The Son of Life (Benjamin)

[Yoya DuSang]

Yoya paced outside the home of Benjamin, well she was sure that it was actually Kakeru's but that Ben lived here and Kakeru wasn't home. She didn't know why she was risking him by being here. Her fingers trail through her black and purple hair. She moves back toward the door again before stepping away. "Why am I.... what am I do... No. I don't want to hide from my son forever... it's not fair to either of us right?" She nods and knocks on the door, her eyes closed.

[Benjamin Gauge]

Thud, thud, thud. The knocking on the door awoke the vampire not long after the sun had set--well, technically fifteen minutes beyond sunset. Ben was never a true early riser. Boot camp had trained that out of him, but now that he was one of the night walkers he took to sleeping soundly. Though as the usual the hunter was prepped to strike before his body could process it, the innate driving force that sung to him whispers of when to stalk, pounce, and feed deeply. With an exercising yawn to stretch his jaw muscles, the gunslinger rolled out of bed wondering who would be at Kakeru's place so early in the evening.

Gauge had the habit of not wearing a shirt to bed half the time; thus, he grabbed a shirt on his way out of his bedroom, walking to the front door he pulled it over his head and just as he opened the door he finished pulling the bottom of it over his well-loved ripped jeans. It took him a moment to notice just who it was. "Y--Mom? What...What are you doing here? Is someone in trouble??". His ocean blue eyes inspected her face as he held the door open, taking a little extra longer time to discover he was fully blocking her path to inside. Ben took an awkward side step to allow his mother to enter the household.

[Yoya DuSang]

When Ben opened the door and talked to her it took her a moment as she took him in again, it was always a surprise to her, that one of her bloodline had actually survived. She shakes her head and enters. "No... no one is in trouble... everyone is actually okay for the moment." She says with a nod. Yoya paces for a moment and then plays with a few strands of her black and purple hair, "Ben... I missed you. I wanted... no wanted isn't the right word... I felt I needed to stay away to protect you, but honestly I now know that I can't, I want to get to know my son... I mean, if it's okay with you..." Watching the normally well versed late-leader of White Rabbit, and current Queen of the Gods fumble over words would be interesting to some people. Yoya looks at Ben, "I can understand if you don't want to get to know me... I left you with a different family... I abandoned... you... and I haven't been around since telling you the truth... none of which is fair to you." She says with a nod, "But at least one thing I can grant, Rhaego asked me to grant prophet hood."

[Benjamin Gauge]

Ben ran his tongue over a few of his teeth as he thought of what to say, the sharp canine pressing against his tongue as a reminder of what he was. The soldier watched her body movement with partial interest."Now you want to talk...", he began with a less than pleased tone though his expression wasn't one of anger--though from someone who didn't know him that well it could have sounded rather rude. "Well...you did leave your occupation and spent time to visit me. Yeah, I don't mind answering a few questions as long as you answer mine first...Who is Rhaego and what did he give me?". The inquiry at the end had him raising a brow, his face seeming rather perplexed.

[Yoya DuSang]

Yoya felt bad for what had happened. She finds a seat and plays with her fingers, "I can't name you as my prophet, it is against the rules that the gods have... but Rhaego the god of Nature, was so... impressed with the way you accepted what you were, and who your family is, that he decided to name you his prophet, it means that a very select amount of people can harm you. Kakeru, Ayden, Dametrius.... there is a list, I can give it to you." She says before brushing her hair out of her face, "Eventually he will be here to talk to you about what you get for being his prophet, it changes depending on the god." She says with a nod playing with her fingers, "Did... you have a good life Ben?"

[Benjamin Gauge]

Ben took the next few sentences from Yoya in silence, before adding his own reply,"It was either I adapted to it, or I'd die...again. Hard to ignore that I came back as something not human...when it dictates a simple rule on how to live. Don't kill when feeding, and if you have to, it's better to take an injured one. Avoid the sun, treat silver like the plague...".

He gave a slight nod, let out a weary sigh and leaned his back against the counter. "May as well have that list just so I know who I'm all up against". In truth it was due to the fact that only prophets could hurt each other that had Ben on guard. Not for himself as much as he would be for those he cared about.

"My life..yeah I had to say growing up with my...adoptive mom and two younger brothers was nice. I helped raise them since my dad was never around. Though I can't help but think what happened to her after I was drafted into The Royals. Guns became a third hand to me, and blood a by-product. I guess the doctor lifestyle I originally wanted was not fast paced enough for me".

[Yoya DuSang]

Yoya listened to everything he said and smiles nodding, "I had a past life where I tried to be a doctor... it didn't work so well for me." She thinks for a moment her eyes searching something that he cannot see, "Your mom... and brothers are still alive... Uh..." She watches something else for a moment, "Angelica? How the...." She blinks as the image fades, "Sorry still getting used to the new abilities... over again... You wanted to be a doctor? How well did you do in the Royals... I mean, we worked with them every once in a while, but I didn't look like this... nor did I have the name Yoya."

[Benjamin Gauge]

'Guess it runs in the blood then...', Ben thought, feeling he needed more of the thrill of adrenaline than the average person. He heard her out some more and froze a little when she admitted to knowing his family was still living; however he didn't seem to comment on it, only a reluctantance to move had found him, particularity when she mentioned a name he could never place but somehow always knew. Gauge couldn't go upsetting his old family; it'd be breaking the idea to them bluntly that their son hadn't died in a war, a good honorable death--though honor wasn't something the soldier ever aimed for.

"I flirted with death on a few occassions. Faced down ten, maybe fifteen hostiles at once. Every time they thought they'd downed me their faces went white as they noticed I wasn't handicapped like they thought...met Fyrann and..we sniped like there were no regrets. Always effected him harder, the casualties..". Bittersweet images replayed in his head of their relationship which was now shattered. The man while he had all the support he could have asked for, still felt like the third spare tire the average person never uses; a little more value than worthless but not enough to let go entirely.

[Yoya DuSang]

Yoya heard the story of how his life was, it almost made her sad. Yoya had sent him to live with the woman to keep him out of the war. The British Government had agreed to let White Rabbit handle the invasion. They weren't supposed to have a draft. It was then that she realized that it was because of the British Government that she had died. They had sent in a team that got in the way, she had died ten years ago trying to save that team of Marines. Ayden had been there, she remembered his voice begging her to stay. Then Brightblood stormed and took Ayden so soon after they had saved him. She shakes her head turning her attention back to her son, "I'm glad that you survived the war as long as you did... even when you were in Baile Na Deithe I was afraid to tell you the truth. I was afraid you would hate me as much as I hated myself for leaving you, but I didn't want you to end up like your sister. Twin actually, most of my kind are born with a twin, always seperated at birth for one reason or another... I wish I knew what happened to her. I remember watching Dametrius..." Then she realized she was about to tell her son that she had seen his twin sister murdered in front of her. She didn't notice she had started to cry, "Now though... I feel her life presence so I'm not sure."

[Benjamin Gauge]

Ben had been born a fighter, whether his birth mother had noticed it or not. A strong heart contributed well to his time in The Corps, and had the man shaking off more wounds than he cared to count. Britain may have signed a silent agreement with White Rabbit, but they had gotten ansty with how the assisting faction was doing things. Several years before the biggest population impact on humans, the former squads-- particularly the Royal Marines were redirected from private missions to all out search and rescue teams, of which Ben was a part of. They were assigned to the most hostile locations and were to deal with the apparent "sudden unknown threat".

"...Twin?", the former commando inquired hastily, breaking out of the thoughts that were swimming through his mind,"...but honestly I still feel...dead, physically. Not all the time...but I guess I should have been prepared for that side effect". The Gangrel then discovered the tears rolling down the goddess' face, and he froze unsure of how to go about helping."W..Did I say something wrong?". He looked guilty as he stood there. Guilty and awkward.

[Yoya DuSang]

Yoya nods when he asks about a twin, when he said he still felt dead physically she looks up at him obviously worried. She touches her face having just noticed the tears herself. "No. No Ben not you." She wipes them away and walks over to him smiling, "I always wanted children..." She says with a weak smile before hugging Ben for a moment and then stepping back. "Ben, I love you... and... I would like to see you more often if... that is okay with you... if you are okay with me being in your life..."

[Benjamin Gauge]

The man thought about it, outweighing the pros to the cons in his mind about how accepting his mother into his life would be like. Though she was the woman who gave birth to him, she rightfully felt like a stranger to him; generally he didn't take to getting too close to strangers too quickly, but he felt that here he would have to make an exception.

Ben allowed the hug to happen, wrapping his arms underneath her own to return the embrace despite it being as short lasting as it was. Slowly he responded,"If you're in it for the long haul, I'd be more than happy to have you as my mother. I...can't go back to my other family. It wouldn't be fair on them, to hurt them that way. I already messed up with Fy, and I can't afford another broken heart".

[Yoya DuSang]

Yoya listens to him and nods smiling a little bit, "I don't think you messed up with Fyrann, he just has to get used to the thought of you being alive before he can accept you... which I'm hoping he does soon." She says with a sigh, she plays with a few strands of hair trying to figure out what to say. "Ben. I really hope that things are going well for you... even without Fyrann, you have Kakeru... Ayden cares for you... and I'm sure as time goes on you'll make more friends." She says with a nod.

[Benjamin Gauge]

"I'll manage", he stated matter-of-factly,reassuring Yoya. Ben always found a way to pull through tough situations. But it was his like of personal relationships that allowed things to pan out that way."Maybe I will, maybe I won't...who knows", the Gangrel added with a shrug. He wasn't exactly out in the world to make friends. Kakeru, and Ayden were plenty enough already and Anwyn, well, he still didn't know exactly what to make of her. She was almost a friend he guessed."So I have to wonder...what do you do all day as a goddess of Life?".

[Yoya DuSang]

Yoya sits down thinking about it, "Most of it is spent deciding with the God of Death which souls go to... hm I'm not sure... I believe it's akin to hell... to repent and which souls are reborn." She looks him over and her eyes seem to glow blue, "I find it interesting because your soul... it's new it's never been reborn or anything like that, it's very rare that new souls are created now... the old god of life didn't know how to make them." She said with a nod. "It's strong though... and pure." She says look up at him, her eyes returning to normal. "Other than that I have meetings with Nature and now Justice... to discuss things that they want implemented. What should be done about certain things going on in the world... I have a meeting later today with Justice to talk about his family."