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Were they telling him to get the ice packs from the ambulance? Or were they simply stating that they did have some located there since he'd asked. Neither of them made a move to go grab one, so Hermes decided that if they needed to keep the fever down he'd go and grab the packs himself. As he began to make his way over towards the ambulance however, a cop came up to him, cuffs in hand, making Hermès both nervous and a bit jumpy. He wasn't doing anything wrong, and was about to say so when another officer came behind the other and tapped him on the shoulder before pointing over to Finley.

A wave of relief washed over him as he let out a sigh, deciding that Finley wouldn't need the ice packs if he was headed into a cruiser. So he made his way over to his cousin once more, looking around at the situation at hand and seeing that everyone else seemed to have things covered now. ”Crap! I'm so sorry. Finely is one of my…friends at school. When I saw them I kind of panicked and forgot to keep you in the loop. I'll try to be better about it but I agree, we should go.” He signed before making his way over to the passenger side of Mandy's car.

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@Trainerblue192@Kirah@Carlyle Isaac turned to look at Kali and nodded slightly towards her. "Yeah i'm fine." He said to her as the paramedics and officers talked to each other briefly as they looked over at Finley still thrashing and hitting the door and bashing his head on the window of the back of the police cruiser. One The officers turned to Kali and nodded slightly seeing Gladys wasn't in the best mental state right now.

"We'll ask her for some details later but if you could can you give her my card?" The officer asked handing Kali his card. The other officer was pretty distracted and wasn't really paying attention but Mandy and Hermes would notice a kid around Hermes age managing to sneak into Mandy's car after picking the lock and got inside and was trying to hotwire the car.

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"Yeah everything is acting really crazy right now kind of like how COVID was." Flynn said as he cracked open his coke and leaned himself up against the wall. Everything was going really crazy, he pulled out his phone pulling up the news app he had on his phone, seeing a live news feed of some people looting a store. "It kinda feels like a crazy viral outbreak movie or something." Flynn said as he turned to Verity and gave her a slight smile when she apologized. "It's okay, I would have been pretty pissed off to if someone crashed into my car." Flynn told her he would have been pretty pissed off to if someone crashed into his own bike.

Gus went back to tending the person as best as he could and then started to panic as he saw that they weren't breathing anymore as he turned to look at the both of them. "Can either of you try and reach 911 they ain't breathing." Gus said as Flynn looked at Verity again he put his phone back into his pocket and went to check to see that Gus was telling the truth. He didn't have any kind of medical expertise to help at all as he tried to reach 911 on his phone and tried to call but he didn't get anything other than a busy signal.

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"I'm okay with that." Kaitlyn said as she pulled out her apartment keys and headed outside locking the door, it was mostly out of habit now at this point but they would need a key anyway to get into her apartment and the building itself as well to. "The garage isn't to far." Kaitlyn said as she adjusted her pack and started to head over towards the elevators at the end of hallway once Waverly was inside Kaitlyn pressed the button for the basement floor which was where mostly all of the residents parked as well to.

"My car is over here." She said as she pulled out her key fob and pressed the unlock button a red Honda CRV's lights flashed along with a beep as she started to approach and made her way over towards her car. Waverly however would catch a figure stumbling along in the shadows towards the sound of the horn, she would see that it was a zombified resident making her way towards Kaitlyn's car.

Mandy tapped her chest once with her thumb, her hand open fingers splayed. "It's fine." She wanted to tell him she was proud of him. But as she raised her hands to say more she noticed the boy leaning in her car. She pulled her keys out of her pocket and hit the red button to turn on the alarm. Mandy tapped it once and let it flash and beep for a few seconds before tapping it again. Hoping that would scare the kid off. Or get the attention of the officer.

Who in their right mind would try to carjack right next to the police like that? Mandy had a healthy respect and fear of cops. Being Deaf meant that if they gave her an order and she couldn't see them doing it, like coming up from behind, she'd never know and wouldn't be able to comply. She had learned horror stories from her parent's friends.

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Verity listened, reminded of the Covid-19 pandemic. It was, admittedly, a horrendous time. People acted like animals, flocking to stores to stock up on supplies, as people are want to do when crises hits, never once thinking to ensure others garner supplies of their own. Truly when tragedy hits it's every man for himself.

Verity didn't admit this openly, but the pandemic was good to her. People were staying home to work or just to keep safe which meant TV watching and streaming increased. People used money given from the stimulus to buy subscription services because...what else were they going to do when they were home keeping safe? It meant shows like hers soared in ratings and, thanks to commercials and product placements, it meant her income grew. It didn't mean she didn't care about people's safety, but a small part of her hoped the lockdown lasted a bit longer.

But even then once it was lifted she still did all right.

"Well we got through that pandemic all right, more or less, so we'll get through this one, if that's what it ends up being." She didn't want to voice any other worries she had. As Gus came in asking for one of them to call the police, Verity took out her phone. "I tried before and didn't get through, but I can try again." Verity dialed 9-1-1 again, but didn't hold out hope she would reach them.

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"Certainly," Kali responded to the police officer as she took the card from him and placed it in her pocket. She then glanced behind the officer, her attention focused on the teenager from before. "Is he going to be okay?" Kali asked as she watched Finley beat himself against the door of the police cruiser. Normally, she would have figured he had to be on something, but given the circumstances, she wasn't certain what to think anymore. "I'm just worried he might hurt himself."

Of course, that was saying the least. The kid was a wreck of his own, and apparently looked just as crazy as the man that had attacked her neighbor's husband. She thought back to the restaurant, thinking about what her co-worker looked like. Did he look as if he was out of his mind too? She didn't get much of a look as Isaac and another co-worker tried to temporarily restrain him. Perhaps that was the one good thing so far, saving her from being assaulted by her co-worker like Jeff.

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Hermès couldn't hear the sounds of glass being pounded on. Finley locked up inside the cruiser as he bashed his head repeatedly at the window in an attempt to break free. He didn't know what was happening to him, to Elio, it was all too sudden and too strange. Coach had died, yet he was seen moving again later, some sort of viral infection spread via saliva from the sounds of it based on what the dispatcher was saying. But Hermès didn't want to think about what that meant for Finley, on if it was already too late and he'd passed or if he was still alive in there, somewhere. He hoped they could find a cure to it and that he'd return back to normal, but until then he'd need to stop having so many close encounters with a bite.

As Hermès looked away from the scene and towards Mandy's car, he saw the teen who had snuck in and attempted to hot wire it. Mandy's quick thinking startled him however, the loud alarm making Hermès remove his hand from the car with a jolt before looking towards the officers. ”Hey, there's a guy trying to steal our ride over here!” He was about to do something reckless, before he remembered the cops were there. Wouldn't do for them to see him assaulting someone and get the wrong idea. Especially not after this whole mess.

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Waverley followed Kaitlyn into her apartment complex's spacious garage, eyes immediately scanning the scene. As they marched behind the line of parked cars, an annoyingly familiar sight caught her eye: the ugly stainless-steel looming over the both of them, coming together in jagged, unpleasant angles. As the pair passed, Waverley offered up a middle finger to the so-called cybertruck, silently cursing whatever wannabe tech bro had parked it there. She turned her attention back forward to find Kaitlyn fiddling with her keys in front of what Waverley figured must be her car.

"Hey, nice ride," she complimented, eyes gliding along its side. They stopped at the rearview mirror, narrowing at what she saw in the reflection - a half-dead looking figure shambling through the darkness towards them. Whoever they were, they looked the same as the guy they'd encountered back at the school. Waverley backed up a little, in doing so bumping her heel into a twelve-pack of soda, sitting next to the car next to them's closed trunk. Probably forgotten by someone after a grocery run...

"Don't freak out, but we've got one of those sick people coming up on us..." Waverley subtly glanced at the figure, wary to leave her eyes on it for too long. She chewed the inside of her lip, before glancing to the cybertruck they'd past along the way. An idea began to form - a loud one, and one that filled Waverley to no end with satisfaction. She hoisted up the forgotten box of Coke, pulling it open and grabbing a can from inside. She stepped away from Kaitlyn's car, and she aimed for a moment, can held high, before launching it at the overpriced rustbucket. She chucked it as hard as she could at the car - only for it to bounce off the back bumper and into the floor. Waverley was about to grab another can when she noticed the sick guy's attention pulled away from her and instead to the hissing can spraying coke onto the cybertruck's tire. Waverley quickly through open the car door, sliding into the passenger seat, keeping the soda on her lap. "We should go - I don't know how long that soda's gonna keep him distracted." There was an undercurrent of disappointment in Waverley's voice, clearly having wanted to give the owner of that truck a little more than a sticky tire to worry about.

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@Trainerblue192@Kirah@Carlyle "We'll see about him getting whatever help he needs ma'am, just make sure you return to your home and lockdown whatever's happening it's getting worse." The officer said to Kali, the car alarm suddenly got the officer's attention and quickly turned to the kid that was trying to hotwire the car right in front of them was really stupid and reckless. "Get out of the car right now!" The officer yelled as they both drew their sidearms at the kid who looked at them and slowly started to get out of Mandy's car and held his hands up Mandy would get a text from her father. "Is everything okay?"

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"Still it was kind of a crazy time though." Flynn said with a slight shrug as he turned his attention towards Gus as he made sure he had the tire iron ready just in case something happened. "Just stay away from the body." Flynn said to Gus as he nodded slightly as he slowly stood up. The woman was bitten by the infected and the same thing happened back at the Twin Seasons restaurant he was very much on edge and he didn't want his friend or Verity really to get hurt either.

Verity would actually be lucky and she would get someone on the other end, the dispatcher sounded really stressed and overworked by the sound of their voice on the other end. "This is 911 what is your emergency?" They asked over the phone, Flynn watched very closely as he slowly started to notice a finger twitching Verity would notice it as well to.

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Juniper would just be getting home from school, the staff had all evacuated the school, he would notice a newer staff member at the school he worked at as Kaitlyn there. He would also notice the sickly looking man shambling his way towards the can of coke that Waverly had tossed, it cracked open slightly and sprayed cola all over the floor.

Kaitlyn started to fumble with her key fob and ended up dropping it onto the ground and fell to the ground under a nearby car. "Well shit.." Kaitlyn said she really didn't like the idea of loosing her keys having the shambling neighbor making their way over towards her. "I dropped my keys I need to get it. Just keep that thing distracted if it wanders over here." Kaitlyn said as she got down onto her knees and started to try and get them from under the car it had rolled under.