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 Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:06 pm
Aubrey stroked Colche's hair, to comfort herself more than her surrogate daugher at this point. Something was definately wrong, the hostility in the room finally materializing with Ambrose snapping at her.
She was confused and angry - why the hell where they yelling at her. COlche, she could possibly imagine getting lost out of the jungle or forgetting to shower - but Ambrose looked like s**t and that was sure as hell one giant red flag.
She gently tried to push COlche off her with a scritch behind her ears. "I'm back, Colche," she consoled robitcally, turning her attention to Ambrose. "What the hell do you mean what happened? That's what I what to know?? I haven't been around if you didn't notice." Aubrey's voice was hot with anger, but thick with confusion.
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:15 pm
The slender cheetah girl clung tightly to Aubrey still puuring happily before Ambrose shouted and her eyes fled to him. She had never heard him shout before it was a scary thing. She made an uncomfortable little sound and snuzzled her short snout in to Aubreys tummy "no shouty bad, back now, sokay" her voice was muffled by Aubreys clothes but she was just so glad to see her the tribulations of the jungle and being out in the wet were fortgotten. At least until she sneezed and turned her perfect, doleful blue eyes up at Aubrey "got sneezes" she stated rather simply, though she allowed Aubrey to push her away a bit she wasn't about to let her 'mother' out of her sight at least for a little while.
Like the rest of them she had llost what little weight she had started to put on being in a cushy environment and ti had nothing to do with ehr latest transformation. She had eaten sparcely on her wanderings through the jungle and her belly reminded ehr of this now "sit! eat!" she stated, still clinging to Aubrey, she wanted her steak, but she didn't wnat to leave Aubrey just yet, if anything bad happened, Aubrey would make it okay, she really didn't like Ambrose shouting, but Aubrey would make it alright again.
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:24 pm
"Im Ki-" And then she was cut up. Ambrose slaming the tray down almost sent her flying into Rex's arms like a damzel in distress, but instead she only sightly jerked in his direction. The air in the cafeteria was tick with confusion and frustration and she really didn't like it, and it was evident from the way she moved, and the way that she had completely forgotten about her meal. She just felt scared all of sudden.
"...We where out in the jungle... Nothing worked at all, everything was locked... We're been there since... Uh..." She took the first device that her hand reached to, checked the date - and bluted something in a foreign language that was probably better kept this way, before adding something sightly more understanble. "Two months ?!?"
Suddently it was almost as if she felt ill. Along with the atmosphere in the room, it almost felt as if she was choking. What the hell was up with her ?!? She had seen fights before. And been parts of some. But right now she was scared stiff. She needed to go, needed to get out of here...
Her stomach gave a turn, and she darted up. "I-I don't feel so... Im sorry, I... I..."
The words confused herself in her mind, and she found outside before she could even finish any of her sentences, going to her duplex, to the calm, to the peace...
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:28 pm
Ambrose's first, gut reaction was skepticism. How in the hell couldn't Aubrey know what had happened to them!! They were locked out, they had to be behind this - the helicopter crash, everything. But.... the snarl slowly faded on his lips although his ears still remaind pinned back.
This was Aubrey, after all. And each and every time he had gotten mad at her it had eventually disappated. While the woman's.... priorities were certainly in a blender - 'evil' or 'deceitful' were about as far from this woman's vocabular as 'kind' and 'benign' were from Moreau's.
He looked to Colche, suddenly feeling guilty for yelling at Aubrey. His ears lowered and he glanced to the ground, sighing.
Ambrose patted Angelina's hand as she took a seat next to him and looked quickly to Amaya, his eyes speaking of sympathy and talking at a future point.
"You... you mean you don't know??" He was flabbergasted. "You haven't been here?? Where did you go?! Was Moreau behind all of this?!? We were locked out! The electricity JUST turned back on!"
He nodded to Kim, confirming her synopsis, but doubletaked. It had been two full months? Dear lord. He didn't wait to take a rough bite of the sloppy joe on his plate. He was starving. He felt guilty - he smelled the girl's fear as he shouted - but in his mind, the outburst was deserved, even IF Aubrey wasn't technically at fault.
"I'm sorry, Kim" He winced quietly as she fled.
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:30 pm
Angelina sat and just listened for now. She waned to know why she hadn't changed... if she was going to...and into what. But not now. She would feel selfish asking now. And she didn't want to be told she was turning into a barnicle or a cockroach in front of a lot of people.
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:32 pm
Aubrey didn't know? What the hell was going on?! Wasn't she like... the second in command or something? Was this some sort of sick joke she was playing? Playing dumb? Slowly she stood up, pulling her chair back with her long, finger-like toes. Her large hands balled into fists on each side of her tray, her scaley body still covered in dirt and mud along with her clothing, which was still only her black undergarments. Green eyes continued to bore down into the only person on the staff she had been told to trust.
Amaya only barely heard what Kim was saying, all of her attention focused on the woman by the door. Her tail continued to sway back in forth angrily, the look from Ambrose and everyone else for that matter going unoticed.
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:37 pm
The dirty man sat in silence, watching the exchange between Ambrose and Aubrey. Obviously, he was new to the island and hadn't really known much of anything that was going on besides the things that were with him presently. Plus he was smart enough to know no to get in the middle of a fight with a wolfman and a woman. You just don't do that.
By the looks of it, this Aubrey woman didn't have the slightest clue what had happened! How were your "experiements" locked out of the jungle for two months and you don't know jack squat? She had been gone, though.
"Bye Kim!" He assumed her name was, "Feel better..." Gosh, everyone has been getting sick... Rex still had the little in his throat as well, hopefully some medicine would get rid of that.
He seemed to have melted, then solidified in his chair until Amaya stood up with her hands clenched. Anything but a fight, please... He perked, sliding upright in his seat. All of his attention focussed on the ordeal before him.
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:44 pm
Aubrey immediately went to consoling Colche. She was sick and nothing was being done about it. She let the girl lead her over to her meal so she could continue, but she didn't s it down. She stood by her, one had on the girl's head, the other planted firmly on her hip.
But her annoyance was quickly melting away to nothing but pure confusion. "You have to be kidding me?" Flooded with interrogated questions, she tried to remain clam, and look in control, through she felt ratgher helpess. "Where was I? I... I... I took Nick to meet my parents," she finally blurted, "then we took a little vacation. But thats all... no other staff left..everything should have continued on as normal.. I mean, what? There HAD to have been eletricity! The staff is here.. I have piles of coding reports on my desk...and..and.."
She shot a warning glance at Amaya as she stood, holidng up a pointed finger and narrowing her eyes.
She glanced to Rex. "Who are you?? How did you get here?"
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:52 pm
Colche's gentle puurr echoed throught he cafeteria as the tension ceased, at least a little. She gnawed at ehr steak, happily devourering the juicy meat while Aubrey wasbehind her. She sneezed, and owed, a couple of times before she finished, though by the time she had eaten the steak she was looking content and rather sleepy. She was stil sitting next to rex and his shoulder looked like a good place t rest her head, just for a minute. Reaching her clawed fingers up she grasped the hand on her shoulder and puurred "no going" she stated, her eye sight bluuring, she was tired and sick and full of good food. Sleep wasn't far around the corner for her. Her cheek soon met with Rex's upper arm and she leant there quietly, blinking in long, slow bats of those long ashen lashes. "No go" she purrs sleepily still holding Aubrey's hand though her grasp loosened slightly as she drifted off, still sitting, her furry cheek pressed against the none furry man. Nothing could go wrong now that Aubrey was here, Aubrey made it all better, seh always had.
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:54 pm
Ambrose slouched a bit in his seat with this new information, confusing building on confusion. IN the interem, he was shoveling food down his throat so fast he barely tasted it - but what he did tasted ... so.... good.
He slowed, swallowing so he could reply, looking now again at Colche, Amaya, and Angelina - three individuals he felt fiercely protective of. Colche did look on the ill side... Amaya scared... and the poor thing - the changes that she was undergoign really hittting him - even her hair....
And Angelina - he could tell she was nervous - knowing that it probably had almost as much to do with the people around her as the whole confusing situation.
He took a lungful of air, held it for a moment, and released, letting the tension go along with it.
"Yes.... we... we've been out of the duplexes for ... Kim must be right - just about two months now... all of the power went out and we all woke up outside around the island. Everything was shut down and locked. Even the labs - the fence was off, but it was impossible to get into any building. "
he shook his head. It didn't make any sense. "You're telling me that you AND Moreau were gone??? Moreau ISN'T the one who did this to us?? We had to hunt our own food.... no showers... no soap. And it's been raining the past few days solid! Who WAS here? There couldn't have been electricity! Everything was so quiet!"
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:03 pm
Amaya let out another hiss as Aubrey had the gawl to give her a look like that. She was very, VERY pissed but that didn't mean she was some loose canon. Just because she was more animal then human didn't mean she wasn't still in control of her own body. Tempted to swat the womans finger down, she resisted and simply let her tail speak for her as the lashes got quick. "We were locked out. For two months. I almost DIED because it got TOO COLD." She spat at her, fists clenching even farther as angry tears formed in the corners of her eyes.
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:08 pm
"Me?" Oh goody, he was getting dragged in! "Uh, m'name is Rex." He would have gotten up to shake her hand with a formal-type greeting, but Colche had conked out on his shoulder and he couldn't get up. "I uh, washed up here a few days ago. We've been living outside ever since, like Ambrose said" He gestured to the man across the table, "I really have no idea what the hell is going on." He shurgged nervously and spoke a bit faster.
Rex was impressed with Amaya. The girl he'd known to be shy and reserved stood up, enfuriated. He nodded with what she said about her almost dying, he'd been there to experience it.
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:18 pm
Aubrey's jaw was lax she was so flabberghasted. What the HELL was going on?
She just stood there shaking her head. She addressed Ambrose first. "No, Nick was with me. The WHOLE time... I didn't even see him touch a computer or a cel phone or anything." She listened to Amaya and Ambrose, not knowing what to say. I mean, its not like she didn't believe them. They were filthy, they certainly smelled like they hadn't bathed in two months, and their anger was real. BUT..."that's just... impossible.." she stuttered out. She glared back at Amaya, doing her best to keep her anger in check. She was just confused as the rest of them. "We have a full staff here." she said, slowly, deliberately. "Everything from a cook to a cleaning lady. And all the lab techs. They were HERE. They have been working..I have proof. Dr. Duvert is right in command under myself, and he was here. He was reporting to Moreau all last night."
Aubrey did not like Dr. Duvert. Something about him was just wrong. But there's no way he could have pulled this off. And expect to live to tell about it at least. Moreau wouldn't allow a debacle like this to happen to precious subjects. As twisted as, even Aubrey could admit he was, Moreau had a strange and unshakable appreciation for life. Safety of his subjects, at least physically, was high priority for him. The crease in forehead when even the smallest lab rat died was enough to crack his emotion facade to show he ddn't like it when things under his care died as result of his hand.
She looked back to Rex, shocked. "Ship wrecked?" The cel phone was already out, ready to alert Moreau. "Washed up here? Have you been contacted? Inspected? Treated?"
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:24 pm
Ambrose paused again in his mass consumption of food - his plate that was once piled with meats now almost empty.
He believed Aubrey - her shock was too convincing to be an act. But it still didn't make any kind of sense - especially if Moreau himself was absent. He had never met this Dr. Duvert that others like Joliette had mentioned, but he hadn't heard anything good about the man.
He looked to Amaya, his sympathies and selfrighteous pity flaring as he put a comforting hand on her scaled shoulder. He had no idea that the cold had gotten that bad to her, and felt responsible. She was his 'little sister' after all, and that's the very reason he had a campsite was to watch over people. "Amaya... oh my god, I had no idea.... you... you should have said something... " His ears crumpled.
Ambrose nodded on corroboration with Rex. "I was part of the group that found him on the beach... But I don't understand... How could the staff have been here? There was no food, no contact, no shelter... there was the remains of a helicopter crash on the helipad for God's sake!"
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