not_an_oreilly (not_an_oreilly) wrote in the_dome, @ 2013-07-13 12:20:00 |
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Entry tags: | #group-scene, 04-05-2017, avery, darcy, eily |
Rounding Up the Girls
Who: Avery, Darcy, Eily
Where: walking to the hospital
When: Just after dawn
Eily had done her running with Nic, saved a handful of people, run over one wolf, and done her level best to keep her shit together. Then, when it was starting to get light out, she called it, exhausted, even if she was heading to get the girls. She had Nic drop her off at her house, so she could grab Darcy then they could walk, collect Avery, and go to the hospital together.
When she walked in the door of the other O'Reilly house, she called for Darcy. "We're heading to the hospital! Let's get going!"
Darcy was awake, sitting in the kitchen when Eily came in. She'd been pissed at her cousin but after texting with Liam she had a better idea of what was going on and Eily's declaration of where they were going just confirmed what had kept Darcy up most of the night. "Who's hurt?" She asked as she met her cousin, already pulling on a pair of her shoes the were by the door. She'd fallen asleep in her clothes for what little sleep she'd gotten, so there wasn't a need to do more than pull on shoes.
Already back out the door, she answered. "Patrick and Lochlan." she said. "They're going to be fine. I don't think they're awake yet, but they're going to be okay, just...probably sore, and in need of care for a while. They'll live." She realized by the time she finished that she'd been repeating the point a few times too many, but she needed that to happen. And she did have some assurances from the hospital that their wounds were recoverable. They'd heal, and no one was going to lose a limb or anything, but still.
It took Darcy a couple of steps before she followed, pulling the door shut behind her and locking it. “Both of them?” she asked, voice pitching up higher than usual. She didn’t like her family, but she didn’t want them to get hurt. Get out of her hair, but in the hospital? Not so much. “Why didn’t you say that earlier?”
"Because I know you girls, and I know if you knew that then, you'd be doing very stupid things. That, and I was busy saving people." Eily answered, biting her tongue on a tirade that was really best left unsaid. She knew now wasn't the time, even if she really wanted to explode, here.
“Stupid like helping you save people?” Darcy asked, not able to help the bite in her tone. More than being annoyed with Eily and her whole attitude, assuming that Darcy and Avery would do something stupid and not something helpful like she had, Darcy was afraid. Eily had said they’d be okay a lot. Completely more than necessary. It made Darcy wonder if maybe she was trying to convince herself more than she was trying to convince Darcy.
"Stupid like try to make it to the hospital in a wolf infested town." Eily said. "And no, I wasn't going to expose you to any of that. The only reason I was involved in the first place was because half of the paramedic team had been killed earlier tonight. So, no way in hell was I going to have you girls doing the same thing."
Darcy wrapped her arms around herself, frowning. “We could have done something,” she said, voice quieter and not as angry, but still unamused. “We’re not helpless.” Well, maybe Avery, but Darcy didn’t say that. Her cousin wasn’t useless, she knew that, it was just hard to not think that immediately, no matter how untrue.
"No, you aren't. But there's a huge difference between being not helpless and throwing the only family that didn't have a brush with death tonight into the fray." Eily snapped. She heard her own frustration in her tone, and again the idea that both girls pretty much hated her drifted back to the forefront of her mind. Though Darcy seemed to hate all of them, so there was that. Every time she thought about it, it made her blood boil. So many people out there were left with no family at all. And Darcy chose to shit all over hers and whine about it. Eily didn't take it well. At least she stopped herself where she did, instead of going off on a tangent.
Darcy wasn't surprised to hear that Eily was frustrated with her. That was normal wasn't it? Darcy had a feeling her cousin hated her too, but who could blame her? It wasn't like Darcy was her sister. And yet, here Eily was, forced to play older sibling or mother figure. "I'd rather do something than nothing or wait." It was quieter, almost under her breath.
Eily bit her tongue literally for a moment, as they walked slightly faster. "Can't you not make everything about you, just for today?" she asked, though this time she sounded less frustrated and more flat. "Just take the mature route, for two seconds? Or think about others, for once?"
How the actual hell was Darcy supposed to think about others when she'd been left alone. Didn't that fact that she wanted to help explain her point of view? She didn't want to be left out, didn't want to be the only one not doing something. Even Liam got to work at the hospital. Maybe she should do that instead of waiting tables at the bar. "Fine."
Falling silent, Eily kept that up until they got to the place Avery had specified. "Avery!" she called as she knocked on the door. She wanted this to get done, and fast. Then at least she could have her family all in one spot, and go from there. The girls could see the guys, and...and things would be okay.
Avery was ready, pacing anxiously inside her friend Laurie's house until the knock came at the door. She said a quick goodbye and hurried to the door, throwing it open to see Eily and Darcy standing there. Stepping outside, Avery shut the door as carefully as she could behind her, although concern etched her face and her heart was beating hard. "What's going on?" she asked, not ready to hear bad news. She had texted Lochlan a few times earlier with no response, which hadn't helped the cold ball of dread that had formed in her stomach.
Darcy was hanging back, not wanting to bombard Avery. When she asked Darcy opened her mouth to answer, but held it back at the last second. They were Avery and and Eily's brothers, and as her mother would have said, it wasn't Darcy's place to open her mouth and deliver the news.
"Both Patrick and Lochlan got attacked last night by the wolves. They're both going to be okay." Because I say so, and the universe better not defy me on this. "Let's...go though, get there as soon as we can. You girls can maybe get breakfast, I don't even know when they'll be awake." Eily answered.
"Oh my god." Paling, Avery tried not to let her mind drift toward bloody, morbid images of her brother and cousin, though she wasn't terribly successful. Her appetite was suddenly nonexistent, but she nodded anyway and began to chew nervously on a fingernail as she fell into step beside her cousins. If Lochlan wasn't okay, Eily would have told her right then, so Avery did her best not to panic, or vomit for that matter.
Darcy watched Avery change completely and it left her frowning again. Yes, she mostly despised her cousin, but the girl was still her cousin. And chewing on her nails was doing no one any good. So Darcy reached out and pulled at Avery’s hand, taking it away from her teeth and holding on to it. See? She could be nice. Even to someone as annoying as Avery. “You heard Eily. He’s gonna be fine. They both will.” God, she hoped Eily was right. Enough of them had been lost already and Darcy had a good feeling Avery wouldn’t survive Lochlan being dead.
Eily made brief eye contact with Darcy, giving the girl a nod of approval, and there was a note of gratefulness to her gaze. "It'll be fine." she promised again, then turned to head them to the hospital, wanting them all there as fast as possible.