fuck chipmunks
who: autumn and mazie where: autumn's chambers when: during the attack
Autumn had been having a freaking awesome time at the festivities, right up until everything went to hell in a handbasket in, like, no time at all. She was herded along with a group of other ladies back into the castle as quickly as possible, and Autumn spotted Mazie in the crowd. She ran over to grab her and pull her along with the others. She would have grabbed anyone else she recognized too, but Mazie was it for the moment.
Mazie had been just fine, happily chomping on the ends of another turkey let, but what she hadn't expected was that hoard of chipmunks to go ballistic and attack her. She was littered with scratches and small bites when Autumn grabbed her and she didn't protest against the grabbing, just the monsters that were attacking her. "Fuck you, chipmunk bullshits!" Once inside with Autumn, Mazie calmed a little but not nearly enough. Her eyes were wild still, fueled with rage. "What the hell just happened?! I got hit with a wave of angry chipmunks??"
As ridiculous as it was, and it was ridiculous, Autumn was concerned because from what she saw, Mazie was bleeding. Like, from a ton of little injuries. Shit. That wasn't good. Still being moved along, she was being shouted at to get to her room, an order she didn't hesitate to comply with. “This way!” she said, pulling Mazie along with her until they got up the steps, and down a long hallway to get to her quarters.
Mazie followed along with Autumn, mostly just glad to be out of the line of vision of those damn chipmunks. She looked down at her arms and glared at the blood there. "I might get rabies. Do chipmunks have rabies? Do they carry rabies? I don't want a million shots in my stomach, man!"
“Calm down!” Autumn said, giving Mazie's arm a squeeze. “It'll be fine,” she said, voice firm. She had no idea if chippies carried rabies, or anything else for that matter, but she knew freaking out about it right now was a bad idea. So, she got Mazie into her quarters, then shut the door, wishing it locked. Or, maybe it did, and she just didn't know how to do that. Either way, she moved a heavy chair in front of the door, then looked back to the blonde. “Honey, sit down,” she told her.
Mazie was barely paying attention. She followed Autumn into the room and just started surveying her wounds, pulling and pushing at skin to try and see how deep the bites and scratches with. “Fucking monsters…” She murmured, looking back at the chair when Autumn settled it in front of the door. Sighing, she moved to plop down into the chair, frowning at her knees. “Rodents suck."
“Yeah,” Autumn agreed, concerned. She went to pour a little water from the pitcher on a far table into a bowl, then grabbed a small cloth. Walking over, she got onto her knees, and started washing away blood wherever she saw it.
Mazie hadn’t expected her anger to diffuse so quickly when she saw Autumn there, washing away at the blood. It gave her a flashback to when she’d scraped her knees up as a kid and her mother had dabbed at them with warm water to clean out any dirt. She settled in the chair and just watched Autumn for a long moment. “Thanks for grabbing me out there. I was kind of hoping to go down in a blaze of glory somehow, not get taken out by chipmunks so...Thanks,” She repeated, giving a soft smile to Autumn. “You think I’m gonna make it, Doc?”
Autumn looked up at Mazie and gave her a soft little smile, then went back to her work. “Blazes of glory are overrated,” she told her. “And yeah. You'll make it,” she said. Though she was worried about it. She was thinking Mazie needed...she didn't know. Antibiotics? Just in case? She wasn't sure, she wasn't a medical professional. But she didn't want to make the situation worse, because they couldn't do anything about it right now. So she kept up what she was doing, moving to start cleaning Mazie's right hand. “So, I'll never be able to watch Alvin and the Chipmunks again,” she said, injecting slight amusement into her voice.
“You’ll never be able to watch Alvin and the Chipmunks again? I got attacked by Alvin,” She said as she pointed to her leg, “Theodore,” she pointed to her arm, “And…shit, what’s the other one’s name?” How could she forget? Maybe she could blame it on slight chipmunk trauma?
Autumn smiled, wiping more blood away. "Simon," she provided. "And I know, your chipmunk horror was far more brutal than mine, but think about how I feel," she continued, hoping this was getting Mazie's mind off of things. "Now I am going to be plagued by bad dreams about the hottest blonde I've seen in years being nipped up by chippies!" She said dramatically.
Mazie did a doubletake, definitely sure she’d heard something wrong. She looked down at Autumn and tried to replay her words, thinking that yeah, she definitely heard what she thought she heard. “Are you blind?” She asked in a knee-jerk reaction that had her wincing internally. She was probably supposed to accept the compliment, but there was no way in hell Mazie was the hottest blonde Autumn had seen in years. No way, not with Autumn’s job that took her to Fiji to hang out with hot people.
Autumn smirked faintly. “No, I'm not, and if no one has ever told you that before, the world is a very weird place,” she told Mazie. “Because you are beautiful, and tough, and have a great stance for your frame, and it's just all a great package.”
Mazie was floored. She wasn’t around someone long enough for them to get a chance to tell her anything about her physique, and when she was it was mostly ‘Why haven’t you showered in X days?’ She blinked again, taking a good, long moment to really process Autumn’s words, and then ended up smiling a little as her words got away with her. “Maybe you just have a thing for girls from the wrong side of the tracks.” Not that she was really a Wrong Side of the Tracks kind of girl, but she definitely wasn’t something anyone had taken home to Mom before. And…oh shit, that was kind of flirting, right? Had she just flirted?
“Maybe I just have a thing for strong women,” Autumn said, winking at her. “Or maybe I just find you highly interesting, and very definitely want to spend more time with you,” she suggested. Autumn wasn't a shy person. She couldn't be, not in her line of work, so it made her a little forward. But she found it worked for her.
And while Mazie would normally have been put off by this, even the Mole-Woman she was was finding it very, very hard to think of anything other than spending more time with Autumn. “Ok,” She said, a grin spreading on her lips. “I mean…yeah, let’s hang out more.” Maybe Autumn would even come back to the hotel, which was super selfish of Mazie to hope for but maybe she could afford herself a little selfishness now and again. “So I get to stay here with you tonight, right? Because I am not going back out there to Night of the Living Chipmunks.” And because it was one step closer to getting to be near Autumn more.
“You get to stay here,” Autumn said, smiling. “We’ll be safe. Tomorrow, we’ll figure things out from there,” she assured her.