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Zack Fair (herosheart) wrote in silverage,
@ 2011-07-18 15:39:00

Entry tags:

!log, susan pevensie, zack fair

Who: Zack Fair and OPEN
When: Monday, July 18, late afternoon
Where: a conveniently deserted alley somewhere in Manhattan
What: Zack is confused and needs explanations.
Rating: TBD, probably some reference to recent intense violence
Status: Open, in progress

The truth was, it was pretty easy to confuse Zack. He was a fairly straightforward man, and while he was far from unintelligent, he didn't have much of a mind for intrigue or mystery. The trait came with being the sort of person who liked to give others the benefit of the doubt. Zack Fair, at the end of the day, wanted to believe in people. He wanted to believe in the intrinsic goodness of his fellow human beings.

So, really, it shouldn't have been a surprise that Zack was very confused at the moment. He could have sworn he'd just been in the middle of the worst fight of his life (which was saying something, considering he'd fought Sephiroth), and now he was standing in the middle of a deserted alley with no one else in sight.

"Huh. Weird."

Zack raised his free hand to check for head injuries, just in case, although if he were hallucinating, he probably wouldn't hallucinate the injury responsible in the first place. Nope. No headwounds. His arm hurt, though. He glanced down and scowled as he realized that he'd caught a bullet with it. That was the problem with SOLDIER enhancements. You didn't always realize you were hurt until well after the fact.

Still, his biggest worry wasn't how many bullet holes he might be sporting this time, or if everything around him was real or a figment of his imagination. His biggest worry was Cloud--specifically, where Cloud had gotten to. The kid hadn't been in any shape to go anywhere on his own when Zack had tucked him behind the shelter of some boulders, so where was he now?

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	herosheart 2011-07-24 10:01 pm UTC (link)
	"Huh." Zack blinked. "So, sort of like a text message, but with paper." He guessed that was okay. He'd try the boards, definitely. They might give him a few leads. "About the bus ... are they going to throw me off for having this sword? I noticed no one else is carrying weapons." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

_believeinmagic
2011-07-27 05:02 am UTC (link)

"Text message?" Susan asked. "You mean like a telegram? Or Morse? I suppose one doesn't need a paper for Morse code."

He was definitely confusing.

"They might, they might not," Susan said. "We're coming up on my place; I'll give you a bus token, and if they don't let you on, you can just buzz me and ... we'll figure something out." She would rather pay for his hotel room than let him - mostly his sword - stay with her.

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herosheart
2011-07-27 02:13 pm UTC (link)

"Thanks. I appreciate all of this." Zack really did. He'd been on the run for so long that the simple experience of walking somewhere with someone who didn't have the potential to turn him over to Shinra for another four years in the lab was a relief, even if he was still worried about Cloud.

"If there's ever anything I can do to pay you back, let me know, okay? I mean it."

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