopard with horns.
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The big kitty landed on the ground as if he had simply been jumping before quickly turning with his back to wall as a deep grumble rose from its throat. It was glaring, casting the glare at Sinclair. He looked to Katelyn, wishing he could apologize but there was no way he was going to do it in front of the older human. Not in front of either of them. He sat with his back to the wall, glaring and growling as his tail lashed against the ground, showing obvious signs of unhappiness towards his containment and inability to hide.
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Post by Katelyn Dimeo on Nov 11, 2015 23:39:50 GMT -5
Kate gives a slow nod in response to Sinclair's reply about the creature's eating habits, suppressing a shudder at what had happened to her hand and half her wrist might look like if the thing consumed a full human body. She had felt the pain of her skin and bone... melting within the mess of goo that the shapeshifter had wrapped her flesh in to consume it. It wasn't something she ever wanted to go throgh again.
"Well it's certainly carnivorous." Kate commented dryly as she let herself drop off the edge of the table, her now unbleeding stump once more pressed up against her upper chest as if to protect it in case the humanoid got out somehow. "I could maybe see if it will talk to me again, though I don't think it will unless I'm alone... Maybe it has some kind of animal it favors?"
She gives another slight nod to Sinclair's comments about learning to write with her left hand and the possibility of robotics, the latter of which hadn't occurred to her.
"I guess we'll wait and see if it grows back first. If it doesn't well, I don't want to live like a cripple, so robotics or whatever would probably be best since even if I am able to get my left hand to write and such, I need to be able to fight and it's hard without both hands.." She says in a low tone as she follows the blonde back down to the cell block.
When they've arrived, Kate hangs back at Sinclair's suggestion as the scientist opens the door to a completely empty cell and opens the jar to throw the creature back inside before slamming the door shut and securing it. As Kate watches the creature fly through the air, she blinks as it assumes the form of a large feline and begins to pace agititatedly as it glared, and Kate isn't sure if the glare is aimed at both of them or just Sinclair.
Deciding that even with what the creature had done to her, it wasn't right to just leave it to it's obvious hunger as had been done for however long, Kate slowly steps up to the glass seperating her from the inside and meets the creature's gaze.
"Is there anything besides me that you like to eat?" She asks softly, addressing the creature with an uncertain tone.
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Post by kin on Nov 12, 2015 0:04:08 GMT -5
The feline looked to Katelyn as she spoke, concentrating and listening. When she finished her question his gaze shot towards Sinclair and he gave a hiss at the woman. Sinclair seemed to be surprised towards his hostility towards her, but it was enough for the woman to speak up.
"Erm, I think you're right about the whole alone thing. I'll just go get the chef to cook up a snack or something," she spoke, her voice uncertain about leaving the two, "When you're done just find a housekeeper and ask them to take you to the main hall, i'll meet you there." The woman hurried out and the leopard sat down, melting into a pile of goop before changing into Katelyn once more. He was sitting indian-style on cement floor with his back against the wall.
He finally spoke, "I did not enjoy 'eating' you. While I am capable of absorbing humans, I do not enjoy consuming self-aware, thinking, and intelligent beings for my own living. I was unable to control myself, and I allowed my instincts to get the better of me. I am very sorry."
He ceased talking, no longer glaring or showing any signs of hostility. This had to be the third time he had eaten someone, or part of someone in two cases. The first case was the first human he came across that was not the boy, consumed him hole and didn't leave a trace. The second time was what got him caught in a jar, someone had stepped on him while he was a pile of glue, and he accidentally absorbed their foot.
He waited for her answer, waiting to be told how much of a weird creature-monster-thing he was or something.
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Post by Katelyn Dimeo on Nov 12, 2015 0:38:31 GMT -5
Katelyn felt herself begin to tremble ever so slightly, just barely noticeable for anyone looking, as she heard the hiss that comes from the creature-cat, and she takes a small step back away from the glass. Then Sinclair speaks up again, and Kate turns her head to look at the blonde, listening and then nodding in understanding of the instructions the scientist gives her on where to meet her after Kate found out or not about the creature's dietary needs.
Then Sinclair goes, leaving her and the creature alone with only the glass seperating them, and slowly she turns back to face it, her stump still cradled to her chest and in full sight of the being in the cell. As she watches, the 'cat' collapses into a puddle and then reforms back into the mirror image of Kate again, and she fights back the urge to yell angrily at it when she takes note that it's not an exact copy anymore as it retains possession of all it's extremities instead of mimicking her stump. She figured anger would get her nowhere in uncovering answers from the humanoid.
She is silent as it speaks to her, informing her that it had not had any enjoyment in melting her hand and half her wrist off for consumption, and proceeds to apologize for what it had done to her.
"I..." She trails off for a moment, her tone just a bit bitter even as she tries to hold her emotions in. "One time, shortly after I discovered my powers a few months back, in trying to test myself I cut off a toe. It grew back overnight, so I'm hoping that this will too... but the woman that just left seemed to think that the acid might have remained and absorbed into my wound as it melted, and might leave me like this. I don't suppose you would know if it has any lasting effects as far as those with regenerative abilities?" She asks slowly, praying that it wouldn't be so. Knowing that she could have both hands back eventually would certainly go a long way in Katelyn deciding to forgive the humanoid or not.
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Post by kin on Nov 12, 2015 0:58:06 GMT -5
Kin shook his head, "I do not know. I likely know just about as much as you do about myself if you set aside my own diet."
He did not understand that Katelyn might have been upset with seeing herself with a weird dyed hair and horns. He was completely incapable of changing the horns and white hair, it was something that was forced on him in sacrifice for the ability to immediately transform into a sheep anytime he wanted. Best Ability Ever... Though he had been on this earth for ten years, he still knew little of the humans. He usually saw the positive side of them, that was until he met the Remingtons.
"I did not know it was possible for anything to live after being touched by me, a man that once stepped on me went through the same thing and lost a lot of blood. He died, so I heard," Kin responded, giving it to the girl honestly. He looked down at the blank cement floor before him, ashamed of himself.
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