Later on in the night the group gathered in the living room of the 4th floor apartment. Ari was still brooding and Alex was still half naked, she told them it was too painful to put her jeans on and because there was nothing else to wear she wondered around in her under wear.
"BORD. Let's play a game." Seipel perked up a smiled at the group, she was the group resident nut case and her moods often sifted as quickly as the sands of the Sahara desert.
"Like who want to help Alex get the metal out of her shoulder?" Alex suggested as picked the small grains of metal residue from her burnt shoulder.
"Nay, something fun." Seipel waved her hand; Alex rolled her eyes and continued to pick at her shoulder.
"Like um oh a fun fact." Seipel saw all the blank and confused faces. "Tell the group a fun fact about yourself. It'll help us get to know everyone and we'll have fun at the same time." She looked at all the completely unenthused faces. "I'll go first then shall I? Hum let me think; oh when I was young I fell into the penguin exhibit at the national Zoo, well when I say fell I mean climbed." Seipel smiled at her happy childhood memory of frolicking with the black and white flightless birds.
"One summer my mother and I made cheese." Sabrina giggled; she had never told anyone that she had always thought it made her 'un cool'.
"I once blew up my kitchen whilst making toast." Martin pulled out a tin of soup from his bag and looked at it suggestively. The group share a quick burst of laughter.
"I have a pet hedgehog." Azure scratched his head and laughed slightly.
"When I was young I was afraid of the tooth fairy." Patrick said very seriously, the rest of the group did not share his seriousness they all burst out in hysterical laughter.
"Pat, you're probably still scared of the tooth fairy." Ari teased the new comer. After the group retained their composure Alex stood and limped over to the balcony. "I'm too warm, I'll be right back."
"I don't see how she can be warm, she's parading around half naked." Ari muttered under his breath as Alex stepped out through the siding doors onto the balcony.
She slumped on the railing watching the town burn; the smell of blood filled her nostrils and she watched as a horde of the un-dead limped down the street getting closer to the gate.
"Wait." She stood up straight and looked at the horde more closely.
"Shit." Alex leaned over the metal railing; her hands gripped the metal tightly as she kicked off the ground, she lay flat against the side of the building for a moment before letting go of the bar and dropping to the balcony below. She did this again to get to the second floor and again to the first. She then ran to the gates ignoring the pain in her leg.
She reached the gates to find a tall gray eyed spiky haired boy trying to get a small child around five years old over the gate. In his distraction They were getting closer, instinctively Alex reached for her the pistol that she kept tucked safely in the back of her jeans.
"Crap." She scolded herself for leaving her jeans and her weapons in the flat. Alex then realised all she could do was help the pair get over the fence. She leaped onto the 7ft high gate, the single bound had gotten her extremely close to the top it only took her a second or two to climb the rest of the way and straddle the gate wrapping her warm legs around the harsh cold metal.
The boy looked up to see Alex leaning over to try and grab the little girl from his arms. At first he hesitated but as the groans grew louder he stretched up just enough for Alex to grip the little girl's pail wrist.
"I got ya, don't worry." Alex pulled her up and over the gate before lowering her down to the ground on the other side.
"You're next." Alex turned back to the boy and reached down, they was only inches between them. Finally he jumped grabbing her wrist, if it wasn't for her strong legs around the gate she would have fallen off.
Alex looked down the creatures were ever nearing and she was struggling to keep a hold of him.
"Screw it." Alex leaned over to the safe side of the fence, pulling the boy up slightly. "Watch out bellow." She called just as she left her body flop down onto the hard concrete ground, the boy was pulled safely to the top of the fence where he could easily climb down from but Alex was left on the ground clutching her dislocated left shoulder.
"You idiot, I could have got myself up!" the boy jumped from the fence landing beside a pain stricken Alex.
"You could just say thanks you asshole." Alex spat back through the pain.
"ALEX." Seipel called as she ran from the main building to where her injured friend was lying. Sabrina quickly followed her. The two had gone looking for her after they realised he was no longer on the balcony.
"Sup." Alex smiled through the pain; the young girl sat crying next to her.
"I'm sorry." She whispered over and over again.
"Don't be." Seipel looked down at the small child. "This stuff happened to her all the time" Alex looked at the tall boy; his black spiky hair covered his deep eyes, his black short sleeve polloshirt and light blue jeans were splattered with blood. The black hiking boots are on his feet were soaked in blood.
"Yeah, Alexandra is always getting into trouble." Sabrina looked at the boy and smiled, he returned the smile but even with a smile on his face his eyes were emotionless.
"Hello Lance." Seipel said as she aided Alex to her feet.
"Seipel." Lance nodded and looked at his feet.
"Wait, this is." The small girl wiped away the tears from her big blue eyes.
"Yup and you must be little Sophie." Seipel smiled.
"I'm glad we could have this moment but if you haven't realised my shoulder aint connected to my body!"Alex said showing the tremendous amount of pain she was in.
"Come on." Sabrina leaned down to pick up the small worn out child.
"I got her." Lance quickly picked her up before Sabrina could touch her.
"Fine, geeze I was only trying to help." Sabrina scoffed before helping Seipel get Alex back to the main building.
"Honey I'm home" Alex slammed her foot into the door of the apartment almost causing it to come off its hinges. Seipel stood in the door way trying to hold the frustrated teenager up. The boys just stared at her bewildered not moving an inch.
"Don't all rush at once!" Sabrina walked in to the apartment and pulled a wooden chair from the dining set over to the centre of the room for Alex to sit on.
"Shit what happened to you, Kitty fall down?" Ari stayed seated as the other males rushed over to help Alex sit down.
Suddenly he noticed the tall figure standing in the door way cradling a small child dressed in white.
"Umm Guys we have company." Ari called over to the rest of the group who were tending to Alex, no-one even acknowledged Ari's call.
"Where can I put her?" The figure asked in a deep and cold voice. Ari pointed to a corridor in the far corner of the room.
"Second door on the right."
"Thank you." The boy left without another word. Ari sat speechless on the coach sipping his can of Cola.
"Right Tubs, your mums a Doctor right? So you must have seen her relocate a shoulder or two." Alex glared up at Patrick who was sweating like a turkey near Christmas.
"Well when I said Doctor, I meant vet." Patrick whispered. "So unless you've got four legs and a tail, I can't help you."
Alex face straightened with anger, "So you're telling me you stitched me up like a fucking DOG!" Alex screamed up at the tall boy.
"Well your leg is too wide to be a dog's leg so I stitched up more like a horse." Patrick faked a smile hoping that the rampaging bull they call Alex would see the funny side.
"Patrick." Alex said quietly and softly. "Get out of my sight before I cut you into little pieces and feed you to a FUCKING SQUIRREL!" Alex screamed, doing as he was told Patrick shuffled over to the coach were Ari was sitting.
"She said she would feed me to a squirrel." Patrick muttered, still in shock over the violent reaction.
"That's ruff buddy" Ari patted the back of the flustered teen.
In the kitchen Azure had his head in the fridge looking for something.
"There you are." Azure triumphantly pulled a large dark green bottle of ice cold champagne.
"Drink up." He yanked the cork out with his teeth and shoved the bottle into Alex's mouth. She coughed and spurted whilst drinking.
A few moments past and Azure allowed Alex to take a breath.
"Little warning next time." She coughed and wiped her mouth. Azure examined the bottle she had only drank ΒΌ of it and most of the quarter fell out her mouth and was currently soaking her top.
"Warning." Azure shoved the bottle back in her mouth, this time she was prepared and used her non dislocated arm to steady the bottle at her mouth.
Azure slowly relaxed letting go of the bottle completely, Alex continued to chug the clear elixir. The pain in both her arm and leg began to numb and fade. She finished the bottle and handed it back to Azure with a composed smile.
"More please." She was beginning to feel the effects of the alcohol but not enough to stop her from drinking another half bottle of champagne.
"That'll do." Azure pulled the bottle from her mouth and looked down at her shoulder. He moved Alex's position on the chair as the back of the chair was under her dislocated shoulder. Azure then moved to the back of the chair.
"Hold her." Azure nodded to Seipel and Sabrina. Sabrina knelt down and held onto Alex's legs while Seipel held her free arm.
"Ready." Azure looked at the two girls braced around Alex.
"Ready." They replied in unison looking up at Azure.
Azure looked at the bottle in his hand and then to Alex. "Screw It." He took a large swig of the bottle before placing it on the counter next to the empty bottle.
Azure held Alex's arm out horizontally over the chair; he could feel where the joint had to go and was pretty certain he could fix it.
"Five." Azure gripped her wrist tightly. Martin was frantically passing back and forth unsure of what to do.
"Sabrina, your eyes are like HUGE." Alex babbled.
"Four." Azure let her arm fall so it hung limp
"Three." He then place one hand back on her wrist and the other on top of her shoulder.
"What you counting faw fo. Hah Faw Fo." Alex giggles.
"Two." He pulled slightly to gauge the resistance.
"Aww, Meany that hurts!" Alex pouted.
"One." Azure pulled her wrist down sharply and pushed down her shoulder, there was a sudden pop as her shoulder relocated.
"Flipping hell." Alex said, then she sat with her head bowed; her hair fell so it covered her face.
"There that wasn't so bad now was it?" Ari walked up to her and tapped her lightly on the head.
SMACK.
Ari fell to the floor clutching his left eye. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR.?"
"Don't speak to me." Alex had sobered up instantly and stormed off to her designated room.
"Damn remind me never to help her again." Ari nursed his eye on the floor.
"You should apologise." Sabrina looked down at him with disgust.
"What the fuck did I do, would someone tell me cause I sure as hell don't know!" Ari stood still clutching his eye.
"You just sat there, your suppose to be her friend and you just sat there!" Seipel joined in on verbally abusing the injured tough guy.
"I didn't see Martin doing anything." Ari tried to shift the girl's anger onto someone else.
"He was there for moral support; there wasn't anything he could do." Sabrina shot down Ari last hope of escaping unharmed.
"I was being supportive! She wouldn't have thanked me if I helped anyway. If anything she would have beat the crap out of me for hurting her!" Ari shot back, he wasn't going to take that kind of abuse from two girls who had only known Alex for two days.
"She didn't hurt Azure! Why would she have done anything to you?" Seipel spat, Ari's attitude was really starting to grate on her nerves.
"Because she doesn't hate Azure!" Ari's temper snapped, he grabbed the remaining half bottle of champagne and stormed out of the apartment.
"Where the hell is he going?" Seipel snapped.
"The roof." Azure answered leaning back into the fridge. "Don't worry everything will be just fine."
"How can you be sure?" Sabrina asked him as she sat on the chair, it was still warm from when Alex was sitting on it.
"Those two are a lot more alike than they care to admit." Azure smiled and pulled two further bottle's from the fridge. "Now I think we all deserve a drink." Azure smiled and pulled the cork from one of the bottles and smiled at his four friends.
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