forum //where the dead men lie// >>closed<< stalkers welcome tho 0.0

Started May 24, 2021 by @Celeste_X0X0_ group

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"Whatever you want, hun," Gus replied gently, remaining where he was for the moment. "I only came to check on you an' make sure you were doin' alright. And just lookin' at you, I'd say you ain't." He was still worried about what Jasper would do if left alone, clearly remembering her attempt to slip away a few hours ago. "Wanna talk about it? I sure hope you don't blame yourself fer what Jez did—he's a knucklehead and brought all that on himself."

Travis didn't respond for a moment after Tap's confession. He was surprised; she had hidden her visual impairment well and he might not've guessed for a long time if she hadn't told him. Finally, after a calculating silence, he took a step closer and put a hand on her shoulder.
"Tap," he said soothingly. "I'm not gonna leave you. I'm not some cowardly scumbag like the guys you met before, aright? Listen—where I'm headed, we won't need to fight for survival like this. We'll be living in luxury, just like they did in the old days before everything went to shit. If you want, you can find the people who would've left you for dead and make them serve you. Now doesn't that sound great? Just stick with me, and I'll help you get there. I promise I'll watch your back until we find the city and wave goodbye to this hellhole forever." His voice was full of confidence and reassurance. "What do you say?"

Jesse looks down to Elodie, not having expected that reaction. Though no emotion showed on Jesse's face as she spoke.
"You can leave if you want. I do not need you to survive." she says in a low voice. Jesse didn't need her but she did want her around. If only she could actually say that rather than trying to show it poorly through her actions.
"And i never said id be killing the cat. im saying the reapers would get to it first if its loud. Use your head for once" she scoffs.
"why are so many people so sensitive about cats?" she mumbles to herself. She didn't understand how quickly Elodie's mood changed, as all Jesse said was lets go. Though she didn't care to think about it too much. She didn't see how it would be worth her time to try to argue about it. Nor did she see a point in trying to make her stay. If she wanted to go, she would. Jesse made it herself for long enough.

Elodie scoffed and her face began to flush a soft crimson color in anger.
"Listen here," she said, switching Jupiter to under her arm and stepping closer to Jesse, inches apart. "I don't need you either" she said angrily, her jaw clenching and then unclenching again.

Jupiter mewed softly from under Elodie's arm.
Elodie poked a finger in the center of Jesse's chest, infuriated. "I was nice to you, when I didn't have to be, because unlike some fucking people…I think even though the world's gone to shit, that's no reason to treat everyone else that is trying to survive that way too."

"I spent to much time on you, trying to get you to be my friend, but all you do is act like you'd rather be somewhere else." She spat "honestly Jesse, get over yourself, im done trying with you, you either act like you want to be with me, or you tell me you don't, and we part ways now before we get attached to each other and you do something stupid like shot me again and then we each leave with broken hearts." She said quickly, but angrily.

Cassius nods to her "ill leave you guys then. Call for me if you need anything and if you decide to go outside, let me know please" he says quietly, closing the door.
He lets it click softly and turns to Ophelia, who is holding her dirty spoon in her fisted hand and her bowl had been set on the counter in the kitchen. "Can i have more?" She asks him. Cass nods "sure. But be careful with your spoon going down the stairs" he warns. "wouldn't want you getting hurt"
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Jesse blinks a few times, biting her tongue. She doesn't move at all when Elodie pokes her chest, though wanting to take a step forward and grab her wrist to shove it away. She tries her best to have self control. As much as she could.
What was she even talking about? It was hard for Jesse to understand where she was coming from and why she was acting out the way she was.
Jesse couldn't care less about the time Elodie had spent on her trying to get close to her. It's not like Jesse asked Elodie to try to be her friend. Jesse hadn't noticed her efforts at all and couldn't really think of a time she did even when she did mention it but that was only because she had a hard time seeing people's intentions, emotions, and body language. She was always bad picking up hints and setting them down. Jesse didn't grow up around a lot of people and the people she did grow up around were always tough and/or out to get her. So she didn't understand what Elodie was doing and why she was doing it. Why would Elodie want to be Jesse's friend? What did she have to gain other than protection? That was the only reason Jesse thought she was staying in the first place and she didn't think anything of it. That was a normal thing to do right? For Jesse it was.
They hadn't even known each other for a full 48 hours, so Jesse hadn't become attached like everyone had seemed to have done.
At that last sentence she couldn't help but laugh. She lets out a small chuckle "It looks like you're the one attached. Not me. So if you want to leave, there will only be one person sad about it. And it's not going to be me." she says, taking a step back and walking away, her hand now on her gun by her waist in case Elodie tried anything brash.

"Whatever you want, hun," Gus replied gently, remaining where he was for the moment. "I only came to check on you an' make sure you were doin' alright. And just lookin' at you, I'd say you ain't." He was still worried about what Jasper would do if left alone, clearly remembering her attempt to slip away a few hours ago. "Wanna talk about it? I sure hope you don't blame yourself fer what Jez did—he's a knucklehead and brought all that on himself."

She frowned at the ground, just hoping he wouldn't come and sit next to her. She didn't want him to look at her, or anything like that.
She couldn't hide it if he came over to her.
"Im- I'm f-fine really.." She spoke, not doing a great job at keeping her voice from shaking as she spoke to him.
"I don't wanna talk about it…y-you'd be disappointed..' She mumbled out, not wanting to look at him.

Travis didn't respond for a moment after Tap's confession. He was surprised; she had hidden her visual impairment well and he might not've guessed for a long time if she hadn't told him. Finally, after a calculating silence, he took a step closer and put a hand on her shoulder.
"Tap," he said soothingly. "I'm not gonna leave you. I'm not some cowardly scumbag like the guys you met before, aright? Listen—where I'm headed, we won't need to fight for survival like this. We'll be living in luxury, just like they did in the old days before everything went to shit. If you want, you can find the people who would've left you for dead and make them serve you. Now doesn't that sound great? Just stick with me, and I'll help you get there. I promise I'll watch your back until we find the city and wave goodbye to this hellhole forever." His voice was full of confidence and reassurance. "What do you say?"

She was genuinely shocked at his response, the shock showed up on her face as well. Though she quickly moved to get rid of it as she heard him ask a question.
She was..glad to finally have someone who wouldn't leave just because she was at a disadvantage compared to everyone else.
"I don't want to make people my servant, even If they were jerks. However the rest of that sounds great, so I'm in."
She smiled up at him, looking at him even though her vision of him was partly blurry.
She held out a knuckles for a fist bump, it just felt right in the moment.
She was honestly fighting back happy tears.

"I don't mind that at all Darius, i hope the next meeting is as good as this one." He smiled at him.
"Your a pretty cool person to talk too anyway, so I don't mind.'

"well..thanks…I try to be…cool? I guess" Darius shrugged, "I guess Im going to go find June…so she can tell me what to do." He sighed.

"Your welcome." He smiled at Darius, "good luck with that then, I will just uh. Be here." He shrugged.

"right…" Darius nodded, he wasn't good at conversing with others, and it was easier when June did most of the talking. "Sorry, I am not good with…people" he muttered, walking fof to find June.

June came over to them, and moved Darius back to beside Evan. "Dare, why don't you keep Evan company? He seems like he could be your type" she smiled and walked away.

Evan was shocked at June pushed Darius back towards him.
"By type you mean- like friends right?-" He spoke. Not exactly understanding that fully. He just waved at Darius again.
"Hey again." He chuckled.

June chuckled, "Im kidding, teasing, don't worry" she smiled and left.

Darius rubbed his head with a sigh, "ignore her…and Hey again…" he sighed, June was an over bearing sister like person, but he couldn't complain, they were all either of them had.

Cassius nods to her "ill leave you guys then. Call for me if you need anything and if you decide to go outside, let me know please" he says quietly, closing the door.
He lets it click softly and turns to Ophelia, who is holding her dirty spoon in her fisted hand and her bowl had been set on the counter in the kitchen. "Can i have more?" She asks him. Cass nods "sure. But be careful with your spoon going down the stairs" he warns. "wouldn't want you getting hurt"
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Jesse blinks a few times, biting her tongue. She doesn't move at all when Elodie pokes her chest, though wanting to take a step forward and grab her wrist to shove it away. She tries her best to have self control. As much as she could.
What was she even talking about? It was hard for Jesse to understand where she was coming from and why she was acting out the way she was.
Jesse couldn't care less about the time Elodie had spent on her trying to get close to her. It's not like Jesse asked Elodie to try to be her friend. Jesse hadn't noticed her efforts at all and couldn't really think of a time she did even when she did mention it but that was only because she had a hard time seeing people's intentions, emotions, and body language. She was always bad picking up hints and setting them down. Jesse didn't grow up around a lot of people and the people she did grow up around were always tough and/or out to get her. So she didn't understand what Elodie was doing and why she was doing it. Why would Elodie want to be Jesse's friend? What did she have to gain other than protection? That was the only reason Jesse thought she was staying in the first place and she didn't think anything of it. That was a normal thing to do right? For Jesse it was.
They hadn't even known each other for a full 48 hours, so Jesse hadn't become attached like everyone had seemed to have done.
At that last sentence she couldn't help but laugh. She lets out a small chuckle "It looks like you're the one attached. Not me. So if you want to leave, there will only be one person sad about it. And it's not going to be me." she says, taking a step back and walking away, her hand now on her gun by her waist in case Elodie tried anything brash.

Elodie scowled, her bottom lip slightly trembling, faltering into a frown for a quick second before becoming a scowl again.

"Honestly Jesse. Fuck you, you're so fucking full of yourself that you can't ever let anyone in and that sucks. Because no matter how much someone likes you, you're stuck on never letting anyone in." She said angrily, with an underlining of pity.

She hugged Jupiter closer, holding him in her arms and streaking hher hand across the top of his head and stopping behind his ears to scratch.
"well," she said sadly "I guess this is goodbye Jesse" she added softly her voice breaking a bit.
Maybe she did get attached to people to quickly, in a world like this one, it was hard not to feel a connection with other people you met, because there hardly were any, maybe she was attached to Jesse, she had a feeling she was, but she decided it would probably be best to leave her to her own devices before she got to attached.

Jesse looks back to her, now a good yard and a half away from her. She takes a deep breath "It's goodbye only if you want it to be." She pauses "you'll know where to find me" Jesse finishes, turning her back to Elodie once more and walking away.
She hooks her finger around the edge of her bandana as it was tied to her head, pulling back her hair. She loosens it and pulls it off her head, letting hair brown fall down into her face as she walks away. Jesse wraps the green bandana around her wrist and hand. She didn't want to leave Elodie and she didn't want Elodie to leave but it sounded like Elodie didn't want to be around her so Jesse figured she'd let her go. If that's what she wanted.
(sorry its short)

Cassius nods to her "ill leave you guys then. Call for me if you need anything and if you decide to go outside, let me know please" he says quietly, closing the door.
He lets it click softly and turns to Ophelia, who is holding her dirty spoon in her fisted hand and her bowl had been set on the counter in the kitchen. "Can i have more?" She asks him. Cass nods "sure. But be careful with your spoon going down the stairs" he warns. "wouldn't want you getting hurt"

The girls nodded, and when the door was shut, a sigh of relief passed between them. Were they finally safe, even if it was only for now? It had been a while since they were in a habitable home they could actually stay in. And to find people who were kind enough to let them stay… it felt too good to be true.
Sef set her baseball bat against the wall and went over to Lyn, who had set the backpack on her bed to look through it. Looking back at her amiga, she said, “Oh, do you have the flower she gave you?”
Sef blinked, then brought out the little dandelion from her pocket. Lyn, in turn, got hers out, and took Sef’s. She pressed them together and tied them to one of the zippers on the backpack. ”Ahí la tenemos,” she said. “That way we won’t lose them.”
Sef nodded, grinning faintly. “It’s cute.”

Ophelia turns around and holds the spoon out to Cassius, which he grabs slowly, looking at it and scrunching his nose just a bit.
"what did you do to it?" he asks with a chuckle
"i drew in the mud with it!" she says with a lighthearted giggle before running down the stairs, her curly mess of hair bouncing with every step.
Cass looks at her wide eyed, "you what?" he whispers to himself in disbelief.
how did…..and she ate with this?
He takes a deep breath and makes his way downstairs, looking at the girls' door then heads downstairs. Once down, he makes his way to Ophelia as she was reaching for the soup. "Honey hold on. I'll get it for you." he says, setting the spoon in the sink and looking for a cloth to wipe his hands off with.

After they had settled down, Ophelia was eating her soup in the living room while she watches the fire flicker in the fire place. Her hair had been pulled back into braids once again, matching her fathers hair as well and her eyes were focused on what Cass would only guess was the floor or a small bug on it.
Cass scoops up two servings of soup and heads out of the kitchen. "Ill be back in a second Fia."
She turns around to look at him "Can i help?" she asks
He shakes his head "thank you but I've got it."

Jesse looks back to her, now a good yard and a half away from her. She takes a deep breath "It's goodbye only if you want it to be." She pauses "you'll know where to find me" Jesse finishes, turning her back to Elodie once more and walking away.
She hooks her finger around the edge of her bandana as it was tied to her head, pulling back her hair. She loosens it and pulls it off her head, letting hair brown fall down into her face as she walks away. Jesse wraps the green bandana around her wrist and hand. She didn't want to leave Elodie and she didn't want Elodie to leave but it sounded like Elodie didn't want to be around her so Jesse figured she'd let her go. If that's what she wanted.
(sorry its short)

Elodie stared as Jesse's back for a few long moments and then turned, rubbing her fingers into her eyelids tiredly. "Fuck" she muttered.
She turned around and began walking towards the door of the building, hoping Gus and the rest of the group wouldnt be to mad she left temporarily.
She tried to open the door but it was bolted shut, so she knocked quietly, wary to attract attention to the sound. She leaned in closer to the door.
"It's Elodie and Jupiter" she said quietly, but loudly enough to hear.

Jesse looks down to the bag of supplies she had stolen for Elodie in her hand. She debated for a little while whether to drop it or not since Elodie still needed it, but she decides if she were staying with them that they would be able to aid to her wounds just fine without it.
So she slings it over her shoulder and makes her way to the apartment, focusing on the soft crunching sound of her boots on the broken pavement, the gravel moving beneath them with every step. The earie quietness around her was a bit unnerving but it wasn't anything she wasn't used to.
She looks up to the sky, the bandana on her hand loosening just a bit when she raises her hand to her face in order to shield her eyes from the sun.
Cold, somber clouds were rolling in, and fast. Soft gushes of wind rolls through what little clothing Jesse wore at the moment, sending shivers throughout her body.
The sun now veiled by the clouds, everything around swiftly becomes dark and humid.
I'd better get back before the storm picks up

(Ophelia probably has a stacked immune system tbh)

Together, they unloaded the backpack. There were only the basics in there anyway, and they kept the stuff like the toilet paper as well as things used for travel in it. Which was most of it. Lyn had an old photo of her father and herself as a young toddler that she brought out, and Sef took their phones, found an outlet, and plugged them in after having to scoot some toys aside.
When they were mostly done, Sef came up to Lyn. “You should rest,” she demanded.
“You should too,” Lyn automatically responded. This was a common exchange they had between them.
“Honestly? I want to take a shower. Wash off or something at least. When’s the last time we took showers?”
“The last time we saw clean, running water that wasn’t in a river or lake, I guess,” Lyn shrugged. She yawned, and Sef immediately pointed at her widened mouth.
“See! You should rest. We have been walking around since sunrise, you carrying the backpack for most of it, and on top of that, estão com Chico.”
Lyn blinked. “Wait, what?”
Sef sighed. “Should I use euphemisms now that we’re going to be around a child for the foreseeable future or will you have the confidence to not get embarrassed if I just say it?”
Lyn figured it out, and laughed. “Oh, well. That’s true.”
Sitting at the end of the bed, Sef motioned for her to do the same. There was genuine concern in her eyes, and she placed a hand on Lyn’s shoulder. “Hey, are you okay? I know we didn’t find any pain meds at the store, but they probably have some here.”
“I’m fine, I promise.” Lyn yawned again, and Sef pulled her close. “I’ll rest, but you have to too at some point.”
“Fair,” Sef chuckled.

(Sorry i didn't mention this before but there's no electricity and this has been going on for two years now. There's now working phones or electricity unless their house is solar powered. Again, sorry. It was my fault for not mentioning this before)

(Also Fia definitely does XD She's probably eaten off of worse without Cass knowing lol)

(this is going to be rather short sorry.)

Cass makes his way up the steps, not trying to be sneaky or anything but his footsteps were more on the silent side.
Once he reaches the top of the stairs he makes a right turn and knocks on the bottom of the door with his foot, as both of his hands were occupied at the moment.
Fia gets up and runs towards the window in the dining room, her nose pressed up against the glass. Her breath was fogging the window up as her big eyes peered out into the foggy void. Her brows crease in worry, looking as the clouds start to roll in. Fia loved the rain but the monsters is what she was worried about.
She looks to the crops in the back as the wind blew their fragile leaves around.
Fia looks to the door, thinking about going outside and protecting the crops. It was tempting for sure and she had no self control when her father wasn't around.