chaos & peace.

“None of your damn business,” Noah said, without thinking about it and then he sighed, “Sorry. That was rude. Bad day. What can I help you with?”

“Could’ve told you that one,” Sawyer replied, “And I can tell.” The girl moved a piece of hair behind her ear.  “I’m looking so some type of knife with a handle that won’t melt with a lot of heat. It’s for one of the pyro’s I’m training, and I’m trying to find a good weapon for use.”

Noah was working. Or he was trying to anyway. Keeping the weapons he was in charge of in the best shape required lots of focus and his mind was definitely elsewhere. He wasn’t one to say he relied on anybody but not talking to Emma and basically avoiding each other was taking way more of a toll on him than he was willing to admit. After accidentally loosening a screw instead of tightening it for the tenth time, he just slammed the screwdriver onto the table, “Fuck,” He yelled, thinking nobody was around. He pushed himself away from the work bench and sighed, more curses leaving his mouth under his breath. 

Sawyer put her hands up when he swore at the weapons. “Woah, what did that weapon ever do to you?” she replied, a small smile on her face at the boy. 

🍡- our muses roast marshmallows

“What makes these so damn good? Like if you take apart what marshmallows are made of they sound nasty but… you heat them up and put them in between some graham crackers and they’re amazing,” AJ rambled as he took another bite of his s’more. 

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“Honestly, just toasted marshmallows by themselves are amazing,” Sawyer replied. “They give me life.”

“I can promise you that you will love it. Where did you move from?” 

“Boston, Massachusetts,” Sawyer replied. “My parents grew up here, I figured to see how it is.”

“Yeah, sure I am. Just had a long morning. I’m totally ready.”

Sawyer has always been on the edge of breaking, for years she had been back and forth from a breaking point. Sawyer put a hand to his chin, looking him in the eyes. “Look me in the eyes and tell me you’re not distracted.”

“I wouldn’t be worried about that. Can’t be any worse than me right?”

“I don’t you, you don’t seem so bad. Why would anyone hate you?”

“Now who’s in the ninth grade?” Penny asked, taking the other’s hand and pulling her to dance, “Come on before the song finishes and we don’t get to enjoy it.”

Sawyer smiled and joined Penelope, dancing around with her. She pulled out some of her old dance moves from when she was in ballet.

“Oh, how exciting! How long ago? Do you love it?” 

“Like yesterday. So the jury’s still out on that one.”

Tristan looked down at his hand, clicking his fingers to create a flame between them. He’d almost set a combat dummy in fire again and he was not in the best of moods. How was he meant to be a hero if he wasn’t making any progress? He could just about keep a flame going on his finger but if he tried anything else, he risked setting something around him on fire. Maybe he should have gone for Match rather than Flare for his name. He sighed and moved to stand up, almost immediately running into someone, “Oh shit sorry,” He extinguished the flame on his fingers, trying to smile, “Are you okay?”

“Yeah, I’m cool, it takes a lot more than a bump to take me out,” Sawyer replied. “Are you okay? You seem distracted. Are you going to be ready for sparring later?”

Cassia was almost startled by her response. Almost. It’s not usually the answer she got. Then she smirked, “I think I’m gonna like you. Welcome to the team.”

“I hope so,” Sawyer replied. “Wouldn’t want to have people on my bad side before I start my first day.”

“That’s certainly gonna be fun,” Aiden said, “You’ll get to meet loads of interesting people there.”

“It’s kind of intimidating if I’m being honest.”

Penny grinned wickedly, “That depends. Do you want me to?” She asked and then shook her head, “I’m kidding. I wasn’t planning to, no.”

“I mean, only if you promise me a kiss,” Sawyer joked.

“Really? Ah, well, I’m sure you’ll love it! Are you just visiting?” 

“No, I just moved here.”

Penny didn’t often take a night off like this. Normally, after work, she just went home and had some food, probably did some more work that she brought home and then went to bed. However, tonight she was taking the town or at least this nightclub and she was going to enjoy herself. She smiled as she danced, spotting someone watching, “Come on, dance with me. You can’t not dance to this song. It would be a crime.”

“Depends, you’re not going to grind on me like some ninth grade girl at a Homecoming dance, are you?”

“Aiden,” He said, reaching out to shake her hand, “So you’re new to town huh? What brings you here?”

“I’m a combat trainer for HQ, just got hired.”

“I don’t suppose you have but you will,” Cassia said, “I’m a lot older than I look so I’ve been around long enough for people to know me and have things to say,” She explained, “They’re not always good but that’s only because I have a tendency to break people’s noses when they piss me off.”

Sawyer shrugged. “They shouldn’t have pissed you off then.”

“You did pretty good at trying to find it yourself, have you ever been here before?”

Sawyer shook her head. “No, never.”