Dylan held off for a moment, "Are we sure we don't want to understand these things better? I know he's weird, but guys like him might just be able to figure out more about these things than we ever could." Dylan eyed Kaz, then looked back to Avery and handed her the case, "I'm not going to say you're wrong, but I still think we should think about it while we're out. Just in case."
"See, now someone's making sense," Kaz said, grinning now. He cast a quick glance at Xerces, who was dejectedly unhooking cables and unplugging machines with the help of a few small, drone-like robots flitting about
Avery sighed and looked between the guys she was working with and the man with the machines. Maybe it would be a good idea, but she did still think they should hold onto them for now.
"All right. I'll think about it. But we should still hold onto it for now," she said, glancing around one more time.
"Agreed," Dylan nodded, thankful that his slight disagreement hadn't turned into a full on argument with Avery. "In that case, I'm good to go. The supplies are already in the truck, and we can work out which stone that actually is on the way up to the dig site we picked out on the map (remember that, anyone?)."
(Lol. I do now! XD)
Avery nodded and shot him a quick smile. “Sounds good. Kaz? Vaughn? You two ready?”
"Yeah, we're ready," Kaz said, giving Xerces a small wave goodbye as he took Vaughn's hand, gently tugging him after the others
"Then off we go," Dylan chirped, "I'll prep the truck. Ya'll meet me outside when you're ready." As he left, he thought he felt the cyborg's eyes burning into him, but decided to chalk it up to his own paranoia about robot-people and ignore it.
Once up the elevator, he ran up to his room, took the laptop and truck keys from under the bed, then went outside. Once he started up the truck, he pulled up their map on the laptop, then propped it up on the dash and waited for the others.
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Avery nodded at Dylan before he left, then turned to the others. “C’mon, lets go pack up our things and go. Kaz, you can get the elevator working again, right?”
"On it," Kaz said, taking Vaughn's hand and gently tugging him with him towards the elevator, humming softly as he did so
Vaughn had given a reluctant huff, mumbling to himself for a moment. He still allowed Kaz to tug him away, throwing a quick look at Xerces. “I don’t like this. I know he’s your friend Kaz, but as far as we can assume, the stone is dangerous. We cannot let him just keep it,” he murmured to Kaz.
Avery glanced at the two men, eyes narrowed slightly. She was just curious about what they were saying to each other, but she wouldn’t eavesdrop. Not on the people she considered her team. And possibly her friends.
"Yeah, I know…But it's better that he would have it than someone else. I know tons of people who would want to get their hands on it, and they're all way worse than a jumpy scientist. And I know all his major contacts, so if they start passing the stone around there's really only one guy I'd be a little worried about…" Kaz tried to say
“Yes, but can he protect it is the thing?” Vaughn asked Kaz, brows raised as he leaned against one of the elevator walls. “And who is the contact? Anyone that I would know?”
"No, not really. There's this demon on the second floor of the apartment, and his brother is kind of like…crazy demon jesus? He eats people and gets off on it. He's weird as hell and Xerces gives him…uh, torture weapons, from what I can tell. But he wouldn't steal from Xerces, even if he was told about the stone. I don't think. I only met the guy once and his pickup lines all involved eating me in some way," Kaz said with a small, awkward smile
Vaughn gave a slightly disgusted noise. “I don’t want you talking to him if we see him again,” he mumbled and pressed a quick kiss to the side of Kaz’s head. “I still feel bad about the idea. Xerces could get hurt if something is triggered in that stone.”
"Wait, don't talk to the neighbor, or don't talk to the neighbor's brother? Because I'm only fine with one of those, because I like Levioth," Kaz said as they kept walking
“The one that was making comments towards you,” Vaughn responded, stepping after Kaz.
"That would be his brother, then. And I'm fine with that, the bastard is buddy-buddy with Damascus, and after Argo had to deal with him? Not a fan," Kaz said with a small noise of disgust
(Hi, sorry for not answering. I have been very busy with the ACT coming up, so I wasn’t on at all)
Vaughn nodded his head slowly. “I remember hearing about him,” he said, a sneer in his tone as he spoke.
(Don't worry about it! The ACT is ridiculous. Lol. Good luck on it!
Should we have them reach the top, now, and finish getting their things together to leave?)
(yeah we can do that)
Kaz nodded, his nose wrinkling a bit. "Honestly, he's such a dick. I mean, dick bosses are inevitable at some point, but trying to force your second in command to do that shit? Not cool," he muttered bitterly as they finally reached the exit
Avery sighed and stepped out of the elevator after the two guys, running her hand through her hair quickly before she glanced over at them. “Let’s hurry up and pack as quickly as possible. The sooner we’re out of here, the better.”
Vaughn nodded his head in agreement. He had been about to speak when Avery spoke to them, and he gave a hum. He walked over to where his bags were, putting his few things into them.
(Just so we remember existence…)
(sigh Yeah… I was going to let someone else respond before I did.)