A choice gets made

[knifewithnoname]

Who| Pruna, Sandy, Clementine, Mindy and Dave
What| The awful tragic death of Clementine
Where| An escalator
When| Mid week three
Warnings/Notes| Death, betrayal, hatred, language and messed up children being messed up

Roombas. Pruna hated them. She wasn't even sure what they were meant to be, except that she had seen avoxes in the tribute tower using them sometimes, at night, when Pruna was supposed to be sleeping. But she had never seen one move on its own and never seen one try and clean up a person.

Maybe those ones were tame, which was why they were only used at night when everyone was out the way, in case they went crazy again. She thought it was something she could ask Effie, until she remembered Effie was gone and became really angry, except it was hard to be angry and run for your life all at the same time so she chose the latter.

"Be hurrying." She snapped at the girls near her as she saw the roombas close the distance again.

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[hit_girl_mindy]

OH NO. Mindy had had it up to HERE with people fucking going for her face in this fucking Arena! It was bad enough she couldn't see and had to compensate, but she had that fucking brand to contend with too. If Pruna was going for her face she was going to be inciting Mindy at full wrath.

Vaguely she hears Sandy calling her name and grimaces. Of COURSE she'd be backing Pruna, it didn't matter Clementine died because she fucking pushed her. But it DID matter to Mindy, who was at least going to get the satisfaction of making Clem's killer pay.

She shifted herself away from the skate but came back a moment later with her knife again, not to back from her attack now.

Even IF the latest wound was bleeding more than she wanted.

[justoutrunyou]

"I wouldn't say it's a bright one." She muttered and pointed at a large trash bin that had been knocked over.

"Throw that at them. I'm too small to get my arms around it." Half of her was just irritated that the girls had started in the first place. Mindy had instigated it but Pruna was participating and neither of them could stop themselves until the other was dead.

"Just try to aim it between them...and don't knock them back towards the escalator." Though of course that should go without saying.

"Since those two are being such IDIOTS!" She shouted the last part out of irritation.

[shenunigans]

"It's as good as it's gonna get." He agrees, keeping his voice low now. If they're going to ignore him yelling at them, they can get hit in the butt with a bin. He rolls the sleeves of his shirt up, sparing a moment to flex before he strolls over to the bin and drags it back with him.

"Time to take the trash out." Heheh, he's so witty. He hurls the bin toward the fighting girls in the hopes that it knocks them over. If he happens to be aiming a little more for Pruna, that's purely a coincidence. Yep.

[knifewithnoname]

The ice skate came up again, blocking once more. Anger was crashing at the sides of the emptiness, not getting in but close. Anger at Mindy, anger at the whole situation. Anger at Sandy when she heard her shouting, Pruna wasn't an idiot. She pushed it away, and concentrated on the fight.

Right until something large and metal rushed right at her, hitting her square in the head and sending her flying. She crashed to the floor, tumbling backwards and landing in a heap before trying to get up, trying to get her bearings before Mindy took advantage.

[hit_girl_mindy]

She was making sure she was aware of everything, even off conversation happening around her, but her focus was on Pruna, and doing what needed to be done. The bitch had taken out her friend and done it without a care in the world. She was livid and still smarting from the deaths of her friends. All of this was wrong and she wanted to do right, at least. To redeem herself.

Then she stupidly STUPIDLY glanced at Sandy.

Fuck, just, what the fuck did she have to do that for? She was supposed to turn this shit off, and there was a trash can flying and knocking Pruna off her ass. It was perfect timing, all she had to do was finish the job. Get the revenge.

And there was Sandy. Who had paid her dues and got nothing. Who had been tortured and ravaged and brought to a mess. Who lost as much as her, maybe more, and the only small thing she had was this fucking murdering girl. She was owed more than this. Was she going to go after her girlfriend and kill her, and feel good saying "well, you shouldn't have fucking went after my friend?"

No. Mindy'd hand were not clean. She murdered Shion. She'd killed Pruna before. She'd killed Sandy. Did she really want to be like these people, some asshole that killed and justified it with some bullshit reasoning?

Mindy turned to the two of them.

"That joke was fucking terrible Dave. And your girlfriend's a fucking bitch, Sandy."

She sighed, and lowered the knife. "Fuck it. I'm leaving."

[justoutrunyou]

Sandy winced when she saw the can collide with Pruna's head and the girl knocked off her feet. Instinct and a flash of hot rage found her mercilessly slamming her pointy little elbow into Dave's poor unsuspecting belly.

"I said aim between them you idiot!" She admonished in a aggravated tone before scampering over to see if Pruna had a concussion. On the way she caught Mindy's words of concession from the battle and rolled her eyes.

"You're just as bad as she is and you know it."

Finally she got to Pruna and positioned herself between Pruna and the others in case the little assassin wasn't quite ready to give up the battle.

This entire situation was a screwed up mess and Sandy couldn't help but wonder if Clementine hadn't gotten the easy way out.

[shenunigans]

While Dave had hoped that the can would lay more damage on Pruna than Mindy, he hadn't precisely intended for it to hit her in the head like that. He can't really care too much when it seems to have gone as planned, so he's dusting off his hands when Sandy elbows him hard in the stomach. The surprise of it is enough to knock the wind out of him for a moment, forcing him to brace against the wall for a moment and giving Mindy time to escape his line of vision entirely.

"What the fuck?" He spits out at Sandy, straightening up even though she's scampering off to her friend's side. "Oh boohoo, sorry that your shitstain of a murder pal got smacked in the face with a bin. Have my sincere fucking apologies in the form of some lively hand gestures." He flips them off. A lot.

"Fuckin' bye." He turns his back on the girls, wasting no time striding out of the scene and away from it all so he can properly feel bad about Clem and not worry about kid drama.

[knifewithnoname]

Pruna was trying to get up, angry that Mindy got the last word, that Dave had hit her and stopped the fight. But she couldn't fight Sandy, couldn't hurt Sandy and so the moment she got in front of her she stopped, ice skate coming down to her side. She didn't even return the gestures Dave was making, just glared at him over Sandy's shoulder, she would get revenge on him and Mindy. They were both stupid heads.

Once he left her glare fell onto Sandy, "And do you be being mad with me as well?"

[justoutrunyou]

Sandy's face was a scowl which melted away into exhaustion.

"No, you did what you had to to save my life." She conceded and gently put her arms around Pruna curling her fingers in the girls shirt in a desperate hug. Sandy gave a slight shiver.

"If Mindy and Dave couldn't see that then they're idiots." She added trying to justify the whole thing to herself and failing miserably.

She wanted to be mad at Pruna but how could she? Mindy would have attacked her anyway. And Pruna defended herself as anyone should have expected her to.

It was just another depressing example of Pruna's ruthless sense of logic.

[knifewithnoname]

Pruna nodded, she had done, she had stopped Sandy from dying and Dave and Mindy were stupid head idiots. Her arms faltered for a moment and then she wrapped them around Sandy in return, hugging back just as desperately. Sandy was safe, it was alright. She would just have to avoid Mindy and Dave, two more people who definitely wanted to kill her now, instead of just probably wanting to kill her.

After a moment of hugging she let go, walking over to where the escalator was. The body, or remains of the body, hadn't been removed yet. They would have to leave before it was. The sight didn't seem to bother Pruna, she had seen worse. She crouched down, "May the gods be watching over you Clementine." As an assassin she used to pray over every kill, but now, here after the first arena she had stopped. Her gods didn't work here and when everyone just woke up again it seemed weird. But it felt right here. "And may your soul be being reborn in darkness."

She realised as she stood up that in her shock and confusion she had never prayed for her sister, she hoped someone had. Kant maybe. She turned to walk away, Sandy was free to follow her or not.

[justoutrunyou]

Sandy watched in stunned silence. She had never seen Pruna say those words over someone she had killed in the arena. She couldn't remember Pruna showing any kind of regret over a victim before.

With her stomach twisted in knots and one last bitter glance at the blood soaked gears of the escalator, Sandy made to follow Pruna away from this place. It would be another long quiet night for the two of them likely.