Old Enemies, New Friends [Semi-closed; Adolphus' Group]

Holly felt the hand on her shoulder and she jumped. Turning to face her Father, she looked like. Hell. She was beaten and bruised. She had a long gash down one cheek from a knife one of the males tried to slit her throat. If Lach hadn't seen and helped her, she would be dead. The girl. Where was the girl? That little psycho had gone nuts. Holly had seen things she never dreamed of. Not in her worst nightmares.

She did not say anything at first. Instead she moved closer and reached out for him. She wrapped her arms around him and stared at Andrei as he spoke to him. She was silent, but apologia would feel her shake.

Gabe felt the ache in his leg, but it mattered little at the moment. The attack was... partially successful. The place had been made inhabitable when they attacked, Gabe got to kill a fair share of the people there, it went well enough. Gabe had his machete unsheathed and ready. He stayed near the front of the group, behind Dolph. He wanted to make sure they were heading in a good direction, without any walkers or scattered Bear Lake members to kill them. Adolphus loudly spoke, telling them to stop where they were. He didn't stop, he instead went ahead of Dolph and turned face him, while continuing forward. "I'll go scout ahead, Boss man" he said, pointing behind him with his machete. 

He turned around and continued to walk forward. He felt like he needed to check ahead of them, the group had stopped momentarily and making sure there wasn't a camp full of vengeful survivors close by was a must with what they had just done. While walking forward, he thought about the attack, he remembered seeing BB killed by the man named Andrei, he was right there in front of him when it happened. But he felt as thought he didn't have the right to do anything to Andrei, they were all bad people, but BB was beyond any form of sanity, which made him reckless. Gabriel's eyes focused on the path ahead, it was empty for now, no one was close by. He turned back around and headed for the group.

He arrived back at where they had stayed for now, everyone seemed to be okay, possibly a few wounds liek Gabrield had suffered. A couple of cuts on the arm by a man with butchers knife, damn it hurt and the blood still dripped, but it didny matter now. There was also the mark on his face that was caused by a woman throwing a large rock at him. When he got to the group he took a seat on a big rock in the ground nearby, collecting his thoughts.

Cara had done as she was told. She had put on a perfect act and it had been the main reason that they had been allowed into the sanctuary in the first place. She had been good, but she had finally been rewarded for it when the attack came and she had been able to let her true colors show. As soon as she had heard the first gunshot she had walked up to the nearest person, cute as can be, and slit their throat all together she had managed to kill five of them before anyone had noticed what was going on. She hid underneath a bed to wait for one of them to turn. She needed a new skin since not only was her old one been left at the castle it was also starting to get small. She hated to lose Sammie's skin but she really had no choice. She had laid there for an hour while she waited for the first to turn. As soon as it did she buried her knife in it's skull. She almost cried at having to do so but she did it anyways. The girl she had killed was about her age, a little older.

It had taken a good hour for the little girl to slowly cut the skin away so that she could use it to protect her from her other pets. She needed to smell right. Once the skin was off she slipped into it and found another person who was still alive. The camp was starting to burn and most people had fled. She faked a limp as she apposed the woman.

"Are you OK little girl?"

The woman was genuinely concerned and it played tight into her hands. She looked up at the woman and made herself start crying.

"I.. I.. don't know where mommy and daddy are."

It was always best to mix a little truth in with your lies and the woman bought it hook line and sinker. As the woman bent down Cara smiled. This was too easy, she thought, as she buried the knife in the woman's chest. She instantly went to work cutting the woman's head off. She liked to have little pet toys that she could throw at people.

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Outside the camp she turned for a minute to see the burning. It had started to really burn and it was a nice to see. She smiled and then looked at her new pet.

"Don't worry, we will have lots of fun."

She saw the ragtag group that had survived the assault and she noticed that Lachland and Holly had made it and it filled her with rage. How dare they leave me to die! She stormed up to the group, rage in her eyes and any pretension of being innocent completely gone.

"You broke your promise daddy..."

She didn't even talk to Holly, or look in her direction. She had come to feel truly attached to the woman and now she felt betrayed. She knew in her little brain that if she didn't control her temper that she would be killed. These were not the kind of people she could easily manipulate.

"How could you leave me to die? Mr. Dolph's plan never would have worked without me."

Adolphus smiled and placed a hand on Andrei's shoulder. He couldn't tell whether the man was being genuine, but he seemed to be. "Incompetency...terrible thing, isn't it? But here we are--you and me. Survivors. We're here. We are not incompetent." Adolphus was happy to have Andrei on board. The man had put an arrow in his leg in Miami, and that would be addressed in time, to be sure, but for now Adolphus needed all the help he could get. He'd need to work closely with Holly...she seemed unstable. Perhaps placing her with Lachland had not been the best idea. Adolphus would have to work it out.

Adolphus turned back to the rest of the group in time to catch Ivy's question. "His name is Andrei. We....have history," he managed a grin, despite the circumstances. Cara, the little girl, had made it out. From what Adolphus could tell, Holly and the girl didn't have the best of relationships. Holly seemed frightened of her. Another thing to address.

"Gabriel! What do you have for me!?" Adolphus called to his scout.

Andrei quietly studied the people in his new group, to get a feel of their personalities and capacities. There seemed to be quite a motley crew, but they had to have some sort of weakness, and right now they were all wounded, so his skills might be called upon soon. The first one that stood out was a red haired woman, who stayed silent, but clung to Dolph. The question was 'why?' The next ones that he noticed were a man in his mid forties with 2 body guards. So far it seemed this was mostly like a pyramid scheme. Dolph had lieutenants who had underlings of their own and so on. This man could be one of those lieutenants. Soon after him came a very creepy little girl. She called the older man 'daddy' but he didn't seem to give a damn about that. Either it was a facade or he was a really really bad father.

The last one to come into his view was a woman of around 34 years old. She had a sabre with her, which was an interesting choice for a weapon, yet Andrei was in no position to argue against it. She asked Dolph who Andrei was, while giving him an overall bitchy look. That kind of person. Through her actions, she managed to attract Andrei's attention, and he studied her a bit more than the rest. She chose to use a sabre, so she must be skilled with it, although in what style had yet to be determined. She seemed to be in good shape. Usually, the bitchy types have some specific buttons that, once pushed, drive them over the edge. Still, it was a bit early, and he had quite a lot of work to do, to determine everyone's weak points.

In face of the woman's attempts to intimidate and establish superiority, Andrei remained unimpressed and made it evident that he gave not a single damn about the her and her attitude.

"Unless you saw thn die you don't know for sure," Lachland said speaking up, "I know for a fact that the one named Remy wasn't present at the camp. She had left and the guards were all with their panties in a twist, literally and figuratively." Lachland grabbed his gun, "if you still want them, they are still out there. The woman at least.

He heard the gun shot and then the gun fire. Sounded like a fire fight. "Grey White, on me," he said, "guns at the ready." He followed Adolphus through the trees. If there was gunfire it was either at walkers, or at people, both were dangerous. "We don't know what the shot were firing at, we should try and see first sir." He walked skittle forward, "the shot will draw the biters here regardless."

"Then we need to move quickly," Adolphus responded to Lachland's concerns about walkers being drawn to the gunfire. He was right. And his words about Remy getting away disturbed Adolphus. Truthfully, Adolphus had given up with expansion. His efforts after Carthage were met with failure. Gripsholm was something, but it was more of a den of thieves rather than a thriving community. Still, maybe with BB gone, that could be changed. Hard to say, though. For now, his primary focus was finding Remy and anyone who got away with her. As Andrei and Ivy were greeting one another, Adolphus ushered to them to come along behind him and Lachland. "We need to find your friends, Andrei..."

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There'd been a feast here. For the walkers, anyways. Adolphus glanced around the area, one home. Tire tracks through the mud. Whatever had happened transpired recently, and Adolphus noted the recently devoured corpses. "Holly, Lachland, do you recognize either of these two? What's left, anyways...either of them from Bear Lake?" Adolphus turned to face his companions. "Search the house, see if we can find anything. We follow these tire tracks when we leave. Lachland, Holly, tell me if you find any indication of the people you knew from Bear Lake being here."

Adolphus noticed that Andrei was paying particular corpse. Much of the face was unrecognizable, and the torso had been eaten by walkers. "You know this man? Old...older than me," Adolphus forced a smile. Finding people older than himself was rare nowadays. The life expectancy had certainly decreased. If this man had made it this far, he was good at staying alive. Not good enough, it seemed.

"Shot in the head. Not killed by walkers. He never turned. This may have been the initial gunshot we heard. A conflict between groups, perhaps. This man, did you know him? Why would he be out here?"

Holly didn't move out of arms reach of Dolph. Her body was trembling. She heard what he asked and she looked at the corpse. The old man," his name was Randall, he was with the council, but if he was here, that dark haired man , Luke, Lucas, something like that would be with him." She spoke softly," the dark haired one, had a thing for the blonde you wanted, if he ain't here, he's with her." She looked over and saw Andrei looking at the corpse as well. She backed up and moved closer to her Father." I watched and listened. When things started the old man was fighting and Lucas was with him, also a military guy, some young man, kind of heavy and whined , from what I saw, Anthony." She looked up at Dolph and then back at Andrei," they had him in the med tent, that much is true. " she glanced over at the others and fell quiet. She wanted to go home. What had she gotten herself into?