Cale Gatticka

Name: Cale, Gattika

Age: 19

Height: 6"1

Mom : Into Gardening favorite thing was a rose, sold flowers.

Dad: Photographer. Loved eating mint ice cream.

Older Gay Brother: Always liked making sweets, The color blue, Violinist.

Cale: Hated getting his picture taken, didn't' see the point, Hated Ice cream. but sort of liked sweets.

When he was younger, about 13, His father took a picture. After he had taken it, he began to obsess over it, like it was the most valuable treasure he could ever obtain.
The picture was of a beautiful ferry boat lite up like a Christmas tree for an annual party the town had once a year. It was always great to celebrate that day, His father captured the scene wonderfully, it even had the starting of a few starts showing in the sky, it was a very breathtaking picture.

Even though it was a happy scene Cale's father seemed to get angrier and angrier every time he looked at it, completely convinced it had something wrong with it. His mother had finally had it with the picture and gave it away to their neighbors. Afterward his father become normal again, just as cheerful and happy before he took the picture. A few months later though they seemed to lose contact with their neighbor. Their neighbor had stopped talking everyone , and you barley saw them leave their house. Eventually his family moved on, it was weird but if they didn't want to talk to anyone anymore, it's not their business.

Late one evening the Gattika's house was very cheerful and alight with good moods everywhere. The big house looked to be decked out with streamers as it sat upon  it's hilltop. Their backyard leading towards a cliff that had a beautiful view of the ocean just screamed serenity. You could see inside the house with all the glass windows, it resembled a figurine made entirely out of glass, thought the wooden walls and doors would detest to that.. It was a very beautiful site.

It was Cale's birthday, and everyone was cheerful, joking around the table was abundant as well as the food. usually dinner was a joyful affair but today was obviously special. It was interrupted by a knock on the door. his family wondered who could be there that late, Cale's father got up to go answer the door.

As he rounds the corner, his brother comes out with a birthday cake he made just for Cale, all his favorite things on it to, Cale loved his brother. The little blissful moment of the cake coming out was interrupted by a gunshot, his mother screamed and his brother dropped the cake in shock.

When the cake hit the floor, that was when everything became bad.
They heard a thump and if you looked you could see blood on the walls, where the front door would be be past the corner. His mother ran to him quickly and grabbed him up, She snatched his older brother's hands to get him out of his shock as well and head toward the back of the house. Being such a big house there where many ways the could go to the back door. His mother had the idea of hiding somewhere out in back.

During the run His brother got separated from the both of them, His mother panicked and hid him under the stairwell, he was covered by boxes that had been left there from going through the attic earlier that day. She runs down the hallway, and he can see her stop. Another shot rings out and she screams, The attacker had shot at his mother, but missed her by a few inches and broke a vase instead. The debris flew into the air ,and  his mother screamed in pain as it went into her eyes. The glass shards blinded her, and her eyes began to bleed heavily, she fell to her knees and tried to crawl back down the hall to him. She was trying to get to him quickly, to protect him. In a frenzied and panicked grasping of the carpets to go the right direction she was getting close when the attacker started coming up behind  her. His brother finally found his way back to them by the screaming, his paniked eyes came uponn the scene of his mother bleeding, and Cale missing,  He started to freak out until Cale ran out from under the stairs. He Calmed and Ran to his mother Picked her up and carried her fireman style, grabbed hold of Cale's hand and continued on towards the back door. Their mom says she can't see, and it scares her, They where afraid for her as well.

The attacker finally comes out to light, It's their neighbor his mom gave the picture too! I think the name was Joe or something, not that Cale particularly cared what this crazy man's name was.He starts shooting and the bullets go to the sides of Cale and his family, they have no choice but to keep going forward, hoping to lose Joe in the darkness. They ended up cornered. They had gotten stuck on the trail the leads to the cliffs. His brother didn't know what to do. Cale was trying hard not to freak out himself. And their mother was getting feverish from blood lose. Things didn't look good for them at all.

"Cale..Stay here" His brother Jason told him. "I'm going to lead Joe away from both of you, and get help." he said firmly, you could still tell he wasn't completely brave right now, his voice was wavering from fear. Fear for his mother, his little brother, and himself to.

"Jason don't leave" Cale said desperately. His brother hugged him and looked into his eyes "Ddon't worry, I won't let anything happen to you" He said  and ran off towards the gunshots. Cale could feel his stomach drop. He could only hope that wasn't the last time he saw his brother.

He turned when he heard his mother cough. "Mother!" he gasped and sat on his knees, grabbing her hand and holding tightly. "How are you feeling" he asked worriedly.  "he mother turned her head to him. " I can't..see you, but I know your about too cry....It's alright Cale I promise you will be safe, Your brother will get help, just wait." she said smiling shakily, she coughed again, spitting up blood as well. Her eyes lost some color, no longer looking bright as they did during dinner, then she started crying. " Look at me, I told you everything is going to be alright so don't cry, but..I'm so sorry baby" she sobbed. Cale looked on painfully. "it's Ok mom, I'll be fine, and you, me and Jason can get Dad and go on a vacation.." he said trying to make her smile, she just cried harder.  She sat up eyes closed, no longer wanting to feel like she could see nothing, liking to think she was just closing her eyes. She hugged Cale with everything she had. " No matter what happens baby, mama loves you, you know that right?" she asked him softly, giving him a smile that normally would make him feel warm inside, but only served to freeze his insides at the moment. " I know mama." he said childishly. He couldn't help it. This situation had him reverting back to his younger instincts.

Just then the bushes began to shift, he started smiling and began to get up, "See I told you Jason would come back mama we just-" he was cut off as as his mother pushed him down,she got up, and even though she couldn't see she would try her best to protect her child. Call it mother intuition, or just the fact she knew her babies footsteps by heart, but she knew it wasn't Jason. She was right.  It was Joe, and he rushed towards Cale's mother as the made contact, his mother finally opened her eyes, and looked at him one last time. He would later guess that she got something of her sight back by the way she tearfully smiled at him in her final moments before she went over the cliff, She didn't scream out of fear for herself, but she screamed for Cale as she told him to run. He lost sight of her over the edge. He was frozen and didn't know what to do, he stared at the crazed look in Joe's eye's, he could vaguely remember seeing it in his father at one point, those few months back, but never as bad.

He see's his brother behind Joe, He looked pissed as he raises a knife he must have got from the kitchen and goes to stab Joe with all power he has in him. He manages to do just what he intended, but as Joe falls over the cliff side, he shoots the last few bullets into his brother's stomach. His brother falls to the ground where the mother laid only moments ago. Everything kept happening so fast. "Jason!!" Cale screamed as he runs to his brother. the where so close to the edge, and with all the falling that's happened at it, he was worried his  brother would go to. His brother Reached for him. Cale started crawling to his brother, his legs not working correctly. "Jason, I'm sorry..I should have run, I should have helped mom!" he begin panicking, and before he knows it he starts coughing up blood. " his brother starts worrying over him, and he just starts coughing worse. How can this be happening? Jason shouldn't have to comfort him, he was the one that was hurt! " Cale, shhhh, calm down it's ok. I'm so glad your ok, I'm sorry I didn't get here sooner.."He trailed off, his eyes where fading fast, he wouldn't be able to last much longer. 'I will save him!' thought Cale He quickly gets up, which wasn't the best idea. The cliff began to crumble under his weight and all the strain it's been put under previously.

He fell.

He falls on a little ledge that was sticking out of the rocks not to far down the cliff side. Pure luck was what that was.

His brother screamed his name. "I'm ok" he called back weakly. His brother told him not to move, he will think of something to help him. They both knew it would take a miracle for that to happen.

luckily that's what happened. They heard sirens and people yelling for them. They find him and his brother.  Quickly they hooked Jason up to machines, then came back for Cale. They get him just as he was starting to pass out from coughing up so much blood.

He remembers coming too for a split second., which was long enough to hear his brother flat lining in the ambulance as they where being taken to the hospital.

Pain shot through his head, after the sound, and rush to try and bring him back. Just  before he blacked out from pain he swore he saw a big disgusting shadowy creature over his brothers form, possibly even saw it smile.

Then it went black.

Extra:

Sickness: Is his inability to let what happen to him go, causes blood to forcefully expel itself from his body every time he gets to active,  hyper,  or experience extreme amounts of emotion. 

His mind is subconsciously saying "why should he be happy?"  "His family had died " "They're all  dead... killed, they are  never coming back,"

He may not actually hear the thoughts, but they are there. To him  it wouldn't be fair if he was happy. 

He's subconsciously not allowing himself to live healthily, because his family never got the chance to.

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He was 13 when it happened, lived in foster homes until 16, then emancipated himself.

All his "new" homes didn’t like him because he kept acting weird or scaring them with his powers, so they gave him back. The system eventually just labeled him as a troubled child and didn't try to hard to get him a home.