ooc: well, we havent had a post for the new year so here I go making a filler one to keep us going, lol

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The day was speeding by for Raina and the talk around the camps was all about the breakout. The rumors were flying left and right and she wasn't sure if the guys made it out or not. Not being able to talk was really starting to strain her despite being used to it. It was these times when she wanted to know the most what was going on- when she wished she could talk.

It was getting to the point that she coudln't remember what her voice even sounded like anymore- and the idea of ever singing again? She didn't think she had it in her.

It was after lunch when the physicial excersize alarm sounded and the mutants were all rounded up like prisoners in a prisoner yard to head outside. Raina followed in line with the others out into the bright sun. She overheard the guards laughing about their Newyears and thought to herself that she'd been in the camps since before the snow was even falling.

As she walked about the grounds in the snow she noticed how restless the guards seemed. Even taking out their usual frustrations on the mutants didn't seem to be doing it's usual trick for them. They just seemed bored. Maybe even they didn't think the camps would last so long.

Raina follwed the little path to the laundry pool and saw how it was frozen over. She looked down and didnt recognize the girl who looked back up at her. Her face was no longer black and blue but her hair was short and dark. It was longer then when they buzzed it but she no longer could pass for an American that was for sure. She still had her piercing eyes.

She watched her reflection and reached down and touched the tip of the ice covered in a skim of water. She shivered at it's coldness and frowned thinking of how she used to be used to the cold. A strange feeling ran through her legs under her clothes but it was momentary.

She looked up through the gates across the space to the other camp. Her thoughts drifted again to the men who may have escaped and wondered if it was really true. She thought- what would she actually do if she escaped? She had nothing to go back to. No one to go home with. She looked back at the water until a guard yelled at her to keep moving, so she got up and started moving again.

New year. No new conditions. Sara had lost a lot of her hope. She was back in a place so close to what she grew up knowing. Pulled back into Old routines by humans, just when she had gotten to know what it was like on the outside. The only difference between now and way back then, was she wasn’t kept alone.

Sara had just been bringing back a fresh load of laundry when the exorcise alarm sounded. Something that was, in her opinion, ment as another way of torture. It was hard to watch people who had clearly worked 16 hours a day or more, go and do exorcise. She shifted her load of laundry to one hip.

Reaching the pool, Sara frowned. Frozen and no doubt the guards would expect the laundry to still get done. Her bundle was set down and she say Raina passing by.

“Come on, Hurry up.” One of the guards prodded her from behind in the ribs. Prompting a sharp glare and a low sound from her gut. Of course his solution was to prod her harder. Giving the guard another glare, as if glares solved all the world’s problems, Sara extended her strides and moved to catch up with Raina.

“Raina right?” Through the weeks she didn’t think her and Raina had officially met, but whenever she saw her, Sara got the strangest feeling of dejavu. Talking hadn’t seemed like something the girl was able to do since the first night or two but Sara still wanted to try and make things easier. “Do you think you could help me carry the bed sheets back to the barracks tonight?” Sara said talking in a code she’d heard Michael and Neena using. It seemed to work. Basically it ment she had smuggled something for the girl and it was in the folds of her bed sheets. Nothing much. Just a small pad of paper and a pen. Sara had taken them from the customs office during one of her daily trips. It wasn’t the same as being able to use one’s own voice, but if the girl had something to say she would at least be able to say it.

(If you don't want the things in this post Raina, Just don't use them.)

Raina looked up at the sound of her name. "Raina right?"

Raina looked at the woman and slowly nodded. There was something familiar about her. Raina pulled herself up to stand and get a better look at her. She noticed the load of laundry and heard her request.

She was certain the girl was trying to send her another message. So, she did her best to smile and nod to show she was in.

Raina was finding it increasingly harder to communicate, but also easier to go unnoticed.

Sara gave a small smile when Raina nodded and smiled. There were other ways to communicate that didn’t involve words. They just made it easier. Things like having a voice. Something Sara could only assume could be taken for granted.

“Just meet me after the exorcises.” Sara said. Trying to keep the warm look on her face.

Tricity trudged inside of the barracks and collapsed into her bed completely drained. This work was insufferable. She couldn't take much more of it. Hope was slipping away from her and she knew many of those around her had already lost it completely. 'What was happening outside the walls? Weren't people trying to fight this? What about the other mutants who hadn't been caught? ...My son...'

There was a sudden loud commotion that drew her attention to the front door of the barracks. Tricity lifted her head in curiousity and saw Emerald being forcefully escorted inside by a handful of guards. Despite her exhaustion, Tricity was on her feet and moving toward the door. The noise had drawn the attention of the other women at their beds. "Em! EM!! Stop fighting them!" Tricity pushed her way forward to get to her comrade. "Just let go of her!" Emerald was kicking and swinging in defiance, but the guards weren't going to let her win this.

Tricity finally got to the middle of the scuffle and pleaded with the main guard holding onto Emerald's arms. "Just let go! I'll bring her to the beds!'

"Someone restrain this mutant!" he responded with a nod, referring to Tricity. Another guard immediately reacted and grabbed Tricity's wrist roughly.

Tricity didn't react and looked her captor in the eye who was clearly looking for a reason to hit her. "I'm not going to fight you, so you can just calm down." She turned back to the commotion and saw the head guard pull a tazer from his belt. "WAIT! Em, look at me!!" Emerald was still visibly in a rage and could tell the tazer would only make her more angry. "EMMY! This will only keep you seperated from us and your sister! Just STOP!"

She was sure it was the mention of the girl's sister that calmed Emerald and the guards took that moment to drag her toward the beds, dumping her down. Tricity yanked her arm away from the guard holding her and went to the girl's side. "You start acting up again, I'll throw your ass into solitary. I mean it!" the main guard threatened. He strutted away with the rest of the guards in toe who were having a laugh.

Tricity sat on the floor, next to the bed where Emerald was breathing heavily from the struggle. She sighed and pulled her legs up to her chin, looking over at Em. "You all right?"

Emerald looked up at Tricity, a scowl on her face.

"Do I look okay to you?!" She snapped, trying to sit up quickly but reopening the wounds on her legs in the process.

Emerald bit her lip in pain, intaking a sharp breath as she wrapped a piece of cloth Ruby had brought from the infirmary around her thighs were the wounds where. They looked as if someone purposely pierced holes in the wolf girls thighs before bruising them up with an unkown object. Her arms still had the beltmarks across them which were turning into large bruises.

The Lupine females hands were scrapped up, most of the skin being raw or burnt from the electricity from the pick axe and from her Isolation session. Blood was still caked on the back of her head from when she was unconciseness.

Emerald was still breathing heavily from the struggle, feeling exhausted from it.

"I will not let myself be shown as weak by those men." She growled, "I will not allow anyone I care about to go through what I went through."

"If you keep this up, they'll hurt the people you care about just because," Tricity replied simply, not interested in arguing with her. It was be no use. She looked over Emerald's wounds and felt the hair on the back of her neck stand up along with prickling of goosebumps emerging on her arms. Tricity swallowed hard with a deep breath and went to the washroom where she picked up a rag and filled a bowl with water. She crossed the room and noticed the stares of other women who were having trouble looking at Emerald because of the condition she was in.

Tricity sat back on the floor and pulled a second rag from her back pocket to soak the water in. "Here," she said, offering the other rag to her. Tricity wrapped the one rag around her arm to help with the swelling. She then cupped her hand in the bowl of water, quickly transferring it to the girl's head, trying to rid some of the blood out. It poured down the back of the girl's uniform. "You aren't weak and they know it."

Emerald tensened at first almost ready to attack but stopped when she realized that there would be no threat to her. It was just a habbit she had developed since being in this hell.

The wolf girl had started to act more and more feral since she had arrived here, knowing that would be the only way she would be able to keep herself sane. If she kept fighting she knew that she could never break, she was too stubborn for that. Emerald knew that the day she did give up was the day she would be as good as dead.

The wolf girl took some water from the bowland splashed in on the back of her head. She felt the cool water run down her scalp and she loosened up more.

"I nailed a guys foot with a pick axe because he was hitting on one of the younger ones and because he grabbed my ass. They threw me in Isolation after they beat the hell out of me." the Wolf girl told Tricity. "I dont like it when the guards get that close, it makes me nervous."

"Yes I can see that..." Tricity examined the bruises and cuts the girl had on her body. "Jesus, Em, what did they do to you?" Tricity hadn't experienced the pain that was isolation and had only seen a couple of women put through it. Nothing as bad as Emerald had experienced. This was just INhuman.

Emerald's body tensened when Tricity asked were the other cuts came from. The Lupine female let out a low growl, feeling her defensive walls come up. She knew Tricity was the leader of the team but she didn't feel comfortable with anyone.

"It's not that bad!" She replied harshly, "I'm just stubborn they ask me to scream and I dont scream. Bloo- the guards expect me to do whatever I am toldto and I dont. I will never stoop that low."

Tricity's eyebrow rose a little at the sudden snap and she was starting to take it personally. Obviously something happened that she didn't want to talk about. 'What was the name she was about to give?' Some of the women were still staring and Tricity gave them an annoyed look which helped prove her point. She sat on the bed next to Emerald. "Calm down, Em. I just thought maybe you'd like to talk. I'm only trying to help..."

Emerald let out a soft sigh, body loosening again. She didn't know how to make herself better about keeping secrets from the others. It's just she hated showing weakness, to anyone even her parents.

"I'm sorry." The wolf girl replied, "I'm not used to showing my weakness around other people. Tricity...there is a mutant guard here and he targeted me. Well because he was one of fusionists experiments and he has been trying to.." Emerald swallowed hard, she had only told this to two other person and that was Johnny and daria.

"Mate with me...he is a guard and when I dissapeard for a few days he drained out alot of my blood through cuts and drank the blood. He beat me up really bad and showed pictures of it to the other guards. "

Emerald clenched her fists at odd intervals as if she was fighting all her urges to hit something at that moment. But what she was telling Tricity needed to be said, she couldn't keep her feelings in any longer.

"The other guards have been talking about all of us x woman tricity, the Sanctuary women as well. They have been making bets on us, when we would submit and who could make us do so. Tricity I have never been weak in my entire life and I will not let these barbarians make me weak and no matter how much it hurts I will keep fighting."

"You aren't weak and nothing they can do to you will show that you are weak," Tricity said in hopes of trying to make the girl relax a bit. Though, hearing news of participants from other problems in the past being here at the camp was rather disheartening. "If anything, it only shows how weak they are for doing the things they do to you. You know I always say the reason for all the hate pushed at mutants is because they don't understand us. Sadly, most of the workers here aren't about hate, just getting a paycheck at the end of the day without caring how it's obtained."

Tricity leaned back a bit on the bed, using her arms to brace her. She didn't want to push Emerald, but Tricity never knew of the things Fusionist did specifically. "This guy who has it out for you... Why is he drinking your blood?"

A cold look crept across Emeralds face. She might as well tell Tricity the truth, considering the situation they were in. The Wolf girl let out a soft sigh, rubbing her temples lightly. She really wished all of this would just go away and that she could return to the safety of her own bed.

"His name is Bloodfang, the guy can control blood once he got a taste of mine he became obsessed and thinks that drinking my blood will make us one. " The Lupine female responded, placing her head on her knees which she drew toward her chest. She was attempting to get warm, she was freezing at the moment and she showed it by the way she acted.

"They tried to take Ruby from the barracks the other night but I managed to hold them off while keeping Ruby quite. Tricity why are they doing this to us, its not our fault some mutants are stupid enough to attack."

(OOC: Continued from Split from Guards Barracks for Neena. Let me know if I have my timing mixed up.

Neena finally wandered into the Bunkhouse, much later than she should have. She'd fallen way behind due to the days' events, and the side meeting with Doug. For a moment she'd considered leaving the laundry and taking a beating, along with the usual trip to Isolation, and catching up on her sleep a bit. But then the catch up job would fall to Sara, which wasn't fair to the girl at all. So she'd finished her job, stopped by the shower to rinse off the offending pepper powder from her body and clothes, then returned to the Barracks.

As she passed by Tricity and Emerald, she picked up Em's question.

"Tricity why are they doing this to us, its not our fault some mutants are stupid enough to attack."

Neena paused. Despite it not being invited into the conversation, she went ahead and added her two cents anyway.

"It doesn't matter who attacks who, or why. The fault lies with the one who hits back." She shrugged. "We just happen to be the ones caught in the crossfire. You just have to learn how to dodge until they'll run out of ammo."

She moved on to her own bunk, looking for either Sara or Shya. She'd uncovered Sara's 'test' of Doug's care package, and wanted to find out the results, and also to share the details of her little chat.

She ignored the fact that her eye was blackening her already dark skin even further, and beginning to swell.