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 Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 7:53 am
Al leapt up to the direction indicated by Noah, eyes wide with terror. His gaze stayed there for a moment before it occurred to him nothing was there - clearly this was a ruse to distract him. His head swung back around at Noah.
"I'm not falling for it!" He scolded Noah and scooted his chair away from the desk Noah was sitting on just slightly. "You're going to hit me..," his lip may be pouted.
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Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 8:03 am
"I'm not! I'm really not! I knew you were mad," Noah pouted back. "I wouldn't hit you, you're my friend ... I like you." He fidgeted, caught between embarrassment and a mounting sense of anxiety. "I heard something, really I did. A thump." Something occurred to him. "Maybe ... maybe someone's outside."
He slipped off the desk and crept over to the window, hesitating before he unlatched it, then opening it and leaning out a little to check for lurkers.
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Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 8:22 am
"I'm no mad! I just don't want you to hit me," he sniveled feebly before adding, "and I like you too!"
Al's eyes however followed Noah in his investigations and went about the size of dinnerplates at him leaning out the open window. It was dark. Al didn't think this was smart at all. <******** hell, get back in here before something eats you!" he scolded before reaching out to grab Noah by the seat of his pants and attempting to drag him back inside.
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Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 8:34 am
Something had grabbed him. Noah shrieked, flailed, almost fell out the window, overbalanced in the other direction, and fell back onto the floor of his room. He stayed there and tried to calm his pounding heart. "Ohmygodmanyouscaredme," he panted.
Thump.
He sat straight up and stared at the dark opening under the bed. "I heard it again. It's inside."
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Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 8:47 am
"I scared you?!" Al replied with an incredulous tone. And now whatever the ******** Noah was hearing was now in the room?!
"s**t, why the ******** did you ever open the window?!" Al scolded as he seriously considered summoning Nuru.
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Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 9:28 am
"You did," Noah whined. His eyes darted towards the bed. The urge to hide under the blankets was strong, except for the fact that he was pretty sure that he'd heard the noises coming from that direction and he was very, very disinclined to go over there.
"I don't know." He stared at the dark space under the bed and slowly, slowly scooted back under the desk. Being out in the middle of the floor was making him extremely nervous. As an afterthought, he reached up and patted around the top of the desk until he found the bag of cookies, then pulled it down under the desk with him. If he needed a diversion, that would probably work.
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Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 7:52 pm
"You scared me more!" Al yelped as he looked around for the source of Noah's distress. What the hell was he?... Thunk s**t! He heard it too, but it was nowhere near where Noah seemed to be focusing. "s**t! It's fast, I think its in your dresser!" Al backed up towards the fellow trainee cowering under his desk. It was about then that Nuru found himself in Al's hand aimed at nothingness.
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Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 8:22 am
"There's room under here. Maybe we can hold them off." A soft flash of white indicated that Lazarus was also now present in weapon form.
I THINK YOU'RE OVERREACTING, the weapon said, bemused.
"I'm not overreacting!" Noah hissed. "There's something in here! Al heard it too!"
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Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 3:18 pm
Al glanced down behind himself at Noah. Considering it. Then he heard the sound again and tightened his grip on the staff with a startled wide eyed stare. It sounded big. He swallowed hard and carefully started backing up. Placing his hand on the edge of the desk once he got close enough and after feeling it, attempted to duck down and wedge under there with Noah. Nuru was held outside, ready to swipe. He didn't fit under the desk with everyone else.
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Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 3:30 pm
It was a tight fit, but neither of them was fat. Noah squished over a little in an attempt to get more comfortable. He briefly considered complaining about bony shoulders, realized that the complaint could be returned, and didn't. Anyway, the matter of whatever was in the room was way more pressing than that.
He brandished Laz at the room. "Don't get close, we'll, we'll take you apart!" The threat was probably a little spoiled by the fact that his voice was shaking. As if in response, the lights flickered. Noah whimpered and tried to stuff himself further back under the desk.
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Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 7:30 pm
As soon as Noah created any sort of space, Al immediately took it up. Eyes wide and wild with worry as he watched Noah's room like a hawk.
When he felt Noah sink back further, he joined until his back pressed to the wall with a jolt of surprise and suddenly moved to grab Noah with his left hand, Nuru clattering against the table legs.
Man that wall was cold.
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Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 1:25 am
Noah yelped and flailed wildly, hitting his head on the underside of the desk. "What, where?!" He couldn't grab Al and hold his bumped head at once, and ended up with a sort of pathetic, hunched, all-elbows posture. The lights flickered again, and he whimpered. A soft giggling sounded from somewhere in the room.
He turned a startled look on Al and hissed urgently, "Are - are you laughing? Please say you just laughed. Oh god."
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Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 3:39 am
"Ummm.... No," Al replied with a terrified shudder. His gaze sloooowly slid to Noah as if he'd lost his mind. "Do... do you hear an--" and then he also heard the giggling - but from above. He tried to look up, but the desk blocked his view and he was a bit too... not willing to crawl out from under there at this point to find out.
".... why didn't you tell me your room was haunted?" Al squeaked.
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Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 3:48 am
Noah looked up automatically when Al looked up, even though he couldn't see anything either. "I heard it," he whispered. "You heard it too, right?"
"Hau ... haunted? I didn't know it was haunted." The corners of Noah's mouth turned down, and he gave Al a pathetic terrified-sad-puppy look.
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Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 3:51 am
Al was no help, he looked equally terror stricken and very unhappy about this situation. "I ... I might have heard it too.... we need help. It's toying with us!"
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