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Adriel stayed curled up with Briar for as long as he liked. Running fingers through his hair as she herself closed her eyes. She wasn't surprised as Maia had come in, she had heard the woman coming, could hear the woman's heartbeat like it was her own. She smiled up at what is basically Briar's mother and gestures for her to sit down. "Please it's your home we don't want you to make you feel uncomfortable, come sit." It takes one tiny glance to Matthias, not even a thought as he nods and moves closer to his wife. "Expect? Why surely you know. Please, I shared a shower with a telepath for 5 years. You know exactly what I know. If anything it's comforting."
Her smile was open and joyful despite the obvious pain in her mind. "He feels guilty for leaving you all behind..." She frowned and looked down at the floor the flash of the memory of that night burning inside her. The wave of pain from a bullet, panic at seeing Matthias fall, the happiness she felt when she saw Briar got away. She seemed lost in the memory until Matthias touched her hand and she snapped her head up to him before smiling sadly. "We were just glad he was okay, at least they were. I didn't feel much at the time."
When the last question was asked and they both tensed up, images of seeing Oscar beaten and bruised, the moment of grief when they heard Briar had died. The look on Oscar's face brought tears to Adriel's eyes. "It's a long story....The punishment was expected after we got caught.... what we didn't expect was how much of it was pushed off onto Oscar. We were barely touched. Every tiny thing we did wrong... Oscar paid. " Her voice broke at the last comment and Matthias stepped in. "The escape saw Oscar's powers increase. The doctors said that the stress and wounds made him already mutating DNA just mutate more. The more he was pushed the more powerful he got, the more he couldn't control himself.
Adriel shook her head in disbelief. "It was around then he developed empathy, which only made things worse. He was stubborn, he loved Briar and seeing us two... mostly Matthias developing feelings, I think it made him sad, not that I realised at the time, I didn't know how to process it, how to know how he was feeling. but he encouraged it... told us to be with each other despite what they said. Then... I fell pregnant, he of course was the first to know. It was Oscar's idea, the escape. He was more powerful... able to hear thoughts further, become more believable forms. But we didn't know! They'd started using his abilities to make better brainwashing techniques, using it on Whisper and Whirlpool, we were lost causes. "But they expected us to try again, had known Adriel was pregnant and wanted an excuse to break Oscar even more. The more Oscar cared the more they could push him. We should have known they knew how to break him, break Whirlpool, break the unbendable Oscar! I should of seen it coming!. They'd both been brainwashed using Oscar's powers, especially Whirlpool, and the- he sold us out. Oscar killed him to stop him from killing me. But that woman came, said words.... phrases that seemed to start somthing." A grave look crossed both their faces as the last thing rang through both of their minds at once, not dared speak outloud, even as tears fell down both their faces. Oscar snapped, and attacked us