Mᴜᴛᴀɴᴛ Aᴘᴏᴄᴀʟʏᴘsᴇ 5: Bʟᴀᴄᴋ Mᴀsᴋs ❪✓❫

17 || 𝐀𝐌 𝐈 𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐙𝐘 𝐓𝐎 𝐘𝐎𝐔?

𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝗼𝐫'𝐬 𝐏𝐎𝐕

Osa glanced at Donatello, both of them rushing out to go outside. They saw that people were still picking up the dead victims of the attack or the infected bodies. Michelangelo guided his bother and Osa to the warm breeze and bought them to April where there had been a few weak spots. "April?" Osa says. "What is it?"

The young woman bushed her hair back and adjusted her black leather jacket. "Osa, I need you to help rebuild the wall as fast as possible."

Osita had the feeling like she had just been slapped in the face. How could April demand Osa o fix the community right away? What if Osa was mounting a loss? But her excuse was to be there for Donnie and hope he would be okay for the rest of the evening. "April, we just got attacked. I need to be with Donnie."

Just behind this conversation, Vincent cleaned off her bloody knife and holstered it into her belt. She came up to Donnie and Osa, hearing April wanted work to be done as soon as possible. Vv didn't even go for the gentle approach this time around. "No, April. She can wait a night at least. So don't make her work."

April ignored Vv and looked at Osa, waiting for her to follow directions. "Go on." She gestured to the weak spot.

"Sure, April." Osa walked to the wall where more men and mutants worked together to repair it.

Vv opened her mouth to protest. "Osa, you don't--" But she stopped abruptly once she realized Osa didn't even slow down. She then glared at April. "Are you serious right now? Do you really want more deaths after what happened two hours ago?!"

April crossed her arms and shook her head. "Of course, not Vinny." She smirked. "Osa is a big help."

"What's going on here?" Duke and Donnie walk behind Vv.

Vv turned to her boyfriend and mutant friend walking up to her. "April's making Osa go work on the wall. I told her that she could wait till it was morning but April still made her go!" Vv tried to explain.

Donnie sighed as he watched Osa lift up wooden planks, straining her shoulders and back. He shifted his eyes to April. "April, she isn't fit to do this right now." He defended Osa with Vincent.

Duke agreed. "Yeah, April. Many of us just fought off infected and everyone is emotional right now."

April hated that she got stuck in these situations. "I think Osa didn't lose anyone. She's doing just fine."

Vv sighed and looked down at her hands. She couldn't see them well but she knew they still had the dried blood from the boy who was bitten today. And she is the one who put him out of his misery. "April, we all lost someone today-- a kid. An innocent boy." She said as Donnie and Duke looked at her. "No one is in a good emotional state after what happened. Everyone needs to rest."

"Then who is going to guard the weak spot, V? Certainly not you, of course," April said, her tone so cold.

Vv glared at the community's leader. "Better me than you!"

"Vv, let it go," Duke said.

Donnie touched her shoulder. Vincent sighed, turning to Duke. He could see she was fighting back tears. "I can't. Duke, you knew that boy better than I did. He was in our classes! Are you just going to try and forget this ever happened and 'let it go'?"

Duke didn't know what to say to that. April walked off from the conversation so she could direct the people toward the weak spot. She is eager to have it fixed up. Donatello went to go assist Osa while the couple dealt with their business.

Vincent looked down at the ground. "I'm going to go clean my gun." She said, walking away from the conversation which had been wrapped up.

Duke followed Vincent. "What are you doing?"