Ion
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Post by Ion on Oct 26, 2012 3:31:54 GMT -5
"I do love you, I just, got worried," Rich muttered pulling away and rubbing his wife's arms.
She'd smiled up at him, reassuringly. "I've been in five chopper crashes, several battles with a band of mercs, I escaped Raccoon City, I escaped Ellis Island and..." she trailed off, snickering. "I escaped New York....hehehe...and I've taken on monsters and Super Humans and Tyrants...nothin' taken Anna McG--Holden, out. Nothin's gonna keep me from you, Rich," she told him, grinning.
Rich smiled back at her and kissed her before saying, "I'll want that in writing Mrs. Holden."
She smiled back at him. "I think I got a pen in here somewhere, gimme a sec...tryin' to take a lesson from Batman have everything in my belt here."
"I noticed, what with the grapple gun," Rich said gesturing towards it. He then quickly added, "Oh sh*t are the meds cracked?"
She'd checked the back of her belt for the case and then pulled the bag from off her back. "The case is still in one piece...but the rest..." she trailed off, listing up the soaked bag. Opening it up, she'd pulled out half of the Vodka bottle. "...not so much...."
"F*******ck... well, lets just see what the damage is now, then," Rich grumbled while taking the bag and putting it on the ground. . . . . .
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Post by NotAvailable on Oct 26, 2012 3:46:15 GMT -5
After some sorting, Anna had sighed and set aside all the glass, vodka soaked and ruined supplies, from the intact supplies. She'd lifted up a drenched roll of gauze and looked at her husband, sadly.
"Do you think I'd get glass in my mouth if I sucked up all the excess Vodka? I don't want it to all go to waste."
"Anna, honey, you have a problem."
"What're you talkin' about? I'm not an eccentric, I'm an alcoholic...wait, that wasn't...that sounded funnier in my mind...sh*t," she said, groaning.
"I'm sure it was, now come on, we got a tower to go down and we gotta save our best shtick for the long haul."
Anna broke out in laughter. "Woooah!" she said, grinning at him. Sighing, she'd straightened herself up and started pointing at things.
"Okay, we have this first aid case, it's got two rolls of gauze, a roll of medical tape, a handfulla bandages, ten packs of alcohol swabs, a friggin' mashed herb in a friggin' tube that I thought was friggin' weed at first and uh, this thing...I don't know what it is, but it's a thing," she said, pointing at the thing.
"Looks like a thing," Rich agreed.
"Sounds legit," she responded, packing the stuff up and sticking it in the bag. She then reached into her own medical pouch which was damn near empty. "Also found two pills in here, they're Adderall and uh, I think considering last night...it might be a good idea to, you know, take them," she said, somewhat nervously.
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Ion
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Post by Ion on Oct 26, 2012 3:56:14 GMT -5
"How long have you been taking that?" Rich asked picking up the medical bag and tossing it over his shoulder. Anna had been walking up beside him, crunching the pills between her teeth and swallowing them.
"Why?" she asked, defensively.
"I just wanted to know. You never told me about them," he said climbing onto a metal ladder and moving down a floor.
"I took them for a good while, just never thought it was a thing to talk to you about. I stopped taking them like, as soon as I got to the SPD though," she explained, following after.
"Why'd you stop?" he asked, curious about his wife's medical habits. When she'd gotten down to his side, she'd readjusted the bag over her shoulder.
"Eh, I don't...I don't really feel like now's the time to get into this," she said, quirking a brow.
Rich sighed and climbed onto another ladder. "Alright..."
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Post by NotAvailable on Oct 26, 2012 4:04:48 GMT -5
Anna sighed again, watching him descend the ladder. She'd felt a little guilty about keeping things from him. She trusted him, it's just, she was a bit ashamed of her history. There were just some things he didn't know about her that she chose not to tell him. Soley based on the fear of how he'd react.
Went he'd gotten down onto the floor below, she'd climbed down after him. "I just think, that after my episode last night and nearly becoming a stain, it's not really a thing to discuss. I don't want you to over stress and have a heart attack of something," she said, chuckling.
"I get it I get it, I just had some friends who were into that sort of thing and... well I had some friends, and then things happened."
Anna frowned and laid a hand on his shoulder. "It's not that bad with me. I'm just using them to get through the hordes down there. Afterwords, I'll never use them again, I promise," she said, sincerely.
"Alright alright, I'd just like that in writing too," Rich mumbled as he got onto yet another ladder.
"You don't trust me?" she asked, stepping up to the very same ladder. "I couldn't do them anymore even if I wanted! You know, they practically don't exist anymore!" she tried.
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Ion
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Post by Ion on Oct 26, 2012 4:23:53 GMT -5
"No, I trust you, I just..." Rich trailed off. "I've just seen you hurt a lot and... I don't want to see you go through what my friends went through."
"Well...maybe if you woulda looked for me, like I looked for you, I wouldn't have had to go through this alone," she responded. Not soon after, she'd started up again. "I didn't mean that to sound like I was blaming you...Goddammit!"
"It's alright, I kind of deserved that I guess," Rich said sliding down the ladder.
Anna followed after. "No, no you didn't. I lashed out for no damn reason. You couldn't have looked for me or even found me anyway...I was constantly moving around," she said.
"I could've tried to get back to you and Jimmy back in ninety-eight. I could've gone looking for you when you were M.I.A. I mean, I'm always letting you down..."
"Hey, if you had come with me and Jimmy...we never woulda met Aryn and she wouldn't be with us...she could have died. Also, you had to stay back at the checkpoint with the kids and the jerk offs there. If you weren't, then everyone would have been dead," she said to him, grabbing at his arm to keep him from moving any farther.
He stopped and looked at her. "I just, I want to be able to protect you. But you've got your police, CIA, and BSAA training and I'm just a civie."
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Post by NotAvailable on Oct 26, 2012 4:44:40 GMT -5
Anna looked up at him as he spoke. Her heart had felt almost as if it'd been breaking for him. He felt useless, she never even considered the idea that she'd made him feel that way. She'd just stared up at him sadly, unsure of what to say next. She had the urge to protect him, she wanted to do everything in her power to keep him safe. Ever since the day they'd met.
Was that how he was feeling right now?
With the way everything had been going the passed couple of days, she wasn't suprised with all the emotional baggage the two carried, just airing it out in the open the way it was right now and all day.
"You've saved my life plenty of times, Rich....You saved my life back in ninety-eight, Oh-Six and numerous times since twenty-twelve and all damn day. But most of all, you kept me going...." she said. "Everything I've gone through, everything I've done, everything that I'm doing now...all of it...completely worth it if it means I can just...be by your side."
"Anna..." was all he could say.
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"C'mon, let's get out of here before nightfall, we need to make it to the airport before the crazies come out," Anna said, picking their gun bag up and slinging it back onto her shoulder.
"You know I hate me some crazies. Bumbling bastard drunks that think they own the town. Who do they think they are? Top hat?" she asked, mock angry. "Remember Top Hat? He used to own the town...poor McDonald's fries...she never wins the pot."
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Post by Ion on Oct 26, 2012 4:55:17 GMT -5
Rich picked up the medicine and knick-knack bag while laughing to himself. "Man, I miss playing Monopoly with our kids. Aryn would always be the money bag, Jimmy was the S.S. Jimmy and kept landing on income tax every single time, and little Lucy was the puppy and every time she went to jail we called it the pound." He smiled nostalgically.
Anna laughed with him, walking over to the next ladder. "We always made up bullsh*t rules too, I don't even know how to play that game legit," she said, grinning. "Also Aryn was a big fat cheater. She was always stealing money from you and properties from me."
"Yeah, but I'd scam her out of money every time she'd buy a property, so it stayed fair. Enough."
"When we get our kids back, let's go scavenging for a Monopoly Board. Have some kind of goddamn normalcy," she suggested.
"Hopefully they'll have all the pieces. Think we should look for a sealed one? Ya know, one looted fresh from a Walmart or something?" Rich asked sliding down another ladder.
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Post by NotAvailable on Oct 26, 2012 5:04:36 GMT -5
Anna quickly climbed down yet another ladder and shrugged a bit. "Maybe...well, more than likely. I mean, who the hell breaks into a store and steals game boards?" she asked, rheotorically. "Man, I'd kill for a Hot n Spicy, I've been craving one of those for like, a week...."she said.
"And some fries....and a soda....and some ice cream...f*ck! McDonalds Fries and ice cream...aw man, I'm so hungry..." she whined.
"You're so cute when you whine," Rich commented as they kept moving further and further down.
Anna continued to whimper and whine a little, trying to hurry and get to the bottom. "I'm sick of all this canned crap and water and booze and ehhhh...I want to go to a Micky D's and fry me up some gold. Don't you miss the Selects?" she asked her husband.
"Ahh, now why'd you have to go and remind me of the crispy, golden brown chicken. If we can find one, I swear I'll fry up a whole box of Selects," Rich pined, his mouth watering.
"Wonder if they're still good....oh man, we totally have one back at HQ, when we get back, I'm just splurging my paycheck on fast food. Then I'm gonna get all fat and die face first into McNuggets."
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Ion
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Post by Ion on Oct 26, 2012 5:12:44 GMT -5
"Hey I think we're getting near the bottom," Rich commented, as he wandered over to the edge of the building. They were three floors from the ground, looking down at a milling horde.
"Man, how the f*ck are we gonna get out of here without getting our faces bitten off?" Rich complained, as he stared down at them. Anna looked out at the crowd as well, a little uneasily.
"Ah, well, uh..." she grumbled. "Oh! There's a building over there with a fire escape, if we can get close enough without getting grabbed, we can grapple onto that b*tch and climb down the other side."
"How close is 'close enough?'" Rich asked a little uneasy.
"We'll have to go outside and be like, a few feet away close. We've got the ammo and I've got my awesome karate kicks. We'll be fine," she said, confidently.
"Hmm, or we can get onto one of those wooden scaffolds and just walk above the little monsters till we get close enough."
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Post by NotAvailable on Oct 26, 2012 5:20:38 GMT -5
Anna furrowed her brow and pursed her lips, staring out at the scaffolding that lead some ways away from the next building. "Yeah we could do that, I guess, if you're uncool...." she muttered.
"Alright, downstairs, downstairs, downstairs," Rich muttered as he got on the last ladder he'd have to climb on this building. Once they were downstairs, they stepped off the ledge and onto the wooden boards holding them away from the infected.
"Woah, uh, this is kinda freaky," Rich said as he could hear the infected moan and grasp at the ground beneath their feet, but to no avail.
"What was that? I'm sorry, I was trying not to die," Anna said from behind him, keeping her eyes forward. She'd lowered her glance and stifled a chuckle.
'Dat Rich...'
Before long, she'd nearly walked into her husband when they'd successfully gotten to the edge of the scaffold where they needed to be. Reaching back into her pocket, she'd pulled out the grapple gun and handed it to him.
"Here, you're stronger than I am, you'll need to carry me. Be my Batman, Rich," she told him, showing him how to use it.
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Post by Ion on Oct 26, 2012 5:28:53 GMT -5
"Alright, hold on my dear," Rich said wrapping his arm around his wife's waist tightly. "Up up and away!" he shouted, clicking the trigger and feeling the recoil as the spun cord and hook shot out with a small, but powerful jet.
The hook wrapped around the uppermost portion of the fire escaped and then began reeling in the couple, causing them to be lifted off the ground and go swinging, over the streets full of snarling cannibals. The pair landed safely on the lower section of the fire escape, even if the landing was a little rough.
"Whoo! We're alive!" Anna shouted, pumping a fist.
"You ever doubted me?" Rich said handing her back her grapple gun.
"Of course not, my love. I knew you had it in you. Now away we go, before the crazies shamble their top-hat-wannabe asses after us!"
Rich and Anna ascended the fire escape and began their trek through Raccoon City on foot. Now that it was daylight, they were above ground, and they weren't neck-deep in zombies, they had a much better chance of making it through town than before.
"So Anna, isn't this where we first met?" Rich mused as they walked across the rooftop.
[Rich and Anna have fled the Construction Site]
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