Super Heros

"I don't understand what your Fighting for." She paused sending Diosis and everyone a quick message they were just talking. "I can honestly say that i enjoyed that little mistake and that i felt you press your luips furhter against mine. And that I don't want to run from this I don't!" she found herself crying again. "I can't! Julius you've showed me kindness true kindness and even a tiny hint of love..If your really willing to throw it all away and leave fore something so trivial as confusion then...I can't say i wouldn't be hurt...And I wouldn't stop trying. You could hate me you really could be if I know there is small hope then fine you'd better get used to my being around."

He listened to her, his head resting on his crossed hands. He sighed. "It was the spur of the moment, you were right there and so close. Just instinct. I don't understand why either.", he looked up at her. "But why are you here with me? When you have someone who loves you more? He's been by your side for a while now. I think you should go to him. There's nothing between us.", he said as he stood up and walked past her. As he brushed her he whispered, "I could never hate you. I'm doing this for you. I want you happy. Forget me and move on.", he said as he exited the locker room and changed back into his normal clothes.

He felt really bad for hurting her. He walked out and stopped when he saw Diosis and Ginger. He saw Diosis and looked at the younger boy. "Do you want to punch me? Go ahead. But you should go to Grace, she'll need a shoulder to cry on.", he said as he stood there with his eyes open, waiting for the hit.

Grace looked at him a moment more tears spilling over she bit her lower lip as he left then quickly jumped up running and climbing the ladder looking down at the water then at Julius. "Your not even listening to me! your hearing but your not listening! Damnit Julius I well ju mp in this water with these sharks if you don't listen to me." She stepped forward. "can you not see it!? Huh yes i enjoyed that kiss! Yes Julius I do like you!" She glared at him then turned back to the water staring as people gasped pointing up at her she contuined to cry watching the sharks swim and circle her a tad her heart pounding as she satred at the deep blue water.

Kipcha sense something was terribley wrong. She jumped up and tried to conetrate, she remembered what happened at the zoo and thought something is happning again. She climbed out onto the roof and leaped off shifting into the faster flying bird she could and flew back to the zoo. Flying above, she looked around and saw Grace standing on the shark tank. Kipcha landed on the side and looked down into the water, hoping she can distract the sharks long enough for someone to stop Grace from jumping in.

"Your not even listening to me! your hearing but your not listening! Damnit Julius I well jump in this water with these sharks if you don't listen to me." She stepped forward. "can you not see it!? Huh yes i enjoyed that kiss! Yes Julius I do like you!"

Julius whipped his head around and looked up to where the voice was coming from. His eyes widened as he saw Grace standing above the shark tank with many hungry sharks swimming around. Now of course if Julius told them to, they would not hurt a hair on Grace's head but if she cut herself and blood got into the water, not even Julius could control their blood thirst.

He ran up until he was below the ladder. "Grace get down from there! You're not making any sense and you're doing stupid things. Get down!", he shouted to her. He so didn't want her to jump and hurt herself. But he was also surprised that Grace confessed out loud, to everyone. What was he to do?

He sighed and then called to her, "Alright what do you want from me? I'll do anything just get down!', he said.

Grace turned around facing him as she took another half step back to the tank one more step and she'd fall in. "You have to tell me you'll listen to me! And you want just hear what I'm saying." she paused to catched her breath she and wipe away a few tears. "And you have to promise you'll stop denying it you'll do nothing but rip yourself up and hurt me if you keep denying it!" She screamed this at him taking a half step back now she was barely clinging onto the edge of the plank by her toes she bit her lower lip and glared down at him.

"You have to tell me you'll listen to me! And you want just hear what I'm saying." she paused to catched her breath she and wipe away a few tears. "

Julius' heart was racing, one more step and Grace would fall in. It wasn't the sharks Julius was worried about, but a fall from that height into a tank of water would still hurt and maybe even break some bones. Imagining Grace, her beautiful body, broken, that almost broke Julius' heart just thinking about it.

"Alright I'll listen to you. Really listen.", he said trying desperately to get her to come down. He cast a glance around and now noticed there was a crowd gathering to watch this. Great, he felt like an idiot in a play performing some sappy love story. Uh why was she being soo stubborn?

"And you have to promise you'll stop denying it you'll do nothing but rip yourself up and hurt me if you keep denying it!

Uh this was so not the place to discuss this. "Can we not talk about this now? Come down and we'll talk more.", he told her as he took a step closer to the tank and ladder. He really didn't want to hurt her, but he thought she would be happier without him. He hurt Diosis and Ginger, and now Grace.

Grace wiped away the rest of her tears looking down at the shark tank they were deffinatly circling her. She grew a tad more frightend she couldn't swim to save her life and with all the thrashing she'd be doing it'd be her on a silver platter for those sharks. She took in a deep breathing panting slightly then looked over to Julius. Her was racing. Then everything seemed to happen all at once a gust of wind and she lost her balance screaming she stumbled back words and fell. Hitting the water hard sahtter a bone or two then begining to sink she cried out and struggled to stay a float thrashing wildly around.

Julius was cautiously taking steps towards the tank. He was slow, he really didn't want her to jump him if she didn't want him to get any closer to her. He had on his earlier attire, the navy blue zipper jacket and his grey jeans. His hair was still a bit wet from his swim, droplets could be seen gleaming off his hair tips. His shades were hanging from his shirt in front of him.

His eyes were focused on Grace, never leaving her face. He saw how she was crying and wiping away tears and it made his heart hurt more. Uh great, she made him feel like a villain for hurting everyone.

Then his heart almost ripped out of his chest. He saw the wind and saw her body fall with slow motion. With lighting fast reflex, he had ripped off his jacket, clad in his black skin tight tee shirt and threw his shades to the ground, not caring if they broke or not. He ran, calling the cheetah's speed to help him. He saw her petite body hit the water and oh did it hurt. But that wasn't on his mind.

He then jumped with kangaroo ability into the tank and called the fish's ability to swim. He called the sharks off and they warily swam around them, but not going in for the attack. Julius swam fast to Grace's body and grabbed her by her waist, he then swam to the surface and both he and Grace soon broke the surface of the water both panting. He turned her to face him. "Is anything broken?!?", he literally yelled at her, his eyes frantic and wide.

Grace spat out water panting and then looking at him her eyes wide with fright she clung to him like an infant. "M-My..leg... It hurts." She gripped tighter onto him squeezing her eyes shut as she panted her heart going a million miles an hour.

Ginger ran to the tank pressing her little hands to it and staring at the scene as it played out.

Diosis looked down at his phone and read the message. Good, they were just talking. He had been getting worried. He sighed and pulled off his hat, then pulled his hood up so no one could see his face. He then shifted his ears to that of a cat's allowing him to listen to snippets of the conversation. With each pang of emotional pain Grace felt, he felt it too. He looked up as Julius came out and quickly shifted his ears back, pulling back his hood.

"Do you want to punch me? Go ahead. But you should go to Grace, she'll need a shoulder to cry on."

Diosis shook his head. "No... It wouldn't make Grace happy if I did." he looked up at Julius. "But you have no idea how much restraint I'm using right now" he glanced over at the tank as Grace climbed up. "Wait! Grace!" he called, not daring to go closer lest she jumped. He watched with horror as she fell into the water and began to run to the tank, but Julius was faster. He stopped short and watched Julius save her, hanging his head and feeling utterly helpless. He leaned down to Ginger who looked horrified. "It'll be okay. Julius will help her."

"M-My..leg... It hurts."

Julius looked at her, at least she was okay for the most part. It didn't even faze him that they were in a tank of sharks. As usual animals don't attack him, so the sharks left him and Grace alone. He saw the pain on her face and with one hand, he reached down into the water. He felt her leg and touched it, soon, the pain was gone from her leg and he instantly felt the pain. She had sprained her ankle in the fall, but now he had it, not that he would ever tell Grace that. The last thing he needed as for her to fuss over him taking her injuries onto himself.

Even though his right leg was useless, he called on a shark for help and the generally feared beast of the ocean pushed both Julius and Grace with its nose. Soon Julius hopped out of the tank carrying Grace bridal style. He landed on both feet but he swayed, damn this injury would take a little longer to heal. He covered up his pain and set Grace down on her two feet.

They were both dripping wet and he saw Diosis run over to them with Ginger in the lead. Some co workers gave him two towels. He took one and gave the other one to Grace.

"Julius Is she alright?" diosis called up to them. His voice was full of worry and he hid his anger at Julius for causing this in the first place. He'd deal with that later. Right now, he wanted to make sure she was fine.

Ash let Adriana drag him all around the park, genuinely enjoying the whole day with her. This wasn't like any of his other love em leave em gigs, he felt something for her... something he couldn't explain.

Grace gently takes the towel lifting it and placing it around her shoulders shaking with pure fear. She turned to Julius and gave him a quick hug as a thanks then turned back around still shaking she knelt down hugging her sister. "i well be right back don't worry." With that said she took Julius by the hand and pulled him into the locker room to finish discussing the matter and to let herself relieve the fear she was trying her best to keep hidden.

(Gonna play left for dead so sue and beat me.)

""Julius Is she alright?"

Julius ran the towel through his black hair and turned to Diosis, silently nodding his head. He would never tell a soul that all the wounds he took away from them were transferred to him. Never in his life.

He was shocked as Graced turned and gave him an unexpected hug. And then she let to. He was still momentarily shocked for a nanosecond and then he was back to normal. He saw Grace give Ginger a hug. Then again he was surprised as she took him by the hand and started dragging him to the locker room...again. Each step he took with his right foot made him wince, but he endured it, not giving a hint that he was hurt and just followed her, more like was dragged by her. Listening to her rant at him would be better than she threatening to jump into another animal tank.

Adri was having fun. Julius had only once taken her to an amusement park, and only because Galen told him to. But this was exciting. Ash was a real gentleman, although he always threw in a few flirts and pervertedness here and there, but she turned a blind eye to his advances. Half of her wanted to give the guy a chance, but the other half didn't know what to do. They were at a ice cream stall and Adri bought an ice cream for herself and she dabbed a bit on Ash's nose, laughing at him jokingly as she did. He was fun to be around.

The moment Grace stepped foot into the locker rooms she sunk down to her knee's shaking rather violently her eye's as wide as saucers and her face was snow white. Grace took in several shallow breaths before slowly being able to calm hersef. She had held out long enough. She shook her head slowly calming down. Grace paused staying still as stone before sitting up straight recovering from her greatest fear.

Grace slowly forced herself up then stood turning to Julius. "sorry you had to see that..." She watched him a moment then sat back down keeping her eyes fixed on him.

Kipcha watches with horror as the events unfold around her. She was fixen to shift =, so she can save grace, but Julius beat her to it.

Shifting back to human form still on the tanks edge, Kipcha watches everyone as they attend to Julius and Grace. She sighs a little seeing everything is under control again, and jumps off the tank, landing on her feet with a soft thud. She then pulls her hoodie up and walks off.

Diosis sighed as Grace dragged Julius off. He walked over to a bench nearby and sat down, pulling up his hood. He felt lonely, everyone seemed to be ignoring him. He waved Coty down to try and get him to talk to occupy his mind for a while.

Ash laughed and wiped the ice cream off his nose. She seemed to be debating over his advances... but it was better than nothing.

Kipcha stops seeing Diosis, and turns around walking over to sit beside him. "Hey...you alright?" She knew he wasn't but she thought she'd do it anyway. She sense there was something wrong with him, and she tried to think of ways to help.

The moment they were in the locker room, Grace suddenly dropped to her knees and begang violently shaking. Julius dropped next to her and patted her back, rubbing it to soothe her. Must have been frightening to her. Throwing into a tank of hungry sharks can get to anybody. He was quiet, he didn't say anything the time during when she was shaking, what could he say? Everything was not alright and she was definitely not so good either.

She then stood up, and he followed her. She turned to face him.

"sorry you had to see that..."

Julius shook his head, droplets flying off his still wet hair. He patted her head, and then suddenly pulled her into a hug, no one there to see them, so he let his guard down. He grabbed her arm and pulled her to his chest, he didn't care that they were both still dripping wet. His towel fell to the floor as he wrapped both of his arms around her small form. He squeezed her shoulders.

"Idiot. Don't ever do that again.", he said simply as he just held her, alone in the locker room, away from staring and hateful eyes.

Adri stuck her tongue out at Ash and then finished off her ice cream and skipped away. "Where to next? I've been pulling all the shots but I want you to have fun too.", she told him with a warm smile.

Grace slowly loifted her arms wrapping them around Julius and pulling him close. "I had to get you to listen somehow.." she paused then looked up at him. "why are you hiding from it?" she watched him carefully her heart racing from being so close to him and she knew he wouldn't take her to seriously with her beat red face. Grace bit her lower lip harder now as she kept her arms wrapping tightly around him. but her eyes still fixed on his.

Julius was surprised when she wrapped her arms around him in return. How many times has been surprised or shocked by her today? He lost count. He felt the heat from her body radiate off her. Sure they were still wet, but they were both wearing light clothing and he felt her heat. It was comforting.

"I had to get you to listen somehow.."

He held her at arms length, his arms still around her though, and he raised an eyebrow. "And threatening to jump into a shark tank was the best you thought of?", he asked as he gently poked her forehead with his index finger. He shook his head in amazement at her. He completely lost to her.

""why are you hiding from it?"

He decided to play coy. "Hiding from what?", he asked as he looked at her.

(what color are grace's eyes?)

(Green)

Grace arched her eyebrow giving him a look then shaking her head. "You know exactly what i mean and your little game hear isn;t helping one bit if you want to deny it then go right ahead destroy yourself But don't expect me to give up so easily." She crossed her arms watching him carefully unaware of the setting sun.

"You know exactly what i mean and your little game hear isn;t helping one bit if you want to deny it then go right ahead destroy yourself But don't expect me to give up so easily."

Julius smirked, a playful smirk. He felt like toying with her for the moment. They were alone, he would hurt no one if they didn't see them. He poked her forehead again with his finger. "Afraid I don't know what you're talking about. You'll just have to spell it out for me.", he said with a smirk as he still held her in his arms.

He didn't notice the sunset either, even though it was right in front of him, he focused on the girl in front of him. He now noticed that she was quite a few inches shorter than him. She only came up to the middle of his chest. Although for some reason he thought that was cute.

Grace growing a bit testy backed him up to the wall placing either side on him staring at him. "You thjink it's fun playing with my emotions? Well do you." she looked away from him. "Look you know you have feelings for me and if your really going to be so arrognant as to toy with me like this then you aren't being very nice." She turned back him watching him carefully.

Grace winced as a jolt of pain sent her dropping to her knee's she cringed and fell on her side curling up and wincing as more pain surged through her she tried ahrd to keep from crying out. Her ears and tail forming and her teeth sharpening then her sense's heightening. She cringed and winced as more pain shot throughout her entire body.

"You thjink it's fun playing with my emotions? Well do you." she looked away from him. "Look you know you have feelings for me and if your really going to be so arrognant as to toy with me like this then you aren't being very nice."

Julius smirked again. He let himself be backed up to the wall and she stared at him with her green eyes. He liked this side of her better. At least she wasn't apologizing or looking vulnerable to him. "Ouch that hurt Grace. You're so hurtful.", he countered back.

Then his eyes widened as she dropped to the floor crying out in pain. He looked up at the window. It was sunset. He looked back down at Grace and saw her tail and ears forming. How and why would her power be such a painful one? He rested his hand on her shoulder and took away as much as he could endure. He cringed at the feeling. She had to go through this every night? He pulled her up and wrapped his arms around her, kneeling on the ground while holding her, transferring her pain to him.