Sweet Ruptured Light[Alex]

Alex had been rather hesitant about leaving Henley. Not only because of the luck he'd been having on these raids, with the past two ending up with getting himself injured along with others, but instead it was the fact that two of his family members made it to the haven. The thought of leaving both of his sisters behind made him cringe, but if the sheriff sent him out, well there was really nothing he could do about it. He His mind wandered back to a few nights ago when he got the notice that he was going back out on a raid, he shook while telling his sisters. He woke up early that morning to avoid seeing either of them as he left. The last thing he wanted was they're worried faces stuck in his head. He would make it back to them, Lily needed his help more than anyone right now and he wasn't going to let zombies get the best of him.

The dirt crunched beneath his boots as he strode over toward the outside gate and the familiar sounds of packing and gun checks echoed in his brain. He had his hands shoved in his pockets and his head down against the wind. He had a red cap pulled over his head, a thick maroon hoodie with a black leather jacket over top of it. He knew about the storm that was going to blow in, and something in him felt uneasy about it. Worst come to worst they have to stay outside Henley for the night, but just the thought and he knew if it had happened he wouldn't sleep at all. His hands were gloved, but the fingers cut off to make sure he'd be able to use the gun properly. With his mind bitterly distracted, he didn't look up from where he was walking, but instead focused on his breathing. He could see each jet of breath release and dissipate into the air with every exhale and he tried to think of nothing else while walking toward the truck.

Once he got closer, the voices registered and he finally found the energy to look up and see the people he'd be working with. When his heavy eyes landed on Lydia, he stopped and his face changed slightly. She was someone he'd bonded with in a strange way, and he could honestly say he was glad she was coming along with him. He needed someone to talk to, and he found it rather easy to just relax around her. With a chilly gust of wind, Alex let a small smile develop over his features. "Long time no see. You ready to get snowed in?" He said this rather sarcastically, but in all seriousness it could be a huge possibility. He stepped next to her and smirked, having to look down to see her face. "So who's running the show this time around?" He said rather monotone. The tall hunter had not the patience nor the energy to take the role of captain on this raid. He wanted to get in and get out and hopefully not die in the process....

His blue eyes caught the spark in her eyes when she looked up and smiled at him, and he smirked back at her. "Just making sure you still had enough in you to boss us guys around....Not that I really doubted it faded." He said with a sly smile. The tall hunter looked down at his boots and wiggled his toes, they weren't exactly slippers, but he felt as if they'd keep him more warm than slippers would anyhow. His head snapped up toward the man who screamed red. His brows knit together for a second, and then he arched one while his eyes fell down to Lydia with a questionable look on his face, but he didn't say a word. He saw her jaw slid forward and instantly a smile fell over his face that lit up his otherwise tired features. His teeth shown in this smile and he held back the urge to laugh, this raid would be fun.

"After you my dear." He said raising his eyes to see the other hunter almost drooling over Lydia's backside. As she climbed into the truck, Alex stood where he was and eyed the man, his smile fading and a more serious look crossed it. Something more along the lines of intimidating before he pulled his sunglasses down over his face and made sure he had the passenger seat next to Lydia. He swung into the truck and tried to make himself comfortable before looking behind into the bed of the truck. "I wish I'd come earlier to help pack, I hate not knowing if we have everything or not." He grunted slightly, shifting himself again in the seat.

He trusted Lydia to drive, and always would. Ever since the first raid they went on and the way she drove the truck to get them out a live he couldn't doubt her. He let his eyes slid closed and he thought about the hunter who obviously was trying to impress Lydia. Alex was silent once again, the beast of a man wasn't going to start something, he didn't own Lydia and he was sure she could fight her own battles. The other scavenger was quiet, and Alex instantly liked him because of it. He didn't have a problem with the other hunter so far, but he was sure by the end of the trip he'd want to strangle the guy, that's if Lydia hadn't done it already. His voice was the only thing he heard the whole ride, telling Lydia things she already knew, like how to drive a certain way or brake, oh and the directions even though they'd been driving on one road almost the entire time. Every time he heard Lydia snap at the man and her heavy sighs, he couldn't help but let a smile slip across his face. [/div]

Alex always felt as if he was entering into a different world when they came to they're destination, where ever that may be now a days. Alex pulled his red cap down farther over his brow before opening the door to the parked truck. Stepping out, his boots crunched slightly on the thin layer of snow and the wind seemed to wait for him to step outside the vehicle before it blasted him. With a sour look on his face he watched the two strangers separate from himself and Lydia. He wasn't sure if he felt like playing nice to someone new today, so he was glad Lydia wanted to side with him for the time being, that and he have been offended if she chose Steve over himself anyway.

Stepping toward her, he was doing the usual check of his weapons. The shotgun was strapped to his back along with an assault rifle. He had rows of ammo and several different knives strapped to him. Though he favored the gun, he knew it would be better to save it for later. Nodding at the small red head, he withdrew two different knives from his belt and arched a brow at her. "I think it would be easier that way." He smirked before letting her move toward them first. Alex learned real fast from the last raid how different she was from most scavengers. Sure, she did her job, but at the same time made it hard for the hunters to do their's because she knew how to kill just as well as they did. She didn't hide this fact either, so Alex thought of her as more of a partner than someone he had to protect.

The zombies had been so distracted by the dead animal before them, both Alex and Lydia were able to get within feet from them without them even noticing. The hunter moved first and in one bound he stabbed one of the infected right in the side of the temple, dropping it. He bounced back when the others took notice of him and jumped his way. Alex was still living, which meant he was desirable to these freaks. He threw his second knife at the second zombie, catching the thing right in the eye and as it fell it tripped the other viral. The blonde smiled at his good fortune and let the other one feel Lydia's wrath. Surely she'd take out her anger for Steve on the viral, that was always a good stress reliever. He stood quietly to wait for her next instructions, his breath forming white puffs in the cold air....

Alex felt a slight stir in his stomach at her instructions. As sexual as it might have been he didn't mind taking orders from her. His tongue went dry for a second at the thought of it and then he picked up on what she was saying about Steve and a smile slid over his face that resembled her's. "And I honestly think only Steve will object to that." He said this with a slight sting to his tone. He hardly knew the man, and didn't mean to judge him so harshly... but in the past couple hours Alex was pretty sure he didn't want to get to know the rest of that man. Alex could be some what of a lady's man, but he didn't need to hang all over woman just to get some like that man probably did, and when a woman wasn't interested he could tell much faster than Steve seemed to.

Alex took steps toward her, his gait was much longer than her own so it only took a few strides to be up along side her. It didn't take long for him to realize he was digging her for more than a killing partner. Whether it was because it had been dry for him sex wise for the past couple of weeks, or he actually was forming some sort of fond feelings for the red head he wasn't sure. The tall hunter kept these feelings to himself and even repressed them more so now while they were on a raid. The last thing he needed was a hard on and have her giving him a weird look. Rubbing the back of his neck, Alex did his best to think about something else before nodding to her voice.

They hadn't run into anything else while in route to the general store. They walked along an over grown road, toward a rather large building. It hadn't been too far from the town houses so if it got really bad they could make it back to the houses before they got snowed in. They really didn't talk much while walking closer to the store. He really had nothing to talk about, all he could think about was his family that had found him and that was really all he wanted to talk about... but he knew this would upset her. Not everyone was as lucky as he'd been.

The doors weren't locked, and this almost made Alex more nervous, but he backed Lydia up as she went inside. "Let's just try not to have a replay to the last raid please." He said almost sourly, but at the same time he knew it wasn't her fault all of that happened. Pulling his shot gun up from around his shoulder he cocked it and had it at he ready while he eyed up the different aisles. A lot of stuff had already been picked clean, but the hunter didn't doubt found at least some things.

He was finding himself walking more than closely behind her, he was practically on top of her. His caution level had risen higher than normal, and way higher than on other missions. He'd known Lydia better than anyone on the raids now. He felt a bigger need to protect her, and that could potentially be a bad thing in the long run. With his blue eyes probably scanning the same exact places Lydia's green ones did, he stayed behind her and kept his guard up while she started to fill her bag. He did get a good glance or two at her backside (lol!), but ultimately was distracted by the constant little noises around him that forced him to think about other things, more of the dangerous kind of things.

It wasn't until Lydia offered him candy did his guard drop somewhat. His blue eyes scanned her child-like face for a moment, he saw it in her eyes. It was quick and was gone before it really stayed, but he saw it. It was enough to pull a smile across his face slightly. She had so much hiding behind those eyes it would be a miracle if he'd ever figure her all out. He shook his head and let her stuff some candy into her bag before they moved on. Staying quiet was something Alex surprisingly knew how to do when he really was focused. This was one of those times since any noise could mean live of death for them out here.

They went down one more aisle before Lydia heard something. The hunter hadn't heard a thing, but quickly got into attack mode after the scavenger claimed something was around. He followed her after failing at keeping her behind him, he was so close that his body brushed up against her back every now and again when she stopped. It got down to the point where Alex was right by her side as they came up to the store door. He was on the other side of the door as she went to reach for the handle, he gave her a look with those strong blue eyes and then let his eyes slid closed for a moment. When she pushed open the door, Alex flew in after her, his blue eyes catching whatever movement there was. The nose of his gun hit flesh and for whatever reason he waited for the commotion in the room to settle before he shot. And for whatever reason the fellow scavenger and Steve's lives was spared. The tall hunter growled slightly as he looked down the barrel of his gun to see the other scavenger's face, the end of the barrel pressed under the man's chin. He looked more than shocked, in fact he looked as if he was going to cry. Alex's jaw jut slightly and he sighed heavily, pulling the gun away with a sharp movement and then shifting it's weight to his shoulder. "Well that could have ended badly." He said, glancing over to see what Lydia had done to Steve....

Alex eyed the scavenger for a moment before looking at the hunter on the ground, still red in the face and lying in his own agony. With a heavy sigh, Alex said with a gruff tone, "I hope you aren't doubting my protective nature." Alex said this more so for everyone to hear before he too stepped over Steve, tossing the gun up over his shoulder once again. He watched Lydia and then eyed the ground while she spoke. What she said was true and he eyed the men one more time before they both shuffled they're way out of the small room, Steve seeming slightly off in his walking now that his balls had probably been kicked up into his stomach.

After a few seconds of silence Alex cleared his throat and blinked, making sure he was looking at the new found leader before speaking, "He wants it in your pants so badly, you know." He said this in a serious tone, and then cracked a small smirk a couple seconds later. Strapping his gun back to him, he arched his brow and then rubbed the back of his neck, "What know. We have a lot of ground to cover, but I figure I'd let you decide where to go next.... I don't want to be walking like Steve is." He said, wincing slightly at the thought.

The blond hunter had made it clear what room would he his for the night, it was farthest away from everyone, especially the other hunter who seemed to get more and more obnoxious as time went on. Alex was a friendly person in general, and he tried his best to tolerate people as best as he could. Sometimes things just got to a point where he decided it wasn't worth it to try and be nice anymore. This was one of those times. Growing up in North Carolina, Alex really wasn't used to that much snow. Sure, NC got some flurries now and then, but it was far enough south that storms like this didn't happen. So not to mention the storm which was already making his cranky, now he was cramped in a house with people. It wasn't the two scavengers that were bothering him, Steve had been the only one so far... but that was enough to send him into a tailspin. He slid past Steve for what seemed like the sixth time and the guy still continued to follow after him and ramble about more stupid things that he didn't care about. Assuming Alex wanted to be buddy bro's or something the dark haired hunter started talking about the last time he'd gotten laid and something else, Alex wasn't really listening but instead focusing on trying to keep the fire going in the furnace.

The man kept up his talking and his voice was starting to get old and fast. Blinking a few times, Alex let his eyes close for a few seconds before standing up from his crouch and turn toward the hunter who talked as much as a preteen after her first kiss. He towered over the guy, his blue eyes growing darker with each second that past. "Look, I don't care about the name of the last girl you fucked and whether she had a mole on her ass or not." His tone was agitated but Steve just laughed as if he was joking with a friend. "Oh you must just be jealous man, jeez... haven't gotten any lately or something?" Steve said joking nudging Alex's shoulder, pulling back with a hesitant laugh when Alex didn't move a muscle. He looked as if he might punch Steve to the floor, but instead he turned away and shook his head in an annoyed way. "No, I haven't, but I'm sure it won't be as hard for me as it must be for you.." He said over his shoulder as he walked out of the living room.

He needed to get away from the noise... which would only be Steve at this point so it wasn't too hard to get away from it. Walking down the hallway, he stopped for a second and tilted his head slightly. He heard the shower running and then it hit him. She was going to use all the hot water and he knew it. Muttering something under his breath he flew to the steps and ran up them two at a time. He didn't know the house all that well, and he almost ran past the bathroom, but instead skidded to a stop and turned the handle. The door was locked, so he turned the handle as much as possible and then threw his weight into it, breaking the lock easily. He jumped into the steamy bathroom and cried out in pure joy. "Sweet jesus it's nice in here!" He bellowed this on purpose to scare the shit out of her. Alex bit his lip and thought for a second or two how to get her out of the shower. "I hope your not planning on using all the hot water!" He said, taking a seat on the toilet with a grin plastered to his face.....