Felix Rowan's Story

" Depends," Ira says when the older girl asked her if she could change the rags. " On how descriptive you can be of what you want to wear." she continues looking the girl over. " And you should know that the clothes would look and feel real. but they aren't." she pulls at the dress she ahd made. " I'm still wearing rags, it just looks like I'm wearing nice new clothes."

Returning from the cellar a bottle of wine in his hand, Felix heard Ira explainging the basics of his powers. " That is usually true Ira." he says setting the bottle on the table. " But our powers combined with James's presence is enough to make anything we make, real" he smiles and points down at her dress. To their eyes it had a smattering of twists and twirls of an object of illusion. But it was undoubtably real.

James looked away from them blushing, five years ago Felix came across him on the streets. He figured that James would be useful, so he kept him around. A death threat each night, but he had obviously not followed through. " I'm not that special, just help out with your illuisons and ket feelings when important things are going to happen.." he trails off his eyes wide " Mr. F, somone needs help, go in to the alley way. You'll find them there.."

Without hesitating Felix runs out of the room and out in the alley way. Once he was there, he saw a couple of kids in rags, one of which was bleeding badly. " Hey," he says holding his hand up, but they didn't seem to hear him. Sighing he returned to the warehouse. "They're gone." he says sitting down on a chair.

Tzal whistled in surprise, much like her brother did. "Super powers I've never seen before... Are there lots of us like this? Out here, I mean." she asked, Xoch just shook his head at his sister. Her ears and tail were showing her great interest.

"There might be, but I've only met Felix and James. We are hunted you know, so we shouldn't show ourselves off..." Tzal nodded, her ears pressed against her head in thought. They heard the other kids but they were only focused on each other, they were the only family they had left. "Hey, sister, why were you in those chains and other things?"

Tzal's ears perked up. "Oh that! Yeah, I ripped on of the staff members' head off and bit another guy's arm clean off. Neither one tasted good..." she told him, playing with a string that was hanging off her pants. Her brother sighed.

"Honestly, Tzal..."

Ira smiles, at Tzal. " I wish could have done that." she says softly, " all I could do was make them think they were on fire," Felix smiles, " spiders are also very effective little one." wrapping Ira in a hug. Felix didn't know the first thing about being a parent, but at the moment he was running on instinct. And it seemed to be working, he thought as Ira curled in to him.

James picked up the large bowl of spagetti, " Okay, foods ready." he carries the bowl to the middle of the table. " come sit down," he says looking at the odd group of people.

Tzal hopped up into one of the chair, purring loudly. "They never fed us over there... You either ate someone or begged and got beaten." she said, her tail swishing from side to side. She was small, Xoch noticed. So small for someone that was her age. He gripped his hands into fists. He'd protect her no matter what.

"Brother, come sit and eat." she told him, patting the seat beside her. He nodded and sat beside her, all thoughts about revenge gone as he saw his sister's smile.

" They fed me.." Ira says softly, now ashamed that she got to eat and not the others. She crawled out of Felix's arms and walked over to the table sitting to the right of the head, knowing that was where her father would sit. James sat across from Tzai with a small smile, he was starting to like her more and more.


Felix shook his head, deciding to hold his tongue about the food, and sat down at the head of the table. " Help yourselves," he says filling a plate for Ira. " Eat up little one, I'll show you a few tricks after dinner." he says putting it in font of her.

Tzal let her brother fill her plate and she looked at the fork with a worried face. "Uh..." Xoch picked up the fork and showed her how to use it. She smiled at him and began eating slowly. "It's fine, Ira-chan... I did it to myself, really... We all did. We resisted and we made our own lives hell... I kept attacking everyone. It was sport but the restraints were killer." she touched the scars on her arms and the red areas from the chains.

Xoch only ate in silence, something he was used to doing. He wondered what he'd do with his sister in tow. They could continue to roam, like Xoch did before. but Tzal deserved a home. A good one. Maybe Felix would let them stay.

" Oh," Ira says. " I know about that, they used to run electricity through me using needles." she shivers at the memory. The memories hitting her hard, the tall men standing over the table talking about her as if she wasn't there. And the pain, the seemingly never ending pain. A sob shook her entire body, the fork falling to the ground as her arms wrap around herself.

As he watched his daughter cry, Felix's eye grew ice cold. " Get out," he hissed out, his grip tightening on the table. James's eyes widened, " May I sugest that we move this dinner to the kitchen?" he asks standing up and grabbing the bowl of spaghetti. " I do not think that the dining room will be here in a few moments, and it's safer for everyone if you aren't in here.."

James picked Ira up and carried her out of the room, and not a moment too soon. The second the door shut Felix stood up suddenly flipping the table with a scary amount of ease. With a cry of anger he starts throwing the chairs and plates around. " Damn them all." he says picking up a mug and hurdling it at the door.

When she was put down by James, Ira looked around and crawled over to Tzail, " I'm sorry I set him off.." she says sitting next to her. " If I had known that would happen, I wouldn't have said anything.." she wrapps her arms around her legs. " Next time I'll wait until I'm alone to say such things.."

Sliding under her wing, Ira curls up next to her. " Yes, we will be able to help eachother, but you were in there much longer for me. So it will be much harder for you.." she hugs the much older girl. " I'm glad I met all of you," she glances up at the two men. She already trusted them, even though she had only known them for a few hours.

James smiles crouching down next to the girls. " I should have warned you guys, Felix has a reputation for going off in to horrible rages." The door opened and Felix looked down at the people, his expression apologetic. " I'm sorry, I couldn't control that." He crouched down to look the girls in the eye, " That won't happen again, I swear." he holds out his hads for Ira, who launced herself instantly in to his arms. " That's okay dad.." she says resting her head on his shoulder.

Tzal smiled at the girl. She was like her, but so much younger. She hugged back and smiled at Xoch, who was watching her. He nodded at her, making her jump and hug him before she returned to Ira, playing with her hair. The girl's curls were fun to mess with, unlike her own limp inky black strands.

Both listened to James but when Felix walked in, Tzal's shook some. When he promised it wouldn't happen again, Tzal only nodded and clung to her brother, yawning. She hadn't slept in a week, it was a miracle she was even standing on her own. Xoch couldn't sleep, being a self induced insomniac.

James watched the tired group, " Why don't we get all of you to bed?" he asked standing up, holding his hand out for Tzal's hand. " I'm sure we have enough rooms for all of you." he glances over Felix for conformation. Felix nods, " yes, I've added some rooms reacently. There is one next to mine," He looked down at Ira, " You can change it to what ever you see fit." She nods and yawns.

" And then you two can choose one of other ones." He says walking from the room expecting them to follow him. " There are bathrooms in each of the rooms and James or myself can get you what ever you want or need."

Worming her way out of her dad's arms Ira walks in to their room, Looking around the room she makes a small sound of disgust. " I hate white." she says touching the wall. " What colors do you want in here?" she asks looking up at Tzal.

James looks down at the girl, now there was no doubt in his mind that she was Felix's daughter. " I believe the little one has taken charge." He kisses the back of Tzal's hand gently and said " Good night." softly before walking from the room.

Rolling his eyes Felix walked in to the room that was to be his daughters, and his time with her mother in his mind, he let out a low series of whistles and the room started to take shape. It was very nature centric, with a bed acctually part of a tree. Her mother's powers had to do with nature so he knew it was in Ira's blood.

Furrowing her brow, Ira willed the various requirements in to reality. She took the purple from her fathers shirt and put it on he the walls, the purple from her dress and covered the thick carpet. And lastly she thought back to the deep brown of a rare chocolate bar she had been given by her mother when she was very young. " is that alright?" she asks opening her eyes, all of the work she put in to the illusions was starting to ware her out.

With one last cough Felix tweaked the room. It was as though you had walked in to a forest, the ground was push green grass. And the furniture was not made out of cut wood, it was part of the living trees. The bed was made out of the softest thing he could dream up and it was always warm. Lastly with a snap of his fingers Felix made a door that only he and Ira could see, and it lead in to his room for what ever need they had of it.

Ira smiled happily as she walked down the hall, to the room that was to be hers. When she walked in to the room she gasped, this was a whole new level of illusions. " wow.." she says walking around the room barefoot. " This is amazing." she walked up to her father and wrapped her arms around his waist. " Will I learn how to do all this?" she asks wanting nothing more than to curl up in the bed.

Picking her up Felix smiled, " Yes, and much more.." he promised carring her to the bed, " But for now, go to sleep.." he starts to pull away but was heald fast. " Don't leave me, please." she whimpered, she had been alone for so long that she didn't want to be left. He sighed and slipping off his shoes and jacket he lays in the bed his daughter in his arms. Within minutes they were both in a dead sleep.

Waking from the best three hours of sleep he's had in years, Felix carefully slid out of the bed abd out in to the hall. He had crime to plan, and revenge to plot. Walking past the room the two children he picked up, he heard voices. Good, he thought knocking on the door. Felix didn't want to wait until the morning to talk to Xoch, " Xoch?" he asks softly knocking again. Felix didn't knowwhy he wanted the siblings to stay, or even if they would be useful. But Ira seemed to have boonded with Tzal and that was enough for him.


James sat in large chair trying to convince himself to go to sleep. But because of the various feelings he seemed to get all the time, he couldnt calm his mind enough to sleep. Standing with a sigh James walked in to the kitchen, maybe the dull work of washing dishes would help calm him

Xoch heard the door and gently let Tzal onto the bed. She sat and watched as Xoch opened the door for Felix. The room was dark at the moment, only lit by a small candle Xoch had and lit on the bedside table. "You called, Felix-san?" he asked politely. Tzal took one of the many fluffy pillows and held it, crossing her legs over the other side. "Tzal, if you're still hungry go to the kitchen and find something, okay..?" she nodded and pillow in tow, left the room.

"James..? Is there any food left from earlier..?" she asked, holding the pillow and rubbing her eyes. She leaned on the wall and watched the other male.

" Can we talk?" Felix asked calmly gesturing to down the hall. He wasn't quite sure how to start this conversation and he knew that his reputation was going to fly out of the window, now that he had to take care of his daughter. But, if we gather more people with powers we would be unstoppable. a little voice in the back of his head said.

James had gotten in to a mind state he like to call 'stone heart'. It was compleatly detached from all emotion and most of the world, perfect for thnking through things or blocking out his powers. When Tzal spoke to him, it took him a few moments to withdraw from that mind state and reply. " There is, but if you want somethng else let me know, I can manke almost anything."

Xoch nodded. "Of course..." he walked out and closed the door behind him. "I must thank you again for helping... And letting us stay for the night..." he said, looking at the floor.

Tzal thought about it. "Can... Can you make waffles..? Onii-san once said that waffles were really good and tasty... And there's lots of different types right..?" she shuffled her feet, almost shyly. The little vine around her neck grew again and slithered onto the floor, over to James and "looked" up at him.

" You're welcome." Felix nods knowing how badly this day could have gone. " And that is what i wanted to talk to you about, you and your sister staying here." he says walking down the hall to his study. He couldn't believe he was even thinking about taking in these.. Runaways.

James nods, " As you wish" he dries off his hands and walks in to the pantry to get the things he needed to make the waffles. " Do you want any strawberries or anything on them?" he asks climbing up a ladder to find some deacent flour.

Xoch followed Felix, thinking. "You know, sir, you don't have to take us in... We'll be fine out there..." he said, almost uncertainly. He knew he could but what about his sister... He shook his head.

"You can put things on them too? Oh wow... I've never had a strawberry... Can I get some of those..?" she asked quietly. Living in that place meant you never got anything "normal". It was either human flesh or bugs or something else.