â i guess having water is better than nothing .. â riley groaned, sitting on the stairs which lead into the cabin. â shitty thatâs it cold as balls though. â she began to rip apart a piece of grass. â so .. what now? â
Q flopped down on the steps next to her and shrugged, âStay here. Be warm, and out of the rain until the next leg of the journey begins? And in the mean time, we could build a treehouse?â
After being injured, Evelyn felt completely useless. She couldnât go on runs like this, and she had no idea how long it would take for the gunshot wound her thigh to heal. It was difficult to bear weight on her left leg which caused her to walk with an awful limp. She was holding a t-shirt under the running water and using it to clean her leg up. As she was trying to redress her wound, Evelyn heard footsteps. âCan you give me a hand?â she asked, glancing up at the doorway.Â
Q paused on their way past the doorway. It wasnât hard to guess what she needed help with, and with a small smile they nodded and crossed inside, âIâve been working on my nursing skills, as of late.â Kneeling by her side, he took the bandage and carefully started to wrap it around her leg, âThis looks....ouch.â
Marlene didnât feel like sheâd left the medical RV in days, though a quick glance at the clock on the counter told her sheâd only been working for several hours. Disposing of the pair of plastic gloves she was wearing and wishing her current patient farewell, Marlene heard the approaching footsteps of another patient. Not bothering to turn around, she pulled on a fresh pair of gloves and called over her shoulder. âWhatâs the damage?â
Q was fast on their feet. Itâs what had kept them alive countless times, but when running it seemed even they couldnât dodge a rather painfully sharp tree branch.  Q had intended to bandage it themselves, but after one look from Adele, theyâd turned tail and walked straight to the RV, bleeding forearm held out before them, and rather contrite expression on their face, âI lost a one-on-one match, with what Iâm guessing, was a very sharp palm tree.â
She pushed back against the people that were around her, the ones that were ATTEMPTING to get them all to a safer place as she fought towards the danger and the chaos if it meant being with her BROTHER. âQuentin!â Her voice shook as it was drowned out by the people who continued to push forward, that was until she felt his arms around her and pulled her against him in a CRUSHING embrace. âI didnât know where you were and I thought⊠I thought everything that could have gone wrong had and that I would lose you again. I couldnâtâŠâ She couldnât lose him. She only just got him back a few months prior to this, and the thought of being alone â it terrified her more than anything else.
Q clung to their sister, unwilling to let her go despite the constant, and frenzied, panic around them. âItâs okay, itâs alright. I was out scouting, and I saw--thereâs so many of them, Adele. We need to get out of here. Now.â With their grip on Adele, they pulled her towards the pack of vehicles being turned into escape vehicles, unwilling to let her go anytime soon.
Hunter couldnât believe the other had thrown their flashlight at him, and then had the AUDACITY to make a break for Hunterâs gun. He was still reeling slightly at the pain in his head, but the other wasnât fast enough to grab it before Hunterâs own grip tightened back around it quick as possible before aiming it at the other man. âI wouldnât do that if I were you.â
Qâs heart stopped in their chest the moment the strangerâs hand wrapped around the gunâs barrel before theirs could. They werenât exactly a marksman, but theyâd done enough studying and practice while fighting their way to Adeleâs side to have their own gun pulled from their waistband and pointed at the strangerâs head. Why Q didnât grab for their own gun first, theyâd berate themselves for later, but now was not the time. Now they had to figure out how to get out of this alive, and preferably without another personâs life on their hands âWhy are you doing this?â
Sheâd followed Banditâs orders to a certain extent. Getting to the RV? Check. Covering the remaining medics? Sort of check. Sheâd barked orders at them to pack up and go, though offered little help in ensuring their survival outside of the RV. The remaining medical supplies she stashed in her rucksack- for herself if this group lost and she was out on her own again, or if the others one then sheâd bargain with them in exchange for joining them. Marlene was adaptable like that. A creak behind her had her spinning on her heels, bringing her axe down hard onto the neck of a scavenger. He screamed, blood spraying as he went down and she yanked her axe out, striding over his body to stand in the doorway of the RV. âWhat the fuck are you looking at?â She shouted at the figure standing there, staring.Â
Q had seen plenty of things since the end of the world, but the sheer violence that came with having to survive would be something Q didnât think theyâd ever get used to. Their eyes split between the now dead body, and the axe-wielder, Q could only shake their head and shift the pack filled with things higher up on their back. âNothing.â Q could mention the blood splattered on her clothing, but it was par for the course these days, so they only shook their head and shifted to stand by the RV and returned to searching out survivors in need of help. âNothing at all.â
âFuck!â Hunter cried out, rubbing his hand against the spot on his head where the other had hit him with a blunt object. In the process, heâd all but dropped his gun at his feet while he himself fell to his knees while the pain washed over him. âWhat the fuck was that?â Shaking his head, Hunter could feel the gash on his temple as he pressed his fingers to it and they pulled back wet with blood.
âUh..flashlight?â Q stared in surprise, not having quite expected their throw to actually hit the stranger, but the second they were over the shock, they raced to grab for the gun at the manâs feet.
Adele was stuck with a small group of survivors, jostled forward and away from the gunfire despite the tightness in her chest that screamed for her to stay and look for Quentin. All she wanted was her brother, no one else, but as she worried that she wouldnât be able to find him soon enough â a voice called out among the chaos with her name at the top of their lungs. âQ?â She paused, knocked forward by someone to her side that was YELLING at her to move faster but she couldnât hear them when she looked and saw â âQuentin!â
âAdele!â The second Adele caught sight of Q, they were pushing through the crowd of panicked survivors and gathering her into their arms, without a care for the chaos around them. Q was breathing hard, having run the entire way back to camp, but none of that mattered but the knowledge that she was okay. âYouâre okay, oh thank every deity in the sky, youâre okay.â
Hunter had done his best to stay out of the chaos, keeping to the treeline as much as possible while many of the others were quick to join the fight. His heart wasnât in it. All he knew was that he OWED them his life and for that, Hunter would fight by their side. Though even as he knew the cost, he had yet to take a life as he raised his gun and spotted another in his scope before he squeezed the trigger and missed them on purpose. Enough to give them a scare, without hitting them. That was when he heard a twig snap behind him, someone getting in too close for comfort, as he dropped his gun and started to move but not before it was too late and he was spotted. âShit, fuck.â
Q had been one of the first to see the raiding party, running as fast as they were able back through the streets to where their base camp was, only not fast enough. Never fast enough. Theyâd caught a root, and taken a rather painful fall to the ground at the base of a hill. With a groan, they forced a deep breath, ignored the pain, and pushed back to their feet. Only, when they did, they caught sight of a rather powerful gun, and felt the breath catch in their chest. Q attempted to push slowly to their feet, heart beating painfully in their chest, and tried their best to sneak up on the stranger. A twig snapped, and they were caught, only instead of the gun shifting to aim at Qâs chest, it fell, and they responded on instinct to throw the rather heavy flashlight in their hand at the stranger, hoping it would connect.
âHave you seen my brother? I canât find him anywhere. What if⊠what if something happened to him?â Adele jumped at the sound of another gunshot ringing out, knowing the worst was yet to come with all the noise that was happening. They needed to get out of there and SOON if they were going to survive at all, but she couldnât, not without Quentin.
âAdele?â Q searched feverishly throughout the chaos, looking for that familiar head of hair that would keep the panic in his chest at bay. âAdele!â  Q saw her, too far away from him for his liking, and shouted again, uncaring about the others racing around him, his eyes only for his sister.
Look at this â QUENTIN âQâ DAVIS, the TWENTY-SIX year old SCOUT, has joined the camp. Before the fall, they were A MECHANICAL ENGINEER. From what weâve seen, theyâre OPTIMISTIC and ENERGETIC, but they also appear to be IMPULSIVE and OBSESSIVE. I donât know about you, but donât they kind of look like DEV PATEL? (De, 26, CST, she/her)
  Quentin "Q" Davis was born January 1st. Their parents were part of an arranged marriage that turned into a labor of love. They were married, and had Q a year later. After a year of happiness, their father traveled for work with the university, while their mother fell ill. Only a few months after she was diagnosed, she passed away, and their father packed Q up and took them off to England. A year later, Q's father married Adele's mother, and had Adele, the sister Q never expected.
  Adele and Q were close growing up until they moved away for college, and since then they've kept up through emails and the brief visits Q made wherever their parents stopped.
  Their parents are College Professors, who traveled across Europe and taught at different schools, moving Q and Adele from place to place, and helping them experience different cultures.
  They speak a number of languages, and can read many more, but they never wanted to go the route of their father and step-mom. They wanted to focus on the engineering side of life and left the âsoft sciencesâ to their parents, to focus on creating their own mechanical ideas.
 They've always been fascinated by the inner workings of things, and focused their life on taking things apart and putting them back together again, only better.
  Q is genderfluid, and most days doesn't identify as any particular gender, but they arenât open about it. They prefer to let people simply assume they're male, especially with the perpetual end of the world around them, they donât want any more attention than is necessary to survive and keep Adele safe.