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 Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 3:58 pm
"What? What happened in-" She closed her eyes and a hand went to her head. She was fighting a vicious headache from a combination of Melany's manipulation and lack of sleep.
"Can we go inside first?" She stepped out of the doorway to let him go in.
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 4:14 pm
Shun grunted and unlocked his door to head on inside. Once there, he tossed off his shoes and slumped down onto the couch.
"After Adoelle was killed, one of the fetches stabbed Melany in the chest. She should have died quickly but she was stabilized by Autumn, and then Temperance and Connor wanted to drag her a** out into a hospital. Tried to stop them. Tried to finish off that ******** woman. Failed. So there."
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 4:40 pm
Adoelle and killed was enough for Chel to put a hand to her mouth; she'd suspected the woman had died but she didn't expect Algernon to have been so cruel.
(After all, Chel hadn't seen, but she had seen Algernon handed a knife).
She made a note to watch out for that man.
"M'sorry," she told Shun. She didn't agree with killing Melany but neither did she think the woman should be sent to a hospital. Chel wasn't sure where she fell on that spectrum of extremes. Maybe incapacitating the woman.
She sat on the couch next to him, still looking alert and wide-eyed. Like Algernon was going to burst through the wall with no face. "We'll do better next time," she said firmly. She couldn't tell Shun "no you did your best!" without some kind of backlash. Maybe right now they both needed to accept the reality; they'd failed. The best they could hope for was another chance.
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 5:21 pm
All that came out of Shun was a low grunt. He wearily rubbed his face.
Doing better...
Would that really be enough?
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 5:28 pm
"I didn't get the mask on Shiloh or Thorne ... so ... for all I know, they're dead 'cause of me." She hadn't been quite ready to admit that until now. "So ... we both failed."
Chel paused a moment and then cautiously reached an arm our to wrap around his shoulders. She retracted it once and then decided to go for it.
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 5:34 pm
"They were not the sacrifices. Once Adoelle was killed, the masks served no purposes. A few people removed theirs even," he shrugged.
Shun had looked away in the moment Chel started to wrap an arm around his shoulders. Once he felt that contact, he immediately went rigid. Slowly, he turned to stare at her.
"What are you doing?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 5:38 pm
"M'tired. Yer tired. It's only a hug." For the inevitable I don't need one. "I need one. M'not a cop who deals with murders and magic s**t every day."
Hearing they were alive didn't mean she'd failed any less. "When she was ... when that happened ... wasn't the enemy supposed to do something?" Something about a cage; Chel still hadn't pieced it all together.
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 5:59 pm
Grumbling under his breath, he waited for maybe a second before speaking up, "Can you let go of me now?"
"As far as the Enemy goes. His cage was weakened. One step closer to breaking. It is not broken yet."
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 6:27 pm
"Can we compromise fer an arm?" she said, sliding the hand back across the shoulder and landing it on his arm. Just some small amount of touch.
"Are you sure you want to ... keep doing this?" she asked. Not accusatory, genuinely worried. "Where do we even start with somethin' like this ..."
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 6:35 pm
"Fine. Just do not cut off my circulation or anything," he mumbled, begrudgingly allowing that much for now. Shun relaxed, but only by a margin.
"We find a place to start. And I cannot play ignorance to this s**t."
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 6:54 pm
Chel gingerly slipped around his arm. Tentative, quiet.
"Well ... I dunno where to start, but ... m'here. I tackled that Spinel b***h fer ya." She gave a small laugh. "It's ... all I can do, but I'll be here. Fer ... whatever."
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 6:55 pm
Shun closed his eyes, "Stay out of this. That is what you really want anyway, right?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 6:59 pm
"What I want...?" Chel hadn't thought much about that. She didn't think, she just did. She'd always been that way.
"You heard that b***h. What I want is fer someone t' ... stay." Whatever that meant. "Nobody's gonna stay f'they're all dead on the other side. So m'in. Like you- s'not what I want but what's gotta get done."
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 7:02 pm
His eyes opened again and he raised his brow at her.
"You have your cousin, do you not? Or Jack. Or Connor?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 7:03 pm
"You got me, Jeremiah, do you not?" she mimicked, but it was half-hearted, tired. She was too tired to make proper jokes just now. "You know how it goes."
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