Call me Tori.

[Crystal]

Two weeks earlier:

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Tori sits on the end of Sorrins bed and looks up at the door as it opens. She was expecting to see Sorrin, ready to growl him for not resting. "Sorrin, You were meant to be resting. That was pa....." She stops as she notices Jason leaning up against the door frame "Hey." She says looking at him sideways, wondering what he was doing there. Jason looks up and sees her, quite surprised by it and doesn't know what to say. He looks from her to Sorrin who had followed him in, and back and then takes a deep breath that slowly changes his face from the more neutral look he was using to hide anything from Sorrin to now a colder one."Sorrin needs his pain relief..." Tori points to some papers on the couch, using it partially as an excuse as to what she was doing there "The conditions of his release said someone had to...."

"Don't worry Jason. She's only here to watch over Pita." He says as he points to Pita, sleeping on the couch. Sorrin turns to Jason. with a glint in his eye. "I'm not here to hurt you,, believe it or not." The red from sorrins eyes dazes Jason a little bit getting a small glimpse of his abilities. "However I do wish to be left alone." He says a bit more confidently. The glimpse sends Jason dazed slightly, but the image he saw in front of him where Sorrin was standing was not Sorrin anymore, but a man he had met in his own childhood. An Outcast. And more importantly the outcast that had been responsible for his capture and parents death. As quickly as it came it had left but it was enough for Jason to reach for his dagger from his side and hold it in a back-hand grip. The blade now more noticeable was not of Rogue design at all . "You wish to be left alone... with her and several bottles of beer."

"You can take your.... Outcast memories. And leave." He stares into Jason reading the memory he just had, "The beer isnt for her. Like I said I like to drink alone..." he says coldly as if hes been alone his whole life. Tori glances at Pita, making sure they hadn't woken her up. "I'm not sure I want to leave now..." Jason says stepping forward and flicking the dagger to the forward position. "I've been waiting my whole life for this." Jason squints his eyes even more, running the flat side the the blade up and under Sorrins chin, lifting up up. The tip of the blade barely touches his skin but its enough to have a trickle of blood run down the blade, as if to give the blade a taste of his blood. "Why don't you give me that memory again? I was quite enjoying it actually... or maybe another." Sorrin stares into Jason. He can see the bloodthirst in Jasons eyes. "Your eyes... They're Just like mine..." Sorrin now realizes his powers wont work on Jason. He realized he wasn't going to win this. "Please..." he begs. "Not in front of T..Tori".

Tori stands up and hesitantly takes a step toward them "Jason.... You don't need to do this." He looks to Tori and most of his momentum fades, downing out. He looks back to Sorrin and pushes him back. Gripping the blade he turns his head facing straight at Tori. "If this is some kind of sick revenge still for what Rosa did, I already appologiesed it happened that way and didnt see it comming." With that he turns hiding his face from her and Sorrin, the coat turning with him as he pulls his hood up and leaves, not even bothering to show any emotion by closing the door behind him. Tori shakes her head slightly, not noticing she was holding her breath, ever so slightly shaking, until the door was closed. Sorrin being a bit dazed wipe his skin the the blade had cut him. Not completely with he looks at his hands Which look like they are covered in blood(there isnt actually any blood its all in his head) "No.. not again... Not now.." he starts shaking against the wall as if he was tramuatised.

Tori watches him from a distance "Sorrin.... Sit down. I need to give you your medication and... And leave." She wasn't doing a good job at covering the pain of the situation from her voice. "No... No mds toda.. I failed..." Sorrin shuns her "If you need to go. I can take care of myself..." He mutters. Tori walks over to him and puts her hand hesitantly on his shoulder. "please, sit. If nothing else, let me do this....." He ignores her expecting her to continue anyway, "Can you take Pita with you. I need to be a lone for a while..."

"I will take Pita after I give you your medication.... I will not have you here in pain." She walks over to the couch and picks up the syringe with a needle attached, filled with pain medication. Tori gave him a look that says 'don't make me do it' Reluanctly he hold his arm out. She wishes she took medical lessons in life and sighed. It was only going under the skin anyway. "This will hurt a bit...." She stuck the needle and and slowly injected the liquid, rubbing just above the syringe to disperse the liquid to help with the pain. "You're not a good liar Tori. That hurt alot." His clenches the site of injection. He gets up still shaky. "You'll feel better for it......" She watches him wake Pita up and Tori walks over taking her hand and crouching in front of her "Come on, He needs to rest.... We will visit later, ok?" The pair of them get to the door, Tori doesn't look at Sorrin when he speaks "If anything happens I'll page you.ok?"

Pita takes a breath, ready to argue that she wanted to stay. She looks at Sorrin, and decides against it. Eventually makes her way to the door to the door and motions for Sorrin to get down to her level. She gives him a hug and speaks just loud enough for him to hear "She only wants to make sure you're ok...." With that she pulled away from the hug and steps back from him taking Tori's hand again. Tori and Pita leave, walking down the corridor towards Tori's room. The two don't speak to each other.

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Pita races out into the living area of Tori's Room "TORI!" She yells "Tori! It's Sorrin...... We...." Pita hesitated, hoping Tori would believe her "He's not ok.... Please, we need to go and check on him...." Tori frowns and looks at the screen of her PDA, there was still no messages from either Jason or Sorrin. Tori looks at Pita, slightly saddened "Pita, he doesn't want us there at the moment. He needs time al....." Pita cuts her off "FINE. I'll go myself!" With that she turns to the door and begins to run towards his room.

"No, Pita...... Ah come on, really....." She gets up and chases after her. Once they get to the room, Tori knocks on the door. Hearing no answer she shrugs "See, Pita? Hes probably just sleeping...." Pita shakes her head "No..... No. Something's wrong....."

"Pita, Wait i'll check up on him so I don't wake him up. Okay?" Tori Opens the door. She dosn’t even need to see the mess she can already smell it. The place had smell of heavy liquor flavour mix with fresh blood. She can see bottles on the floor next to the couch the bed hadn't been touched since she left. She hesitantly follows the trail of blood smeared on the floor to the bathroom. She pushes the door open further. Sorrin had stabbed himself in the arm with his half blade. Tori couldn’t take it out for fear of hurting him more. He seemed pretty out of it yet his pulse was still strong and he hands warm. She sits there in silence for moment before planning on what to do

She curses herself for forgetting her comms device. She stands up and runs to the door, telling herself she has to keep calm to not startle Pita. Tori forgot about her hands being covered in blood from where she had made sure she was still alive. Pita saw this and froze. Tori sounded calm as she spoke to her "I need you to go to the medical ward and find a doctor, ok, Pita?" Pita nodded but didn't move "Now Pita, please, it is important..." With this Pita turns and runs off. Tori runs back into the room, picking up a shirt off the floor, not finding anything else she takes her one off. Leaving her wearing only a sports bra on her top half. She puts her hand on his shoulder and reassures him "You're going to be ok... It's not that bad...." Not sure how long Pita will be, she rolls one of the shirts up and try's to tear the other, failing she decides it wasn't too important anyway. She wraps the rolled up shirt around the knife, tying it in place, also applying enough pressure, with the other shirt. She quickly checks him for other injuries, noticing the remainder of a few pills scatters across the basin and floor. She holds his hand to keep his arm still, and gently shakes his shoulder, hoping he was awake and he hadn't taken any. "Sorrin...? Wake up....... Please?"

Sorrin coughs and spurs a little bit of blood over his side. Still not awake. As Tor is holding him in her lap she can see blood starting to form and run down his face. It originates at his eyes. She continues looking for any other things that might give he a clue as to what happened. She notices the symbol drawn in blood on the mirror and frowns slightly, not recognizing it, she wondered what its importance was. It takes her a few moments to realize it was drawn on a mirror. Remembering what happened with the compact one she used in the cells she shakes her head "What have you done...." She murmurs, hoping Pita would be back soon, trying to think of something she could do to help him. Sorrin starts having a nightmare he starts sweating and mumbling.Tori Spots an epi-pen nearby in he medical cabinet She goes for it. She has a quick look over the instructions, It doesn't say what it would be helpful for, but she knew it was adrenalin. She hoped it would counter the effects of the sleeping pills.She jabs the needle into Sorrins thigh. Sorrin slowly wakes up. coughing an sweating.

A few moments pass. He starts screaming in pain like last time in the cell. He clenches his sword and pulls it out by the blade cutting his fingers in the process. He doesn't initially see Tori. Tori falls over backwards after getting a fright as he starts screaming. She was no longer crouching, but sitting on the floor. She didn't realize how bloodied she had become while trying to help him. Tori moves her hair out of her eyes, staining that red with blood too. "Sorrin..... Calm down....." She says as she moves towards him, picking up one of the shirts that had come off when he pulled out the blade, hoping she wouldn't have to fight him to put pressure on the wound that was now bleeding severely.

"My eyes.... leave them alone.... Please leave me alone..." He screams and starts panicking. "I don't want to kill anyone... anymore..." Just as quick as it had started his illusions disappear.He backs himself up to the corner of the room and starts panting unable to comprehend what he just went through. Blood streaming down from his arm where the blade was the t-shirt had come off and the wound exposed. “Tori? What happened…”

"I..... I don't know...." She shakes her head slightly, concerned for him "I came in here and you were out cold, blood everywhere..... Look, We have to stop the bleeding." She looked down at his arm, sounding panicked "Pass me that box.. "He points to a medical pack. Tori gives it to him. "Can you please hold my arm.. still.." As he begins to stick the wound back together very neatly"Tori was very surprised how much medical he knew. and yet he still did this to himself. "I saw things... Things I don't want to remember..." He says as he fixes his arm. She nods slightly, holding his arm still, realizing just how much blood she was covered in, and how much was around the bathroom "You've lost so much blood....." She murmurs, watching him with interest, thinking to herself she decides at the rate of people getting hurt, she needed to learn. "What did you see?"

He hesitates, “I saw the surgical table…. I killed everyone in that outpost just by looking at them… What kind of monster am I.“ He finishes stitching himself up. "You're not a monster...." Once he finished, she brushed her fringe behind her ears. "I don't care what anyone says." She moves and sits with her back leaning against the wall, closing her eyes. "I wont be leaving you alone here again.... Not until you get better...." He looks down at himself as if to say-I don't believe you-. "Why did you do that.... The blade....?" She asked just as Pita ran back into Sorrins room, trying to catch her breath. "I.... The doctor... He wasn't there.... I got this...." She made it to the bathroom door and saw all of the blood. She dropped the first responce kit on the ground, freezing in her tracks.

"Uh I'm sorry Pita... I had abit of an accident.I'll be okay." He turns to Tori. "I'm losing control of it...Everyday...little by little" Pita runs across to him and gives him a hug, sitting next to him she doesn't let go. "Why now.... What is making you loose control?" Tori frowns slightly "How can we help....?"

"Theres something in my blood...It's not right. My body rejects its...I'm sorry It felt so much better when I was bleeding. I didnt feel out of control then.". Tori orders Sorrin to have his blood taken for analysis. She suspects he has some kind of poison in him. "Its been getting worse since that doctor gave me that shot the otherday" He sounded not trying to jump to conclusions. "What shot. I didn't tell them to give you any shots....." She looks at Pita who was still hugging him. She looked calm, almost as if she was sleeping. "they gave me some green sedative because i threatening to kill everyone...." She frowns "Sedative isn't....." Tori stands up, but hesitates "I.... I told you I wasn't going to leave you again" She moves her fringe out of her eyes again, it was starting to become a solid mass with dried blood.

"I.. don't know how long I can hold it in...Its more and more frequent..."He looks down at pool of blood. Tori sighs "Will you be ok for an hour? If I get you to your bed?" She looked as if she was concentrating on something, making a plan in her mind. "I..can only try..." He looks at Tori with real pain on his face.
Tori nods and kneels down next to Pita, telling her that they were moving. She offers to help Sorrin up, to get him somewhere more comfortable. They get him to his bed. and bandage him with some proper bandage that Pita brought. "Please hurry Tori... I don't want to be left alone... for long...". Tori rush to grab some equipment for blood testing. As they leave the room she can see the blood seeping through the bandages, Pita sits on the edge of the bed, watching Sorrin, a stoney expression on her face "I want to help..."

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Tori has found what she was looking for. The sight of a woman half dressed running into the medical department covered in blood after everything that had happened was off putting. She demanded they give her the equipment she was after. They refused, trying to get her to be seen by a doctor, until she threatened them, wishing she had a gun. Thirty minutes after she had left the room, she returned. Setting up the equipment silently, looking over to check on the two every so often. Pita was talking to him, reassuring him it was going to be ok, that Tori was back now. Sorrin begs pita for his blade back. "I'll let you do it even please just a little bit "

"No." Pita says, leaning over and putting the blade on the floor. "It's making it worse...." Sorrin starts to get a bit angry. the pain starts up again."Tori You're going to have to restrain me if this keeps up. I dont know how long I can hold it.I dont want to hurt you..." Pita moves closer to the edge of the bed. She didn't like him being angry. Tori glances over at him, staying quiet while she was pulling some empty viles out of her pocket. It took a few more moments for her to walk across to him "It's not me I'm worried about... Here, I need to take some blood samples.... Find out what he gave you...." She holds out a needle, and the viles as if to say 'I can't do it'

Sorrin takes the needle and jabs the inner part of his elbow the tension smoothing his immediate pain. He pulls on the syringe to the draw the blood out. Its Purpleish red colour much darker and off colour than the blood in the bathroom from before. Sorrin doesn't say anything hoping nobody would really notice his blood had been infused with that of a nomads for the transfer of the eye powers. "Here he says looking away from the viles" the pain had died down a bit. Tori nods and takes the viles back over to a pocket sized machine she had set up. The doctor had told her how to use it. She tips a few drops onto a slide, and pushes the slide into the machine. "This will take about 5 minutes." Tori smiles slightly "I'd make it faster if I could....." Sorrin starts heating up again even faster than last time. "Tori."Sorrin almost yells but doesn't. "I Can't keep going on like this..... Please get away from here.... I don't want to hurt anyone." a bit of blood trickles down his face. "Please Tori I cant handle it..." Tori tries to think what to do.

Pita puts her hand on his shoulder, and looks up at Tori "How much longer......" Tori checks the timer "2 minutes. Pita.... I think you should wait outside...." Pita looks at her defiantly. "I'm not leaving him." Sorrin's eyes start to glow. The type that you dont want to mess with. -He really is losing it- Tori thinks to herself. Sorrin tries to fight it off holding his eyes shut. Tori can see Pita might be in danger if he looks at her. "Pita, outside... Now." Pita crosses her arms, And gives Tori a 'make me' look. Tori glances at Sorrin, seeing he wasn't doing well. "Pita. Don't make me do it.... Just go outside please." Pita grumbles but leaves, shutting the door a lot more aggressively then she needed to. Tori sighs as the machine beeps and a strip of paper is printed with the results. Sorrin tries to blind fold himself with the sheets. "well Tori, what is it."

"He's... the doctor poisoned you... " she turns and looks at him, not sure what to do. She knew Jason will know what to do, thinking to herself out loud she mumbles "Jason wants to kill you....." Sorrin unholsters his gun. He holds it out to Tori "Then shoot me '" Tori takes his gun and frowns, trying to decide if he was being serious. "I'm not going to shoot you...... I'll get Jason....." Sorrin looks at her with -At least knock me out before you leave face- At least then he can't hurt himself she thought. She hesitantly nods, before raising her hand with the gun.She hesitates and shakes her head, lowering her hand again. Turning and walking over to the kit Pita dropped earlier, not saying a word. She couldn't brink herself to knock him out physically, and was hoping there was something in the kit that would help. She eventually finds something she is looking for and walks over to the bed. Not finding anything else, she dampens the edge of the sheet with the clear, colorless, heavy, sweet-smelling liquid in the bottle. She puts the lid back on the bottle and puts it down on the bed 'CHCl3' is seen on the lable. "Breathe this." She cuddles up next to him and holds the sheet up over his mouth and nose.