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Started August 25, 2022 by @EtherealDreamer

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( @Davadio )

Lucas shook his head.
"That was a stupid idea, that noise she made." He said softly. "She could've gotten hurt."

( @EtherealDreamer )

Ronni nodded quickly. "Lots of jumpy, armed people."
She also didn't understand why June would do it, but that wasn't her concern ust now.
"Try to go back to sleep. Still need you to rest."

He pulled Ariella back into the room their atuff was in, shaking his head. "Teenagers."

Ariella jumped at the sound of crashing and gladly stood behind Lucky. Her body began to shake. Not again. She couldn't do this again.
She barely calmed down when it was revealed to be June. She took several deep breaths, calming her body and mind. She was fine. Everyone was okay. Just a teenager doing teenager things. They didn't think before doing things. Their brain wasn't fully developed and they were normally irrational.
She didn't agree when Luck pushed Nune but she kept her mouth shut. She only gave June a firm but sympathetic look. She came to stand in front of Lucky when they entered their temporary room. "Exactly. A teenager. Doing teenager thing. Don't be too harsh."

"I had a gun pointed at her and a dog fully capable of maiming people right next to me," Alastor pointed out to him, glancing at Zeus who stared back at him with innocent eyes.
"And even if she did stab me, she's just a teenager, not an adult who's been trained to deal with fighting with different types of injuries-" He took a breath and stopped talking, knowing he was getting himself worked up over something so pointless.
"Sorry…I'm just mad at her for doing that because she should've known it would've ended badly. Most of us are armed and I didn't want her to get hurt," he admitted. He glanced at Devon. "Was your mother, like, abusive to June? Is that why she likes violence?"

"my mother got rid of June when she was born, June was raised by our grandmother trained in self defence and fighting…she never met our mother" he said quietly "even if you shot her it would only give her more reason to hurt you"

( @Davadio )

Lucas smiled and closed his eyes, bringing his legs up and resting his head on his knees.
"Okay," he said in a tired voice and within moments he was asleep.

( @CaseyJ @yellowqueen )

Lucky heard Liam and June talking out in the living room and stepped back out. He glanced over his shoulder at Ariella. She was right, he couldn't expect June to be mature, but…
It was still irritating, and she ought to know better.
"June, the group already decided to wait till tomorrow. We had a whole discussion about it. Lucas is sick and we need more supplies. Why would you just ignore that and wake everyone up like that?"

June rolled her eyes at Lucky, "Yeah ok but we are not getting more supplies, we are just laying around doing nothing"

Lucky shook his head at her idiocy. "So get off your butt and do something, but don't be a jerk. That kind of thing will get you shot. There are at least 3 people in here with guns, and I don't care how much of a boss you think you are, you're gonna have a hard time dodging bullets."
He turned and went back into the bedroom, grabbing his stuff and stepping back out. "C'mon, June, since you're so set on getting more supplies. Let's go."

Ariella stiffened as she watched the exchange. She wasn't sure what was going on with June. Maybe a child trying to prove themselves. Whatever it was, it was going to get them all killed.
She grabbed Lucky's arm. "That's enough, all of you." She was putting her foot down. "We have enough supplies to last us at least a week. There's no point going out now and risking anyone. When we're on the move we can search for more supplies should we run out of anything. June, I understand that you're trying to help but you're only making things worse. You're a teenager. Let us handle it. Please. And Lucky, don't instigate anything. We just need to calm down. Maybe take a walk around the complex."

"Honestly, she can claim to be aggressive and tough all she wants, but she wouldn't be able to hurt me as much as I could hurt her," Alastor replied, his smile turning sad as he said that. "Hopefully one day she'll grow up and learn that violence isn't the answer to everything."

"Right right, like you'd let a 'kid' roam around" she crossed her arms. "No ones hurt, no harm no foul".

Devon sighed sadly, " Yeah, some people learn that the hard way."

Lucky didn't pull away from Ariella, but he didn't immediately respond either. "June, I literally told you earlier to go out and look if you were really so concerned about it. And you don't get to say no one's hurt. You don't know that." Her nonchalant attitude towards her own stupidity was a bit much.
He turned to Ariella. "You're welcome to come with. And the only thing I'm instigating is for her to pull her weight instead of sitting here making people angry because she's bored."

Alastor nodded in agreement before getting up off of the floor, the movement making Zeus stand up as well.
"I think some of the others came back," he said, hearing the voices coming from outside of the room. "I was planning on just getting out of this cramped apartment for a bit. Do you want to come too?"

Ariella had pleading eyes as she gripped on to Lucky's shirt. "Please, don't go out there. Ronnie and Lucas ran into someone, there might be more people out there. It's better to stay here where it's safe whole Lucas recovers. Please."
She didn't want to be left alone in that apartment again but she was also scared to leave it. There was at least some sort of protection in the apartment versus being out in the open. And there was safety in numbers. It was better if they all went together.

Ronni watched Lucas sleep, not in a creepy way, but just thinking of all the ways things could go wrong, and hoping that none of them would come to pass. She slept on and off as she sat there, keeping an eye on him.

Alastor nodded in agreement before getting up off of the floor, the movement making Zeus stand up as well.
"I think some of the others came back," he said, hearing the voices coming from outside of the room. "I was planning on just getting out of this cramped apartment for a bit. Do you want to come too?"

Devon stood up shakily, "yeah- I um- ok" he nodded slowly. He rubbed his arms slowly, still on edge from his breakdown.

Lucky didn't pull away from Ariella, but he didn't immediately respond either. "June, I literally told you earlier to go out and look if you were really so concerned about it. And you don't get to say no one's hurt. You don't know that." Her nonchalant attitude towards her own stupidity was a bit much.
He turned to Ariella. "You're welcome to come with. And the only thing I'm instigating is for her to pull her weight instead of sitting here making people angry because she's bored."

"Yeah ok, fine, I wouldn't have gotten shot" she shrugged. "but lead the way then mr leader"

Lucky snickered at June, shaking his head at her assertion she wouldn't have got shot, when she nearly did. He turned to Ariella. "Again, you're welcome to come with us, but nobody survives this by not taking risks. She needs something to do to channel all that childish energy."
He glanced at June as he headed out the door. "Let's go." He snagged Sinjoro's reins on the way past, and they headed down the stairs towards the sidewalk.

Devon stood up shakily, "yeah- I um- ok" he nodded slowly. He rubbed his arms slowly, still on edge from his breakdown.

Zeus stood obediently next to Devon, making Alastor smile.
"He likes you a lot," he commented, glancing at Dev. "Zeus isn't normally this loyal to another person."

( @Davadio @phantomflame )
June rolled her eyes, grabbing her sword from her things she followed Lucky. "I am not scared of death" she muttered.

Devon smiled at Zeus, "Animals tend to like me… which is odd." He hummed. "but uh, lead the way"

Lucky just shook his head to himself, wondering how much work poor Devon had needed to put in to keep the child alive. He looked around and found a billboard, advertising a Dick's Sporting Goods store a couple of miles away.
"If we head that way we should be able to find the tents and stuff you were looking for, maybe some better clothing for when it gets cold and stuff." He started off down the road. If they kept up their pace, they could make the 2 mile walk in less than a half hour, get what they needed from the store, and be back in no time.

June nodded, following lucky, "this is boring" she groaned. She had a short attention span, and honestly got bored way to easy.

"Well, this is what you wanted, so suck it up." Lucky responded, his voice conversational. "At least out here you can be as loud as you like and not be obnoxious to people."

"can't we move faster, Like run? or something?" she jumped up and down a few times.

They were already moving at a pretty quick clip, but Lucky shrugged. "Alright. You run if you like, Sinjoro and I will keep up." He gave her a brief smile. "Just don't get too tired to make it back, carrying stuff as well."

Liam looked around the now empty room(I think maybe) and walked back over to the couch where he sat down and began playing with his gun, removing the full magazine then taking it apart and cleaning each piece with a small rag.