He snorted. "Yeah, I figured out scratching people is a good way to escape years ago." He shrugged. "I dunno. I've been out here so long this is just....normal I guess. Once I got away from my parents, life got way easier, so I'm not complaining now." He noticed her look away quickly and wondered why. People stared at him all the time - he guessed people who don't live on the streets think he's pretty odd. He blew his hair out of his face, uncovering his left eye and the scar down it. He figured this girl, sara, was safe enough

"do you ever often wonder why you bother carrying on..."she stared at the moon and felt her heart skip a beat"It's getting colder and your not dressed correctly" she got up and wrapped a blanket around him and sat back down "you'll catch a cold" she felt at ease near him and started questioning fates terrible humor

He laughed without humor. "All the time. Death would be easiest, for sure but....I guess I'm too stubborn to actually give in. I mean, sure, I've almost let myself die...I've tried to die...but it never seems to work. So, I'm still here." He stiffened a bit when she put the blanket over him, but then relaxed a bit. It was true - the fall and close coming winter was a struggle as he had no shoes and his clothes were ratty and torn, not to mention extremely thin. And the blanket was warm. He shrugged again. "Well, a cold is the least of my worries." He wasn't sure why he was telling sara these things - every brain cell was screaming at him to stop. To walk away and forget the girl. But he trusted his instinct. It hadn't failed him yet.

She smilied"Your eyes are stunning" she felt the breeze ruffle his hair"they look golden and bronze" she realized she said that outloud and sat there staring at the sky"good thing about the alley is that you only have one open space, so you can easily watch your back but escape won't be so easy" she laid back and felt herself drift away and she struggled to stay awake"its beautiful out" she felt herself drift off into sleep

He wasn't sure how to react when she complimented him - that was a first. She fell asleep before he had a chance to react, though, so he let out a sigh of relief. He sat there for a while until he heard a noise from farther up the alley. He frowned and got up, coming across a guy. The guy saw him and grinned crazily, then attacked him. He bit back a yelp as the guy's knife hit his side and bit into his skin, not wanting to wake sara. He grabbed the guys arm and slid to the side, gritting his teeth as pain shot up his side. He slit the guy's neck easily, and then staggered back to where sara was sleeping. He fell into a light sleep just as dawn broke.

she rubbed her eyes and realised she fell asleep and watched as he slept,he seems so at ease a grin lit up her face as she snuggled back into the ground funny how if people think your homeless they don't care, the peace is nice she realised that the blanket was stained and swapped them out and studied the stain blood.. she was worried what if he is dead! she started to panic as she saw him breathing oh thank the stars! she got up and set donuts out and put them on a plate, she set them in the box and turned to study the man(she doesn't know your age so she refers to you as "man" XD)

(Haha ok)

He woke up and glanced at the sky. "Damn, I slept for almost 7 hours. That's a lot..." he stretched and then put a hand to his side, wincing. Fuck, that's gonna be annoying. he glanced at the girl. "Get your beauty rest, princess?" He got up and walked in a circle, checking the area to see if anyone was there or had been there out of habit. He looked at sara, who was watching him. "What?"

"your in pain"she stated the obvious and dug through her bag grabbing out pain killers, needle and thread, and bandages "let me help you, your gonna get it infected" she patted the ground next to her and got her lighter out burning the tip of the needle, she felt a spider crawling up her arm"oh hello there!" she patted the spider and set it on the ground watching it scuttle away

He shrugged. "Its only a small cut. I'll be alright. I have for years." He let the spider crawl up his finger and held it in his hand, watching it crawl around. Its helpful that she isnt afraid of the spiders. The rats might be a different story though. Although l, they are dangerous and the spiders really arent. Ah, oh well. he frowned and looked back at sara. "Exactly how much stuff did you fit into that bag? You just keep pulling stuff out!"

she blushed"before I was adopted-" she stuttered and felt tears pour down her face"before I was adopted I was a boyscout...." she held back her sobs and grabbed a tissue box out of the bag and blew her nose on it"im a hot mess" she let out a dreamy giggle and watched the spider scuttle around"hes cute" she said in a matter of fact tone and watched a stray cat sulk in the trash, she stood up and cooed softly getting his attention, she grabbed some beef out of her bag(lol harry potter bag XD) and tossed it to the cat, she quickly scooped him up and scratched him behind the ears and smothered him with love, she fed him plenty of food and poured him water out of her bottle "you poor thing!" she snuggled the cat and could hear the faint purring