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Tweak says, "WEEZY"

Benny (bornhumantoo) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2013-01-06 23:17:00

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benny, ellen harvelle

WHO: Benny Lafitte & Ellen Harvelle
WHAT: Benny came across a bunch of straggling locals who were somehow banged up but still alive. He took them to the one place nearby that he knew might actually be able to help.
WHERE: The Roadhouse
WHEN: January 6th; Afternoon
RATING: PG-13
STATUS: In Progress

EXTERMINATE!

The wisk of the Dalek laser overhead as enough to get Benny eager to leave the area. He'd patched up the locals that he'd come across as best as he could, but there was only so much that a vampire with limited supplies on his person could do especially when they were pinned down in a virtual warzone. "Go, go, go!" Benny shouted, shoving each of the locals that he'd found out across the area that he'd pointed out as the most sheltered for them to escape through. The second that the last was out, Benny turned to follow them, barely dodging another laser blast as it winged past him.

The jerk and evaporation of a body in front of him would have stalled him if he had been a weaker man, if he hadn't seen hundreds of people fall, if he hadn't killed many of them himself, and the shout of his voice to keep going to the others as the showed the signs of hesitating rang out over the shrill cries of the Daleks that they were leaving behind. They'd lost one. They'd lost one, but Benny had figured that he would be lucky to get out of there and out into the open with half the group, much less only one death, and as he shouted out directions, herding the locals down the street and around a corner as the Daleks gave chase, he couldn't help but think that he'd actually done pretty well as far as things went.

The Roadhouse wasn't the closest building to where they had run off. There were plenty of others buildings that they could have hidden in along the way, but Benny knew out there that they would have been as much sitting ducks as they had been in the alleyway that he'd first stumbled across them crouching in. But as he approached the perimeter of the building, Benny felt a quiet relief flood into him. They would be safe here. And he could at least rest for awhile before heading back out.

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bornhumantoo
2013-01-08 03:30 am UTC (link)

Taking his gun when it handed back to him, Benny turned on his heel to follow Ellen as she stepped out of the safety of the bar and into the danger zone. They were keeping things at bay, but Benny couldn't help but wonder just how many close calls that they had had doing so, or even how many people that they'd lost keeping the injured that they were sheltering safe. Shifting his shotgun as they turned around the perimeter, pointing it out at their surroundings, he couldn't help but notice how any noise had seemed to fall away. Even the scuffle that you would expect to hear from the raids a few blocks away wasn't loud enough to overhear. Benny was sure that they would have fallen back, taken on other targets, unless--

The sound of the Dalek mechanical voice hit his ears a second later, his gaze locking with Ellen's as they fell back into the shadows. He'd brought them right to the door, even if it did only sound like one at the moment, it could easily double if they didn't take it out before it called the others.

Cocking his shotgun, Benny pointed out to the open area. It would help if they pulled it off the bar, directed its fire elsewhere, and even as vulnerable as he was to the Daleks' lasers if they were able to get a bead on him, he would still move quick enough to stay one step ahead if he kept alert. Maybe if he did, Ellen would manage to take it out. All he had to do was pull its attention to that area first. Raising his shotgun, Benny aimed at the building across the street, glancing back at Ellen to make sure that she was all right with him taking this course, before firing.

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roadhousehbic
2013-01-12 07:39 pm UTC (link)

If Ellen had her picks of who she wanted to be stuck beside during a fight with an alien who was damn hard to kill and hell bent on killing them first, a vampire wouldn't have been on that list. Nevermind that this particular vampire was friends with Dean, or even that he did seem - so far, at least - to really walk the line between his nature and what was right. The fact was, Benny was a vampire and Ellen had been in the business of hunting for too long to give up her issues with his kind overnight. She didn't trust them, didn't trust him, but damn if she didn't have her back against the wall with no clear way out without relying on him.

Fortunately for both her, as well as Benny, Ellen might have her reservations, but she was far from stupid. Also, she really didn't want to die. Which meant that, when Benny made his gesture to indicate his plan, she did the only thing she could really do. She shoved aside all of her doubts about him, ignored the small voice in her head whispering that he was going to bolt and leave her there to fend for herself, and gave a nod of agreement.

As soon as he was on the move, Ellen was as well. Not following after him, of course, but rather pushing away from the wall and stepping just enough around the corner to line up her shot. At that moment, as far as she was concerned, everything seemed to drop into slow motion. She could see Benny hauling ass out of the corner of her eye, saw the Dalek swivel in his direction and begin screeching its trademark call, and then finally, finally heard the sound she'd been waiting for.

The low hum of the thing's weapon about to fire.

Knowing she only had one shot, and that the odds were stacked about as far against her as they could be, Ellen exhaled slowly, lined the Dalek's eyestalk up in her sights and, in that instant before it fired - which was pretty much the only time she'd ever found it to have any sort of weakness to exploit - she pulled the trigger.

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