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"I don't exactly know," sheathing his dagger he grabbed her hand with his and a warm crackling could be heard. Her hand burned for a moment before feeling soothed. The cut was healed by his Ember Skin ability, "the fact that you were willing makes you not a threat, the fact that you are beautiful makes us friends!" Now that she was no threat Athens could show how exited he was that a beautiful girl like this was Immortal, kissing her hand and getting on one knee Athens smiled. "My candle burns brighter near your enlightened personality, what is your name Fallen beauty? And might I add how rude it was for me to trip such a delicate flower such as yourself!!!"

Heading to the diner it was called Stella's, "best place in downtown!" Walking in he slipped the waitress a black credit card, I'd like to start a tab starting with two plates of your best omelets," sitting down he looked at Nick, "so what is your story Nick?"

((What city are we in?))

((Don't know, Artsy, what city are we in?))

Nick took a sip of the water that the waitress served them before returning his attention to Duuk. "Huh, my story?" He said in surprise. "Mmm, it's nothing really special, middle class family, part time job, do the best I can at school, and not much of a social life at all. And you know what, that's exactly how I like it... normal." Nick asserted before taking another sip of his drink.

"...candle burns brighter near your enlightened personality..." Nick heard, nearly making him spit out his drink.

'Ah man, him again?!' He lamented in his thoughts, recognizing the obnoxious voice of Athens. Of course, just when he was telling Duuk about how normal he was the one thing that placed him firmly in the freak category begins acting up.

"...S-so, yeah, that's pretty much all I can say about me, what about you, from the looks of things your story seems a bit more interesting." He said, trying desperately to drown out Athens' Casanova-esque ramblings.

Isobel couldn't help giggling a bit as her hand healed. "How strange it is to be on the receiving end of healing." She started to draw her hand back but was surprised to feel lips against her skin. Isobel tensed and almost slashed at his face with the dagger in her hand. It was so unexpected.

Isobel actually busted up laughing when he called her delicate. "Are you flirting with me?" It just seemed so ridiculous, right after he'd practically threatened to kill her. "Oh, I'm sorry. You're being serious aren't you? Yeah, you don't have to worry about harming any delicate parts. I'm pretty sure everything delicate about me has already been crushed."

Jumping up Athens nodded, "I bet, nothing hotter then a strong independent woman." This side of Athens was the normal Athens, "immortal duty, last of my kind, pact with my Gods you know how that goes..." Now that the threat was gone business Athens could hit the dusty trail and easy going Athens could flirt away. "How about joining me for dinner? And I never did catch your name..."

"I lived in Africa under the rule of a warlord known as the witch doctor, but when the South African militia came in and freed the child soldiers I was adopted by a rich American family who were working in the South African hospitals..." His story was tragic as is, but he was leaving out the voodoo and scientific magic used on Duuk to give him his odd time powers. "My father is a doctor and my mother is an activist for the hungry in Africa. I was just their own personal charity I guess," he smiled as they finished their food. "There has to be more to you then just 'normal'..." Dukonuu used air quotes to make his point.

Nick was apprehensive, he was prying, as if Nick's answer wasn't the one he wanted to hear. Duuk seemed like a nice guy, and Nick was almost certain he had powers himself, maybe, just maybe, he could confide in him. He let out a defeated sigh.

"Well, I guess normal isn't exactly an appropriate word." He admitted. "Look, there's a reason I was there in that alley, it was mostly coincidence, but... ok, you have to swear on your life not to tell anybody, I'm just an ordinary guy that just so happens to have an extraordinary... talent." He said. He looked around to make sure nobody was paying attention, which wasn't hard, considering they were the only customers there. He concentrated for a moment and tuned back into Atlas' rambling, guiding the sound waves directly to Duuk's ears.

"...about joining me for dinner? And I never did catch your name..." Duuk could hear surprisingly clear.

Duuk looked around, looking for where that broken sentence had come from... "What the hell?" He had odd powers but he hadn't expected someone else to have then, nor someone so easily bumped into on the street! "Echo-Kinesis? You have the power to control sound waves??" This power was a strange one, hypothetically Nick could put people on mute, or amplify their voice with a movement of his wrist. "So you can Fus Ro Dah like the Dragonborn is that one Video Game can't you," Duuk laughed as the waitress brought around two plates of pancakes.

"Uh... that's certainly a creative way to use it." Nick replied, hiding his purple glowing hand from the waitress as she served them their food. "So yeah, I'm not exactly normal, heck I'm not even sure I'm actually human." He admitted. "These powers just sort of showed up, I woke up one morning and I could hear... well, everything, and it all sounded like it was happening right next to my face, I was freaking out." He took a short break from his story to cut off a slice of his pancakes and eat it.

"I've been hiding them ever since, not even my parents know. I've learned to control them pretty well, pretend that they don't even exist, but every once in a while they act up, reminding me." He sighed, he really just wanted to be normal. "So what about you, I know you're hiding something too, spill it and we'll call it even." He said.

"You are a smart one aren't you..." Duuk touched Nicks hand and everything stopped, "I can manipulate the way time works, for example this diner has now stepped out of the flow of time and is frozen solid until I release it from my grasp." Letting go of Nick's hand Duuk vanished, but the door opened and Nick watched Duuk followed by himself walk into Stella's and sit down at the booth they were at. The waitress walked over, Duuk handed her his black credit card and she told them about the omelets. Once time had caught up to reality and had reset Duuk wrapped up the explanation of his abilities. ((See above.)) "Let's say I get shot, and I use my back step ability, I continue bleeding out until I can prevent my past self from getting shot. It's possible to die from a gun shot that I haven't been hit with yet if I go back and try to stop it..."

Isobel raised an eyebrow, completely blown away. "Wow. You're very straightforward, aren't you?" Shelifted her head when he mentioned dinner. "This is more like early morning...besides, I was following Ju-the Silhouette when you threw a fireball at me. So I'm afraid I had plans with her this night...or morning.”

"How about this up coming night?" Athens was very persistent and wouldn't stop until he either got a yes, got a punch to the gut, or found a prettier girl. However loyal he was if she hadn't said yes yet he wasn't tied down, "and you still haven't told me your name Fallen Angel!" Punching upward blue fire created a heart!

Isobel took a step back without meaning to. His personality...was so overwhelming. "Uh, it's Isobel..." She felt the heat off of his fiery heart, but she couldn't see it so she just thought it was another fireball. "And I don't know...about tomorrow night. I mean I don't think I'm busy..." Isobel didn't really have any experience with this sort of thing. She wasn't sure how she was supposed to react.

"That sounds like a yes," Athens kissed the girls cheek, I'll meet you around eight... Here is fine, easy, memorable, see ya then sugar!" Snapping his fingers as he backed away blue flames consumed him and he was gone, and Isobel was about to have her first real date.

Isobel touched her cheek where he'd kissed it. "God dammit." She'd actually been trying to figure out the best way to not go on a date with him. He'd practically just bowled over her quieter personality though. She shook her head, bewildered. "How does a guy go from 'I may have to kill you' to 'let's date' in less than 10 minutes?!"

John was aimlessly meandering through the city, minding his own business and perhaps thinking about getting something to eat. Then he saw fireballs shooting off in the air in the distance. Interested and worried for the safety of others, the large man clad in armor, but rather agile, climbed up a roof and stood on top to get a better view of the situation. He had to focus for a few moments but he recognized one of the two figures, and assumed that she needed help. John began scaling the roof tops and got there about a minute after the man had vanished into fire. Running up from behind Isobel he backed up and did a massive leap and landed behind her with a very familiar "Thud", luckily he didn't knock off any of the shillings on the roof. He stood up tall and looked down at Isobel, tilting his head a bit he remained quiet.

Very familiar thud indeed. Isobel whipped around, her hand tensed on the dagger again. "Jesus John! Don't come up behind me like that!" She sighed and relaxed for what felt like the first time that night. "You missed all the trouble by the way." She grinned. "What are you doing in this city anyways?? Whatever city this happens to be. I'm never really sure of anything beyond the coordinates."

John put lowered his head slightly when she scolded him as if to say that he was sorry. Then looked back up to her when she relaxed. When she said that he missed all the trouble he stared on at her, almost like he was a tad bit disappointing. His hand rested on the hilt of his blade, both to relax and be ready, mainly the later. She began questioning him of how he got in the city and his bulking shoulders shrugged a bit. After a bit he just bent his knees a bit to get at eye level with the girl and stared at her, his face still shrouded in shadows from under the hood. "What happened?" he asked her tilting his head a bit.

Isobel touched her cheek again where the strange boy had kissed her and her face reddened slightly. "Um, I think I just got asked out on a date? No, that's not right. It seems like it's going to happen for sure. Tomorrow night." Huh. Well that definitely felt weird to say. Somehow saying it to John just made her feel even more weird. "I'm glad Julie offered me some clothes. What does a girl wear on a date anyways? A normal girl, I mean." She had to at least be there if the other boy thought she was going to be there. It wouldn't be right to just leave him to come here and wait by himself.

It seemed like he stopped breathing for a moment as she said that she was going on a date tomorrow night. Slowly he stood up and looked down at her, standing very upright and rigid. He looked around a bit, rather...awkwardly. He rubbed the back of his head and looked down at her once more before turning around and taking a few steps, then turning back to her. Glancing back over to her and then looking down at the roof and letting out a heavy sigh. "....Why? I didn't know....You dated", he said a bit quietly.