[goodmcurnings]

{{ * Anastasia knew she was right, but it was good to hear it from someone else. She knew that it sucked that nothing she ever worked for mattered anymore, but she knew that she could work for something else – she just had to find what that something else was. Maybe it was something as simple as taking care of Luke, maybe it was something more. She didn’t know yet. “I can’t be depressed. I think babies can tell and I don’t think they like it.” She laughs, thinking about the time she sat against a tree, holding Luke and crying – sobbing even, over the loss of her mother. Luke started screaming until she stopped. “You did? I should’ve assumed that, you’re built.” She laughs, shrugging. “You know, if you want to stay here instead… I’m going to be leaving soon.”

[colexharper-blog]

“Apparently babies do have some sixth sense, like dogs.” Cole laughed a little, that did make sense about why he was so good around kids because he was sure he’d only ever felt sadness once. “Yeah, well thank you for noticing.” He joked with a light laugh. “I was a boxing and MMA coach. Hence the built-ness.” He smiled as he sat up, leaning on his elbows. “You sure? Where you going?”

[goodmcurnings]

{{ * “Nothing really fucked it up for me except the dead coming back to life, honestly. I had it all planned out. I had the valedictorian status basically being handed to me because the girl who I was competing with had to move out of state, I was getting college scholarships in junior fuckin’ year, I was already taking college classes… I had it all set out for me. And that sounds real fuckin’ pretentious but academics was my first priority, since I was like, in pre-school or something. None of that matters anymore though.” Anastasia shrugs, knowing that she really doesn’t care for anything that she had before the apocalypse, she doesn’t care about the nights she spent up until two o’clock in the morning, re-reading her papers over and over again to make sure that she wouldn’t even get a ninety-eight on them. She doesn’t care about the fact that she was in the national honors society. She doesn’t care that she had the 4.0 and the valedictorian title. It doesn’t matter anymore. “You’re stayin; in a gym? That doesn’t really sound all that pleasing…”

[colexharper-blog]

“I guess you’re right. Everyone’s hard work doesn't mean shit now. Now I get why everyone's kinda depressed and moody all the time.” Cole replied, his shoulder lifting. He didn't really care about other people because shit does happen but he could understand now why people were more pissy than usual. “I love gym’s. I worked in one.” He said through a yawn as he lay back on the bed, enjoying the comfort while he could. “Though this is really comfy.”

[danielxcarter]

“Same to you,” he responded with a small nod. “That sounds like a pretty damn good plan to me.”

[colexharper-blog]

Cole grinned as he started to head in the direction he’d last seen the pig go. “Hypothetically speaking, if i skin this pig, could I make a football?”

[goodmcurnings]

{{ * Anastasia doesn’t say much to his compliment for her parents. She just smiles softly and nods. She misses them – more than she could ever say. She misses them so much that it breaks her heart just thinking about it. She has no idea where her mother is, if she’s even alive, and she watched her father dying right in front of her. The world was unfair. She looks at him. “I was gonna be the valedictorian.” She smirks. “Y’can’t afford to be lazy and unorganized if you’re graduating at the top of your class.” And it’s true. Anastasia was always very go. She never slowed down, that was why she constantly was doing things. But she had been so naive, and that was her downfall. “Maybe. It was about this cold when Jeff went, and I think that was in January.” She nods. Anastasia looks away when the man takes his shirt off, looking out of the window that shows the front yard. “Only a couple of hours. We’re not staying for long, I don’t think. I cleared the place and made sure he could sleep here, and I’m letting him sleep before I feed him and then we’re going to be on our way again. Where are you staying?”

[colexharper-blog]

Cole couldn't help but stop and actually think about his parents, they were probably dead but he left his thoughts there. If he took things seriously, they started to matter and making a whole joke out of everything was the only thing that kept him going. “Alright, genius. Well, I was gonna be an NFL player until some bear of a linebacker fucked that up for me.” He replied, he wasn't lazy when it came to sports or training but everything else it took a lot of effort for him to do. Cole looked out the window as he took a seat on the edge of the bed, it was comfortable, Better than the canvas of a boxing ring that he knew called his bed. “Wills Gym, it’s not too far from here.”

[goodmcurnings]

{{ * “I mean… I can’t say it didn’t help me now that the world’s gone to shit. I killed a zombie by kicking it once, a couple of months ago. And if I found a horse just moseying around. I’m sure it would be good transportation for me.” She shrugs, looking up at him. Anastasia really has no idea what day it is. She figures that maybe there was someone in the world who was managing to keep track of the date, but she is not that person. She has more important things to take care of – and by more important things, she meant Luke. “Maybe one day I’ll find someone who’s keeping track. I used to be very organized and very precise, and when I lived with my old group, I did, but I have really no idea what day it is now. All I know is that Luke was born in November.” She shrugs again and listens to him. “It is tough, but…” She considers telling this man about her sister, and decides that she has nothing left to lose – he’ll be gone sooner or later and she needs to get it off her chest. “My sister was bit, like a month after she gave birth. I mercy-shot her. Fast forward a couple of weeks and my brother-in-law basically sacrificed himself to the zombies.” She laughs, even though it’s not funny. “Definitely. Add in some blood stains, some rips, some sweat, and you look A+ apocalypse ready.”

[colexharper-blog]

“Well you’re parents seemed super awesome and totally had the right idea.” Cole commented genuinely, followed by a smile that wasn't stupid or cheeky but real. Although that was gone in seconds, he could afford to take alot of things seriously. “I was so lazy and unorganised, I still am.” He laughed a little, at himself mostly. “November. I would say we’re in winter about, maybe January?” He guessed with a small shrug, Cole looked over at her with a small frown as she laugh but smiled anyway, he wouldn't take it seriously. “I can totally do that.” He nodded surely as he took out a few more shirts, tossing his backpack onto the bed as he removed his currently ruined shirt before pulling a fresh one on. “How long have you and the little guy been here?”

[hisemptyheart-deactivated201603]

He was relieved when the man didn’t put up a fight to be quiet, he enjoyed his peace and quiet and he didn’t like when others interrupted that. He continued to trudge through the house, his eyes searching the area. When the man spoke again, Donovan wanted  to groan–he thought he just got him to be quiet? “A batman suit?” he repeated questionably, wondering if he was actually being serious. “Is this whole thing like a movie to you?” he questioned, disbelieving. 

[colexharper-blog]

“Yup.” Cole replied as he pulled out a drawer, rummaging around for sticky notes to stick on zombies and other survivors backs. “What? The world ending? Kinda, I would go more with giant, video game with one life left.” He shrugged as he grinned, emerging with some neon sticky notes.

[roxykiddos-blog]

“No, sorry. Though even if you found one, I doubt there’d be anything left in there. You’ll probably have better luck with a trader.”

[colexharper-blog]

“Shit. I really need a drink, like majorly. Trader...know any?”

[roxykiddos-blog]

“Thanks, I’ll save this for a rainy day.”

[colexharper-blog]

“Good idea. You know if there’s a liquor store around here?”

[danielxcarter]

“I’m Daniel- just call me Danny,” he grinned a little. “Sure. It’s not like I had anything planned today anyway.”

[colexharper-blog]

“Danny, awesome name, dude.” Cole commented with a grin, as he held his fist out in overall excitement of a pig hunt. “If we find this thing, I’ll totally split it with you. Bacon for everyone.”

[ebonyfawn-deactivated20160208]

Ebony had to admit, at least the nickname made her feel somewhat unique, even if it came with a strange story behind it. “Seriously? I mean, they don’t scare you at all?” She asked curiously, her arms folding over her chest. How someone could remain so calm when chaos was going on around them was beyond her, but she admired it. “I think I’ll deal with Ice Queen, makes me seem kind of unique.” She smiled with a grin.

[colexharper-blog]

“Nope. I meant first I was like ‘What the fuck? That dudes a zombie and he smells’ but i got over it. Never scared me though, I’m either brave or stupid, I haven't figured out which one yet.” He shrugged with a smile. “Exactly, I am the King at nickname giving.”

[goodmcurnings]

{{ * Anastasia smiles. “It was just my parents being my parents. My brother and sister were like that too.” She thinks about her siblings for the first time in a long time and it hurts in her chest but she manages to keep a smile on her face – She’ll let it out when Cole leaves. “I think I’m eighteen. We have to be like, what, a year into this?” Anastasia looks at him, unsure. She doesn’t even know the date, but she knows they must be around a year into the apocalypse. “I was sixteen when it started, and the rest of my friends were seventeen. But I was just raised to try and be the best at everything.” She hasn’t even mentioned that she was set to be the valedictorian at her school, and she doesn’t know if she will. “I won’t kill you unless y’give me a reason to.” She nods towards the open door and lets Cole know that the baby in that room would be her only reason to kill someone who didn’t directly threaten her.

[colexharper-blog]

“That’s cool, like an army of super children.” Cole chuckled slightly at his joke, he personally found himself hilarious. “Yeah, I think so. Shit, I think i’m twenty-two maybe twenty-three. It doesn't matter, they’re basically the same thing.”He shrugged, he could barely keep track of the date before the world went to hell so now his guess was as good as anyone's. “That’s tough, I guess. I mean looking after a kid and everything.” He commented, Cole could barely look after himself as it was now but being younger and with a kid, he’d be hopeless. “Got it.” He nodded as he started to search another bedroom, opening a wardrobe he looked around at the shirts inside, pulling one out he inspected the plain grey short sleeved t-shirt. “What’cha think? Apocalypse fashion worthy?” He joked with a small grin.

[goodmcurnings]

{{ * Anastasia smiles gently at the man and follows him up the stairs. She still has her hand on her gun, just in case he turns out to turn against her in the last second and go in to find Luke. “Yeah. My parents really wanted me and my siblings to be well-rounded individuals. I’m a black belt in karate, I’m fluent in Spanish, I rode horses for five years, I was in like eight or nine years worth of ballet recitals. It was pretty fun.” She nods. “I, uh… I was a high schooler, and I was a tutor, and a babysitter, and I worked at the animal shelter if I had time.” She knows that she sounds like she’s bragging, but Anastasia had so much under her belt by the time she was going to be a senior in high school that she was really just starting to list everything she had done. “His bedroom door is open. I should’ve shut it when I came down but I figured I could take a zombie… Or a human, to be honest, out pretty easily.”

[colexharper-blog]

Cole nodded, listening intently to the activities the other survivor took part in and he was impressed. “Wow. Well you definitely seem like a well rounded person for sure. I sucked at tryna speak other languages and stuff, I sucked at school in general.” He replied with a small, short laugh. “Wow, you’re like Supergirl and you're like what- seventeen? Eighteen? That’s a lot of stuff, it’s good though that you got the chance to do stuff like that.” He added with a nod as he looked towards the open bedroom door and made a note to stay clear of it. “I really do believe that, well I’m glad I’m not dead. That’s always a good thing.”

[lightalecwood]

[goodmcurnings]

{{ * “Didn’t you need to find sticky notes or something though? I mean… He’s a sound sleeper, I don’t think you would actually wake him up. He slept through us running by an entire hoard once.” She laughs, and it’s the first time she’s actually laughed when talking to another human being who could understand her since the farm fell. Anastasia liked having company, but she knew that when this man left the house, she wouldn’t be going with him. “I never used to be that. Although, I was a black belt in karate. I just never used it.” She nods. She had become incredibly skilled in multiple extra curricular activities, and karate had been one of them, but before the world went to hell, she never used her skills in karate.

[colexharper-blog]

"Damn, I suppose I'll take a quick look." Cole laughed with her as he headed upstairs again, laughing wasn't a rare thing for him to do, he did it every day but hearing others laugh or even smile put him in an automatic good mood, or a better one than he was in anyway. It made him happy. "Black belt? Nice." He smiled, he loved martial arts and was a state champion in high school, he was a state champion in most sports in high school though. "What'd you do before all of this? Oh and where is the little guy, I don't wanna walk into his room."

[goodmcurnings]

{{ * “Uhm…” Anastasia hesitates, still unsure if she should tell the man about her nephew in the bedroom upstairs, but she figures that if he tried running, she had his weapon and she was quicker. She doesn’t say anything until they get to the stairs, knowing that if he goes up in the room, he’s going to find Luke anyway. “My nephew is asleep upstairs. He’s only a baby though.” She nods, ready to pull her gun again. She doesn’t want anything happening to Luke. “Yeah, if I’ve come across anyone really, they weren’t going to hesitate to shoot. You’re the first person who didn’t attack as soon as you saw me.”

[colexharper-blog]

Cole stops halfway up the stairs and turns around, he hadn't seen a kid in a while let alone a baby and although he was good with kids it wasn't his place. "I don't want to wake him. I'll go." He explained quietly as he headed back to the lower level. "It's not really in my personality to hurt people, like I'm not violent or anything. Just if someone punches me or something I'll knock them the fuck out but usually I avoid any situation like that. It works most of the time."

[colexharper-blog]

About

GENERAL INFORMATION

* FULL NAME: Cole Maximilian Harper * NICKNAME(S):  Harper, Lamp Post, Bear, COD God, Brosaurus Rex  Dynamic Uno  * AGE: 22 * DATE OF BIRTH: 17th August * NATIONALITY: American * HERITAGE: Scottish, English * SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): English * OCCUPATION: Personal Trainer, MMA & Boxing Coach * SEXUALITY: Heterosexual ► APPEARANCE * FACE CLAIM: Liam Hemsworth * HEIGHT: 6'5" * WEIGHT: 250 lbs * DOMINANT HAND: Right * HAIR COLOR: Brown * EYE COLOR: Blue * SCARS: The total number of small little scars are probably uncountable unless he had someone willing to sit and count them, which would probably take a good hour or so. The more noticeable ones he has are various on his knuckles and hands in general from manual work and the vast amount of sports he does. He has a small, fading scar on his left cheekbone and a human bite mark on his right shoulder. He has noticeable scar tissue on the left side of his rib cage at scattered areas from his worst football injury. * TATTOOS: Cole has one tattoo on the inside of his forearm and it’s simple Roman numerals MMXII ► BACKGROUND * HOMETOWN: Brooklyn, New York City, USA * FINANCIAL STATUS: Working Class * EDUCATION LEVEL: High School Diploma, three years of Electrical Engineering at University. * FAMILIAL CONNECTIONS: Zac Harper (Father), Jessica Harper (Mother) * ROMANTIC CONNECTIONS: OPEN * PLATONIC CONNECTIONS: OPEN * HOSTILE CONNECTIONS: OPEN ► EXTRA INFORMATION * JUNG TYPE: ESTP, The Dynamo * ENNEAGRAM: 7, The Enthusiast * TEMPERAMENT: Sanguine * MORAL ALIGNMENT: Neutral * SIN: Lust * VIRTUE: Kindness * ZODIAC: Leo * ELEMENT: Fire

[goodmcurnings]

{{ * Anastasia doesn’t reply after that. “Eh, you start getting over it after a while. You have to if you want anyone you’re with to live.” She nods, not getting into talking about the sleeping child upstairs, but also hinting that he’s there. “Can you really blame me? In this world it’s hard to figure out if it’s nice to meet someone, you kinda have to start to know them first before you can say it’s nice to meet you.” Anastasia nods. It never used to be that way. The daughter of the town’s chief of police and the owner of one of the highest ranked restaurants in Utah had been raised to always be polite – she was to say that it was nice to meet everyone she met, and then it was up to them to prove if it actually was or not.

[colexharper-blog]

“You with someone?” Cole asked as he raised his eyebrows, opening the door to what was a simple closet before closing it again as he moved onto the next room which he guessed was the living room, passing by it he approached the stairs and started to walk up them. “No. I’m just not used to people not knowing I’m a decent person, you know? It’s weird.” He admitted with a lift of his shoulders. He was raised in Brooklyn and although he want close to his family, he still had manners and turned out a good person as he could have.