Awaken?

"You two are sisters?!" Damien is stupefied by the words Veronica just said. "I had no idea..."

"Yeah, have been since she was born." Veronica chuckles slightly from her wise comment. "But anyways, I just wanted to check on her, she still has yet to wake up."

Damien nods, "Yeah, the doc said she should make a full recovery. Let's go in."

Damien and the girls head inside to where Ariel is lying on the bed. She has an IV sticking out of her arm and a few monitoring systems surrounding her bed. She is covered in bruises and seems to be sleeping. They approach the bed. 

Veronica observes her sister for a few seconds before turning her head and leaving the room. Damien follows behind her. Once outside Damien finds Veronica whipping her face. She turned around and it seemed she was crying slightly.

"Why are you out here?" Veronica says to Damien.

"I came out here to make sure you were alright." Damien slowly approaches Veronica.

"I'm fine but I want to know who did this to her." Veronica says as she stares at Damien. "You found her you must know something!" The desperation can be seen on Veronica face as she pleads to Damien. 

"Ar-"

"Yes, please tell me." Veronica pleads.

"Okay, okay. Well to be honest it ain't pretty. I found Ariel a few weeks after she had gone missing. She was drugged out of her mind when I found her." Veronica is focused on every word Damien is saying, and Damien continues. "She was in a very bad situation, you know Tyler, right?"

Veronica nods.

"Well, Tyler was mounting on top of Ariel when I came in, she was all bruised up and non-responsive. I handled Tyler and his goons. Decimated is more like it. But anyways, I brought Ariel here as soon as I could. And then the girls shortly followed." 

Veronica walks up to Damien and gives him a hug. "Thank you. For everything." She hugs him so tightly you can hear the air escaping from his lungs.

"Y-Y-You're we-wel-welcome." Damien barely squeezes out those words before Veronica lets go. 

"I will make Tyler pay for this!" Veronica starts storming off.

"Wait!" Damien yells at Veronica.

"He's been dealt with." Damien says with a coldness to his voice.

Veronica realizes the true tension of Damien words and nods and then goes back in Ariel's room. 

Damien lets out a sigh before joining the girls for a few hours sitting there talking about the little adventures they've had with Ariel. Before they know it dusk falls and they are asked to leave. 

"Alright girls, you all have a safe trip home." Damien gives Emmy a kiss and the other girls get hugs. Damien heads back to his dorm room. 

The girls invite Veronica to stay.

"You can stay over with us Veronica." Jessica leaps toward Veronica just as she is about to head home.

"Yeah." Lauren says.

Emmy nods.

Veronica and the girls start to head back to their house and once inside Emmy starts getting bombarded with a thousand questions. 

"Emmy, what was with Damien kissing you?!" Jessica runs up and grabs ahold of Emmy's hands. 

"Yeah, what was that all about? Did something happen last night?" Lauren asks Emmy. 

Emmy blushes as the girls' crowd around her. 

"Come on girls, obviously something happened look at her." Veronica says with a smirk.

"We know, but we just want the details!" Jessica says. 

Emmy stumbles around with her words, "U-u-um We-well we may ha-have done some stuff." Emmy face is as red as a tomato, and she hides behind her hands as the girls step back.

"Ooooh." Lauren says with a smirk. "What kind of stuff. Did our little Emmy lose her V-card?" 

Emmy shakes her head. 

"Oh, then what?" Jessica says. 

"We um just uh kissed a little and he may have done other things..."

"Oh, good for you Emmy. Are you two dating now?" Jessica asks. 

The whole room falls silent as everyone is interested in what this answer is.

Emmy nods her head. "Well, um yes, but uh we decided to keep things somewhat open..."

Jessica, Lauren, and Veronica both were astonished with what Emmy just said. 

"Keep it open?" All three of them said it in unison. 

Emmy nods her head.

The room is full of silence as all the girls' minds are racing.

Eventually Veronica breaks the silence. "Well, ladies I'm off to bed, where can I sleep?"

This causes the girls to break their thoughts and Lauren shows Veronica a room where guests sleep. "You can sleep here or Ariel's room, if you want." 

Veronica shakes her head, "This room will do, thank you." 

Once Lauren returns Jessica starts to head to her room while Emmy seems to be already gone. 

"Hey Jessica, where is Emmy?" 

"She went to her bed." Jessica replies.

"Aah, alright well I'm head to bed as well." Lauren turns the lights off in the living room and heads to her own room. 

Sadly, none of the girls slept that night as they kept thinking about Ariel and Damien. The relationship between Emmy and Damien and how they decided to make it an open relationship.

Next morning came and Damien went to the Academy.

Damien went straight to the Warping classroom, to his surprise Veronica was absent that day.

"Aah, Welcome Damien." Arnold said as Damien entered the classroom.

"Good day." Damien took a seat in the front as Arnold started his lectures. 

"Good morning, everyone! I'm glad you all showed up. This week we will be going over a different style of using Gravity pull. I will be showing you how to use it to apply to yourselves to increase your physical training. Kind of like what Damien demonstrated with his sparring match against Miss Veronica a few days ago." 

Damien nods. 

"Now I want you all to focus on how gravity works and the black hole I told you all in envision before and the forces pushing out. Now I want you to think of those forces pulling inward. This will enact the gravity to push down on you. I highly advise you to use this with caution and be extremely careful on how much power you pour into it. Don't want to end up like a pancake."

Everyone lets out a slight chuckle.

"Now let's start practicing."

Everyone starts to practice, luckily Damien grasp hold of gravity pull quite well, and he is one of the first to understand it. 

"I want you all to practice this technique all week and get used to the feeling. I will be evaluating your proficiency at the end of the week. Class dismissed."

As class ends Damien is about to walk out but is stopped by another classmate. He's never noticed this guy before but he's around the same age as Damien but has a lot more muscle than Damien does. He has brown hair and green eyes. 

"Hello, Damien." The man says as he stretches out his hand, waiting for a handshake.

Damien shakes his hand. "Hey. Do I know you?"

The man shakes his head, "No, but I know you." He says with a smirk, "You've caused quite a shake in this city since you've been here. Standing up to the local gang and challenge both Tyler and Spencer. I had to meet you. By the way I go by the name Randell."

"Pleasure, and I had too, those guys thought they run this world and I just put them in their places." Damien starts to leave but Randel cuts him off.

"Sorry, I just want to let you know that I am here for you if you ever need any help, I have plenty of connections and resources available to me. So, just let me know if you need anything." Randell hands Damien a piece of paper with his phone number and leaves. 

"Weird guy, but at least he seemed somewhat genuine." Damien puts the number in his phone and heads back to his dorm. 

"Class was somewhat longer than usual, I barely got enough time to go see Ariel!" Damien rushes to change and makes for the hospital.

Once there he finds the girls in the room where Ariel is, and he quietly enters the room.

"Hey, Ariel, you know Damien is the hero of Genesis Academy. He put a big dent into the local gang that was terrorizing everyone in the city. He even put Spencer in his place. Tyler has gone missing yet again but I'm sure Damien is responsible for that." Jessica talks to Ariel as Ariel lays down still unconscious. 

"I hope you wake up soon." Emmy says.

"Yeah, you better, we have so much to tell you." Lauren says. 

Veronica is the only one to notice Damien entering the room. 

"Hey, Damien." Veronica says. 

Lauren, Emmy, and Jessica squeal as they realize Damien is here.

"Hey girls." Damien approaches the bed.

"He-hey." Emmy says. 

"H-Hi" Jessica says as her face turns slightly red.

"H-hey Damien." Lauren says as she fidgets around in place. Rubbing her hands somewhat nervously.

"You all alright?" Damien sounding concern.

"Yep!" They squeak out.

"How's she doing?" Damien grabs hold of Ariel's hand as he approaches her bed.

"She's the same." Veronica says.

As Damien is about to let her hand go, he feels a slight squeeze. Shocked by it he looks at his hand and he see that Ariel squeezing his hand. He looks up toward her face and he sees her eyes start opening.

"A-Ariel!" Damien says with a delightful voice.