Fly By

[Jun-Aaron Starr]

"Now where are they at?" Jun Aaron said out loud to himself from where he was way up in the sky. His wings where fully extended. He expertly used the slight wind to allow him to glide in the air without any difficulty as he looked down at the ground for the person he was looking for. Thanks to his power, he was also able to see all the way down to the ground as students were either getting the last of their classes done, signing up for summer courses, or just hanging out with their friends before break officially kicked off.

It was a pretty nice day outside, but all the same Jun wore his usual style, making sure it was not getting in the way of his flight. He was looking for someone, someone that he was pretty sure that he spotted walking towards the dorms. However; his eyes decided they wanted to change up on him and caused him to squint a moment as his eyes went from being able to see during the day to their night vision. He had already started his dive by then, tucking his wings in tight against his body to allow him to dive down at his target faster than with his wings spread out.

He moved quick, reaches his arms out to scoop the person under their arm, and extended his wings at just the right time to allow himself from; one, crashing into the ground and two, allowing him to scoop up the person into the air with him. "Got you!" Jun Aaron said, sounding victories as he scooped them up into the air with him, several feet off the ground. It was then that he realized that he picked up someone that he had not meant to. "Oh, well this is awkward." Jun Aaron said as he chuckled a little.

[Mia Langston]

It was a shame that Mia couldn't fully decide on her class schedule for the summer. This hadn't been her first rodeo, and she never allowed herself a break when summer rolled around. She wanted to get her degrees as quick as possible and so there was no way that she could allow herself a summer break. Besides, she figured she'd be spending as much time either with the plants or in the labs researching. Might as well add homework and classwork to it.

Smiling, the girl couldn't help it. It felt good outside, the sun was giving off more than enough, the air was good and the plants were happy, so that made her happy. With her chocolate arms wrapped around her books, she walked, making her way back towards the school. She still had a research project to finish, as well as a thesis to complete. A shame it was such a nice day outside, maybe she'd take her studies back outside somewhere.

Before she managed to get too far, Mia could feel something blocking the sun. Followed by a slight gust of wind but by the time she managed to look up, she had been snatched and flown into the air by something... or someone. Either way, the young woman was now screaming, only to see his face in front of hers and by the time she looked back down and noticed the height difference from the ground and where they were, she screamed yet again and started banging against the winged male out of fear before covering her face with her hands. She hated heights, deathly scared of them. Mia was used to be grounded... on the ground, against the Earth. Not up in the air by some weird winged guy... person.

Who just grabbed people and took them in the air!? Wasn't that some form of kidnapping?

The deaf student could not help but to have a total freak out, not letting her hands leave her face. She could even feel her stomach dropping. "Put me down!" Her words didn't sound as clear and "normal" as others who could hear but she managed her best.

[Jun-Aaron Starr]

The person he thought he had grabbed really was not the person he thought it was. The screaming was proof of that; even if he was sure the person he meant to grab would have screamed as well. Jun Aaron was just happy that his power didn't come with super hearing or anything like that, and the fact that he was used to people screaming in this sort of situation. He could already tell that this person was afraid of heights. "Hey, hey calm down." Jun Aaron said as she started to hit him, and then she was screaming again.

All the same, he kept them in the air but was already carefully starting to descend on the closest roof. Yes, he could take her back down to the ground, but he needed her to calm down first or she could end up thrashing about too much and throw off his flying which could end up very bad for the both of them. When she did speak, he did notice that it was a bit odd but in such a way that he could still understand it and quickly became aware of something. She was deaf.

In his line of work he met a lot of different people, and one of them was a deaf artist so he understood the way they tended to speak and also the fact that she could not hear a word he was saying. It was a good thing he knew sign language but he needed his hands for that and at the moment he was holding her. "Safe and sound." Jun Aaron said, mostly to himself as he carefully set her down on the roof before landing beside her and tucking in his wings a little.

He then waved his hands in front of her face to get her attention before signing to her. ~Are you hurt at all?~

[Mia Langston]

Mia's uneasy fear of heights was something she didn't think she would have to go through. No one ever thought to stand on top of a building or went flying around when they were afraid of heights. So of course Mia allowed herself to freak out because she didn't think anyone would ever purposely take her that far from the ground. She couldn't even hear him tell her to calm down while she panicked, and probably wouldn't have had it been quieter.

When she was set down on top of a roof, she frantically pushed him away before backing up. The young woman tried to calm down but could feel her heart wanting to beat straight out of her chest. She couldn't help but to stare, not certain if it was because she was absolutely upset, or trying to get over her sudden fear, or the fact that his wings were something else and caught a glimpse of them before he tucked them in.

Her brown eyes looked at his waving hands, and also when he signed to her. No. She shook her head as she signed. So he knew Sign Language, she guessed that was good.

Mia furrowed her brows at him, What gives you the right, anyway? Just swooping in and scooping up people like that? Her signing turned a bit more aggressive as she walked towards him. I could have had a damn heart attack! Did you think your little joke was funny? Don't you know anything about personal space?

[Jun-Aaron Starr]

Jun Aaron was a little surprised just at how upset she was over the matter, not even allowing him the chance to explain. Once he managed to get her attention he was about to explain himself but soon her hands were moving all about. He was not pro with sign language so he had to refrain from trying to argue with her and instead focused on her hands. When she started to move closer towards him he started to back up a little and even let his wings out some.

If she was going to attack him with; well anything, he was going to take to the skies until she calmed down. ~Calm down. It was not on purpose. It was, but I didn't mean to grab you.~ Jun Aaron signed back to her but he was still ready to take to the skies if he really needed to. He did his best to avoid fights, since he didn't want any damage being done to his face. ~I didn't mean to scare you or give you a heart attack. Look at me, I'm not even laughing.~ Jun added quickly, well in terms of right after he had gotten done signing the first bit.

His signs overall were a bit slow, which should have made it clear that while he understood and could do it back; he would not be cut out as being a translator. At least not yet. ~I am really, really, really sorry. Do you forgive me? Let me make it up to you.~ Aaron yet again added, not wanting to beat around the bush and allow her to possible grow even angrier with him.

[Mia Langston]

She was upset, that she could admit but she had a perfectly good reason and that reason was now backing up away from her. She didn't want to hurt him, or attack him in any kind of manner. She wasn't surrounded by plant life and was no where near the ground. Yes, she had Self-Defense training because of her father training her to defend herself all those years. Either way, Mia wasn't the type to attack anyone.

Then he had the nerve to tell her to calm down. Then maybe you should look and watch before you just go around grabbing people. Mia stopped walking towards him, only to pause as she furrowed her brows even more. She hadn't even realized she was signing so fast. Mia took a breather, slowing down. Calm down? I'm not a telepath. I can not read minds. I don't even know you. What I see on the outside is not an explanation for what you're thinking on the inside. But of course, he probably expected her to trust that he didn't find it funny. Right? Isn't that how it always goes?

She spoke this time as she signed. "I don't need you to make it up to me. I just want to be put back down on the ground." She paused, "Then you can go back to your practical joke session." Mia didn't even know if that was what he intended to do in the first place. She just knew that there were some pretty messed up people who enjoyed playing intense pranks on others who had no idea it was coming and she didn't want to take any part of it.

[Jun-Aaron Starr]

Jun Aaron could not help but let out a heavy sigh, not even bothering to hide it as he watched what she was signing out. She would not even give him the chance to fully explain it all and was set in stone about being upset. Even if it was kind of hard to explain it since she did have a point that he should not have just scooped up a person without double checking. Granted, he was pretty sure if he landed right in front of her to double check, she probably would have still been upset with him and saying that he gave her a heart attack.

Sometimes there was just no winning with women, and Jun waited until she took a pause in her signing. ~My vision messed up when I went for the dive, yes I get that is no excuse and I still should have checked. I'm sorry.~ Jun Aaron signed out, pointing to his eyes and managed to get them to change into a red color for a moment to show her that he was not lying. She was still in the right to be mad, he would take it all but he at least wanted to make it up to her, but she didn't seem to want any of it. He stood where he was as she started to speak while she signed, pointing out she wanted to be on the ground and that he could get back to his game.

~Alright, I will take you back down on the ground. However; on the condition that you will let me start over with you. Introduce ourselves properly and take a step back from the misunderstanding. Deal?~ Jun Aaron signed. His wings started to stretch out then, but he made no moves towards the woman until she seemed ready and also agreed to starting things over. If she didn't agree...well there were steps to get off the roof that she could take. Why would he help someone out who didn't want to bother being civil with him after her apologized and wanted to begin again?

[Mia Langston]

Mia crossed her arms while inhaling deeply as she watched him speak to her. As creepy as it was, she did manage to catch his eye change and she supposed he may have had a reason there. It didn't make her any less unpleased with what he did but at least now she had managed to calm down just a bit. He even apologized and she signed back, Okay. While she hadn't said it was "fine" or "she forgave him" (because it just sounded as if it was okay for him to do again), she figured it was no harm done. And surprisingly she was still alive; So she guessed that counted for something.

Mia eyed him for a moment. The young woman finally unfolded her arms. Fine, she signed back to him. Just take me back down and don't do anything crazy.

God she hoped he wouldn't do anything crazy. She hated heights, she had no idea who this even was and she had no idea where his mind was. So he'd have to forgive her if she came off just a little bit headstrong.

Mia watched his wings stretch out (which was way more beautiful than she would had ever let on) and even though she hesitated, she finally moved towards him and wrapped her arms around him while holding on tight. It would be just fine, all they were doing was going back down. She didn't need to think too much about it.

[Jun-Aaron Starr]

She still did not seem all that pleased with him, but at the very least she was calming down which was better than nothing. Jun Aaron did suppose she had a fair reason to be upset with him after all, so he was not holding it against her. He just needed her to calm down before she expected him to be able to help her out and get her down from where she currently was. Simple as that. If she was upset or freaked out when he was trying to get them down, well she was likely to end up getting the two of them hurt or at least injured.

~Thank you. Nothing crazy. Just have to go up a little and then we will be down on the ground in no time.~ Jun Aaron signed to her. He then waited for her to come over to him first, making sure that she was ready and comfortable going from her. It was nice to have a beautiful woman wrapping her arms around him, but he was focused on making sure she did not think he was a big asshole anymore. That was going to take some work, but he would at the very least try. Once she was holding him, he put his arms around her and made sure to have a good hold on her. Not super tight to harm her, but enough that he was not going to drop her.

It didn't take too long for him to flap his wings a few times hard enough that they were up in the air again, but he made sure not to go too high. He was thankful for all his years of training that easily allowed him to fly backwards enough to get off the roof and make a careful decent. Of course since he was going for a landing; that meant a lot more flapping and thus blowing anything around in the landing zone around. It would take a minute or two until they were on the ground and Jun Aaron was letting her go as he tucked his wings in but not completely into his back.

~There, safe and sound. I'm Jun Aaron by the way, may I know your name?~ Jun then signed once they were on the ground and he was sure she had her attention. She could not hear him so he had to make sure that she saw what he was doing with his hands in order for them to communicate.