Gage McBride

taking a page from the gage book || rage

His breathing slowed when her thumb started tracing his jawline, a sense of calm washing over him. As usual, everything slipped away when her lips met his, but this was a lot harder to forgot. The memory was imprinted in his brain, not even that was enough to keep it away. “Yeah, it’s so fucking useful. I got to see the decapitated body of one of my best friends and completely shattered my hand. It’s the best.” he mumbled before he could stop himself. The tears started flowing again as his eyes met hers. “no I need to apologize for that. Oh my god. I’m an awful person and I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have I can’t” he was a sputtering mess, yet there was still an aura of calm around him that was the result of her. Her eyes, her forehead on his. All of it. “I think we all know these nurses rep when it comes to healing.”

Gage sighed "Ryan if you keep apologizing I'm gonna punch you in the face" she wasn't serious, well she'd probably hit him in the arm, but not hard. She leaned back some so she could look at him, smoothing some of the hairs out of his face. They were broken, they were all broken....she didn't see an end to this pain, this torture. They were all so tired, Scar was the last straw, she was what shattered them all. For now she was numb, scared, terrified, but numb to the pain. It hadnt sunk in yet, her death, but it would break everyone. His face was tired, worn. "we'll figure it out" she mumbled.

taking a page from the gage book || rage

He frowned slightly. “I think I finally understand the whole turning pain into anger thing, it’s still not a good thing, at all though. And I highly suggest you work on that. Also, it usually just ends up with more pain, so yes. Let’s work on that.” he mumbled, motioning to his shattered hand. He nodded, not wanting to talk about it any more than she wanted to. “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.” He breathed out, trying to calm the tears that were still flowing down his cheeks. “I don’t know. I was in a state of hysteria. I completely lost it, and if I’m honest my sanity was lost a long time ago, but yea.. I guess I have a little more strength than I realized. It helps that the whole super speed thing made the impact a hell of a lot stronger. Fuck it hurts,” he grumbled. 

She smiled softly at him and brought her hand up, placing it on the side of his neck, allowing her thumb to trail over his jaw, she leaned forward and kissed him softly "Stop apologizing--see and you thought your power was pointless" she replied with a half smirk, attempting to keep the mood light "Pretty sure that would have destroyed someones face" she muttered putting her forehead to his "if they dont hurry up and heal, you we're finding Sky" she said.

taking a page from the gage book || rage

He nodded slightly at her words. it was conformation, small, but conformation nonetheless. She was alive. He knew it deep down. He winced slightly when she grabbed his arm, his hand flopping and shooting pain throughout his arm. “I may or may not have punched a wall.. multiple times…” he mumbled, a small smirk on his face. The only thing that put the smirk on his face was because of the fact that she had done the same thing. His smile dropped again when she asked what was going on. He tried his best to look up at her, into her eyes, ignoring the blood and dead bodies that surrounded his mind. Did she not know? No she has to know, everyone knows. "S-scar. I- I saw her. I still see her. and you. I see you, covered in blood, stubs for wings, h-eadless" he croaked out before choking on his sobs again. 

"You're a hypocrite she muttered" looking at his hand "This isnt 'lets suddenly use Gage as a role model' day" she replied frowning slight and then cut him off "Yea no--I know...I know" she whispered but quickly changed the subject. "You didnt even break it Ryan, it looks like you took a fucking meat cleaver to it what the hell?" she questioned glaring at him something.

taking a page from the gage book || rage

He couldn’t stop saying no over and over again. It was a natural reaction now. No. No. No. His violent shaking made his hand burn to the point where he was crying out in pain. He felt her hands on his face, was staring into her eyes, but how was that even possible? He was looking from her dead form to her eyes that were filled with concern, but more importantly, life. “I- I” He sputtered, not knowing how to speak anymore. Then he felt her pull him into a hug, felt her head on his. He closed his eyes, still crying into her, but it kept him from seeing Scarlett or her dead body- actually, that’s a lie. He still saw it. It was even more prominent in his head, etched into his brain like a movie on replay. “D-do you have wings still? Are you alive?” he whispered, barely audible through the sobs. He wanted to hug her back, but the second he moved his hand he was crying out in pain again.

She was so confused "Yes I'm alive, Ryan--what? Yes I have wings." she muttered and jumped slightly at the sound of him in pain. She pulled away and gently grabbed his forearm to look at his hand "What did you do?" she asked, eyes and voice completely filled with concern. "Ryan what the hell is going on?" she was completely lost.

taking a page from the gage book || rage

Ryan’s body was shaking, his hand felt like needles were going through it but there was nothing he could do to stop the shaking. He wasn’t even crying anymore, not really anyway. His whole body was rocking back and forth, eyes glued to the floor. He was aware of everyone moving around him, but his focus was on the dead body that was on the floor in front of him. Everywhere he looked he saw it, her headless body. Her dead eyes staring at him. Everywhere he looked he saw it, the image was plastered in his brain. No matter how much he wanted to shake it, he couldn’t. He heard rustling of someone coming in, his eyes briefly glancing around to see if anyone would register. He didn’t know if he could speak, he had completely shut down. He didn’t respond when the doctor’s asked him questions, but when he heard her voice, his head flipped around to her. Only what his eyes met wasn’t Gage. It was her broken form. Blood. There was so much blood. Her wings were stubs, blood pouring out of them. “no, no” she had done it, she had cut her wings off. He blinked back the tears that were forming, only to be met with something different. Her eyes had gone cold, and then she was on the floor, headless just like Scar had been. “No!” he shrieked. “Not you too. I can’t lose you too. I can’t.” He screamed, tears streaming down his face, body racking violently.  

Gage's face dropped and she got so confused "W-what--Ryan wha--?" her sentence trailed off and she rushed over to him "What are you screaming about" she asked panicked, she'd never seen him like this, not even when he'd snapped at her. "Wh--whats wrong?" she asked reaching out for him, bringing her hands to his face to try and stop the shaking, the screaming and crying. Gage grabbed him and pulled him to her bringing him into a tight hug, resting her chin on the top of his head.

Sparring || Gage and Eva

She raised a brow and laughed a bit, “well that’s a new one for me” she laughed harder. Before she knew it, she was on the ground and holding her side. “That was faster then I thought,” she chuckled, slightly in pain still. 

Gage watched her drop, she'd kind of expected her to try and deflect but she didnt "Oops" she muttered scratching the back of her head "Are you okay?" she asked curiously, perhaps she hit her harder than she thought.

Sparring || Gage and Eva

"I didn’t read it" she laughed awkwardly as she finally put on her shirt and tried to hide the red that grew on her face. "Oh my god I hate that" she sighed as sh scratched the back of her head. "I honestly dont know how to continue this, make a move" she laughed

Gage shrugged "Nudity doesnt really phase me. I once started stripping in front of Ryan and I didnt even know him then so ya know" she replied with a nonchalant shrug, then again she had also been covered in her own blood and totally not in the right frame of mind however Ryan and Dom were the only two people that knew about the incident so she would not be adding that because they were going to continue to be the only two people that knew. She sighed and stepped forward offering a kick to her side, it was somewhat gentle but exactly.

Sparring || Gage and Eva

"Wha-" she said as the staff was ripped out of her hands and she watched it hit the wall. "I didn’t know we were using abilities either" she chuckled before hitting the wall and losing her breath for a moment. Seeing the fist coming towards her she quickly dodged and shifted into a hawk, an animal she had recently learned how to shift into and was still perfecting. Swooping over to where the staff was she shifted back and grabbed it. "Yeah, I’m naked, I’ll get over it" she said as she ran towards her, using the staff to kick Gage off her feet and she quickly grabbed her clothes, changing into them

Gage furrowed her brows "The paper said to use powers" she replied and then watched as she flew back over to the staff, Gage just sort of watched her as she ran at her completely nude. This looked like the beginning to a really bad porno. As Eva swept her off her feet she caught herself mid air before she could hit the ground, her body hovering about a foot off the floor. If she hit her with that stick shit was going down. Gage moved back to her feet allowing the girl to at least get dressed, her power looked incredibly inconvenient and awkward.

Sparring || Gage and Eva

She fell on her back and looked up at her, slightly in shock from what happened. “Wow,” she coughed before she jumped up and quicky grabbed a staff and ran towards her. “Good,” she said as she pushed her into the wall as hard as possible

Gage let out a bit of an oof as she pushed her into the wall, wincing slightly as one of her wings got pinned awkwardly "hey watch the feathers" she replied with a bit of a smirk and then lifted her hand flicking it away and watching as the staff was ripped out of the girls hands flying to the other side of the room and landing on the floor with a slight clank "I didnt know we were using weapons" she replied  with a slight tilt of her head and used her hand to shove her back some, using her power would end this too fast and easy so she was trying to refrain from it as much as possible. She brought up her fist and launched it forward towards her face, hopefully the girl dodged it but if she didnt well... oops. There wasnt too much effort behind it, she didnt want beat the shit out of her.

I was rescued.  I think the lack of socail skills is all me.  I haven’t talked much, then the nuke happened.  It shook me up quite a bit.

I think its safe to say the nuke shook everyone up, especially those of us that were inside for the first few bombs they dropped, that was chaos and mildly terrifying.

Sparring || Gage and Eva

"I’m an animal shifter," she said as she also walked up to the center of the mat and looked at her. "No hard feelings from this, right?" she chuckled as she made sure she was prepared to fight. She hated fighting people but this was something that needed to be done. If there was a time that she needed to go on a mission she needed to be prepared for the worst.

Gage nodded and in a swift movement leaped forward swiping her leg across the mat and knocking the girl off her balance and giving her torso a slight push to make her top heavy and hopefully sending her flat on her back, she figured this was one way to get things started "No hard feelings" she replied, getting pissed off over a spar was stupid.

Sparring || Gage and Eva

Eva hadn’t really worked on her abilities lately but she had definatly been working out. She had usually been lifting weights or doing something to keep her strength up but she hadn’t really had the energy to do anything lately. She didn’t know why but she just shrugged it off. Walking into the training room, she smiled at Gage and nodded. “Ready as I’ll ever be” she chuckled as she dropped her bag and stretched a little.

Gage nodded "Cool, so what's your power?" she asked walking towards the center of the mat, starting was always awkward only because she didnt just blatantly attack people that hadnt done anything to provoke her but once she got going it was okay, usually her competitive side got the best of her and that was about all the drive she needed. Really she didnt even understand how she and Ryan got along half the time because they were literally polar opposites but for whatever reason it just worked.

I just get over a cold, and the first thing they do is send me into the training rooms

A small smirk came across his features. “I know that. And she is the cheerleader type, but that gets better after a while too- acrually, erm, that can be debated.” his eyebrows furrowed in confusion slightly. “Nevermind, just ignore everything I just said, but I’m flattered that I’m on your short list of people that you like. Wait, I am on it, right?.” He’d almost said, I’d better be on it, but changed his mind at the last minute. He didn’t need to be because that was ultimately her choice. If he wasn’t, well that would be really extremely sucky. He nodded as she explained, a rush of fear seeping into him. The thought of her in missions with them made him want shudder and want to throw up. He knew she didn’t want to talk about it, not that he blamed her. He unwrapped on of his arms and brought it up to her face, tilting it upward so she was looking up at him. blue eyes meeting brown. “You’ll be okay.” he whispered before planting a soft kiss on her forehead. 

Gage stared at him briefly, a dumb founded look crossing her face as she blinked "Nope, Ryan I dont like you at all I'm just dating you to torture myself" she said unable to hide the thick amount of sarcasm that leaked through her voice. She rolled her eyes and smirked slightly "You're one my favorite people, you dork" she said lifting a hand to ruffle his hair, she hesitated slightly when he took her face in his hand, letting out a slight breath when her gaze shifted up to his, it was as if a sense of calm had washed over the nausea in her stomach from thinking about the facility or anything of the sort. She smiled softly as he kissed her forehead, leaning against him.