Down By The Docks [Eli, Jason, Kennedy]

[littleredsiren]

 She'd been worrying about this all week. It was one thing for her friends to say they wouldn't freak out at her siren-ness, and another thing completely for them to actually see it. She'd set up three different times for them to meet, figuring one-on-one would probably be a bit easier to handle.

Iris flitted around her kitchen all morning, putting together a picnic basket with different treats inside. It all quickly started to get out of hand and she was glad she'd set up a plan with Jason to provide meals for the other homeless people in town, because she had way too much for just four people right now.

A quick glance at the clock nearly sends her into another fit of panic. Throwing on a bathing suit under a cover up and grabbing her basket, she makes her way to the beach nearest the docks in a hurry.

No one's there when she gets there and she breathes a sigh of relief, setting down the basket and hauling off the cover up, heading into the surf to swim off her nerves until someone shows up.

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[littleredsiren]

She reaches up, brushing her claws over them with a crooked smile. "Yup. They're sharp, too. I bit myself with them earlier," she laughs, her voice more melodic, though still recognizably hers, in this form. "I need to break some of my bad habits if I'm going to have fangs and claws, I think."

[elidixon]

There used to be a time when Eli used to wish he were more than human. In a town full of extraordinary witches and sirens, it was tough being only human. But he manages to grow out of that, for the most part. Now though he is thinking it would be cool to grow fangs at his leisure. His kids certainly would pay attention during math if he was sporting those.

"It's awesome. So you have special powers then?"

[littleredsiren]

She nods slightly, scratching the side of her nose. "I can get people to do what I want, and I can transfer my emotions to them, a little bit. I mean, not at the moment, unless they give me explicit consent, but normally," she explains, hurrying to assure him that she couldn't possibly be manipulating him right now. "Lara got a witch to put a seal on me so my powers don't work without permission until I can control them myself."

[elidixon]

"Can you get my neighbor to not blast One Direction at three in morning?" Eli asks, delighted by all the possibilities of having powers like that, but he is also glad Iris has a guide in Lara Quinn to help her adjust to the responsibility of it. He thinks it would be tempting to just manipulate people into doing as you wished. "It's okay. I trust you," he says, smiling.

[littleredsiren]

Iris giggles, shaking her head. "Maybe once I've got everything under control," she jokes. "For now, you're just going to have to live with cheesy pop music at all hours of the night."

[elidixon]

"What good is a siren bestie if you can't torture my neighbors?" he asks, frowning in jest. He gives her a little nudge on the arm and the scales are admittedly…different but nothing Eli can't handle. "So how do you learn control then?"

[littleredsiren]

She sticks her tongue out at him but then grins. "I'm your bestie?"

"Lara got a witch to put a charm on so my powers don't burst out on their own. In the meantime, there's a loophole so I can use my powers on people who consent to it. So I can practice on them!"

[elidixon]

Unable to help himself, he sticks his tongue back at her. "Bestie for life," he says, holding his fist out to bump it with hers. Truth is Eli's super awesome at making friends anywhere he goes, but it's harder for him to let people into his inner circle, where he is comfortable enough with somebody to not feel like he needs to be super Eli to keep them happy. Sometimes he needs someone to tell him to chill out, take a breath, and he finds Iris to easy to be around.

"Practice on people....like me?" he asks with a smile.

[littleredsiren]

She tilts her head slightly, returning his smile. "If you're okay with it, yes!" She's actually a little relieved she hadn't had to ask. She would have eventually, but it still makes her a bit nervous to ask anyone to give up that level of control. "I wouldn't do anything to break your trust, obviously, but you do need to tell me out right that you consent, or the spell won't unlock my powers."

[elidixon]

He laughs at her, sitting down in the sand, pulling the basket of cookies into his lap. "I don't think I've ever said this," he says, shaking his head. Maybe it just never came up. "My grandmother aside only the first born boys in my family are born with powers. So my brother, Micah is a witch, and my grandmother used to make him practice for hours and hours everyday after school on his spellwork. Which was cool because I didn't have to..."

That's part of the reason he picked up basketball. He didn't have spells, or powers to practice. He had to entertain himself, find his own thing to be great at if it wasn't going to be spellwork.

"I've been the test dummy for all kinds of magic, and there's no way you can be any worse than Micah was..." He laughs remembering his brother was such a terrible learner growing up, getting all the magical powers he didn't even want, that Eli would've put to more than good use. Micah had grown into his powers, but he still wasn't nearly as powerful as his grandmother or other guys in their family.

"So I trust you," he says with a shrug.

[littleredsiren]

Iris lets out a giggle. "I've practiced on Jason and Kennedy too," she explains. "I didn't make them do anything awful. Maybe a little silly, but not embarrassing or anything. And if I do do something that makes you uncomfortable, you can tell me and we'll stop right away."

She settles herself down on the sand, finding a comfortable place to sit. "Do you want to try some now?"

[elidixon]

He listens carefully to the rules she lays out. He knew Lara Quinn was the siren matriarch around town, and he figures the charm Iris mentions has been placed there by someone in charge. He was more than happy to know that Iris had someone looking out for her as she tries to understand and control her powers.

"I am down if you're ready. Just tell me where you want me," he says, biting off half the cookie he pulls out of the container.

[littleredsiren]

"You can stay there," she smiles, reaching for that thread of compulsion and letting it flow into her voice. The next time she speaks, there's something eerily melodic and compelling about her tone. She doesn't put as much effort into it as she had to with Michael, for her first order. "First, put the cookie back. Then touch your nose."

[elidixon]

Hearing the change in her voice, the sweet musical melody in her tone that wasn't there a moment before, Eli wants to make a comment on how cool that is, but he loses the ability to form words a second later, transfixed by Iris' next words to him. She asks him to put down his cookie, and he does immediately his hands moving somewhat on their own. But not completely, he still has control over himself, but doing what Iris asks becomes the most important thing in the world to him. Which is why he touches the tip of his nose with a grin.

"I would've declined this exercise if I'd known I wasn't gonna get to eat that cookie," he says, pouting for show.

[littleredsiren]

She giggles, an odd noise with the compulsion flowing through her voice. "You can eat the cookie in... Five minutes," she offers. She could tell him to eat it now, but making someone do something they clearly want to do isn't exactly teaching herself anything new. "For now, stand up and touch your toes!"

[elidixon]

Five minutes, his mind almost goes off like a timer counting down the seconds, knowing that he wouldn't eat it, instead he would follow her exact directions. At her next command, he stands up, putting one finger on his nose with a big grin. "How am I doing?" he asks her.

OOC: JUUUULIA WULIA. I may let this thread fade out into the night soon. I got threads all over the place, and some of my Eli threads suffered when I wasn't playing him as much. I am dropping some of my older ones but Eli is at the pool party sans shirt. I sowwy. :(

[littleredsiren]

She claps happily. "Great! You can sit down and have the cookie now," she tells him, knowing he really wants it.

OOC: DAS COOL, DUCKY <3333 Never feel like you have to cling to a thread w me ok!

[elidixon]

He retakes his seat on the beach, plopping down at her command, like one of his students would do. But he is happy to have the cookie she'd offered him. "Man--" He shakes his head, biting off the end. "This is pretty powerful stuff you got going. I would've done anything you asked just a second ago..."

OOC: What if I just cling to you forever *leeches* buuuut yeah I was having writer's block a bit ago on Eli. I am slowly working out of it.

[littleredsiren]

Iris can feel herself blushing. She's torn between being uncomfortable and feeling complimented. "That's why I'm glad Lara gave me the charm. It explains why I used to have people so desperate to be near me all the time too."

OOC: GOOD. (On both the clinging and the coming out of writer's block <3333) Cling 2 me 5ever, Lisaboo