13 thirteenth piece of the broken cage: demons are real it's just that you can't see them

Accurate rate to his words, Clark brought Diana .and Julia to the shop he had promised.

It was a tall building with intense lights placed neatly around its body. The many windows of each wall showing another shop they could buy clothes from.

Julia, apparently handy brought anything with her ....Clark took it upon himself to bring the two girls to the shopping mall to get as much thing as they wanted.

Tia had almost begged him to come along because she seemed to have been bored beyond their minds, but Clark had given her one of his looks that clearly said ' do not make me repeat myself ' and it had shut Tia up.

Julia had been very friendly with Diana, something everyone, Diana included didn't know why. Diana knew for sure that she wasn't doing anything to draw attention to herself but Julia clung to her arm and gave toothy smiles to her and because f the fact that Julia had lost her grandmother  .... Diana didn't say anything ... Not that Julia knew.

The news was brought by Clark; who looked like someone had placed a ton of work on his already heavy burden that his poor shoulders were Carrying.

" Hey D! Is it one better ?! "

Julia was holding up a black t-shirt that had white letters printed on top of it ... Her grin was hiding the fact that all she wore were black or purple. Diana was starting to think that Julia never got cold. It was going to be snowy again and she was wearing a pair of tight shorts and a hoody that she had happily rolled up the sleeves up to her forearms.

Diana pressed her suddenly dry lips together and cleared her throat.

" If you like it..."

Julia's smile turned into a wholesome poker face...

" You're supposed to be helping me.  ."

Diana stuffed her hands inside the large pocket of her brown hoody as a long strand of her curly hair fell over her face. With a huff, she waved them away and looked at Julia.

" If you like the shirt why not buy it, I mean Clark DID say you could buy whatever you wanted, right ? "

Julia bit the inside of her cheek and nodded. She then placed the shirt on her arm and moved to another section of the large shop.

Diana loved Julia, she was such a sweetheart but in all honesty, Diana wanted nothing but to be back home ( when did she start to call the mansion her home ? ), and go straight back to the bed she was so particularly dragged out from.

People moved around her in such an amazing rush and speed like the day was much of importance.  Diana let a tired yawn claw it's way out of her starchy throat. Her lips opening to an O shape before settling back into Their normal form. She smacked them together a few times before I rubbing her eyes.

" D ! how about this one ?! "

This time it was a green hoody .... Simple.. her favorite.

" It's amazing ... I'm serious "

The lost grin returned to Julia's face.

" Sure then! I'm done here let's go pay for them. "

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.  Julia went to buy something to eat because as she so kindly declared, she was sick and tired of hearing her stomach groan in pain a desperate need of energy to keep up.

Diana was leaning on the side of the door when she heard the thing that made her heart stop beating.

" You won't believe what I saw yesterday! "

" Hmmm what happened? "

" The BH was manhandling another poor Gifted. I heard some of them say something like they were going to execute the poor boy! "

" What ?! Oh goodness! ... Waite the boy with brown hair and green eyes ? "

" Uh yes! He was such a beauty as well ! "

" Oh, I saw him! They were dragging him from the hole where all the veins are coming from. "

Diana was breathing heavily... There was no one in that hole except Adrian... He was the main point on the earth... But if the veins were no longer connected to him...

Her heart dropped ...

Waite .... execution ?!

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The cake had been waiting in the car while the girl shopped through the enormous building.  He had the usual coffee that he had gotten from Starbucks as he sipped from the small hole of the cup. It was just after dawn and on his way to work, Julia came out of the kitchen, wearing his clothes and suddenly Clark was hit with a huge wave of protectiveness as he started to rant about how inappropriate it was for a young girl such as she, to wear an old piece of clothes.

Julia upon hearing that she was getting new things to wear had jumped up and down and had raced on the stairs, taking them two at a time as she finally reached Diana's room. She slammed the door open and woke the poor girl by jumping on top of her bed and begging her to come along.

Then, Tia had begged to come as well, saying that it wasn't fair when Julia, a Gifted as well could easily go out but she couldn't.

Clark chuckled as he remembered the betrayed look on Tia's face. Just how could she make her eyes look that cute was beyond him.

Talking about eyes...

Clark closed his brown ones as he recalled another pair of blue eyes...

The dark-skinned man placed his cup down on the seat of the car as he ran his hands all over his bald head, he rested his head on the back of the soft couch as he closed his eyes with a deep sigh. ...

" Get out my head ...."

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Diana was running out of the shop as fast as her legs could carry her, Julia was right at her heels, pushing people out of her way as she struggled with the enormous population to reach after her disturbed friend.

" Diana! Waite! W_what's wrong ?! "

By the time Diana reached the door she was gasping for air as she gulped down oxygen to her failing lungs.

A hand shot from behind her to catch when she fell ....Diana had no idea when she had started to fall...

"  It's okay ... W_ what happe_ ....it's fine you're gonna be fine ...just breath.... you're having a panic attack ...."

Julia presses her to her chest as she told her to breathe with her...

" In...out...see ? ...in ....out. "

Julia was trying to avoid the attention they had glued to themselves but it was getting harder to focus and Diana's breathing was getting worse with each passing second....her face was getting redder and the track of tears was not helping the situation. Fat tears came out of her brown golden eyes as she clung to her hoody to breathe.

Finally, Julia could no longer hold it in.

" CAN YOU GUYS MOVE AWAY ?! DON'T YOU SEE, SHE'S HAVING TROUBLE ?! "

that seemed to have slapped people back to sense as they almost immediately moved as far away as possible.

Julia grabbed her phone out of her pocket and scrolled through the contacts until it fell on Clarks.

She dialed him and after three seconds he picked up.

" CLARK!  Diana is having an anxiety attack! Come pick us up! "

Julia was panicking and it wasn't good because if both she AND Diana were panicking, then who would take care of things ?!

" I'll be there. "

God hadn't even blessed her with Clark's ability to be calm at any giving moment ...why ?! Just why ?!

" You okay there curly? "

Julia shot her head up at the familiar voice and her green eyes winded twice Their sizes when they landed on no other than Jay Lewis.

" JAY! Boy, am I happy to see you!  but seriously dude ....HELP! "

Julia was going red as well and sadly she could feel it. Jay waved at her with his famous smirk as he kneeled on the ground in front of Diana who was panting and....glaring?

Julia suddenly felt like she needs to explain who Jay was because from what she had known from Diana, she wasn't the trusting type.

" This is Jay, D ...he's gonna help ... you're gonna help ...tell her ! "

Jay rolled his eyes and took a firm hold of Diana's chin. His hands were heavily bandaged and there was some real dark bang just under his eyes .. the famous Lewis eyes ...

" K curly ...you look kinda bad today .. "

" you're supposed to be helping her not complaining about her looks! "

" Oh, Julia could you shut up ?! "

Julia shot her mouth.

Jay glared a few more seconds before focusing back on Diana who was now glaring daggers at him.

" Nod if you can breath okay? "

Diana shook her head.

Jay pressed his bruised lips together and moved closer until Diana was leaning into him.

Julia never took her eyes away as Diana who was panting like each were her last breath suddenly calmed down and with each breath, she wanted less than before until her lunges worked again.

Her head was cradled by Jay's left shoulder. Her nose was breathing his scent ...it was like blood and sweat and some other thing that smelled strongly like vodka.

Julia wanted to ask if they had seen each other before, because of Diana's easiness with Jay until her eyes fell over Jay's hands ...

They weren't hugging her back and we're just above her back .....and they were glowing.

The deep black-colored shadow-like thing was coming off of her back and disappearing into Jay's shaking, bandaged hands.

By the time Jay was finished, Diana had fallen asleep.

Panic was like a cold dread when it fell over her stomach and knot itself together ...

" J_jay....T_the BH....."

He looked over at her again, this time with more patience in his short temper ...he looked tired .. almost worn out.

" It's fine, I'm not on Their list to take down ...did you call Clark? "

" I did ....he still hasn't come yet. ... "

Jay looked up at the judgmental sky as a deep sigh left his dry mouth.

" I need you to get curly to Jody...I'll get Tia back there too ....just....just don't get attention to yourself and make sure you're not seen okay? "

Julia had a million thoughts running through her head as she nodded her green head.

" ....but...where's Clark ? "

His eyes darkened...

" Scarlet's back.."

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