"OOH-rah!" Dempsey yelled in enthusiasm. He found some bread and a few soda bottles. He tossed one to Takeo who eyed it oddly. "Do you prefer sake, Tak?" Dempsey didn't bother giving a soda bottle to Nikolai since he was content with his vodka bottles instead. He offered some bread and Takeo took some with a courtesy bow. Nikolai burped and took some bread as well.
"Who would've thought of a refrigerator in this place," Nikolai said. The food wasn't bad either, in fact, it was half way full of food and drinks. Dempsey opened the freezer and jumped back, gun in hand. Takeo did the same when he saw what Dempsey freaked out over. Nikolai didn't pay much attention.
There was a teddy bear with a note attached to its neck.
"Don't tell me the fridge is gonna float away too!" Dempsey whined. When the fridge didn't budge or the bear float away, Takeo grabbed the note card and read it.
"Aren't we having fun? Here's some food for my bestest friends!" the card read.
Dempsey snorted. "Still a child at heart." He threw the teddy bear out and proceeded to scavenge through the refrigerator.
"I wonder how the girl will die. She's in Richtofen's hands now," Nikolai said. He talked about how he killed his first wife with a shotgun. Dempsey couldn't really imagine Nikolai being married at all. All of his wives must have been masochists or something.
Dempsey sat at a near by table and began eating some cold pizza. He noticed Takeo distancing himself from the other two. "hey, Tak," he called. "Why do you never want to talk to us. I understand not wanting to talk to Richtofen, but us?"
Takeo just shrugged. He liked not being too close to anyone.
"Come to think of it, I don't know either of you so well," Nikolai said. "Sit, Takeo. If I'm going to be shooting with you guys, I want to at least know you both a little."
Takeo hung his head, feeling defeated, and sat down at the table with them all. He didn't really want to talk with them, but if he started walking around, there was the chance he'd run into Richtofen.
"Nikolai will go first!" he had a few gulps of his vodka before continuing on. "Nikolai was born in Russia, both parents Russian. Our family friend was Stalin. I went off to the war and come back home and see my home and parents destroyed. I started marrying women, but they get on Nikolai's nerves. Always wanting to keep things tidy. I kill first wife with a shotgun to shut her up. Other wives were killed by different guns. Heh heh, I remember beating one to death because she ran away." He drank some more vodka. "Then vodka help Nikolai's problems. Best friend!"
Dempsey though this was better than listening to Richtofen's crazy laughter. He told himself that if they ever become best buds, then he would need to keep the women away from him. Dempsey cleared his throat when Nikolai expected him to talk next.
"Well, my parents are still alive, and I joined the marines the first chance I got. School wasn't really my type of thing. I got in trouble a lot, got my ass beat for coming home drunk a few times. All the ladies loved me. I went off to war, and the next thing I know, there's a zombie apacolypse. Now, I didn't sign up for this zombie crap, but it sure is better than hiding out for hours and no action," Dempsey finished and gestured for Takeo to go.
"I come from a rich famiry. My parents expect me to carry on their wishes, but I did not want a rife that was planned out. So I kill my entire family and ran off. Here I am now," Takeo looked at Nikolai and Dempsey.
They were both surprised. Neither of them expected Takeo to be the one to kill off his entire family. Takeo never shared that information with anyone before, and he felt weird telling them. Of course they weren't going to call the police later on, Takeo just didn't know if this was him opening up to two people.
Dempsey coughed a little. "Well, guys, it's nice to know some background about you guys," he smiled. Nikolai held up his vodka bottle for a toast. Dempsey and Takeo held up their soda bottles and the three of them drank away. They were bonding in a way.
"I ze you all found food."
They all turned and saw Richtofen. He was carrying Viridian.
"You see!" Nikolai said, "Nikolai told you all he'd kill her."
Richtofen snarled. "I didn't kill her. She fell asleep."
"Oh, so you were just that boring her?" Dempsey sneered.
Richtofen glared at the marine. The voices reassured him that his time would be coming soon.
"While you were away," Dempsey continued, "the guys and I went food hunting and bonded a little. Help yourself."
The doctor eyed the food wearily before his stomach rumbled. The voices were chatting quietly to him. "Fine, fine," Richtofen said. He flopped Viridian on the ground again and held onto her ray gun.
Dempsey raised his eyebrows. "Doesn't anyone know how to treat a lady?" he muttered to himself. The Nazi sat down at the table and helped himself to the food. He removed his gloves and flexed his injured hand.
It stung a little, but he didn't mind. Richtofen was amazed at how much cleaner his hands were than the rest of his body. Everyone smelled horrible from the lack of bathing in soap and water. They were soaked in days old zombie blood and sweat. There were small conversations here and there that ended very quickly since there wasn't much to talk about. Viridian stirred behind them and she sat up on her knees against the wall. Everyone turned to stare at her. She looked around and seemed confused.
Her eyes rested on the group of guys that stopped in mid-chew. Her stomach sounded angry, and everyone heard it. For some reason, she seemed like a different person, and now Richtofen felt like it was so simpe to kill her.
"Are you hungry?" Dempsey broke the silence.
She sheepishly nodded and crawled over to the table. Dempsey handed her a pizza slice and an apple, which she devoures on sight and almost bit Dempsey's fingers. He pulled his hand back when he felt her teeth graze his fingers. She gulped down some soda and water like a fish and burped loudly. Richtofen stared in confusion as he found he couldn't strangle her neck anymore.
The look in her eye went back to how they all first met her; crazy and sadistic. She looked around from where she was. "Where's my ray gun?" She immediately looked at Richtofen. He jumped a little in his seat as she locked eyes with him.
Don't let her look at you like that! Shoot her! The voices screamed. How could he shoot her when her eyes looked like his own. Richtofen shook his head slightly in attempt to shake the voices out of his head. He got the ray gun and tossed it to Viridian. She cheerfully caught it and started rolling on the floor.
"Acting in such a dishonorable way," Takeo sighed.
"She's like a crazy little girl," Nikolai said.
Viridian whistled 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star', sat crosse-legged, and rocked back and forth. Richtofen couldn't stand looking at her because the voices disapproved of her greatly. He wondered if the voices Viridian heard were saying the same thing.
Dempsey yawned aloud and stretched in his chair. "Since we've been killing zombies for hours and another wave doesn't seem to be coming, we should hit the hay."
"Nikolai seconds that."
"Hai."
Richtofen just shrugged and rose from his seat, still not looking at Viridian. Viridian looked at everyone and wondered where they were going. Nikolai grabbed his vodka and some food. Takeo managed to get some of the few apples Nikolai dropped and headed for the teleporter. Dempsey helped Viridian up and her face was blank.
"Where are we going?" she asked.
"To the upper room. How do you feel about teleporters?" Dempsey said. Viridian looked at him as if he were the crazy one. "You'll see soon enough."
Richtofen realized he would be sleeping in the same room with Viridian. The voices were telling him to throw her into the zombies once they came back. He slipped his hands back into his gloves and held his head with one hand. What was he going to do?
Dempsey introduced Viridian to the teleporter and she looked at it in awe.
Viridian twitched a little when she moved her neck. She traced her fingers over the cut on her neck and there was dried blood around it. Same with the cut on her cheek, but it was a little deeper. Richtofen watched her and licked his lips. He still hadn't treated the wound on his shoulder, but it didn't bother him much since he was use to that kind of thing.
They stepped into the teleporter and the blue light morphed them into the upper room. There were a few groans as they still weren't use to teleporting. Viridian had a big grin on her face, but didn't say anything. Nikolai and Takeo went to their corners and quickly fell asleep. Nikolai's snores were quiet, but you could still get annoyed by them.
"Well, sleep anywhere you like." Dempsey said. He looked at Richtofen who had his gaze fixed on Viridian. Don't do anything in front of us, doc, he thought. Dempsey went to his corner and made himself comfortable. That left two people standing and one corner left.
Viridian looked at everyone else and looked back at the empty corner. She sat down in the middle and smiled up to the doctor. "You can have it. It looks like a guy thing."
Shocked, Richtofen went to get his medical bag. He came back to Viridian and put a bandaid on her cuts. "Zere," he said. "Go to bed."
He went to face the corner and took off the upper half of his uniform, leaving his gloveso on and his messy hair exposed. He worked on stitching his stabbed wound and he felt Viridian watch him.
"Vat do you vant?" he harshly whispered. He turned around to face her and continued stitching his shoulder.
She shook her head. "Just watching."
Surely there was more to it than just that. Slit her throat before she slits yours! He groaned and held his head after he finished his work. Viridian crawled over to him.
"The voices are yelling at you too? They don't like you," she said. She may be mental, but she still looked very innocent when she said that. "Do they hear them too?" she pointed at the now asleep guys.
Richtofen shook his head. "Only us."
Viridian cocked her head to the side. She thought everyone heard the voices, and that they had their own way to cope with them.
"Singing helps calm the voices," Viridian said. Richtofen didn't know what she meant until she started singing Mozart's Queen of the Night very softly. Richtofen felt like he was in a moment of peace as her voice hypnotized him. He thought of when there was a time when his mom would sing to him in German. Never...
After she finished she seemed pleased with herself. "See? All better." She leaned in and kissed his cheek. Richtofen froze and he went pale. "Nighty night." She went back to the center of the room, curled up in a ball, and fell asleep.
Richtofen stayed frozen for a few minutes and felt his heart rushing. He slipped back into his uniform, faced his corner, and went to sleep without the voices screaming at him.
Thank you guys for the reviews! I was told that reading Richtofen's lines were hard, so I'll try lightening up his accent. As I'm reading other fanfics, I see they do disclaimers, and I haven't done those yet. I only own the OC, as you guys should already know, and everything else belongs to its original owner. I finished this chapter kind of sloppily, in my opinion. I felt rushed because of band camp starting tomarrow. I'll continue writing the story on paper whenever I can, and upload it ASAP! I tried writing on my phone, but I can't do that, so I have to upload by computer. And all the German being used is from Google Translate. I just copy and paste it here since I'm not fluent in German. I found a teacher to help me though :D So I'm pretty happy about that. Til then!