Sean the Gamer
Well this was a fairly pleasant twist when her breakdown seemed to last a record short amount of time. Someone clearly had a very effective coping mechanism, and here I was just delaying mine until I could break it out somewhere safer. "Well, color me impressed, that's some fortitude you got there miss." Of course, this was the perfect time for the walking hate inducer that is a politician to step in and make the situation a huge pain in the ass, and just as I opened my mouth to give him a piece of my own mind she beat me to the punch.
I ended up just staring in morbid fascination as she tore into him... and then handed me the flare gun and told me to shoot him with it if he gets dangerous... Oh, I had the perfect idea "Okay, first, I wish 'my' teacher's were like you back in the day. Second, Hot... and Third, I could do that, or." I shifted the flare gun to my left hand and reached the other into my Parka, which then came out carrying an intimidatingly large silver and black revolver "I could use 'this'. Thing'll put a bear down with good aim." She probably didn't notice though, she clearly had her mind put back on something else, So I took the chance to address 'Pierre'... and tried not to let any bile rise in my throat "For the record, I wouldn't be attending your charity convention anyway. Priests and Politician's make my stomach turn and you can't imagine how hard it would be for you to convince me you wouldn't throw us all in a pit if it made you a buck, 'if' I were to even consider you cared what we thought of you in the first place. Also, a pressed Ten K suit or combat fatigues is not the only possible indicator of someone who knows what they're doing, at a time like this, Competency is determined more by one's success at surviving. And-" Interrupted again, this time by a shout.
One glance was all it took to recognize what was happening, though coping with 'zombie children' was miniscule next to recognizing the cataclysm. "There's your evidence right there, standard catastrophes don't make zombie children- But lets all get somewhere nice and safe before we waste our time bickering." I quickly pocketed the flare gun before steadying myself in a remarkably law enforcement like stance, very firmly gripping the revolver with both hands, and took aim. I remembered the time I tried to shoot this thing one handed, it just wasn't something you did. The shot was as loud as I remembered, if it weren't heard for a mile around I'd be surprised, And it still made me stumble back while my arms flung over my head, but it did it's job... Sortof.
The zombie boy's head popped right off his shoulders in a messy spray as the body tumbled from the impact. It wasn't the head-shot I'd been hoping for, but a bullet like this hitting an already structurally unsound neck was just as good since the head still separated from the spinal column... Then the body started to get back up, an eerie glow visible coming from the severed stumps, both on the body and the head. "Aw fuck! It's Mad-cow Tourettes Zombies allover again!" Okay, now It was a lot less of a molehill. I repeated the process, but went for a body shot this time, which made it tumble back to the ground again with a new gaping hole full of juicy meat and part of it's spine gone which seemed to leave it writhing around all noodle like with one of it's primary supports out of whack.