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Post by Skidar on Sept 8, 2014 5:12:04 GMT
"What??" Rapid spun around, eyes wide. "No! Of course not I just..." his face was flaming and he had to look away. "I just I can't I'm not..." he stumbled. "I can't talk about this right now." he said frustratedly. "I was just tired of him trying to make me sound like some sort of hooker ok? I'm not!" he kicked a rock and sent it smashing through a storefront window. He jumped and covered his mouth with his hand. "Great." he huffed and threw his hands up. "Just... swell." he grumbled and headed down the street. He felt like he needed to run away, he couldn't do this right now, this talk, this conversation, his chest felt tight and he didn't want to be more vulnerable, he already felt like he was under a magnifying glass. "I don't want to talk about this." he muttered and hugged his arms loosely around his shoulders as he headed down the street further away from him.
Emery flinched thrown into the storage celler, falling hard down the stairs. he heard thumping and crashing and gasped, rolling to the side at the fridge smashed downstairs and fell on its side. The cellar door slammed above them and Emery flinched, he tried to worm forward. "C'mon." he gasped painfully. He tugged at the cables and snapped them open. He pulled at the door and fell back when it opened. He shivered, eyes flickering, he'd lost a lot of blood. He jumped hoped she was ok. His head hit the floor of the cellar and he winced.
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Post by raine on Sept 8, 2014 5:23:43 GMT
Gabe tried to hide his scowl, "Whatever. Ok. Let's just keep moving and try to find the others." One look at Rapid had the tension falling from his shoulders and a frown marring his face. He felt bad, now. Taking long strides, he slid up next to the darker man and nudged his shoulder gently. "Sorry." He put a good inch or two between them, just to make Rapid feel comfortable. Gabe felt like he was being a selfish prick at the moment and though he was hurt that Rapid wouldn't admit anything to Gabe, he was frustrated at the memory of what Rapid had confessed to him.
Piper fell to the ground with a hard thud. Her body temperature was terrifyingly low and with all the scuffling and slamming around that had gone on while she was in that freezer, she'd bruised herself pretty badly, cut her lip, and blood was starting to leak from the wound Wilder had left on her. None of that matter though, the moment she saw Emery. With all the fight she had left in her body, she crawled to him. Though she wanted to lay down beside him and hold her friend, she couldn't. Piper didn't want to hurt him. Her body temperature was too cold. It would be like hugging frostbite. She'd been trying to warm up, but being stuck in the fridge really didn't help. It was her fault, really. She shouldn't have pushed how far her body could go. It might take hours for her to rebuild her body's heat, and who knows what lasting affects could appear in that amount of time.
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Post by Skidar on Sept 8, 2014 5:30:11 GMT
Emery's eyes flickered. "I don't blame you... I told you to attack them." he murmured breathlessly. "Just... if I don't make it, don't bother with my body." he mumbled. "Just try and get to the kids." he shut his eyes, he was so racked with pain that breathing hurt, he didn't know how much longer he could stand this. "Can... can you untie my wrists?" he winced. He wanted to try and patch up his side while he was still conscious.
Rapid looked over, surprised he was there. He wondered why Gabe seemed so offended, and his face still burned at the memory them waking up on the couch together. Gabe insisted nothing had happened but now he doubted it, and he was afraid. He didn't know what he might have done last night or what he might have agreed to. And Gabe was annoyed with him. Great, he didn't know what to do now. "I know you said nothing happened last night... but I'm having trouble believing it." Rapid mumbled. "I just... need to know. Did ANYTHING happen?" he glanced worriedly at him from the side.
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Post by raine on Sept 8, 2014 5:37:39 GMT
Piper let out a noise of protest. He wouldn't die. With trembling hands she picked at his bindings. Eventually they fell free and she took the time to pull off her jacket and handed it over to him before looking pointedly at his bleeding side before shuffling a few feet away. The cold wouldn't help him now. She felt useless. If she believed in a higher power entity, this is where she'd have been praying for a miracle.
To a passerby, Gabe might've looked like he was imitating a tomato. The truth of the matter was, he was blushing. "I..uh...I don't know what you mean. I-I said there was nothing so there was nothing."
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Post by Skidar on Sept 8, 2014 5:48:03 GMT
"Gabe don't lie to me I'm not stupid and its insulting." Rapid stopped and glanced over. "What happened? I need to know." he frowned. "What did I do?? Or... what did you... you said nothing happened but now I know that's not right." he put his hands in his pockets and waited.
Emery took her jacket gratefully and wrapped up his side. He swallowed hard and tried to concentrate on anything but the pain. He'd been lucky, He hadn't been gored by Piper's dead shards, but he had been sliced pretty bad in a deep graze on his side above his hip. He twisted to tie the jacket around himself and gasped in pain, grunting and settled down again. He knew Piper was hurt too, they both were. And things felt hopeless. He could feel the chill int he air from her terrifyingly low aura, and he wanted to be closer to her, if he was going to die, he wanted to be near a friend. But she was just so cold. He pulled his collar closer around his neck. Screw it, he already felt like he was dying, what was a little hypothermia going to change... he dragged himself within arm's distance of Piper and collapsed on his side again, waiting for i all to be over.
The cellar hatch opened and three Rebels started downstairs. Emery gritted his teeth but had no power to get up as they crouched next to him wordlessly. One to him and one to Piper. "Leave her alone..." he growled and flinched as they shoved a needle into hsi arm. "Owch! Stoppit!" he snarled.
"We're hear to heal you, quit squirming." one grunted.
"She's too cold to inject." the other said.
"Then patch her up without the sedative." the other grunted. "Just get it done so we can get out of here."
Emery tried to curse them out but his tongue wasn't working, and it became a soft-mouthed mumble of stern noises as his body rejected movement. He felt dull tugs on his side as they started to stitch him up and he glared at them, wanting to smash them into the wall.
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Post by raine on Sept 8, 2014 5:54:47 GMT
Piper's lips trembled from the pain of their "healing." They were rough with her, but she refused to cry out. They would leave soon and hopefully fix up her and Emery. She watched the rebels that tended to Emery with sharp eyes, reading to lash out if they tried something stupid.
Gabe couldn't meet his eyes. "Uh... we didn't do anything per say, but you uh... asked me if I would do... things... with you when you learned to control your powers..."
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Post by Skidar on Sept 8, 2014 6:01:45 GMT
Rapid's face flushed and he looked away in shock. "Oh God... I didn't..." he pushed his hands through his hair. "I'm sorry, I'm not, its not that I don't... I just, I never said... never told." he looked down and back at him guiltily. "I... I never admitted I was... and I don't want you to think I don't... but we're just..." he couldn't seem to form the right words. "I couldn't never... I can't..." he looked at his ahnds and his mouth trembled, furious with himself. He shut his eyes tight. He'd never be able to trust himself around Gabe again! He'd opened his fat mouth last night, hammered and not thinking. And he'd hurt Gabe without ever even toughing him. If Gabe was this upset already... he had no idea what damage he could to to him, possibly even kill him, no. No... he wasn't meant to be with anyone. He had accepted. That. Control or not, he'd always be too afraid to ever to anything to him, er, someone. No. He felt sick. He folded his arms tightly around himself and wished for a moment he could crush himself with his own strength to end the sheer embarrassment he felt. "I can't... I couldn't. We can't." he mumbled hoarsely. "I'm... I'm sorry."
Emery winced when they wrapped his middle so tight it was tough to breathe, but then they were gone, up the stairs and out. He groaned loudly in his throat, still numbed by their injection. His eyes flickered to Piper and searched her face to make sure she was ok.
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Post by raine on Sept 8, 2014 6:08:42 GMT
Piper shuffled closer to Emery. Her temperature was slowly lowering, maybe in an hour or two she'd be back to normal. She laid down on the cellar floor beside him and curled up next to his side.
Gabe felt tears form in his eyes. He didn't think his feelings could be this deep for a man he'd only just met. Using the last courage he had left, he stood on his tip-toes and placed his arms around Rapid's neck, hugging the man. "Just shut up. You're fine. You're okay. We're okay." his voice was thick with emotion.
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Post by Skidar on Sept 8, 2014 6:14:58 GMT
Rapid sniffed hard and flinched when Gabe hugged him. He'd never wanted to hold someone so bad in his life but he didn't dare raise his arms. He'd kill him, he knew he would, Gabe would insist he wouldn't but Rapid knew better. He knew his strength was monstrous enough to take Gabe away from him and he could never let that happen. He swallowed hard and nodded, turning his head and resting it against Gabe's. It was all he trusted himself to do. He took a shuddering breath. "I wish... we could." he mumbled. He kept his cheek pressed against the side of his head. "We're ok." he echoed, though it felt hollow, like he was pushing away the only thing he wanted. He remembered Will's challenging question. 'What did you want to do with your life?' Feeling Gabe hug him, tell him things were ok, he knew exactly what he wanted, and the cruel part was he knew he could look, but never touch for himself. His throat burned and he said nothing else.
Emery sighed out seeing she was ok. He fingers twitched when she brushed agaisnt them, yeesh she was freezing, but she was alive, they both were. They'd make it. They'd made it this far.
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Post by raine on Sept 8, 2014 6:22:12 GMT
Gabriel fought long and hard before he won the battle against his tears. When he couldn't bring himself to speak he simply turned his head towards Rapid's for a moment and quickly brushed his lips against the cheek of his friend. It was bold and so unlike him, but he just wanted to try that before he let go of Rapid. Without meeting his gaze, he pulled away and turned his back to Rapid.
Piper didn't say anything, just basked in the fact that they both were alive for at least this moment and that no matter what tomorrow would throw at them, they'd have right now.
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Post by Skidar on Sept 8, 2014 6:29:11 GMT
Rapid half reached out to bring him back but forced his hand back into his pockets, his eyes welled and his brushed them clear with his other hand. This... as much as he wanted it couldn't mean anything. He sighed out shakily and swallowed hard to make sure he could focus on not letting his voice crack. "We should get going..." he glanced at him, turned away still, then started down the street, feeling at the same time, as delighted, yet completely miserable as he'd ever felt before. He tried to think of the marks, what they'd mean, but his thought were clouded with Gabe and he couldn't filter them. They'd walked almost ten blocks before he realized they were near the edge of the city, dangerously close to Reboot turf. He stopped walking and tried to think about which way to go, then he saw a box on the corner with three marks on it and his jaw dropped, he suddenly knew exactly where they were.
Emery felt his control returning and after a while he moved his jaw. "Stupid Rebels." he mumbled. "Did they hurt you?" he winced.
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Post by raine on Sept 8, 2014 6:33:48 GMT
"N-no... j-just got tossed arou-around a bit in the f-f-fridge." She could see her breath. Craving human contact, she traced the lines on Emery's palm with her fingernail. "I'd normally s-say we sh-should think of a w-w-way out of here, but I-I'm seriously doubting ther-there is one."
Gabe stopped abruptly when Rapid did. Was something wrong? He really wasn't paying much attention to where they were going or what was happening around him. He was lost in thought. "What's up?" he questioned quietly.
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Post by Skidar on Sept 8, 2014 6:38:11 GMT
Emery sighed a cloud of breath. "I'm not much good to you anyway, I think we should stick it out just a little longer, I left Molly a message... if she comes back she'll see it." he didn't know if Molly was even alive, she'd been gone over a day now...
"The box... its the boxes I unloaded those boxes!" Rapid ran over to the box, it was the same marker lines, hastily slashed onto the side of the empty cardboard box, warped by wind and weather but now he knew! "They're at the depot, the truck depot, it had these symbols on the boxes!" he slapped his palm to his forehead. "I'm an idiot! I saw those boxes for hours every month!" he stiffened hearing a crackling sound. "I hear something..." he put out and arm to shield Gabe from the unseen sound. He realized how loud he'd just been and felt stupider still. They were way too close to Reboot territory!
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Post by raine on Sept 8, 2014 6:41:57 GMT
Gabriel listened to Rapid's hurried explanation, but fell still at the new sound. He slowly turned his head left and right. Was that... growling? The moment the thought entered his head he saw the beast. It came at them- all fangs, fur, and fury. Emerald eye's widened. "Rapid! Look out!"
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Post by Skidar on Sept 8, 2014 6:45:23 GMT
Rapid turned just as a creature bowled him to the ground, knocking the wind out of him, he slapped its snout roughly and reached up, grabbing its ear and clenching it tight in a fist, he threw it off him and rolled to all fours to see what the heck had attacked them. A wolf? A dog? What even was an animal doing int he city! He frowned and grabbed the two broken cinderblocks in the gutter, ready to hurl them at the creature if it tried to attack again, but he hesitated, he LIKED animals, he didn't want to hurt one! But this animal seemed bizarrely animal-like.
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sometime after ten, hope you'll be up! also.... WILL PROFILE thatisall 
