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[angryaffliction]

Characters: Lenalee (OU) | fallforthesky, Alex Mercer (OU) | angryaffliction
When: Backdated to the 11th or 12th.
Where: Hospital
Rating: M for Mercer's Foul Mouth
Summary: Lenalee is curious about the hospital and piqued Mercer's interest too. What hilarious hijinks will they get up to? What ghastly ghouls lurk in the dark?

Comments

it's going to be forever at the rate I'm going /dieeeeessss

[fallforthesky]

Smart thinking, Alex. She has little patience for chivalry, either false or genuine, so it's best you just let her come along. You'll have hell to pay if something happens, though.

Click, clack, tap, go her shoes as she follows after him, toeing aside broken tile and twisted scraps of metal. All the dust in the room seems to catch on her eyelids, making her feel even more exhausted than when she first woke up.

She watches blearily as he moves towards the collapsed elevator shaft, commenting mildly, "Do you have a light?", though in the wake of the rubble being heaved aside, her voice is drowned out.

Shortcut...?

Well. Maybe.

Coming up next to him and... peering down into the darkness. There's a flare of soft, greenish light that fades very quickly into nothing as she invocates on a whim. It's comforting. She's missed it, almost. She missed less the feeling of steel painting its way up her legs, however- and there's your clue to what she meant by knowing people who were also fast. Lenalee gives Alex a look once her Boots have activated, her expression for the most part an equal mix of wariness and that sort of bland acceptance a soldier wears as they're handed their weapon. "I'll go first."

She jumps down into the shaft before he can reply.

psh, I tag back forever bb<3

[angryaffliction]

Which was good for Lenalee because Alex didn't have a chivalrous bone in his body. He'd had a mental taste of both sexes and had found, aside from the obvious biological differences, both were psychologically similar.

When he catches the movement on her legs, he raises a brow but said nothing.

When she jumped, Alex lunged to the side to stop her, but as she landed on the bottom, his doubts were erased.

"Stand back," he warned and then jumped, forming his hand into a claw and digging it into the wall to slow his descent. It reformed it into a hand before he was visible and landed heavily, denting the tiled floor.

"Any other tricks up your sleeve?"

LET US TAG FOREVER, THEN!! <3

[fallforthesky]

By the time Alex calls a warning down, Lenalee's already back-pedalled as far into the dark as she's willing to risk, the memory of the impact craters he'd left on his first broadcast resurfacing. What little light the grimy windows let into the hospital's first floor blots out, leaving her temporarily in complete darkness- she can hear a crunching sort of sound as Alex presumably follows her down the elevator shaft.

Curiosity isn't enough to make her chance a glance up, though.

Which she's especially glad for when he lands and leaves yet another dent to mark his passage through Nesreca's ruins. She stares at the cracks in the tile for a moment, eyes readjusting to the dim light, and then glances up at him. He can't see it through the cloth she has tied over her face, but she smiles a bit at his comment.

"A few."

ETERNAL TAGGING YUSS

[angryaffliction]

"Good." Alex remarked brusquely, emphasizing his words with a curt nod. "We may need them."

His eyes didn't have trouble adjusting to the gloom but that may have had something to do with the whole not being human thing. He scoured the gloom, looking for a likely place to start.

Down the dark passage, something clatters, and Alex's head snaps immediately towards the sound.

"Is someone else checking this place out too?" His voice is a low growl, and he's poised almost like an animal about to strike.