Who: Dave and Neil!!! What: Dave reveals Neil knocked him u--Wait...what? Chance meeting :3 Where: Near a church. When: Early afternoon Rating: PG Status: Complete
There was a very limited happiness scale within the refugee camps, no matter how amicable relationships were steadily becoming. Hostilities were diminishing as far as Neil could tell, as long as he didn't study Daniel and Charlie too closely, but that alone didn't mean the group would toss on some daisy chains and dance merrily through the streets while singing kumbaya. They were all still practical even as personal improvements marginally boosted Neil's outlook. Things were okay, but they had been fucking perfect before. Comparatively.
It wasn't very often, but Neil sometimes needed to escape from the camp. Today happened to be one of those times, and without a patrol to scurry off and join, he packed up everything he'd need, checked his weapons, particularly his rifle (Innes was right to think a name should be granted to the gun) and then set off. He'd left a note on Spider's pillow as a courtesy, but that was it. From there, Neil was off.
The idea was a pretty futile one, but he wanted to search for ammunition anyway. Innes was typically the one to do this. He had a greater success rate. Still, Neil saw no harm in it, and eventually he found himself with a few boxes of ammo, three working watches, and a startling closeness to a church. Clearly the looming structure had been there when Neil searched the pawn shops, but he'd somehow ignored it.
Kind of impossible to ignore now, though. He knew the person heading into the church, and after a few moments of careful observation, he also realized Dave Maguire was out and about on his own. Seriously? Did Ted have a fucking brain? Neil was feeling a little giddy as he quietly entered the church, taking in every visible inch to check for additional bodies, a set of guards keeping watch over Dave, anyone. But it was just Dave poking around. Dave being Dave. Did he get points taken away for throwing a 'fucking' into his thanks to God while standing in a church? Probably. Oh well. "You're really easy to sneak up on, Dave." He couldn't think of anything else to say. Neil did, however, have the sense to grin like a moron.