Freedooooom!

[thelittlestbub]

Who: thelittlestbub and killswithapen and eventually loverbayou
When: Mid afternoon March 2nd
Where: Light's apartment
Summary: Szayel let Jubilee go, and she's not prepared to go home just yet. So, she's running someplace 'safe'.
Warnings: Possible mentions of torture, swearing, and Jubilee not looking healthy.

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[killswithapen]

Light wasn't expecting any visitors, but the visitor that he got when he actually pulled the door open was by no means the kind he'd expected. Jubilee, who had gone missing, and - he had thought - perhaps gone home, stood (though barely) in the doorway, slumped against the wall.

He stepped out to join her, moving an arm for her shoulder.

"What the...? Jubilee?"

Right now, all he wanted was to get her back into the room. She was too much of a danger to him out here. And perhaps she had been followed.

[thelittlestbub]

Jubilee sagged against him. "Sorry. Couldn't go home." She didn't want Magneto or the Professor to see her before she got her feet under her. Everyone was going to freak out, and she understood that. But she needed some distance between her and what had happened.

Her mind was still a bit fuzzy from the final drug she'd been given, but she was easily guided into the room by Light. There wasn't any weight on her and her ribs stood out underneath her tattered uniform.

"How long have I been gone?" She hadn't been able to follow time in the lab.

[killswithapen]

"It's alright. You can stay here until you're feeling up to it. Just come inside."

When the door was safely shut, he helped her to his bed, adding a not so subtle suggestion into his words: "Lie down. Relax, you're safe." Yes, she had barriers, and yes she might recognise the mental suggestion, but he was hoping she was exhausted enough from her escape and her ordeal to just let them do the required work.

In the meantime Light moved to his closet to rifle through it for anything vaguely acceptable for a girl to wear. Boxer shorts and a T-Shirt would do, surely, until he could find her something better.

"It's been about a fortnight, more or less. I don't know exactly when you disappeared, so I couldn't say to the day. You're lucky; others are still missing."

Clearly Light was assuming that the cultists had had her.

[thelittlestbub]

She collapsed on the edge of the bed, staying upright only because she refused to lie down. She was gross, and needed a shower, and god alone knew what she had on her.

Jubilee barely flickered at the suggestion, too out of it to even think right at the moment.

"A fortnight." Holy shit. And Magneto hadn't taken over the island? Well, count that a victory. "He didn't have any others that I saw."

She was trying to hold onto her training. "Light, I know I'm imposing, but can I borrow your phone? I want to call Remy to bring me a few things." She remembered being with him when she'd gotten grabbed. But she didn't remember much more than that. Her hands were shaking and didn't stop when she clenched them into fists. "And do you have any food? Bread? Rice? Applesauce? Anything like that?"