[hr][hr] [center] [img]https://i.imgur.com/ijylYJV.png[/img] [hr] [color=cde0e1]Location:[/color] School [color=cde0e1]Skills:[/color] [color=cde0e1]Magic Item:[/color] N/A [url=https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1448861581931843788/1465906580917850175/9e8cb20db1942e0dc0f835803f9fee72.jpg?ex=697d7264&is=697c20e4&hm=c6335230c8c3ecc630626e96eac45e73b1e7ba9ba8a5ef9de944f1de5418fae6&=&format=webp&width=599&height=800]Fit check[/url] [/center] [hr][hr] Danni talked first. Explaining things as he saw them happen. The sequence of events. It seemed simple from his perspective. Ben's ears got hot when Danni described him. [I]Danni thought he was cute.[/i] [color=cde0e1]”Sorry about that again,”[/color] he murmured as Danni said that he had blown him off. Ben hadn't wanted to. And he had promised 10 hang outs in exchange. He hoped that would be a good enough peace prize. [color=cde0e1]“We started dating on the third,”[/color] Ben supplied. Not remembering that he hadn’t told Danni until the sixth. He frowned as Danni said Chase had shoved Percy into lockers. He shot Chase a look, but Chase was sitting on the ground and he looked so broken. A slurry of memories went through Ben's mind. Chase at the contest:[i] “Personally I'm hoping short stack over there gets pummeled into the ground.”[/i] Chase in the woods:[i] “Emrys, he would say a dark wizard, he would think me a villain of darkness that cannot be brought to light.”[/i] Chase on the side of the road breaking down as he told Ben everything that had happened to him. How he had gotten his powers. Chase and him... praying. Ben kissing him for the first time. Ben asking Chase if this was serious or a fling. Ben had been so afraid of being used. Chase admitting he hadn't been sure he liked him until then, despite all the attention. He shook a little. That could have been him. Shoved into a locker. Panic at the idea rose. Fear of that small of a space filling him. Chase walking him through the panic that had risen in the shower. Chase picking hotel rooms that had ADA compliant bathrooms after that. Chase making sure he was okay. Chase holding him. His gentleness. Making sure he had space around him in the car and in the shower, even if it was with his shadows when there wasn’t another option. Chase growing, and saying to himself that his feelings mattered. Chase fighting his demons and swimming. Chase accepting help, and the drinks from Matt despite turning them down. He could have been in Percy's place. Kissing the guy he liked. But Chase hadn't hurt him. He had helped him. Protected him. They had talked about the worst days of their lives. He had been so vulnerable with him and Chase [i]hadn't[/i] hurt him. That told him what he needed to know. Chase did want to change, he wanted to be better. Ben adjusted himself so he stood between Chase and the others a bit more. If anyone did want to fight him they'd have to go through him. The faces of the people arrayed there didn’t seem like the faces of people who were ready to attack. One of them even offered healing. The initial shock was over. Dorian’s face had become almost contrite, apologetic. Only Percy was still upset. Percy was miserable. Clinging to his boyfriend and barely able to get words out between sobs. Percy wanted to talk to Chase in private. He was crying and they needed closure. Ben offered his hand to Chase, to help pick him up. [color=cde0e1]“We'll talk later, I'll hold my opinions until you've told me everything,”[/color] Ben said, echoing their conversation on the side of the road when Chase told him about how he got his powers. But he had a soft smile on his face. Chase took his hand, and it was a good thing, it would be the only thing that kept Ben from using the people in the room to get up and over the walls. Ice walls formed around them. April said something that was lost on him. He looked around, gripping onto Chase like a lifeline. He couldn’t breathe. There was an exit, but it was beyond the crowd of people. He tried to get through them. He couldn’t breathe. Walls. He felt like passing out. Fuck. There were too many people. Ben wanted out of there. He [i]needed[/i] to not be in this small space with all these strangers. He didn’t know [i]any[/i] of them. Only Danni and Chase. He turned, considering the walls, if he could scale them, he did parkour and he could get out that way. But the walls were made of ice, he couldn’t get his fingers from his free hand into them. Ben couldn’t breathe. The world felt smaller and smaller, and he couldn’t get any air. Black dots started to fill his vision. [hr][hr] [center] [img]https://i.imgur.com/swV4s1J.png[/img] [hr] [color=b71d5d]Location:[/color] School [color=b71d5d]Skills:[/color] Enhanced Reflexes (Passive); Enhanced Durability [color=b71d5d]Magic item:[/color] N/A [url=https://medias.spotern.com/spots/w360/513/513251-1745480151.jpg]Fit check[/url], and Letterman jacket [/center] [hr][hr] [color=b71d5d] “Victoria!”[/color] Andy shouted. She didn’t know what Vicky had planned, but it couldn’t be good. There was no way it was worth killing the other team over. She caught what Gideon did out of the side of her eye and she smiled a little, shaking her head. [color=b71d5d] “Hey! Don’t be rude!”[/color] Andy yells at the other team. [color=b71d5d]”You don’t hear us calling you rude names. Stick to the snowballs.”[/color] She noticed off to one side, where she was certain she had heard April earlier, that a wall of ice had formed. If that was April’s doing she had gotten [i]good.[/i] Too bad she wasn’t helping with the snow ball fight. Andy ducked behind a fortification and sent April a text. [hider=@April] Yo, idk if that is you over there, but uh... if you wanna throw around more snow, come over to the snowball field.[/hider] Then she picked up more snow and went back to throwing balls at the other team. She laughed. This was [i]fun.[/i]