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Characters: Lenalee (OU) |

fallforthesky, Alex Mercer (OU) |

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When: Backdated to the 11th or 12th.
Where: Hospital
Rating: M for Mercer's Foul Mouth
Summary: Lenalee is curious about the hospital and piqued Mercer's interest too. What hilarious hijinks will they get up to? What ghastly ghouls lurk in the dark?

It was dawn, and Mercer watched the overcast gray sky grow gradually lighter. He could sense more rain coming and that set his teeth on edge. From his vantage point, the rest of Nesreca seemed still. No sign of movement. No sign of Libitina anywhere.

Still, he was ever watchful for any sign of the ghost girl, but she didn't appear.

So the virus sat back on his haunches, drawing his hood tighter as the first drops of rain splattered down. He was still, like some brooding hoodie gargoyle perched on top of the hospital, roof, partially obscured by some rubble.

He would give the girl, Lenalee, another hour before he went in on his own. The virus hoped he'd find some answers. Maybe what happened. Maybe why. Maybe how. Maybe information about Libitina. Maybe even a way home.

But for now, he waited.

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Which was good for Lenalee because Alex didn't have a chivalrous bone in his body. He'd had a mental taste of both sexes and had found, aside from the obvious biological differences, both were psychologically similar.

When he catches the movement on her legs, he raises a brow but said nothing.

When she jumped, Alex lunged to the side to stop her, but as she landed on the bottom, his doubts were erased.

"Stand back," he warned and then jumped, forming his hand into a claw and digging it into the wall to slow his descent. It reformed it into a hand before he was visible and landed heavily, denting the tiled floor.

"Any other tricks up your sleeve?"

By the time Alex calls a warning down, Lenalee's already back-pedalled as far into the dark as she's willing to risk, the memory of the impact craters he'd left on his first broadcast resurfacing. What little light the grimy windows let into the hospital's first floor blots out, leaving her temporarily in complete darkness— she can hear a crunching sort of sound as Alex presumably follows her down the elevator shaft.

Curiosity isn't enough to make her chance a glance up, though.

Which she's especially glad for when he lands and leaves yet another dent to mark his passage through Nesreca's ruins. She stares at the cracks in the tile for a moment, eyes readjusting to the dim light, and then glances up at him. He can't see it through the cloth she has tied over her face, but she smiles a bit at his comment.

"A few."

"Good." Alex remarked brusquely, emphasizing his words with a curt nod. "We may need them."

His eyes didn't have trouble adjusting to the gloom but that may have had something to do with the whole not being human thing. He scoured the gloom, looking for a likely place to start.

Down the dark passage, something clatters, and Alex's head snaps immediately towards the sound.

"Is someone else checking this place out too?" His voice is a low growl, and he's poised almost like an animal about to strike.

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