[i]- Mercy - [/i]

Mercy's eyes narrowed momentarily at Chris's response to her question, barely preventing herself from huffing in annoyance, she didn't want to appear rude but such an answer was callous...regardless of the situation and she was hoping for a way to prevent such an event rather than dealing with it afterwards, by then it would be too late. She looked over at Dog wondering how he would take the hinted threat unwilling to speak before he did on the subject. She cast her eyes to the floor exhaling a sigh at Dog's words, Olivia didn't appear to be threatening but she wasn't harmless...Tamashii however. Well she was another matter, without Mercy around her she was a loose canon with very little regard for anyone else except herself...survival was priority, but she was also a fighter back her into a corner and she wouldn't hesitate regardless of who you were. Armed with this knowledge Mercy knew she had to keep Cat and Tamashii away from each other at all costs. 

Mercy looked from Dog to Chris, biting her bottom lip as she listened to what was being said, she hadn't known Chris had been the first to attack though she could understand why she would have. "Perhaps going in guns blazing wasn't the...best way of doing things. But in defence of that, all everyone knows about Cat is how he treated that dog and that he's dangerous...It wasn't really [i]obvious[/i] that he hadn't hurt Tony either" She stated in response to Dog's speech, folding her arms across her chest as she slowly brought her breathing back under control, her heartbeat steadying to a manageable speed the calmer she forced herself to be. "If this is going to work we need to communicate better..." She added, her voice grew in strength as she spoke. She hadn't meant to revert to a jelly like state in the attic, it had been years since something had caused her to react that way. [i]Never again, it was supposed to never happen again[/i] She thought to herself before she retreated from the past and emersed herself in the present. It sounded like a case of crossed wires...though she couldn't at this moment have imagined it going any other way considering the first impression they had got from the twins on a whole. Ethics aside however the new information Dog gave her also had her eyeing Chris suspiciously as she checked her over for damage, she hadn't realized Cat had harmed her. "Injured? Where?" She asked standing upright and moving over to stand just in front of Chris grinding to a halt at a respectable distance, watching her expectantly as she awaited an answer. 

As she was waiting Dog continued talking. What he said caused her to shift on the spot uncomfortably he was very openly giving up more information on his brother, it reminded her she barely knew anything about them...and yet she'd been so quick to judge them. She lifted a hand to her face tucking her hair behind her ear as she turned side on so she could glance in Dog's direction, mainly focusing her eyes on the floor as she absorbed the information offered to them. Peeking up at the smaller twin she found herself watching his expression as he spoke, the warm smile on his face clearly reflected the solid affection he felt for his elder brother even behind the sadness. Her arms defensively curled around her torso resting under her bust as Dog paused and glanced over at them, she dropped her gaze to his shoulder to avoid his eyes as she had done to avoid Cat's gaze. Avoiding a man's eye had been drilled firmly into her mannerisms during her younger years, even now when she felt threatened or anxious she would revert back to it as a defence mechanism to lower her threat level.

Guilt flooded through her as Dog's words reached her ears, she turned her gaze back at the floor feeling the emotion pass through into her facial expression. "...I can't see how you could have helped him more than you did...was it even possible to stop him from harming himself like that?" She murmured, reaching up to run a hand up the side of her neck and rest against it lifting her eyes to watch for Dog's reaction. Her conscience pushed her to suck up her fear and offer up her assistance despite the fact the idea made her heart figuratively jump against her ribcage. "I-I could bandage his arm...I'm not exactly threatening..." She offered after a few moments of silence stumbling over her words in her haste to say them, funny how courage seemed to surface once the threat had passed. Feeling more confident now her mind was set on it she visibly relaxed and a glimmer of a smile tugged at the corners of her mouth, if you knew her it was easy to tell the smile wasn't sincere she at least hoped she could pull it off in front of people she'd only just met. "I need to see to Lloyd first...but afterwards I could go back up there, I've got enough supplies to share" She told him.
 

As Dog suddenly treated them to a bright smile she raised a curious eyebrow at him, that smile turned out to be rather infectious, it caused her own smile to shyly slip back onto her face. She was surprised at how light Dog's tone was as he concluded his speech on his brother, a cornered stray cat...[i]Does that mean if you feed him, he'll assume he is god and demand you pet and feed him regularly?[/i] She wondered unsure whether she was disturbed by her own thought processes or not. Before she could question Dog further he had bounded out of the room and down the stairs from what she could hear. "What an odd fellow..." She decided on saying, more to herself than anyone as she moved back over to the doorway catching his hurried footsteps funnel off into the kitchen. Dog's sudden mood shift had eased the tension within her quite nicely if only her moods shifted as quickly, she cast her gaze back to Chris for a moment before past her to the resting form of Tony. A sudden flush crossed her cheeks as an awkward sensation passed through her. "Oh! Right well...I-I should leave you two alone. I'll just be in Lloyd's room if you need me..." She spluttered out, looking confused by her own speech for a moment. Neither of them probably needed to know where she was...so why had she said that? She shrugged her shoulders slightly, the warm smile returning to her expression before she slid out of the room and made her way down to her own room, to grab her first aid kit from her bag whilst she was in there she grabbed her swiss army knife as well...the first aid kit didn't have scissors and she wasn't prepared to spend ages looking for a pair. Once she was kitted out, she knocked on Lloyd's door only entering when he told her she could, she left the door ajar through habit alone.

[I] - Tamashii - [/I]

Tamashii tilted her head to the side thoughtfully at Kaylah’s question as she hopped out of the truck, she wasn’t sure whether the other woman wanted an answer or not but she decided to offer up something in response. “I get the feeling Lloyd has lived here since before the world went to pot, judging by the fact they left the keys in the ignition they were either very trusting or prepared, no chance of losing the suckers if they’re already in the truck” She shrugged before moving onto her second question. 

“Probably, though I bet it’d be quite effective at squishing a lot of those things” She answered with a devious look to her face before she moved to the front of the car and announced what she was doing. [i]If only people were as easy to work out as engines...[/i] She thought to herself, it seemed to be running properly but she wanted to check deeper. She jogged back round to the side of the vehicle and turned it off watching as the woman in blue, wincing at the hideous noise the fuel cap made as it opened. She wrinkled her nose at the noise as she reached into the cab and pulled out a sheet of dirty cloth, she needed something to wipe her hands on she tucked it halfway into her side pocket opposite her gun.

Just as she was making her way back round to the front of the car her ears were assaulted a second time by the horrible screech of Kaylah dragging the canisters along towards the truck, her face became a vision of agitation as she looked over at the other woman who hadn’t seemed phased by the sound she had created. “God give me patience...if you give me strength I’ll use it” She muttered to herself almost inaudibly as she was finally able to settle in front of the engine. Kaylah hadn’t really done anything wrong, Tamashii was just being a class A grump, because she could. What the women in blue was doing was vital if they wanted to be able to go anywhere and on some level Tamashii respected her for helping out without complaining at all. She couldn’t go by the statistics but Kaylah was the first women she had come across that wasn’t precious about getting dirty...that statistic did include her best friend, who had only really ‘accepted’ dirt after spending every day running from flesh eating abominations. 

Tamashii was completely focused on what she was doing as she leant in under the bonnet, she had grease smeared across her cheek and her fingers were practically black by the time she had checked over all of the vitals. She may have been an older model but she was in pretty good shape, she picked up the bottom of her rag, wiping her dirty hands on it as she stepped back and peeked around the side of the truck to check on Kaylah. “How’s it going Blue?” She asked, her mood had improved a little after doing something relatively ‘normal’ she made her way round to the cab standing by the door as she awaited the other woman’s answer.

Once she got it she reached through the trucks open window and fired up the engine a second time before moving back to inspect the engine. “Perfect” She smiled to herself, the only thing that could have made this moment any better would have been an old radio... [i]Remember where you are, you can’t relax here[/i] She instantly pulled the tension back into her shoulders and looked around cautiously as she slammed the truck’s hood back down and strode round to turn it off again. Her sharp hazel eyes rested on Kaylah as she cleaned the hose up and brought it to her lips again, she didn’t envy her the awful taste that must have invaded her mouth as she did that...though...with a heavy sigh Tamashii trudged over to the other woman. “How much have you got? I can do the rest if you like” She offered rigidly. “Perhaps you could go and find the others? We need one more person to come with us...Oh and if you see Dog make sure to send...’him’ to me” She asked, though ended up adding an instruction on the end she knew she could do it...but she wasn’t feeling particularly social. Yet again she was feeling rather anxious about being separated from everyone completely...she thought Mercy would have come to find her by now.