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evan | trapper. ([personal profile] bloodandbrass) wrote2021-04-08 05:44 am
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[personal profile] hardlydead 2023-09-21 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
Bullshit you don't. Wouldn't be asking me all these questions if you didn't. Not exactly known for being a chatterbox, are you?

I know how shit goes for me here. Don't need you dredging it up to entertain yourself.
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[personal profile] hardlydead 2023-09-21 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ david could reply, or he could stew on this until it makes him angry enough to storm over to macmillan and argue in person. ]

[ surprise, surprise, he's going over there. always an eerie quiet about the place, so it doesn't occur to him that trapper's not even there right now. depending on how long it takes him to navigate the place versus how long that trial takes, he might not even find that out. ]
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[personal profile] hardlydead 2023-09-21 08:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ it's a little confusing at first, the second time david disarms a trap and doesn't see or hear a hint on trapper coming his way to find out who's on his turf this time. it does click eventually, that the ornery bastard must be in a trial, because where else does he go, and that leaves david kind of impotently angry. ]

[ he could just leave, that would be sensible. contemplates breaking a bunch of traps the way they used to just to get some of that anger out, plus the added bonus of knowing it'll righteously piss off trapper when he gets back. ]

[ could make himself useful while he's out here, which is the logic that has david slowly make his way down toward the workshop. see if he can't nab a couple of things that'll come in handy later. well the first thing he does when he gets down there is stop to hastily clean and bandage a hand after one of those traps snapped closed faster than he expected and gouged a chunk out of the side, but then. then he will peruse the goods. ]
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[personal profile] hardlydead 2023-09-21 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ this is far from the first time david's been in here, usually at the behest of jake or felix, but david's never really stopped to look around. some killers, you generally can't afford to waste time before they're breathing down your neck demanding blood in exchange for you daring to step foot on their property, and trapper pretty much defines that archetype. but. ]

[ maybe it's just the fact that any other time david's been here it was with something specific in mind that slows him down this time, no idea what would be most useful to nab. something that'd go good in a toolbox, maybe? david walks the length of the place while he wraps the bandage around his hand, doesn't think to look for anything except trapper's signature bear traps, more distracted wondering if he even makes anything except weapons and traps when he looks at the forge. ]

[ the thing that really catches his attention is the bloody workbench, david stops to get a closer look at the spread, nudges what he thinks is a welder (he's not a tool guy okay) with the back of his hand and makes a slightly involuntary noise of disgust at the tackiness of almost-but-not-completely dry blood on it. ]
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[personal profile] hardlydead 2023-09-22 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ it's weird, somehow it's just never occurred to him that trapper might sometimes need to patch up his own wounds, even despite the fact that david has left the man bloody himself. david idly wonders how often he needs this little station, how often he gets into fights, especially ones that end this messily. trapper complains, but he's part of the problem too. ]

[ david kneels, expecting to find more "medical" supplies under the bench, but instead it's that box of offerings. david leafs through them out of curiosity, half contemplates stealing them but instead he just tucks it back where it was with a sigh. stands and starts to move toward the back. ]
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[personal profile] hardlydead 2023-09-22 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ despite the sense of unease, the way something in the air has changed, david keeps moving through to the back of the workshop. pauses to take a look at something-- a manifest, an accounting ledger, a bunch of admin for an old mine.]

[ it's the paintings that really pull his attention. david takes a knee in front of the canvases, carefully dusts the top one with a hand and a puff of breath to blow the dust away. he doesn't recognise whoever the painting's of, not at a first look, but all the shit back here looks old as hell, like maybe it's from before the fog. ]
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[personal profile] hardlydead 2023-09-22 10:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ it's weird to see trapper just looking like a normal person, if not for the scar david probably wouldn't have even recognised him. it's not hard to guess the other person is his old man, the two of them looking about as pleasant as david would expect. reminds him more than he's comfortable with of family photos with his parents, all three of them trying to channel their misery and rage into something haughty and intimidating for the camera. ]

[ that thought is probably what makes him get up and stop looking at the painting, because any similarities between him and trapper beyond their mutually short tempers and propensity for violence is a disquieting concept that david has no interest in lending any mental real estate to. ]

[ back to trying to make use of this trip. david walks back into the workshop proper, looking over the pieces of a dismantled trap, but he can't shake the feeling that something is different to when he came in here. in a trial, he'd probably know if he was imminent danger, especially with the likes of the local lord, as it were. ]

[ david stands still for a minute, trying to decide whether or not he's just being paranoid, but what the fuck. he picks up a screwdriver and holds it in a tight grip. not much against a cleaver, but it's something. ]


You out there?
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[personal profile] hardlydead 2023-09-22 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it's long enough that david almost decides he's just being paranoid, that he should just get out of there before trapper actually does come back instead of just standing there in the silence like a fucking idiot. it's only when he finally spots trapper in the doorway that david knows he was right, but the satisfaction of finding out he was right comes simultaneous with the crushing realisation that he's, funnily enough, trapped. only one way out and it's through that big, mean bastard. ]

[ david doesn't panic though, stands his ground, grip tight on the screwdriver. and then trapper speaks and david rolls his eyes — he'd almost forgotten what it was that made him come down here, that he was incensed enough by the needling to trek out here like that would do anything. ]


Fuck you. [ he gestures, broad and frustrated, with his bloody and bandaged hand. ] You don't know shit about me.
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[personal profile] hardlydead 2023-09-22 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Doesn't matter, does it? Ain't like you're gonna move aside all of a sudden.

[ david's not hard to rile up, the only reason he manages to get the better of evan is because he's good at running his mouth, makes it easy to get at him first more often than not. but even so, this is different. it's not david's usual kind of anger, the kind that burns hot and boils over. there's something frenetic to it, as if he'd vibrate right out of his skin if he could. restless and frustrated. ]

[ clearly trapper managed to hit something that actually really bothers him. ]
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[personal profile] hardlydead 2023-09-22 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ david works his jaw, takes a step forward and then back again on the other foot. pure, restless enery. he's not sure what to do here really, eventually just heaving a sigh. ]

Came out 'cause you pissed me off. [ shrug ] Figured I'd make myself useful since you weren't here.

[ he's got some of the most useful shit in the fog here, they both know that. ]
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[personal profile] hardlydead 2023-09-23 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
What do you fuckin' think?

[ he wonders, in the moment, if the screwdriver could pierce through the mask and trapper's skull in one go? if he could put enough force behind it to drive it through. if he moved quick and sudden enough, he could probably close most of that distance before trapper reacts. ]

[ david doesn't do that, but his grip tightens around the screwdriver's handle. ]


Show you a death wish, you miserable fuckin' cunt. [ if trapper won't move, that's fine. david doesn't close the distance, but he takes a couple steps in that direction, lip curled in the a sneer. ]
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[personal profile] hardlydead 2023-09-23 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ there's no hesitation, david grabs a tool off the nearest worktop and throws it in a quick, fluid motion. for all the shit the fog's taken from him, his aim is still as good as it was back in his rugby days. it doesn't have to hit hard, nor does he expect it to, just has to be something trapper has to react to or have it smash him in the... mask. ]

[ david rushes him in the aftermath, leaving as little time between the thrown tool and the impact of his own body as he charges trapper shoulder-first. he's not so ridiculous as to think he can just push past the man, but he can put him off balance if he times it right. ]
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[personal profile] hardlydead 2023-09-23 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ david weathers the blows, grits his teeth through the pain-- it should knock his ass down, but maybe it's the anger that keeps him up. internally frustrated that he felt the bastard almost tip over, but it wasn't enough. how it always fucking goes with this asshole, never quite enough to tip the odds. ]

[ he's been guilty of holding on to shit for too long before, waiting for the right moment, not this time. he snarls, shoves his shoulder harder against trapper's chest so he has the room to raise his other arm and try to jam the screwdriver into trapper's thigh. doing his best to keep hold of it so he can really make it hurt. ]

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