Worries (open)

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Kiara yawned and stretched, then fell. She hadn't fallen asleep in her own bed... She looked up, rubbing her arm where it had hit the coffee table. She was in the parlor? The incidents of the last few weeks came to her in a rush.

The concert had started badly, but Kiara had managed to keep it together after the idiot had interrupted. Then... A week or so had passed. Kiara had called her twin's foster parents, but Kiana had left the week before. Supposedly, she had arrived in New York the day after the concert. Another week had passed since the call, and Kiara got more worried with each day. Kiana was two weeks late, and had definitely made it in state.

Kiara stood up slowly, the blanket that had been placed over her sometime during the night falling to the floor. Probably Ms. Monroe, Kiara reasoned. Her or Jean or one of the others. She folded the blanket and looked out the window. Where was her sister?

Her mind drifted to the dream she'd been having. She couldn't remember everything, but Kiara knew that it had some sort of importance. She remembered the man who interrupted her concert... Then there were the humans who hated mutants, but Kiara didn't know how she knew that. Then there was the containment cell... Her eyes, which had been closed, snapped open, and a tear made its way down her cheek. "Kiana," she said quietly. "Just what happened to you?" Suddenly, she knew. The dream hadn't just been Kiara's dream. It was Kiana's reality. And Kiara couldn't keep the tears from falling.

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Jonathan woke with a start, gasping for air. He had been having nightmares where he was told by some other entity to “Embrace the spider, and let go of you’re humanity.” Also, in the last week or so, his mutation had been increasing. His strength had increased, and he had sometimes woken up hanging upside down from his ceiling. Not only that, but his other powers had increased as well. Rubbing his face, he felt some extra hair on his face. Looking into a mirror, he saw that, since last night, he had grown some extra hair, and it now looked like he had grown his hair more. Shaking his head, Jonathan sighed and decided he needed to go downstairs and get his mind off his increasing mutation. Going over to his wardrobe, he changed into some sweatpants and a tank top, with a jacket over it. Slipping on his shoes, he went down the stairs.

Walking towards the parlor, Jonathan stopped for a sec as his vision flashed red. Shaking his head, he sighed again and continued on into the parlor. However, when he came in, he saw Kiara crying. Immediatly worried, he walked over to her and put one hand on her shoulder. He said “Whats wrong Kiara? What happened?” He had no idea what was making her upset, and he wanted to try and help her over whatever it was. He hated to see her upset or to see her cry, and he just wanted to help her.

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Kiara took Jonathan's hand in one of her own. "Last night, Kiana made her way into my dreams," she said quietly. "Her memories and reality became my nightmare..." She shook her head, then looked back out the window. "My sister was supposed to get here two weeks ago... Just after the concert. Her foster parents haven't heard from her since they left her at the airport." Kiara turned to him. "Something's happened to her, Jonathan. My sister's been captured, and she barely managed to tell me..." She closed her eyes and looked away. "I... I know I should tell Wolverine and the others, but... I doubt they'll believe me... Uncle Charles may be their advisor, but that doesn't mean they have any reason to believe me..." She looked out the window, not really seeing anything outside.

There had been a fight with a man... It looked like the man that had interrupted her concert. Then the humans had captured her. The images had broken off after the vehicle had arrived at some sort of facility.

"I... I need to tell them..." Kiara said quietly. "I can't rescue her on my own..."

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Jonathan held Kiara’s hand close in his own, as she told him what was making her upset. Her sister had made her way into Kiara’s dreams, and the reality and memories of her sister had come into her dreams, becoming nightmares. She then explained how Kiana was meant to come after the concert, and how she had instead been captured. That made Jonathan feel angry and sick towards the people that had done this. The hand that Kiara was not holding, the one that he had put on her shoulder, was now off of her shoulder and balled into a fist. He was making sure he only applied pressure to the hand that was balled into a fist.

When Kiara said she needed to tell the faculty and she could rescue Kiana on her own, Jonathan made a decision that could possibly haunt him if it was a bad one. Turning to face Kiara’s face, he said “Kiara.....We do need to tell the faculty about this. But, I’m going to help as well, no matter what. You are my girlfriend, and even though I have not yet met Kiana, I am going to try and save her and make sure that you and her are reunited. And I promise you, I will do all I can to help the faculty and you....Even if it means I have to be Spider-Hoodie again.” When he said that, he knew it might help, as well as hurt her, but he needed to re-embrace that side of him to do this.

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Kiara wiped her face with her free hand. "Thanks," she said quietly. "But... But I don't want you to get hurt..." Then she sighed. "I won't stop you. But the others might." Her face brightened slightly. "Besides, you don't have to be the vigilante that you were. People change, and I know you can too."

Kiara looked back out the window. Kiana's reality had been Kiara's nightmare. Kiara shuddered involuntarily. The sooner they talked to someone, the sooner they could rescue her twin.

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Jonathan had realized that he did not need to be a vigilante to help save Kiara’s sister. However, he did need to embrace that side a bit to help. While he was a good person, it was only by using his darker impulses could he be willing to fight. Most of the time, he did not like fighting, but he had learned to try and like it but not enjoy it. Looking at Kiara, he nodded and said “I’ve been changing ever since I met you Kiara. I want to help you, and I don’t want anyone you or I know to get hurt, because it will hurt both of us.”

Jonathan noticed Kiara shudder, and he knew that this must be very hard on her. She had not seen her twin sister in a while, and finding out she was captured was not something that anyone should find out about. He said “Lets go try and find someone to talk to about this. If we find out if we can save her. We can do this and help her. And I’ll try and help without the vigilante coming out in me.”