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 Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 3:55 pm
It was Ambrose.
Emelyns heart leapt to her throat, then dropped to the pit of her stomach, coated in distaste and a little misplaced anger as she watched Angelina vault into his arms.
...She didn't know much about Angelina, and had only spent a few minutes- at least, a few conscious minutes- with her... but she'd already terribly misjudged her. Instead of seeing a frightened woman, relieved at the sight of some stability and comfort... one who'd been dropped only recently on this hellhole to deal with the fact that Ambrose had essentially been cheating on her.... she saw someone who was rubbing in the fact that they were still whole, still with Ambrose... and that they'd won. Emelyn was blind, and didn't even know it.
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:07 pm
Ambrose had barely started to pick himself up when he was overwhelmed with a wonderful short brunette who had flung herself into his arms.
"Angelina!" He exclaimed, smiling, relief flooding over him. "You're alright! I was so worried!" His tail began wagging as her presence in his arms confirmed that this was real - she was safe.
Then, the world seemed to open up around him and he felt the icy stare of .... Emelyn. His fur ruffled. The curiousity as to whether or not she had received his gift passed his mind only briefly as he could feel the tension thickening around him.
He swallowed, looking over to the blue eyes underneath the leather goggles. "Emelyn.." He breathed (or perhaps wheased would be more accurate). He turned to Amaya who had emerged behind him and sprung on the opportunity to hopefully defuse something.
"Amaya...! we... uhm... found others." He stated the obvious as he shifted from one foot to another, rubbing a hand down Angelina's back.
"And.... Angelina.... Emelyn..... looks like you've .... met." He winced.
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:15 pm
Having not noticed the other two before Angelina spoke up, she nearly jumped out of her scales when she rushed into Ambrose. Green eyes then trailed over to Emelyn, the woman she barely knew but just enough to know she was a friend.
"Yeah!" Amaya tried to sound positive, though not really knowing what to do and feeling horribly exposed. Slowly she inched behind the wolfman in an attempt to hide herself. Knowing neither of them very well, all she wanted to do now was find Hargun. She almost completly forgot about Ambrose's situation due to the fact that Emelyn hadn't seen her after her second change and Angelina had been rather... hesitant in seeing anyone else as changed as her.
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:22 pm
"You were looking for me?"
Angelina looked him over, noticing he was also in his sleep clothes, and then to the lizard woman she had met briefly in the cafeteria. She was hardly clothed at all, showing virtually all her changes and Angelina tried to stifle her uncomfortableness.
She followed Ambrose's gaze towards Emelyn and then back. Part of her told her it would be polite not to hang all over Ambrose, but another part of her felt feircely protective. So she compromised, dropping her hands from around his neck she stood by his side, but kept his paw in her tight grasp.
Then she looked at the four of them. "Ambrose, what is going on?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:28 pm
It took all the willpower in the broken woman's possession not to narrow her eyes at the clingy couple.
"Yes Ambrose," she said, cutting through the obviously nervous statement of the man, feeling like it was a little insulting and pandering, "we have met. Somehow we woke up together." Then she turned to the girl who was cowering behind him. It took her a moment to recognize Amaya, and her frozen heart melted.
"Amaya? Are you okay? Were you hurt? You look so scared," she said, her voice sweet and low.
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:38 pm
Ambrose noticed the audible change of tone as Emelyn noticed Amaya, and he almost felt guilty for thanking his stars that she was by his side.
Ambrose gave Angelina's hand a squeeze, and looked back to his green-eyed 'little sister' with an encouraging look.
He took a breath. He had to focus things, take the charge. "I... don't know precisely what's been going on... I woke up on the cliffside... precariously close to the edge. I headed back to the village only to find everything locked down tight. I looked through our window and noticed that you weren't there, Angelina.." He paused at that, the obvious indication that Ambrose had expected Angelina to be in the room they shared with an apologetic look to Emelyn.
"Then.... I followed my nose. I smelled smoke and found Amaya on the helicopter pad. There... there was burned wreckage... two... two ... figures inside." He swallowed, absently wiping at his nose - wishing that he could get the smell out of his nose and the images that it brought to his mind.
"I don't think anyone is in their duplex anymore.... It looks like we've been scattered... but I don't know why. Even... the cafeteria's locked down."
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:42 pm
Even though Amaya tried not to care about how Angelina had looked at her, it was hard. She looked down at her incredibly large feet which... didn't help very much. Her tail gave a twitch towards her as the iguana tried to convince her to be angry. After all, it wasn't HER fault she looked like this. But no, she would have none of it. The fear was still inside her, quickly over throwing the aggitation.
Slowly she looked up and passed Angelina to Emelyn. The lizard-girl had the sudden urge to run over to her and cling to her and babble out everything she had seen in the past hour or so but she didn't dare leave her 'hidding' spot. "I-I'm okay... Just scared. Yeah." Green eyes went to the ground at Emelyn's feet as Ambrose explained. Her frown deepened, probably indicating that she was the one who had initially found the bodies.
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:47 pm
Angelina blinked. "Scattered? You're kidding." Angelina inched closed to Ambrose, thankful for his stability. This was Angelina's first real big spoonful of the twisted mind of Moreau. She had yet to change, like the other three people here, and generally she had been able to keep herself happy by fooling herself into believe they were on some tropical resort.
But to just throw everyone out over the island.. on a cliffside? What was the point?
"Bodies? Any idea who? Was the staff... evacuating or something?"
Wait.. if the staff was leaving in such a hurry that they couldn't bother to try and save crashed coworkers... that must mean something bad had happened.
"Maybe there was an accident in the labs.. maybe something dangerous.... or maybe they were caught... there has to be a reason!"
Angelina felt the panic rising in her chest.
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:52 pm
"If it weren't for the... bodies," Em said, cautiously, due to the already sick, frightened look on poor Amaya's face, "I would think that this has something to do with Moreau. That he'd set us up, or something. ..Unless those two bodies are people who tried to escape, and now Moreau has the island locked down."
A twinge of bile rose into her throat at the thought of Moreau killing anyone. She didn't want to be here- more than anything, she wanted to run off into the woods- she was going to see Angelina back to the village, but now she'd been reunited with Ambrose. So why was she sticking around? But somehow, something told her she shouldn't be alone right now. Not in the chance that Moreau had turned murderer. What if he'd found out about her premature escape plots with Joli?
Her face suddenly paled. "Have you seen Joliette anywhere? Any of you?" She said, fear rising.
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:57 pm
Ambrose's ears lay back against his head as the questions arose. He was scared himself, but was trying his damndest to provide a brave front for the girls. And more than anthing, something in him was screaming that they could get through this as a group much better than paired off... or alone.
Ambrose shook his head. "I... I couldn't tell from my look who they were.... other than there were two of them." He winced. "They were... pretty badly burned. And the helicopter was in smoldering pieces."
Ambrose fidgeted with Angelina's hand, rubbing his thumb against its back. "If they were running from something.. or there is a reasoning for all of this... I don't see how or why we were scattered and the buildings locked. It doesn't seem to make sense to me. I was thinking maybe we should try to make our way to the labs. Maybe they're there? I... I don't know."
Ambrose shook his head to Emelyn. "I haven't seen Joliette since around Christmastime.... why?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 5:01 pm
The panic in Angelina's voice wasn't exactly helping Amaya at all, but she couldn't blame her. She was scared too.
"I haven't, no..." Came her tiny voice from behind Ambrose. "Ambrose found me and then we found you two..." She trailed off with a pause before adding. "I need to find Hargun to make she's alright." Assuming Emelyn wanted to find Joliette because they were close friend's or something.
The thought about going to the labs sounded promising, but she didn't want to somehow find a way to escape or go anywhere and not have her best friend around just in case they needed to do it right then and there. And what about Greer? And Chubbs? And Colche? Where were they all?
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 5:05 pm
"YEah... yeah... we should definately stick together and try to find more people," Angelina said, trying to calm herself down. "Somethings up, yes... yes I guess we should head to the labs..."
She shuddered to think that two people had died on this island. Was it...murder? An accident? Did some of the islanders commandeer one of the helicopters... did they get shot down?
"Wouldn't anyone here be able to look at the wreckage and tell what happened? Why it crashed?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 5:11 pm
Everyone was talking at once. Em put the flat of her palms against her temples, pressing in the headache that was growing there. She answered everyone, only looking off into the distance as she did, not willing to meet the eyes of anyone in present company- Ambrose and Angelina for obvious reasons, and Amaya for the fear that surely resided there.
"I ask because I think... Moreau may have done something to her. Especially if the reason those two in the helicopter are dead are because they tried to escape. ...Moreau may think that... we have been... well..." she was unwilling to finish the thought, in the case that the cameras were still trained everywhere on the island. "And yes, as much as it makes me sick to say," she said, once again not ignoring the obvious tension there, "I think we have to stick together. At least to get to the lab."
Finally, she looked up, meeting Angelina's eyes with an unreadable expression on her face. "And who is to say that it crashed? It may have been blown up. But I may be able to tell. I was a youth diplomat," she said, her tone flat- she didn't want to seem as if she was bragging, "and I've been through war zones. Mostly Macedonia, Kosovo. The only real casualties the UN aid and US troops had were from people shooting at helicopters. I've seen several crashes."
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 5:18 pm
Ambrose's tail swished in indecision. "Well.... " He glanced between the two brunettes. "I can easily get back to the helipad from here - it was only ten or so minutes back in the way we came. I know that there is a road that leads directly from the helipad to the labs - they dove me down it when I first arrived."
Turning to Amaya, he spoke. "Hargun could be anywhere if our scattering is any indication. I didn't see her at the village... nor the cliffside. There are at least thirty of us here based on the duplex Angelina was assigned. Perhaps many more - including a good number of people I've likely never even met. From the look of the state of the village - with the power off and the place abandoned-looking, we're all scattered somewhere. I would say heading one direction might be as good as any unless you know somewhere she might have gone?"
He sighed. "Normally I wouldn't want to ... see that ever again. But if you think you might be able to tell something from seeing it, Emelyn - it might be necessary. And..." He took a breath, unable to just pretend nothing was wrong. "I wish I could say I'm sorry in a way that you believed me." His ears drooped and he looked to Angelina. "No one could have predicted what happened and is still happening on this Island. YOu have every right to hate me. But know that the feeling is not mutual if so."
"From there, we'll go to the labs - maybe they'll speak to us - tell us what is going on. I... didn't know Joliette was on Moreau's bad side... she kept talking about one of the doctors - a 'Sabin' who was picking on her- but never said anything about Moreau himself."
Ambrose turned, never letting go of Angelina's hand, and started to head back in the direction that he had come.
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 5:25 pm
As much as she wanted to go to the labs and hopefully find out what was going on or even find a means of escape, not to mention stay together, she couldn't bring herself to unless Hargun was with her at the very least.
But Ambrose was right. They could very well bump into her on their way to the labs... Biting her bottom lip she watched as he started with Angelina. She didn't want to see... THAT again. Taking a few hesitant steps behind them she paused.
Come on, your not going to get anywhere just standing there. Follow them and maybe you can help or something.
Letting out a shaky sigh she started onward again, a little distance between the couple and her pace slow.
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