Efferton Manor [All Day Friday]

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Efferton Manor [All Day Friday]

When Rick opened his door this morning, he took one good, long look around and closed it very quickly thereafter.

Then he pulled out his cell and hit the quickdial. "Hey, Alexis, honey, I might need to make a rain-check on that visit. Could you put your grams on?"

[For one, then open post is open for anyone in need of a place to hole up from teh rips and creepy. Minor OCD ~~coming~~ up.]

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For him that knows who he is.

Kyle thought, considering how he was showing up and who with, it was only polite to knock before inviting himself into someone's home. "Toothless, keep a lookout." He still didn't know how much Toothless understood, but apparently it was enough for important things. Kyle belted on the door with his fist to make sure he was heard. Whatever was going on was not right. Atlas Gym was gone and as they'd pressed on towards Efferton, he'd silently hoped that Rose and her Russian guy hadn't really been in there at the time.

Edited 2010-08-06 10:08 (UTC)

When Rick heard the knock on the door, he really wished that Beckett was here, if only because she was capable of being much scarier than whatever might be out there. "Who is it?" he called though the door.

He recognized that voice. "Professor Castle?" Kyle asked. "It's Kyle Reese. I took your laser tag class."

"Kyle?" Rick quickly opened the door. "What are you doing out...is that a dragon?"

Toothless looked at Rick suspiciously, then gave a vague approximation of a reassuring dragon smile.

Kyle, meanwhile, suddenly realized whose clothes he'd been stealing every time he came back naked from his own time and wisely decided not to mention it to Professor Castle.

"That's Toothless. This is Marcus," he nudged his head against the raccoon on one shoulder, "and the bird is George. Can we come in?"

Rick realised he was staring at the dragon and shook his head. "Sure, sure," he said, stepping back from the doorway. "Are those two pets or people?"

He remembered his own time with feathers very well.

He hurried in with the others joining him. Immediately, he set his bags down and started looking around to see if his assessment of the place from the outside was workable from the inside too. "Marcus works at the junk yard when he's not a raccoon." He thought about saying 'human' but that was open for debate. "George is a student too. The action figure in my pocket is Hiccup and Toothless is his dragon. You know what's going on outside?" His tone definitely wasn't student to teacher. His brain had switched into survival mode and was working overtime calculating what his next moves should be.

"Not really, though it doesn't look very good." Rick may have been the teacher, and the adult, but he was aware that that there were times teenagers were the more competent ones, and Kyle at least seemed to have an idea of what he was doing.

Kyle looked back over his shoulder, now raccoonless as Marcus had gone to look out one of the windows, at Rick. "Neither do I. I don't know if anyone else will show up, but you have yourself some housemates for a while, Professor. How many supplies do you have? Food and water especially."

"More than I need." Mostly because even after a year, Rick kept forgetting he was only shopping for one instead of three. "Though there's not really any fresh stuff in the house at the moment."

"Fresh doesn't matter. Perishables only get in the way. Canned and dry foods are better and we should be prepared for the power going out." He was presuming they were here for the long haul, which was the only way he could think when faced with a situation like this. Kyle Reese was raised to expect the worst and prepare for it. "Water's the most important in this heat. How attached are you to your ground floor windows?"

"I can afford to get them fixed later." Assuming there was a later.

"Good answer," Kyle approved and looked around. "Is the water still running?"

Rick nodded. "It was ten minutes ago. Most of this stuff came with the house," he added. "I'm not attached to it either."

Kyle nodded slowly. "I need you to fill up every sink, bathtub and clean container you have with water and then cover them." He seemed to realize somewhere between 'and' and 'then' who he was talking to. "Uh, sir."

Kyle was being far more polite than one of his companions down in the hole had been. Though admittedly he'd never had her as a student. "I'll get on it."

"I'll start fortifying the ground floor." He headed towards a cabinet he hoped Professor Castle wasn't too attached to. "And Professor?"

"Yes, Kyle?"

"Thanks for letting us in." Kyle knew from experience that many people wouldn't.

Alexis was even younger than Kyle, Rick knew that if she was in the same situation, he'd want someone to let her in. "Don't mention it."

For anyone who shows up in the AM.

Kyle had dismantled the wooden cabinet with an ax and was boarding up one of the wider windows. Some of the heavier furniture had been propped up on its tallest side and placed against windows. The front door and door to the back weren't barricaded but they were locked up tight and there was a dragon guarding one and a raccoon glaring at the other.

Kate and ~~the lovingly modded~~ Ariel's trek from the cabins to the manor had been... interesting, to say the least, involving a few creatures, a few rifts in reality, and a whole lot of running.

Kate was pale (or paler than usual, anyway), and the knife in her hand was covered in icky stuff. It was probably best not to ask what exactly it was.

She used her free hand to bang on the door, then looked over her shoulder at Ariel. "If there's no one here, I'm gonna have a shitfit."

Kyle was there in an instant, pistol down at his side. "Who's there?"

Ariel ~~who will never forgive the modding omg never ever~~ gave Kate a sort of wry look, feeling much less enthusiastic about adventuring and not even wanting to think about what was currently on her chair leg.

And she looked to Kate, of course, because she couldn't exactly answer.

Before they even answered, probably against his better judgment, Kyle cracked the door open and saw the girls there. He glanced around, then opened the door further. "Are you okay?"

"Well, we're alive," Kate said, because really, that was about as 'okay' as she got under the circumstances. "This island is fucking insane."

He stepped aside to let them in. "Insane is a pretty good way of putting it. Come in. We have enough water and food to last a while. Professor Castle's here too. Has it gotten worse out there?"

Kate slipped in past him as she answered. It wasn't as if Ariel was going to. (Well, she could have, but they could play charades later.)

"I don't have much to compare it to--" Having spent most of the previous day in her cabin, and only ventured out for less than five minutes this morning. "--but I'm gonna go with yes. We brought food and stuff too."

"Good," Kyle said, keeping an eye on the front lawn in case anything decided to follow. "We don't know how long this will go on. It's better to be prepared to be here a while. The windows are covered but try to stay away from them anyway. There's plenty of room. It's just us and you two so far. I haven't seen anyone else. The radio said people were disappearing?"

Kate tried hard not to wince. "Uh, yeah. Our cabin was pretty much empty apart from us."

Not to mention that Bod had disappeared while she'd been asleep. She'd rather not think about that too hard.

"And there are... holes, outside."

"It's like the island is sick," Kyle thought aloud, then realized that wasn't helpful right now. "It's going to be okay," he said even though he wasn't confident of that. "Make yourself at home. There are some cards on the table over there if you're bored. We'll listen to the radio broadcast again tonight if there is one and wait to see if anyone else comes."

Kate just nodded.

She was probably just going to curl up in a corner somewhere for a while and regroup, anyway.

For those in the PM.

A good portion of the ground floor was now fortified against attack. Kyle had no idea whether it would hold, and knew that they couldn't defend against suddenly disappearing, but he did know that you had to prepare for what you could and hope like hell the rest didn't end up catching up to you. He'd worked solidly throughout the day to put his makeshift plan into place and was taking a break to have a drink of water.

~~For those who show up in the buff.~~

Because there's no help needed to end the world this BDE.

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