Skye was more than a little bit taken by surprise when Logan suddenly decided to smack him in the back of the head and although it hadn't really hurt all that much, at least not comparatively speaking, the boy couldn't help but yelp out a 'hey' in response to it while at the same time reflexively reaching up to rub at the spot that had been struck. He wasn't happy with the way that things were going with this guy and he did nothing to hide it and made it fairly blaringly obvious when Logan started demanding respect, the child quick to tell him that respect was something that he couldn't demand. Which the man apparently decided to argue, going so far as to tell the kid to fake it if he had to, and this annoyed Skye almost as much as the order itself. "Faked respect isn't respect, it's nothing more than a lie," the child pointed out in a scathing tone of voice. "So all you're really trying to do is encourage me to lie and be deceptive which isn't something I do." The man's next words, about him being over the man's knee getting the attitude spanked out of him were it not his first day with Logan, came as a complete shock to the kid and Skye openly gaped at the person who was responsible for him for the foreseeable future. While Skye wasn't completely ignorant about what a spanking was he was more familiar with more brutal forms of punishment and that was where his mind went in that instant, the child's blue eyes shifting to the trash can where Logan had tossed the whip that had been a parting 'gift' from one of Skye's former guard dogs. "Not a chance in hell," Skye said in what was meant to be a brave tone of voice but this time the kid didn't pull it off quite as well as he had been before since he was at least a little bit scared of that prospect though it was more the unknown that made him nervous and not the threat itself. The topic shifted at that point and when he was basically asked why he wouldn't want to use his Innocence to help people the boy played it off as though he couldn't care less about anyone, not even himself, which seemed to anger the man though Skye had no way of knowing the reason why since he hadn't been told anything about the man who would be his teacher.
Skye's views on people and their worth was more than a little bit warped because of his experiences with the Order, the kid having been taken from his mother's arms at the age of seven while she screamed for the men in black not to take her only child. The event had so traumatized the little boy that he'd suffered traumatic amnesia and completely forgotten everything about his life, his mind erasing those memories to save him from the pain of having to cope with what had happened. Of course events that occurred after he was taken to one of the branches of the Order had served to bring fragments of those memories back to light and the one that Skye was most vividly aware of was the one in which his mother was screaming for him not to be taken. That scene played over and over in his mind and haunted him even two years later so when Logan went on to try and convince him that he should care about people and want to help him the boy narrowed his blue eyes and growled, "What about the lives that the Order destroys? Doesn't that matter? I never asked for this, I never wanted to be a soldier of God, and I damn sure didn't want the memory of my mama screaming for someone not to take her only child. I can't even remember my own fucking name because of them and you want me to just forget all about that and help them with their war, like none of it happened. No. Way. In. Hell." Skye enunciated each of the last four words clearly, his eyes seeming to flash as he glared at Logan through slightly narrowed eyes.
After that was established Skye went on to inform Logan that his Innocence didn't even respond the vast majority of the time, leaving out the fact that it was with disastrous results even when it did, and he scowled when told that was normal. When the man went on to further elaborate on the process before adding that he could teach him to control it Skye shook his head. "I don't want to learn," he said with a shake of his head. "I'm not going to turn into their obedient little attack dog..." His words trailed off at this point as Skye raised a hand to touch his throat, his hand absently rubbing back and forth over the fabric of the turtleneck that he was wearing. His clothes didn't have the crest of the Order anywhere since Skye point blank refused to wear the uniform and this was another thing that his previous handlers hadn't been able to force him to do though he did sport the rose cross somewhere else but that was something that he wasn't sharing, among a lot of other things about himself. What he'd said before about his past had been a slip up and not something that he'd meant to say, the child regretting his loss of composure at this point.
Skye's gaze shifted to the window at this point and he blew out a frustrated breath when Logan seemed to realize what he was up to and iced that over for good measure. The nine year old was not happy about this but his attention was effectively diverted from his blocked escape route when Logan said that they had to deal with his bad attitude and language, this serving to get Skye's full attention and he watched as Logan walked over to the kitchen area of the apartment. Skye watched the man warily and when Logan moved to approach him the kid tried to dodge away but he wasn't fast enough and the man managed to seize his chin, Skye unable to pull away despite that he was trying. "Let go," the boy snarled, eyes narrowing even further as he made an attempt to kick the man but unfortunately for him that failed and he found himself unable to keep Logan from forcing his mouth open and pouring the hot sauce in the kid's mouth. Skye issued a sort of strangled yelp as he retreated several steps, his eyes watering as he opened his mouth and almost panted in an attempt to get rid of the burning sensation on his tongue. "Ba..." He started to call Logan a bastard again but stopped short when he was informed that he had to deal with this for five minutes but that he would be given something to stop the burning if he behaved himself. Skye gave the man a dark look of his own but he didn't say anything though of course the poor child couldn't make himself ignore the burning on his tongue, Skye pacing around in an agitated manner but wisely keeping his mouth shut, figurative speaking of course since he was still trying to cool the burn by panting. After a couple of minutes of pacing an idea occurred to the child and he walked over to the door, which was of course still iced over, and the boy started to strike the ice until he managed to knock a piece off which he proceeded to suck on like a popsicle in an attempt to cool the burning of his mouth. It helped a tiny bit but not nearly enough since water, and by default ice, just wasn't enough to get rid of the burn of the spicy hot sauce.
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