Delmar's storyline part 22 - Back in businesses

Radiation led him through the night to her apartment. Some shifters were looking out the windows and coming down to the street curious about what the loud blast noise had been. Radiation walked slowly with Delmar as nothing had happened. No one seemed to take any direct notice of them. Her apartment lay inside of the shifter districts. She had a big luxurious top floor apartment just as Gravity but her apartment was not even close as well cleaned as his, it was a mess. Clothes and things lay everywhere. They went out in the kitchen. Nuclear jumped down onto the kitchen bench from Radiations shoulder.
“I'm hungry!” he complained.
“I'll feed you in a second." She took a bowl and filled it with warm water and found a clean piece of fabric.
“I'm going to clean up Delmar first. His face is covered in dried blood.” She brought Delmar out into the bathroom.

“Look at you, who did this to you?”
“I don't know, Reed, Black Hole, Angi, everyone, no one, myself? Which part are you referring to?” Radiation sighed and wiped away some more dried blood from his face.
“I was referring to the blood.”
“That was myself.” he grinned. Radiation cleaned the fabric in the bowl of water. The water turned blue like someone had poured ink in it.
“What happened? I told you to stay out of trouble. And where's Angi?”
“I guess she got bored with me. One day she was gone, I looked for her and… well, stuff happened.”
“I heard you attacked a newly discovered shifter.”
“Yeah, stuff happened…”
She looked sternly at him.
“Listen Delmar, I'd love to take you back as my agent but we need to trust each other. You need to trust that I'm keeping you safe from getting locked up again and I need to trust that you'll quit attacking people and the criminal crap. What did you even get out of attacking that shifter?”
“I don't know… old habit?”

They came back into the kitchen. A naked red-haired man stood in there stuffing his mouth with dead mice from the refrigerator.
“Haven’t you disobeyed the rules enough today?” Radiation said irritated. Nuclear looked up at her surprised. He shifted back into his animal form took one mouse in his mouth and run out into the living room leaving a pile of half eaten dead mice behind on the kitchen floor.
“I needed to open the refrigerator! I said I was hungry!” he yelled from the other room.
“Yeah, but you don't need to eat as many when you're a weasel. You’ve already eaten enough mice for a half week.” she yelled back.
“Gross" she said and looked down at the mess nuclear had made. Even though she was a cat she thought it was repulsive to eat raw mice, especially as a human. But then again, she was born and raised as a human, not a cat. She cleaned them up and put them in the trash can.
“You know, I could have eaten them.” Delmar said disappointed. She looked at him a bit disgusted.
“Well they’re in the trash can now.”
“I have no trouble eating from a trash can.”
She face palmed.
“You feral guys… can’t I give you something else? Something not gross?”
“What do you have?” he asked. She opened the refrigerator again to look.
“Mostly mice, and human food. I guess you don't eat cereals.” She moved the yogurt cartridges to see what's behind them. She found some sirloin steak in the back and took it out.
“How do you like your meat?” she asked.
“Raw.”
“Raw as in a few seconds in the frying pan?”
“Raw as in raw." Delmar answered.  She sighed and cut up the meet. She put half of it in the frying pan and the other part on a plate she put on the floor for Delmar.
“No eating at the table?” he asked.
“If you want to eat at the table you'll need to be a human.” she stated.
“I don't have any clothes on.”
“Then you eat at the floor.”
Even though he had to eat at the floor Delmar ate with delight, he hadn't had anything else than the prison food for what felt like forever. The prison food were mainly dog food. He hated dog food. Comparing to the prison food was this the best meal he'd ever had. When they were done Radiation made her bed for him. She said she would sleep on the couch.
“I would prefer if you shift to your human form. I don't want tons of wolf fur in my bed.” she said.


Once again he was standing in Black Holes mind. The giant ominous shadow figure stared at him with its white eyes. Slowly it started to reach out a big hand towards him. He tried to run but Black Holes mind sucked him back towards the shadow creature. There was no way to escape, no way out.

He awoke screaming from his nightmare. His hands went straight up to his neck to try and rip off the choker before it could send him back into the nightmare again. To his relief he found it was already gone. Then he realized he was lying in his human form in a soft bed with white clean sheets. Radiation came running into the room.
“Are you alright?! I heard you scream.”
“Yeah… No… I don't know… Maybe?” He sat up and rested his forehead in his hands. “I don't even know anymore…”
“What’s the matter?” She sat down beside him on the soft bed. Delmar's hands went down to his neck again to ensure himself the choker device was really gone.
“How long did they make you wear that device?” she asked.
“I don't know… The only thing I know is that it activated at least three times a day”
“When did they arrest you?”
“When did we last speak on the phone?”
“I haven't heard from you in two months,”
“Then it must've been two months ago…”
“Have you worn it constantly in two months?!”
“Yes.” He had a hard time believing it was only two months, to him it felt like he had spent an eternity in the prison cell. He started to laugh maniacally.
“Am I really out or is this just another dream? I bet I'm going to wake up in that hell again in any second…” Once again he made himself sure the choker device was really gone.
“Ssh, this is real.” She held him as he started to calm down again.
“Do you promise?”
“Yes.”
His dragon tail swept back and forth on the bed in a restless way.
“You know, we should go and get you some clothes. Maybe something where you can fit your tail”
Delmar blushed and instantly removed the tail from his human form.
“It’s fine! I can wear normal pants.”
“But then you'll need to go around concentrating at removing it whole the time. I need you to concentrate at the matters at hand. Not at how you look.” she smiled sly.
“I can go get my clothes back from the forest?”
“No I'm not letting you out of my sight again, now when I finally found you.”
“Pff… You're starting to sound like Angi...” he started in a good mood but when he said her name he fell straight back into the despair. “I need to go and look for her. What if they’ve taken her?” He tried to rise but radiation dragged him back onto the bed again.
“The black shifters? Don’t be ridiculous, why would they take a wolf? She probably had her reasons to leave.” Radiation forced him back lying in the bed.
“Get some rest. Tomorrow we'll go down to the elastic faction and get you some clothes. Then I think it's time you'll meet the rest of the council.”
She rose from the bed and turned off the light.
“Try and get some sleep. If you can't don't be afraid to wake me up. Then we can watch a movie or something.” She smiled and closed the door.