Not Just The Caretaker

Razz ✖ 18 ✖ Lost Ones "I keep kicking at the curb with my worn out shoes, I keep running into strangers that say I know you. I want to hunt like David, I want to kill me a giant man. I want to slay my demons, but I've got loads of them." ✖ Second in command ✖

[ashton-wynn]

“the kids here annoying, but this group is the easiest to be left alone.”

[razzdawson]

“Well.. sounds like genuine reasons to me,” she replied although she was slightly nerved by his position on the topic.

[ashton-wynn]

“Do you regret this position?”

[razzdawson]

“Never once.”

[ashton-wynn]

“I was tricked into this group darling.” He said with a chuckle. “A small girl told me that this was the best group all the other groups didn’t matter. I guess in a way it was my fault for not asking more questions.”

[razzdawson]

“Do you regret your decision?”

[ashton-wynn]

“If you say so sweet pea. I’m just paying you do a lot of work ‘round here.”

[razzdawson]

“Why did you choose to be a Lost One,” she asked curiously. Knowing that the similarities of the kids in the Lost Ones differed in some respects but not all- he just didn’t seem to fit the mold, granted she didn’t know him very well yet.

[ashton-wynn]

“It’s not like there are many of us, who says you need a second?” If there was one thing that Ashton was good at, it was talking. When he was liked at school he could talk his way out of anything. convince people so easily. “I am just saying, you’re basically the leader as it is, just don’t have the title, yet.”

[razzdawson]

“I do what I can with the experience I’ve obtained not the job I’ve acquired. People look at me and see a caretaker, a second, a mentor- I am whatever they need me to be and nothing more.”

[ashton-wynn]

“Why don’t you just become leader?” He asked a devilish grin crossing his face. Since he had arrived on the island, he had found himself enjoying getting into trouble a little to much. Though seeing has he had never even had a run in with this so called leader, the thought was not a bad one.

[razzdawson]

“Then who would be doing my job,” she questioned, unnerved by the question seeing as how even Fox himself had brought it up to her a few times more so than she’d like. It wasn’t as though she didn’t think about it before but it was never an option nor had she’d seen herself in the role. Being second had perks being the leader did not.

[ashton-wynn]

He eyes the food arching an eyebrow. “Thanks darling.” He mutters taking a bit, honestly he hadn’t thought about food and hadn’t realized how hungry it was till that first bite. “Who?” He said with a chuckle. “Oh right, the fearless leader who is never around.” He said glancing up at the girl. “No, I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting him.”

[razzdawson]

Watching him pluck the semi-dessert semi-breakfast food from the package and eating it was satisfying to her. Since there hadn’t been many of her kids that stuck around she was trying her best to do good by the ones still around. “Yes.. Fox has his own agenda sometimes but he’s slowly getting better as the days go by,” she rolled her eyes in a careless way and smirked casually “-you will I’m sure.”

[ashton-wynn]

He smirks as he tossed the end of bud on the floor. “I had my own when I arrived. I also started to save up when I realized just how hard they were to get a hold of. I have a nice little stock pile now.” He explains with a shrug of his shoulders. “I like the name sweet pea better.”

[razzdawson]

Getting up from her seat, plucking the bud off the floor and tossing it in their designated ‘trash bin’, she opens up the make-shift cabinet in the food hut and grabbed a pouch of pop-tarts. Ripping open the pack and extending the untouched one after she grabbed her own, she moved it slightly upwards so he understood. “Did Fox greet you upon arrival? I usually play the welcome wagon but I don’t recall greeting you.”

[ashton-wynn]

“You got that right sweet pea.” He chuckles taking a drag of the cancer stick.

[razzdawson]

“Or you could call me Razz like everyone else,” she muses smirking slightly as she watches him tag the longest drag shes ever seen. “I never understand how everyone manages to get packs and weed like they do, especially on a desolate Island where we get supplies from the Island Gods.” 

[ashton-wynn]

“Bet the bluebonnets are blooming back home.”

[razzdawson]

“I’ve only seen them in pictures, never in person. They must be quite a sight to see.”

[babymisfits]

“Because you are so good at it?” He said with a small chuckle. Stopping he shoved his hands into his pocket. “Razz, I know you’re mad at me so just let me have it. Scream and yell, just do something.”

[razzdawson]

“I don’t need to scream and yell, you know how I feel already,” she replied to him with almost seconds between his statement and her answer. “You’re here now, so what is the point of yelling?”

[babymisfits]

“Desperate times call for desperate measures.” He ran his had through his hair, titling his head up slightly to stare at the sky. The island seemed calm which was a nice change from the chaos that had been happening. “I would have been fine.” He commented. “Besides you were doing a great job at running things, if I didn’t know any better I think you’d be trying to steal my place.”

[razzdawson]

“Because stealing the place of a leader who leads no one at the moment is a good position to have,” she shook her head, meaning it as a jest but it came out a little colder than she would have liked. “I mean, why take a position that would give me head aches to begin with,” she smiled softly.

[babymisfits]

“You’ve been hanging out with Skie?” He asked in an amused tone. “And she didn’t drive you crazy?” Fox laughed shaking his head at the female. “You have more patience than me, I can barley be around her and Scooter without one of us wanting to hit the other.” It was true the leaders relationship was complicated, but yet they still had some kind of bond that they knew couldn’t be broken. “You know I don’t like you near the fence, weird shit always happens near there.”

[razzdawson]

“Well, it goes to show that when there isn’t many people around to talk to we find the ones we would least expect to have some kind of human interaction.” She shrugged off his statement, feeling as though it was an accusation, but she had seen the three leaders get along in some instances. “And it was lucky I was or you would be still out cold.”

[dailyptonkin]

“I always get sent stuff like that. It’s always the witch or the bitch. When really I just wear weird glasses and pajamas all the time.”

[babymisfits]

“Our hideout of course. I miss those dirty tunnels.” He chuckled draping an arm around her shoulder to lead her in the direction of their home. “I really am sorry I was gone for so long Razz. Maybe you can catch me up on what has been going on?” He asked glancing at the girl.

[razzdawson]

“If you remember how to use them,” she remarked, teasing him slightly out of jest to keep the situation light- or lighter than before. She nudged him, feeling his arm around her shoulders and she smirked back at him,, “Nothing really has happened. Skie and I have been fixing huts from the storm and wear, and fixing holes in the fence. Moping around, looking for something to do.”

[babymisfits]

“I’m glad you are still here Razz.” Fox said pulling the girl into a tight hug. “You know I’d be lost without you here.” And that was the truth. Fox would be at a lost with out the female, he depended on her more then she realized. “Come on let’s take a walk.” 

[razzdawson]

The hug was tentative at first, not knowing where to put her arms which stayed mostly at her sides until he squeezed as if he meant it more than anything in his life at the current time. She squeezed him back pulling him into her own embrace and letting go not too long after. She wanted to say something along the lines of that she was too but she wondered how true that was now especially with all that had happened within the past few months. “Anywhere in particular?”

[babymisfits]

“Shit.” He mumbled “Hey it’s not like any of this is new. People go home all the time. Even seconds can go home, just give it time I’m sure the island will bring more people here soon.” He just wanted to comfort the girl, he knew his absents had but a huge burden on her and he felt horrible about it. 

[razzdawson]

Her anger simmered to a mere disappointment then sadness-- sadness because she had lost her family once again to the trials and tribulations of the Island when she thought she was becoming whole again. Sighing quietly, trying to straighten her posture and look more like herself again but she felt so defeated and even more lost than before. “It’s good to have you back, oh fearless leader.”