#itsallronni‌

[castanheirx]

these violent delights have violent ends // part two

RONNI

he didn't hesitate. he held up a pair of open palms and let his eyes gaze upwards. "hey, man, all good here. no jokes." he put them down lazily and into the pockets of the denim -- jean? gene? whatever... -- jacket and sighed dramatically. the whole situation, albeit incredibly humorous, was starting to rub him the wrong way. now leon, of all people, was beginning to get pissy. "I just think it's funny how--" he began but stopped at goldie's verbal lashing.

NIKE

"it wasn't me, goldie!" she snapped, "how many times do i have to say it?! i dragged his body out of that goddamn store to try and save him. those mutts tore his throat out, i used my jacket to try and stop the bleeding! he was dead by the time i got out of the store." her tone was cruel, the truth was just as harsh, but nike was trying to save her own ass because it was two against three, and of the three, two of them were more than capable of taking her out. and she hated the way goldie was glaring at her.

RONNI

"huh?" he barked before he could stop himself. the call would probably go on deaf ears, but goldie's accusatory tone that was now directed at him was definitely rubbing him the wrong way. those twins were always gonna be trouble. he knew that. well, he thought as he crossed his arms over his chest, at least one of them was dead now.

LEON

leon could see this situation imploding a lot quicker than he thought, and in a way that could possibly get all of them killed, he gazed down at goldie's shaking hands hoping they weren't going to reach for a weapon any time soon. "goldie please, i know you're upset but please, it looks like his throat has been ripped out or something and nike couldn't have done it. she wouldn't do that to you." he walked towards her; his eyes concerned but ultimately sympathetic. "goldie come on, you need to calm down."

AGGIE

she laughed at ronni's joke, the weight lifting off her somewhat. "you don't need a weapon to that, goldie's one hundred percent right." for once, she shot a kind look to the girl who had forced her off the roof. "i mean, look what i did in the bloodbath. we can do amazing things with our hands." "stop being modest and own up to it, anyway." aggie added with a shrug. "i'll know the truth when i win and watch the replays anyway!"

LEON

“shut - and i cannot stress this enough - the fuck up for one second aggie.”

NIKE

how many times could she say the same thing over and over again? it was like talking to a wall. had her hands not been stained with blood, she would have rubbed at her eyes in frustration. instead, she lowered her head and let out an exasperated sigh.

AGGIE

"who the fuck made you president snow?" aggie threw back. "stop pretending you're in charge, leon. besides, you're in the minority opinion here."

RONNI

ronni, not wanting to be a part of the verbal altercation between leon and aggie -- he owed both of them a certain amount of loyalty, see -- took a large step back and slowly walked over to where calix's corpse lay bloody and vulnerable. the others weren't paying him any attention, right? he looked to the left and saw nike with her head in her hands. leon and aggie were fighting. goldie... well, she was indisposed. he walked seemingly without a purpose closer and closer to calix. then, as quietly as he could, attempted to hock up some spit from the back of his throat. however, to keep things chill and nice, he kept it in his mouth. he would get his chance, he thought. oh, yes -- soon.

LEON

she was right, but he refused to acknowledge that. "because literally none of you are being reasonable right now. goldie is upset, no offence aggie but you're literally out of your mind and ronni has wanted calix dead since the moment he met him."

GOLDIE

"i think i'm being perfectly reasonable! my brother is dead!"

NIKE

nike was used to the shouting, the screaming, so she kept quiet for now. she was used to anger being directed at her; fists thrown her way plenty of times. but she closed her eyes when goldie pointed out the obvious. it was justified, though, she had to give her that.

LEON

as leon got closer to goldie he decided that if nike didn't want to get murdered by the girl from one, her best bet would be to yeet out of there, leon turned his head and mouthed "run" to nike before turning back to goldie. "i know you're not i'm sorry, please goldie you know she didn't do this."

TL;DR: ronni plotting to spit on calix’s corpse whilst everybody else is too busy arguing, goldie is still in the middle of a breakdown but leon is trying to calm her down but aggie is beefing with him, nike has temporarily stopped trying to argue her case

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[castanheirx]

these violent delights have violent ends // part one

PREVIOUSLY ON TTW

the events of this take place in the morning of day two. leon has just left hot topic after killing phoenix. at the front of the store he was greeted by ronni when they both heard a cannon. nike and calix had gone off in search of food and/or water when calix was attacked by mutts. after he was attacked nike dragged his body out of the store in an attempt to save him. but unfortunately he died shortly after not far from the cornucopia where they had made camp. a shit show is about to ensue.

LEON

leon was still on a high from his first kill and making small talk with ronni when he heard the sound of another cannon boom, he looked around instinctively seeing nothing alarming or suspicious, but when yells from the other side of the cornucopia sounded, he ran around to see the complete and utter chaos. calix was dead. and nike was stood over his dead body covered in what he assumed was his blood. it seemed as though a silence had come over all of them as they processed the scene in front of them, then leon took a step forward, hands raised and eyes wide. "nike what the fuck is going on?"

RONNI

ronni, having also heard the noise, accompanied leon to see what the matter was. he expected to see an outlier lying dead -- or, better yet, bleeding out -- on the ground. his brow creased as he walked briskly over. god, he thought, he really needed to push it into overdrive. at this rate, all the kills would be taken. he was contemplating the future deaths of the outliers when he, like leon, came upon the bloody scene. a silence fell over the group. then, because he simply couldn't help himself, ronni felt the corners of his mouth twitch upwards into a grin. "Ha!" he barked at the sight of calix's body.

AGGIE

aggie was sitting on top of the cornucopia absentmindedly typing the strings from the bags together into knots (and "acting as a lookout," she had said when questioned, though mostly she just liked to be tall). when the cannon sounded and the scene made itself clear, aggie, like ronni, couldn't help herself. she let out a cackle as she slid down off the cornucopia, bounding over to stand next to the others. "just couldn't wait, huh two?"

NIKE

calix was dead. he was dead and nike was standing above his dead body, covered in his blood. she knew how this had to look to them-- it was worse with everyone coming in having no idea what happened. nike turned to face the others, lifting her hands, "i know this looks bad," she started, noticing the backs of her hands coated in drying blood. nike lowered her hands, as if that would help make anything better in this situation. "calix and i were looking through the stores. there were mutts in there," she pointed back at the store of stuffed mutts behind them, "they attacked and he... he got killed." ronni's laugh earned him a glare, but nike turned her gaze back toward leon, "i swear, i didn't--" aggie's accusation cut her off and her jaw clenched tight. "i didn't do it."

RONNI

ronni, still in a hysterical stupor at having spotted nike and calix's corpse, did not understand the gravity of the situation. he walked over to aggie, slung a loose arm over her shoulder, and bent his head over in a series of snorts and cackles. "oh, my god. he really was all talk. damn, good on you, nike," he cheered as he wiped away a stray tear from one of his ducts. then, as if a higher power had taken a dunce cap and placed it gingerly upon ronni's head, he stood at attention. "would it have killed ya' to let me have 'em?" it was miraculous just how much went through one of ronni's ear and out of the other. he hadn't heard a thing nike had said about anything -- only the sound of aggie's laughter and his own petty accusation filled his ears.

AGGIE

it took a moment to pin down the emotion aggie was feeling--she was still laughing, but as soon as nike claimed innocence, she got it. anger, resentment, jealousy. she had wanted to be the one to kill calix, to kill all of them. she had wanted to take them down all in one go, if she had gotten her way. it wasn't fair that she hadn't, nike had gone and done him in on the second day. she didn't even get a chance with calix. crossing her arms as she looked the girl up and down, she spit out her words in an accusatory manner. "what kind of mutts?"

GOLDIE

goldie emerged from the store where she'd been looking around for outlying tributes, and when she saw the blood, she assumed nike had found one. but — but. it was calix's blood lying on the ground, and it was nike covered in calix's blood. she covered her mouth with her hand. "oh my god..." she muttered. she couldn't believe this. she'd known he would die — hell, she'd been prepared to kill him herself — but she hadn't thought it'd be this soon. her head was spinning. she wanted to sit down. "how could you do this?" she asked, her voice low and accusatory. "i liked you." of all the careers goldie had expected to turn tail, nike wasn't on the top three. she didn't know why the fact that she'd liked nike was so important, but it felt like it was. it felt like a betrayal, a real one, not the fake one they were going to put on for the show. goldie's stomach turned. she hadn't expected it to happen like this, for it to feel like this, for it hurt like this.

LEON

leon decided to ignore the cackles and words from ronni and aggie because they were after all helping quite literally nobody at this point. “this looks fucked up nike," but he had just seen mutts in hot topic when he had killed phoenix, so if they were there, the chances of them lurking in other stores was likely. he put his hands down and walked closer towards nike,” i know you didn't do it." standing in between nike and the rest of the careers, he spoke again. “let’s be reasonable guys.”

GOLDIE

"how can i be reasonable?" goldie half-screeched. her nails were digging into her palms at this point and she was trying to keep her lip from quivering. "she just killed my brother! and i liked her!"

NIKE

"i didn't do it!" she snapped again, glaring at the duo from four. she looked toward aggie in particular, brow furrowed deeply. "go in there and see for your fucking self," she spat, throwing a thumb back at the make-a-mutt store. obviously neither of them was going to listen to her. at least ronni wasn't as envious as aggie seemed to be-- not that nike had killed calix to begin with. "i don't even have a weapon to do that to him," she added, briefly glancing back at calix's body. as soon as she saw goldie, the stern mask she had faltered, resorting to shaking her head again, "goldie, i didn't, i swear, i didn't do this." outside of leon, the twins had been the next people she had been most loyal to. the only other people she tolerated-- hell, maybe even liked. she looked back toward leon, her shoulders relaxing when he literally stepped in and stood up for her. with another deep breath, she recovered her stern expression, looking toward the others.

RONNI

"ooh, she liked her" ronni mumbled under his breath to aggie. the serious tone which leon had adopted -- or, rather, which ronni was just now picking up on -- sobered him up only slightly. the whole thing was funny to him for some reason. calix had been his enemy from that very fateful rooftop encounter. he had dreamt of spilling his blood himself. but now... this? it was just too much.

LEON

the boy rubbed his forehead in annoyance, this wasn’t the drama he had signed up for. “goldie i know your brother just died but if you had more than three fucking brain cells, you’d ask yourself how she managed to kill him. he had a weapon, he wasn’t injured and even if she did kill him why would she drag his dead body back here instead of running for the hills?” leon looked at ronni and pointed at him, "now isn't the time for jokes ronni!"

GOLDIE

goldie's hands were shaking. there were traces of blood on her palms in half moon crescents. "you don't need a weapon to kill people! fuck, look at our mentors, leon. this is all a set up. it has to be. she's got to be turning on us. we knew this would happen. i've been thinking about the way the pack was going to split since i met all of you." her voice shook as she turned to nike. "i just didn't think it'd be you."

TL;DR: calix is dead, goldie is freaking out, ronni is happy that calix is dead, nike and leon are stressed™ and aggie is acting like a crackhead as per usual

#ARENA DAY TWO. #TAG | CAREERS ASSEMBLE! #itsallronni‌ #nikeaurelius #goldieloques #aggieo #these violent delights have violent ends