Rebel Without a Cause

She took his hand and helped herself up off the ground. "That doesn't look random." she really sounded concerned. I understand you haven't sought medical attention and that's all your choice but.." she broke off. In the short time in knowing him she knew it would be no use to convince him to do something that he didn't want to do.

"Uh, I think I saw a diner not too far from here." she said changing the subject. "Come on..I'll get you something to eat. Alcohol on an empty stomach isn't good for you." She was still slightly buzzed from the firewhiskey and some hot food sounded good to her as well.

"Come on." she said pulling his arm to follow her as she made her way down the block to a pretty decently sized diner with very few people inside because most were still in the bars working on getting extremely intoxicated.

Felix shrugged and let her lead him to the diner, his mind working in overdrive. "I can't exactly go to a doctor and get checked out.. for one thing muggles think I don't exist.. I don't have any medical records, only those on file for the wizarding world... and I can't exactly walk into St. Mungos and expect to be treated for a phantom pain that probably has no real cause." He said lightly as they were set down at a table and menu's placed in front of them.

He opened his greedily and scanned the items on the list before deciding on a large burger and fries with a soft drink to go along with it. He was starving, and the burger seemed to be the biggest thing this diner served. Which he didn't mind at all, he needed something, anything to fill this aching hole in his stomach, where he had once had muscle for abs, was now simply skin and bones, the only muscle he had was slowly being eaten away by his body to burn for energy. He looked severely unhealthy, like those dogs on the commercials for animal abuse.

"Why do you care so much anyway?" He asked after telling the waitress his order, and turning his attention back to her. "What's the point in caring about a stranger you'll probably never meet again?"

"Hence why I stopped talking about it." she responded as they found their seats. She could tell he looked absolutely ravenous. In all actuality she was never the type of person to eat at a diner. She felt that all they served were unhealthy greasy meat products and to what she had seen of the menu she had been correct.

When the waitress came to take their order she ordered a grilled cheese, fries and a chocolate milkshake. Very few people save for extremely close friends or family knew she was a vegetarian. She made it like that because people tended to pick on the kids at school when she was there who didn't eat meat.

She however wasn't one of the psychotic vegetarians. She had no qualms with eating a dead animal carcass if she had too. "Why do I care?" she asked snapping out of her trance like state. "Call it a hunch, but I do think we'll meet again." She smiled playfully, being a seer was a gift and a curse.

Felix watched her order and then sighed, leaning back in his chair, his stomach was so empty it had long given up on growling. As though it knew it was making pointless protests. A hamburger at the moment sounded delicious, since he couldn't remember the last thing he had eaten... He had been living off of rabbit so long he wasn't sure he even remembered what beef tasted like.

His mouth was watering as he stared at the napkin holder and ketchup placed on their table. They both seemed very tired, and Felix was done talking, his body was aching from all of the pent up emotional outbursts he had been holding back. He wanted to go crawl into an alley and fall asleep, or better yet break into some empty house and sleep in their bed overnight. He hadn't had a good night's sleep in years, he doubted he remembered what sleep was like without nightmares and waking up every few hours to make sure no one had found him.

Felix jerked his head up as their food finally arrived and he immediately poured ketchup on his fries and shoved a few into his mouth, hardly chewing in his desire to get food into his stomach. He picked up his hamburger and shoved it into his mouth, swallowing a chunk before downing some soda. He was starving and no amount of small talk was going to deter him from his food.

She was quiet as their food come and thanked the waitress. It had been a few years since she had seen someone eat the way Felix was eating. Her cousin had been like that. He would disappear for days at a time and she would walk down for breakfast and he would mysteriously be there shoving food down his throat as fast as he could as if it were going to disappear and be taken away if he didn't eat it fast enough.

She took the ketchup bottle after he finished with it and put some on her fries as well. She ate very little and when she was finished she looked at him, "Wanna finish off the rest of my fries?" she asked curiously.

She saw how tired he looked. Her apartment wasn't much, but it would offer him at least a safe place for the night. "Look, you can say no if you want to but my apartment isn't too far from here and you wouldn't have to worry about anyone finding you. You could crash there if you wanted." she offered, "Get some much needed sleep I'm sure."

Felix devoured his food in record time, having crammed most of it down his throat with so much speed he thought he was going to be sick. She offered him her fries, and he reached over, swapping their plates, and eating her fries a bit more slowly, his face had a look of intense concentration on it, as he stared at the plate, dipping the fries into ketchup and then into his mouth, chewing a bit more slowly as his stomach started to tell him he was full.

She offered a place for him to stay that night, and for a moment Felix's head filled with the thought of a soft bed, a warm house, no rain, or bad company, a safe place to rest in.. he hadn't felt that comfortable since leaving his cave. And after being visited there, he hadn't felt safe again. He contemplated the offer for a moment, before realizing it did him no good to reject it. It only made him seem more stubborn and put another harsh night on his shoulders.

"I'd like that.." He said, shoving a few more fries into his mouth and swallowing another large gulp of soda. "No use turning down a free place to sleep... I'll be out of your hair in the morning though, can't stay in one place for too long, will put suspicion on you, and make it easier for people to find me.." he said lightly as he finished off his drink and looked at her. "As long as I'm not in your way.."

"Don't worry about whether or not you'll be in my way." she replied looking at him as the waitress brought her the check. She quickly pulled out the money and handed it to the waitress telling her she could keep the change. "I will warn you its a fairly small place. I found the key to it among my cousin's belongings when he didn't return. I was actually looking for a bigger place because to me its the size of a shoebox." she laughed a little.

"I have a pull out sofa there that I can sleep on and you could feel free to take my bed. You probably need it more than I do tonight. Look like you haven't slept in a year." She probably wasn't too far off on that if he truly hadn't eaten for a few days then he probably really hadn't slept too much on the run either.

She finished the rest of her milkshake and stretched her arms up. "If you want." she started to say."When I find a better place you could have it to crash at on occasion. Not like I'll probably ever look at it again to be honest." She had already started making plans. Plans that she didn't let anyone know about. The man she had loved and was originally going to marry when she was forced to return home was still around. She was going to find a way to make him pay for tearing her heart up even more than what it was when she left.

He had vanished from her life when she needed him the most. Oded...If she had to marry him she would live in satisfaction knowing that she would have her entire life to torture him in a wife's own special way.

Felix didn't feel like arguing as she paid for the food and finished her milkshake. He simply stood up and held out a hand for her, helping her out of the seat. "Well you aren't far off... let's just say I've never slept very soundly in my life, and being in your home won't help the paranoia, but it will help me get a bit more sleep then normal." He smiled and headed for the door, holding it open for her and stepping out himself.

The night was cool, and there was a distant rumble of thunder to be heard, though it hadn't quite started raining yet. Spring time was always wet, and nighttime storms weren't uncommon here. He liked it when it rained, but he was sure happy to have a roof over his head that night, so he didn't have to worry about dying from some muggle disease while he hid from wizards. He had gotten his fair share of colds, and without access to potions, he had been forced to suffer through it like a muggle, which annoyed him more then anything.

"Lead the way, M'lady."

"Well I'm not stupid." she said as she took his hand and got up, making her way towards the door. "I know you don't trust me, despite me being so thoughtful and buying you dinner and offering you a place to lay your head. But that's alright. I know that trust will have to be earned. You'll see I'm not one to turn my back on someone." She made the last sentence sound icy and hateful in a way. Not towards him by any means but just at the thought in general.

She looked up in the sky and could tell that a storm was fixing to hit full on. Possibly before they could even make it to the apartment from the sound of the thunder. She looked up as she walked smiling as she saw a flash of lightening move across the cool night sky.

"I can't wait for this storm to come." she said twirling around in the street. There was something soul soothing about thunderstorms to her that she couldn't quite put her finger on. As a child she had actually been quite frightened of them, running and hiding in Godric's room everytime she heard the slightest sound of thunder. It became a ritual for her to even when it came to the point that she was no longer afraid of them she would go into his room and curl up on the window seat and just spend time with him.

Before she knew it she was standing in front of her building. "Sorry I must have zoned out." she said as she walked up the steps and unlocked the door holding it open for him. "Welcome to my little home." she said with a small smile.

Felix watched the girl with a mixture of surprise and confusion on his face. She seemed so happy at the sight of rain. Something only those who had had a roof over their heads their entire life could do. His only thought when he heard rain, was if his shelter was secure enough, if he had one that is. His mind was cloudy as they walked, he kept his head bent low, trying to appear shorter then he was as he followed this woman to the home she was kindly offering to let him stay at.

He wasn't sure what he had done to deserve kindness, in fact he had done nothing to deserve kindness. He deserved to be killed on the spot, that was for sure, instead he was following a woman through the cloudy streets, the wind starting to pick up as the storm blew in closer. He stalked along behind her until she came to a door and held it open.

He nodded once, glanced over his shoulder and up and down the street, before carefully walking into the house. His paranoia on high alert as he entered. He was clutching his wand under his sleeve, ready for someone to attack, for something to happen in the dark hallway. He was ready to apparate away in a split second, and if no apparate, then at least push past her into the dark street where he felt safer then confined to a small building.