Heterosexual
Fey
Ah, so happy for the long weekend!
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Post by Fey on May 28, 2017 19:57:29 GMT -5
"I took care of it, mom." Amaria replied, setting Calder's cup on the quartz counter. "Hey, Calder, are you alright?" She asked, noting his oddly anxious behavior. "Why don't you all sit down and relax? I'll leave you to yourselves." Her mom spoke before the record turned off. Amara went over and grabbed an old newspaper. "Here, mom, your favorite. Oh, I should also get Jason one of his toys incase he wakes up. You know, he sleeps so much, he'll grow so big." She said, smiling fondly at the thought. She then grabbed a rattle from a basket of a few toys and brought the items over to where her mom sat. She set the rattle carefully next to Jason and opened up the newspaper and set it in her mother's upturned hands. "Oh, mom, your hand's cold. You'll get sick if you don't take care of yourself, let me get your throw blanket." She mused, making her way over to where there was a stack of five recently hand-washed blankets. "Oh, sorry you both, my Mom's a handful. I feel like I'm the one taking care of her sometimes." She let out a soft laugh, bringing over the top blanket to her mother. It was a small throw blanket made out of a light blue fabric and she wrapped it around her mother's shoulders. "There you go," She said turning back to her friends. "Sorry, is there anything besides the drinks I can get you? A magazine or, maybe a newspaper from the week of the bombing?" She asked, trying to be a good hostess.
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Post by Flop on May 28, 2017 20:06:06 GMT -5
"Amaria ummm..." Jacob thought of an excuse "I think I heard something above ground i'm gonna go check it out." Jacob did not want to break the news to Amaria, so he asceded the ladder steps and got to the surface. He then sat next to the hatch for a minute to think of something to do. Jacob sat there for a moment when he saw a woman clad in very familiar armor. He descended the shaft and told the two of what he saw, raiders.
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Post by Flop on May 28, 2017 20:29:28 GMT -5
"O-okay" Jacob stammered "Amaria... When was the last time your mother left that spot holding your brother?" Jacob was struggling to find the right words. He took a sip of water and tapped his leg. Jacob had never seen a shelter so well preserved, and without any reworking. Jacob looked at the little boy and his mother, they were positioned in such a way that it looked as if they were snuggling up for a nap. A single tear ran down his cheek, remembering his own family.
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Post by Flop on May 28, 2017 20:52:51 GMT -5
"Amaria... Please listen to me. Something has killed you mother. When was the last time she spoke an original sentence, something killed her!" He was beside himself with worry if something got into Amaria's home, and he knew the girl wouldn't take it good, but he knew it had to be done. Jacob's leg was bouncing more frantically now.
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Heterosexual
Fey
Ah, so happy for the long weekend!
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Post by Fey on May 28, 2017 22:26:00 GMT -5
Amaria listened, took a moment to process, waited a few moments. Did I hear him right?! "How dare you." She whispered, standing up. She clenched her fists and, in a louder voice, "How dare you! I invite you into my home and introduce you to my mother. Her and I show you our hospitality and you have the audacity to say my mother is dead? After she's spoken to you herself?!" She had raised her voice by now. "If she's not alive, then who's been taking care of Jason?! If she's not alive, then who the hell has been talking to me?! Wishing me a good day? Reminding me to tighten my mask before I go out? Teaching me math, science, English? Who the hell has been taking care of me for sixteen years if she's dead? My mother is well alive!"
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Post by Flop on May 28, 2017 22:59:05 GMT -5
"You have to calm down, there are raiders!" Jacob warned "Your mother doesn't speak to you! The cds do!" He tried to stay quiet. "I'm going to go home, when you see reason come find me. Jacob climbed the ladder and sneaked back to his home through the quiet neighborhood. When Jacob got home he looked in the food bin and realized his lack of food oh right! That greedy dweller! Dad told me not to trust them! Jacob made himself a chicken sandwaich on some bread he and his mother baked last night then read an old book which he'd been saving up to buy the whole series Harry Potter ane the Sorcerer's Stone He adored the book and was almost halfway through. Jacob fell asleep while reading the book and took a nice nap.
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Heterosexual
Fey
Ah, so happy for the long weekend!
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Post by Fey on May 28, 2017 23:51:49 GMT -5
'Mom's not dead." Amaria whispered. "I refuse to believe it." She went over to her mother and couched down. "Hey, mom, I saw the sun today. The sky was bright blue and the air was crisp and fresh." Her voice shook as she spoke. No reply. She waited. Nothing. "Mama, hey, just say something without your music?" She pleaded. She waited. No reply. A tear ran down her face. She went over to the records and sifted through them. Either. She pulled it out and set in on the record. "Hey, Baby. You're eighteen now! I'm so proud, you're an adult now. I'm sorry I can't celebrate with you in person and I can't give you a present. I think you've figured this out a long time ago, but, I'm dead, Baby. I died eleven years ago. How's Jason? IS he alright? Is he healthy? Have you made any friends? I hope you have. The radiation is all gone from the air now, I'm sure. I wish I could have seen you grow up. It's been hard for you and Jason, hasn't it? Without me? Without Daddy? This is my last recording, you're all grown up now. I love you, Baby." Her mother's voice ended and it almost felt to abrupt. She sat there, by the records, and cried. It was true. Mom died nine years ago... "I'm so stupid." Amaria whispered shakily. To think, she'd been living nine years with two corpses. She felt like she knew it, somewhere deep down. How her mother never moved around her, how Jason never got bigger. She was sure she buried it deep long ago. "Hey Baby." She blinked, her mom was saying something again. "Two things. I have two presents for you. In the little treasure chest behind the records. The first is my engagement ring Daddy gave me. Sterling silver with an emerald topaz jewel on it. Daddy's is also in there, his white-gold ring with the black swirl. That's the first gift. The second; a necklace. -For luck. Baby, it's time for you to leave the nest and have your own life. Love you forever and ever. Goodbye." Amaria sniffled and pushed away the records, finding her mothers little wooden treasure chest. She opened it up. She put on the necklace, at the bottom it had a round, silver surface. On one side, carved into it was Luck. On the other side, it was Love.The then took the rings and slid them onto the chain on her necklace and a ring flanked the sides of the pendant. It was time to leave. -(Skip two hours)- Amaria had on a new change of clothing. It was some of her mother and father's old things. Over her boots she wore a more rustic style of boot spats. Her jeans were a dark brown and she had on leg pouches, For a top she had on a tattered brown long-sleeve with a leather corset, of sorts, that had vertical straps and three belt-like rings around her waist. She wore clothe around her wrists, hands and up a small portion of her arm. She'd poorly sown it and reinforced it with a belt on each hand and the make-shift gloves were fingerless. She wore her leather water-pouch tied to her belt and she had some food is a medium-small messenger-bag, of sorts. Her father and worked in the military five years before leaving it to be with her mom and se'd brought a good deal of those clothing into the vault 'just incase'. She made her way up the stairs and climbed the later, pushing open the hatch. She looked around, making sure the raiders weren't near, before making her way to Jacob's 'armory'. "I need you to teach me how to use a weapon." She said at the door to the shop. She pulled out a sack of money. It was all the money her mother and father had stored in the vault. It amounted to 600 iron pieces and two hundred bronze pieces.
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Post by Flop on May 29, 2017 0:03:34 GMT -5
Jacob looked back at the girl in shock the same one that just yelled at him "I won't take you money, but I will need your focus" he said with a toothy grin "what kinda weapon would you like?" he briskly walked to the forge and started to stoke the flame "swords, hammers, pistols, you name it!" He opened what used to be the hood of a car that now stored molds, and pulled three jars containing tin, copper, and iron to make steel off of a shelf he made out of hanging up a skateboard.
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Heterosexual
Fey
Ah, so happy for the long weekend!
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Post by Fey on May 29, 2017 0:11:39 GMT -5
"Alright then." Amaria said, putting away her sack of metallic pieces. "I don't know much about weaponry, so let's try..." She thought for a moment, scanning the items. "a pistol, recurve bow, throwing knife, flip knife, and maybe a sniper riffle? I just want to see what I'm best at, of course I'm not going to have each of them. Maybe just one or two. What do you think fits me?" She asked, uncertainty lacing her voice. She was semi tall, standing at 5'10 and had a slim and lithe stature.
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Post by Flop on May 29, 2017 0:21:11 GMT -5
"Alrighty" said Jacob excited as can be, and getting to work rignt away. He first allowed the metals in a cast iron pot then loured them into molds, whe they sat to dry, while they dried he set up a tanning rack, gave Amaria a knife to strip leather with, and went outside to the yew tree which still grew healthily and picked a nice branch to cut off. Jacob took out his carving tools and set to work immediately with the bow, carving an image of a mountain, or the symbol of tue wastelander. Some people were part of this crew, Jacob was one of them. By the time the metals had dried, Jacob had carved a crude bow.
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Heterosexual
Fey
Ah, so happy for the long weekend!
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Post by Fey on May 29, 2017 0:26:35 GMT -5
Amaria watched curiously as he ran about, fetching different materials from shelves, doors, cabinets and other things, putting them into molds, heating and cooling them. She worked on stripping the leather best she could, taking it off in long, relatively neat, strips.
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Post by Flop on May 29, 2017 0:34:48 GMT -5
Jacob came back to Amaria once the items were dry "You're doing so good!" He exclaimed " way better than I did when i was a kid. This is the really cool part so watch close" Jacob walked over to the cooled molds and opened the rubber to reveal three knife blades, two for throwing knives, one for the flip knife. He brought out the caps that were ornately done, a bowstring, and held the yew base "You can put the bow together if you'd like, you can use that leather for the grip." He got to work om the pistol which was the hardest part. In the end making a very accurae weapon, but only at close range. By the time he was done with it, it was sunset, but he wanted to finish the knives.
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Post by Flop on May 29, 2017 0:49:53 GMT -5
"Okay, so what I have done in the past is cut little holes in the woods, but today we have caps!" He said excitedly. "There are hoops on the caps of the bow that are qlready premeasured to make the bowstring taut." He put the caps on the table then started to use screws to put together the knifes now that the gun worked and he had enough arrows an bullets. Jacob got out an old casette tape, ajd played some elvis while he whistled along.
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Post by Flop on May 29, 2017 1:14:54 GMT -5
"Womderful, this would fetch a pretty penny" he laughed setting down the knives, and looking outside. "It's getting late, wanna eat some dinner?" He asked stretching and walking to the food bin. "How about a casserole?" He reached for a packet of noodles he bought from town, some chicken, mushrooms, and tomato sauce in a bottle. Jacob also grabbed some salf and pepper before he started to cook. " wanna chop the mushrooms? " he asked, atarting to cube some chicken breasts on a slab of wood he placed on the counter.
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Post by Flop on May 29, 2017 1:31:10 GMT -5
"Oh yeah! Perfect" Jacob said not caring about minor details. He pulled out a pot, and started to boil the noodles on the hearth. Once they started to soften he brought out a homemade clay casserole dish to put all the ingredients in. He put the noodles, and tatos, but put the mushrooms in a saucepan with some cream which he made that morning in order to make mushroom broth. Once that was made he put a grate over the heah and let the casserole bake. "I know you like to read" he remembered her talking about it. "There's a bookshelf upstairs if you want to pick one to read" He was trying to be as nice as possible fo the girl.
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Post by Flop on May 29, 2017 1:41:24 GMT -5
(Timeskip to next morning?)
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Post by Flop on May 29, 2017 1:42:47 GMT -5
(Well i guess it's happening XD)
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Post by Flop on May 29, 2017 1:48:28 GMT -5
Jacob woke up, Yawned, Stretched and changed into a green tank top, a brown vest, and black joggers. He walked down to the well and washed this week's dishes, plus got this week's water. He slept on the couch last night, giving Amaria his bed, and not wanting to sleep in his moms. He planned to get a new bed. Jacob knew some things would happen today, like piper the Newsgirl would come to visit, and he had a few clients coming.
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Post by Flop on May 29, 2017 2:03:44 GMT -5
Jacob walked back to the house in two trips, one with the week's water a second withcthe dishes. "Hello" he smiled his toothy grin again "we've got a busy day today!" He pointed to a girl in a red tranch coat " that's piper, go say hi while i make her tea. " He carried the dishes inside then threw a log on the hearth, and wet his mother's china out.
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Post by Flop on May 29, 2017 2:15:41 GMT -5
Jacob hung up a line between the two houses and hung up Amaria's laundry. Jacob then came back inside to see piper, and he brightened up. "Piper!" He said embracing her " How's it been? " Jacob pulled away from the hug. "Not great... Toronto was raided, i came here with Freddie and Doug, and i brought my printer, computer, and everything else on horse. I was hoping i could get one of these houses" Piper looked nervous. "No problem" Replied Jacob, then to Amaria "this sorta thing happens all the time" he explained "oh, do please take the kettle off the fire" the two went around the neighborhood for piper to pick a house
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