Don't Panic tackled Koodauw from behind, who put up no fight after they crashed to the ground. Don't Panic kicked the gun across the floor, sending it skipping toward Queen of Spades, who picked it up and removed the magazine.
Koodauw sat up against the wall, knees to his chest, gently touching his lip and looking at his fingers. He turned to the side and lazily spit driblets of blood out of his mouth, lightly coughing in disapproval. He looked up to see the entire group standing in a semi-circle around him, their stares fixed on him.
"What?" he scoffed. "I saved you all the trouble. You know we were gonna argue about it. People would take sides and factions would form." He paused and pressed his tongue against his bottom lip. "Then either he'd be fine, and no one would trust the guys that wanted to kill him. Or, well... one of the kids would go shambling up to their old man with with their throat hanging open."
Koodauw stood up, sliding up the wall for support. He spread his arms and huffed "Well, now ya got one bad guy. Saved you all the god damn trouble."
"He's right," ucfgrad93 called from the back of the group, pressing forward through the group. He looked from one side of the group to the next and pointed to ravenvii with his gun, wrist turned so the muzzle pointed at the group. "He and I will do inspections."
"Inspections? What inspections?" Sythas questioned.
"For bites, of course" ucfrad93 said matter-of-factly. "We'll pick a room, and you'll strip down and we'll look for bites."
"And what about the kids?!" Tomorrow challenged. "You don't trust the parents?"
"No," ucfgrad93 clucked, "I don't."
Moyank24 narrowed her eyes at him. "And you two?"
"What, you volunteering, princess?" ucfgrad93 ignored her stare. He pointed at Koodauw. "Like the man said - we can commit to not trusting each other and things gettin' nasty. Or, we can get this over with and make this place safe. We got all the water we need, and our food stores ain't half bad either. More food would be nice, but I think we can all agree that killin' each other ain't the most agreeable way to make it last."
Some members of the group started shaking their heads, looking to each other for approval and slightly backing away from the group. The rest stood motionless with blank stares. Koodauw seemed to take that for acceptance.
"YOU'RE NOT TOUCHING THEM!" Tomorrow lunged and landed a solid right hook, his momentum sending both of them spilling to the ground. They wrestled briefly on the ground before a gun discharged.
ucfgrad93 rolled Tomorrow off of the top of him and laid gasping for breath. Tomorrow was clutching his side, hand wet and red. He took a few short shallow breaths before he gasped and fell still, his eyes staring blankly at the fluorescent lights above him.
"Now, god dammit, no one else has to die" ucfgrad93 croaked. "Let's get this over with."
No one objected this time.
It is now DAY 2 and Tomorrow has been killed in the night. Majority is 7. The deadline is 5 PM PDT Monday 7/7, Midnight GMT.