Kove had pushed Thaleron into the kitchen, pouring her a small gla.ss with cranberry juice in it, even though she hadn't truly said that was what she wanted. She hadn't actually even said a word, not even a word, a nod, nothing. No indication of that she even liked cranberry juice, let alone juice in general. And at the moment, the only words running through his mind was juice. Good God, can you even think straight!? He snapped in his mind as he carried the squat round gl*censored* on the island counter in the middle of the kitchen, thick granite top counters. He moved to where the short frail girl who looked so delicate and broken at the moment, her eyes searching frantically around the kitchen like a lost puppy looking for anything familiar. He only sighed, pulling out one of the tall stools out for her, clearing his throat though he didn't really catch her attention. "Thaleron..." He breathed out slowly, and as her head snapped suddenly to the tall lanky man his eye brows lifted as he indicated the chair he had pulled out for her. Her gray eyes only moved to the chair before her head tipped forward slightly, moving slowly to the stool and hoisting herself up. "That is for you. Just... Well I hope you like cranberry juice, just stay here, I think I heard my brother come in, I'll find him and bring him to you." He said quietly, giving her a small, slightly lopsided, smile. She only narrowed her eyes into a glare before wrapping her fragile fingers around the gla.ss and liftng it to her lips taking a small drink, moving her eyes away from Kove as he watched her settle down in the chair, her feet not even close to touching the ground, let alone the first bar on the stool.

Kove sighed and turned away, moving out of the kitchen, glancing over his shoulder at the long sheet of black hair that ran down the girls back as she drank the juice. He started towards the stair case, his hand reaching the railing as he trotted quickly up the stairs. "James!" He called loudly, the word echoeing off the empty walls of the hall, wrapping its way up before side to side before the sound settle back down on the ground. "Is that you?" His eyes moved to he door of his brothers room but he paused, not wanting to interupt his brother if he was busy. "I think you need to come down stairs for a moment... I kind of did something rather stupid, but I just... I can't stand it, just please come meet... Her." He said slowly, lifting a hand to brush it through his shaggy hair irritably.

Aza stared at him as he walked quickly back and forth, from where her knees carefully sat to the off white door. She kept a hatefull eye on him as he brought his hand up to srach is silky smooth red hair. His eyes where glued on the floor. The silence was chilling but nice. The sound of their hearts beating, Each breath they took and the sound that his shoes made as they hit the ground made a nice rythem Aza liked. She started nodding her head to the beat trying not to make it noticable. Still nodding she looked around cautiously. Trying not to let her bright green eyes show him weakness. Looking around she saw tons of stuff she didnt know the name of. In one corner there was a tall slender looking bookcase with alot of red, yellow, and black scattered inside. comic books. Aza thought looking to the Left of it. The door!Aza just wanted to reach out and thouch it. The smooth off white wood doors. The shiny polished gold door nob that was always cold aginst your skin and shine like a dimond in the sun. Her lip trmbled in longing. Loning to get out of the house. Longing to be reunited with her mom. Longing to kill Max for having her sold! The loning got inturupted by soft kocks at the door, and a male vocie that said they needed James.

James quietly ran to Aza covering her mouth with one of his hands. She looked at him annoyed as he just looked at her scared but with releif knowing that his brother wasnt going to open the door. "Yah Yah! I will be out in a minuite!" He hollored to the voice Aza was unfamiliar with. James stood up and took his hand off her mouth. She wipped her mouth as she groaned followed by a sigh of releif by james. He laughed. "That was a close one. I thought he was going to open that door." James shrugged licking his lips. "Well if you will excuse me." He teased reaching for the door nod. "I will be back. My brother needs me." He gave a bright awkward smile and turning the nob slowly. "Now Stay! If you move I swear I will kill you." His smile sayed as she just turned "Woof!" She said mockingly. James rolled his eyes and shut the door behind him. James ran down stairs not going in the kitchen. "Sup Bro! Whats up?" James made one last look at the door before being relaxed.

Kove glanced at his brother for a moment before back down the hall. "Is everything okay?" He asked slowly, his eyes moving to the door behind James as he let his eyes snap back on his brother. "Never mind. I think it would be best if you just came and saw..." He trailed off, turning his body away from James and starting back down the hall in a rather quick, fluid movement, forgetting he had left the young woman on her own, wondering if she would have even moved.

Thaleron had sat at the counter for a while until she realized it had been a good five minutes. She peeked over her shoulder, letting her gaze move to the door before she pushed herself up to peer out of the frame to the empty rooms, her eyes catching the stairs. Her eyes narrowed as she moved from the kitchen. She marched across the room to he foyer that led to the front door, quietly, but surely she was moving forward, every bit of her attention on the door. She p*censored*ed the stairs, completely ignoring them as she let her body lurch forward into a quick dart. 

"No!" She heard the voice, the soft one that had spoken, he was obviously back and Thaleron only ran across the foyer towards the door, fiddling with the golden handle of the door knob, not quite being able to turn it as quick as she wanted to. But finally, the door slipped open as she moved from the house, starting down the stairs, the long walk still ahead of her. "S.hit!" She heard, though the voce seemed much closer.

And that is when it happened. A riveting pain shot through her waist, a thick wrap of fingers over her hips, fingers digging into them. Her body was shredded to the ground, though the pain she had expected didn't come as the soft fabric under her kept her own small body safe. She could feel his arms wrapped around her tightly, his breath heavy in her ear. "God dam.n you!" He hissed, shoving her off of him, which he had managed to twist his body under hers to keep her from smashing into the ground. "Do that again, and I'll lock you in a room, would you like that?" Kove hissed, forcing his own body up, not even sure where his brother was, let alone if he followed since he had darted off on his own. "No. You wouldn't." He sighed, taking in a careful breath and placing his hand on her back, pressing it between her shoulder her blades and leading her carefully back into the house as she kept her mouth shut, her arms crossed over her chest, eyes narrowed. "James!" He called as he shut the door behind the two, looking around for his brother. "This is who I would like you to meet. This is Thaleron."

"I can speak for myself, thank you very much." She snapped the first words she had really spoken besides one word answers and awkward stances, though as she stood, one sharp hip jutted out more than the other, obviously annoyed.

James smiled as Kove lead him into the kitchen. He notice a small person just escape out the door and soon after that Kove. James laughed as they ran through the house. After laughing he just stood there not knowing what to do. He shoved his hands in his pockets and rocked on his heels until he realized that his brother either did the same thing as he did or his brother is just a weirdo. James eyes widend as he realized that the girl in his room might exscape too. He ran up the stairs and opened his door. The girl didnt turned around to look him. "Yah, I would like a hamburger with cheese with katchup and pickles. Oh I love my pickles." Aza laughed a sarcastic laugh. "Good, good! Your here." Aza rolled her eyes "Duh I am here."  She now looked at him and she smiled at his greife.

James walked back down stairs and in the kitchin. He went to sit down at the table and he thought of the girl up in the room. Thinking how he still didnt know her name. The door opned and james stood up looking at Kove and the girl he kept a close eye on. James introduced her and she snapped back at him. It took a moment before James started laughing. He was laughing for about 2min. before he calmed down and stuck out his hand "I am James!"

"Is there something funny, hot shot?" Thaleron snapped, her eyes narrowing as she had been led slowly back to the kitchen by Kove, who had a firm hand on her back still, as if she'd try to escape again, yet there was no way she would even try once more, feeling failure, and that meant no more tries and she would try to devise another plan. She heard the stifled chuckle the man behind her tried to hold in but only yanked her body away from him, setting her glare on his frame instead of the other brother, James. "What, you too? What is wrong with all of you?" She hissed, moveing towards the wall with her arms crossed tightly over her chest as she looked to Kove still, eyes continued to hold the glare.

"No, no it wasn't-"

"I don't care what it wasn't. Or what it was to be exact. I honestly don't care about anything at the moment, so don't even try." Thaleron let the words fly from her mouth wrly, a thick dark speech stinging like pins against Kove's body, only making him stammer with words before he shut his mouth quickly, realizing how stupid he was sounding. 

He let his lips part once again though, breathing out, "Sorry. But this is Jame's, the obvious one you were um, bought for. James, sorry. Her father demanded this stupid necklace and I had to give it to him as I promised to take the girl from him for the necklace and... Well now we are here." His eyes were still on Thaleron as he watched her grumble under her breath about how stupid her father was. Kove only rolled his hazel green flecked eyes before letting them settle on his brother once again. 

ooc: I guess Irissa isn't really coming, would you want to give it a couple of days before deciding she isn't? And then if so, do you want to keep just these characters or do you want me to make another female if you still want to play your other male character?

Thaleron had rolled her eyes at the other man, letting her head flick away like his eyes had meant nothing, the electric color having no affect on her, whether it would with any girl, she didn't know, the only thing she did know, was that she was becoming continuously more ticked off and irritated at the man, who was obviously trying to bug her. But the silence that had filled the kitchen when the man had left was almost comforting to her, though it was more awkward for Kove, who had shoved his hands in the pockets of his jeans, rocking back on his heels slightly until he could hear the footsteps coming back to the kitchen.

Kove studied the James for a moment; his eye brows lifting for the two had done the same exact thing.  His shaggy hair had fallen in front of his eyes as he let his head turn to Thaleron who had turned her head stubbornly from each of the people in the room. He sighed, letting his eyes slide to the girl who had entered into the kitchen with James. “Whatever you wish.” He could play the game, he could let her do what she wished at the moment, think what she wanted, but in time, she would learn to trust him as he would learn to trust her, and then possibly more could happen, depending on whether either of them would be able to get over the facts of how and why they were put into this situation. “Well either way, I’m Kove, it is a pleasure to meet you.” Unlike James, Kove didn’t want to make the two women upset. Though as he finished his sentence, he heard someone snort to the side of him, Thaleron’s gray eyes landing on Kove before flicking to the other girl.

“Yes, God. Please go frolic in the meadows and pick flowers, and share how much in love you have for each other and how life is so amazing and then dance and sing and be happy! Yes! Live for each other! Just don’t bring me into your perfect little life of love and money.” She spit out before turning on her heel and moving directly for the door of the kitchen, wanting to get away from the men, wanting to calm down at least slightly. She moved out of the kitchen, letting her arms dropping to her sides as she moved to the living room, her eyes flicking to the windows that showed the outside world she desperately wished she wasn’t seeing.

Kove pulled his hands from his pockets, running one through his hair while he let the other one wait by his side as he pushed his hair away from his eyes as he finally let them flick away from James as he left, letting them land back on the girl, Aza, or so she called herself. His eyes fluttered to her eyes for a moment, taking in her green ones before his eyes moved to her hair that was curled into the smooth ringlets of her sandy hair. He swallowed, feeling the slight lump in his throat run down, leaving his throat easily. He cleared his throat slowly, taking in a sharp breath of air, feeling his lungs expanding before contorting as he breathed out, letting his eyes move away from the woman and flutter around the room. “Well, Aza, if there is anything you need just let me know and if you want help I can help you, otherwise if you’d rather find everything on your own that is fine too, our home is now yours.” His thin lips curved up in a smile, his casual lazy one, the right side twitched up slightly higher than the left side. It was his usual smile, the one that he normally pressed on when he tried to be re*censored*uring, let alone whatever else he needed to show. He sighed, shifting his body as he let his eyes move back to the women slowly, blinking a few times. “Sorry it happened.” He said quietly, lifting his shoulders up before letting them dip down in a shrug.

Thaleron spun quickly, barely giving any time before she opened her mouth easily, “Excuse me? Would you like to tell that to the woman you are to be married to? I’d watch your back; someone might just not want to keep the other safe at night. Oh, and maybe I wasn’t blaming your brother, he seems to actually care about buying me off. You try having a father who wants to sell you off every second he can get let alone with all of your family until you are the last one left, then come try to talk to me about it!” She drew a sharp breath in, taking a quick fluid step towards James, her head tilting up to get a better look at him, her sharp features smashed into her gaunt face. “I’d like to see you live my life then stand here and question and yell at me. I don’t know if you noticed, but I’m a little frazzled! It isn’t easy to be tossed away like you’re nothing and then brought to a strange house where nothing makes sense and I’m stuck with someone like you who is already yelling at me.” She hissed lowly, her own temper getting the better of her, though she was a little surprised that he had come after to her just to fix the way he thought she felt about his brother. “So thank you.” She said as she turned away from James once again, completely turning her back to him as her head tipped forward, eyes landing on the ground.

Kove winced at the sound of his brother in the other room, knowing the girl had truly upset him, though he couldn't really figure out why. He turned his attention back ov the woman who had planted herself in a chair, which only made him feel bad he had recoiled for a few minutes while thinking of his brother. "The family? Well at the house it is just me and James, my parents are off on their own for a bit, they stop by every once and awhile, but it just depends on who is busy and such, though we always try to make time." He said easily, letting his attention go back to Aza fully, though he seemed to be looking over her shoulder instead of at her fact, though it only seemed okay to him since she didn't seem so content to look at him either.

Thaleron snorted, letting her arms cross over her chest again . She let the silencedrag on, the pulse in her temple ticking, her heart beating as she took sharp breaths into her mouth, her eye still on the ground. "Okay." She said quietly, feeling her bottom lip trembling slightly, though her voice had yet to become coarse and cracked. She pulled one hand from her arm, shoving hr blocky, thick side bangs away from her eyes, tucking it behind her ear as she sighed, her shoulder slightly hunched over. She was frozen in place until slowly, she let her spine straighen to a rigid plank, her shoulders squaring off once again, returning to her usual posture. She took a few steps forward, knowing she was carrying herself farther away, almost afraid to turn to look at the man who had raised his voice to her, whih had made her flinch slightly as she kept her back turned to him as he spoke. "Sorry." She added in a hushed tone, glancing over her shoulder only to find his back to her, which only made her flick her head away once again.

Thaleron had to force every inch of her body to freeze as James had pressed his hand against her shoulder, wanting to jerk it away, only to feel the light tapping on her back moments later, but once he had left, she let out the breath she had been holding, only to continue on a steady even rhytmic pull of air in before letting it out. Her eyes lifted to the window once again, her head no longer tilted down, lifted up slightly, elevated as she swallowed, her arms still crossed, fingers digging into her arms as she became jittery from the scene she had only caused.  She glanced at one of the couches before moving to sit down on the very edge of the cushions, both of her feet planted firmly only the ground, knees bent slightly down as she forced her body to stay where it was at, not scooting back into the couch cusions.Her knees bounced around as she tried to calm herself down before she became irritated by the movement and forced her legs to stop bouncing up and down and sat with her body rigid.

Kove let out a silent sigh, glancing to the door that lead out of the kitchen. "Don't worry, things happen, James will cool down. He's never hurt anyone." He said easily, moving towards the door and past the door frame, indicating Aza to follow him. "There is one upstairs in the hall. I'll show you." He moved his whole body from the door frame, no longer half way in and out, but fully out of the kitchen. He glanced back over his shoulder before back to the living room, only seeing Thaleron, realizing James must have gone upstairs. He watched her for a moment, noticing how tense her body was, before moving past the living room she was in and starting for the stairs, not wanting to get wrapped up in whatever had happened with the two.

Aza followed thinking about the thing Kove had said about his brother. Aza sighed as they went up the stairs. She saw the girl sitting on the couch. She looked invincible, but scared. Strong but weak. Aza wished she could go down there and just comfort her. The truth was that Aza was scared. She was as frightened as every one in the house. She couldnt wait until tomorrow. For then it would be a new and. "Where will I be sleeping?" Aza asked on the way to the bathroom. She now felt like a little 5 year old girl who was in a resturant following her mommy to go pee. Waiting for an answer Aza atarted humming to herself.

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James heard footstrps go up the stairs he was hopping it woulf be Thaleron. He slowly peaked his head out the door noticing his brother and Aza. Man, What have I done?! James was getting all stressed out. He began feeling claustrophobic in this big house. He couldnt stand it. He grabbed one of his white jackets off his bed. The one with a black skill on the back He quickly threw it on while he ran down the stairs fairly quiet. Whlie he was p*censored*ing the living room he started to walk not wanting to fighten Thaleron. He saw the front door. It seemed like miles and miles away, but once he reached it a sigh of releif excaped his mouth. Turning the handle rather quickly he thought it would be nice if he invited Thaleron for a walk. "Thaleron" James spoke but to the ground, he didnt want to make eye contact. "Would you maybe want to go on a walk with me?" He thought it sounded a little cheezy or desprate so he quickly added. "Only if you want to. If you dont I compleatly understand!" James looked slowly up to see if Thaleron had acctually heard him.

Kove glanced back at Aza as he continued to move down the hall, his fingers back in his pockets once again, his elbows bent slightly as he barely pressed his fingers into them. "You can sleep in my room. I can make myself a bed on the ground, and if you aren't comfortable with me in the room then it is perfectly fine and I can sleep on the couch, it doesn't really matter, whatever you feel most comfortable with." He said while lifting his shoulders up, keeping his hands in the pockets of his jeans before he let them relax back down as he gave a subtle shrug, not really wanting to make anyone uncomfortable, he would most likely do anything to make sure Aza was okay with the situation. Slowly, he paused at a closed door, pointing letting his eyes move to it. “It is there, the bathroom, and we just p*censored*ed my room. He stepped away from the door, letting her have her own space as he meandered slowly back down a few feet towards the door to his room.

Thaleron jumped at the sound of someone’s voice, having not heard anyone’s footsteps going by, apparently too lost in her own world. Slowly, she let her head turn towards the voice, finding James, unsure why he wanted to even talk to her. She stayed quiet for awhile, continuing to watch James, not really making any decision. Her fingers were on the cushions of the couch, holding her body on the edge, but with one quick fluid movement she pushed herself off of the couch and moved towards the door where James was. She tucked her hands in the deep pockets of the blue cardigan, wrapping it around her body, feeling the sweater cover over her, slightly warmer. She figured it would be better for her to go instead of sitting in the house doing nothing. “Okay.” She replied simply as she reached him.

Aza followed Kove until they reached the bathroom. She didnt say anything about the sleeping situation. She felt like Kove was uncomfortable about this whole siituation so before she compleatly entered the bathroom she turned to look at him. She smiled sweetly. "Its fine Kove." She was searching for the right phrase to say next but nothing she came up with was special. "Its ok, I am glad to be here. It was horrible at home and my moms boyfriend, oh he was the worst." Aza was lieing. It wasnt horrible. But the boyfriend was the worst. The truth was that Aza really missed her mom. She sighed and entered the big bathroom.

James smiled at the sight and sound of Thaleron agreeing to come with. Since it was fall, it would be chilly but nice. He wanted to gain her trust back. He thought of bringing her to the place where James and Kove would always go just to relax. It was a mile walk to get there but it was a paradise. The Little pond with koi fish in it. The white swing and the tall trees. James loved the thought of that little dog that would alway be there. James looked at Thaleron and gestured for her to follow him out the door and then they started walking. 

Kove nodded slightly, unsure of the situation she had at home. “I’m sorry it was like that.” He said slightly before he turned away from her and pushed the door to his room open, slipping inside. He left the door cracked open, being able to see out half way as he moved to the closet, pulling out multiple blankets and setting them on the bed until he finished pulling out blankets and pillows. He spread them out slowly on the ground, placing blanket after blanket on the ground until the ones he brought from the closet were all on the ground, a few pillows placed on the edge of them as he let out a sigh, looking at the bed on the ground he had made. He moved his hand to his forehead, rubbing it slightly as he felt stressed out from the events that had happened so quickly.

Thaleron glanced behind her before she moved slowly forward after him, ignoring James smile, her lips still pressed in a straight firm line as she trailed after him, feeling the crisp air press against her body. She drew in a sharp breath, feeling the cool air press into her lungs. She sighed, her eyes moving around outside, taking in where they were moving to. She had been following after him, but slowly, she forced her legs to move faster until she was no long behind James, but walking next to him. “Where are we going?” She asked quietly, keeping her eyes forward, not bothering to have them move to the red headed man walking next to her.