Thread: What Do You Fear? [randomname98766789 and Amaranthine]

With nothing but the sea ahead of them there wasn't much for Alicia to do besides spend time with Bryce, which wasn't something she argued with. While she had been about to offer to take over the radio, she was also more than willing to hand it off to Anna. She would have just spent the day with Bryce anyways, her head in his lap and her eyes on the sky. It would have been peaceful, relaxing even - and it was. She didn't miss the way that Anna was acting, though, and she caught sight of Nick walking away from the deck with a less than pleasant expression as Anna had laid on the deck. Alicia didn't get what her older brother saw in the women - there had been several times that Anna had met the Clarks and each time had just made Alicia less and less impressed. Though she wasn't going to sentence anyone to death by kicking them off the boat, she didn't understand why the woman had been brought along in the first place. Of course I won't, Alicia said as they approached the island. She was already close to Bryce's side and had barely a moment without him since their confessions. That wasn't about to change now, especially given that they didn't know if whoever inhabited the island would be friendly. They stepped off in the darkness, leaving the Salazars on the boat with Strand, and from there the group ventured towards the house in hopes that whoever lived here was friendly enough to allow them passing shelter while they figured out where to go from here now that San Diego was no longer an option. ---- If there was one thing that Anna was a champ at handling it was withdrawal, which is what she ended up spending most of the first night doing - the fever, the chills, the shakes. She was able to keep herself from puking but only just barely and by the time that morning came and the others had awoken she had, for the most part, sorted herself out. The physical symptoms were gone at least, but she still found herself restless and with only one smoke in her pocket she was trying to save it for a time when she really, really needed it. Volunteering to take over the radio was an easy call - it gave her a distraction and something to do to keep busy, and eventually she found herself talking to someone by the name of Jack who was stuck with his brother and girlfriend. There was no denying that there was flirtation in her voice, a sweet tone that that had once upon a time drawn Nick himself in and she found a strange sense of superiority in using it in front of him - she would deny it though, if asked. She had genuinely laughed when Nick walked away, and explained to Jack that she was stuck here with her ex of all people. Jack seemed like a good person, and was a much needed distraction - not to mention part of her saw him as a way to get away from here. Tensions had remained high after her fight with Nick and she didn't expect that to come down any time soon. She couldn't pretend that her heart hadn't dropped when she watched Nick dive in after his step brother and the dead from the boat they had passed earlier began to circle in on him, though. She almost - almost - ran for him as soon as he got back on to the boat, wet clothes be damned. She had switched her button down in favor of a low cut tank top anyways. Luckily she caught herself - that would have been interesting to try to explain, both to him and to herself. Anna was interested in the island that they were approaching, especially after the discovered that there was someone living there. That meant food, shelter - the chance to maybe get her hands on something that might sooth the itch in her veins. As the boat neared she paced on the deck, and once they docked she was one of the first to walk off.