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"There isn't going to be any rescue, we have to get out of here!"
Post by Queen-of-Horror on Apr 22, 2020 1:58:32 GMT -5
Harmony was going to follow but Gabe stopped her by putting a hand on her shoulder and shook his head, "why don't you go through some of the files in that box, they're not scanned onto the computer. I'll go talk to him."
Gabe stepped over to the balcony door and slid it open, he took out a pack of cigarettes and pushed out two of them putting one in his mouth and crushed the empty pack throwing it over the side, he leaned onto the railing and held out the other one in front of Adam. When the cigarette hit his lips it intermediately puffed as the tip caught fire.
"It's hard man," he said, "knowing who she was and how fucking stone cold she was and yet she's gone and here's her feelings written in letters. Here's how she cared stored in boxes. I plan to bury the boxes that belong to the dead when this is all over but I need all of what's left of the old days here for that."
"I can't believe I ever let you get me started on these things." He said as he accepted the cigarette and lit it with a snap of his fingers. He took a very very deep drag from it before holding it in and blowing out the smoke, unfortunate, it was just a normal cigarette. It helped a little though. "For years, I was so scared that we didn't matter to her." He took another hit from his cigarette, "After I got word in the deadlands that she was back I thought why didn't she reach out? Then when I put it together I was worried, and mad that she abandoned us, didn't really care a damn bit and it was all just an act." He stopped talking for a minute, "I'm relieved that wasn't the case, but... I was such a bastard to her in her final years. When we were fighting Hija and his forces in New York four years ago, we constantly butted heads. We always fought and had I just known I wouldn't have been such an ass..."
"I'm not sure how you're going to manage that." He took a long hit from his smoke, "All that's really left of the past is me, you, Amy and LJ, and Amy wants nothing to do with the past anymore, she's already said her goodbyes to all of us dead people. LJ's getting up there in age now a days, and Me? I haven't been that person everyone remembers in a very long time. So in the end there isn't much left from the old days except you and that mystery shooter who took down Arix."
Post by Queen-of-Horror on Apr 22, 2020 2:21:58 GMT -5
"If I have to kicked up the augments to drag Amy here you better fucking believe I will," he said, his tone went from the casual tone to a literal mean one, "we're fucking family regardless if she's done with the past or not. We watch each others backs. We are in this together. If she's said her peace that's fine, but she's going to be there to bury the dead for the final fucking time as a god damn family."
He burned through the cigarette quickly and spit the butt over the side, "listen, Alice was a lot of things but she wasn't a monster. She was more human than most of us. I wouldn't worry about her last years because she knew exactly who you were and she knew exactly what made you bitter. Her way of making peace with you is letting you know that even as she rests she always loved us..."
Gabriel lightly punched Adam in the shoulder, "plus, one of our own got Arix. So cheer the fuck up cause it was Alice who taught Marc how to shoot like that."
Harmony was sorting through things when she heard the door open and several people walked in, Jolie was with them, she had an order of chinese food, the others were unknown to her but in total there was four including Jolie. One was simply a kid in a green hoodie, a guy in a mask that had LEDs built in, and a guy wearing a blue jacket and a bandanna around his neck, he had a VIII tattooed on the back of his hand.
He cracked a smile as Gabe was talking big about dragging Amy to the actual funeral. "I don't know dude," He had somewhat of a lighter tone to his voice, "Your dusty old augments might not help much." He laughed a little as he finished off his cigarette and tossed the butt out over the balcony. "No shit, that was fucking Marc? Well hell yeah, guess that makes White Rabbit 2, Himura's 0 then." He smirked and nodded his head hearing people walk in, "I'm guessing you keep up the tradition of family dinner?" He said pointing to the group who had just walked in with Chinese.
Post by Queen-of-Horror on Apr 26, 2020 18:53:13 GMT -5
"My dusty ass augments are better than you think," Gabe said and patted him on the back, "come eat with my family."
He turned around and headed inside, "Jolie, you told Krieger and the boys?"
"Yeah I got it boss," she replied.
They were setting the food up on the counters and Jolie moved to the side of the room and moved a book on the shelf and the middle of the open floor opened and a platform raised pushing a grand table into the middle of the room complete with chairs. Alice went all in setting this place up to be both compact and usable as a work space.
The door opened and a half dozen more people entered the room. Harmony moved from the back room.
"Alright boys, girls, we've got guests tonight, so set the table and be on your best manners," he moved to the kitchen and set a stack of plates on the edge of the counter, the others passed out forks, knives and spoons to be set at the table along with moving a rack with napkins and such.
"You'll all notice we have guests, I'll introduce you soon enough," he said, "but first get your food and sit the hell down!"
He walked into the living room just as things were setting up he noticed Harmony walk in the room and shifted through the people before popping up on her left. The large group of people and just the general small time chaos of everyone moving around and getting their food and stuff to eat with was enough to bring a smile to his face. "pft, since when did that become a thing." He replied immediately as Gabe spoke about manners.
He nudged Harmony with his elbow nodding for her to follow him as he made his way to kitchen and started helping passing things around such as eating utensils, plates, bowls, and food. It was odd yet familiar to be doing this again after so long.
Post by Queen-of-Horror on Apr 26, 2020 19:11:37 GMT -5
Everyone got their orders, sat down, Harmony making sure to sit next to Adam, Gabe sat at the end of the table and across from him another man in a red beanie. No one touched their food and Gabe finally spoke up, "We don't believe in a god but we still like to thank those who we've lost on the way so that we can still eat. Thank you to our fallen comrades, dig in."
The entire table began moving, after a few minutes Gabe spoke up, "alright everyone, you'll notice two new faces at the table, some of you are familiar with them some of you have never seen them a day in your life. The man is Adam Kurgan, an OG from my day, the woman is Harmony Winters, the reason some of you breath now."
Harmony gave a small wave, she would have said something but she had noodles stuffed in her mouth, Chinese food was fucking good and she hadn't had any since New York.
"Around the table, that's Justin Krieger, son of the Patriot and one of the big three, Jolie Zambi, my personal code cracker and hacker extraordinaire, Charlotte Zambi, former leader of Zambi and current founder of Dedsec, also one of the big three, Joshua Dozer McKinnley, son of me and Charlottes late friend Dozer, he is a coder and probably the best one out there. Desmon King, number 8 in the King project and he's one of our field agents deadly with a gun and hacking tool. Roach, dude take your fucking mask off when you eat. He's a mechanic engineer, he does repairs on our cybernetics and adjustments to the automated units we have."
He waited to dig in until everything was all said and he kept his eyes down for a moment, out of the two people he recognized and vice versa were Jolie and Charlotte, Jolie from '26 and Charlotte... more so from the time when he attacked Seven when he was younger and ended up getting into a small tussle with Charlotte in which he ended up ruining her gun and kicking her in the face before running off. He went to go and grab his eating utensil when all he could find was a pair of chop sticks.
He held them up and stared at them for a minute. Who's cruel joke was this? In all his time he still didn't bother to learn how to use the damn things. Instead he swapped with a fork near by. Eventually though Adam waved saying a simple but low and shy; "Hi." before beginning to chow down on his food, he was actually quiet hungry from their walk on the account that he hadn't eaten breakfast before leaving so he was just kind of shoveling in his food.
To be fair the scene while probably odd for others was probably the usual display Gabe was used to given that back in his day Adam would go days without eating then suddenly scarf down food because of the problems he had. Thankfully however it was just because he was hungry and not because of the same conditions.
He had a mouth full of food as he cracked open his new bottle of beer, finishing chewing before taking a sip from his drink and then going right back into his food.
Post by Queen-of-Horror on Apr 26, 2020 19:29:19 GMT -5
"Whats the word on Geist," asked Jolie.
"She's still working, we'll be able to move on the vault soon though," Gabe replied spooning through his soup for the chunky bits, "last update was fifteen minutes ago. Don't worry about her."
"She shouldn't have gone in alone," Krieger said looking up with just his eyes as he shoved stir fry in his mouth.
"Like I said, don't worry about her," Gabe affirmed, "technically she's been doing this since before you were alive so shut up and eat your damn food."
It seemed as if Gabe was either the defacto leader or they just respected him because of his status and longevity. Either way he was definitely the dad of the group. After a while during the meal people were trading small talk, Harmony who was sitting next to Doze on her opposite side was talking about a television show that aired in the 90s. He talked quietly but was extremely passionate about the show despite coming off as somewhat awkward in how he moved and talked.
Gabe finally looked to Adam, "so, what's your next move?"
Adam had finished his food before everyone else, more so out of habit than anything else really. So he was listening to all the small talk going on around them as he sipped his beer. That's when Gabe spoke up to him, "Right now I'm probably just going to relay intel to my higher ups about this new Hexacore group or whatever. I don't know why but for some reason it sounds familiar." He leaned back in his chair and just rested his hands on the table, "From there it depends on what they decide."
Post by Queen-of-Horror on Apr 26, 2020 19:44:25 GMT -5
"Well if those digs with your employer don't work, you've got a room here with your name on it whenever you want it," Gabe said. Even though he hadn't seen the man in over two decades things hadn't changed much they were still family and despite the fact that Gabe was much older now in terms of Physical age he didn't see Adam as a kid anymore, "listen, there's something on the horizon with all of this. Wonderland will help where we see fit. You just have to give us a call."
"You know we have your back, plus you still owe me one after all that hacking I've done for you," Jolie said with a wink.
"At this rate I'd say you owe me for the facial reconstruction I had to go through," Charlotte also said, she wasn't so bubbly about her reply. Harmony let out a laugh however, there was plenty of history at this table it was pretty enjoyable for her to witness at length.
"We'll see. So far they haven't really done anything to warrant me quitting and I haven't pushed enough buttons to get myself fired." He stopped for a moment smiling at everyone's comments, except for Charolette's. He could've sworn he didn't kick her that hard back in the day but he did kind of shrink a bit as he looked over at her, "Sor...ry?" He said before finally changing the topic. "How are you guys with funding and money by the way?" He took a drink from his beer, "I'm getting paid for my work but I don't exactly have a way to spend it all so if you guys need help there let me know okay?"
Post by Queen-of-Horror on Apr 26, 2020 19:52:41 GMT -5
"We're a full operation based on hacking, stealing, and breaking vaults for Umbrella. We sell what isn't dangerous and reuse a lot of equipment," Krieger said at the other end of the table, he had finished eating and had his hands in his lap and was leaning back in his chair looking down with his head tilted back, "we're fine."
"What the brash asshole means is, we make off well enough with what we earn. Enough that we run a community off this building and have rebuilt it and several other locations in the ruins. The goal here is to basically rebuild Old Raccoon from the ashes as a place for Altered to live without worry of the Government. Funny given how Raccoon city is just riiiiight over there but these guys have been working non-stop and it shows," Gabe said.
So they took the old operations and made a business out of it? Adam nodded his head in approval, it was definitely a smart thing to do that's for sure. He wondered at whether or not that meant they were in business with the organization he worked for then. "Okay look at it this way then, We don't have any good booze at the place. Literally the only bottles of shit I have are just awful. So how much for some of these?" He asked tapping on his beer bottle as he finished it off.
Post by Queen-of-Horror on Apr 26, 2020 20:09:06 GMT -5
Desmon was the one who spoke up, "T-Grade Shine can be negotiated by the bulk, Dedsec beer basically much of the same. That's Lenny's department, give me a number to call and I'll pass it on to him he'll organize drop offs and pick ups for supply. We have an entire warehouse dedicated to craft beer for altereds and a 50% brand that's the same taste but made for normies and altereds with normal immune systems."
"A lot of what we do here is for Altereds. My goal is to rebuild this city to be a place for Altereds to call home and not have to deal with the likes of Chicago and the gangs there. Give them a place to call home and they'll defend it with everything they got," Gabe said, "on the other side of that coin... We're fully supporting White Rabbit and Tyrant, if those two go to war tomorrow with White, we'll be fielding their front lines with Wonderland arms and medkits... If Wonderland has to take the city over completely, so be it," Gabe said.
"Just give me the word," Krieger said to Gabe, "the Sons of Patriot are ready to make a move."