He blinked it was a bird? There was no way that was a bird it was more of a pterodactyl or a ghost bird of some kind there was no way it could have appeared and disappeared so quickly. Loki was laughing Alex wasn’t there was something that he was missing now and he wanted to know what it was. Feeling Alex place her hand around his he blinked and whispered to her, ”What exactly did he do to me? And why is he laughing?”

Walking back the way they came Sam’s hand tightened around hers at every shadow that seemed to flicker in the corners of every wall they were passing. ”And I wasn’t scared… just surprised is all…” When he said this a rat scurried across his and Alex’s path surprising him in the process. With a startled jump Sam was quickly behind Alex holding her hand while the other arm started to wrap up around the waist, which meant his hand was placed on the chest. His face was buried deep into Alex’s back with his eyes tightly closed.

”Did you see the size of that thing!?!? Is it gone yet!?!?” he opened his eyes and realized where he was currently located his face into Alex’s back while his hand was in hers. His other hand however seemed to acted on it’s own for a second it grasped where it was located till he realized where his other hand was… ”My god! I am so sorry!” his hand, which was located on her chest quickly shot from its current location and landed at his side while he jumped from behind Alex.

Sam’s heart started to beat quickly as he looked away from Alex, ”Sorry, please forgive me!” his tone took a more pleading tone as his face started to get red. For some reason he was really worried about how she was going to respond, at least more so than usual. He blinked once and placed on hand on his chest to feel his hear beating faster than normal.

Looking around Sam wondered why his heart was beating so fast and with out little warning he spotted a garbage can moving in the corner of his eye, ”MOVE!” Sam’s hand tightened around Alex’s as he started to pull her into a run. ”There is something in there! We gotta get out of here!”

Alexandra shook her head slightly, unsure of what she could say to Sam. She was fairly sure that until Gabriel’s power effects wore off Sam would have a bit of trouble understanding what was happening to him. She blinked and preferred to say nothing instead. Her own hand tightened around Sam’s to assure him that everything was fine.

”And I wasn’t scared… just surprised is all…”

Gabriel’s chuckle behind them made her turn around slightly and glare at the man before looking back at Sam. “I kn-” The word was left unfinished as a rat crossed their path. Making Sam to jump behind her to hide. And wrap his hand around her. Placing her in a rather embarrassing situation.

”Did you see the size of that thing!?!? Is it gone yet!?!?”

Her cheeks reddened slightly as she watched the small creature continue to run away and disappear into the shadows. “Errrr…”

The hand squeezed the location where it was placed, suddenly making her think that her head would burst out in flames seeing that the current temperature of her skin suddenly increased. “S-”

”My god! I am so sorry!”

Blink.

”Sorry, please forgive me!”

Alexandra turned around, with a rather noticeable embarrassed face. “That was awkward.” She muttered as under the light of the lamp post she could see Sam’s own face getting red. She breathed in, glancing at Gabriel, who had stopped laughing, watching curiously Sam and herself. Well, she had no intention of filling in Gabriel with what his powers made Sam do. Sighing, she looked at Sam. “That’s okay.” Barely did she have the chance to finish the sentence when…

”MOVE! There is something in there! We gotta get out of here!”

She blinked rather surprised. Then, she found herself being dragged away. “Whoa!” The upper half of her body was dragged forward while her legs, having yet to receive the command to move remained behind. Barely catching her balance, Alexandra moved along. “Sam! There’s nothing there!” She called while pulling Sam to a stop.

Behind her, laughter could be heard. Well, Gabriel was clearly enjoying this.

His running continued as he pulled Alex further back down the path towards where Slate and Pacifica was. Turning the corner Sam jumped back and fell back releasing Alex’s grip in the process, ”Agh!” it was a short burst of a yell but it had been effective, the rat that was there turned and ran away as quickly as possible. Still having no idea why everything was so epically awful here he looked around and asked Alex, ”Are all rodents in Romania that big?”

”Why didn’t I notice all these humongous vermin before?” Sam asked as he looked back to Alex then stood up his heart racing a mile a minute, ”You look different…” Sam said simply as he studied her a little more and took a step closer to her. Whenever he approached Alex he usually had a smile on his face however now was different there was something about her face this time that wouldn’t allow him to smile. His throat dried up and his hands started to sweat as knees started to knock.

Was he afraid of his girlfriend? As well he should be she was far too attractive for him. Why was she with him in the first place, ”Oh god…” was she going to leave him? He didn’t like to be alone he hated being alone and not having anyone to rely on.

Sam took a step back and shook his breath as his heart continued to accelerate. His head started to swim due to oxygen deprivation and just before he took a breath a black cat jumped up and ran between his legs, ”AGHHHHHH!!!!!!” Sam jumped up into the air and to the nearest wall and clung to it activating his mutation causing his hands and feet to stick to the wall a few feet off the ground where he continued to scream.

She was confused. And she wished she’d had some amount of telepathy right know because she really wanted to know what exactly was going on in Sam’s head. She looked different? As in… a witch? Green skinned, ugly, menacing looking witch? A multi-headed monster? What made Sam be… afraid of her. A blink was the only response she could give… she didn’t know if an attempt to calm him down would be fruitful… Maybe her words would be interpreted as the growl of a mythic beast… maybe her movement would be interpreted as an attack…

She had no idea just how far Gabriel’s powers were able to go… now.

And … she had no idea that Sam could scream like that.

Blink. Blink. Stare into the empty space where Sam had been not long ago.

At her side, Gabriel was on the ground laughing. Holding his tummy as he paused briefly to look at Sam before starting to laugh again. And again.

Alexandra shifted her attention to the wall that Sam had decided to cling on. She wanted to laugh but somehow she managed to retain this impulse. She was fairly certain that this wasn’t going to help Sam.

“Sam… it’s okay…”

And probably Sam wouldn’t hear her with all that screaming.

Behind her, Gabriel burst into laughing again.