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[/sup][h3][sup][sup][color=9932CC]Virgil Ovid Hawkins   [color=9932CC]♦[/color]   June 1st, 2001   [color=9932CC]♦[/color]   Male   [color=9932CC]♦[/color] Hero [/color][/sup][/sup][/h3]
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Richard Foley was a nice kid. Your standard everyday 15 year old who kept to his books, listened to his parents and returned to the house by 10PM. When it came down to it he was actually a bit of a stickler when it came to them. So when his parents, gone for the night for a long night meeting at STAR Labs was left a list of chores to do. He was quick to get those done before heading for bed, He had just about finished with cleaning the kitchen, which after taking hours to polish the hardwood kitchen floor, he rested himself on the nearby chair, ready to call it a night.

However, it would seem he nearly forgot one more task, as his eyes locked onto the Kitchen garbage bin. He sighed, there is always one more thing, even if your parents were not there to announce it. He lifted himself off of the bar chair in the kitchen, which he gently pushed back behind the island counter and walked toward the can pulling the trash bag out and tying it, heading outside going through the small backyard to the side of his house in order to throw out the trash. However, in the pile of garbage he was shocked to see what seemed to be an African American male, dressed in a baggy red hoodie and black jeans, wearing what seemed to be timberland boots. He wasn’t bleeding it seemed just unconscious, and swollen in multiple areas. Richard had only partially noted who he was. They went to the same school, so he was…familiar with him.

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[color=9932CC]“You forgot that lunch money again Rich? Come on, you know you don’t want me to get Ebon on ya.”

“We can do this the easy way or the hard way.”[/color][/i][/b]

He shuddered at that word, usually the easy way was simply a 30-minute stay in a locker, and the hard way? Well it depended on The Bloods mood, either it was the swirlie or a nice beatdown. Either way It wasn’t fond memories that Richard was familiar with Virgil Hawkins. He was their newest recruit and tended to be the one who took all the action. Seeing him swollen and thrashed like this? Well, He looked pathetic and was certainly a good case of Schadenfreude. He really DIDN’T Want to help him. No really, if it was up to him he’d probably just leave him here until his parents came home and they call the cops.

But then his parents would rant to him about the importance of karma and how he should treat his fellow man with respect. However, they didn’t say he had to be nice about it, He turned toward his side to see the water hose neatly wrapped around the hostler on the side of the house, he turned the faucet on and pointed the watering hose at him, as the water suddenly shot out of the house, splashing Virgil across the face violently, forcing him out of consciousness. Richard hesitated to laugh seeing Virgil now stammer out of the pile of garbage and away from the water that he was being sprayed with. Instead settling for a more monotone and stern stare, which fit with the question he had to ask.

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“So…mind me asking what’s a gangbanbing piece of shit like you doing not only in this neighborhood but here at the side of my house?”[/b][/color]

Virgil was still shocked about the water being sprayed across his face, before even noticing the voice of Richard. He lifted himself up from the piles of bags and snarled at Richard, he wasn’t gonna take that shit from a pasty faced fag.

[color=9932CC][b]“Keep your fucking mouth shut before I shut it for you.”[/b][/color]

Virgil lifted his fist, only to see it glow again in it’s purple electrical aura. He blinked noting the chang and attempted to shake his hand to try and turn it off, only for the same lid that he gathered previously, to return to his hand. Virgil for once had the same reaction at Richard who was now staring at the sight before them.

[b]“Magnetism?”[/b]

They both said it at once, though Richard was surprised, not that he assumed that the black male was dumb by any means but to immediately point it out was something to behold. [b][color=82ca9d]“Good, we at least both know what it is, but ignoring how goddamn cool it looks, what up with it?”[/color][/b]

Virgil paused for a moment, seeing the electrical particles just dance around his hand. After he relaxed he say the electricity suddenly disperse and began to dissipate. [b][color=9932CC]“I…don’t know.”[/color][/b] Virgil Spoke but It was Richard who began to take curiosity with it. He inched right into Virgils face and grabbed his wrist, to stare at it. [b][color=82ca9d]“I…think I can find out, Mind staying for a while, or you don’t want to be seen with the geek?”[/color][/b] Richard said this with Venom, Virgil knew this but at this moment it would seem that he had no other option, besides heading back to the pier with The rest of the Bloods, just didn't seem like a good idea right now.

[b][color=9932CC]“Honestly, that sounds relaxing at this point.”[/color][/b]