Newer fucked up Infected RP pt4
part 4~
burstheal 10:41 pm
(10:41:41 PM): "Not a problem kid.." He said quietly before leaving the bedroom and leaving Ellis alone. He disappeared into some quiet corner of the house letting the kid get the anger out of his system. He was more depressed than anything. Sliding down into a corner of a darkened den with a blanket. When Ellis was done being angry he'd find him, he was too much of a puppy to be angry forever.
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 10:51 pm
(10:51:55 PM): Left alone in the room, Ellis stared bitterly at the wooden walls without really seeing them. His rage still festered inside his chest, churning and working itself up again. Why'd this have to happen? He was a good kid from Savannah, Georgia, or at least he had been at some point... He hadn't even minded the zombies so much really, but CEDA... Why did it have to be the government? Why did they have to be captured and tortured mercilessly? The mechanic wasn't even all that angry about what had been done to him. It was what had been done to Nick... reduced him to a shell of what he had been, what Ellis had fallen in love with (even if it was often calloused and sarcastic). He lifted his head, and his eyes strayed to a small mirror that hung above the dresser. His face looked gaunt and bitter, nothing like its former cheerful boyishness. He hissed, the anger bubbling over as he swiped his claws across the reflective glass, sending it flying to shatter on the floor before his weight was thrown against the dresser with such force the wood buckled and splintered where it hit against the far wall. The bed was next, flipped over and torn to shreds as he let out howl after inhuman howl.
burstheal 10:57 pm
(10:57:44 PM): The howling and angry roaring had him huddling down even further. He didn't know why he reacted in such a manner to it. He should have been in there calming the boy down. But he just couldn't bring himself to. He just knew that if he did it would turn into him being more upset and more sad than he already was. And the boys anger because of him was enough to send him right into the deeper depths of this new depression. He'd always had bouts of it in his life, when his luck was down or when his ex wife was making him feel like shit. But this was the epitome of utterly fucked, not even the optimistic one of the two could say things were going to be ok with certainty. There was no telling how long their bodies could live in this state, before they just fell over dead. He couldn't stand the thought of Ellis just falling over dead in his arms one day. He leaned forwards into his legs under the blanket and hugged them blood tinged tears falling from the eye that was still capable of such things.
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 11:16 pm
(11:16:05 PM): The wood of the bedframe could be heard creaking as the frenzied boy wrenched one of the legs from where it was nailed together. He flung it, and it collided with the window, shattering the glass and furthering the mess that was around the room. But he stopped, breathing and snarling heavily as he stared out the hole made in the glass and felt the breeze of the night air wash over his face. His skin felt hot, and the chill of the night made him shiver. The feeling made him cry out with another frustrated, anger-fueled howl, and it was suddenly like his skin was ripping apart, accompanied by the tear of fabric as sharp lines of pain rippled across his body, particularly down his back and across his arms and hands, and it was suddenly like the outburst drained all his energy. He collapsed to his knees, face covered by his hands as he made heavy, heaving sobs.
burstheal 11:19 pm
(11:19:06 PM): The silence followed by a softer noise his sensitive hearing could pick up just barely had him up. He kept the blanket with him as he moved into the room hesitantly. He drew in a sharp breath seeing the sharp bones sticking out in random places. As well as what appeared to be weapons made out of bone sticking out of the ceiling the walls and furniture around. He breathed out in a shakey manner almost afraid to speak up. What exactly had happened to Ellis while he'd been off on his own? "Elle..." He voice was still raw from crying himself and he moved across the room sitting down next to him. "..Elle are you ok?"
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 11:40 pm
(11:40:06 PM): The boy's shoulder shook tremorously with his sobs as he lay huddled on the floor. The pains had come from the aforementioned spikes of bone that were now jutting sharply through his skin, ripping through the fabric of the adopted shirt where it covered. The projections were long, smooth, and scythe-like, ending in such a pin point that it would take very little for them to cut skin. He seemed to have not taken notice of Nick stepping into the room again as his bemoanings continued.
burstheal 11:42 pm
(11:42:44 PM): Nick shuddered some the noise, that noise was so much like a witches it disturbed him to his core. And part of him the more 'feral' part told him to run right then. Not look back because approach might mean death. Shakily he forced his hand forward from his sitting position and he shook him lightly. Ready to be killed, ready for the last thing he might see to be his changed lover killing him in a startled rage. "Ellis, snap out of it!"
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 11:52 pm
(11:52:30 PM): The hand on his shoulder made Ellis fall silent almost immediately, and it was the same sort of deathly silence that happened just before a Witch would turn her head to stare menacingly at you with dead, yellow eyes. It was the sort of silence that immediately made you wish for the unabashed sobbings again, just to keep the horrific nothingness from ringing in your ears.
Slowly... Very slowly, the kid's head turned and he stared at the burned conman, pale cheeks stained with tears and a few patches where fine little needles of bone had pierced through the skin on his cheeks and forehead had colored his skin a faint pink where the trauma had caused blood to leak out.
burstheal 11:58 pm
(11:58:15 PM): He sucked a breath in at that stare, that silence scaring him to his core and he knew he couldn't school the look of fear away from his face. He kept the shaking hand on his shoulder though staring at him. "Ellis...please...your still in there...right..?" He was strong enough to squash those needs. The need to get the hell out of that room right then and hope to god he wasn't chased down like a coward. If Ellis really was gone he'd rather be killed anyhow.
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 12:27 am
(12:27:41 AM): The silence continued on agonizingly, and the mechanic seemed utterly frozen of movement, save for the jarring shakes of Nick's hand on his shoulder. Then, his jaw went slack, slowly curling into a hideous, silent snarl as he stared emotionlessly back at the older man. And suddenly, he was on Nick again, leaping at the gambler to throw him back and pin him to the shard-covered floor. His gaping jaws lunged close to Nick's marred face, stopping just inches short while those jagged mandibles cracked together violently with a sound that snapped and wrent the otherwise quiet air. He was growling again, saliva dripping from his gums. "Stupid coppertop pocket criticizing Overalls Momma Nick." The gibberish made no discernable sense, the words seeming to be little more than sounds he spat out in his crazed delirium.
burstheal 12:31 am
(12:31:04 AM): He made a noise of pain as shards of glass he felt onto were slammed into his skin and the boy made to almost bite at him. He closed his eye and turned his head going limp. A choked noise of more mental pain than physical leaving him. He was afraid and sad all at once, the boy seemed gone to him. Even if the words included some discernible familiarity. He'd still jumped him and was likely going to still kill him. All he could think to do was put his own mind at ease, knowing it likely didn't matter worth a damn what he said the boy wasn't likely to hear it anymore. "I'm sorry Elle...it's ok..whatever you do to me..it's ok I forgive you...love you..it's ok..." He was shaking quite a bit at that point waiting for the strike to come.
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 12:46 am
(12:46:37 AM): The growling and hissing continued, even as the seconds snailed by and the slash of claws and the bite of teeth failed to come. Instead, the deranged mechanic lurked closer to Nick's face, nostrils flaring as he inhaled deeply. The stench of fear radiated from the pinned figure, and it made the monster inside Ellis quiver with antiscipation to end the suffering. But he stalled, something underlying the smell of paralyzing fear which utterly contradicted his urge to kill. It was less of a tangible smell and more of an innate desire, a need to protect and to covet and keep from harm. Nick's defeated words fell on his ears, and the familiar sound only fueled the conflict in Ellis' poor, battered mind as the two dire impulses fought for supremacy. He growled. He whimpered. He shook and trembled until finally he jumped away to retreat to a corner, curling into himself like a kicked dog.
burstheal 12:54 am
(12:54:08 AM): Nick just laid there when no death came. And when the boy jumped away he couldn't even manage to get up. His body still shook as if he expected to be attacked again, the feeling of being toyed with like some mouse by a large cat came to mind. He was in a lot of pain he realized too as he managed finally to move out of the glass to lean his good side against the wall so his back was exposed to air drooling too dark blood from deeply embedded glass. They were both out of sorts. His mind in those horrible moments of being that close to deaths doors had turned off his normal rational thinking and scared self presevation was threatening to take over. The second he felt another jab of pain from his battered body he just let go and mindlessly got up and limped away from the room. He ended up outside pulling himself under the slightly raised up cabin to the underside of it and curled up in the dirt and moss there. It was quiet and dark and safe that was all his mind was registering as he laid there.
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 1:01 am
(1:01:01 AM): Somewhere in Ellis' frazzled psyche, he noticed the absence of the second pressence, looking up with blood-shot eyes to gaze around in bewilderment. All that lent to showing where the other man had disappeared to was the trickling trail of blood that lead out of the room. Getting shakily to his feet, he followed it, completely unnoticing the sharp pieces of glass and splinters of wood that cut into his feet. He followed the trail out of the bedroom, through the front door and outside. The dirt and grass muddled the path a bit, but he managed to find himself by where Nick had crawled into.
"N--Nick...?" he croaked, voice hoarse and scratchy at this point.
burstheal 1:04 am
(1:04:40 AM): There was just a noise, a startled frightened noise from the underside of the house. His mind hadn't fixed itself yet he was too far into the muddy 'I don't want to die" territory that the boys voice didn't register familiar at the moment. But he could smell and he smelled the same thing that had just tried to kill him and he curled up tighter just forcing more blood out of his wounds.
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Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 1:06 am
(1:06:21 AM): No response.
"Nick..." There was a definate whimper to the kid's voice at this point, desperate and regretting and apologetic.
burstheal 1:08 am
(1:08:11 AM): His voice cracked out in a still far too 'not nick' tone. "You left me..you left I have nothing to live for if you leave...don't ..don't deserve to live if your not there..can't..won't..." He put his hands over his face and head not moving from his spot still.
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 1:09 am
(1:09:42 AM): "Ain't--ain't g-gonna leave...." Ellis said, crouching down by the side of the cabin. He held his face in his hands again. "So sorry... I'm so sorry... Forgive me, please."
burstheal 1:11 am
(1:11:03 AM): The begging for forgiveness brought him around the rest of the way and he pulled himself back out right beside him only partially exposed he looked up at him. His brow knit still worried looking. "..Ell...I'll...always forgive you. Even if you did kill me....struck me down...hurt me...I'd always forgive you.."
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 1:14 am
(1:14:42 AM): The mechanic's face screwed up into an expression that suggested another onset of tears, and he did give a few shaking whimpers, but it didn't have a chance to start again. "No... Nononono... Can't say that." He shook again, the bony spikes jutting from his shoulders and arms quivering with the movement. "I was horrible... A monster... Don't forgive me. I ain't deservin'..."
burstheal 1:18 am
(1:18:28 AM): Crawling out the rest of the way and ignoring the pain searing across his back he put his arms around him carefully between spikes and hugged him to him. "Remember ...remember what we said earlier..monsters together kid..." He sighed out putting his face into the top of the younger mans head. "I couldn't have lived without you anyway..if you'd been completely lost...I would have preferred if it was you that did me in.."
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 1:22 am
(1:22:52 AM): Ellis shook with another wave of supressed whimpers, but the comfort seemed to do him good. With a groan, the quills of bone sank back and reabsorbed into his body, leaving only multiple puncture wounds over his skin where they had penetrated. "Don't wanna do ya in..." he simpered, curling into Nick's chest. "Don't wanna hurt ya... Not ever... Please believe me."
burstheal 1:29 am
(1:29:11 AM): "I believe you..Ellis I believe you. That..that reaction...I had..." He shook his head. "I just kind of switched off like you did." He said sighing out softly and quelled his shakes on his own with will power.
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 1:33 am
(1:33:50 AM): "S'okay... It's s'okay." He pressed their foreheads together, arms moving to wrap around the gambler and hug him tight, when the glass embedded into Nick's flesh pricked his skin and finally had him registering pain. "O-ow!" he whimpered, jerking his hands back to look at the heavy slices. He grimmaced. "D-did I do this...?" he asked in horrified bewilderment, looking down at himself as well and noticing the cuts and shards in his own flesh. Shifting, he pulled a foot up and began to pluck the bits of glass from his feet, wincing at every one.
burstheal 1:38 am
(1:38:30 AM): Nick made a face. "Kind of pounced me like a screaming witch onto a bed of glass..* He winced himself and hunched forward he was unable to get the glass out himself. Because of his claws he'd likely just slice his back further to hell. "Feel like crawling back under the house again"
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 1:40 am
(1:40:25 AM): "No..." Ellis stopped plucking the glass from his own skin. "Lemme get'm out fer ya." His tone suggested remorse for what he'd done. "Sorry... So sorry."
burstheal 1:42 am
(1:42:55 AM): "You weren't you at the time Elle...please stop apologizing for something beyond your ability to control..." He turned to let him work on his back though it looked like his natural regeneration was pushing the glass out of his skin it clinked into the grass silently in front of the mechanics eyes.
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 1:46 am
(1:46:59 AM): Ellis watched the bits of glass fall out on their own in a doped, almost hypnotized fashion. "Still ain't right..." he said finally after a while, reaching to pick out the the more stubborn pieces of glass that where stuck. His own body was working on doing similar, and several minutes of tedious work, and most of the glass was either plucked, or fell out on its own. Arms went around Nick's middle, and Ellis was hugging him close. "God... What've we become?"
burstheal 1:51 am
(1:51:26 AM): "Same thing I am...more or less." He sighed out and leaned back against him letting out sigh. "Ellis..it's ok..I still love you..Even if your..some kind..of weird witch, hunter....bone shooting...thing. I mean at least your not charred up and light stuff on fire.."
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 1:53 am
(1:53:51 AM): The kid made a scoffing sort of laugh, the first noise that wasn't a growl or a sob. "Bone shootin' thing..." he repeted under his breath. "Well, if ya can forgive an' love me, even when I try ta kill ya, I can still love ya even when you've gone Two Face on me."
burstheal 1:55 am
(1:55:17 AM): "pff Batman reference, nice kid" He chuckled out some of the tension leaving him. "Yeah..we're a couple of freaks but....we're each others...."
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 1:58 am
(1:58:23 AM): There was another chuckle that manged to make its way past Ellis' lips, steadily growing warmer the more the comfort ensued. Nudging their foreheads together again, he let out a low, calming breath. "Always yours~" he said, burying the fingers of one hand into what was left of Nick's hair. "Always... Always..."
burstheal 2:00 am
(2:00:16 AM): Nudging his forehead back in return he smiled weakly and leaned forward and kissed him deeply. Needing the comforting contact with his lover. Needing to know the words were true with action.
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 2:08 am
(2:08:20 AM): It wasn't so much the physical touch that soothed Ellis completely, as it was the sentimental attatchment to the gesture. When their lips met, it was like something more... Like their souls brushed together and soothed any doubt or uncertainty that could not be answered properly enough by words alone. The guilty ache in Ellis' chest was soothed, and any lingering traces of his frenzied episode from before was forgotten in favor of the simple gesture that was Nick's lips pressed to his. He moaned faintly, fingers gripping tighter to their respective holds of Nick's body.
burstheal (3:54:24 PM):He couldn't grip onto him anymore and that saddened him in some ways. He didn't want to risk slicing the boy to pieces if he did that. But he could wrap an arm around him. Pulling him closer to him as he kept hold of the simple kiss. It was things like that, that erased all his doubt and fears. At least for the time being, it wasn't in his nature to not be doubtful of things. He let a content breath out of his nose.
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s (4:02:38 PM):The boy could sense the similar ease in his partner, even if there was a twinge of sadness that still lingered. Though honestly, he couldn't deny their predicament wasn't sad, but it was easy to ignore for now with Nick so close and comforting.
burstheal (4:04:09 PM):After a while he let a breath out and sat back looking at him. "It's getting late..and we haven't eaten yet. As strange as it feels to say it we either need to see what the hunters had here to eat or we need to go out hunting for food." He gingerly brushed some of the brown curls back happy in some manner that he could still do a simple gesture without doing damage. "I want some coffee too..."
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s (4:16:52 PM):"You'n yer coffee..." Ellis chuckled, leaning up to lick at Nick's good cheek affectionately with his tongue. "I think goin' out t' hunt might be alright. Don't wanna be here right now..."
burstheal (4:18:20 PM):"Yeah I don't blame you, maybe we can find something closer to the base to live in...Something we can spy on our enemies from." He smirked a bit and pushed up. "Lets go hunting."
burstheal 10:41 pm
(10:41:41 PM): "Not a problem kid.." He said quietly before leaving the bedroom and leaving Ellis alone. He disappeared into some quiet corner of the house letting the kid get the anger out of his system. He was more depressed than anything. Sliding down into a corner of a darkened den with a blanket. When Ellis was done being angry he'd find him, he was too much of a puppy to be angry forever.
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 10:51 pm
(10:51:55 PM): Left alone in the room, Ellis stared bitterly at the wooden walls without really seeing them. His rage still festered inside his chest, churning and working itself up again. Why'd this have to happen? He was a good kid from Savannah, Georgia, or at least he had been at some point... He hadn't even minded the zombies so much really, but CEDA... Why did it have to be the government? Why did they have to be captured and tortured mercilessly? The mechanic wasn't even all that angry about what had been done to him. It was what had been done to Nick... reduced him to a shell of what he had been, what Ellis had fallen in love with (even if it was often calloused and sarcastic). He lifted his head, and his eyes strayed to a small mirror that hung above the dresser. His face looked gaunt and bitter, nothing like its former cheerful boyishness. He hissed, the anger bubbling over as he swiped his claws across the reflective glass, sending it flying to shatter on the floor before his weight was thrown against the dresser with such force the wood buckled and splintered where it hit against the far wall. The bed was next, flipped over and torn to shreds as he let out howl after inhuman howl.
burstheal 10:57 pm
(10:57:44 PM): The howling and angry roaring had him huddling down even further. He didn't know why he reacted in such a manner to it. He should have been in there calming the boy down. But he just couldn't bring himself to. He just knew that if he did it would turn into him being more upset and more sad than he already was. And the boys anger because of him was enough to send him right into the deeper depths of this new depression. He'd always had bouts of it in his life, when his luck was down or when his ex wife was making him feel like shit. But this was the epitome of utterly fucked, not even the optimistic one of the two could say things were going to be ok with certainty. There was no telling how long their bodies could live in this state, before they just fell over dead. He couldn't stand the thought of Ellis just falling over dead in his arms one day. He leaned forwards into his legs under the blanket and hugged them blood tinged tears falling from the eye that was still capable of such things.
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 11:16 pm
(11:16:05 PM): The wood of the bedframe could be heard creaking as the frenzied boy wrenched one of the legs from where it was nailed together. He flung it, and it collided with the window, shattering the glass and furthering the mess that was around the room. But he stopped, breathing and snarling heavily as he stared out the hole made in the glass and felt the breeze of the night air wash over his face. His skin felt hot, and the chill of the night made him shiver. The feeling made him cry out with another frustrated, anger-fueled howl, and it was suddenly like his skin was ripping apart, accompanied by the tear of fabric as sharp lines of pain rippled across his body, particularly down his back and across his arms and hands, and it was suddenly like the outburst drained all his energy. He collapsed to his knees, face covered by his hands as he made heavy, heaving sobs.
burstheal 11:19 pm
(11:19:06 PM): The silence followed by a softer noise his sensitive hearing could pick up just barely had him up. He kept the blanket with him as he moved into the room hesitantly. He drew in a sharp breath seeing the sharp bones sticking out in random places. As well as what appeared to be weapons made out of bone sticking out of the ceiling the walls and furniture around. He breathed out in a shakey manner almost afraid to speak up. What exactly had happened to Ellis while he'd been off on his own? "Elle..." He voice was still raw from crying himself and he moved across the room sitting down next to him. "..Elle are you ok?"
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 11:40 pm
(11:40:06 PM): The boy's shoulder shook tremorously with his sobs as he lay huddled on the floor. The pains had come from the aforementioned spikes of bone that were now jutting sharply through his skin, ripping through the fabric of the adopted shirt where it covered. The projections were long, smooth, and scythe-like, ending in such a pin point that it would take very little for them to cut skin. He seemed to have not taken notice of Nick stepping into the room again as his bemoanings continued.
burstheal 11:42 pm
(11:42:44 PM): Nick shuddered some the noise, that noise was so much like a witches it disturbed him to his core. And part of him the more 'feral' part told him to run right then. Not look back because approach might mean death. Shakily he forced his hand forward from his sitting position and he shook him lightly. Ready to be killed, ready for the last thing he might see to be his changed lover killing him in a startled rage. "Ellis, snap out of it!"
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 11:52 pm
(11:52:30 PM): The hand on his shoulder made Ellis fall silent almost immediately, and it was the same sort of deathly silence that happened just before a Witch would turn her head to stare menacingly at you with dead, yellow eyes. It was the sort of silence that immediately made you wish for the unabashed sobbings again, just to keep the horrific nothingness from ringing in your ears.
Slowly... Very slowly, the kid's head turned and he stared at the burned conman, pale cheeks stained with tears and a few patches where fine little needles of bone had pierced through the skin on his cheeks and forehead had colored his skin a faint pink where the trauma had caused blood to leak out.
burstheal 11:58 pm
(11:58:15 PM): He sucked a breath in at that stare, that silence scaring him to his core and he knew he couldn't school the look of fear away from his face. He kept the shaking hand on his shoulder though staring at him. "Ellis...please...your still in there...right..?" He was strong enough to squash those needs. The need to get the hell out of that room right then and hope to god he wasn't chased down like a coward. If Ellis really was gone he'd rather be killed anyhow.
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 12:27 am
(12:27:41 AM): The silence continued on agonizingly, and the mechanic seemed utterly frozen of movement, save for the jarring shakes of Nick's hand on his shoulder. Then, his jaw went slack, slowly curling into a hideous, silent snarl as he stared emotionlessly back at the older man. And suddenly, he was on Nick again, leaping at the gambler to throw him back and pin him to the shard-covered floor. His gaping jaws lunged close to Nick's marred face, stopping just inches short while those jagged mandibles cracked together violently with a sound that snapped and wrent the otherwise quiet air. He was growling again, saliva dripping from his gums. "Stupid coppertop pocket criticizing Overalls Momma Nick." The gibberish made no discernable sense, the words seeming to be little more than sounds he spat out in his crazed delirium.
burstheal 12:31 am
(12:31:04 AM): He made a noise of pain as shards of glass he felt onto were slammed into his skin and the boy made to almost bite at him. He closed his eye and turned his head going limp. A choked noise of more mental pain than physical leaving him. He was afraid and sad all at once, the boy seemed gone to him. Even if the words included some discernible familiarity. He'd still jumped him and was likely going to still kill him. All he could think to do was put his own mind at ease, knowing it likely didn't matter worth a damn what he said the boy wasn't likely to hear it anymore. "I'm sorry Elle...it's ok..whatever you do to me..it's ok I forgive you...love you..it's ok..." He was shaking quite a bit at that point waiting for the strike to come.
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 12:46 am
(12:46:37 AM): The growling and hissing continued, even as the seconds snailed by and the slash of claws and the bite of teeth failed to come. Instead, the deranged mechanic lurked closer to Nick's face, nostrils flaring as he inhaled deeply. The stench of fear radiated from the pinned figure, and it made the monster inside Ellis quiver with antiscipation to end the suffering. But he stalled, something underlying the smell of paralyzing fear which utterly contradicted his urge to kill. It was less of a tangible smell and more of an innate desire, a need to protect and to covet and keep from harm. Nick's defeated words fell on his ears, and the familiar sound only fueled the conflict in Ellis' poor, battered mind as the two dire impulses fought for supremacy. He growled. He whimpered. He shook and trembled until finally he jumped away to retreat to a corner, curling into himself like a kicked dog.
burstheal 12:54 am
(12:54:08 AM): Nick just laid there when no death came. And when the boy jumped away he couldn't even manage to get up. His body still shook as if he expected to be attacked again, the feeling of being toyed with like some mouse by a large cat came to mind. He was in a lot of pain he realized too as he managed finally to move out of the glass to lean his good side against the wall so his back was exposed to air drooling too dark blood from deeply embedded glass. They were both out of sorts. His mind in those horrible moments of being that close to deaths doors had turned off his normal rational thinking and scared self presevation was threatening to take over. The second he felt another jab of pain from his battered body he just let go and mindlessly got up and limped away from the room. He ended up outside pulling himself under the slightly raised up cabin to the underside of it and curled up in the dirt and moss there. It was quiet and dark and safe that was all his mind was registering as he laid there.
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 1:01 am
(1:01:01 AM): Somewhere in Ellis' frazzled psyche, he noticed the absence of the second pressence, looking up with blood-shot eyes to gaze around in bewilderment. All that lent to showing where the other man had disappeared to was the trickling trail of blood that lead out of the room. Getting shakily to his feet, he followed it, completely unnoticing the sharp pieces of glass and splinters of wood that cut into his feet. He followed the trail out of the bedroom, through the front door and outside. The dirt and grass muddled the path a bit, but he managed to find himself by where Nick had crawled into.
"N--Nick...?" he croaked, voice hoarse and scratchy at this point.
burstheal 1:04 am
(1:04:40 AM): There was just a noise, a startled frightened noise from the underside of the house. His mind hadn't fixed itself yet he was too far into the muddy 'I don't want to die" territory that the boys voice didn't register familiar at the moment. But he could smell and he smelled the same thing that had just tried to kill him and he curled up tighter just forcing more blood out of his wounds.
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Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 1:06 am
(1:06:21 AM): No response.
"Nick..." There was a definate whimper to the kid's voice at this point, desperate and regretting and apologetic.
burstheal 1:08 am
(1:08:11 AM): His voice cracked out in a still far too 'not nick' tone. "You left me..you left I have nothing to live for if you leave...don't ..don't deserve to live if your not there..can't..won't..." He put his hands over his face and head not moving from his spot still.
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 1:09 am
(1:09:42 AM): "Ain't--ain't g-gonna leave...." Ellis said, crouching down by the side of the cabin. He held his face in his hands again. "So sorry... I'm so sorry... Forgive me, please."
burstheal 1:11 am
(1:11:03 AM): The begging for forgiveness brought him around the rest of the way and he pulled himself back out right beside him only partially exposed he looked up at him. His brow knit still worried looking. "..Ell...I'll...always forgive you. Even if you did kill me....struck me down...hurt me...I'd always forgive you.."
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 1:14 am
(1:14:42 AM): The mechanic's face screwed up into an expression that suggested another onset of tears, and he did give a few shaking whimpers, but it didn't have a chance to start again. "No... Nononono... Can't say that." He shook again, the bony spikes jutting from his shoulders and arms quivering with the movement. "I was horrible... A monster... Don't forgive me. I ain't deservin'..."
burstheal 1:18 am
(1:18:28 AM): Crawling out the rest of the way and ignoring the pain searing across his back he put his arms around him carefully between spikes and hugged him to him. "Remember ...remember what we said earlier..monsters together kid..." He sighed out putting his face into the top of the younger mans head. "I couldn't have lived without you anyway..if you'd been completely lost...I would have preferred if it was you that did me in.."
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 1:22 am
(1:22:52 AM): Ellis shook with another wave of supressed whimpers, but the comfort seemed to do him good. With a groan, the quills of bone sank back and reabsorbed into his body, leaving only multiple puncture wounds over his skin where they had penetrated. "Don't wanna do ya in..." he simpered, curling into Nick's chest. "Don't wanna hurt ya... Not ever... Please believe me."
burstheal 1:29 am
(1:29:11 AM): "I believe you..Ellis I believe you. That..that reaction...I had..." He shook his head. "I just kind of switched off like you did." He said sighing out softly and quelled his shakes on his own with will power.
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 1:33 am
(1:33:50 AM): "S'okay... It's s'okay." He pressed their foreheads together, arms moving to wrap around the gambler and hug him tight, when the glass embedded into Nick's flesh pricked his skin and finally had him registering pain. "O-ow!" he whimpered, jerking his hands back to look at the heavy slices. He grimmaced. "D-did I do this...?" he asked in horrified bewilderment, looking down at himself as well and noticing the cuts and shards in his own flesh. Shifting, he pulled a foot up and began to pluck the bits of glass from his feet, wincing at every one.
burstheal 1:38 am
(1:38:30 AM): Nick made a face. "Kind of pounced me like a screaming witch onto a bed of glass..* He winced himself and hunched forward he was unable to get the glass out himself. Because of his claws he'd likely just slice his back further to hell. "Feel like crawling back under the house again"
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 1:40 am
(1:40:25 AM): "No..." Ellis stopped plucking the glass from his own skin. "Lemme get'm out fer ya." His tone suggested remorse for what he'd done. "Sorry... So sorry."
burstheal 1:42 am
(1:42:55 AM): "You weren't you at the time Elle...please stop apologizing for something beyond your ability to control..." He turned to let him work on his back though it looked like his natural regeneration was pushing the glass out of his skin it clinked into the grass silently in front of the mechanics eyes.
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 1:46 am
(1:46:59 AM): Ellis watched the bits of glass fall out on their own in a doped, almost hypnotized fashion. "Still ain't right..." he said finally after a while, reaching to pick out the the more stubborn pieces of glass that where stuck. His own body was working on doing similar, and several minutes of tedious work, and most of the glass was either plucked, or fell out on its own. Arms went around Nick's middle, and Ellis was hugging him close. "God... What've we become?"
burstheal 1:51 am
(1:51:26 AM): "Same thing I am...more or less." He sighed out and leaned back against him letting out sigh. "Ellis..it's ok..I still love you..Even if your..some kind..of weird witch, hunter....bone shooting...thing. I mean at least your not charred up and light stuff on fire.."
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 1:53 am
(1:53:51 AM): The kid made a scoffing sort of laugh, the first noise that wasn't a growl or a sob. "Bone shootin' thing..." he repeted under his breath. "Well, if ya can forgive an' love me, even when I try ta kill ya, I can still love ya even when you've gone Two Face on me."
burstheal 1:55 am
(1:55:17 AM): "pff Batman reference, nice kid" He chuckled out some of the tension leaving him. "Yeah..we're a couple of freaks but....we're each others...."
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 1:58 am
(1:58:23 AM): There was another chuckle that manged to make its way past Ellis' lips, steadily growing warmer the more the comfort ensued. Nudging their foreheads together again, he let out a low, calming breath. "Always yours~" he said, burying the fingers of one hand into what was left of Nick's hair. "Always... Always..."
burstheal 2:00 am
(2:00:16 AM): Nudging his forehead back in return he smiled weakly and leaned forward and kissed him deeply. Needing the comforting contact with his lover. Needing to know the words were true with action.
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s 2:08 am
(2:08:20 AM): It wasn't so much the physical touch that soothed Ellis completely, as it was the sentimental attatchment to the gesture. When their lips met, it was like something more... Like their souls brushed together and soothed any doubt or uncertainty that could not be answered properly enough by words alone. The guilty ache in Ellis' chest was soothed, and any lingering traces of his frenzied episode from before was forgotten in favor of the simple gesture that was Nick's lips pressed to his. He moaned faintly, fingers gripping tighter to their respective holds of Nick's body.
burstheal (3:54:24 PM):He couldn't grip onto him anymore and that saddened him in some ways. He didn't want to risk slicing the boy to pieces if he did that. But he could wrap an arm around him. Pulling him closer to him as he kept hold of the simple kiss. It was things like that, that erased all his doubt and fears. At least for the time being, it wasn't in his nature to not be doubtful of things. He let a content breath out of his nose.
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s (4:02:38 PM):The boy could sense the similar ease in his partner, even if there was a twinge of sadness that still lingered. Though honestly, he couldn't deny their predicament wasn't sad, but it was easy to ignore for now with Nick so close and comforting.
burstheal (4:04:09 PM):After a while he let a breath out and sat back looking at him. "It's getting late..and we haven't eaten yet. As strange as it feels to say it we either need to see what the hunters had here to eat or we need to go out hunting for food." He gingerly brushed some of the brown curls back happy in some manner that he could still do a simple gesture without doing damage. "I want some coffee too..."
Dr Sl33pYp4n7s (4:16:52 PM):"You'n yer coffee..." Ellis chuckled, leaning up to lick at Nick's good cheek affectionately with his tongue. "I think goin' out t' hunt might be alright. Don't wanna be here right now..."
burstheal (4:18:20 PM):"Yeah I don't blame you, maybe we can find something closer to the base to live in...Something we can spy on our enemies from." He smirked a bit and pushed up. "Lets go hunting."