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Jaden Nixen was born 12th of September, 2003, he was sure of it. But that had all come into question when he'd started to notice his powers.
He'd lived like a normal child for a long time, raised by a white, English family, who'd adopted him when he appeared on their doorstep one summers day. But when he was ten he started to notice holes in his room, holes that lead to places, whether they be other parts of his house, halfway across the world, or dimensions where its still socially acceptable to use children as a work force.
Sadly, if he didn't know where he was going, he could end up anywhere, literally. This was usually a fun experience, flowing between dimensions as he pleased, he met plenty of people there, good, bad, he thought he could handle it all. So maybe that was how he ended up in a hotel room, far from home.
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The room was average from all accounts Jaden could think of. Two beds, a bathroom, and a closet, he walked around the room silently, coming towards a vent, which he looked through to see a briefcase, he just shrugged it off and went to open the door, then he heard it, the desperate muffled screams of someone from the wardrobe.
"Hello." He said softly as he walked towards the closet, the screams got momentarily louder, before Jaden pulled it open to see a man in nothing more than a towel, tied to a chair with duct tape over his mouth. Jay was shocked to the point where he had to take a step back to stop himself from retching at the sight. "By the gods." He mumbled, reaching forward before taking the duct tape off. There was heavy breathing from the man before he spoke.
"Thank you." He said, though there was a sort of lilt too his voice that Jaden hadn't heard a lot. "I was starting to get, rea-lly tired in there." He said, before sighing, and leaning back. Jaden just raised an eyebrow, "Hey, could you like, get my coat." He said, gesturing with his head towards a very nice coat, laying on one of the beds. He walked over to it, feeling the fabric slightly, before gripping its collar and dragging it back towards the man, who started shuffling his way, to try and exit the wardrobe.
"Um, can I get your name?" He asked, as he crouched in front of the chair.
"Su-re, su-re, can you just feel through the pockets, see if there's anything left." Jaden scrunched his face up slightly, but didn't question it as he felt through the pockets. Before long he felt something, and pulled it out to take a look, it was a small bag of pills, he couldn't find a label on them though.
"Are these drugs?" He asked, unable to determine what they where, though he could tell they probably weren't legal. The man laughed, it was breathy, as though he wasn't entirely there.
"Yea-h, so what." He said, and now he could tell what was wrong with the man. He was clearly, at least somewhat high still, and by the looks of it, he wasn't enjoying the slight sobriety.
"Um, why where you in there?" He asked, not sure what to do.
"Oh, just some people who kidnap people from there homes, rudely interrupted me just after a bath as well." He said, as he sighed again. "Can I have the drugs now, plea-se." He said, sounding more like someone using puppy eyes than a man asking for drugs. Jaden placed the drugs into his pocket, and went to untie him, though he got some light discouragement from the man himself. "No-, drugs first." This was just getting weird.
"We need to get out first, if they really are abductors, then we can't leave any reason for them to believe your gone. He said, probably obvious that he'd dealt with abductors, and abductees before.
"Ooh, smart boy then." He said, just as Jaden was able to get the last of the rope off. He started to shove the stuff back into the closet, before closing it, just to see the man opening the vent, to grab the briefcase. Jaden sighed, though he couldn't blame the pitiful man before him.
He heard the bickering before he saw the shadows, two figures walking towards the room, before stopping in front of the door. Jaden, not thinking too much jumped towards the man, trying to open a portal again, though he was caught in a blue light before he could.