Living With The Giants

Forty-Seven: Downsized

Forty-Seven: Downsized

"Why did you bring him out now .. Austin, what if Tess wakes up and sees" Darrick peered down into his pocket at the human girlfriend while Austin's tossed the human he'd retrieved from Coles side drawer onto the dining table, all eyes turning simultaneously to face the tiny blonde who let out a rather loud cry, suddenly in pain as his small body hits the bench.

"She's not gonna see, she's proper passed out right now look at her" Austin chuckles, dragging his chair over to sit down upon it to get a better look, leaning forward as he does so to look down on the small human, hair a mess about his ratty features and icy eyes puffy from what he could guess was from crying. Austin smirked at the tinies misfortune, his plan having worked out perfectly.

"What the hell~ is that~ Lenny? What did you do to him!" Ava gasped then as she realised who was on table. Lenny, now shrunken to the size of a human, actually somewhat smaller than the average human as he couldn't of been any larger than Austin's finger. He looked like a scared little rat who'd been ripped from its cage, eyes wide and breathing heavy as if he were about to have a panic attack. One touch he'd shatter into a million pieces

"Uh we shrunk him obviously" Cole chuckles as if the question was stupid, pushing back the strands of hair on his face he pulled it back in one easy motion into a low pony tail "Downsized him"

The anger and fear from Lennys eyes showed the scared child within, who had been taught at a young age to fight for attention and starved of the love he craved. Austin could see the pain beneath it and the once cocky boy which had been drowning in this persona he'd carved to fit into a world of indifference slowly disappeared. Now Lenny was nothing but prey himself, Austin the hunter. And Austin wasn't about to help someone like that, not Lenny, not unless the tears came and he'd realise what's really going on. And Lenny would try and fight it, Austin knew that he would, but couldn't get very far especially at this size and Austin didn't really care

"W-what have you done to me!" Lenny snapped, "This is so illegal, your all going to jail for this if you don't grow me back!" Lenny stammered, his voice small as he stumbled onto shaky feet, moving to back away as if to hide but had no where to go. Couldn't escape the large gazes of the four giants where he sat no bigger then a doll upon the expanse of Coles kitchen table top.  The small blue eyes searched about him desperately, as if contemplating running but knew he wouldn't get far. He searched for help, looking to each giant but received no refuge .

He wore the same look like he did the night before in the park, as Darrick held him against the ground and Austin struck him with the downsizing formula. He was scared

Austin chuckled as he listened to Lenny, a sheepish smile coming across his face at the hopeless remark "I seriously don't think anyone is looking for you, Lenny. Why would they?" Austin scoffed, reaching forward to prod at Lenny teasingly, causing the now tiny bully to fall backward onto his backside with simply a nudge from his finger.

"Hey!" Lenny shouted, sitting up quickly after landing from embarrassment, his cheeks having turned a shade of pink "O-of course they are! What are people gonna think when I'm not at school, or don't show up for practice! They'll send out a search party" Lenny cowered back a little as he looked at the giants, but seemed to realise his stature and tried standing his ground to send a not so confident glare. He puffed out his chest and lifted his chin, eyeing the giants as if that'd do anything. Silly little man, Austin wanted to laugh in his face

Cole rolled his eyes and lifted his head then to sit his chin in his hand "your so loud for something so small" Cole reached over, gently nudging at Lennys chest again before lifting him up into his hands, bringing him close to his eyes to curiously examine whilst ignoring Lennys angry remarks and curses to place him down. He held him as if he had picked up mouse, gently flipping him and prodding at his small legs as if it were the most fascinating thing he'd seen all day. Wasn't every day you got to downsize a giant to human