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Day 2: Night.

Sep 23, 2007 03:32

Apologies for the delay on this thread, but let's hope it helps to make some movement! Come on over and post, chaps!

Continued from here!

Who: Everyone except the exploration team.
Where: Central Square
What: Following from the gathering in the square.
Rating: G
Warnings: TBA.

( Oh dear. )

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lil_rookie September 25 2007, 03:22:04 UTC

"...no." But she did a tentative look around his shoulder, her eyes scouting Rufus out again and caught his dead eye stare. Shit! She had never disobeyed an order before (other than the one time with the internet surfing, but she really wanted that damn handbag and her computer at home was broken!), and now she was caught and needed to think up excuses and ohshiva he better not come over here ( ... )

diamond_edged September 27 2007, 14:29:37 UTC

What the...

Rufus had been talking with Xehan, but there was a sudden confusion as people milled around. The next moment Elena was in front of him, and he instinctively glanced around, looking for assassin's bullets.

Damnit. He held his breath for a few seconds, but the lights weren't coming on again, and--

arcadia_central September 27 2007, 14:30:15 UTC

--and somewhere in the distance, something howled.

lil_rookie September 28 2007, 17:48:12 UTC

This... wasn't good. Turning her head, she looked back at the president, her jaw tight. "Sir, we should get you back to your room. That would be the safest place for you until this all blows over." And until uSUC came back, she hoped. Never had she been so hopeful to see that infernal machine, but right now, in the dark with things howling, it was what was best.

She could take the insults and annoyance, in exchange for his safety.

diamond_edged September 29 2007, 01:30:12 UTC

But could she take the way he glanced at her, narrowed his eyes, and turned and bolted into the crowd?

He could swear that he saw a flash of silver. And unstable as he was at the moment, he didn't care that he was throwing all caution to the winds as he ducked away from the people he should have been running towards, and headed towards the people he should have been running from. Except that there were too many bodies, and he saw with a flash of frustration that the silver he thought he'd seen wasn't silver at all, but white, and the face was unfamiliar.

Damn, damn, damn. But hell if he was going to cower in his room and wait for doom...

"I'm going to look for weapons," he snapped, in case Elena was in earshot.

lil_rookie September 30 2007, 03:14:58 UTC

Wh...WHAT WAS THAT FOOL DOING? Not that she would dare tell a single person such a thought or name entered her head; the amount of docked pay (that she wasn't even getting in the first place) would have been enough to break her check book, had either her bank or book itself still been around and relative.

As a Turk, she couldn't let the idiot president go running out on his own, so she gave chase, dodging the frantic, the worried. "Sir! Sir!" Yes, she was really showing her merit to Raidou now, wasn't she?

"Don't leave without me!"

diamond_edged October 1 2007, 01:35:00 UTC

[OOC: So much love for Elena]

Someone slammed into Rufus and he swore, fingers itching for his shotgun. He couldn't for the life of him remember whether he had lost it before arriving on Mother's ship, or left it on the ship, or whether it had been taken from him by the Customs regime on Arcadia.

Someone else banged into him as they forged past, and he had the urge to stand on a soapbox and yell at everyone to calm down and stop running around like headless chickens. The only problem was that he knew that the masses had a collective braincell count of 1, especially when they were on the rampage. Good thing it wasn't crowded enough for anyone to get stampeded.

The Turk was following. Good sense finally prevailed, and he realised that he would either have to lose her, or abort his attempt to find Kadaj. Who might not even be here in the first place.

He paused in indecision.

lil_rookie October 1 2007, 14:03:38 UTC

Good! The idiot president was stopping. There was a brief moment of panic as she wondered why he stopped (was he hurt?!), but that faded as she caught up to him. Why would he run away like that? He knew better, dammit!

Panting a little, her eyes flickering about at the chaos, she fought the urge to grab his coat and shake him, or, more specifically, shake some sense into him. But she knew better darn it. Really now, she was in enough trouble as it was, and Tseng would kill her for manhandling the president.

Awww, not even a little? -pout-

...fine.

So, she grabbed his sleeve. Tentatively. "Sir, you can't run away like that; we don't know what's going on and there is a safety in numbers!

"Now, where did you want to go? I'll follow you."

diamond_edged October 3 2007, 14:08:41 UTC

"Looking for weapons," Rufus growled. "They have to be around here somewhere, if Customs took them. And finding out what the hell just happened."

That was when he registered the tug on his sleeve. And icy blue eyes turned from the sight of the milling crowd, to the sleeve, on the hand on it, and very, very slowly, were raised to look at Elena.

He didn't even need to voice his disapproval.

lil_rookie October 3 2007, 14:19:39 UTC

O--oh. Oops. Her hand retracted immediately, shaking out the feel of the suit as if it was fire she had touched. Okay. Don't do that again. Written down for later reference.

"Well, don't you think it would be better if there were two of us looking instead of one?" Oooh, she didn't mean for that to come off with that edge of irritation, and she looked away quickly enough. Maybe he wouldn't notice, or cut her some slack; she was the only Turk present at the moment, and it was a little nerve-wracking, more than she expected.

"I just want to help." And it was almost spoken with a pout.

diamond_edged October 3 2007, 14:25:20 UTC

The words gave Rufus pause, something softening almost imperceptibly in his eyes as he seemed to remember who he was dealing with.

I'm sorry, Elena. I just--

"Attend to me," he said, tone still cold, still distant. "The spaceport that most refugees arrived at is a prime location." He hadn't seen anything else in the way of storage yet, after all. Everything was so uniform in this damn city. Now, if only they could find it in the dark.

--am not myself at the moment...

Besides, backup was good.

lil_rookie October 3 2007, 14:38:05 UTC

Backup made good cannon fodder.

Elena nodded, her eyes flickering down as she nodded. "Yes, sir." Because what else was she supposed to say? What else could she say to him? He was right after all, which was why he was president and she wasn't (well, that and the privilege of his bloodline, lucky bastard).

What she wouldn't give for a flashlight. Or materia.

Looking back and seeing more people behind them than in front, she took up the rear. "Go. I'll keep you covered, sir."

diamond_edged October 3 2007, 14:42:36 UTC

[OOC: Oh Elena. Going for the rear already ♥]

Elena wasn't the only one thinking of a light source.

"Do you have a torch?" Rufus asked, getting whacked on the shoulder as someone yelled and pushed past, before growling and shoving right back.

Hojo had had one, back in his lab, but damned if Rufus was about go back there. But it did mean that there were some on this rock. Besides, surely the Turks also shared the motto of 'Be Prepared'.

Right?

Right?

lil_rookie October 3 2007, 14:59:17 UTC

[OOC: We always knew she was a kinky one.]

Oh. Torch. That... she didn't have, didn't really have a need for. After all, she hadn't gone out too much at night and the gaudy neon had been enough to light the paths. Plus, well, let's be honest, she had been preoccupied at Rufus' place, then getting well, and then on the mission-she-should-be-doing-concerning-Reno-but-wasn't. Making torches hadn't been at the top of her list, not when it wasn't needed.

"Not on me." There. That sounded better than the negative answer, AND it wasn't a lie. Not one bit. And to avoid anymore comments on the fact, she added, "Let's hurry to the spaceport, sir; I'm sure there's an emergency flare or something to use as a light there."

diamond_edged October 3 2007, 15:22:50 UTC

[OOC: It's always the quiet ones 8D]

Well, then again. One only needed to look at Reno to know that be prepared and being Turks didn't necessarily go hand in hand. A healthy dose of improvision did, though, and the suggestion was a good one. He nodded. If there was any place with a light source ...

"Where is it?" Loathe as he was to betray that he was, in fact, lost, it was better than blundering around with monsters on the prowl. "The spaceport, that is."

He kept walking, shoving his way to the edge of the crowd. "And where are the other Turks?" He'd sent her after Reno, hadn't he? It was possible that this crisis had happened before she had found him, but he'd just seen her standing around chit-chatting with a man. Hm.

lil_rookie October 3 2007, 15:31:23 UTC

Oh, finally! Usefulness. Her voice turned professional, a little cold, and she nodded to the side even though she doubted he could see it, what with her behind him and all. "To the left. Follow the road down; I'll tell your where to turn."

Her pace quickened, almost to the point of running into him. The noise from the square was enough to make her grind her teeth; they needed someone to take charge and tell people to calm down, to do a mad route of action, and she hoped that Raidou would be that person. People would listen to him, after all. He had charisma that couldn't be denied.

"I don't know," she replied, her attention averted to the question. "I haven't seen Rude today, or Tseng. And Reno is... still MIA." She sighed, her shoulders wanting to sag but refusing to allow them to. "I'm all you have for the moment, I'm afraid."

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