Outside Of Life [WayHaught]

Vanilla-Dipped Donuts

Dolls took everyone's gun in turn and checked it was loaded, working and on safety mode. Doc then did the same but with everyone's rope. It was starting to sink in that what she was about to do was serious and could end in an unfortunate incident.

"You'll be ok, Waves," Wynonna said, taking out her food rations. "We're only going a few miles out today so it'll be kinda safe, or at least safe enough that we won't die." Wynonna paused for a moment as she looked up and down the wall in front of them. "Probably."

Waverly gulped and she tried to recall what she had in her own backpack. There was her walkie-talkie, a small pistol with its bullets separate so she didn't shoot herself in the back by accident. There were a couple of packets of boil-in-a-bag food and a bit of rope as well. Deciding it was better to double check than worry, she took off the backpack and rummaged through it.

"Is that supposed to resemble a pizza?"

Waverly looked up at her sister. Wynonna was looking in disgust at Ser-Nicole. The younger Earp turned her head to see what her sister was talking about and, sure enough, there was a weird pizza-ish type thing in Nicole's hands.

"Yeah," the redhead said, grimacing. "It gets worse - it's gluten-free."

Wynonna held a hand to her mouth, almost in shock. "How could you, Haught?"

"Unlike you, I can't survive on donuts and whiskey."

The elder Earp laughed and put her backpack back on, as did Waverly. "You'll wish you had the vacuum-packed donuts when we're four hours into our trek, Haught. You know I'm right too."

"Probably, but at least I won't be tired the entire time?" Nicole pulled her hiking bag onto her back in one swift motion, having put the pizza back into its place.

Waverly hung back as the redhead walked through a crack in the wall with her sister, the pair of them laughing. "Are they always like that?" She looked up at Doc who was re-adjusting his hat in the reflection of the puddle in front of them.

"They sure are," he said. "They are as thick as thieves and I dread to think what could happen if one of those demons got between them."

The younger Earp sighed and followed the notorious gunslinger into the wall. She was instantly taken aback by how thick the wall was; they were walking for a good five minutes before they got out to the other side. Once out, it took a moment for her eyes to adjust - there was never this much sunlight in the city?

"You ok there, Waves?" Wynonna smiled at her sister and passed her a pair of slightly broken sunglasses. "You'll get used to it, though the smell will get worse."

"What smell?"

Nicole laughed and shook her head, walking backwards to smile at the youngest Earp. "She's talking about us; walking beneath the rays of the sun won't leave you smelling like a daisy, that's for sure."

Wynonna scoffed. "She's lying, baby girl. Well. I say that.. Everyone does stink by the time we get back, but Sergeant Haught over there always smells like vanilla-dipped donuts and it drives me crazy. One day I'll figure out her secret."

"Like I said; thick as thieves." Doc patted Waverly on her shoulder as the two of them walked further into the dishevelled remains of whatever world had existed before zombies.

"Do you have donuts under your pits? Is there one in your pants? Dammit, tell me the answer, Haught!"

Wynonna's annoyance echoed around the crumpled buildings but Waverly couldn't deny how funny it was. It was just a shame that she was almost certain that the fun wasn't going to last very long. After all, they were outside the city. She was an Outsider.