'would you be willing? {Dani onlyy}

[Dani James]

Did she want to tell everyone? Well, perhaps yesterday she would have jumped at the chance like gold. She would have been alllll over it, but today the circumstances were different, nothing was the same, including how she felt about Adrien. She wasn’t entirely sure if she was even at the point of liking him but she didn’t hate him, at least. Funny how one day she would have wanted to see him fall so far down and hit the dirt with as much pain as possible and now she was sitting here, trying to think of ways to make her arch nemesis feel better. There was must have been an invasion of the body snatchers during the middle of the night or something because Dani could remember the last time she had ever wanted to see Adrien smile, like at all. Most of the time, she was aiming to make him yell, if anything but smile? Nah. What was the fun in that? He hated her and she hated him and that was how thing went and a small part of her was desperately trying to cling to that and reverse whatever was happening between them. This….niceness needed to die or something. This was too weird, she didn’t know if she could handle correctly. For all she knew it was a trap or something he had created so he could humiliate her. “I don’t know,” she answered truthfully, her eyes averting to the dirt around her. She had no answer for him. Dani shrugged and sighed. “I really don’t know. I guess…for once, I don’t wanna fight with you.” The words came out in a short whisper, almost as if she were afraid of what he might say back.

And now she still didn’t know what to tell him. If he wanted to tell Bliss, then by all means, she wanted to tell him, go tell Bliss. It was going to get around anyway, so the real problem was to just accept it and learn to take things as they came. “I guess,” She looked up at him. “If you wanna tell her, tell her….I would tell Sammii.” Okay, so technically she wasn’t talking to Sammii right now, but if she was, she would tell him in a heartbeat. As it was, she wouldn’t be telling him anything, anytime soon because they were no long friends. “Um…Well,” Dani struggled for something to say. “Then don’t worry about it. When the time comes for people to say something to you--and trust me, they will, just ignore them.” That’s what she always did whenever Adrien pissed her off. “Sometimes, people make mistakes and you have to learn to let things go and take the consequences.”

[Adrien Killingston]

Dani wasn't the only one to think the body snatchers came last night. For one, Adrien was suddenly pushed into a world that was different, and yet the same, as the one he had known. If that didn't make him feel like he was someone else entirely, then nothing would. But being part human wasn't the only thing that made him feel like he was someone else. There was the fact that he didn't really want to be that mean to Dani. That was the freakiest part of it. He had no desire to hurt her, make her feel bad, piss her off, any of it. Not that he really felt like he could muster up some mean comment for her in the first place. His mind just wasn't working properly, apparently. That, or his suspicion that the body snatchers switches his body with someone else's was true, and he just didn't have the capacity to think up some insult. Hey, it could happen. Well, sort of. If he had switched bodies, like he thought, his great insult-making mind wouldn't come with him, would it? Therefore, he couldn't make up a great insult. At her response, he sighed. She didn't know? How the hell could you not know why you didn't want to make your enemy fall hard? I mean, seriously. You either knew or didn't know. Why else would you not? He barely caught her soft words and sat in stunned silence. She didn't want to fight with him? Why the hell not? Probably for the same reason that he didn't. There was just something odd going on. He took a deep breath. "Well..neither do I...really..." he mumbled softly, just as soft as her confession was.

Bliss. Adrien hadn't seen the girl in ages. He was protective of her, and Bliss was like a younger sister to him. So the girl was a lesbian, who cares? Homophobes disturbed him in the first place, and Bliss was just plain out awesome, so who cared what her preference was? Adrien only shrugged in reply. Dani wasn't hurting anything, but she wasn't helping all that much. And tell Sammii? Ew. Who would want to tell that crybaby anything? Needless to say, Adrien wasn't all that comfortable with Dani's friends. Ezra thought he was a badass, Sammii was a crybaby, and all the others were just pretty weird. But Ezra and Sammii were the ones he had the problems with, mostly. But it didn't matter. Like he really planned on being friends with those two, anyways. Adrien sighed and ran a hand through his hair, even if it shortened in the back, pulling down his hood. "It's not that easy...at least..I don't think it is...argh..I don't know." He had no clue how to deal with anything. Like he'd be able to ignore the pestering so easily. Yeah right. The only way he could do that was with some help, or something.

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[Dani James]

Where was the anger? The hate? Where had all of her desire to hurt Adrien gone? Suddenly she wasn’t so sure why she hated him in the first place. Obviously because he hated her but other than that, he really wasn’t so bad. At least, she didn’t think so. She couldn’t be sure because she’d never really been around him when he wasn’t hating her. Anyway, whatever was happening, she didn’t hate him now. Or not as much anyway. Truth be told, she kinda wanted to hug him as scary as that sounded. She doubted she was be brave enough to do for him. He might punch her or something. Maybe she wanted him to punch her. It would make so much more sense that whatever the hell was happening now. She kept racking her brain for some kind of reason--anything at all to have him insult her and yell just a little. ‘Please’ she wanted to ask, ‘just one little remark? Yell at me?’ But seriously, how stupid would that be? Since when was Adrien nice to her? Someone, please, please wake her up from what ever awkward dream this was and set everything straight because all of this nice-ness was making her head spin in lack of understanding. Adrien. Nice. To. DanI? None of those words fit properly together in the same sentence. Hell, Nice and Adrien didn’t even fit into the same sentence. She made sure to pinch herself as soon as she got the chance and he wasn’t looking--just to make sure that this was really happening. It had to be a weird dream. Maybe she had eaten something bad last night….She quirked an eyebrow. He didn’t want to fight her?

Obviously, she wasn’t going to tell anyone but if she had such a big secret, she would her tell her best friend. Only if her best friend could keep a secret anyway. Or if he was speaking to her, yeah, that would help a little. It was kind of hard to cope with stuff when the one person you wanted to be around was either constantly breaking your heart or constantly reminded you that he loved someone else. That was too much for her. Sammii of all people was the last person she ever expected would use her. The thought made her want to cry and she fearfully pushed it away before she could spill tears before Adrien. “No one said it was going to be easy.” She shrugged. “In fact, its gonna be downright hard.” She looked up at the boy. “I could…help…you if you wanted?” She averted her eyes quickly. Help him? How the hell was she going to do that?! Why had she even offered. It scared her how much he wanted to say yes and take her up on this.

[Adrien Killingston]

The thoughts of being mean to Dani had simply disappeared overnight. Or...well...once he heard his mother yelling, over the phone, that he was a half-demon, half-human hybrid. Once those words, the same words that kept repeating in his mind, over and over, so long as he didn't think of anything specific, had been said, his world was flipped upside down and inside out. Everything had reversed and his life had gone crazy. Black was white, red was green, good was bad, everything had just suddenly gone screwy, and Adrien was in the middle of it all, still the same as always, but utterly confused about everything in his life at that point. It was like everything around him still moved at a normal pace, but Adrien himself had been put on slow motion. He couldn't keep up. Everything was just...wrong. Screwed up. He wasn't supposed to be nice to her. She wasn't supposed to be nice to him. And yet...they were. And he had no clue why, and, frankly, he really didn't want to know.

Secrets were stupid at this school. Mostly because, unless you were immune to psychic powers, you could never completely keep a secret, because the mind readers just loved to know everything, it seemed. They crept into your mind, without you knowing, found out what you didn't want anybody to know, and spread it around. It wasn't uncommon. Heck, it happened quite often. Everyday, people prayed that they would somehow develop immunity to psychic powers, just so their secrets wouldn't be leaked out. But it wouldn't work, and leaked the secrets were. He looked at Dani as she spoke, and then he stared. Stared because....she would offer help...to him? "N-no...no one did. And I know it's going to be hard...." After that...he didn't know what to say. What could he say? He wanted to say yes, she could help him. But what would she think of him? Then again, he could say no, and bitterly reply that he could handle it, when he knew full well he couldn't. He could hurt her, like that one part of him still wanted to. But.....he couldn't bring himself to be so cruel like that. "Y-yeah...I'd..like that...," he replied softly, looking at his shoe and paying special interest to his laces, scared of what she would say.

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