Isaac steps in and freezes at seeing the nonferal. The nonferal's ears perk up as they look at Isaac. Isaac walks up angrily. The nonferal backs up. Isaac attempts to pull at the cage to break it. It is a steel cage, however, thus the pulling is ineffective. Isaac snarls some as he goes to the hall.
"Cole...When you get the chance we need to talk" Isaac says in the living room.
"About?" Cole yawns.
"What I saw in your room." Isaac sound serious
"....." Cole's face drops as he starts to slowly turn back to the hallway.
"Cole? We really do need to talk about that..." Luna doesn't sound nearly as serious, but more of concern
Isaac goes to follow him into the hall seemingly a bit mad. Cole tries to duck into the bathroom but Isaac catches him by the collar.
Isaac keeps ahold "Cole. You're not getting out of this"
Cole stays silent.
"Now are you going to explain or what?"
"It's for my daughter.....Lock.." Cole's voice is quiet and ghostly.
"I mean I’ve heard of arranged marriage but jesus christ..."
"What? N-no it's to save her from Nyx....she wants hadal blood and if she shows up, I'm gonna offer the blood from the cat to protect Lock."
Isaac is rather quiet
"I know it's not ethical but I...I can't lose Lock again..." Cole sounds like he's gonna start crying
Isaac takes a deep breath as he lets go. his hands clench into fists for a moment. "I see"
"I...I don't know what else to do....please don't be mad, I'm trying my best."
"I'm trying not to be but frankly that's kind of difficult...I need time to think or something" Isaac sounds pissed.
"Please...if I'm doing something wrong, just tell me how I can do it better" Cole sniffles
"I-I don't know how to do that better?" He sounds mad and confused
"I don't know what to do...." Cole's voice gets quieter as it sounds like he slumps against the wall
Isaac is thinking as he goes to open the funny door to Coles room
Isaac feels something like Cole's hand grab his wrist "please....it asks so many questions...."
Isaac instantly and forcibly swats his hand away. He continues to try and go through the door. It lets go of his wrist as Cole whines followed by a shuffling noise.
Isaac goes into the room. Then he steps out. “Cole?”
Cole sniffles, still invisible "what?"
"Open the cage."
"...." Cole goes silent
"Cole Garnet you are going to open the cage."
"But if I set it free, how am I gonna get blood to keep Nyx away from Lock?"
Isaac snarls and clenches his fists "I don't know."
Cole mumbles quietly as his voice quivers with fear "I'll open it I'll open it, please....please calm down"
Isaac waits while Cole turns visible again. He's shaking as he stands up and opens the door and walks inside. Isaac follows. Cole walks in still shaking as he grabs a wrench and starts taking the bolts off the cage
Isaac's fists are clenched as he watches with rage in his eyes. The nonferal is watching.
Cole is shaking a lot, causing him to go slower
"HURRY UP" Isaac snaps. The nonferal jumps at the yell.
Cole jumps and shakes more as he struggles to get the wrench on the bolts "p-please s-stop yelling I'm trying my best"
Isaac snarls as he walks up and tries to take the wrench from him "I got to do fucking everything"
The wrench is taken from Cole as he cowers and walks back away from the cage.
Isaac goes to put the wrench to the bolts but winces as he drops the wrench.
Cole hides behind a toolbox as he watches while shaking "y-you d-dropped something...."
"SHUT UP" He lashes out at him before growling and putting his hands to his head. His growls slowly mix with whines.
Cole cowers and hides behind the toolbox as he covers his ears.
Isaac sounds like hes in pain as his legs buckle and he hits his knees.
Cole continues to cover his ears as he starts quietly humming California girls, his comfort song.
The growling is gone as its just whines of pain. Isaac curls up on the floor with his hands on his head.
Cole continues covering his ears and humming.
After a long time he suddenly goes quiet
Cole peeks around the tool box and looks over at Isaac while still shaking.
Isaac gets up from the floor and dusts himself off and straightens his jacket
Cole keeps watching him while shaking and covering his ears.
Isaac looks over at Cole. His eyes are now a bright blue
Cole stops shaking as he slowly reaches over to the tranq gun
Isaac watches without moving a muscle
Cole grabs it and holds it close to his chest as he speaks quietly "Isaac?"
"What is it?"
"Why are your uhm....eyes blue?"
"Contacts"
".....but they are suddenly blue..."
"I took the contacts out" Isaac's hands are relaxed and by his sides
"So are you wearing contacts or are you not?" Cole is hiding his body language with the tool box
"I took the contacts out so I am no longer wearing them"
"So your eyes are naturally blue?"
"Yes" Isaac nods
"......can I be honest for a second?"
"Yes what is it?"
"I would have fallen for you way quicker if you didn't have your contacts in, I'm a sucker for blue eyed men"
Cole chuckles quietly
Isaac walks closer to Cole "Is that true?"
"...yeah" Cole nods as his grip around the tranq gun tightens.
Isaac gives an off smile
"....I'm starting to think you don't wear contacts...." Cole moves his head backwards slightly
Isaac pulls out the pocket spoon from his pocket and tries to jab it at Cole's ribs
Cole groans and winces as he fires the tranq gun at Isaac's chest "fucker"
The dart hits him as he makes a swing at Cole's throat
Cole is hit in the throat as he coughs and drops the gun and rises to his feet quickly
Isaac starts to stumble some as he reaches for the tranq gun
Cole kicks his hand away as he grabs a tool box and firmly grips it as he breathes heavily and whispers to himself "please god let this not kill him"
Isaac looks up at Cole
Cole smashes the tool box over isaac's head with average strength
Theres a loud boomf as Isaac hits the ground from the force. He's instantly knocked out. The nonferal is watching.
Cole drops the tool box and checks for any wounds on his head as his breathing quickens "please don't be badly hurt please, please, please"
There's no cuts or bruising yet
Cole sits down by isaac and watches him carefully
Isaac is still breathing
Cole takes a deep breath and pulls isaac's eye lid open and checks his eye color
Isaac's eye is red
Cole sighs in relief and lets go of his eye lid "I knew he didn't wear contacts"
The nonferal tilts their head as they watch. Eventually, Isaac groans as he puts a hand to his head
"Isaac!" Cole perks up "Are you alright?"
He groans as he sits up "I feel like I just git hit in the head with a toolbox..."
"about that....." Cole chuckles nervously
Isaac blinks and looks over to see the toolbox "...oh"
"Your eyes went blue and and I had no other choice cause the dart wasn't working....THE DART" Cole checks Isaac's chest for the tranq dart frantically.
The dart is only partly stuck in his jacket. His skin stopped it from fulling working "Blue? What are you on about?" Isaac looks confused
Cole takes the dart out as he sighs "your eyes went blue and you jabbed me in the ribs and throat with your pocket spoon"
"You sure you're not seeing things?"
"I'm sure, I wouldn't hit you for no reason. I promise I'm not that type of person" Cole tosses the dart on a table, sounding serious.
"I wouldn't ever use my pocket sp-" Isaac pauses as he sees the nonferal "...oon to hurt anyone..."
".....I know it looks bad..."
"Yeah and that's because it is."
"It's to save Lock from Nyx. I promise that's the only reason" Cole's breathing starts to pick up slightly. Isaac shakes his head and sighs "What the hell else could you do?" He doesnt seem nearly as mad this time.
"Look, I tried just making hadal blood using the stem cells but all it did was make that. I didn't have any other choice but to make that to save Lock." Cole's speaking gets faster as he speaks, he looks nervous and his tone sounds desperate
"You're tellin me you made a person? You didn't take them from anywhere?"
"Yeah...I made a person." Cole sighs, "look I can release them in the nonferal world. I can probably find another way."
"No kidnapping what so ever?" Isaac sounds less mad
"No, no kidnapping" Cole shakes his head
"Thank god." Isaac sighs
"Wha....." Cole looks confused as his breathing returns to normal
"Isaac gets up and walks over to near the cage "So no one else knows?"
"Well Luna maybe knows, I wouldn't count on her knowing fully."
"Keep it that way until you find a better way"
"I don't know if there is a better way" Cole sighs, his tone starting to slip to a more exact and punctuative tone
"What's it's name?"
"I haven't given it a name, though I feel like if I gave it one, I would become too attached if I had to give it up to Nyx for one reason or another" Cole's tone has slipped into a more exact and punctuative tone
"Has Nyx accepted this offer yet?" Isaac asks
Nnyx hasn't showed up yet"
"Have you tried contacting her?"
"No I haven't, too afraid and far too risky."
"I think it needs to be done to see if she will even take up this offer to begin with, as risky as it is."
"....fine, can we do it tomorrow?"
Isaac nods "please"
"Now," Cole still has the exact and punctuative tone, "shall we head out to the living room and sleep? My head resting on your shoulder while you snore. I still need to find a way to stop that snoring of yours"
"Why do you sound weird?"
"....no reason" Cole rocks on his heels while hoping Isaac doesn't look at the walls.
"You're rocking on your heels" Isaac looks over at the room.
The room’s walls are covered in calculations labeled various different things with various graphs. They’re all jumbled together and look like utter nonsense and the ramblings of an insane man. "Yes? And that is an issue how? It builds muscle in my legs."
"You do that when youre nervous about something I can find...have you been sleeping at all?"
"I've been sleeping, though I have optimized my sleeping schedule when I have something I am working on."
"Are you taking breaks?"
"10 minute naps to be exact"
"...go to bed"
"I slept a full 8 hours, if not more, last night, plus that sleep schedule is only for emergencies only when something absolutely needs to be done right now."
"That doesnt explain the voice you’re doing."
"Well it seems right to be exact and precise when you’re surrounded by your life's greatest mathematical equations."
Isaac has a bruise slowly developing in his head "My life’s greatest?" He shakes his head, "can’t make assumptions like that. I lived with my mom for awhile ya know."
"Well if you think an equation is wrong, you are more than welcome to challenge it and prove me wrong."
"Either way this isn't healthy." Isaac grumbles.
“Oh it's plenty healthy, daily math can help increase cognitive function!"
"Come on" Isaac holds out a hand
Cole takes his hand "where are we going?"
Isaac pulls as he heads out of the room "Out"
"But my calculations!" Cole struggles a little
Isaac is off balance easily and stumbles some.
"I feel powerful in here! At home! In my element! Like a god!"
Isaac puts a hand on the counter to keep from falling over "I don't care"
"Pleaaaase"
"No. You can't convince me otherwise, I care about your health"
"If I leave, can I have ice?"
"Yes."
"Yippeeee!" Cole stops struggling
Isaac pulls him out of the room. The nonferal frowns for it wants to try ice.