Darkness

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“I guess I could just cause a little earthquake if someone tries to come at us.” She chuckled nervously and then shrugged her shoulders. Going out together was better than going alone. That much she knew. “And you could easily teleport us somewhere else.” She said with a smile as she leaned into him. She loved when he used his power around her. “So where are we going tonight then?” She glanced up at him with a smile.

The darkness manipulator cracked a smile at his girlfriend’s words and chuckled lightly as he moved to place a soft kiss on her lips. “That’s my girl” he said proudly. While he was worried about the killer, he was not going to let that show and he knew quite well that Elizabeth knew how to take care of herself. “I could teleport us to safety” he said offering her a reassuring smile. “Everything will be fine, I don’t want us to worry.”

“I was thinking that we could go have a nice dinner and then maybe a bar or we can go to dinner and then the movies. Whatever my love wants is okay with me.” Daniel placed his hands on her hips and pulled her towards him. “Or should we just stay in?” He asked with a devilish smirk that grew to a grin before he pressed his lips against hers.

The news had spread like wild fire. Another death. How many had there been already? Honestly, Elizabeth had lost count. She tried not to pay attention to what the news was saying, but she’d be lying if she said she wasn’t a little frightened by the person that was murdering powered people. Anyone could be next. 

Elizabeth held the mug in her hands as she stared out the window to her house. Tea always seemed to calm her down. At least, she had thought so before that evening. She glanced over her shoulder, noticing a familiar face behind her. The worried creases in her face relaxed when she saw her boyfriend, Daniel, appear. “It happened again.” She announced to him. “You’d think that with all the power we had, that we’d be able to figure out who’s doing this.” 

The earth was going mad, that was the only way to explain what was going on in the world, or rather in Lake Grimstone. All that people talked about lately were the murders of powered people and while Daniel of course was worried, but he didn’t want his life to turn in to some sort of horror movie. Luckily he had someone in his life that helped him remember that life was still good.

Daniel walked up behind Elizabeth with a smile on his face until he heard the words that left her lips. His arms wrapped around her and he pressed a soft kiss on her forehead. “You would think that.” He said softly. “But it will all be fine, we just have to be extra careful when we go out.” The last thing that Daniel wanted was for this to cause them to just stop living.

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Daniel had to try to keep himself calm to keep his emotions and fear in check, but after everything that had gone down in Lake Grimstone, could anyone blame him for reacting this way? It was his instinct to protect those around him and he would do anything in his power to do that. But the more his shadows engulfed them, the more panic he heard around them and then it happened. There was a bright flash and then nothing, it was all bright, too bright. Keeping one hand on the young girl, he brought the other one up to his eyes and began to rub them as if somehow that would help. He made more shadows, more darkness appear, darkness being his safe place, but he couldn’t feel safe when he didn’t know what was going on.

“N-no, can you? It’s all so bright.” He said as he called for more shadows.

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Daniel was beginning to get really worried here. He had never seen Rosalie, or anyone else for that matter, get as sick as she was at the moment. The darkness manipulator was trying his best to make out and understand what it was that the girl was saying. “Away from wh-” His words were cut short by an unfamiliar voice calling out for her.

In the few seconds that it took Daniel to look up at who was calling out for Rosalie the shadow manipulator disappeared. “Damn it.” He muttered and looked around to try to see where the woman might have disappeared to. It took him a few seconds to realize where she would have gone.

Traveling through the shadows he finally arrived at the grotto and came up to a scene that he was not expecting. “Okay, I don’t care what yo--” And that’s when it hit him like a ton of bricks, a conversation that Daniel and Rosalie had a while ago. “Rosalie, Rose... is this how you get when... shit. Rosalie what can I do to help you?” He made the place darker hoping that somehow that would help her.

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Daniel looked up at the lights and shook his head before replying to the blonde. “Only if someone is messing with them with their powers and that someone would usually be me.” He said with a shrug knowing full well that this had not been his doing. Daniel tried not to laugh at her reaction to her coffee but he couldn’t help it, it was cute. That was until a buzzing sound followed by a loud pop was heard. Out of instincts and with everything that had occurred in the last months, Daniel pulled the girl towards him and shielded her with his body. His ears were ringing and flashbacks of the take over flashed before him which caused the lights to flicker and the shadows around them to move as if shielding them from any possible attack. After a few seconds he came to and pulled away slowly. “Are you okay?”

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It didn’t take much to see that Rosalie was not fine. Daniel shook his head and sat down next to the girl. “You’re not fine so please don’t pretend to be.” He would had to be been blind not to see just how bad her cough really was. His gaze went to her sleeve that was now covered in blood and all Danny could think about doing at that moment was helping her feel better. He placed his hand on her back and began to move it in a soothing circular motion. “Please tell me what’s wrong. I can’t help you if you don’t tell me what’s going on. Do I need to get you to the hospital?” He asked. already looking around to see what shadows to take to teleport them to the hospital.

Well that didn’t go at all well. Mother had said her older sister had a “condition” that couldn’t be cured but man was it like that all the time? If so, Dahlia was going to have a hard time sticking around or being able to understand what was going on in their screwed up family. Dahlia Moore had agreed to stay in a place called Woods Cafe until Kathy and Rosalie spoke. Apparently the surprise mother had planned hadn’t been a good idea. Whatever, screw her, Dahlia thought and realized the employee was waiting on her order still. “Shit, uh sorry. I’ll just take your least favorite drink in this place.” The girl handed her a twenty dollar bill and waved her off saying, “Just keep the change. Really.” Dahlia walked towards the other side and waited for her drink. “God, is it always like this here?” The woman mumbled out loud while running her hand through her hair with a tired look on her face and then frowned a little seeing the lights flicker.

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A coffee sounded good, he was going to need a lot of caffeine if he wanted to get through this week. It wasn’t that he had family to show around, but there were a lot of visitors and that wasn’t always a good thing. The darkness manipulator stood waiting for his coffee when a young blonde girl walked past him. Daniel felt what he could only describe as a surge of electricity flow through him when she did. “Like wha-” his words were cut short when the lights flickered and he wondered if he had done it, he had not. “I’m Daniel Black, a resident.” He said to the girl.

Ugh, Rosalie Moore thought. This was not good-none of it. A complete disaster! Even optimistic Rosalie was having a hard time seeing how any of this would work. The shadow mimicker had absolutely no idea where she was, whether she was sitting, took a seat, standing, or leaning against a tree somewhere. All that mattered to her right now was that she was able to breath and stop coughing. Bringing her fingers up, she rubbed her eyes and then pinched the bridge of her nose. Family was supposed to not be stressful and life threatening right? How did it turn out to be the complete opposite? “Shit….” Rosalie whispered a bit too loudly as she looked down at her sleeve which had a few blood splatters from when she had begun coughing up blood.

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As soon as Family and Friends Week was announced, Daniel knew that he would be spending that week alone. His parents where not going to show up and frankly he didn’t want them to, he was better off not having to deal with them. Danny was making his way to the grill for some food when he spotted Rosalie, his eyes narrowed and he rushed to her, he knew her well enough to know that she was not okay and sure enough as soon as he got close enough he heard her. “Rosalie, what’s going on?” He had never seen that look on her face, or the lack of color on her cheeks.

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Daniel looked over at the younger male and let out a sigh. “It sucks, doesn’t it?” He asked as he pushed his hands down to make sure that the shadows around them didn’t begin to move on their own. “It’s like my power has a mind of its own.” And as soon as he said that the lights around them began to flicker. “Fuck!” The frustration that he was feeling was evident and it came out in the form of a dark beam that shot out of his hands and hit a nearby tree, luckily he did not hit Oliver. “I’m sorry, bro.” Daniel said as he took a step back.

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“There’s parts of the forest that weren’t touched.” She explained to him. “They were more worried about the buildings and Town Hall, it seemed.” Elizabeth shrugged her shoulders and took a step back towards the trees. “It could help, if you want to try it out for a few minutes? If not, then we’ll find another place.”

It was funny to Daniel--funny was really not the word but he didn’t know how else to describe it--that a year ago or so he was helping Elizabeth control her power and now here she was helping him. His power had been the one thing that Daniel had always been able to control but now all he could do was try his best to not cause a complete blackout.

“The forest.” He said looking over in the direction of the woods. Daniel nodded and walked towards her. “I think that the forest might be a good idea.” Daniel would try anything, all he wanted was to regain control of his power. “Um how are you?” He asked as they began to walk towards the woods.

“Listen, I don’t have time to be stood here exchanging pleasantries with you.” Landon had heard the person approaching him from behind, taking his mind momentarily off the task at hand and he stood slowly, the air around him growing slowly colder as his hands curled into tight fists. “I’m bringin’ this place down, then I’m grabbing my girl and we’re getting out of here.” He took a single step and rotated on the spot, facing the person who had come too close and narrowed his eyes, teeth gritted together as he spoke. “You want to get in the way?” His fists completely frosted over, becoming more and more solid with every layer of ice that formed over them. “Be my guest.” 

Daniel had no idea what the hell was going on around town, one minute people were fighting along him and the next those same people were fighting with him. What had happened? He wondered as he made his way through town towards City Hall. That was when he came across Landon and his words shocked the darkness manipulator whose gaze had moved down to Landon’s hands. The ice around them making his own hands grow darkness around them. “Listen, I don’t want to fight... frankly I am tired of it, but I will do it if I have to. How about we both just pretend we didn’t see each other and you go and find Courtney and I go and do what I need to do, deal?”

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Daniel nodded at his words knowing exactly what Theodore meant. He to had no idea what to do next. It was as if his mind was just wired to fight at the moment, but he knew that he should do more. “Maybe you can try to get people to safety... or even fight. You don’t have to have a physical power to fight.” Daniel said with a shrug though he knew that physical powers helped. “Just help...” you could hear some defeat in his voice but Daniel was not giving up, not without a fight. “Good, then you can definitely help get some people to the hospital.” Daniel said. The darkness manipulator shrugged at the question. “Mine... his... both?”

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“I know, neither can I. It’s the only home I’ve known in a long time. We used to make a pretty good team, why don’t we stick together? Take down as many as we can.” Harley suggested, brow raised as he seemed to look past Danny. "Do me a favour? Step about three steps to your left.” If Daniel did what he said, a member of The Rising Power would come tumbling straight through where Danny used to be, and Harley would throw a blow that landed on the side of the attackers head, knocking him to the ground. 

Danny let out a soft chuckle and shook his head. “You forget who you’re talking to, Harley. I know you and you might be upset right now, just like I am, but he means something to you. We all have someone that we care about with them and no matter how much we want to not care about them, we do.” Daniel wasn’t trying to pretend that what had just happened was somehow going to change his feelings towards certain people. he knew they wouldn’t.

Daniel nodded agreeing with the immortal, they had always made a great team and this time wouldn’t be the exception. “I think that’s a great idea, the more we can take down the sooner all of this will be ov--” he did as Harley asked and stepped to the side without a second thought, he trusted Harley.

Honestly, Michael was exhausted. It saddened him to see such destruction upon the place where he had learned to feel comfortable, to feel at home. But it also saddened him to know that so many people had been hurting for so long and so deeply that they felt their only choice was to strike back and stir up trouble and ultimately violence. 

Michael responded softly to the boy who had also seemed very tired to him. He couldn’t blame him–everyone here either looked like they wanted to fight or they were defeated. He couldn’t really find one middle of the road blase expression among anyone. “I’m not here to fight,” he told him reassuringly with a shake of his head. “I just wanted to know if you needed anything.”

A sigh of relief left the darkness manipulator’s lips and he shook his head lightly as he made the shadows around him disappear. “That’s good to hear.” He said as he picked up the gun that the guy he had been fighting had been carrying. “I’m good, a little exhausted but good.” He said to Michael with a slight smirk, that was about all he could do to show that he was okay.

“How are things over there?” He said looking passed Michael to where he could see smoke and fire. “This is crazy.” He muttered as he prepared to go deeper in to town to help as much as he could.