Snippet #2581576

Ara's ears twitched before eyes darted, the narrowed at Kisa's growling. She never had an issue with felines until now. Ungrateful for recieving help and pissy when they see something they don't like. "There's nothing stopping you from leaving anytime you please." At least Kyra was more independent with being left to her own devices. Ara still couldn't help but watch them both from her sickly little cocoon of sheets. What she would give to get her energy back again.

She listened to Aileen's, Hawke's and Olek's concerns. It was quickly becoming apparent that Ara was preventing them from moving. This was part of the original plan...she thought. Then again, that was when she was living from painkiller dose to dose. Come to think of it. She wasn't feeling the pain anymore. Her body was too exhausted to register it in her mind. Instead it felt like pressure being placed on her. It was hard to explain. "I don't see why we all have to wait till they try to jump on us to leave. We're still too close to the Lab. That's certain." She paused but still looked like she had something to say.

Slowly, taking a great deal of effort. She stands up. "Right now, you should all get going. I hate to admit it but Mr. Barrow is right...unless you know how to shove a food tube down my throat or an I.V....." The new appendage that was her tail was unable to keep still. With a mind of its own. It would recoil from touching anything around it. Each signal it sent into her head made her twitch slightly and blink. It was ridiculously frustrating and kept interfering with her thoughts.

"If they don't come through here...I can-"

"Ara I need you to go outside." The familiar voice rings through her head. A wave of dizziness hits sending her reeling for balance.

".....I, I'll be back." She wheezes. Straightens up, and starts working her way out of the room towards the restroom.

"Do you hear me? I need you out here." Holmes was still quite a distance away from the house, but close enough to see it. He had gone back to the Lab to grab supplies that were needed to keep the girl alive. For a few hours, he was certain he would never hear her again until she started to speak, to the others in the house. "If I don't help you soon. You will not survive till tomorrow. You're body is going to shut down."

Ara stops at the bathroom door, out of sight and earshot of the others. "I can't." She finally replies. "I can't leave." Just walking five feet felt like five miles to her. Standing in the restroom after locking the door behind her, she could see a cracked open window that he body would be able to fit through. She could safely guess that he was more that a hundred feet from the house.

Oren couldn't walk into a house full of angry mutants. He'd have his throat ripped out or worse yet have to explain to his superiors why he would let himself be kidnapped. "Ara if I can't get to you.....YOU WILL DIE IN THAT HOUSE IF YOU DON'T LEAVE NOW!" Holmes' frustration gave way. Her body jerks and shakes from the sudden jolt. Face grimacing as though she were shocked from a tazer. Her eyes going wide and just as abruptly the light vanishes leaving them dull. Hands push forward instinctively to catch her fall but there's no strength behind them and she crumples to the tile floor like a pile of clothes. Surprisingly she managed to keep conscious, if extremely dazed. Again her limbs reach out to find something to pull her back to her feet. There's no strength left to lift herself off the ground.

"Huh, can't get up...that's-" Her voice sounds more perplexed than anything. Rolling to her back in discomfort she finds it impossible to focus her sight on anything. "...uh, oh..." Panting, the more she tried. The less she could get herself to move. All at once she felt extremely tired. "...I'm not feeling so hot...I need to lay down..." Her voice got quieter. Suddenly the floor felt rather comfortable to lay out on. She just pushed herself too hard too soon. That's all it was.

Holmes started to panic. All he could hear in that house was her voice. He couldn't tell if he had just made it worse. Oren was closer than anyone else from the lab and he couldn't rush in with the others there. The damn tiger woman was still on the lookout on the roof and although his abilities were fairly decent, he still wasn't sure if he could dupe her senses. "What side of the house are you on? Can you open a window?"