everyonelives | every day a little sting

( Derek is more than clipped (4), another shot making it. But, he fights through the pain and the blood. His natural (1) has him slip along the bloody pooling underneath him as he slides past D2.

Kol's fingers also bloody drop the wooden bully in rage, turning toward D5. He moves to try and hold him from behind, trying to wrap an arm around his neck and take a hand to his wrist (2), but Mia is too in between them, probably?

Mickey lays there. He plays through the excruciating pain (17) and attempts to swipe a leg under D6 to knock him down. (11) )

[Poor Derek. Thankfully Hayley makes a reappearance as she somehow got lost in the shuffle to try and help with D2. She jumps up, looking to sink her teeth into his shoulder (8 vs. 19), which misses, but prevents them from shooting at Derek as they're forced to contend with her instead (12 vs. 2). Hayley does take a bullet but she's got more proverbial hit points right now.

Aiden pulls off his victim and will too move over to his husband, essentially putting himself between any of the remaining hunters and Josh. But also just lean against Josh a bit because he's very happy to see you but can't put his teeth away just yet.

D5 does manage to slip from Kol's grip (7), but he does manage to turn his attention successfully from Mia, swinging a punch towards the vampire instead (8), but he's off balance and it might not land.

D6 keeps tangling with Mia, swinging a punch towards her face (6 vs. 16), and she manages to duck. "Mia," Freya interjects and deposits one of her discarded arrows into the Slayer's hand so that she can try to go in for the kill (17 vs. 2), driving it straight into the hunter's throat.

Freya then moves closer, rolling Mickey over and getting to it in getting the bullets out (14). She has a lot of experience with this, but it's a messy field of view so it's definitely going to be a little uncomfortable.]

Edited 2022-01-16 22:27 (UTC)

( Josh, winded, accepts the emotional support as he doesn't collapse onto his husband in wolf form, but he's pretty tired.

Yeah, no, Kol is ready with his (19), as he tries to grab that arm and break it (5). But, Kol is also still smarting from the wooden bullet being out but the residual pain still there.

Mickey, unsuccessfully helping, lays there and cries out as Freya digs in and keeps him from dying a premature death.

Josh with his husband's blessing? Returns to the fray to tangle with D2. With a (10) and still hurt, he tries to grapple him.

Derek goes for an artery in his ankle (16). )

[D2 manages to stumble back to avoid Josh, barely (10), but it leaves him open to Derek's attack (2). As a result, Hayley goes in for the kill (10 vs. 3), chomping down on his throat and taking the hunter to the ground.

D5 manages to slip his arm from Kol's grip (10), and comes around to swing at the vampire again (9). He's distracted, unfortunately for him, by an arrow to the back from Mia (8 vs. 2), that digs into his shoulder.

Freya finishes fishing out the bullets before clapping Mickey on the shoulder.]

There you go. You'll live.

( Kol's (nat 1) boxes him in as he takes the punch squarely in his face, temporarily breaking his nose.

Through gritted teeth, Mickey thanks her, but he's down for a minute.

Josh's (5) tries to grab one of the stray guns but he is not gun proficient. As for Kol, he tries to grab D5's arrow to pull it out and stab him in the neck with it (13). )

[D5 stills as the arrow sinks in, before falling to the ground (6). Hayley digs her teeth in tighter (16), tearing out D2's throat, before dropping to the ground next to Derek, ready to catch her breath.

And, for the first time, in the last few hours, the entire warehouse is quiet. Freya takes a quiet head count, before nodding to the wolves.]

I'll go get the spare clothes from the cars.

( The last body drops, and Josh focuses first on his pain, and then finds his husband's eyes, dropping down to one knee and putting a hand in his fur, bringing his face close, breathing him in. He's okay.

Mickey will just lie there for another minute. He'll get there. He's alive.

Derek limps over to Hayley, climbing over some dead hunters to do so, and starts to lick at her fur. Gross werewolves are gross but kind of romantic. Go figure.

Kol, covered in blood, first checks his sister, but notices -- no Davina. He turns gives one more whirl around before turning to Hayley the wolf. )

Where's Davina?

[Aiden will lean his weight heavily against Josh, lingering in wolf form until Freya returns with his clothes.

For a similar reason, Hayley doesn't respond to Kol right away, returning Derek's affection with ones of her own. Fortunately, he doesn't have long to wait because once Freya passes her clothing and she shifts back to human form, she speaks:]

They took her, not long after she found out that the witches held the cemetery. You don't have her?

( Kol, impatient and worried, did not ask for a kinkier excerpt from Call of the Wild, or he'd say his hello's.

He waits all the same.

He's seen it before, nudity is nudity.

Josh does stand in front of Aiden as he changes back into closed. )

Do I have here? I don't have her. We're here to rescue you. Davina was included. Do you know where she was taken?

She's at the Abattoir. Or at least that's where she was going.

[Mia had wandered off to recover some of her arrows and came back. She doesn't have super hearing, like some people in this room.]

Mickey got her from Monroe, and my brother and Coop took her somewhere safe. Far as we know, she's fine.

So, she's okay.

( Josh lets himself smile, turning to his husband. )

And you're okay.

( He takes Aiden's hand. )

Sorry I missed breakfast.

It's okay. You'll be home for dinner.

[And they're going to just shut out the world for a while. Once they're sure everyone's okay.]

( Mickey picks himself up with the pain having subsided and the healing in overdrive without wood in his circulatory system.

Derek checks in with Hayley, pushing hair out from in front of her eyes.

"We were both late.">)

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[She smirks in return.]

Not the first time I was late on account of kidnapping. Probably won't be the last.

[She glances back around her at the mess left behind.]

But I say we clean this up with a torch job and get the hell out of here. How about you?

That will be my second torch job in a month.

( But he concurs. As does Mickey who takes the lead of everyone else.

"Good call," Josh confirms.

And Kol figures, "Grab what you'd like," Kol says, with a (13) to find something with which to commit arson. )

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