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PostPosted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 6:59 pm


Isiah sighed. He combed Tsurai's expression really closely before giving up. He had a vague idea- but no idea as to the extent...

It had been a long, long time since Cyrus and Isiah had spent time together. He had been a teen then- he had trusted so much more... His memories of Cyrus weren't exactly positive, but nothing like Tsurai would have of him. Not even remotely.

He gently combed through Tsurai's hair with his hands. "Okay. We need to find a place to stay after I rob this b*****d blind. Hopefully, I killed him." He turned back toward Cyrus. Though he lay in a crumpled mess, he was still breathing, slowly and shallowly. He grunted. He didn't think he had it in him to kill him..
PostPosted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 7:08 pm


Tsurai forced himself up on two legs, albeit looking like a fish out of water doing it.

"Don't touch me," he growled as he got up.

Tsurai's own hand went to his forehead to feel more sweat while he turned his head to see what he was looking for..
And there it was. Walking toward the door, Tsurai took his hand from his head and grabbed the knife with it, stumbling and falling back on his knees with it in his hands at Cyrus' head.

He stopped there for a moment, hesitating, left hand rubbing the red marks still at his throat.

Finally, he took the knife and slowly, wearily, weakly even, slid it into Cyrus' throat until it touched bone, where Tsurai stopped.

He flopped over on his side again with a sigh.
"Leave it there, he'll suffocate in a minute..." He breathed, closing his eyes. "If you take it out, he might survive... I'm going to... I'm gonna..." He shuddered.

"Sleep now..."

And with that, he fell into a deep sleep, similar to unconciousness, but not quite so.

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Evil Disco

PostPosted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 7:19 pm


Isiah's eyes squinted together, tightly- he gulped, shoulders slumping.

He waited until Cyrus' gurgling had ceased before he walked over toward Tsurai and picked him up, limply, laying him on the cot.

It wasn't until Tsurai's weight brought the stains to light that he knew. He immdiately picked the boy back up, carting him out to their original abode, laying him there. The sun had long since gone down and the ever pervading heat was long gone.

Isiah wrapped Tsurai in his jacket and picked up the duffel bag before leaving to ransack what was left of Cyrus' last belongings. After he was finished, he stuffed everything of worth into the duffel- and crammed Cyrus into his trunk.

That way, anyone who came sniffing around would know the price you pay.

He wandered back to Tsurai, lying in the opposite corner. He didn't want the kid to get any wrong ideas, though he feared for his thin-blooded compatriot.. if Tsurai needed warmth he would have to come and get it himself.

He leaned against the back wall- the brick was cool, surprisingly enough- folding his arms over his chest before shutting his eyes and attempting to find sleep.
PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:55 am


Tsurai had slept for a few hours, waking up in the night frequently inbetween weird, fever-induced dreams.

By morning he was covered in sweat and more dehydrated than before, but still wanted to get up and move someplace. He still wasn't used to being sick, and although he felt like doing nothing, he still wanted to do something.

Isiah was still asleep, so Tsurai decided to force himself up, and using support from random walls and upstanding debris, walk from place to place to get a better-fitting pair of pants. Or a belt. A belt was probably a better way to go.

Going from place to place in a daze, with how he looked, no one would help him. Everyone was more bigoted than before the bomb.
If you were dying, they didn't want to waste supplies, if you were living, you kept the supplies. That was all.

So Tsurai decided to stop trying. He found some rope, and tied it around his pants to keep them up, then collapsed at the well an hour after dawn.

Some time later, as Tsurai had zoned out and wasn't exactly sure what time it really was, there was a shadow looming over him.

Looking up, Tsurai realized it was a person. A woman, actually, and she bent down to look at him.

"Is that you, Tsurai?" She asked, crouching to look in his eyes.
Tsurai looked away, not saying anything.
"You grew your hair out," she tried to touch it, but Tsurai grabbed her wrist. "Don't touch me... Urgh.." He winced.

"What happened to you?" She said, trying to pull her hand away, but Tsurai wouldn't let go.
"Your face? You're so skinny now, and you... Chicken pox? Let go.." She finally pulled her hand from him.

"What vault were you in?" Tsurai said hoarsely.

"Wasn't in one," the woman smiled, lifting up her shirt and turning to the side, showing a very large, hideous burn. "I got this.. But I managed."
He put down her shirt and asked, "What about you? Why are you out here?"

"335..." Tsurai rasped. "What are you doing here... Why aren't you in Georgia...?"

"I was looking for you... And now that you're... You look so bad, Tsurai. I thought you were dead. And you look like you are, and... Come on, I can help get rid of the pox for you."
She stood up and offered Tsurai her hand. Tsurai took it and pulled himself up, falling back on her.

The woman, who was named Alex, put Tsurai's arm over her shoulder, and she supported him as they walked. But it had only been two steps when Tsurai unexpectedly stopped and said, "Wait... Isiah..."

Alex looked at the boy questioningly. "The book? I didn't know you read the Bible..."

Tsurai shook his head, "No... I'm travelling with him, let's go back so he doesn't..." He coughed, forgetting to put a piece of his sentence in, ".. Know where I am."

"Alright," she replied. "Where is he?"

Tsurai pointed in the general direction of where Isiah would be.
"On the bricks."

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Evil Disco

PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2005 10:36 am


Isiah still lay where Tsurai had left him, his limbs wrapped idly around the duffel bag, to make sure it wasn't pilfered while he slept. The sun had crept up on him in sleep, darkening the enroaching burn down his exposed side, freckles appearing everywhere.

He groaned quietly in half sleep from the burning pain of a steadily worsening sunburn, but exhaustion kept him unconcious- his body wanted him to sleep as much as he could before braving the elements again.
PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2005 10:43 am


Alex and Tsurai reached Isiah's burning form.
"Denzien..?" The woman growled to herself, but Tsurai by that time had gotten out of his mind again, and haden't heard her.

"He's almost worse off than you, Tsu-"

"Huh?" He only heard part of his name.
"What?"

Alex narrowed her eyes and tore of Tsurai's jacket, "Give me THAT," she groaned, throwing it ontop of Isiah.
"Now wake him up," Alex ordered.

"Yer not my mom," Tsurai groaned, leaning all his weight on Alex, practically falling over.

With that move, though, Alex felt his fever getting even worse.

"Jesus, I guess if you never get sick it really pounds you the first time..." She kicked Isiah's duffelbag.

"Get up Ezzekiel.. Er.. Jesus.. Ugh... What was his name?"

"ISIAH! Damnit, get the f**'s name right..." Tsurai yelled.

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Captain

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Evil Disco

PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2005 10:47 am


Isiah grunted, shaking his head back and forth to wag away sleepiness and half concious dreams, squinting against sunlight. He groaned, quietly and inwardly, at Tsurai's new label for him. He sat up, suddenly feeling out of place, eyes widening at Tsurai depending so much on what looked to be a very frail woman.

"Dammit, Tsurai.. What stupid s**t have you gotten into now?" He corrected himself quickly, rubbing sleep out of his eyes with his fist. "No offense meant, miss."
PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2005 10:54 am


Alex shifted her weight to support what was now all of Tsurai's weight. She growled in annoyance, replying with a quick "None taken" comment with an afterthought in her mind going "ya dumb denzien."

But the last part wasn't verballized since Tsurai, the residential ill idiot, started to say something along the lines of "shut the ******** up," but came out more of a garbled mess, and promptly lost consiousness, where Alex allowed the boy to fall to the ground as she narrowed her eyes at her fallen comrade.

"I think the fever's killing his brain cells," Alex sighed, bending over to pick the boy up with a few "mphs" of effort.

"Now come on, we're going to my house, Denzien.. Ezeikel.. WHatever the hell your name is..Denzien..."

It was apparently clear that she hated Denziens, by now.

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Captain

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Evil Disco

PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2005 10:58 am


Isiah grunted, standing, hefting the duffel bag over one shoulder before lifting Tsurai from hers, slinging him over his shoulders easily. "Ex-denzien," he felt obligated to clear that up. He adjusted Tsurai to lean him more against his neck so the boy's body wouldn't roll back and fwump onto the ground if he loosened his grip a little. "Dare I ask how you know the boy? Or do I not wanna know?"
PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2005 11:07 am


When Tsurai was taken from her, she glared at Isiah and crossed her arms over her chest.

"I had him just fine, Ezekiel." She answered while she walked.

"I was in one of the gangs he was in before the bomb. Had a crush on him, but he was with Kris with the time... Lucky b*****d..." She said to herself.

"But whatever. Point being is, I don't care if you're ex- or not, you're still a Denzien to me, Denzien."

So by this time she though his name Was Ezekiel, but was calling Isiah Denzien. Ha, how wonderful.

They reached a tent, where Alex told Isiah "Ezekiel" Denzien to wait. She crawled in and got out a few things. A towel, for one. A pair of jeans, a shirt, one of those long fuel lighters, a few washcloths, a bowl, and after some liquid-pouring, the bowl was full of water.

All these things were pulled out in front of the tent, in a decent-sized pile. She got the towel and flapped it in the air to lay it out for Tsurai to lie his hed on, and Isiah and Alex to sit on either side of the boy.

She put the washcloth in the water, then had it dripping ontop of Tsurai's forehead while she began to pull off the kid's medical wrapping on his face.

[Q]
Captain

Elder


Evil Disco

PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2005 11:14 am


Isiah played along, laying Tsurai down on his back, gingerly. "Chris? He was with Chris?" He was now genuinely confused. If that was the case.. whatever Cyrus had done to him, wouldn't have been.. that traumatic.. He sat down where she had planned him to, crossing his legs stiffly.
PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2005 11:20 am


"Yeah, you know h-- Oh my GOD... What the hell happened?"
She had finished unwrappinf Tsurai's face at that point, and had seen the huge gash in his face.

Alex frowned. She didn't want a scar on Tsurai's beautiful face... But with a gash like that, it was inevitable, no matter how it was fixed.

She reached over for the lighter, and got a flame before she thought better of it. She put the gas lighter out and leaned back into the tent, getting out a bottle of liquor.
Putting that in one hand, she got one of the extra washclothes in the other, and poured some of the alcohol onto the cloth.

Then she put the bottle down, and started wiping over the gash with the alcohol that had soaked into the washcloth.

TEXT!

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Captain

Elder


Evil Disco

PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2005 11:27 am


He grunted. "Whatever happened to stitches? Tsurai got stircrazy and went looking for trouble." He dug through his duffel to pull out a cigarette, his muscles tense with stress and addiction, nabbing the lighter from her with a quick 'if ya don't mind' before lighting it and tossing it back into place. He took a brief puff, blowing smoke upward, leaning back against his palms. "Wine would work better if you got it."
PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2005 11:36 am


She glared at Isiah again, grabbing the lighter back from him before the man could toss it. "I DO mind."

She slammed it back on the ground, finishing her work and tossing the liquor-soaked wascloth purposefully onto Isiah's face, and thus, his lit cigerette.

"I'd APPRECIATE it, if you didn't tell me what to do," she growled, expecting Isiah to catch fire.

She took her lighter back and lit it again, placing it at the very end of the gash, then quickly turning it off once the flame flared up for a moment and blistered Tsurai's skin over.

After that, she put the lighter back in the tent, keeping her gaze on the Denzien at all costs.

"I can't sew, and I think he'd freak out with a bunch of thread in his face, anyway. And I didn't have wine, 'else I would've used it. Actually, Tsurai's used to damn gunpowder. But that's just inhumane. Not that anyone has any, anyway."

She hmphed and decided to watch Isiah get burned before starting on Tsurai's pox.

[Q]
Captain

Elder


Evil Disco

PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2005 11:42 am


The cloth lit quickly- Isiah wasn't about to give up his cigarette- instead he tossed it off to the side in the dirt, grunting. "Listen, girl- I'm probably about ten years your senior, not to ******** mention I've patched up about ten times as many little arrogant ******** in my time then you could ever hope to till the day you die. Take the bloody advice of a veteran."

He didn't want to leave Tsurai in her care- he was afraid she may exploit his weakness for her own uses, as was the way women worked, to his knowledge- but she had so much more than they had at their disposal.. getting rid of her was beginning to look very attractive.
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