The girl had pulled her hood back up over her head while the male yanked on another collar, a boy she recognized and knew fairly well from classes and lunch times that she hadn't spent locked away in the same music room she had been in this afternoon when everything that had happened today had actually happened. The hood hid her further in the shade as she stepped away, carefully hiding the small smile toward Cecil after he had been set down again. She had expected Jack to be giving orders as well though she had wanted to speak with him for a few moments before she would go off on her own again to find a place to whole up where she wouldn't be surrounded by the other students. Her dark eyes followed the swimmers movements as he turned between the three gathered around him, speaking while she and the others listened in near silence. He was brave to take charge, though she knew many wouldn't appreciate being told what to do by someone like him. Her gaze passed over them all again while she stepped away from the group, her back to them as she walked further down the hall, seemingly back the way she had come though she was simply allowing them the space that they required to do their own and work things out themselves. 

Her footsteps were next to silent while she moved, wishing that she had worn her combat boots instead of her high tops, though she rather enjoyed the way the black she wore blended into darkness that had become their world. The light they made hurt her eyes after allowing them to adjust as much as they could to help her see in the dark as good as was possible for the human girl who spent her days avoiding the sunlight. When she stopped walking, her feet settled in place again while she turned around to watch them interacting again. People were something that she was never going to miss, the interactions with them had always left her feeling less than human herself and more of the beast that the voice always told her she was. She'd lifted her gaze again just in time to see the man nod to her, to say he had heard her speak though he didn't have time right then for the introvert to talk to him about what had happened and to see if she had heard or seen anything more than he had; understandable though she couldn't help hearing how his small friend had gone on rambling about medicine and helping any injured student though Vanessa herself wasn't a huge supporter of helping others like that. Solitary and away from the crowd was fine with her, though in the auditorium it would be difficult for her to concentrate on helping with the sheer amount of people around her that would stand or sit just without touching distance. 

Just before the man looked away from her again she held up a hand - one of her flashlights in the other to illuminate, regardless of how much it hurt her eyes -, asking if they could talk later in sign language. It wasn't a secret that the boy was partially deaf and her cousin hadn't been able to hear since his ear drums were popped in a fight at school so she had had to learn it to be able to talk to him again; she silently wondered if he had 'vanished' as well, or if he was safe somewhere, holed up in his basement apartment. Her mouth was held in a soft line, neither a frown nor a smile as she stared, seeing if he had seen what she had attempted to say to him while the other girl finished speaking again. He would eventually run out of things to do at one point or another and Vanessa is generally a very patient girl unless it comes down to a new book coming out in one of her favourite series. 

Afterward she had turned off the flashlight and tucked it into the satchel that still hung from one of her thin shoulders and shoved both of her hands back into her pockets, watching all of their movements intently as her eyes adjusted once again to the darkness around them, her pupils huge afterward so that she was able to see fairly well in the near total darkness, her dark grey eyes taking o a silver hue while she waited again for the end of the confrontation. males were always the first to fight she remembered, having watched them enough inside and outside of school, the fighting only getting worse in collage though sometime it was over a girls affection there. 

[i]'Monsters like the dark. Just like you~'[/i] The girl whirled around in the shadows, her eyes searching for the owner of the voice who had said this though she knew she wouldn't be able to see him at first, not until she was terrified of him would he show himself. Vanessa scanned the shadows once more, slowly searching for him before turning back around to face the others, standing nearly twenty feet from the group as they had begun to disperse on their own separate paths. Her eyes had gone to the girl, Aria, though just as her gaze settled on her an image flickered into her vision and she stumbled back a few steps as he settled in place again. His red eyes shone in the dark and Vanessa couldn't stop herself from staring as adrenaline started pumping through her and fear made her hands shake in her pockets. 

[color=bc8dbf]"Go away James."[/color]

She whispered, fumbling in her satchel she pulled out a container of prescription drugs and dropped a few into one of her shaking hands. She took them dry and refused to look at the boy as he flickered out of being again, his voice echoing in her head. [i]'You know that won't happen Sweetheart.'[/i] Vanessa shook her head and looked at Aria, careful yo calm her breathing before taking any steps toward her and still only approaching enough for the girl to be able to see her while she held out one of her flashlights to her, a small and hesitant smile on her face though it was forced and unnatural after seeing the boy again. It had been a while and the book under her arm grounded her and helped her remember what reality was, though she hated not always knowing anything what was real or not whenever she looked at something. 

[color=bc8dbf]"It's probably better than your phone." [/color]