Merbella

The Walking Dead: Los Angeles

Posted. Was trying to wait for Nallore but meh.

The Walking Dead: Los Angeles

Wintergrey said
Also Mer Autumn isn't a stick. He worked in a car repair shop for quiet a while and thus is quiet muscular.

I don't know what the auto shops are like over there, or if you've ever worked in one, but here at least just because you work in one doesn't mean you're muscular. My boyfriend and I have both worked in auto shops and there is actually very little heavy lifting required, because they're made machines to do that for people so as to minimize occupational health and safety risks. Honestly the guy who owned it was fat it's that little physically intensive.

However I do apologise for getting it wrong, usually just go off the picture if one is provided and he looked skinny in that one, so that was an error on my part.

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Luke stared at the other boy icily, his hand shaking slightly as he restrained himself. “Your rashness and lack of control is what’s going to get people killed. It already has once. You don’t think before you act. You just go off with good intentions without thinking anything through.” He pushed the hand off his shoulder. “Touch me again and I will break your hand.” He shook his head angrily. This kid was a hazard to the group, and he was causing Luke to be one as well with all the conflict they were causing. Some people just didn’t get along, that was just a thing he accepted.

But how could this work when he couldn’t trust him? He just couldn’t get over how reckless he was, back at the camp, at the house now. His first response is to jump in and be a hero, but you can’t save everyone. That was something he was going to have to learn real fast. His mind then turned to if the pair ever did get into a physical confrontation and he wasn't sure who would come out on top honestly. They were fairly matched physically at least. He was such a quiet kid it was easy to think that he would be easy to take down, but at the same time his rashness made him unpredictable and he had seen how quickly he had jumped up before. He was certainly not above killing, something Luke himself was not so sure how he'd react in a similar situation.

“You should be nicer to him.” Ash said softly, looking up at Luke. The tiny voice had caught him a bit off guard and he looked down at her uncertainly. “He didn’t do it on purpose… and you don’t know what people have been through. Katelyn is right; if we keep fighting it will just get someone hurt.” Luke smiled at the little girl and placed a hand on her head, ruffling hr hair gently. Typical that the ten year old was acting more mature than all the adults. Ash smiled and shrugged slightly. “If you want her to like you; you should probably listen to her, show her you’re the bigger man.”

Luke winced slightly at this remark. “Is it… is it really that obvious hu?”

Ash simply smiled and shrugged. “To me anyway. I don’t think you were really angry that Autumn left me alone, more that he interrupted your alone time with her.”

Luke shook his head and laughed softly. “Well uh… how’s about we keep that little secret just between us okay?” Ash looked at him and nodded silently, making a motion of zipping her lips before she munched on the redvine given to her before offering the other to Luke, which he also took and ate without a word.

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Luke turned sharply to look as he saw Autumn and once again his eyes narrowed. “Seriously, okay, I had this. There is no reason for you to be here and everyone crowding around the windows is going to draw the damn creepers.” He shook his head angrily, having thought someone would have logically stayed with Ash, but no. That kid had to get up and follow the rest of them not thinking things though, again. And then he just kept talking. Luke turned to look towards the street, though luckily nothing seemed to be drawn by the constant chatter. It must have been quiet enough to go unnoticed.

Not by all though. The dead were oblivious, but Luke heard Ash gasp softly from where she was standing at the door, listening to them. Her eyes were slightly wide and fearful as she looked at Autumn. “You… you killed your best friend?” She said softly, looking to Luke worriedly and the man groaned angrily.

“See? Are you happy now? Look just shut the fuck up kid before you get us all killed and try using your head for once okay? I thought maybe I could have left you to take care of her for one fucking minute but no! You just had to get up to see what the grownups were doing didn’t you?” He made a frustrated noise and walked back over Ash, kneeling down and speaking to her softly to try and reassure her. “It’s alright, okay? I promise, I won’t let anything hurt you, not those things and not anyone else.” He placed his hand gently on her back and led her back into the garage. “You trust me right?” She nodded slightly. “Good. But don’t be so quick to trust everyone. Just because they’re a grown up, doesn’t mean they’re safe.”

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Ash took two of the redvines offered to her and was about to offer one to Luke when Katelyn suddenly jumped up after hearing the gunshot and ran out of the room. Luke who had been leaning against the door at the time, promptly got out of her way before standing up and flowing her out into the living room, giving Ash a look for the briefest moments. He found her staring out the window at the dead and carefully walked up beside her, placing a hand on her shoulder. “It’s not safe out here right now.” He told her gently, trying to coax her away.

“If any of those things saw you they’d target this place. I know you’re worried about your sister, and you have every right to be. But if I didn’t think Marshall was capable of taking care of her on his own I never would have let them go alone. Look… I know we’re still getting to know each other and stuff, so I really have no way of explaining my trust in the guy but… it’s going to be okay. They’ll be back before you know it.” He really had no way of promising that either however with so many of the dead nearby they couldn’t afford to linger at windows.

“Look, why don’t you go upstairs and have a shower or something?” Luke suggested. “It might be the last one you get to have in a long time, I know I will before we get going tomorrow.” Tomorrow. So many things about that made him anxious; not really knowing how to get to where they were going, the idea of just driving by the dead, all the people they were likely to encounter. How many of them could they trust? How many arguments would arise about whether or not to pick them up? Let them join the group or share supplies with them? It was all a little too much to think about right now.

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Luke’s glare at Autumn was icy when he offered to stay behind and he rolled his eyes slightly as he looked away. Brilliant. He thought to himself as he realised he was now going with the scavenging party. He nodded to Sophia at her question. “I’ll catch up, just gotta get my gear.” He said as he knelt down to Ash, looking at her seriously before smiling reassuringly. He wanted to have a few words with Autumn however Marshal came over to him before he was ready to go and Luke looked at him, nodding in agreement. “Read my mind man.” He replied softly.

“I was hoping he’d offer to go, personally. I’d feel better if you guys had someone else to watch your backs.” However he wasn’t going to argue. He trusted that Marshall was capable of taking care of the pair of them. He doubted the kid in the corner was even able to look after himself at the moment. Let alone two girls. So he’d stay. Once Sophia and Marshall had left and Katelyn closed the door he relaxed a little, even as she went and sat beside the boy and invited them to help her count food.

His look became softer at the sight of her with Ashley and he nodded encouragingly to the little girl. The door to the house was currently unlocked, seeing as that couldn’t actually be locked without a key, which they didn’t have. “Just in case you guys wanted, there is running water if you wanted to get cleaned up a little.” He reminded them. He was probably being a little harsh on the kid, but the fact of the matter was that this was bigger than any of them at the moment and if his rashness or emotional weakness was a threat to the group then that just meant more work for the rest of them trying to survive.

Still, him and Marshal ganging up on him probably wasn’t helping the matter so Luke made a decision to at least try and forgive him for his earlier stuff up, so long as nothing else like that happened again. Sighing softly Luke pulled the machete out of the holster on his back and sat on the ground, his back to the house door as he watched the other one closely. Suddenly he heard a gunshot and flinched slightly. That was way too close to here for his liking. He instantly began worrying about Marshall and Sophia but knew he couldn’t leave now to go look for them.

That would just be stupid knowing that those dead things were attracted to sounds. They’d be swarming the street in minutes. Going outside would be suicide. Ash jumped physically at the noise too and looked over to look for comfort. He seemed tense, but didn’t look worried so she calmed down a little, however did move closer to Katelyn as she sat beside the girl.

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Haha. No it's all good, just a joke :P

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You guys left me behind! Traitors! Haha

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Ashley looked to the other boy as he introduced himself and she smiled gently at him, nodding in recognition of her name. “Well… Luke calls me Ash. Everyone else usually calls me Ashley-” She cut herself off when he started crying out of the blue and her look became a little distressed and she moved closer to him, holding out her hands unsurely. “It- it’s alright. Don’t cry, please? I’m sorry.” She looked to the other two girls for help, not sure why he was crying or if it was because of her and if so, what she’d done to evoke such a reaction.

Luke nodded to Marshall and waited contently for him to clean himself up. “We’ve only got these two left.” He indicated to the double and single that had been propped up against the walls. “So it means we’ll have a capacity problem. Five places, six people. I suppose we could squeeze the girls all in on one, since they’re smaller if you’re up for sharing because between us I don’t trust that other kid as far as I can throw him.” He began pushing the double, letting it slide down the stairs before directing it towards the garage, leaving Marshall with the single.

Sophia presented a good point once they got back, and he figured they could argue about sleeping arrangements later. “I would usually suggest waiting, making a plan. But right now with everyone from the camp spilling out into the city there won’t be much left after a few days, so we need to act now before it’s all gone. After that… I’m willing to go wherever you guys think is best.” He shrugged slightly, looking around. “The question now is who goes.” He looked around the group, knowing he may offend some people with what he was about to say.

“Sophia has already said she’s going, and I have no problem with this. But Ash and Katelyn should stay. It’s probably going to be dangerous out there and we don’t need to take unnecessary risks with them. But at the same time I’m not leaving them here alone, meaning one of the guys should stay.” His eyes glanced at Autumn for the briefest moment, a brief glare as he saw he had been crying. He didn’t want to leave the girls alone with him. He doubted his ability to protect them but at the same time he didn’t want to look like he was chickening out by opting to stay back.

The Walking Dead: Los Angeles

Was just waiting for Nallore. Will post now :)