The demon in me {SB}

[Olivia Smith]

Thankfully, in the evenings there were decidly less people in the pool areas of the ship. Olivia had a hard time being around so many people out in the sun during the day without wanting to attack some of them at times. And she didn't want to get into TOO much trouble for no reason if it was avoidable. She had been doing her best taking a page out of Lucy's book.

So it was understandably frusrating when the second she had left her room someone had been waiting outside of her door, saying that they wanted to 'show her a fun time' among other things, attempting to treat her as if she automatically wanted him. Began following her around, even though she had been using relatively strong language and 'No' quite a few times to try and ward him off from tagging around behind her and assuming that she was going to change her mind. Which she wasn't.

He hung back in most of the ship, where people were. Where they were eating, or just socialising. She made her way to the pool area, trying to just escape so she could relax, without kneecapping the creep. She was guessing by the way that some students looked at him, that he was known for being a creep on some level or another.

Only when she reached the area next to the pool, probably due to lack of people's eyes on her due to the area being quiet, with only couples, preoccupied people or drunks hanging around in the slightest, he made a grab for her, wrapping his hand around her arm. She assumed it was because of her small stature that he underestimated her. Or something on along those lines.

She turned at him, staring daggers. "You have. 4 seconds. To let go of my arm." She seethed. He kept trying to pull her closer. And so after exactly four seconds, she hooked her leg behind his, stepping in closer to him and pushing him with all her body weight, bringing up her free arm to bash his to release her. He went tumbling into the pool, nearly bringing her with him. She stood, looming over, positively seething. "No. Means. No." He had gotten off. Easy. 

[Devyn Solway]

Devyn had been sitting on the edge of the pool, with her feet and her lower legs just relaxing in the water. It was a bit too dark to swim; for normal people, but Devyn would see easily in the dark without any real problem. It was nice to not have her shades on and to just feel how really cold the water was due to the sun not warming it up and the pool not being heated since no one was really supposed to be swimming at this hour. Devyn didn't need a lifeguard; she knew she would be fine.

She currently was wearing just a simple grey tank top and some black short. It was one of the few styles of 'swimwear' she would wear. She was already wet, from having swam around a little bit, her long hair clinging to her head, face, and her neck but not going to far part her shoulders. She pushed her hair out of her eyes as she heard people coming closer, spotting them with ease in the dark but remained hidden where she was away from the small light source near the poo. The pool itself should have been probably covered up, but that was not Devyn's job to worry about.

Dev didn't say anything as she watched the guy make his move, but she was about to do something. The girl had already warned him and just as Devyn was about to get up and make sure he understood that no meant no, the girl took care of herself. Dev watched the guy end up in the pool and the girl made her point. The guy didn't seem at all pleased and was making his way to get out of the pool, while Devyn remained where she was. "You sure showed him." Devyn spoke up as she chuckled a little.

[Olivia Smith]

Olivia's fiery eyes watched the boy as he spat out water and slogged his way to the edge of the pool to leave. Funnily enough, she was actually wearing swimwear underneath her clothes. For if there was nobody else here. She figured the pool might be nice and possibly relaxing. Which was a rare treat, especially being trapped on a boat with all of the other annoying and or frustrating students.

She hadn't noticed the other girl near her, and she wasn't prepared to respond in time, and as a result her response was a tad less smooth than she would care to admit. Her head jerked to the side and she almost slipped into the pool. She took a moment to regain her composure. 

The brunette's gaze darted around the other woman shrouded in a bit of darkness, vision adjusting to the lower levels of light. "Well. As I said. No means no." She said, in a low tone. She wasn't expecting anyone else out here. Most of the students were party kids. Most of the loners seemed to be fake little emo children. 

This girl however, was just out in the dark on her own. Interesting. Olivia's eyes studied her sharply. 

[Devyn Solway]

Devyn had been worried that the girl was going to end up falling in the pool but she seemed to have recovered. It would have been slightly funny to see the girl fall into the pool, but it would also suck if she had not wanted to end up in the water. Devyn would have helped her out either way, but all was well so Devyn remained where she was. Her green eyes looked over the girl, slightly checking her out, but also sizing her up. It had been a while she had done it, well not really.

It more so had been a while since she was actually aware that she was doing it instead of doing it just out of habit. She knew what she was doing and was actually thinking about it. "It does indeed. Are you going to be alright?" Devyn asked. Clearly the girl seemed like she could handle herself but that didn't mean that she possibly was not shaken up by the encounter. Devyn didn't really know her so she could not just assume. Devyn was not in the mood to party at the moment and she was also a longer, but she was out here to be alone.

She didn't mind that the girl was out here with her as well, not like she had any right to tell the girl to leave. Plus it didn't hurt to just chat with someone if they seemed like they would like to talk. "Something on my face?" Devyn asked, notching the girl had been looking at her. Devyn had night vision after all, so could easily see that the girl's eyes were looking at her.

[Olivia Smith]

Olivia was glad for her eyes adjusting to the low light. Vaguely aware of the boy swearing and muttering in the background as he scrambled back into the ship, sounding embarrassed. She wondered what amusing fairy tale he might be going to spread about her. The last few times similar things had happened around her, it had not exactly ended in people chatting about how lovely she was. The thought almost made her smile. Almost.

She was more enamoured with the girl standing in front of her, she took a single step forward and continued to study the girl, sizing her up, and also admiring her features. There was something about her, which just intrigued Olivia, which was quite unusual. 

The brunette took another step forwards, almost ignoring the question, looking at the other girl's eyes before standing up straight. "Not exactly." The corners of her lips tugged. It didn't quite reach a smile, but it was the beginning of one. 

[Devyn Solway]

Devyn's head was already tilting a little to the side as she saw the girl was clearly looking at her as if she was something to be studies. She was not really doing anything, and while she was wet she was pretty sure that nothing was showing. Well, the tank top was not see through but it clung to her form so she figured the girl could see just the small bump that was her chest. Other than that, she could not think of anything to be really distracted by.

Perhaps the tattoos and the scars, people tended to get distracted by that when they saw her body. The girl was stepping closer, making Devyn feel like letting out a warning growl but she didn't. She didn't feel threatened by the girl at the moment but she didn't like just being stared at like she currently was. Devyn smirked when the girl responded that there was not something exactly on her face, meaning that it could have only been one of two things. Devyn being Devyn; was going to go with the one that she tended to assume first.

"So then you are checking me out, huh? Like what you see?" Devyn asked, flirting just a little bite. She was just playing at the moment, not really in the heart of the moment yet and was enjoying sitting on the edge of the pool with her legs relaxing in the water. "You can come sit you know. I won't bit...yet." Devyn said as she patted the spot next to her. While she didn't intend for the girl to grab a seat right next to her she didn't actually like someone standing taller than her and looking at her. It just didn’t sit well with her inner alpha. "I'm Devyn, by the way." Devyn introduced herself, giving a half friendly and playful smile to the other girl.

[Olivia Smith]

Olivia inwardly smirked to herself. The other girl didn't seem to be too annoying, had she maybe found another reasonable human being on this god forsaken boat? Not that she wanted companionship, but the shady girl so far wasn't displaying any of the extremely annoying teenager like traits that irked her about many of her peers. If you could even consider them to be peers.

As she drew closer, the girl did note scars, which spoke of a slightly darker past than a lot of the others that surrounded her every day life, another factor which fed into Olivia's unusual and growing curiosity. She began to idly wonder what the other girl made of the situation.

When the other girl made a comment which was most likely a joke, Olivia actually snickered. Not out of some sense of superiority or any indication of the other girl's level of attractiveness, mostly because she always felt like laughing when that was what other's assumed of her motives. As if lust was her most driving emotion. 

She supposed, outwardly at least she was a teenager, so it wasn't all together a far fetched assumption to be made from a peer, but none the less it was an amusing one. She sat a few feet away from the other girl and began to stretch lightly on the edge, looking up at the night's sky. "Almost funny how people seem to assume that. Almost." 

[Devyn Solway]

Devyn didn't move as the girl got closer, but she did keep her eyes on her to see what she was up to or if she was a threat or not. She didn't seem like one, but she was not saying much and that gave Devyn room to think and question. When she thought and questioned it made her put up her guard and that was what she was doing right now. Still, everything seemed alright and the girl was probably just distracted with what had just happened to her and now dealing with Devyn. Devyn didn't like to think to highly of herself but she did know that many found her attractive and there was that whole dark air about her.

That was usually enough to tempt people to try and find out more, humans always seemed to seek out danger, especially those who needed a bit of thrill in their life. If the girl was looking close enough she could easily see the larger scars that covered a lot of Devyn's body, but she probably would not see the small bars or scars unless she got really close and had pretty good night vision. She just smiled at the other girl as she watched her sit down, the girl speaking up then and commenting on how people seemed to assume that. Then with that bit of almost, in there. "So you were not checking me out then?" Devyn asked as she smirked a little.

She gave the girl another once over before looking back at the pool water and moving her feet around in the pool a little. It was nice and cold, especially because it was dark out and the water heaters didn't seem to be on at the moment. "So, other than that guy bothering you. How is your night going so far?" Devyn asked, figuring she might as well try and get some conversation out of the girl if they were going to be sitting near one another.

[Olivia Smith]

Olivia still couldn't quite place her finger on just what it was about the other girl's presence which intrigued her. Maybe it was something to do with the girl's slightly more open scars than Olivia's own, hidden ones. She knew a lot about the kinds of people that lurked in the dark corners of the world that could give you nasty scars, as well as the moments when people would give themselves injuries leading to self inflicted scars. She had several of those as well.

Olivia carried on eyeing her suspiciously, not in an aggressive manor, simply primal curiosity. "No. Not if you mean in the sense of attraction. I really couldn't care for that crap." She admitted outloud. She had no idea why she was being this open and talkative with the other girl. She chalked it down to boredom.

Shortly after studying the girl some more she glanced back up at the stars in the sky. She let out a sigh. "It could have been going worse. It's gone from annoyance to... I'm not sure where it's at now. Not so annoyed I guess." She admitted.

[Devyn Solway]

Most of Devyn's scars had been because of what happened to her as a little girl growing up with her mother. Then the others were from just being the kind of person she was with how she had to protect those she cared about, working out, and there were even some that yes she inflicted on herself. Nothing like the standard wounds people gave themselves; typically it was because she was punching a wall or mirror that resulted in an self-inflicted injury.

"Oh? No attraction at all. Like you don't ever think, that person is hot. You don't have to want to bang someone in order to find them attractive you know." Devyn pointed out but she gave her shoulders a small shrug. She didn't mind if the girl was interested in her or not, it was not her life goal to make everyone fall head over heels for her. No, she didn't really have any kind of goal beside working out or trying something new. Devyn didn't think the girl was being very chatty at all; she was getting a tiny bit of convo but not enough to really say the girl was chatty.

Not enough for Devyn to feel like she had a lot to work with in terms of what to say next. "Well good that it’s not as bad as it was before. So, what’s in store for you now then? Fine just hanging out on the side of the pool while I swim or you going to join me?" Devyn asked as she gave the girl a small smirk. She was not one that could sit around and do nothing unless it was time to take a nap or she was just cuddling. They were not doing either so she needed to get back into the pool and have a bit of lazy fun.

[Olivia Smith]

Olivia had been provided with a swim suit for the trip, without asking for one. She hadn't even really planned whether or not she was going to use it, she was kind of just wearing it underneath her top and shorts. She turned her head slightly as the other girl spoke, observing her a little more, contemplating her words. She had never really felt an attraction in the sexual sense to people.

It may well have been because as she got to the age that most people tended to get into that stuff, she was basically fending for herself. The girl's mindset for so long had been centred around her survival, and then had shifted to Lucy's survival, constantly sizing people up and judging whether or not she could take them, and if she needed to what the fastest way of dropping them into the ground would be.

"Hmmm. Well. I don't really think about it much. I guess you could argue that me still being here is some show of attraction, you've gotten further than most people do as far as interest or my nerves go." She admitted. There wasn't really any point in hiding things with responses, this conversation was serving to stimulate her, for now at least, which was better than being completely bored.

"I'm not sure yet. I could go for a swim I guess." She shrugged. She didn't have any plans. For anything at the moment. There wasn't anywhere for her to go, or particularly anything important for her to do. Going for a dip might be nice.

[Devyn Solway]

Devyn could not help but to chuckle at the words that left Olivia's mouth. "Well I was not really going to argue that you had to be attracted to me in order to stick around. Could simply be that you are bored and have nothing better to do, you think I'm interesting, or a number of things." Devyn said as she gave a small shrug. The girl had already said that she was not really interested in that sort of thing so Devyn was not going to assume that she was. Admittedly she was bit curious as to why the girl was not interested in well anyone, but she was not going to push that subject. Not yet.

"People bore and piss you off easily?" Devyn asked, referring to what the girl said about how Devyn had come the furthest. She had not really done anything so was a bit confused on how that was an achievement. The girl must have just gotten annoyed just hearing peoples voices or them breathing if Devyn had apparently achieved something without really doing anything. She had hardly even moved other than getting into the pool. "Well, it’s your call. You probably are going to get pretty bored with me soon since I'm just taking it easy." Devyn said as she chuckled a little.

She was already moving around in the cold water, not bothered by it at all really. She even moved to start floating on her back, allowing her to get a clear view of the night sky. While she didn’t fully like being surrounded by water as they were on the boat, it was nice for the sake of the view. Didn't have to worry about finding a clearing in order to see the night sky past all the trees. Then again, Devyn felt at home with trees surrounding her and just being out in the night.

[Olivia Smith]

The woman laughed, but it didn't really appear to be with any kind of a mocking intent, and therefore didn't really provoke much of a reaction from Olivia. "Well, that's good. You do seem interesting to me." She admitted. There was just something about the girl's tone and demeanour that she found intriguing. She reminded Olivia a little bit of some of the other kids she'd been on the streets with when she was younger.

The girl shrugged. "I get on with very few people. I can name the number that I do on one hand." She had no shame in her views, she'd freely admit them to people, and if they had a problem with it... well that was their problem, as long as they didn't get in Olivia's face or try to confront her about it, generally she didn't care. But if they did try anything on her for it that would usually spring her temper like a mine.

Olivia shrugged again. "Well, you're doing pretty well so far. And I wouldn't be out here if I hadn't intended on quiet or relaxation." She slipped off her top over her head, and then her shorts, slipping into the pool in her swimsuit. The light chill of the water rushed through her senses. It wasn't too cold, not really. She had spent nights in much much more biting places. She actually smiled as she let the small ripples from her entry wash back against her skin.

If the other girl were to study her body now, her scars would be a great deal more evident.

[Devyn Solway]

"Do I? Why is that?" Devyn asked, curious. Why anyone would have an interest in her that was not a sexual one she did not know. She got that she had that whole dark and mysterious vibe to her that tended to be pretty good at attracting people, but again that was in that kind of way. Outside of that, she didn't get why people seemed to be comfortable around her and want to be her friend. She enjoyed it, not something she would complain about but she had yet to understand the reason behind it. Perhaps because they felt safe around her, like no one could hurt them, and it was alright to be themselves.

All of that of course was all true when it came to people being around her, that was what she wanted them to feel. "One hand? Wow, well you clearly are not a social butterfly." Devyn said as she chuckled a little. There was nothing wrong with that, Devyn was not always one for talking and hanging out with people all of the time. Still, only one hand? She must have only dealt with people that she counted as like her best friends forever. Devyn smiled a little when the other girl said that she was doing pretty well; even if she felt like she was not really doing anything. Then the girl said she was out here to relax and Devyn was doing just that so maybe that was why.

Devyn did slightly watch as the girl removed her top; because of course Devyn was going to get a slight check out in there. She did note the scars, already wondering what happened in the girl’s life that caused them to be there. Still, she was not going to prey…well no she was but she was going to do her best to be tactful about it. “Any interesting stories to tell about those battle scars there? I’ll tell you one of mine if you like.” Devyn said, making conversation. If the girl didn’t want to talk about them that was fine, Dev was just curious.

[Olivia Smith]

Historically, Olivia wasn't the best person with words. She had a knack for aggravating people at times, and had learned to be careful in some situations when she spoke. Especially if she wasn't sure whether or not she could take the person in question if it came down to violence. Though usually, she was fairly confident that she could. However, it could lead to confusion if she was being... pleasant. "It's not the easiest thing to explain, I guess it comes down to the presence you give off. It's not the same as the others here." She wasn't entirely sure whether or not that was a good thing yet.

The edge of Livvie's lips tugged slightly. No, she wasn't a social butterfly, but thinking about the people she did care about did fill her with a semblance of warmth. "Well, I might not be a social butterfly. But I know who I care about and who I can rely on, which is a bonus." She admitted. She would trust the people closest to her with her life, and guard theirs closer than any bodyguard ever would.

She was actually slightly surprised by the other girl's comment. Most people were very guarded and reluctant about their scars. She trailed her finger along her side, gesturing to the healed scar at her just above her waist. "This one. Meth head. Broken bottle. He ended up much worse." The girl would get a little closer to Devyn and gesture, close to but not actually making contact with the girl's skin, a scar. "What about yourself?"