Darius was walking around, looking for people. Having forgotten what had happened before he was just walking around. With no destination in mind. He opened his notebook as he walked, and started reading. While he read he ended up walking face first into a wall. He fell down and just laid there.
June was walking around her eyes scanning the area around her, looking for any signs of her lost friend, Darius. They had been camping together with a few others, but most of them died and they got slit up. She knew Darius had probably forgotten her, which was fine. She had learned how to work with it. She passed a store, and with her exceptional hearing she heard people from inside, she walked in cautiously, pulling out her sword.
"Jasper? Well it's nice t' meet you, Jasper." Gus relaxed slightly and offered the girl a grin. "I'm Gus, and this here is my pal Jez. I'm jus' patchin' up his arm real quick." He was about to say more when he heard the barest scraping sound from the other room, at the front of the store. He stiffened. "Kid, come in here an' shut th' door, nice 'n quiet. Somethin's out there."
June whistled out, listening for any sudden movements, if it was who she was looking for, he would have already showed himself, so she could only assume it was others, though most people may not want to come off as a threat, she couldn't care less.
Jez gave the girl a soft smile "Nice to meet ya. Jasper's a pretty name" he says softly before he whips his head in the direction of the faint noise.
His free hand goes to his hatchet, gripping the handle. "Here under the desk," he says, gesturing towards the desk for Jasper to hide under just in case someone-or something had broken in.
"It's in the corner. No one would see you" Jez stands, stepping towards Jasper and the doorway.
Elodie gives a buzzed smile, her mouth uneven, and her eyes glassy, as she holds up 7 fingers, and then puts her hand down.
"I'm only buzzed though, not drunk." She says with a promising grin.
Gus quickly set aside his surgery tools and got up to follow Jez, flicking his jackknife out of his pocket. "Jez, careful," he whispered. "You done enough fer one day, let me check it out."
June heard the voices continue, and switched her sword for her bow, which she notched an arrow and stand facing the door the noises were coming from aiming at the door. She looked super dramatic like something from an action movie, and she knew it.
(Where are the girls, Elodie and Jesse?)
Jasper quickly moved to shut the door softly and quietly, hesitating to before moving to behind the two boys however peeking out from the sides of them, clinging slightly to Jez.
(they are in Elodie's 'apartment'. Which is a random top floor apartment, she found at the very start of the whole screamer thing, but she liked it so she stayed there, making it her home, and even going as far to decorate a bedroom, with some tuff she brought from her old house.)
Jesse raises her eyebrows "zeven? No" she shakes her head "you are little more zan buzzed" she scoffs, a smile on her lips as she stands
Her head spins a little but not a lot, her tolerance to alcohol quite high.
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Jez puts his hand around Jaspers shoulder, "it's fine Gus. I don't want you getthurt too" Here one of us should go around. If they're coming in the store their backs sure to be open" he says, his hand still on Jasper.
Gus looked as if he didn't like it, but nodded. "I'll sneak around. Gimme a minute to get to th' front before you see who's there." Glancing at Jasper, he added, "You keep back in case there's a fight. We won't let anybody hurt you."
He stealthily slunk out the back door and around the building, relieved to see no one. Hopefully they weren't being ambushed by a large group. Approaching the front, he tried to peek through the dusty windows without being seen from the other side.
June stood their with her sword hung across her back and her blow aiming at the door, the arrow she had was a toy arrow she had to scare people, it had a rubber suction piece on the end so it was really harmless.
Darius saw someone (Gus) come out of a store to the front and walked over to them. “Hello?” He asked obviously.
Gus leaped into the air like a startled cat and whirled around, pointing his knife at the unfamiliar young man. "Who 're you?" He did his best to lower his voice so he wouldn't alert the stranger inside the store. "What d'you want, huh? Tryin' to swipe this place out from under us? I got buddies and we ain't afraid to fight back!"
Jez nods to Gus, leaving him time to go around the front before leaving Jaspers side, hesitating to do so.
"Hide underneath the desk. I'll be back" he says going to the doorway and creaking it open, only just enough to see through the crack.
I wonder if he's found anything.
Just then he heard voices, amongst Gus's.
He turns to look at Jasper "you know anyone who might be around here?" He asks, closing the door
Darius took a step back, he himself had no weapon, "I am Daruis…who are you?" he asked calmly.
June, hearing Darius turned around, shouldering her bow and ran outside to him. She pulled him into a hug, completly ignoring Gus. "you are alive!" She smiled.
Elodie flaps on of her hands at Jesse, shaking her head from side to side rapidly.
"No, im fiiiiiiiineeee~" she said a little slurred, but otherwise telligible.
Okay, maybe she was a wee bit over buzzed, heading into drunk territory, but honestly to her; a light weight and not normally an alcohol drinker, she couldn't tell the difference between buzzed and drunk.
She smiled at Jesse from in front of the kitchen window.
Gus stared at the two of them in confusion. They didn't look unfriendly, at least….. "Uh…..you two know each other?" he ventured. He lowered his knife, but he didn't put it away yet, aware that there could be more strangers around and his friends were still vulnerable inside the store.
June looked at Gus, “yes this is Darius, I’m June, Darius here has short term memory loss, so when I lost track of him I was really worried that he would get hurt, or forget that the world is shit and die cuz of the creepers” she smiled sticking her hand out for gus to shake. She had the other arm around Darius.
Jesse slowly nods, standing from the chair and going over to her, putting her hand on her shoulder "uh…." She looks at her face, studying it for a second "go lay down or somezing" she says, her hand still on her shoulder
"Oh," Gus said. After a moment, he accepted June's handshake. "I'm Gus. Me 'n my pals live here right now. Glad you ain't tryin' to kill us or anythin'." He have them both a half-grin. "You sure spooked us. We thought you might be mutated critters yourself. You live around here too?"
June shook her head, “our place was ambushed so I have been just around” she shrugged, “but it is nice to meet you. She grabbed the notebook out of Darius’ pocket and wrote something in it before putting it back.
Elodie shook her head, indicating she was not in fact, going to go lay down.
"Nuh uh— nope, no way." She said, popping the 'p' on the 'nope'.
She then turned away from Jesse, and poured the dry cereal, previously left on the counter, into a bowl she pulled out of a cabinet. She then eat the dry cereal out of the bowl with her hand, and shoving it in her mouth, eating it.
"Well, uh…." Gus scratched his head and stowed his knife. "I reckon it's all right if y'want to come inside and rest a spell. You can say hi to my friends too. They're probably wonderin' what's goin' on." He hoped Jez and Jasper wouldn't mind the intrusion. They both needed peace and quiet to recover from the morning's adventure—for that matter so did he—but it felt rude to refuse these two newcomers shelter when he'd come to the area specifically to look for survivors.
June smiled, “that would be so nice, though I wouldn’t want to intrude.” She said sweetly.
(Me regretting my plan to kill her off)
Darius looked at Gus for a moment, “who are you?”
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