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Oh boy.. [01 Oct 2004|12:59am]
I was out doing zombie killing and I found the night cook from the diner just coming around on the ground in town. Something had hit him pretty hard.. but as he came around and got up, I knew something was totally wrong.

He was glazed and muttering like the rotting creeps out there. I lured him off behind the diner and took his head off, dumped him in the dumpster and went in the back to "help out" by taking out all their trash for them. They all were really happy to see me, I haven't working in quite a while. They said Slacker was covering grill tonight, but asked if I could come in a couple times a week till they got someone hired on permanently.

Apparently Jimmy didn't show or call a couple nights in a row.. he's covered in diner trash now, and he'll be hauled away to the dump in the morning. I hope no one finds him though, there's enough going on here without me being hauled off for murder.

I told 'em I'd be in, but I'm not happy about it. At least I can keep an eye on the rest of the outsiders though. Maybe I'll learn something while I do these shifts.. cause I'll be doubling as busser too.

Bleh!
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Dawn of the Not-Quite Dead [01 Oct 2004|01:14am]
William walked up to the door of the bookstore, checking the door. He knew the shop kept odd hours, but it was quite late. He just had the urge for some new reading. But alas, it seemed like another night of the same books.

Dawn, frustrated with the lack of help she received from her own small collection of occult books, decided to try the bookstore and see about a chance for success with her research into the local strangness happening. Likely she'd have to rely on some Watcher-sponsored booksite or the like for any deep information but it didn't hurt to try any and all local sources. Besides, this could be like the Hellmouth library and have the weird occult books mixed in with the more mundane stuff. Heading down the street from the opposite end, she gripped her machete and glanced around carefully for any more zombies in the vicinity. Without Connor or a Slayer at her side, she had to be doubly careful.

Recognition )

Zombies and Something Worse )

"Hm, yet another thing to research but from what I've seen I'd have to agree with you." Dawn winced as William dealt with the possessed, poor guy. She couldn't help but pity someone in that situation. "Yeah, I'm not a fan of sticking around either. Stay in one place for long and things just seem to gravitate towards you."

"I've noticed that. Well, Ms. Summers, it was nice to meet you. Get home safe." William looked down at the unconscious man and shook his head. I have to tell Emmeline about this, and warn Destiny. And then research some more. William pictured all the books that were lying on his desk and smiled a thoughtful grin. "Good evening."

"I will, home -or where I'm staying now- isn't that far from here." Dawn smiled and glanced the way she'd come. Well, now that the bookstore was closed there really wasn't any point in continuing along her original route. Might as well just call it a night. "You too, be careful." With that in mind, she waved and turned to head down the street, determined to stay alert to her surroundings.
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Guess Who? [01 Oct 2004|01:57am]
Dominick wasn't in the mood to cook. He had spent a lot of time at the hospital that day, happy that Claire was coming out of it. The thought of his kitchen wasn't appealing, but the diner wasn't either. However, the diner was close, and his stomach needed some sustenance.

Hannah walked from the register to the kitchen window, leaning through to check on the progress of an order. Verlie shoved two steaming plates at her, sloshing a bit of soup on Hannah's smock. She looked down at the stain and clamped her lips together. "...Thanks." In response, Verlie smiled and snapped her kitchen gloves. Hannah made her way to the rear of the restaurant, plates in hand.

Dominick eased the door open and glanced around the diner. They seemed pretty busy, but then, where else would everyone go? Especially since the Lighthouse Bar was closed because of Claire's injury. Dominick found a semi clean table in a corner and sank into the hard backed chair.

Hannah approached the new customer from behind, pulling out a pad of paper and a damp towel. She stopped a few steps behind him. Dominick...crap! Hannah looked down at the peach smock with its orange soup stain and rolled her eyes. Dressed to impress. Her steps took him to his side. "Welcome to the Nugget, where the service sucks and the food's not much better." She smiled. "Can I offer you some of our fine cuisine?"

Bloody Awful, It Is )

"Sounds good to me." She pushed herself up from the table and smoothed her skirt down. "Don't worry about the check, I got this one. We should really pay you to eat here, anyway." She smiled and winked at him.

Dominick grinned. "Thank you very much. And I must say, the service here is great." He'd leave her a hefty tip that would have covered more than just the meal. It was odd. He came in empty and hollow inside, needing food to fill himself up. Now, he was lighter than when he entered, but for an entirely different reason.
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This place.. [01 Oct 2004|04:28am]
[ mood | bitchy ]

Is getting a whole lot worse. The locals have started becoming possessed by the spirits that are making the dead walk. Andi was telling me how she killed the night grill cook from the diner earlier. I can't hold her at fault, we don't know yet if there's a way to get rid of these things without killing the host. But honestly..

So she's going to be working at the diner again for a while. She hasn't been working much at all, just going out hunting all the time in the dark, always coming back covered in gore.. some of it her own.

My Slayer has disappeared. What is it with me and people just vanishing into thin air? I'm very concerned. I've been out looking for her, but she seems to be gone without a trace. I suppose in this area, that's not hard to do. I just wonder if I'll see her wandering the streets, muttering what I have now learned is Hebrew. Strange.

I guess it's more searching for now.

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Days Gone By [01 Oct 2004|02:29pm]
[ mood | moody ]

How's this for a twist?

The locals are now being taken over by whatever is ravaging this town. The rotting bodies don't seem to be enough for this thing, it wants more victims and in doing so has taken over the locals. They're more aggressive before they become the walking dead? I can't really call them dead though considering they are alive, what are they exactly?

The beast is oddly quiet, it hasn't spoken to me in days. Whilst this is a relief, it's also worrying. The only time the beast has fallen silent is when there's something worse than it out there, when it knows it should be quiet.

Perhaps it is time for me to explore. I have lost my way, this town seems to be good for that. Distracting a person with horror after horror. I must find Isiah's killer and I must find it soon, his death must be avenged.

It is the only way.

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Amusing [01 Oct 2004|02:37pm]
[ mood | amused ]

It's amazing what a woman can find out when she has eyes and ears in the right places.

Searchlight appears to have become zombie central. I wonder how Tristan is dealing with all of that, I must say I have never seen a dead body rise and walk. It's a very strange sight but no stranger than all the others I have witnessed in my time. Perpetual darkness as well, I wonder how the residents are handling this new phenomena?

I'm certainly glad I chose to settle in Las Vegas despite the pull in my stomach. I was never the play nice with others type and I can't imagine what I would have done if I had gone to live in Searchlight. I can't say that I would have been bored, especially with the horrors as of late but I don't think a town like Searchlight is the one for me.

I never did like the locals of Searchlight.

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My Zombie Ate Your Honor Student [01 Oct 2004|02:46pm]
[ music | K's Choice-Virgin State of Mind ]

The past couple of days have been...interesting, to say the least. I'm still at Andi and Mich's place though I'm hoping the grant will be taken care of by next week. It'll be so nice to have a place of my own, I'm tired of feeling like a drifter.

Or just plain tired. Without much else to do until then, I've been taking to the streets to try and help keep the zombie population in check. At least I hope that's what is being accomplished, it would be a shame to have all that effort be for nothing. Actually, the last few nights out have been very worthwhile, mostly for the people I've had the chance of running into.

Of course I saw Connor again, had stop by his place to look through the books I couldn't carry with me before and see if there was anything useful to be had. Unfortunately, there wasn't that much. I didn't mind the time spent with Connor even if our research didn't really amount to anything, though. He seems to be so somber, but when I can get him out of that shell every so often that smile is just too cute for words. I'll say this for delayed roommating, it's given us just more time to focus on our email war. At least I have a new purpose in life, finding the strangest web sites and passing them along for his mental torture. Fun.

I also had the pleasure of running into not one but two Watchers. Well, not both at once but one night after the next. The first one I ran into was Matthew Stone, who was nice enough to chop a zombie head off for me when I wasn't looking. I swear, it must be a rule that anyone British I run into is either a Watcher or vampire, but I didn't mind in this case. He was very personable and granted me want I needed/wanted most, which was a little more in the way of answers. Normally I'm not interested in fame but I suppose being famous when it comes to the Council does have its perks, since he seemed to trust me enough to tell me what's going on. Of course, he did stare at me oddly once or twice, though that could have just been in reaction to my rambling. I know I talk a lot.

William Carruthers I met the night after when attempting to check out the bookstore for anything that would be useful in research. He recognized me also -big surprise- and we got to talking about the town's strange situation. Well, us talking, him fighting off whatever was sneaking up on me at the time. Something strange, though. We encountered one of the townspeople, only he didn't seem quite right. He had that glassy-eyed stare, though he chanted something in Hebrew and charged us. (Would that I knew Hebrew...now, if he was chanting in Italian, no issue there.) William brought it down and realized this wasn't just a zombie issue. There's definitely possession at work, which probably explains the eerie feeling everyone's been talking about when going near those guys.

Of course, all that leads to more questions than answers, but it's nice to have a start...

Research, zombies and flirting. This takes place before her running into William )

meeting Matthew: Dawn gets some answers and Matt gets to notice something interesting )

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Hard Nights [01 Oct 2004|03:10pm]
[ mood | working ]

------ Non Journal Entry ------

Kris was having one of those nights. The kind where nothing seemed to go right. She had been out patrolling and had taken care of at least five or six zombies and had made sure they weren't local before she removed their heads but still. She was covered in blood, some of it theirs and some of it hers, she had several bruises and cuts on her face and arms. Zombies were persistent that was for sure. Kris wiped the back of her hand across her forehead as she wandered down the street, her eyes raking across the very dark town. The brief thought of 'Maybe I should have brought a flashlight' crossed her mind before she simply ignored it and continued on.

She paused at the sound of a scream and she couldn’t help but smirk," And they just keep playing my song." She turned and sprinted to where the scream was coming from and she swallowed hard. Three vampires and at least three locals all possessed, oh boy, this was not going to be easy. When she looked for the victim, her eyebrow arched, a man could scream that high, who would have thought it? Once again, she jarred herself from her thoughts and moved in to help the man.

Her first kick connected with a vampire’s head, forcing it to stagger to one side. Her next kick caught one of the locals in the back of his knee, crumpling the leg out from beneath him. The next move made by her was a punch and this she threw directly at a female vampire’s face, it connected and blood soon gushed from her nostrils as she staggered back. And finally, she brought a punch down across one side of another local’s face, his neck snapped around and he soon slumped to the ground unconscious.

She now put herself between the living man and what remained of his attackers. One vampire and one local. She knew the others would recover soon enough, for the vampires she drew out a stake and for the locals, she kept one eye locked on them at all times." Feel free to run." She muttered to the cowering man behind her, he really didn’t need to be told twice and he soon bolted.

The vampire still standing moved to go after the man but Kris quickly put herself between him and his prey." Uh uh." She said simply before drawing her head back, it moved almost in slow motion before her head suddenly snapped back and her forehead drove into the vampire’s. The vampire howled and stumbled back a few paces. Kris winced at the pain now flaring throughout her head but ignored it in favour of kicking the vampire in the chest.  The vampire flew through the air before he came to a nice little stop alongside the rest of his friends.

Kris’ eyes now moved to the local reaching out for her and making that low moaning sound in the back of her throat. She was very tempted to just snap this local’s neck but she knew better than that and simply sidestepped the attempted grab. As she did, she caught a hold of the local’s arm, looped her leg around it and drove her boot into the back of the local’s head. The impact was more than enough to knock the other unconscious and the body dropped to the ground.

The tingle in her stomach flared and she let out a holler of pain as she felt fangs sinking into her neck and felt her own blood gushing from the inflicted wounds. She felt slightly dizzy for a moment before she regained her composure and drove the back of her head into the vampire’s face. The blow caused it to let go but as the fangs were ripped from the neck, they caused more damage to the wound on her neck, which meant more blood escaped. Kris hissed as she felt that happen and knew she had to get home as quickly as possible. Three vampires, one stake, she could do this.

She flipped the stake in her hand and walked back towards the vampires, she caught one fist, twisted the arm and bent the body back to expose the vampire’s chest. And then with little to no thought, she drove the stake down and into his chest; the vampire exploded into nothing more than dust. Kris was knocked off her feet by a kick to her stomach, her body literally lifted in the air before it crashed back down towards the ground.

Kris spat out some blood, ignoring the warm flow of it now escaping down the side of her neck. She twisted her body around on the ground, bringing her legs up through the air to trap the female vampire’s legs in her own before she yanked abruptly. This pulled the vampire off balance and whilst it was recovering from its less than elegant fall towards the ground, Kris moved in. She grabbed one of the vampire’s arms and flipped it onto its back before she drove the stake down into its chest and watched as the dust became one with the desert sand.

The last vampire lifted her and bared his fangs toward her, saliva dripping from the ends of them both, which won him a slight facial expression from Kris. Then with a grunt, she brought her legs up through the air and hooked them around the vampire’s neck. She braced her hands on his arms, using his hold on her to her advantage. Her legs tightened and then with a twist of her hips, his neck broke within her grip. As he dropped, Kris twisted her body in the air so she was able to land in a crouch. She didn’t stop there though, she turned and drove the stake through the vampire’s back, right into its heart and watched as it disintegrated into nothing more than dust in the wind.

Her eyes then tracked over to the locals still on the ground. She pulled out some duct tape from her pocket." I knew this would come in handy." The blood still gushed from the wound to her neck but Kris seemed to have forgotten it or was just ignoring it, either one of the two. She moved back towards the locals, grabbing each of them by their collar and propped them up against one another. She then pulled the tape free and walked around them in a circle. She did this for a few minutes before she stepped away and smirked," That ought to hold you."

Sure enough, she had just duct taped them together and put them around a nearby signpost's stand. Kris ripped a long piece of material from her tshirt that left her navel exposed but a ruined t-shirt was better than bleeding to death. She wrapped the material around her neck and tied it off before she looked back over her shoulder at the groaning locals." You’ll thank me later."

With that said, she vanished back into the night.

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Arrival [01 Oct 2004|07:48pm]
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Tyler ran his hand along the inside of the windshield, trying to clear away the fog that was forming on the inside. He’d been on the road for a few hours, making his way to Searchlight, and to the new life that awaited him there. The rain continued to beat down hard on the black Ford 150 and the trailer that it towed, making the glass of the windshield cold on the outside, yet warm on the inside as the heater tried its best to combat the fog that formed inside. Tyler sighed and leaned back, wondering when he would be able to get something in on the radio OTHER than country music. He didn’t mind it terribly, but it wasn’t his favorite, either. His hands felt heavy on the wheel as he continued to make his way down the road, but his eyes only closed to blink now and again.

Everything Tyler owned was in the trailer behind the truck. He was glad that he’d taken the time to put some plastic tarps on the inside of the trailer, making it more water resistant. He could always tell when it was going to rain. Tyler laughed to himself. “It can’t rain all the time,” he commented out loud, but to no one in particular, seeing as he was alone in the truck. He glanced down again at the directions that he had been given to find the house he would be staying in. It was amazing how quickly everything had been worked out for him to move to Searchlight and begin his investigation.

Hours later, He pulled up to a small white house on the outskirts of the seemingly quiet town. It was late in the morning, and the sun would be already making its daily climb into the Eastern sky, had there been any light at all. The air didn’t smell nearly as clean or fresh as he had imagined it to. The was this odd feeling that hung in the air around him, and he started to feel uncomfortable. Almost like...he was being watched. He shook off the feeling, and headed to the back of the trailer to begin moving his stuff into the house. It was small and white, with a porch and a rotten looking swing. He decided that was one of the first things to be fixed, when time allowed him the opportunity.
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Polar Opposites [01 Oct 2004|08:56pm]
Destiny knelt on the ground, re-shelving the misplaced books in Emmy's
store. She figured that she might as well earn her keep as well as
train. Fun came later, with the movie watching and the popcorn. For now,
the mindless work of putting books back in their places was enough to
keep her occupied. And hey, paycheck!

Oz slowly made his way into the shop. He was carrying several books
with him and looked around for an employee. He spotted someone busy
shelving books and came up beside her. "Hey."

Destiny turned her head, hand going to her stake automatically. Since
it was a guy, an alive one, and without fangs too boot, she took a deep
breath and smiled. "Hiya." Getting up by using the shelves as leverage,
Destiny put her pencil behind her ear and said, "Can I help ya?"

Oz shifted the books under his arm and smiled slightly at her. He could
sense that he'd startled her at first. "Sorry. Got some books you might
be interested in." They did sell unusual books here, after all.

"You mean you are selling them back or do you want to buy more?"
Destiny laughed and put a hand to her head, shaking her head. "I'm sorry. Not
only am I extra dense today, it's my first day and I don't know the
policy about buying books back."

"No." Oz shook his head, still smiling. "Didn't get these here. But
they're rare. Consider it a donation." He lifted the books and handed them
toward her.

On Origins )

On Slaying )

On the Good Guys )

Destiny grinned. She then checked her watch. "Holy crap!
I have to go meet Rhiannon. Um. Yeah. Think we can continue our
soul-baring another time? Maybe over coffee. I-if you don't like
coffee, maybe I can make tea? Or water?" She stuttered, completely messing up
her whole smooth "want to get to know you more" invitation. "I can make
grilled cheese!" She said with a grin, finally deciding on something
that she figured he would like. Her face fell as she thought of something
that would conflict with that. "Unless you're lactose intolerant. Then
I'll pour you a glass of water. The extent of my cooking skills, ladies
and gentlemen."

Oz suppressed the urge to chuckle. "Coffee is good. I'd
like that." He slowly started toward the door. "I'll let you meet
Rhiannon." He smiled a final time at her, wanting her to know he really was
cool with rush she's now in.

"Oh!" Des ran after Oz, grabbing his hand and pulling a
pen and pad out of her back pocket. "My number." She tore off a piece
of paper and wrote down all her contact information. "Okay, more than my
number." She smiled and held it out for Oz to take.

He took the paper and carefully folded it up, placing it in
his pocket. Who knew if he'd meet anyone else as friendly in this
place. "Thanks." He pulled out a card from the hotel he was staying at and
wrote his room number on it. He handed it to her.

Des took it. "Yay! New friend. Once you exit, I can do my
"new friend" dance." She blushed redder than a tomato. "I can't believe
I just said that aloud. You see, the brain doesn't always reach the
mouth." She pointed to each body part, respectively.

This time he did let a little chuckle out. "You're cute." He glanced
towards the door, again slowly moving towards it. He
looked back at her. "I'll see you soon, Destiny." He gave a little wave
as he opened the door and started out into the darkness again. He was
on high alert. The dark always helped to do that to him.

"Bye!" Destiny put the card in her backpack and slung the
bag back over her shoulder. Once she was sure he was gone, she started
to shake her hips. The "New Friends" dance was short, with a little
shimmying of the hands and a couple turns and hops. That over, she
smoothed out her clothing and looked around for any passerby who might've seen
the act of extreme dorkiness. Destiny pulled her short sword from
behind the counter and disappeared into the night.
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Play Time [01 Oct 2004|11:32pm]
[ mood | full ]

It's a virtual smorgasbord in Searchlight. I'm having the time of my unlife! Zombies aren't very tastey, of course. They tend to just get in my way. But the locals here are possessed or something. Easy kills. They basically jump into my arms.

Frankly, it's taking some of the fun out of it.

I think I may head into Vegas. There's more of a challenge there. The game is what it's all about for me. Besides, Bethany is there, and so is Stetson. I'd like to run into him again.

I bet Rhiannon is busy, though we haven't ran into one another. Obviously, she is avoiding me. She can't take it, knowing I am right. Knowing that she belongs to the darkness, and to me. Why else would she shun me? Why else wouldn't she seek me out and attempt to kill me? Perhaps it's partly due to the fact that she wouldn't win...that I would finish what was began. And that is also the other reason she stays away. She yearns for it.

One day, she'll come and ask me to end it. And then, oh, and then, I will make her beg for it.

On her knees.

Tristan shut off the laptop and grabbed his jacket. Thinking of Rhiannon always bothered him, in more ways than one. He needed to expend some energy.

Into Town )

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