Ashes Ashes; We all fall down.

[ShadesofGrey]

"Well....I was gonna save them until you were in a better mood but I found about three from the lot of them all.....I guess you can have one if you're nice to me...." He grinned victoriously.
Iliahjah was just not having the time of his life right now and this whole rope thing wasn't doing him any favors. He nearly fell as it was yanked on then again that was his fault for protesting to go. He grumbled the entire time to himself of course mainly because no one else could hear him. A look of sheer happiness crossed Jackie's face for maybe a few moments as he went estatic in his mind. 'He said I did good!!!!' He told himself feeling more and more cocky.

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"Well now that you mention it Raoule, I hope you rot in hell." He said cutting the rope himself, determined not to let the other man have that satisfaction. He plumitted, doing a few fancy trick in the air before diving into the river. It was about five minutes before a blue hat surfaced followed by a blonde headed dot. That blonde dot crawled out of the water, a self saticfied look on his face that couldn't be seen but didn't need to be to know that it was there.

Jackie sighed. "It's not that I don't love this and all but....can we wrap things up?" He asked felling rather bored really, taking out that cigar that was promised to the man and offering it to him with some kind of flip lighter that he pocketed from one of his kills.

[Master_Rollipolly]

Croc was in disbelief...not only had that bastard ruined his day but he also ruined his revenge....how the hell could someone ruin something that was so....so satisfying. "Yeah well I hope your boss fucks you up for letting your mates get slaughtered while you ran for your life from me, you fucking little fuck!!!" he yelled, picking up the biggest rock he could and throwing it down ontop of him. He took the cigar, but it tasted horrible, he was so pissed, at everything, at the hot air, at the fact that the cigar didn't taste as good, he hated him so fucking much and the next time he saw him, he would, without a doubt, cut his chest open and shove his organs down his throat. He grined his teeth walking with heavy angry steps in silence, smoking on the cigar, angry at the fact that his revenge wasn't in the least bit satisfying on his part.

[ShadesofGrey]

Jackie followed in silence, he ran up next to him to say something in light hearted spirits before dropping back and allowing his head to hang. "At......at least we're alive so you can laugh in the embassies face..." He said reminding him of a few things that he had been looking forward to. He reached out and plucked the cigar from him, taking a few puffs from it and putting it out. "You can have this back later." He was going to try and redirect Raoule's anger. It was what Jackie did best on most days.

[Master_Rollipolly]

He got a small smile after reminding him of that, but other than that, there wasn't much more to be too happy about. Yeah they had food, smokes, water, liquior and even maybe a little bit of hope to get out of this jungle, but they were beat up, bloody, muddy, hot, then cold when dark settle, bug-bitten, wet, then as soon as they got dry, there would be a down pour, followed by an insane increase in the temperature, over all it was just a horrible experience and getting out was the top priority. The rain finally ceased around sunset and everything was wet, humid, and muddy. The birds were going crazy and the frogs were chirping with them, the squishing of wet shoes in mud sounded like an out of tune flute against the symphony of the lush background. "Alright, lets stop here and make camp...sound good to you?" That was the most he'd said all day.

[ShadesofGrey]

"That would be fine with me..." He said with a sly grin having a few thoughts on his mind that would linger and go and come back stronger than before. "So, same rutine?" He asked going into his bag now and getting out some form of cantined water and a powdery substance. "I was thinking pancakes tonight, I found some things in the dead guyses' bags that sounded better than our usual foods." He laid on the ground and shed his shoes getting some stick and fixing a way to dry them out. "I don't plan on getting what ever that disease it to where they have to cut my feet off, I advise you to do the same...." He eyed this guy over, liking what he saw but not really giving it off.

[Master_Rollipolly]

"Mnn" Which in Raoule language translates to: "Yeah your probably right, good thinking." He took off his shoes as well and got to the closest river, washing the mud off of his feet and hanging his shoes to dry as well. Afterwards he started on the fire, makine a good hot one, one that wouldn't go out so easily dispite the wet atmosphere. Pancakes were a lovely change compared to the fish and berries they were forced to live off of these past few days. "Here, I found these offa one guy and I think we deserve to eat a good meal tonight." He pulled out two potatoes, setting them down on the flat rock that Jackie was using to cook the pancakes. "I have more for tomorrow if we're still stuck in rain forest hell." He murmured, using his pocket knife to slife up the potatoes, taking off the bad parts and mushing them slightly into hashbrown form.

[ShadesofGrey]

Jackie became frantically worried all of a sudden. "No, no, no!" He cried out. "You have to wash those first!" He said pleadingly, he didn't ask for a whole lot, yet anyway. After dinner he set out a pallet on the ground, it was a rather large sleeping bag that he had snagged from one of the Blue agents. "It's not a bed but it's better than nothing. He curled up on it, waiting for the other to join him, and just as soon as the other did he slipped a hand right were it probably didn't need to go, but he was going to try and relieve some of this guys anger. So messaging the Spaniards balls he cooed into his ear. Hoping that he wouldn't lose something important for this, he knew it was going out on a big risky limb here but he felt that it was better to say you tried that not doing anything at all.

[Master_Rollipolly]

Croc laid down, enjoying the fact that there was something between him and the insect infested mud and dirt for the first time in almost a week. It felt nice....really nice....it felt good.....really, wait what!! He jumped up, almost climbing halfway up into the nearest tree and looking down at Jackie as if he were a deformed bear about to eat him, scared and somewhat desturbed. "Alright coon, what the hell??" He asked, trying to fight back the urge to cut his hand off. He was on the other side of the fire now, against a tree and close to snapping. "I know we've gone from hate hate to uuhh, travel buddies but you can only go so far here." He needed a smoke, and he hoped the other would stay where he was.

[ShadesofGrey]

"Yea....here...." He laid the promised things to the other man down where he was sitting, knowing now that it was unsuccessful, well he tried. "My appologise, I don't know why I thought that would help...." He stood up, leaving his shoes where they were, taking his more important bag and trodging off. He didn't know where the hell he was going but it wasn't going to be there anymore. He felt so foolish, he didn't really expect it to be okay with the other but some guys just get desperate that way. He didn't like this guy like that, but it still hurt to be rejected. He didn't walk for long, eventually he was at a run, nothing needed to be remembered, he wasn't going back there.

[Master_Rollipolly]

It wasn't long before he felt bad for making him leave and he left the comfort of their stuff, of their fire, extra food and his shoes. He ran after him, ignoring the pain in his bare feet until he found him after running a little ways down the hill. It turned out that they had been on a mountain the entire time and walking around the damned thing instead of going straight down. "Hey, coon." He caught up with him and grabbed his arm, being more gentle than with Iliajah. "Hey look, you just...kind of caught me off guard, but I didn't mean to chase you away so just...just come back okay, theres no need to split up, We should hit the base tomorrow then we can both catch a damned plane out of here." He was out of breath.

[ShadesofGrey]

Jackie pulled away, not looking at him, curling away defensively. He didn't want to be seen right then, he felt like a idiot. Shaking his head was the only reply that he gave. The walk back was the quietest that the dark haired man had been since he had met the larger fellow. He didn't lay on the pallet, he used the tree at support to sleep on, hiding his shameful face behind his long hair. Dissapearing would be the best thing he could do right now, or so he felt. The bottoms of his feet were bleeding and had a few thorn like things in them but he couldn't honestly feel it at this point. His arms were wrapped around himself to make things feel a bit more comfortable.

[Master_Rollipolly]

Croc took the ripped parts of his shirt and wrapped up Jackie's feet after cleaning them up a bit. He did the same to his own and then instead of sleeping on the pallet he used it to cover the both of them up. "There, now we really do look like we belong in the jungle." He declared smoking some more of his cigar and trying to lighten the mood. "So....why is it, you always have to wash something before you eat it....is it like a neat freak OCD thing, or is that how you got your code name?" He was trying to lighten the mood but lets face it, Jackie was way better at it than he was. He offered him the cigar, hoping he would take it and calm down a bit.

[ShadesofGrey]

Jackie had pulled his feet away, he didn't want any attention, he'd much rather be forgotten about, that was what he wanted. If he would have stayed with the Grays he would have never been noticed. He sighed giving in and letting the man have his way. "Red nation chemicals..." Was all he said to answer the other's question, he shook his head no to the cigar. Why did he feel like this, he just didn't understand. "Don't.....don't pretend to be nice to me." He said not know what the difference was, he hadn't had real friends in about three or four years.

[Master_Rollipolly]

Raoule shrugged. "Who said I was pretending..." He puffed some more on the cigar before putting it out and saving the rest. "You've been haggling me to lighten up on this whole trip and now I'm light and your saying that I'm pretending. Hell, I owe ya one, why wouldn't I like someone who saved my ass...and besides, we're going to go show those bastards up tomorrow so just don't think about these past few days and think about the looks on their faces when we walk through those doors singing mission sucess." He wasn't normally this sentimental, but some things were needed.

[ShadesofGrey]

"How can I not think about these last few days, there were some of the most hellish days of my life. After that how can I not think about them, you should be ready to slay my head off really, that option is still open for you to consider because honestly I wouldn't mind." He laid down using his favored bad as a pillow and something to hide his face in. "It wouldn't matter anyway, all I want is to be forgotten about, I should have stayed with the Grays, they would have never known I was there, they didn't care about me, then I could just end up dead at the end of this week or so just like them and it wouldn't really matter at all." He huffed, anger fueling him. "No body knew me, no body knows me and no one sure as hell cares about me. But that's my problem, I didn't make friends, didn't want to because they were the enemy." His eyes that couldn't be seen were staring dead on at the fire reflecting it's flames. "I wanted you to lighten up so I could have someone to talk to but now I'm more so considering just going and jumping off a cliff. So what I saved your ass, if I wouldn't have bothered you in the first place non of this would have happened and you could have taken all the glory. I shouldn't have bothered you...." He died down, running out of anger to fuel his protesting arguments. Recoiling within himself he hid from the world.