Light A Way

11

"And that, I do believe, is our cue to hit the sack." Darwin said trying to break the heavily awkward tension in the air. Alex and Sean looked over at him and seemed to nod agreeing completely. 

Honestly, they didn't really wish to get shouted at again by the angry agent, just for having fun. Sure, there was a little public property damage, but that was bound to happen when placing all of them together. Surely they were already aware to this? If not, then it was about time to question whoever thought otherwise. What was a little team bonding without breaking a window and destroying a statue? All in all, the damage was a lot less than it could have been. This alone should have quelled the anger slightly.

Eventually, everyone else seemed to nod and mutter agreeing words under their breath too. Just as the small group were turning to walk towards the bedrooms, someone came walking through the door. Having a rather irritated agent standing before them just seemed to cement the fact that they were all in trouble. It was like being back at school. Or being caught out by a parent when doing something they shouldn't have been doing. "Follow me," there was no kindness in his voice. All formality and ordering. Regardless of his stern disposition, with rather annoyed groans everyone stepped forwards to follow this agent. 

Naturally with a broken window, it wasn't exactly the best place to now stay in. And although Moira was clearly peeved off at them, she could see that they could not continue to inhabit that space. It seemed they were being relocated, or at least given temporary beds for the night until the window could be fixed as soon as possible.

Raven held a hand up, "One moment," she said, her voice not sounding as chirpy as it usually did. She glanced at Elsie and nodded backwards. "We have to pack our things," Raven explained when the agent looked close to stopping them in their retreating tracks.

"Fine, be quick." Was the simple shot out response.

Walking away from their new friends the two females walked briskly down the corridor towards their rooms. "Got to admit, I'm not gonna miss all this blinding white."

"I hate to say it, Elsie, but I don't think it differs much." Raven said with a strained smile while walking into her room.

Elsie stood and looked at the space she had once been occupying. With a sigh she rolled her head to the side, clicked her neck and with another sigh; she entered her room. Luckily enough really, she hadn't unpacked. Always moving around in the past meant that unpacking and packing just became one massive chore that she would rather avoid. So obviously, when she first entered this base, she never really had it in mind to unpack. Living from a suitcase, or in this case a knapsack, but it saved packing all her things away. Even as she shoved the few things she had pulled out earlier in a ditch effort to find clothes, she could easily hear Raven's complaining next door.

Unlike her, the blonde had unpacked everything she had come with. Obviously she thought that she wouldn't have to move from this space. Elsie frowned and walked out of the room. Perhaps if they hadn't done a show and tell, they wouldn't have to move. Knocking on Raven's open door she smiled when the girl turned sharply, with numerous items of clothes in her hands, and looked to her. She smiled, walking in she waved a hand at her, shifting the straps of her own bag on her shoulders, she took to helping Raven pack.

"This sucks," Raven mumbled and threw – with very little care – a dress into her little black suitcase. Elsie couldn't help but notice that it seemed like she had more stuff in here than what she first arrived with. The words: shopping trip, instantly came to her mind. Elsie honestly couldn't remember the last time she went on a shopping trip. Like an actual proper girly shopping trip. The clothes she actually owned were second hand from someone she once knew. They weren't really her clothes at all. With a frown she placed a shirt in the suitcase. When was the last time she actually owned clothes which were hers? 

She couldn't remember, and with a frown and a firm shake of her head she looked to Raven. "I know. But...I suppose, we can't stay in here, can we?" She said awkwardly realising that her odd thoughts had caused her to drift off into silence and not answer Raven for a good few minutes.

"I guess," Raven didn't seem bought.

Elsie paused and looked to her. "Can I say something? And I mean...you can tell me to instantly shut up, or to...I don't know, mind my own business, but yeah...may I?"

Raven zipped her case shut, grasping the handle she gave it a firm yank and placed the wheels on the floor. "Sure, what's up?"

"Do not let your brother's words bug you."

"They're not...I mean...he's right, I suppose."

"Pfft," Elsie said rather childishly while puffing out her cheeks, Raven raised an eyebrow at her and couldn't help but feel her lips tug into a slow forming smiling. "Look, I had expectations pushed on me, and I ruined them. Royally ruined. The problem with expectations is that you never fully live up to them. You ideally wish to, and never quite can...just, he's your brother, he will always think you can act better, or should act better. But you are you, and you are a fun, great, rather energetic girl, who definitely likes having a good time, and not going around being boring." Elsie said while placing her hands in her pockets.

 Raven registered her words and by the end of her little speech she was firmly smiling at her. "You think Charles is boring?"

"Meh," Elsie waved a hand at her completely undecided on the matter. "His form of fun and yours ain't the same, mate. I can already tell you that." Elsie smiled and nodded back to the door. "Just cheer up, please. Let's see how slow we can walk back to the main room just to see Mr Agent Man's reaction, hm?" Elsie smiled and shuffled backwards into the corridor in the slowest pace she could muster.

Raven grinned, "You are so on!" She pulled her case behind her as she too walked as slowly as possible, Elsie laughed at the slow motion walking and turned on her heels and looked to the corridor ahead.

"We could be here a while."

"Oh well, it's not like we're going to be doing anything else when we reach our new rooms, is it? It's clear they're going to restrict us even more than they already have." Raven said sounding rather bitter about it. What little free will they had, which honestly wasn't much, was sure to get taken away from them now after this whole evenings fiascos.
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(Edited: 21/March/2019)

(Reedited: 3/Dec/2021)