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❄ twelfth reminder
[ highway ; early morning ; open ]
[ As far as awakenings go, this one is definitely ranks up there for most unpleasant. If the sound of trucks rumbling by weren't enough, the dull pain from the previous day has turned intense. She's quiet, temporarily uninterested by investigation by looking for somewhere to hind, finding a little hole in some nearby rubble to crawl into. The crawling is far more literal than she would like, and when she pulls up the legs of her pants she can see quite clearly why that is.
The swelling has increased significantly, her legs looking some horrible mess of black and purple. She pokes at them, like the two dead things they are, and barely feels it. ]
Oh no...
[ streets ; evening ; closed ]
[ She's not even sure how she's made it this long, or this far. Her legs barely work, and it takes everything she has to keep moving, to get from hiding place to hiding place. She's breathing heavily, and it seems like she won't be making it to her next one. All she can do is hold her breath and hope those things don't notice her. Maybe she'll get lucky. Maybe. ]
[ As far as awakenings go, this one is definitely ranks up there for most unpleasant. If the sound of trucks rumbling by weren't enough, the dull pain from the previous day has turned intense. She's quiet, temporarily uninterested by investigation by looking for somewhere to hind, finding a little hole in some nearby rubble to crawl into. The crawling is far more literal than she would like, and when she pulls up the legs of her pants she can see quite clearly why that is.
The swelling has increased significantly, her legs looking some horrible mess of black and purple. She pokes at them, like the two dead things they are, and barely feels it. ]
Oh no...
[ streets ; evening ; closed ]
[ She's not even sure how she's made it this long, or this far. Her legs barely work, and it takes everything she has to keep moving, to get from hiding place to hiding place. She's breathing heavily, and it seems like she won't be making it to her next one. All she can do is hold her breath and hope those things don't notice her. Maybe she'll get lucky. Maybe. ]
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I don't think that's a good idea.
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I dunno, seems fine to me. You got a better one, then?
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You might have to. [ She's quick to look back at him however, not wanting that to linger long. ] But we don't have to worry about that, right? If you just let me lean against you, like a crutch, I should be okay.
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[He smiles at her and gets back up, wrapping her arm around his shoulder and his own around her waist to support her.] Yeah, you're right. We'll be just fine, I ain't worried in the least.
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Come on, hivesis, just hop on a ride on my back like a one-wheeled device. It'll all what be a lot motherfuckin' easier for you and faster. 'Sides, we probably ain't too far from a safe place now.
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If I let you do that, you won't be able to get away when something happens.
When, not if. ]
We're almost there, I can make it the rest of the way like this.
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The hair on the back of his neck rises and unconsciously, he starts trying to walk faster.]
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Gamzee- [ Her voice is a trembling whisper. Exposed. They're completely exposed right now. ] Gamzee, you should go. I need to rest for a minute, but I can catch up with you.
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Soooooorry, but like you all done said, it's only a little further. Just try to hold on a bit longer, yeah? If you be needing to rest, I can still carry you.
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Okay, I, [ With her next step her legs give out underneath her, and she chokes on a cry of surprise and pain as she tumbles to the ground. The world seems to slow for her, certain things going fuzzy, like the feeling below her waist, while other things sharpen. The sound sharpens. It's more than a sound really, and as she watches wide eyed from the ground, she can see the thing the sound belongs to- the several things. She's scrambling in the rubble, as time fastforwards itself to make up for it. If she can just stand up they can run away, if she can sit up at least she can crawl, if she can just-
but she can not.
Instead, she gropes for him in the darkness that seems further dampened by her own fear. ] Stay, stay.
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[Like all trolls, his night vision's always been pretty damn good, so he can make out the shapes starting to congregate around them. By now, he knows full well how dangerous they are, having seen them in action from the sidelines. He doesn't have his strife specibus or any of his weapons or even any pie to offer them, and he knows Jade's in the same condition. Their only option is to run.
...or maybe a miracle will happen and somehow strike them all dead, but for now, he hoists Jade onto his back, hooking her legs around his arms. It's difficult standing up with her weight on him and he staggers momentarily, but manages to clamber to his feet and make a break for it, adrenaline pushing him the entire way and giving him an extra boost of energy.
Even so, he currently only has all the strength of a thirteen-year old boy, and they are far, far too slow.]
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The people (are they even people? they seem more like monsters to her, wearing human skin) close in upon them, and she doesn't need to lift her head to see it happen. ]
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Don't let go.
[He clutches Jade to him tighter, lowering his head and attempting to charge out of the throng. It's a stupid move, a hopeless one, but since when have any of his ideas been anything but?]
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Gamzee, Gamzee!
[ She shouts his name in near delirium, screaming again when she feels several sets of teeth ripping into her. ]
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[He turns back instantly when he hears her scream, diving into the onslaught and reaching out desperately for her hand. He ignores the descending cannibals, the agony of his flesh being torn away, snarling and trying to shove the ones separating them away, only one thing on his mind.]
Jade!
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Her fingers are slick with her own blood when they strike his, but they grasp his hand and tangle up in it, refusing to let go. Her ears flood with the beating of her heart and the wet, sickening sound of flesh being slurped and sucked up- hers, his. The struggling has stopped, though the pain hasn't, and the world swims in a way that makes her nauseous, but that might just be from having to hear herself being devoured.
End, please just let this end. ]
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It's not enough. Without the speed and strength his blood gives him, his rage is nothing more than a dying boy's last resistance against the inevitable - for the few he's managed to take out, another two or three replace, bearing him down to the ground as his howls of fury turn into screams of pain.]
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Everything is starting to go dark, and she's died enough times already to know what this is, to know what's coming. Right now, it can't come soon enough. It's a little sad for a child, for any of them really, to be so well acquainted with death, but at the moment it only means that she knows that the pain is almost over.
Something snaps, a bone maybe, she doesn't know where, but all at once the lights turn out-- it's finished. Her body goes limp as its devoured, and only then do her fingers slip from his. ]
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The only thing worse than the pain is having to watch Jade endure the same and being powerless to stop it. Maybe he would have accepted his death more easily if she hadn't been there, would have just closed his eyes and prayed for it to be over soon - but he said they'd be fine, he can't let her down now, and it isn't fair that she has to go through this, that she has to die again while he can't do a goddamn motherfucking thing to stop it, and it's not until she lets go that he realizes that there isn't going to be a last-second miracle this time around.
He's still screaming her name when one of them finally rips out his throat.]