Because I'm Happy-ish? (OPEN)

[Jessi Burke]

So the camp was throwing a big party. Big whoop in Jessi's opinion, but she noticed that she was quite pale for the end of summer. She had been avoiding her boyfriend Kurtis like the plague to keep her guilt level normal for a person. Well, normal as you can get for a person who almost killed her boyfriend with her emotions. So Jessi decided to put on her black bikini and head to the beach.

Everyone here was partying or at least in high spirits. Jessi kept her head down as she walked towards an empty section of the beach and set her towel down. She moved to lay down on her back as she kept her eyes closed as she tried to block out the sounds of the partying. Maybe a good tan will make her feel better... but she knew she was just kidding herself because there was that guilt over Kurtis. Stupid boyfriends.

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"Do you mind explaining the reason for a party to me?" His bare feet sunk into the sand just as he had expected, maybe a little slower. As more and more people ran past, full of joy, they somehow managed to kick sand against his blue jeans and onto his feet. He wasn't dressed in beach clothing, though he gave a small attempt to make it give the impression that he tried. His attempt consisted of an unbuttoned flannel shirt with long sleeves. At least he had even undone it at his wrists. He turned to look over at the woman in the sand that he had randomly approached. His biggest reason had to be how she looked. The sight he got while she had been lying down was enough to make him walk over.


"So are you supposed to be some paragon of good and evil?" He cocked an eyebrow at her and gave her a small smirk. He was mocking her, of course, he highly doubted she chose the clothing based on the assumption of some kind of balance. "Alabaster skin and an Ebony bikini." Still he stated the things that stuck out for his comment. "Black hair..." He finished finally after naming a few more. "I'm afraid I have to inform you. You cannot actually be a paragon of both." He shrugged it off and took it upon himself to sit down beside her. Ignoring the sand that quickly made it's way up his pant legs some how.

"Seriously though," He paused to lower himself so he was lying down, with his head resting on a single arm. "what is the cause for celebration?" He turned his head to look over at her.

[Jessi Burke]

Jessi was hoping for peace and quiet as she continued her deep breaths and closed her eyes behind her big sunglasses. Of course, her peace and quiet couldn't last long as an idiot decided to walk over to her. Not only was he deciding to get in her area, but also talk to her. At first, Jessi just ignored him as she kept her eyes closed. Maybe he could get the hint that she wasn't interested in what he had to say, until he said something about her looks.

She opened her eyes and studied him out of the corner of her eye. It was only a moment or two before she sat up and turned to look at him. "Do you just have a habit of harassing girls who clearly want to be alone?" But he didn't get the hint and she narrowed her eyes at him a bit. "Maybe I am a paragon of both, but your head is too tiny to completely grasp that concept."

She huffed a bit as he invited himself to sit down next to her. "Maybe it's a celebration because you'll be the last jerk sacrifice to make before the gods will be pleased and people like you will be out of my life."

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Peace and quiet was the last thing on Jaimes mind. He could deal with it, but it wasn't what he wanted at the moment. He wanted somebody to test himself with. Finding someone who obviously looked troubled was definitely not difficult. He saw the hint she laid out, and promptly decided to itgnore it. Finally though, after he pushed just a bit, she decided to speak up at him. Now it was time for his fun. He didn't bother holding back the grin that crossed his face at her words.

"It's more of a hobby, really." He chuckled under a breath and watched as she hardened her stare at him. Ooooh, scary. His chuckle quickly turned into a small laugh. She was just a pure bundle of fun. "See by that point though, you would be a paradox, not a paragon." He cast a small shrug in her general direction before he plopped down beside her, making the smallest splash in the sand.

"Well, that's rather rude, don't you think?" He cocked an eyebrow at her again before he let it drop and turned to look at the large amount of campers partying at the waters edge. With a sigh, he placed a single hand just below the small of her back and spoke up again. "Cheer up. There are loads of people running around celebrating...whatever the hell they're celebrating! And it looks like there is a drink everywhere you turn." He smiled at the sight of someone trying to sneak by with a bottle of something. "Yet you...are lying on the sand over here trying to get a tan?" He turned to look at her with a cocked eyebrow again.

[Jessi Burke]

Jessi reached up and pushed her sunglasses onto her head as she decided to glare at the boy properly without anything blocking it. "A hobby? Really?" she spat out as she slowly curled her fingers into the sand. "You know, people like you usually end up in jail. Do you harass the police too so they decide not to arrest you because they don't want you either?" She felt herself get riled up from this boy only being in her presence for a few minutes. She felt her emotions start to get high, which was dangerous for her uncontrollable powers, but she didn't really care at that moment. Jerks really just pissed her off.

Her glare intensified as he decided to make himself at home on the plot of sand right beside her. "Not as rude as you are," she spat out again as she took deep breaths. Control, Jessi, control. But she found out pretty quickly that it wasn't working, especially since this guy kept opening up his mouth and pissing her off more. "Are you seriously questioning my motives to tan? Am I not allowed to do this while there's a party going on? If it bothers you that much, you can just leave and join them. I would be so glad if you left."

The more she talked... or spat at him, the more her anger peaked, which slowly activated her powers. Jessi didn't pay any attention at all when two bros behind her started bickering about something completely unimportant.

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He couldn't help the smile that spread across his face as she questioned his hobby. It may have seemed like a joke, sounded like a joke, been told like a joke, but when it came down to it. Perhaps it was true. "And what kind of a person am I, exactly?" He ignored the police comment. Too boring. Quietly he let himself fall backwards into the sand so he was lying down beside her. "I'm not entirely convinced that you know how rude I am." He let his head drop towards his chest a couple inches so he was looking at her out of the corners of his eyes.

"Of course I'm questioning your motives!" He nearly shouted, drawing glances from a couple of people before they went back to...arguing. Almost everybody around them was arguing. He paused for a millisecond before he went back to her. "Oh just admit it! You're enjoying my company." He gave her a mocking smirk before he traced a line up her back with one finger, stopping once his hand touched the strands to her top. He completely stopped there, and just pulled his hand away.

"You would have to be blind to not notice a fine piece," He paused to move his hand back to her and let it firmly fall down on her rear with a good clap before he spoke up again. "and wonder why...she's all alone." He stopped to stare at her for a moment, as if trying to read her but he wasn't. He laid there and waited quietly as the arguing around them intensified. In seconds people had started to shove each other. Pretty soon punches would be thrown.

[Jessi Burke]

Jessi narrowed her eyes at the boy as she spat the next venomous words at him, “You are a rude jerk who can’t seem to get the hint that people don’t want to be around you.” She shifted as she started to pack up all her belongings, which wasn't that much, but that’s when his hands decided to wander around her body. She tried to slap them away, but he seemed to be a little too quick for her.

But that smack on her butt was the last straw for her. “Well, maybe this fine piece is one that you look, but don’t touch.” She reached over to smack him across the face, which fit the current situation on the beach, since a fight broke out several yards away. “And didn't your mother teach you manners? Get out of my life, scum.” She grabbed her towel as she gave him one last final glare as she stormed off into the chaos.

Jessi didn't notice that fights were breaking out around her. She was more focused on getting back to her cabin and away from the jerk she was just dealing with. However, decided to rip into the person who was shoved into her, before she noticed the party turned into a brawl. “Oh my gods…” she muttered as guilt grew in her stomach. “What have I done?”

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She was harsh, and she had reason to be. He knew that much. The rude words she spoke though didn't reach him. He didn't even need to listen to her to guess what she was saying. "Oh, I definitely get the hint, it's just a matter of whether or not I ignore it." Instead he went ahead with his own plans. Sure enough as his hands began to roam she got more and more annoyed, and so did everyone else around them. Out of the corner of his eyes he watched as the first punch was thrown and was returned with a tackle into the sand. He had to redirect attention away from him for a moment. He didn't want some bub picking a fight with him because that guy wanted to be the one who was talking to her. So he took it a huge step further.

The slight stinging in his hand was nothing compared to the upside to the slap on her rear. Sure enough, anger flooded into her like a stampeding herd of wildebeests and she lashed out. She swung her hand at him like a whip. He would let her have that one. Her palm didn't even stay connected with his face for a second, she had swung at him that quickly. But the pain was nothing, at least it wouldn't be later, so he ignored it. Instead he pushed his elbow into the sand and quickly planted his feet under him. With a short breath, he straightened up until he was standing up again as she went to storm off away from him.

His feet fell as if in rhythm right behind her. He clearly saw it coming before she did. His feet moved just as quickly as his thoughts did, stepping between her and the man as he turned to pick a fight with her too. Instead the envious stranger only found himself being shoved into a new person to get mad at them. With a deep breath he turned to face Jessi just as she spoke up. "Hey, hey, hey. You didn't cause this." He stated firmly and rose his hands at each of his sides to try and bring her attention back to him.

[Jessi Burke]

Jessi had made quite a mess of things for herself, even though her only intention of the day was just to get some sun and maybe some food. But no, one guy just had to rub and touch her the wrong way, which lead to her getting angry. And of course, that also made this beach party into a beach brawl. Her heart jumped into her throat as she looked at the chaos around her. People already had bruises and black eyes and couple already had some sort of blood coming out of them.

“I caused this,” she whispered to herself again as tears shined in her eyes before she noticed that the jerk was following her and attempting to get her attention. “YOU!” she screamed as she whirled around and pointed a finger at him. “YOU DON’T KNOW ANYTHING, SO JUST STAY AWAY FROM ME!” She whirled around and tried to run away, but the sand was impeding her escape.

Around her, her powers were feeding the chaos more. It turned simple fistfights into duels with swords. Jessi dodged around them as she brushed away the couple of stray tears that streaked down her face.

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He couldn't help but smile at the chaos that ensued around them. It was amusing, and he loved it in his own way. He slowly inhaled the scent of the air around them before quickly turning his attention back to her. She had yelled at him. That was fine. She could yell all she wanted. Sure enough, with every word that left his lips, she got more and more emotional until the point there were tears in her eyes. He held back the smile that threatened to break across his face and slowly walked after her. His eyes darted to the left and the right as the people around them quickly drew their weapons and attempted to kill one another.

"I know it started with you!" He spoke a bit louder so she could hear over the massacre that was about to happen. "I can put two and two together. I also know that you still weren't the cause of it." Slowly, he turned to look as someone lost their weapon and collapsed to the ground. The glint of a blade rose to the sky as the opponent lifted their sword to finish them off. Normally, Jaime wouldn't have cared. Truthfully, it would have been easier to let them all just kill each other. But there was still the case that he might need her or them. Perhaps both. He never heard his shirt burn as he willed a surge of fire from his fingers. The bright flicker of heat flew from his hand in an instant and collided with the armed fighter hard enough to knock him off his feet.

He slowly took a step in the direction of the angered duo and lifted his hand. At the point of his limb, flames shot from his hand like some kind of twisted waterfall. The wild flickers of orange seemed to lash out in every direction as he forced the duo to calm down at least for a moment. The loud screams that came from this action had been a bit unexpected. Once they started, he stopped, and willed the flames to die out. With another deep breath, he turned to face her and spoke. "I also know that you need help."

[Jessi Burke]

The tears flowed down Jessi's cheeks as she attempted to keep them wiped up as much as possible. She decided it was a hopeless cause and wrapped her arms around her body as she focused on dodging the fighters and making sure she wasn't attacked herself. The boy was still following her, that creep. She ignored most of his attempts to get her attention, but she paused in her tracks when he said, "I know it started with you!"

She swore underneath her breath as she squeezed her eyes shut willing for this just to be a bad dream and for her to wake up. She thought she did a pretty dandy job hiding her powers, since they were so out of control, but after that little incident at the mess hall... She took a couple of shaky breaths as that pest kept trying to talk to her. How he managed to figure out her powers was something that crossed Jessi's mind, but if he creepily knew her father, then he could connect the dots.

After her breaths, she turned around to face him against her better judgement. She tightened her arms around herself as she just stared at the boy. "If I needed help," she said coolly trying to keep her emotions even, "why would I ever want to accept from someone like you after what you just did to me?"

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The heat of the flames didn't even reach Jaime. He wasn't sure what it was. Whether or not, it just cooled down the moment it tried to affect Jaime or he simply couldn't be burned, he didn't know. What he did know was that if he let it get too far out of hand, her powers or whatever it was would get even further out of hand when someone died and he didn't need that yet. She was already pissed at him so why couldn't he just keep her focus on him for the moment. The next easiest logical step had been to burn someone about to commit homicide. So he did.

With the feeling of fire on their mind, at least he could distract them for the moment. It was enough. Quietly, he turned to face her and brushed off his shirt, where the flame had caught it earlier. Again, he went after her and let her speak her piece, even if it was pointless. 'If i needed help...' He scoffed at that. If she needed help? The idea that she didn't was ridiculous. She couldn't even deal with him, much less some monster that might scare if she were to venture out into a city. She would single-handedly cause riots that would bring places like New York.

"Why you accept it from anyone else?" He cocked an eyebrow at her. With a loud sigh, he sped up a bit to catch up to her. "Let's put aside the fact that no one else here is getting mad at you for causing this, when we both know that they could." He waved that away with his hands. "I am the best person to help you," He gave her a small shrug. "but I think you've already realized that." He slowed down again once he neared her and looked into her eyes. "Not only that..." He stopped finally and just stared at her. "By this point I think you're willing to accept help from just about anyone."

[Jessi Burke]

Jessi didn't notice that the boy was bare-chested in front of her. She really didn't care since she kept looking the boy in the eyes. She took deep, even breaths to try to calm down the raging emotions inside her and to stop the tears from welling up. Her toes sunk into the sand as she watched the boy finally catch up to where she was standing. "How are you the best person to help me?" she snapped at him before taking a deep breath to make sure her emotions were in check. "You helped caused this. How do I know you won't use it again to cause more chaos for everyone?"

She closed her eyes as he continued speaking to her. He was right. She needed help and the person she would've turned to abandoned her. Only Kurtis really knew how her powers worked, but he dumped her after the incident in the mess hall. Nobody at camp really ever spoke to her and only knew her as the girl who was off and on with that Aphrodite boy. Where was she going to turn to? She opened her eyes to look at him as she kept her face emotionless. "How are you going to help me?"

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His brown eyes dropped to her chest as she kept breathing heavily to try and calm down. She didn't look to be having much luck. Slowly, he looked back up at her eyes and folded his arms in front of his chest. How was he the best person? Easy answer. With a deep breath, he unfolded his arms and gestured at himself. How would she know that he wouldn't use it again to cause more chaos? He refrained from smiling at that. With a loud sigh he folded his arms again. "If I were going to do that, it would be fairly pointless to help you. If I help you then I can't trick you into going somewhere for me and just tick you off again. I am here to help but..."

He was right. Of course he was right. She wanted this gone, or at the very least in control. It was a shame he couldn't just take her powers. It would have been so much easier to simply steal them from her, then he wouldn't have to worry about someone putting the wrong ideas in her head. He watched as she finally opened her eyes and stared at him. This time he did let himself smile at her. The answer was fairly simple, but he knew that she wouldn't like it. "I'm going to use it again to cause more chaos for everyone."

"Except from here on, for the sole purpose of helping you calm down." He stepped forward, his eyes slowly looking her over again. Even though it probably wasn't the easiest option, it had to be the one that had the most fun. He was going to really savor this. Again, he unfolded his arms and reached out to put a finger under her chin and push. He gave her a small smile and nodded and her chest. "Focus on me and breathe. Just my voice. Right now my face'll probably annoy you." He gave her a quick smirk.

[Jessi Burke]

It didn't take an idiot to realize where this guy's eyes were wandering to on her body. She felt herself starting to get worked up just by his eyes and she took even deeper breaths to calm herself down. She decided to take the towel that was in her hands and wrap herself up in it before crossing her arms as she continued staring at him flatly. "Use my powers for chaos?" she asked as she felt her blood pressure rise again. "What the hell are you? Voldemort?"

But getting calmed down... calming down sounded good at the moment. He lifted her chin up and she glared at him. "Remember," she hissed at him before she closed her eyes, "my eyes are up here." She took deep breaths as she focused on trying to regain calmness. She focused on just breathing, trying to ignore the chaos all around her as it slowly died down.