The Commander and Audrianna
Day 5 4:30pmWhen Cody grabbed her hand, her heart began thudding loudly against her chest and she felt her cheeks burn more. She probably looked like an overripe tomato by now. But she couldn't deny that she didn't like the feel of her hand in his. It was... unbelievable. And the kiss. She needed time to figure it out. But as he led her out into the unforgiving terrain, she figured it was best to push it out of her mind for now. There will be a lot of time to try and puzzle it out later...given that she can actually survive this dangerous trip outside the safe comfort of the bunker.
Cody had yet to go outside for more than piling bodies or burying them. He took in the landscaping and terrain. There was more of a sandy desert to the left and to the right it was more vegetation and there were some trees. He walked to the cliff in front of them and looked out at what once was the home to so many people. He could see the lake that Harley had been refilling. He nodded. They had some stuff working in their favor he thought. He could barely see the orchard that once produced so much fruit. He wondered if it still did.
Looking up and following the cliff edge to a trail that they could walk down Cody asked her.
"So tell me about you, who were your people, where did you come from? What makes you happy? and sad?" As he asked her he heard a noise like a rattlesnake and he halted their movement and slowly looked around and saw that it was much closer to Audrianna than he cared for.
"Don't move Audri.""W-well, I don't really know where I came from. I was orphaned at a very young age and well... I've been adopted thrice..." she paused and crossed her arms across her chest, unwilling to remember how difficult her past was. She followed after Cody.
"The last family that adopted me were from Florida. So I stayed there for a while. At least until I was old enough to go off on my own." She looked up at Cody when he suddenly warned her not to move. But she had a habit of doing things herself and if there was something that would endanger her life from behind her, then she needed to see what it was. She turned around just in time to see a
strange looking snake launch itself at her. By the sound it produced, it was probably a rattle snake. But the asteroid's radiation had mutated it that it was transparent, the only thing visible was the it's bone structure.
Audrianna let out a small scream before she crouched down, her hands raised up to cover her head and face. She expected fangs to sink into her flesh but strangely, no attack came. There was a soft thud as the snake hit the force field she had managed to erect around herself, it's surface glinting momentarily in the afternoon sun.
Cody had watched Audrianna's force field shield her and he let out a sigh of relief. He reached down in front of her and picked up the snake. It bit him on the hand a couple of times and he cut it's head off and he dropped the rest of the snake into the bag he had tied to his belt loop. Seeing the fear on her face he stood back up and pulled her into his arms as soon as the force field went down. He held her to himself, he could feel his heart beating like it might hop out of his chest and run away on him. He watched the bites on his hand turn black and grey, then they healed and went away. What was he thinking bringing her out here? If it had bitten her and he hadn't been there. He didn't want to think what would have happened.
"I should not have brought you out here yet. I need to know more about what's out here first. I'm sorry, I just wanted to spend some time with you." Cody looked down at her and pushed her hair out of her face.
But Audrianna apparently wasn't concerned about her own safety. She grabbed his hand just as he held her close. She looked at the snake bites as they healed over. And when his skin mended itself, she sighed in relief.
"You can heal yourself. I'm so glad," she said, running a finger where the bites had been a few seconds ago.
Cody watched her as his hand healed itself.
"If you were hurt or sick I could heal you too. However, you would still feel the pain of the injury as it happened. Why didn't you tell me that you could produce a force field?"Audrianna shrugged.
"I-I didn't think it was important and...and...I didn't want to look like a freak. I just found out about it early this morning..." she explained feebly, relief washing over her that she wasn't going crazy after all. She had resigned herself to keeping her ability a secret in the fear that the people in the bunker would cast her out or something.
He looked up and around them again. He saw Harley come out of the direction of the bunker and watched as she rode a wave right over the side of the cliff laughing as she disappeared over the edge. Cody ran to the edge to see if Harley was okay or not. When he looked at Audrianna he smiled and chuckled walking back to her.
"That girl is a little unnerving and she leaves mud wherever she goes now." Just as Cody looked towards Harley, so did Audrianna. Seeing how the other girl apparently had control over water, it made her feel a little more comfortable with her own powers and found herself wondering what Jae and the other could do. She made a mental note to ask them when they got back.
Spontaneously, he grabbed Audrianna in a tight hug and smiled just happy to be outside of the bunker.
"I'm just happy to be able to go outside again. Aren't you?"Audrianna blinked as she was enveloped by a hug. Her cheeks automatically heated up and she began stammering.
"I-I'm a-actually s-scared at the outside world... I-I imagine e-everything would be m-mutated like what we see in the movies." She thought of giant venus fly traps, giant bugs, miniature elephants, man eating lizards the size of a high rise building and she shivered.
Cody laughed at her and hugged her tighter.
"I promise to do my best to protect you but honestly it looks like you can protect yourself. If you ever did get hurt or sick I'd heal you. Come on, let's go back inside and see if they need help cooking that pig."
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