Jason caught the emotion in her eyes. "i thought i was the only one left too until I saw you" he said. He took her hands and held them gently in his own, warming them up as best he could. "come with me. i have a warm shelter set up" he said softly. he kept a grip on her hand as he led her through the mall to the heated store. he pushed open the door and shut it quickly behind them. it was nice and warm in his makeshift shelter. "I know it isn't much but it was the best I could make in a short time." he said. he walked to the cooked hotdogs and pizza and offered some to her. "luckily the fridge system in here still works" he said as he picked up a self-heating blanket and wrapped it around here. "you look like you were pretty darn cold" he said as he started working on the slushie machine again. it had a hotchocolate half to it as well, which is what he was working on now. several bottles of soda lay around them, unopened and still fresh.

Bella sat down, hugging the blanket around her. The thin jacket she had been wearing earlier wasn't doing much good, but the blanket was helping a lot, "Yah. I was." She blushed the same pink color as the inside of a grapefruit, "Cold, I mean." She looked around, making a mental sketch of the room so she could remember where everything was, "It's fine. I mean, I had a lot more before all this, but that's kind of obvious." She smiled sheepishly, "I'm not helping, am I? I'm sorry. It's a bad habit of mine. I ramble and I don't know when to keep my mouth shut." She realized she was doing it again, then blushed more of a flamingo color. Her eyes gave away a hidden shyness and secrecy this time.

Jason smiled. "oh it's alright." he said. "i know it's not much, but hey, i work with what i've got" he said. the heat lamps were keeping the store area they were in very warm. he had set the food before her to eat. "you're welcome to stay with me for as long as you want" he said smiling. he dragged in two matresses and set them up. he then set out and returned with more blankets. "if you need anything let me know and i'll see if i can find it" he offered as he tinkered with the slushie/hot cocoa machine. it was rather hard work, since he had never done anything like this before.

Bella smiled thankfully, "I appreciate it." She watched him in silence, trying to understand the machinery before him, absentmindedly running her thumb under the black ribbon around her neck.
Gah! This thing is choking me!
She sighed, knowing that she couldn't take it off, not now. It would raise too many questions. Bella pulled her thin legs under the blanket with her, trying to hide a ring of blood around her knee that had bled through the jeans she was wearing. She didn't know if this boy had powers like her, and until she knew, she didn't know if she could trust him with knowledge of hers. After all, he could be the only one who could kill her. She might need to use that knowledge later.

Name: Ash Green
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 205 lbs.
Bio: Ash was always a brilliant child, able to understand almost anything upon first hearing it. However, his family's finances all went toward his education and ended up starving his parents to death. He was left an orphan and
Power: Like Syler from Heroes, Ash can understand aything you tell him or anything he looks at. His power is so strong, he can learn how people's abilities work by looking at their brains. (Weird, but hey.) He also has a constant hunger for more power that is almost impossible to control.

Jason looked at the machine. "okay now i need a blowtorch, but they got destroyed... oh well." he said smiling as he snapped his fingers, a blue flame appearing on the tip of his index finger. He welded the metal together with this obvious display of power and soon shut it. he switched it on and the machine sputtered to life. He smiled at his handywork and poured some water and hot cocoa mix into the machine and soon he had a nice warm cup of hot cocoa ready and handed it to bella. "this should warm you up" he said smiling at her. "the heat lamps can only warm this room up so much" he added. he closed his eyes and the temperature around them rose to 80 degrees. "times like this i'm glad i'm a pyro" he said smiling.

((Accepted.))
Bella nodded thankfully, trying not to stare. She had her own gifts, but they weren't so... visible. And quite frankly, she didn't feel like stabbing herself to show him right then. Besides, he might freak out like everyone else had and then she would have no one to talk to, "Have you seen any other people with gifts like yours?" she asked, careful not to include herself under "people with gifts" until the time called for her to have to use hers. Despite her effort to keep that part of her a secret, her eyes again betrayed her emotions and showed that she was hiding something. She didn't like being secretive, but she could only be killed by someone who intentionally wanted to kill her. So if he decided that he wanted to get rid of her, if he knew about her gift, then instead of waiting for one of the creatures to get her, he would kill her himself. And with only her gift -which would be useless if his intentions were set on her death- she was petty confidant that a pyro could end her swiftly.

Jason shook his head. "You're the first person i've even seen since the world ended." he said sighing. "do you have a gift too?" he asked noticing a hidden secrecy to her eyes. "You don't have to hide it from me. My power may be potentially harmfull to others but I don't fight hurt anyone for no reason" he said reassuringly. he wondered if she did have powers. That would explain how she had survived too after all. "drink the hot cocoa it will warm you right up" he said smiling at her. his mind switched among subjects rather quickly at times.

Bella opened her mouth to say something, but then closed it to think on what she was going to say. Should she tell him the whole story? Or should she keep her mouth shut? She could just tell him parts. That would be safe, right?
"I have a gift, too." She said quietly, not sure how to proceed. "I can heal... but, if someone hurts me on purpose, I die." she said the last part so softly, he would really have had to listed hard to hear it. She nodded in thanks as she took the hot coco from Jason. She really was cold.

Jason wrapped another blanket over her shoulders and closed his eyes, heating up the air around them to warm her up. "you don't need to fear, I won't hurt you" he said softly with a smile as he poured himself a cup of hot cocoa and sipped it. He was sitting right next to her now. He didn't mean any harm towards her, and that should be apparant. If he had been trying to kill her wouldn't he have done so already instead of feeding her and warming her up? He watched her. "you haven't eaten very much lately have you?" he asked noting how thin she was. he pushed some of the pizza and hotdogs towards her to eat.

"No, not really." She shook her head weakly, "I haven't found anything that I didn't think would make me sick." she took some pizza off the plate in front of her and ate slowly, careful not to make herself sick on it either. Not much had survived the world ending, and living like Bella did, where everything was provided for you, she barely had any survival skills. If it weren't for her gift, she would have been dead ages ago. She was still a little nervous, and the ribbon around her neck still felt like being strangled by a really weak person, but she didn't complain about it. Pain was still evident in her eyes, if not her words.

Jason looked at her eyes, catching the pain. "if you're hurting why not take that ribon off?" he asked softly. Jason had lived on the streets his whole life. surviving was about all he knew how to do. She was lucky to find him. he had been living similar to this for a long time, so he could help her. He wondered what he could do to help her. "you don't need to keep any secrets from me. I wouldn't tell them to anyone even if there was anyone else to tell it to" he said softly. he had always been rather good at keeping secrets.

Bella nodded warily, then reached behind her head to untie the ribbon. She undid the knot, holding it in place for a second, then holding her breath and taking it off. A scar ran around her throat like it had been sliced open. It was raised and red, like it had only recently formed and didn't like to be hidden. With her unusual thinness and the scar, she looked like she had dressed as a zombie for Halloween. Her eyes met his, searching for a reaction. Would he just look at her funny? Or would he openly stare in shock?

Jason watched the scar. He winced slightly when he saw it. "that looks like it really hurt" he said quietly. "how did it happen?" he asked as he stood and returned with a cool washcloth, gently pressing it at her neck to take down some of the swelling. he was surprizingly gentle for someone of his size. He made it as painless as possible. his mind ran over possible scenarios for how she came about this scar, but he didn't like any of them. He hoped it didn't hurt her much. he didn't have any medicine to help her after all.

Bella stared straight in front of her, "It's a long story." She said softly, but oh well. She hoped he had a long time, "I was sick. I had been for years. I got really thin... and pale... and-" She paused swallowing, "I looked like a zombie. I looked dead. I was weak... I couldn't fend for myself. So, a friend took me in. She watched over me. My mom called me back home, promising that she finally care about me." She was silent for a long moment, "It was a lie." she wiped a tear off her cheek, then continued talking, "She wanted to keep anyone from knowing that they had let me die. They never did anything to help me get better. They told me I only had a day to live, then locked me in my room. I couldn't take the pain of it any longer, so I slit my own throat... then fell eight floors to the street below." She gingerly touched the scar on her neck.