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[personal profile] righthemisphere 2014-11-12 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
[But it's something. They're alive. At least there's that, even if it's not exactly what they want. Herc for one will never forgive himself for not being present when his wife was attacked. For not being able to prevent her sickness and inevitable death. For not being able to protect his son from the loss of a mother. He can do a lot of things but apparently any of that was just too far from reach.

But he's a strong man. His son is a strong man. They'll manage on.

Some people aren't so lucky. Some people aren't so strong. They lack the unwavering resolve to just keep going. Some people are alone and don't have the need to carry on.

That's what happened to Raleigh Becket. His mom had died of cancer which seemed is some fucking morbid way a relief to the hell house the world had turned into these days. His father had gone and his siblings.. Well. Jaz was around somewhere and he and his brother has taken up arms to try and stop whatever this was. Not that they were doctors, but they could hold their own in a fight and once the dead were dead they weren't people anymore. They were monsters. And they needed to be stopped.

The Beckets? They were pretty good at stopping.

Until Yancy got hit in a raid on an ocean side shopping mall and they got trapped in a chokehold with the dead bearing down on them in every direction. It had been Raleigh's call which direction to go, he'd picked the hall, he'd triggered the horde and ultimately he'd gotten his brother killed.

And that kind of rash thinking isn't going to get you anywhere in a world like this. Not that Raleigh wanted to live after that. After watching his brother torn to pieces as he screamed. As Raleigh crammed himself into an air vent and opened fire but it was too late and he'd depinned a grenade. Yancy was gone and Raleigh cleared the mess, just barely surviving. Just enough to crawl back to Pentecost. But disobeying orders to go down there and save some civilians? That kind of disregard? Pentecost has no place for insubordination in his ranks and Raleigh had been quickly drummed out of the group.

He drifted for a while.. considered giving himself up for a while, letting the monsters claim him like they claim everyone else these days but he, unfortunately, seemed to have that small amount of self preservation which kept him from doing it.

In the end he worked with the government for a while, in a construction effort to contain the hot zone but it wasn't really working all that well and he'd found himself back in Pentecost's fold. Why, he isn't sure quite yet.. but he's here. So there's that at least.

Sat in the locker room of the high school the group has taken over and fortified, lovingly called the shatterdome. sterilized water is boiled three times and then, when he's sure it's safe, he takes a sip and begins the process of scrubbing blood and dirt and grime from his skin and clothes. He reeks. He's tired and thin and haggard. He's not much good to anyone to be honest no one trusts him to be. Not even him.]


The hell are you doin' here..

[He says quietly as he washes, to no one in particular but himself. Sat on the bench, shirtless as he works himself over with a washcloth.]
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[personal profile] righthemisphere 2014-11-14 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Great. Of all the people to walk in of course it would be Chuck fucking Hanson. Raleigh tenses by instinct, looking up at the intruder, but it's a free country he guesses and so he just tries to shrug him off and return to what passes as a bath.

Can't catch a fucking break, can he.]


I'm just here to pull my weight, man.

[Nothing more, nothing less. He doesn't really try to defend himself. Pentecost is the one that brought him back. He didn't beg. He was doing just fine...awful..on his own. And he doesn't owe chuck anything.]

I'll be done in a minute.
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[personal profile] righthemisphere 2014-11-14 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Raleigh looks at him for a long minute. Yeah, no shit he's filthy.]

What, you wanna help?

[Asked with a quirked eyebrow and a lopsided smirk as he continues to wipe the dirt from his arms.]

Been on overnight fence duty and then out in the gardens all day. Bound to get a little messy.
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[personal profile] righthemisphere 2014-11-14 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Not really.

[Going back to his business. He's getting better with his temper these days and Herc had mentioned Chuck was always looking for trouble. In the interest of not getting tossed out again he's trying to just play cool. Chuck can barb him all he wants. He deserves it.

And again, it's not like he owes the kid anything, but he still finds himself talking.]


Turns out being a chronic, unmedicated insomniac is helpful when the world is ending.
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[personal profile] righthemisphere 2014-11-14 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Chuck has a point but Raleigh has been like this so long he doesn't know what functioning normally even feels like anymore. He makes a face but says nothing for another moment. Thinking.]

Wish I knew. You know how the Marshal is. He says jump, you do it. Said he was looking for people. Keep the numbers up.

[And it's helpful to have suicidal soldiers when you're planning kamikaze missions.]
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[personal profile] righthemisphere 2014-11-14 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds like a question for him, not me. I just do what I'm told.

[Sometimes. Maybe. And with that Raleigh stands, turning to face Chuck.]

If you wanna fight about what happened with my brother just say so. Nothing you could say to me is anything I don't already know or think, myself. I don't know why I'm here. I don't know why I'm even still alive. But I am. I fucked up and I have to live with that for the rest of my life. So you wanna go, fine. Let's go, Chuck.

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[personal profile] righthemisphere 2014-11-14 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[And Raleigh nods because he can't argue with any of that. He doesn't want to die, either. Not really. He's already tried a few times and couldn't ever quite go through with it. Like he had some greater purpose to fulfill before he shuffled off his mortal coil. And knowing that, he considers his words for a moment and answers in earnest.]

If we fall then Yancy's death will have been for nothing.

[He licks his lips. Saying his name is still painful. Even now. An open, festering wound.]

I want to make sure there's a world to remember him. I want what you want. And I wanna win.
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[personal profile] righthemisphere 2014-11-14 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[A nod. He's not exactly sure what's happening right now, especially between them, but he seems to have staved off a fight. And that feels like a good thing.]

I was gonna..bottom half. [He makes a sort of awkward gesture at taking his pants off.]

Need to wash my clothes..
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[personal profile] righthemisphere 2014-11-14 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[He nods, but makes a small noise when Chuck turns to go.]

Ah-

I mean. I'm not bashful. If it ruins your schedule or whatever.

[And Chuck seems to always be on a schedule doing something]

Doesn't bother me any.
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[personal profile] righthemisphere 2014-11-14 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Raleigh shrugs and gestures. Come on in then.]

Strip.

[Because why not. They're guys. And never mind Chuck is attractive. Raleigh hasn't thought much about Hanky panky in the last half a decade. All this kinda kills your boner. He doesn't have the forethought to imagine if it didn't. If by some miracle he wasn't the last gay or bisexual man on earth. Unfortunately, he's pretty sure he might be the last one in this compound.

And here all he really needs is a good, thorough fucking. Someone to just push him down and stretch him open and fuck him like a sloppy whore.

Well shit. Maybe his sex drive isn't completely dead, after all.

We'll just ignore that for now, though, as he unbuckles his many belts and shoves his dirty jeans and briefs off. And if Chuck is looking, as curious men sometimes do, he gets a big 'ol eyeful of the heat Raleigh is packing. And oh, is he packing. And he fucking knows it as the thing is adorned with a silver stud right there on the end.

there's a reason or two he swaggers the way he does.]
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[personal profile] righthemisphere 2014-11-14 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oooh but he catches you peeking. You peek and something swells in Raleigh's chest and he can't help but smirk to himself. That's right, you little shit.

And he can't help the swagger as he re-wets his cloth with boiled water and slowly goes about washing the rest of his body. It feels good. And okay so maybe he peeks at Chuck a little bit, too. So sue him. Maybe he catches Chuck's eye at some point and smirks harder, quirking an eyebrow.]
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[personal profile] righthemisphere 2014-11-14 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[that's right. He sure does. Because Raleigh is looking him right in the eye with that smirk of his and then slowly standing up, semi hard, arms by his side, facing the other.

Your move.]

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