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[raelyn]

"Humans? Can't be too human if they're helping out this thing, can-" Faye cut herself off abruptly, realizing she'd seen one of them, briefly, at the park. Well, at least, she might have.

"Does one of the....helpers...have a really white face? Almost unnaturally white, like paint of some sort?" she asked, playing nervously with the unfamiliar gun belt slung across her hips.

Her head whipped sideways as floorboards creaked overhead.

Faye started to say something, but her breath caught in her throat and she choked, coughing uncontrollably. What the hell? She hunched over, hand over her mouth, shivering violently. Why is it so cold?

[Magus00]

"Hell if I know. They never briefed me on this mission. I got selected due to a "Recommendation" by my Sargent." Mike giggled a little. Yes, GIGGLED. "Evidently I pissed him off enough to get signed up for some weird-a** special assignment."

Mike started heading for the door.

[Watson]

((OOG: To keep everyone who isn't here or IS here up to date: Terrence, Faye, and I guess Allison and David are on the lower floor talking, while Stephen, Mia, and Mike are on the second floor walking down. ))

"Yes, one of them ha-has a p-painted...white face, and the other has a m-m-mask. I call the-" Cut off mid-sentence by Faye's coughing fit, warning bells signalled in Terrence's head. He went to the oung woman's side and peered at her intently, examining her face, her stature, everything about her.

"He has t-targeted you." Trying to seem reassuring, the blue-eyed man held up his hands and looked at her thoughtfully. "I-I don't mean to scare you, but i-it w-would be a good idea if...we gathered whatever supplies w-we can from here, and left."

[Magus00]

Mike heard something. He was getting mighty upset about all the weird s**t going on around here.

"Shh...someone's here..." He motioned for Mia and Gavin to be quiet and set Stephen down, then pulled his gun. Then, for a split second, he second-guessed himself. "S**t...am I starting to hear s**t now too? Well, I ain't gonna let these kids get hurt 'cause'a my carelessness."

Couching, he shambles over to the stairs, lies prone, and lines his gun up, waiting for something...anything...that walks in the cross hairs...

[Watson]

((OOG: I've got to go, but it wont be long. About an hour or so.))

[raelyn]

Trembling slightly, Faye coughed a few more times, throat raw, before making eye contact with Terrence, green eyes meeting blue.

"T-targeted me?" Faye sighed, rubbing her throat absentmindedly with one hand. Coming back to this town was a bad mistake. "I dunno, though, should we really go back outside, in the open? Plus, Gavin isn't feeling too well. He's been blacking out." Faye's voice cracked, and she glanced at the stairs, hearing footsteps.

"Wait here." she told Terrence, moving towards the stairs as quietly as possible. "Mike?" she whispered quietly, poking her head around the wall to look up the stairs. "You better not blow me up dammit."

((Mmkay Watson!))

[Magus00]

His concentration was shattered. He suddenly started hearing inaudible whispering. Mike figured he lost it, just like all the other crazies with him. The only thing he had left was his concentration. If he could just focus on what he was doing, the whispering would go away...he hoped...Focused wholely on the stairwell...no, not the stairwell, the cross hairs...that was all the mattered. Everything else didn't matter.

He about s**t himself when he saw movement out of the corner of his eye, causing him to jump AND squeeze the trigger in surprise. For once, concentrating paid off as Mike, in slow motion, watched a bullet fly down the middle of the stairwell, just to the side of the head of Faye causing her locks of hair to flail wildly at its passing. Said bullet then embedded itself deep into the wall of the house.

[Renren]

((whoops, posted a second too late))

"JESUS CHRIST!" Mia said, jumping at the gunshot. "It's just a girl!! Didn't you say you had people with you??"

[raelyn]

Faye froze, eyes huge. She'd heard the crack of a gun firing, then felt the bullet literally inches from her head.

Holy crap holy CRAP HOLY CRAP! THAT ALMOST KILLED ME! Her brain kept up this frenzied monologue, repeating the same phrases over and over as she stood at the foot of the stairs, shaking violently, in complete shock.

Her knees quaked and gave out under her, and she slid to the ground, unable to speak, staring fixedly at the top of the first stair.

[Magus00]

"S**T S**T S**T! S**T! WHY ARE YOU IN THE HOUSE?!?!?!" Mike was both terrified and furious at the same time. Terrified because he almost killed his charge and furious at himself for almost taking the life of an innocent college kid. He jumped up, turned to Mia and screamed "She was supposed to stay outside!"

He dropped his weapon and booked downstairs, then forcibly grabbed her shoulders and turned her side to side examining her head for any wounds.

He was visibly trembling when he confirmed she was unharmed.

"What are you doing in the house?!?! First Gavin, now you!" You guys are going to get yourselves killed!"

[bionic madman]

David saw the soldier standing over faye and said to him "looks like we almost had a freindly fire incident here." he then slowly walked to them and kneled beside faye. "looks like its just shock." he said as he examined her.

[GerkinMcGrimley]

((i was out shopping and shoveling for 1/2 of a day and I miss 3 pages. Great F***ING GREAT!!! Oh, well))

Gavin was quiet he was taking it in losing track of everyone in the group. One...Two....Eight. And the Slender Man was after them all. Then he heard a gunshot and quickly looked for Faye. She wasn't there. Shit how long had he spaced out? He ran up the stairs. Mike was yelling at Faye, but she was alive. He wanted to go over and ask what happened, but at the risk of trouble he stayed put. There he stood watching Mike calm down and he felt a cooling in the air and pressure. He was coming.

"Mike we have to leave, he's going to be here soon and we need to get out of here." His mind was racing. He knew what he had to do. Whatever he could to keep these people safe. He thought that if they didn't get out of here soon then he would have to use the gun.

[Renren]

Mia rubbed her eyes. Two more people besides the girl who had just been shot at had shown up on the stairs. "What the hell," she muttered to herself. One of them had just said that "he" would be here soon.

"Who's 'He'?" she asked.

[bionic madman]

David quickly put two and two together as the tem change and what the boy was saying, he new what HE was and they needed to get to the factory as fast ass possible. good thing theres enough room in the suburban for all of us. "everybody we need to get the hell out of her and get to the factory that a few miles from here. luckily my truck's outside and it should fit all of us. Now lets get the hell out of here!" he bellowed. he new they all had to stick together to survive what he was sure was coming right for them.

[Magus00]

Mike looked at the new soldier that Faye brought with her with a sense of relief. Not only did this guy know Faye was gonna be ok but he looked older than Mike. The meant he was off the hook. He could be the immature b**dard that he was. AFTER, he told himself, Faye was alright.

"Name and rank, soldier?" He asked. Then, he became aware of a spindly-lookin' guy off behind David. "Who is that? Well, wait, never mind that for now. we got a man down upstairs, sir. No physical injury that I can see. Just the same weird s**t that everyone around here has. Have...have you been briefed? What is our mission?"

Upstairs, he heard Gavin mention that "he" was coming. "Hold on, Gavin, we can deal with that in a moment." he said, not fully understanding the meaning behind the words.