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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 11:59 am
Dazs had cradled he radio close to his belly as he walked. Eventually, he found The Source: his and his brother's home base. It seemed that this was the safest. Or it felt like it. His nose ached,some of his teeth were uncomfortably loose. He'd found a bathroom with running water on the way and splashed it on his face as much as he could stand. Dried blood flaked off in pieces and chunks. And then, he found a mall directory and staggered home. This was where he was now, curled up on his sofa, trying not to jostle his nose or cry or any of those sort of unmanly things. Dazs couldn't sleep, and quite an eye on the barricades at front, afraid some other bandit might sneak in.
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 12:07 pm
G-man couldn't exactly run up and down the mall halls yelling out his brothers name. He didn't want to attract unwanted attention, after all. Who knew if the bandits were still around, if any had stayed behind, or what other unsavory beings might be lurking about! So, he had conducted his search in near silence, but with no real direction, hissing his brothers name into each store he found unlocked and open. Their little base back at The Source was his ultimate destination, the last resort but his greatest hope, as it seemed like if Dasz would have hidden anywhere, it would have been there, but the worry that he might not be found in the electronics store had G-man scared to check it out sooner. Eventually, however, he arrived outside it's barricaded doors. "Dasz?" He said, hesitating to go inside. "Dasz, are you in there?"
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 12:16 pm
"G-giuseppe?" The voice was small and a little scared, but it was definitely Dazs. "Is that you?" His head poked up from where he'd cocooned himself on the couch, but he didn't move. Just in case.
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 1:01 pm
For once, G wasn't even annoyed by the usage of his full name. Instead, all he could feel was relief at that quiet voice that had replied. "Ya bro, it's me!" He sighed out. "I'm comin in, alright? Uh...maybe a lil help though." Damn barrier was way too affective.
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 1:33 pm
"'Kay." Dazs rolled off of the couch and creakily stood. He almost swiped at his nose before catching himself. The skin around his eye felt hot - it had swelled and Dazs had seen the making a giant black eye along with his nose (it looked a little crooked). It probably needed to be set, but Dazs couldn't bear to do it himself. Slowly, he inched over to the barricades they'd put up and yanked on a rope. He'd rigged it so that they could get inside, and as long as no one else knew about the rope, they wouldn't know how to get that one section of desk swinging away. A hole opened up, enough for Giuseppe to crawl through. "Hey," he said weakly. "Everything ********' hurts."
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 6:51 pm
He waited until there was enough of an opening for him to shimmy through, getting down on his stomach to do so. Once he had wiggled into the store, he stood up, and shoved the desk back into place, and turned towards his little brother. He hadn't been out in the hallway when Dasz had been taken, did not know if they had hurt him or how badly. The sight that greeted him had him experiencing equal parts concern and anger all over again. "Shiiiiiiiiit, bro." He swore, and G-Man almost never swore out loud, often substituting the words for something else, usually something nonsensical. G-Man himself was a sight to see, though in his case it was mostly blood of other people that covered him. His hands, mostly, which he had yet to clean, from holding Abby's wound closed. His clothes were stained here and there, and there was a long line of tacky blood running down the side of his face and coating some of his hair from where a bullet had grazed him. "Ya, I bet it does." And there was almost nothing they could do about it, except maybe try and get some ice (if any of the food courts freezers were currently working). "Come on, lets sit down. You can tell me what happened."
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 8:04 pm
"You don't look so hot yourself... are you ok?" But he went and obediently sat and ignored the fact that his fingers trembled. Once Giuseppe got seated, he told him the whole thing, bats and all. He only sniffled once... or twice... Dazs had been so scared and everything had hurt so much and while he'd made a sort of small peace with the idea of being eaten, he didn't want to die from another human's hand. "I h-hate these factions, they just turn people against each other." He wiped at his eyes. "I wish we knew where mom was. And... and I found this." He pulled out the radio and presented it to Giuseppe. He hoped his brother would ignore the tears, they were unmanly and weak and ugly. Sniffling ******** hurt, too.
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 11:19 pm
"Dontcha go worrying over me, D. You're the one who got a botched up facelift." He moved over towards the couch with his brother while he spoke, but self consciously reached up to touch the part of his own head that ached and stung the most, feeling the cool stickiness of drying blood beneath his fingers and wincing slightly. After sitting down, he listened to Dasz's explanation for what had gone down on his end of things. "It's just like mom always said, though, right? Peeps become more the danger than the shamblers. We just gotta be smart, aight?" He squinted at his brother then, taking in the damage. "Decision time, bro. You want a crooked nose and a story to tell your future spawnies or for me to try and fix that shizzle up?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 9:18 am
"I don't feel smart, I feel dumb and almos' like it'd be better not to be a part of any group." He knew this was unwise and unfeasible, but the thought lingered briefly before he waved it away. He looked at Giuseppe, then tentatively touched his nose. "D-do it. I ain't got good looks like you, might as well not make them worse." Then he braced himself.
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