Broken Bay discussion

Julianna started down the river. She had been trucking along for awhile, so much for leaving worldly possession behind. She totally got ripped off by her "friend". Where was this place anyway. Broken Bay, rehabilitation for out of control immortals. She never thought she'd end up willingly going to rehab. She sighed, dropping her bag and sitting in the shade by the river bed, brushing her hair out again. If she didn't find the place soon she was going to turn around and head right back to where she had come from.

Upon the sound of running water Xhex burst through the trees, stopping just short of the shadows edge. Was it so hard just to find the damn place? She couldn't feel any power in the air, couldn't grab hold of emotional grids. Maybe she was in the wrong place. She cursed low under her breath, tossing her bag down and sitting beside it, drawing her knees up and wrapping her arms loosely about them. She squinted through the rays hitting the water, catching the sight of blondish hair waving in the breeze. Life. At last. Closing her eyes Xhex let her form waver, dematerializing to end up in from of the girl. "Got a cigg?" She asked.

Juliana turned quickly, her muscles bunch, ready to pounce at whoever had come out of the woods. She looked the girl over, trying to decide if she was a threat or not. She looked like she should have been, a mess of leather and tight clothes. So unlike the white skirt and blue lacy shirt that Juliana was wearing it was crazy. She was definitely immortal. Juliana stood slowly up, smiling a little, tucking her hair behind her ear. "Were you sent to rehab to?" she asked with a joking lilt, hiding the bitterness in her voice.

She looked her over as she rose from her patch of grass. Miss sunshine everywhere. Of all the people she could've run in to - it had to be a bright and bubbly type. "Sent?" She could've laughed. Could've. "No. I came here myself." She study the girls purple eyes. From the bag beside the spot the girl had previously been occupying, she sighed. "Haven't found it either." Statement, not a question. "Jesus Christ. One place can't be this hard to find." Slipping her shades off her face Xhex pinched the bridge of her nose. This was getting ridiculous. "I've been trudging in that forest for the better half of the night and day. And all I get is a river." Peachy. Just the cherry to top of the scorch of heat she was in. Her flesh felt prickly beneath her close, sticky with sweat.

"I've been following the river, figured it's got to take us close, and if not, at least it'll keep us hydrated. And it's a little cooler over here. I've been walking for like the last two days. My friend who sent me here said I should leave as much behind as possible, apparently that included leaving my mustang convertible with him," Juliana sighed, relaxing a little. She wished she had sunglasses. "I think it's got to be close. It's just a feeling, but I'm rarely wrong when it comes to this. Wanna walk with me?" she offered, bending to pick up her bag.

Conceded was on the list of things she'd call this chick. But she figured she had nothing to lose. After all, it was better to be lost and have someone drive you crazy with chatter than to be lost on your own and have your mind drive you crazy itself. So she went and picked her bag up before slinging it back over her shoulder, getting into stride with the girl. "I'm Xhex," she said, surprising herself like they'd just become the best of friends. She usually wasn't this forward with strangers. Must be the heat getting to me, she thought, slipping her shades up her nose to block her eyes.

"Juliana, everyone calls me Ana though," she said, starting off down the river again her senses on high alert. "So, what;s your story. Mine can basically be summed up in four words. The words being I am a whore. I finally decided that maybe I should change so that my life goal isn't to screw every living human on the face of the planet and pass out drunk every night." Her face darkened a little, showing that she wasn't the little miss sunshine everyone thought she was.

Xhex cocked a brow, glancing sideways at Ana. "Never would've guessed." Then again.... "Sorry, princess. I'm on full disclosure with my case." No one knew her story, but Jyler - and he'd taken it to the grave. Literally. She felt a pang in her cold heart, yearning for her only friend. She sighed, pushing all that aside. "Don't take it personally; I just don't go telling the world my crap. What I've done is my business and my problem. Not someone else." And that's how it would always be. No matter who came along anymore. She didn't need the sympathy or the tears about stuff that couldn't ever be changed. And when she'd realized all of this, she'd brought herself here. To fully believe there was nothing else she could do. No matter how many bodies she left on the street, nothing was changing.
So she had to be the one to make the change.

Juliana could tell that they girl had a dark past. She wondered if it was anything like hers. Her hand went up to rub the scars on her shoulder, as if of their own accord. It was funny. She hadn't felt physical pain that night, not even when she was shot. The pain had all been emotional. She had always wondered if Luka had been her imprint, but he couldn't have been. "It's okay. I understand. None of us have had the perfect life that we assumed we would get. It's like hell prolonged."

Xhex nodded in agreement. All her life she'd wondered why she'd been chosen to live a life as an immortal. Sometimes she wished she were human. They were ignorant, living for the next party and wasting their life away in everything they did. The most she could do was keep cutting and re-healing. She didn't see an end any time soon. "Have you ever wished it would just... stop. All of it." She asked Juliana. "All the chaos, the never ending pieces that seem to chip away and become meaningless as we go on." She did. Every day.

Juliana tried to hide the way her breath hitched for a moment. She swallowed hard. "I think I've wished that every day since I found out exactly what I was. It's sad, I always stayed by the coast, wondering if one day I could just walk into the bottom of the ocean and keep walking until it just stopped." She felt her hands clench into fists, her nails digging into her palms, little drops of scarlet sliding over her pale skin. The real question she asked herself was why had she been the one to be immortal, why had it not been Luka, he deserved it more than she did.

The smell of honey and spices wafted up to her and her fangs elongated, shooting long and straight in her mouth. Another deep whiff told her it was right next to her. Reaching down she stopped the girl, yanking her fingers from the fist to stare at the drops. "I wouldn't do that if I were you." Her voice wasn't her own, softer and rougher at the same time. Releasing her hand she continued to walk, dragging her tongue across a fang for a shot of blood. She found the point throbbed. She hadn't fed in a while so it made sense. But she hadn't the need. Being a half breed stabilized her. "So what are you," she asked Ana.

Juliana stopped, releasing the tension in her hands, the small cuts healing instantly. She was startled at the girl's reaction. Was she really that opposed to blood, or was that one of her "gifts". "I'm sorry. I get stuck in my head sometimes. It can get messy." She wiped the blood from her skin. "I don't know what am, beyond immortal. I just heal quickly, like crazy quick. I learned that when I was shot," she said softly, swallowing a little.

Xhex made a sound to tell let her know she was listening. Turning her face she gazed out into the trees, scanning the area to see if there was a sign that they were close. "What I want to know is why they want immortals to come to Broken Bay, and yet we can't find it." She was getting agitated. Another hour out in the heat and someone was going to die. Slowly and painfully. "Two days you said, right?" This was just ridiculous. She didn't come all this way just to get lost in the woods. She wanted results. As soon as she found the place she was going to put some words in with the owner.

"Yeah, but we're getting close. I can't explain it. I just know. We need to head north, and that means crossing the river, unless there is bend up ahead," she closed her eyes for a moment. She could feel it in the air. Something that seemed to call to her. She thought that the other girl would be able to feel it too, but it seemed like she didn't she just seemed genuinely lost. She thought this sixth sense was something all immortals had, was it possible that it was special to her?

All at once she stilled catching something in the air. "Do you smell.... horses." She cocked a brow. That hadn't been in the pamphlet. But there was something else, sizzling just beneath the surface of the stench. "Immortals." They had a different smell to them than humans did, muskier, stronger. "We're close - but I'm going no where near the sun." If the girl decided to part ways now it wouldn't break her heart. She would simply move on and know she'd bump in to her somewhere at Broken Bay. "It is coming from the north. Freak," she remarked with a cocky grin. She knew the girl wouldn't be insulted by the comment. They were all freaks of nature. No matter how you looked at it.

Juliana smiled lightly, reaching in her bag for an umbrella. "This will work for like the three minutes we're in the sun when crossing the river. There's a shallow part coming up right here, it looks like it's on a riding trail. If we follow the trail, we should be able to get there well within and hour." She slipped off her shoes. She didn't mind getting dirty, she just didn't want her white sandals to suffer. She dug around in her bag a little more and found that she did infact have sunglasses, which she happily put on, pulling her bag up onto her shoulders as she waded into the water.

Xhex momentarily hesitated, glancing up at the sun. Three minutes was far to long. If the river were deep enough for her to swim through she'd make it. Even with her leather jacket, pants and boots she could feel the sun eating at her from the shade. "Screw it," she huffed under her breath. Taking a breath she dashed out into the light feeling herself sizzle, her gloves starting to burn free. The water slowed her down, but she pushed to keep her legs going, jogging her knees up with every step. When she finally hit the shade again she was panting, some flesh smoking on her high cheekbone and her hands. "Someone owes me a drink."

Juliana followed at a slower pace, laughing at the girl's statement, pulling a bottle of wine out of her bag and offering out to the girl. "I got you covered on that one." She always had alcohol on her, though that would probably change soon enough, when they got there. That was her last and best bottle of red wine. She had been saving it since she found out what she was. She pulled her hair back with a ponytail on her wrist. "Tell me when your ready to keep going. I'm in no real hurry to get there. I'd like to get drunk at least once more before I get there."

Taking a glance at the year she nodded her appreciation before cracking the top off and taking the longest swig known to mankind. Handing the bottle back she rested her hands on her knees, catching her breath. The charred skin started to repair itself slowly, turning a shade of angry red where it would stay until a few hours later - healing and disappearing completely. Rising Xhex swiped her sleeve over her forehead. "Takes only a bottle to get you wasted?" Weakling. That wouldn't even so much as buzz Xhex. But beggars couldn't be choosers. "Let's keep going." Once again she shoved the bag back over her shoulder, having jostled it off when she'd ran.
As they kept going the smells grew stronger and stronger. Voices soon pricked her ears, conversations starting to buzz but still undecipherable. Instead of showing herself automatically she grabbed Ana by her arm and yanked them both into the trees just on the houses outer edge, scouting the area. No one was about, but she could see two females and a male through glass in what appeared to be a living room.

Juliana smiled as she heard the voices, running forward into the clearing, finally seeing the place, letting the sun wash over her skin, finally, she was here, and god, it felt incredible. Just to know that she was here at last, no more walking, no more being left on her own. No one else to tell her how much of a horrible person she was. She was free, or at least that's how it felt.

Xhex tensed, waiting for something, anything to happen to the girl. If she wanted to throw her neck out like that then whatever. Better her than Xhex. When nothing happened she took out a dagger she had in her boot, keeping the hilt in her hand, blade running along her forearm. She took deep, quiet breaths while stepping free of her cover, eyes alert. She stopped just close to the edge of the shadows once more angered that the light was a barrier between her and the rest of the area. If a fight broke out she'd be in trouble.

Juliana looked to the house, seeing the lights on and smiling. "I'm going inside. I can't believe we actually made it. I'll tell them your out here, come and get you later," she called to Xhex, running inside, biting her lip, glad for the journey to be over.

Xhex looked after her, feeling trapped like an animal in a cage. She paced the edge where light met darkness, growing irritable. Her muscles ached for action. She squeezed her knife hilt tighter, frustrated. A string of curses left her lips. With nothing else to do she took a seat, leaning back against one of the trees and closing her eyes. If anyone tried to sneak up on her she'd hear them. Folding her hands in her lap she hid the knife, crossing her legs at the ankles. Now to wait.