Ridly looked down at the pistol in his lap, the gang's leader had almost killed him with it. It had 6 rounds he knew but really puzzled him was how a raider had gotten his hands on something so well made or ornate. Rayne looked towards it, taking it out of his lap as she walked out of the door, and stepped out.
"It's nearly perfect..." She said softly, pulling the clip out and slid it back in. Ridly followed and stood next to her as she examined it.
"Yeah, it's great, but what really bothers me, is where he got it from."
"Stole it from an arms caravan probably..." She said. "It'd scare me to think there were people giving high quality arms to raiders.."
"Maybe we should check the bodies to see if there are any clues on the corpses." Ridly began to walk towards the rundown hotel.
"Hn..." She said softly, and then nodded. "Yes...the leader probably has some ammo for your new toy, and I could pick up some as well." She said, looking back towards him. Honestly...she never wanted to go back in there...not after Ridly...she shook her head a bit. He'd changed...
When Ridly arrived at the hotel where he had almost lost his life he wasn't surprised to see that there were no signs of the raider's presence except the bodies, the raiders had scurried away with their weapons which wasn't all that big of surprise.
"Just as bad as roaches." She said, kneeling down to one closest to her. "Ugh, man these guys reek...ever heard of baths gentlemen? I know they're luxuries but Jesus.." She stripped his top jacket off of him, pulling the guns and clips off of them, and tossed them to Ridly after making sure they weren't loaded. Ridly examined them.
"Hmm, M9s and 9mm ammo, they probably raided an empty military base for this stuff." Ridly knelt down next to the boss and began to unbuckle the straps to his metal armor. This stuff was better than his combat leather in a straight firefight any day. He found two more DEagle clips with four rounds each. Then Ridly found what he was looking for, a match book with the words Marries Push stenciled across the front but with the 'h' crossed out and 'sie' written in above. Rayne walked over to him, and frowned.
"Great, crude sexual puns...what's that for?" She said, looking up at him.
"It's a place I know pretty well out west, full service joint. You know bed, beer, guns, and women. Looks like an old gym but only if you can see through the smog." Ridly pocketed the clips and the match book, then walked upstairs and retrieved his SMG. "If we're going to leave tomorrow we'll want to load up as much ammo as we can. I'm going to get my pack."
"We're going there?" She said, looking towards him, and picking up a few more guns. "Are you sure it's still there...if raiders were there, seems like a pretty destructive joint...do they have men there too? It's been a while."
"Oh it's still there, that place is like a roach, even a nuclear bomb couldn't kill it. And, no, there are no men there unless you want to play as a hooker." Ridly walked back to the trailer for his pack and quickly returned.
"Great..." She sighed, and then looked towards him. "Sounds like fun..." She said, and then looked around, looking at the bodies that were already being eaten by some of the smaller roaches. Ridly bent down and retrieve an M9 and then filled his pack with as much 9mm ammo as he could.
"The ammo for the SMGs and the M9s is interchangeable take as much as you can." She only nodded, taking several clips of ammo off of each guy, handing the clips to Ridly as she followed.
"We leaving tonight or in the morning?"
"In the morning, but I want to leave at first light, it could take us up to 3 weeks to get where I want to go, depending on conditions." Ridly handed Rayne one of the DEagle clips. "Keep the gun, if you don't use it maybe you could sell it for a good price." Rayne looked towards the gun, and pulled her baggy shirt up , holstering it next to two other guns. One of which Rayne had made herself, she pulled that one out, and opening the clip.
"This one fits SMG's and M9's as well."
"I see you haven't lost your touch." Ridly was examining the gun.
"It's getting dark, how about we go back to the trailer and call it a night?" She nodded, looking up to him.
"Yeah, the roaches, and the other things come out at night." She said, and then walked out, picking a final clip off the ground on her way out. Ridly hoisted his pack up and followed.
"So what else is there to eat besides stale beer?" Rayne looked towards him, and then towards the flickering grocery store sign above the building across from the hotel.
"Hmm...I dunno.." She teased, walking the other way. "How unobservant of you Ridly."
"Fine, but you get to cook." Ridly shouted as he jogged towards the store. After a while he came back to the trailer with an arm load of various goods, from microwave dinners to Hamburger Helper.
"Honey, I'm home and I come bearing gifts!" She only laughed, taking the top set of microwave dinners off of his load, and leaving him to climb up the stairs with his burden, already sitting in front of the microwave and reading the directions. Ridly dumped his load on the counter and sat back in his chair, laying his pack at his feet and sipping the last few drops from his beer.
"You want lasagna or chicken Parmesan?" She said, looking up to him, and sliding one of them into the microwave.
"I'll take the chicken, but hey I'm sure they both look and taste the same by now."
"It's Italian...they both looked and tasted the same to begin with...cheese, meat and pasta." She said, and looked towards him.
"Point, just cook em' we'll sort it out later." Ridly got up and fetched two more beers from the fridge. She nodded, as the microwave pinged softly. She took it out, pulled the cover off, and stuck a fork in it, handing it to him.
"Ah delish!" Ridly happily dug in and soon finished his and took a long pull on his beer. She was halfway done by the time he finished, and nodded, looking towards him.
"Know what?" She said, taking another bite out the lasagna. "This crap in a box makes me want my mom's cooking...or at least her recipe and the real deal ingredients...you ever had home made lasagna?"
"Probably at some point in time yeah, doesn't mean I enjoyed it though." Rayne, only looked back down to her food, and then threw it in the trash, she didn't feel like eating anymore.
"Going to bed." She said simply, going into the bed room, closing the door but leaving it unlocked. Ridly propped his feet up and put his head back and soon fell asleep
