The Crow and The Butterfly (Isabella)

[Xenos Dhar]

Xenos smiled as he walked into the infirmary. He kept himself hidden as he snuck up on Isabella. His arms wrapped around her waist as he walked up behind her. The primordial child chuckled as he let himself be revealed. "Guess who?" He smirked as he hugged Isabella. Xenos had gotten away from Olympus to visit her. Aphrodite had actually helped him get away, telling him all about how she loved his and Isabella's tragic love story.

[bella]

It wasn't like everyday Isabella was snuck up on. Everyone in the infirmary respected her more than to scare her, so it couldn't have been just anyone there at would sneak up on her, and it wasn't like anyone could anyway; 360 vision, she had, sort of like an owl, but without turning her neck even in the slightly she could see you. Then again, it wasn't just anyone that would hold her like this. A small smile spread across her face as a chuckle admitted from Xenos. But she wasn't going to let him have the satisfaction of just breaking out of Olympus. She was still mad at him.

She couldn't slap him like any girl would. For one, the small line of a cut was still formed on her palm from signing that contract, and thanks to the magic of it, none of her best spells could heal it, and for two, she just wouldn't do that. "Xenos," She turned in his arms, closing her hand to hide the wound from him. Now, he didn't have to go back to Olympus, because of the deal that had been made between her and Uriel, but that didn't make it any better that he had escaped. She had to force the scowl onto her face, and her legs hardly let her walk out of his embrace. "You shouldn't be here." She raised an eyebrow, and already she couldn't stop the smile from forming on her face again. She was just happy to see his face again. That was one of the last things she had seen before the coma, and then it was bloody and sweaty. It was amazing thing to see him happy.

[Xenos Dhar]

"Yeah, I'm sorry." Xenos smiled. His expression was anything but apologetic. "But does it count as breaking out since one of the Olympians helped me to escape?" He smirked at Isabella as he saw her smile. The son of the night was so happy to see her in a happy setting. "I missed you so much." He hugged her to himself tightly.

[bella]

"You certainly look genuinely sorry." Isabella shook her head, trying to pull out of his grasp again. She was trying to be the responsible one, and take charge here; She'd need those skills if she was to take on the group in Uriel's stupid army. But he wasn't making this easy to be angry. Of course, she hardly knew if being angry at him would work anyway, and reverse psychology was obviously not an option. "Aphrodite?" She sighed as she gave in, laying her head on his shoulder. Then a thought occurred to her, and suddenly she was pulling away from his grip, the words I missed you triggered this.

"I just about died when I woke up, Xenos Dhar!" She exclaimed as she finally broke from his hug, her eyes narrowed, and she tensed for a moment, trying to find words for the surge of anger. "Do you have any idea how alarming it was to wake up and hear that you went Terminator on the whole camp?" She crossed her arms now, her eyebrows furrowed and her lips pursed as well. Her hands clenched, and she winced slightly as a nail dug into the still fresh cut.

[Xenos Dhar]

Xenos sighed as Isabella started talking about him attacking camp. "Yeah, so I heard. I'm not exactly certain what happened." He looked around the infirmary. "I don't remember much after you fell into a coma. I do remember a couple of weeks after it and......." The son of the night cut off as he recalled the only other memory he had that was after her falling into a coma. "I remember dying."

[bella]

Isabella wanted to scold him, get mad at him for attempting to destroy this safe haven, but when he said he didn't have his memory, all she could do was frown. She closed her eyes for a moment and took a deep breath. "Died?" Obviously she knew this had happened, and she had hoped there was a way to bring Xenos back. But there were things you thought about when something as spontaneous as this did happened. Not all of them were the best conclusions. She knew it wasn't possible to be revived from the dead, Hades would have you killed again in a matter of minutes if you even managed that far. Hospitals may have recorded things about patients pronounced dead suddenly coming back to life, but the truth was, they were never really dead. Physically they appeared dead, the catch was; you couldn't really check the workings of the mind with your hands like a pulse.

"What's the twist, Xenos?" There had to be something that was off, unless of course Nyx had something on Hades, or Phanes was on the Primordial army's side. "Is Phanes screwing with Hades or something?" She laughed under her breath and she practically scanned Xenos for something different about him.

[Xenos Dhar]

"Twist?" Xenos wanted to laugh. He didn't know what to tell her. "What twist? I just know that my mother did something to bring me back, and I'm not entirely certain that I'm still human." The son of the night didn't feel like demonstrating that last fact to her. He remembered the feeling of a sword stabbing him. That wasn't what bothered him most though. What bothered him most was the fact that he didn't bleed. "I don't know what she did, but I do know she changed my body. I don't know what I am anymore." Xenos looked at Isabella. "This scares me, Isabella. What happened to me?"

[bella]

Isabella's eyebrows creased together. She didn't know what to say to him, it was not a medical thing, the Gods. Science had no say in what they could do, the laws of physics they could defy. It frustrated her at times that they could do this, though she knew she herself could as well, she chose rarely to show this. She preferred things she could depend on, things she could physically see and know that it's there, instead of panicking every time she used her powers that it wouldn't work. She chose not to get caught up in the Mythical world and try and stay as best she could in the Real one. She couldn't explain what happened to him.

At this point, she just shook her head. "I don't know... I should, really... I'm as clueless and scared as you." Technically, she had only just met him what felt like a day ago, but was really 5 years if you looked at the time she had been in the coma. That fact was true, really they had, but it wasn't hard to see they really did have feelings for each other. "The best I can do are a couple X-rays, but if you feel fine, feel yourself as much as it's possible considering your circumstance, I don't think I can help..." She frowned slightly, "You're you for the most part, and I think it's a good thing you don't remember anything beyond meeting me. You don't need it on your shoulders. Now, we need to get you out of here before, Zues forbid, everyone has a heart attack and the gods strike us dead. Chiron's announcing you're stay here at sundown, but before that, we have to find you a sleeping arrangement."

She grabbed his hand with her own good one, pulling him out of her wing before any of her colleges could even protest her actions toward the so called dangerous man. Everyone thought he was supposed to be on Olympus, seeing as only her and Uriel knew of their agreement on the River Styx. And she couldn't just march him to his cabin, that could possibly traumatize his new siblings.

[Xenos Dhar]

Xenos shook his head at the medical tests. "I don't think those will really tell us anything." He sighed as Isabella started dragging him somewhere. "What's going on? Where are we going?" The primordial child was confused by her sudden actions. He watched her, trying to see what was going on.

[noelle]

(Better late then never Excuse me for using Noelle, don't have time)

Isabella sighed and look back at him as she continued to pull him through and out of the Big House. "Getting you out of here," She smiled sadly as she turned her head back to paying attention to where she was leading him. Which was really no where in particular, just out of the people-packed areas. "No matter how handsome, do you think people would be happy to see you're back? At your trial, some people even cheered for your death, and I think it's a good idea those people don't see you again before Chiron announces everything tonight." She continued to pull him away from the main parts of camp, stopping only when she figured they were far enough away from the small civilization.

She dropped his hand, turning to him with that same sad smile. "Again, I can't tell you what happened to yourself. I almost didn't recognize myself when I looked in a mirror, I hardly recognize you. It makes me feel it was more fifteen years than five."

[Xenos Dhar]

Xenos didn't know what to say to that. He hadn't recognized himself at all when he came back to life. The son of the night looked at the love of his life and sighed. He blamed himself for everything that had happened to the both of them.

Xenos was debating whether or not to tell Isabella about the attack in the amphitheater. He knew she probably already knew about it, but he didn't want her to be worried about him. The primordial child looked at her with sad eyes before pulling her into a hug. "I'm so sorry, Isabella. I don't deserve a second chance with anything in this life, but I pray to the gods constantly that I won't lose you again."