Jelly Bean Living Room, Friday Morning

[vanillajello]

The radio last night had confirmed what Kate's futile attempts at reaching her friends over the phone had already made her think. They were gone. Vanished. Not here.

That hadn't stopped her from checking out Gobstopper cabin a little earlier this morning, though. Just in the vain hope that things might have returned to normal. That Bod might have come back.

But no. Of course not. The island wasn't done screwing with them yet. As evident from the giant roaches she'd had to evade on her way.

She had seen Kyle's note, though. That gave her some hope.

Kate hadn't made up her mind about where to go, yet – it was either the manor or the school, really – but that wasn't stopping her from stuffing her backpack with useful things right about now.

She sure as hell wasn't staying here.

[ooc: Open, to those few who live here (no seriously, I think it's just Kate, Ariel and K-Mart now), or anyone who'd like to knock on the door.]

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[vanillajello]

And now Ariel was receiving Kate's best 'you haven't seen enough horror movies, have you?' look. It was a good look. And she'd had a lot of practice, since it was closely related to her 'are you completely stupid?' look.

"No," she said. "There are creatures and shit out there. Splitting up? So not a good plan."

Let's ignore how willing Kate had been to go out all on her own about five minutes prior to this conversation.

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

Ariel's adventurous spirit wrinkled its nose in reluctant agreement with Kate's point, and she nodded her head as she said goodbye to images of completely blazing her glory by herself. That was fine, though. Maybe the glory would be even better with Kate there to add to it, right?

"Manor, then?" she asked. "We at least know of one other person there..."

[vanillajello]

Kate liked to think she at least added to the awesome of most things, so why not glory, too? Although right now she was more concerned with safety, survival, and pointedly not thinking about those of her friends who were God knows where.

"Yeah, seems kinda like our best bet," she agreed. "Do you have anything that works as a weapon?"

She had the sharpest and biggest knife she'd been able to find in the cabin's little kitchen area. It... wasn't all that big. Or all that sharp. But she was pretty sure it'd at least kill some of those bugs she'd seen earlier.

"I mean, we're gonna be running like hell most of the way if I have anything to say about it, but..."

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

Ariel extracted the handful of forks and a softball from sports class that she'd shoved into her bag and frowned, because they didn't seem like the greatest weapons in the world. So she gave a quick look around the cabin and, never one to avoid destruction if it could be helpful, reached for a chair around the table and promptly smashed it on the floor enough that she could pull off a leg from it, which she then brandished with a helpful sort of pride.

Much better.

[vanillajello]

Kate raised her eyebrows at that, but didn't object to the destruction. After all, it was probably good to be teaming up with someone who wasn't afraid to break stuff when bigger things were at stake.

"Okay," she said, nodding slowly. "That's... That's probably really good. And d'you have any food or water or stuff like that? I pretty much already grabbed everything I can carry."

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

Ariel, really, wasn't afraid to break stuff even when something wasn't on the line, so the fact that she had good reason just made it all the better.

Ariel...didn't have anything like that, but, with a nod, she bounced over to the cupboards and the refrigerator and, quickly, after a moment to decide what might be the most helpful, shoveled as much of it as could fit into her bag as she could. Then she hoisted her table leg up again and gave a slight thumbs up.

She was feeling kind of grateful for Kate being there, for catching her before she left. She would have otherwise just bolted out of there unprepared, but now she felt ready.

[vanillajello]

Kate didn't feel ready. But she knew this was about as ready as she was going to feel, and it seemed likely that the longer they waited, the more dangerous it would get outside.

She zipped up her backpack. "So. I guess we're ready to go."

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

Ariel nodded, giving Kate a smile that she hoped would be reassuring, because, together, they could definitely do this, no doubt about it, and took a moment to secure her bag over her shoulder before heading toward the door.

[vanillajello]

Kate picked up her bag and her knife, and took a deep breath, then followed the other girl.

This was probably going to be a long trek.

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