Firehouse Oasis 118

28. Chimney

"Yup, just like that." Chim encouraged May.

Him, Eddie, and May were using their blue training time today to work on getting May better with her coordination, specifically with manoeuvring multiple objects at once. It was something that both Chim and Eddie had taken years to master to the level they were at now, so they figured it was May's turn to catch up a bit. She was getting it down a lot quicker than he or presumably Eddie had, though Chim figured that probably had to do with the fact that she had teachers whereas him and Eddie had had to figure it all out via trial and error on their own for the most part.

It would've been nice to have someone to teach him instead of just crouching in abandoned sewer grates alone and trying to practice. Not that he envied May's life though. From what little she'd mentioned about the men who were holding her, it hadn't been a normal skip tracer operation. No, skip tracers would've picked her up and turned her into the authorities at the first opportunity for their reward, but May had informed them that she'd been held captive by them for months now. Not only that, she also was clearly abused terribly if the injuries that he and Hen had found on her when they patched her up were anything to go by.

She seemed to be doing alright now though, the worst of her injuries pretty much completely healed at this point. She also seemed to be doing alright with their group living situation, which was also good. Even if she tended to gravitate more towards Athena, Denny, Chris, and even Buck than the rest of them at the 118. She was ok around all of them though, there was just clearly a preference sometimes, which was fair enough, Chim also had preferences sometimes.

"Remember, it's supposed to feel like they're extensions of your body." Eddie explained gently, as May held her gaze on the row of rocks, "Reach out with your senses and feel them and move them."

"Like how you would feel and move your fingers." Chim added in helpfully, he'd always learned best with examples after all.

May gave a determined nod before focusing her gaze on the row of rocks, both arms raised towards them. He and Eddie watched in anticipation as May evened out her breathing and slowly the rocks began to levitate up into the air. They were a bit wobbly, but May kept going, and soon enough the rocks were making wobbly loopedy loops through the air as if they were being juggled by a ghost.

He and Eddie looked at each other grinning as May dropped the rocks and looked to them for approval, signing a quick 'ok?'.

"Yeah, May! That was awesome!" Chim cheered and Eddie nodded his agreement.

"That was great, just a bit more practice and it'll be easy." Eddie encouraged with a smile.

"That was very good May." Athena nodded from where she was apparently standing behind them.

"Jesus!" Chim jumped, whipping around to see the girl behind him.

Eddie just snickered at him, having not been startled by Athena's sudden appearance. Chim shot him a playful glare before turning back to focus on the two girls. May was beaming proudly at Athena who was with Hen, who was also grinning amusedly down at Chim. He discreetly flipped her off while scratching his nose, which only made her smile wider.

'Thank you.' May signed to Athena who just waved her off.

"We were wondering if you three were done training yet?" Hen asked.

He and Eddie looked at each other, shrugging. "We can be." Eddie offered.

May placed her fingertips to the side of her head before pulling them away and forming the letter 'Y' to ask them 'Why?'

"Because we figured since we're having a girls only morning we should probably include our newest female." Hen grinned at the girl enthusiastically.

"We have nail polish." Athena added, a bit more reserved than her counterpart but there was still an enthused tilt to her lips. "You want in, kid?"