Milkshake Hearts

Chapter 79: Suss of Red

A/N: Fun fact: I spent money on Among Us for PC and have never played it even though I got friends that still do (on mobile, anyway). Oops.

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The second-last full week of November marks Smosh's 15th anniversary, although they don't have a whole heap of space to actually celebrate it, given they've got a week full of sketch and Games shoots. They hire out an events space at a bar Ian likes for the Friday evening, though, all of the cast and most of their crew confirming they will be in attendance for at least some of the celebration.

Just, they've got a week of filming to get through first.

Some of their crew start early on Tuesday morning, taking a few interconnected rooms in their studio and a hallway to turn them into a faux Among Us spaceship. Tommy joins Damien, Shayne, Ian, Sarah and Courtney in the video, Matt on a loudspeaker giving them directions from both a game and filming aspect.

They are each handed envelopes with either their task or killing instructions. Courtney is relieved to see a list of two tasks in her own envelope, quickly putting on a messy walk as she heads for the room designated as storage to clean up leaves. It's a frustratingly long task, but she barely sees anyone else, and it's nice and peaceful, bar the occasional sounds of crashing coming from someone else fucking around. She has no way to know, really, but something tells her it's probably Shayne.

Someone blows their whistle repetitively quite a few minutes in to their game, and as they sit back on the stools in their meeting spot she learns it was Ian completely forgetting they had a single-whistle signal for dead bodies, having reporting Tommy's death. They deliberate messily, Courtney choosing not to add in much given she has little information anyway, although Damien confirms that the person crashing around one of their tasks – stacking pencils in cups, apparently – was indeed Shayne.

"I'm skipping, but I'm suss of Shayne," Damien votes first, followed by Sarah stating the same.

"I'm suss of red as well, but I skip too!" Ian confirms, glaring Shayne's direction.

"I'll skip too, but kinda suss of Damien," Courtney gives her vote, looking to Shayne as he also skips.

"I'm suss of everyone," he emphasises, voice taking on a higher pitch. Sarah and Courtney both look at him a little aghast, before he quickly adds, "well, not Courtney."

When they return to the game, Courtney finally finishes off cleaning up the leaves, going to prance out of the room towards her next task. She forgets her envelope, of course, not able to stop herself from laughing when Sarah stares suspiciously at here as she goes back for the envelope before continuing to walk messily down the hallway – past Shayne twisting paintings all over the place – to the kitchen to fill containers of water.

Her suspicion of Damien is confirmed when he steps into the room with her, staring at her for a moment. She lifts her whistle up as if to call an emergency meeting, but he quickly exits. She deliberates for a moment, deciding to just focus on her task instead and let the others come to a more definite conclusion of suspicion first. She isn't given long, though, soon hearing a single whistle followed by two more in quick succession.

"Wait, so where did you see Sarah die?" Courtney tries to confirm with Ian, but he quickly shakes his head.

"No, I didn't see the body, I just called an emergency meeting to vote Shayne off because he's annoying," Ian confirms.

"Come on! I've just been doing my job, dammit!" Shayne defends, Courtney also stepping in to defend him, pointing out he's been around people working on tasks the whole time.