Nightshift 21 - 2nd Floor - Stairway Landing between Decom/Medical Library/Staff Training
((from here))At the top of the stairs, things didn’t look any better to Rufus. Straining to hear or see anything, he stopped at the top of the stairs. Before he had never considered the dark worrisome. It was merely an absence of light. Anything that was there in the light was there in the night. Unfortunately, Landel’s had a way of changing
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Her voice behind him sent a cold lick of fear dragging up his spine. The changes in her laughter didn't go unnoticed, the sick sensation of knowing he was dealing with a creature beyond madness adding to his fear. There would be no reasoning with her. Kadaj seemed sane when compared.
Hitting the door again, he heard something inside finally break with a brittle metallic sound. Pushing it again and twisting the knob, he heard the rise and fall of her weapon behind him. Material let loose with a rip, skin parting beneath her weapon with a sizzle that reminded Rufus too much of fat dropped on a hot iron. Pain was immediate and ugly across his back, a thin line going down the side of his cheek. His right shoulder and arm hurt, pretty sure that his arm was either broken or bruised down to the bone as well as burnt where her first hit had gotten him. The shoulder on that side was going to be the same where her second had barely avoided landing solidly when he went through the door.
What is she using? A rod with a sharpened tip?
It was the stupid things his mind chose to focus on when he was trying to save his own life. Sliding through the door, he slammed it, attempting to get it closed before she could get through. Another damned hallway from what little he could make out, two doors both on the left side. The first was too close if he had to run for it. The second was going to have to be what he went for if she made it through before he could get it shut.
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Click-creeeeeeeeee.
Kathunk.
The orange glow was directed at him once more after she closed the door behind her.
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She has heels on. She stumbled there or something. If I can get something heavy enough to throw at her... who am I kidding? I don't know if I could even use my right arm enough to throw anything.
Reaching the second door, he turned the knob frantically. It gave another grumbling click of being locked as the first door had.
Not again...
He was hurting, but the other option was standing here at the end of the hallway until she caught up with him and beat him to death. Or he believed she would. Bracing himself, Rufus hit the door with his good shoulder, gritting his teeth again the shriek of pain that wanted out. Another hit should do it, Rufus backing up a pace and hitting it even as his gaze flicked to the side to see where she was.
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The noise stopped.
Silence.
Click click click click.
"Mister Shinra. The Masters wish for your health. Perhaps you should return to your room…?"
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"Go... back?"
Stupid surprise made it into his voice before he could stop it, and pretensions he had at an emotionless mask driven by back real fear and pain. He'd had enough of the second floor, only wanting some safer place to spend the night. If she was willing to let him go to head back to his room (where he certainly wouldn't go to unless she planned on escorting him the whole way there) he was willing to head back to the first floor.
"All right. I will. I'll go back there immediately."
In the darkness, he tried to find the glowing tip of her weapon or eyes. If she wasn't threatening with it, he was willing to go back the way he had come. That was a big 'if'.
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It was time to clean, after all.
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That single thought floored Rufus Shinra. He was not the sort who would get an enemy backed into a cornre and ever let them live. Rufus would have killed them immediately, especially if they had the injuries he did. He might not be feeling it too badly right now, but Rufus was willing to bet that come tomorrow, he'd need some sort of pain medication just to get up.
However, if she was letting him, Rufus was not going to be a fool and keep going at a locked door. Slinking back down the hallway, he was ready to get the heck out while he could. Downstairs was probably much safer as long as he avoided the cafeteria. That thing could be there.
As he approached the stairs, he could hear voices down there, ones he didn't recognize. Not wanting to meet up with others who could and probably would crack him into new and interesting shapes, he headed down the hall for the other set.
Had he realized Reno was down there, he wouldn't have left. Right now, he probably would have hugged (or at least showed some relief to) the Turk and taken back all he'd ever said about handling this place on his own.
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