out of containment

Over the next two days Sosuke is kept locked up in his room, only talking to the teachers and they tested him with various spells, potions, herbs and items along with The necromancer to make sure Sosuke isn't one of his puppets.

"I heard my dad say they're letting Sosuke out of his room again. I wonder what happened that he had to be locked up again in the first place." Lizzie says, gossiping with some other witches while Hope walks past the gathering.

"So, you heard anything yet? The last time I saw Sosuke he was not in good shape." MG asks Hope, falling into step with her.

"How would I know? I barely was allowed to see him anyways." Hope shoots back annoyed, both at getting pestered about Sosuke by her fellow students and the teachers not permitting anyone to talk to him.

"Sorry girl, don't take my head off." MG says raising his hands in defeat.

The brunette girl continues down to the cell where the headmaster is trying to get their guest to speak again while seeming to enjoy the torture he administers.

"Dr. Saltzman do you have a minute?" Hope asks him and the man nods, taking the knife stuck in the Necromancer out and steps outside with Hope.

"What is it Hope?" He asks.

"Are you doing OK? Ever since Josette... You haven't been yourself." Hope says worried, the two strolling through the garden together.

"Oh I'm sorry. The love of my life coming back only to die in my arms again is bothering you?" The man snaps at her and Hope looks at him hurt.

"Sorry. Look this is not a good time to talk to me about this. Is there anything you wanted?" He asks, rubbing the bridge of his nose.

"Sosuke. What's the situation with him." She asks.

"Well, For one thing. He is no longer human. We don't know what he is though, but he doesn't seem to be undead and the necromancer isn't controlling him so he's basically like any student here. Just one thing, can you look out for him a bit and see if anything... supernatural happens with him? So far we only know that he has superhuman strength." Alaric says.

"Sure. I'll keep an eye on him." Hope says blindsided by the news.

"Good, then fetch Emma and let him out if you will." Alaric tells her with a half hearted smile and heads back inside.

Hope wastes no time and fetches the guidance counselor, the two heading to Sosuke's room and Emma removes the barrier spell on the room while Hope knocks on his door.

"Dr. Saltzman?" He asks opening the door and sees Emma and Hope instead.

"Oh, hey." He greets them with a surprised smile and testingly reaches outside his doorframe.

"So I'm out?" He asks, looking at Emma.

"Yes. But like we discussed please watch out for anything unusual you may do or feel anything new basically. We don't know what you are now afterall." Emma tells Sosuke.

"Yeah. And I think I know just the way to figure it out." Sosuke says, packing some towels and escrima sticks in a bag before putting it over his shoulder.

"See you down at the dock?" He asks Hope with a smirk.

"Sure. I was getting bored of beating Rafael anyways." Hope tells him, the light in their hallway flickering for a moment and the three look for a source surprised, seeing nothing out of order however.

"Alright. I'll meet you down there." He says and leaves his room.

"The lights, was that you?" Emma asks after Sosuke left and Hope shakes her head no.

"Keep an eye out." Emma advises and leaves as well while Hope changes into her sparring clothes and gets a towel as well.

"Free at last huh? Lizzie was telling everyone you're getting out today." MG greets Sosuke with a fistbump.

"So what'cha been up to in your room for three days?" He asks.

"Tests and being bored out of my mind." Sosuke replies the two walking down a hallway in the school.

"What tests were they doing?" MG asks.

"To see if they know what supernatural I am now and if our undead guest has anything to do with it." Sosuke answers.

"Did he?" MG asks worried.

"Nah. Don't worry. I'm all me. More of myself even to be honest." Sosuke tells him.

"What do you mean?" MG asks.

"Turns out I got compelled a shit ton when I was a kid. And now I remember all of it." Sosuke answers.

"That's unusual." MG says.

"Yeah well let's not get into my past. Did I miss anything in the three days?" Sosuke asks.

"Uhmm." The vampire sighs, thinking if he should tell Sosuke that Hope hang out with Rafael a lot.

"What?" Sosuke asks, the two boys stopping in the foyer.

"Hope has been hanging out a lot with Rafael after you were unavailable. I know you aren't too happy about it but I think you should know, considering we share our fate of unavailable Love interests." MG tells him nervously.

"Lizzie still not looking at you in the right light?" Sosuke asks and MG shakes his head with a sigh.

"Maybe we'll get there someday." Sosuke tells him trying to cheer him up.

"Maybe." MG agrees with a doubtful look and pats his arm before hurrying over to Kaleb who walked into the room giving MG the stink eye.

Sosuke heads out of the building and goes down to the docks, warming up a bit while waiting for Hope.

"Sosuke, you're out of your room." Josie says coming over with a kind smile.

"Yeah, did you need anything?" He asks.

"Well, no I just heard over the gossip line that you're walking about again and I wanted to thank you for helping save my life the other day." Josie tells him slightly nervously.

"Yeah sure, although MG did most of the heavy lifting. I just took out some Zombies. Which was pretty fun actually." Sosuke tells her honestly.

"OK. Well I guess I'll see you around again." She says, leaving again.

Just as Josie left Hope arrives, wearing her usual outfit of black exercise pants and a red sleeveless top.

"What did Josie want?" Hope asks curiously, moving across from him and starts stretching.

"To thank me for my part in the rescue the other day." Sosuke answers, his eyes drinking in the sight of her after the days alone in his room.

"Staring much?" She asks chuckling.

"Sorry. Must have been the time alone." He excuses himself, wiping a hand over his face and closing his eyes, a small patch of grass suddenly burning next to the pier.

He quickly stomps his foot down on it a couple of times And extinguishes the small flame.

"Did you do that?" He asks.

"Nah." She replies relaxed.

"Maybe we shouldn't spar then right off the bat. If I did that without knowing... I don't want to hurt you." He says worried.

"Super healing, remember? Now, don't stall and get ready." She says, taking two escrima sticks out of his bag, tossing him the other two and steps over to her usual spot.

"Fine, just watch out in case I do something weird." He says, getting into his stance across from her.

"You're always weird." She tells him with a grin and dashes towards him, stabbing one stick towards him, the other following with an overhead swipe.

Sosuke steps out of the way of the stab and blocks the swipe with one of his sticks.

"So far so good." She says, being up close to him and pulls back the extended arm she stabbed at him with and elbows him in his chest, Sosuke taking a few steps back.

"Usually you would have seen that coming." She tells him, pointing her sticks at Sosuke.

"So, looks like I need to pressure you into getting serious." She says with a playful smile and starts to wildly attack him, Sosuke blocking every strike even when she went faster than normally possible. She then kicks him away and he again doesn't react in time.

"Come on, get angry. This isn't all you can do." She says.

Sosuke goes on the attack this time, stabbing and swiping at her with his sticks, Hope blocking them without fail however.

The counter attacks and hits him with one stick across the face.

"Don't hold back." She tells him and a wave of electricity shoots off Sosuke while he's getting into his stance.

Hope then attacks him again with her sticks, only for them to shatter against Sosukes.

The former assassin tosses his sticks to the side with Hope watching in a mix of excitement and curiosity.

"Come on then." Sosuke tells her, waving her over and she dashes towards him, trying to hit him with an elbow but Sosuke catches it in his palm, even though she used most of her power as a werewolf.

"What?" She says surprised only to get pushed back by Sosuke, with her doing a flip.

He then goes on the offensive and closes the distance, launching a few punches at her, which she dodges or redirects away from her.

Seeing an opening she then throws herself against him, knocking them over and tries to get him in a submission hold. She is surprised however when she gets shocked suddenly as she was grappling with him and he turns them around, pinning her to the ground instead, with her struggling against him a bit before using a spell to launch him off her.

Sosuke flies into the air 2 meters or so and lands on his back unceremoniously.

"Sorry." She apologizes and comes over to check on him.

"All good." He wheezes out and rolls onto his front before jumping up.

"Really?" She asks worried and pulls up his shirt while turning him around, seeing his skin only a bit reddened and she moves her hand over his spine to check for anything that feels damaged.

A bolt of lightning suddenly shoots off from Souke and blasts a hole through a small tree next to the pier, the tree falling over ever so slowly.

"Well we know what your power is at least." She says, pulling his shirt back down while looking at the downed, half burning tree with surprise.

"Yeah. Somewhat." He agrees.

"Aren't you afraid of lightning?" She asks, recalling him being afraid of it as a kid.

"I... Maybe." He admits defeated, making her laugh wholeheartedly.

"Only you could get the power of the one thing you're afraid of." She says, Sosuke also starting chuckle.

"Yeah Poetic." He agrees amused.

"Uh, could you put out the fire?" He asks.

"Yeah." She replies nodding and uses her magic to extinguish it.

"What happened here?" Alaric asks, coming over to the two teens looking at the downed tree amused.

"We found out what Sosuke's powers are." Hope tells the teacher with a grin.

"So you did that?" Alaric asks Sosuke.

"Apparently. I think I can shoot lightning bolts." Sosuke replies.

"And he's pretty strong now too. I might have made him drop 2 to 3 meters on his back." Hope says.

"Why would you do that?" Alaric asks upset.

"It was the heat of the moment. And I am fine, so no harm no foul." Sosuke tells the teacher.

"Well good at least we have some idea what to look out for. Can you try not to cause that inside the school though?" Alaric nearly begs Sosuke.

"Hey, I'll try. But I don't know why that happened." Sosuke answers.

"Great. And that happens the one time the cells are occupied." Alaric says.

"It's fine I'll crash at the old mill if you want." Sosuke offers.

"Thank you, yes that is a great idea." Alaric says relieved.

"So, any update on the necromancer?" Sosuke asks the teacher and he replies with a tired head shake before heading back inside the school.

"So, do you want to announce your new abilities to the students or not?" Hope asks Sosuke, the two collecting their stuff.

"Nah I'd rather not until I figure this out. No need to make everyone even more scared of me." Sosuke says.

"Alright. Do you need some help with relocating to the mill?" She offers as the two walk into the foyer.

"Hope. Just the girl I was looking for. You got time? And hey man good to see you out and about again." Rafael says coming over to the two.

"Yeah, I think I got some time." Hope replies and leaves with Rafael. Noticing the lights flicker in the room as they walk away and she looks back to Sosuke who waves with a small smile before heading up the stairs to the dorms.

10 minutes later Sosuke packed the essentials in a bag along with some of his knives and heads to a storage space where they keep sleeping bags, taking one with him as well before leaving the school building.

"Hey Sosuke." Pedro greets him, sitting on a chair in the garden as Sosuke walks by.

"Hi Pedro." Sosuke greets him.

"Where are you going? I heard you were locked in your room the past few days." Pedro asks.

"I was. I am officially supernatural now. Look." He says, grunting a bit while lifting up a heavy statue above his head and sets it down carefully afterwards.

"Cool." Pedro says with a smile.

"Well I am headed to the old mill now. I need to stay clear from everything until I get a handle on my powers. Don't want to burn down the school accidentally." He tells Pedro.

"Ah and I thought you could help me with my spells again." Pedro says disappointed.

"Another time." Sosuke promises and continues on his way.

That evening Sosuke is setting up his sleeping bag in a corner he deemed the safest from weather and other things when he hears the building's floorboards creaking.

"Hello?" Josie asks, looking for the teen.

"Yeah?" Sosuke says, coming down from the upper floor.

"Hey Sosuke. I was uhm. I wanted to apologize for my father. Loosing our mom again was really hard... on him." Josie says.

"I know, but why are you apologizing? And he didn't even do anything that needs apologizing. I would have kept myself locked up even longer probably if I were in his shoes." Sosuke says.

"Oh. OK I thought he was being unfair... Sorry." She says and turns to leave.

"Hold up." Sosuke says, walking up to the nervous girl.

"Let me walk you back to the house. And on the way maybe you'll tell me why you're really here?" He says and Josie nods shyly, brushing her hair behind her ear.

"Is it your mom?" Sosuke asks after the two walked in silence for a minute or two with Josie fidgeting every so often.

"I just got to know her. It's hard that I only had one day with her before we had to..." Josie says sadly.

"To be honest you probably picked the wrong person to talk to about this. But lucky for you, I know just the person you do need to talk to." Sosuke tells her sympathetically.

"Mrs. Tig is so busy right now..." Josie says, shaking her head.

"I'm not talking about her. There is a certain brunette living across the hall from me who I am pretty sure can understand what you're going through." He tells Josie.

"Hope?" She asks, looking at him suprised.

"Yeah. She doesn't like to talk about her parents but well it's plain as day to anyone who cares... uhm knows her that she spent a lot of time working to get past their death." Sosuke says.

"But will she talk to me? Sure we have gotten a bit better in our relationship but this is like..." Josie says uncertainly.

"Trust me. Hope will talk to you, if you can get the actual words out and ask her for help." Sosuke says half teasing.

"Looks like you're in luck, no time like the present." Sosuke tells her, the two walking past the pier Hope is currently sitting at and Sosuke pushes Josie towards Hope, the girl tumbling onto the pier with uneasy steps while he makes his way back to the mill.

"What were you doing out and about with Sosuke?" Hope asks Josie teasingly.

"Not that. Definitely not that. Ugh." Josie protests, denying any sort of romantic relationship with Sosuke.

"So... what then?" Hope asks mirthfully, while Josie sits down next to her.

"I thought I went to apologize for my father... Turns out I just wanted someone to talk to about my mother." Josie says, pulling her legs up scared.

"And he sent you to me?" Hope asks knowingly.

"Yes. But I can leave if you don't want." Josie says.

"It's fine. Sosuke is right. I have some experience with losing a mother." Hope says heavy-heartedly and pulls her legs onto the pier, turning to face Josie, with her doing the same.

"So. What do you want to talk about?" Hope asks.