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“I don’t give up that easy, buddy. ‘Persistent’ is my middle name.” He declared, once Mike got within his inside-voice earshot, the statement accompanied by finger pistols. Right after he said that, however, he froze and appeared to be mulling over something of dire importance. It was only after a few, long moments of vacant staring deep contemplation that he finally spoke again. “Actually, I don’t even have a middle name.”

“Congratulations on having a slightly easier to remember name?” He snorted, going to head past him. He still didn’t ask him his name actually was, assuming he would not be around much longer so there wasn’t much point in it. “Don’t you have anything better to do than hang around here, anyway?”

As he approached the counter to set his snacks and 12 pack of soda down, the little bell of the door rang, and with it wafted in an intensely weird odor. Jacket turned for the source, brows knit slightly.

“Hey, What are you staring at, asshole?” He hissed, entire body tensing up as he moved further into the store.

Although initially help might just be getting him some ice for his face,

She lounged back on the couch and put her feet up onto the coffee table while giggling at him.  She could swear the dent in this couch was a little deeper for his new bout with misery.

“So what do you wanna watch?” He asked, glancing over at her, “I didn’t find anything good but we can watch a movie on demand.”

Aislin plopped down beside her best friend and reached past him for the remote. “What corner of Netflix have you been confined to?”

“I think I’d rather have been in some dark corner of Netflix than just randomly flipping through channels,” he snorted between bites, “Did you know polar bears can eat as many as eighty-six penguins in one sitting?” 

1. Smoking: the action or habit of inhaling and exhaling the smoke of tobacco or a drug. 2. Binge drinking: the consumption of an excessive amount of alcohol in a short period of time. 3. Drug abuse: the habitual taking of illegal drugs. 4. Nail biting: a common body language sign of anxiety/tension. 5. Lip biting: a common body language sign of anxiety/tension. 6. Night Owl: a person who is habitually active or wakeful at night. 7. Early bird: a person who rises, arrives, or acts before the usual or expected time. 8. Negative attitudes: a philosophy of approaching life with criticism and pessimism. 9. Positive attitudes: a philosophy of approaching life with optimism and confidence. 10. Swearing: the use of offensive language. 11. Superstitious: an irrational belief that an object, action, or circumstance not logically related to a course of events influences its outcome. 12. Inspecting fingernails: a common body language sign of boredom. 13. Scratching your neck: a common body language sign of uncertainty. 14. Foot and finger tapping: a common body language sign of stress/impatience. 15. Nose touch: a subtle body language sign of deceit. 16. Flipping hair: a common body language sign of craving attention. 17. Twirling hair: a common body language sign of flirtation. 18. Cracking knuckles: a common body language sign of readiness. 19. Hands behind back: a common body language sign of confidence. 20. Finger pointing: a common body language sign of authority. 21. Hands on hips: a common body language sign of readiness. 22: Hands in pockets: a common body language sign of mistrust/reluctance. 23. Frequent touch: a common body language sign of warmth/familiarity. 24. Throat-clearing: a common body language sign of rejection/doubt. 25: Jaw-clenching: a common body language sign of hostility. 26: Eye-rolling: a common body language sign of irritation. 27: Head-tilt: a common body language sign of interest. 28. Whistling: to emit high-pitched sound by forcing breath through a small hole between one’s lips or teeth; usually to a tune. 29. Humming: make a low, steady continuous sound like that of a bee; usually to a tune. 30. Perfectionism: refusal to accept any standard short of perfection. 31. Photographic memory: the ability to remember information or visual images in great detail. 32. Paranoia: a mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution, unwarranted jealousy, or exaggerated self-importance, typically worked into an organized system. 33. Exaggeration: a statement that represents something as better or worse than it really is. 34: Intuitive: using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive. 35: Quick-witted: showing or characterized by an ability to think or respond quickly and effectively. 36: Interrupting: breaking the continuity of a conversation with one’s own statements. 37: Doodling: to scribble or make rough drawings, absent-mindedly. 38: Irritable: having or showing a tendency to be easily annoyed. 39: Gambling: to play games of chance for money; bet. 40: Travel-sick: suffering from nausea caused by the motion of a moving vehicle, boat, or aircraft. 41: Sensitive: having or displaying a quick and delicate appreciation of others’ feelings. 42: Melancholy: a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause. 43: Chewing gum: the exercise of chewing flavoured gum which is not intended for swallowing. 44: Fidgeting: to make small movements, especially of the hands and feet, through nervousness or impatience. 45: Sceptical: not easily convinced; having doubts or reservations. 46: Neat-freak: compulsively obsessed with cleanliness. 47: Gossiping: divulging personal information about others. 48: Prim: feeling or showing disapproval of anything regarded as improper; stiffly correct. 49: Abbreviating: Giving others nicknames/shortening names/giving pet names. 50: Having a catchphrase: having a sentence or phrase typically associated with a specific person.

“Shit” He mumbled under his breath for a second time, rummaging through the medkit before pulling out the tweezers and a knife. He paused for a moment. “I…öh…there are no painkillers”

“Well... What the hell am I supposed to do?” He snapped, trying not to look at the tools in his hands. “If I pass out from the pain is that still really bad because of all the blood n shit??” He didn’t know this shit, he wasn’t a doctor he didn’t even have a first aid certificate.

“Hey! Hey, asshole!” He called out, and leapt to his feet, pointing an accusing finger at Mike. “Get over here!”

“I’m surprised you stuck around,” he snorted. “I though you’d have gone to find someone else to try and keep from their job.”

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The thing about Aislin was the attention and care she put into noticing things about people.  Simply going out to eat gave her more things to remember about someone she cared about.  She’d memorized his order last time they went.

“And what’s that?” he asked, opening the box to peek at it. Last time he’d gotten food with her he’d just gone for something random. As long as whatever he was eating hadn’t been through several processing machines he usually wasn’t too fussy.

“Hey! Don’t get killed in there, man. I want you to be the one who scrapes my brains off the sidewalk if everything goes to shit, ya hear?” He shouted after him leaning over the barricade with what could only be described as a shit-eating grin on his face. Honestly, it was some kind of miracle that he hadn’t gotten tasered yet, but he felt as if it was definitely something he could foresee in his near-future.

Rob, however, had decided that he didn’t really want to talk to that guy from before and was trying to carefully slink away before he was noticed. There was a brief glance around as he headed out of the store to see if he was still there. He hadn’t seen him for the moment, pulling off his respirator, head set and night vision goggles off but leaving his balaclava on for now.

“Are you~?” He asked, cracking his knuckles with a smirk, “’Cause you’re not going to be for much longer. Which eye do you need less so I can punch you in the other one?”

That seemed to be the most explanation Jacket was going to offer - despite that it wasn’t much of an explanation at all, just a form of reassurance, apparently.

After another minute or so Rob had decided the drill was getting too loud for comfort and took himself into the corner furthest from the money, getting in his best ‘I-was-strangled-to-death’ pose. He blinked at seeing the knife beside him, sliding it away from himself.