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Coraline rolls her eyes, "You don't have a knife or a sword or nothin'? Come OOOOOON low ammo makes it CHALLENING, which is even more entertaining!" She nods rapidly.

"I've got a Bowie knife... Still, I don't think it's a good idea. I'm gonna need the ammo later eventually and I'm going to regret wasting it on a bug hunt. And I've killed enough people and things to last me a lifetime, thank you." He frowned, fingering the hilt of the knife.

Cora rolls her eyes, turning to him, "Well then forget the gun and substitute the knife! Come oooooooooon, ya know you waaaaaaant tooooooooooooooo."

He crossed his arms, raising an eyebrow stubbornly. "No, actually, I don't. I just want to keep moving before something bad happens and we get caught in a swarm."

Cora rolls her eyes, "Wow, you're no fun are you?" She puts her weapon back and huffs, slouching as she waddled over to him, making a, "Dum... budum... budum... budum..." in a musical way, but she was obviously making fun of how she was walking, as well as how slow she was doing so.

"Fun gets us killed. Just trust me on that one." He walked back to the Humvee, glancing around as he went. "You know, I'm kinda surprised more zombies weren't attracted to your gunshot-"
Right on cue, a walker lurched out from behind the car as he was going for his door handle. "CHRIST!" The zombie was rewarded with a blade through the chin and it dropped after a second stab in the temple.
Anthony shook himself out, calm once more as he got in the Humvee- startled him, that was all. He drummed his fingers on the steering wheel to hide the fact that his hands had started up with their shaking again, those little traitors.

Cora widened her eyes and was already in the humvee by the time he hopped in, "Okay, yeah, let's go." She's shivering slightly, more in a nervous state than anything, nodding her head rapidly, "Bad bad bad bad..." She looks out her window nervously.

He waited until she was in before cruising down the road again, trying to keep a healthy distance from the city. A few other zombies had lunged out at them, but were quickly lost to view as they drove farther away.
He was slightly annoyed that his hands hadn't stopped shaking yet, because he was fine, perfectly fine. Calm and everything... Stupid hands. He seemed to be losing control of them more as time went on.
He just hoped they wouldn't turn on him when he needed them the most.

Cora huffs after a while and lets out a breath she was holding, then looks over at Anthony, "I-I'm real sorry... I didn't mean for that to happen..."

"Wasn't your fault," he told her simply, looking over at Coraline. "We're good."

Cora frowns for a few more moments before looking up at him and smiling, then blinking at his hands, tilting her head slightly as she loses her smile, "You... you okay?"

His eyes widened slightly as he noticed his hands were still quivering, and he gripped the steering wheel harder to try to get them to stop. Dammit.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine," he said quickly as his knuckles started turning white from holding the leather of the steering wheel so hard. "I'm fine."

Cora blinked at him, "Hey... Guy if you need help or need me to leave or somethin', I-I'll go, I don't like causin' people trouble..." She frowns, giving him a sad look, "I really am sorry if that's me causin' ya to do that..."

"NO!" He took a deep breath to calm himself down, slightly ashamed at his outburst. "No, don't leave... It's not you, it's me. This is all me. I don't know why, exactly, but it's something I'm doing- something I've done- jacked with my head... I don't know. I really don't. But it's not you..."

Cora flinched roughly at his burst, shrinking in on herself slightly, pulling some hair behind her ear and keeping her hand so it hid her face a bit, "A...Alright..." She sighs, "Do we... need to stop somewhere or somethin' for you? I-I can keep anything distracted that comes near..."

"No, I'm fine... It'll go away in a few minutes, it always does. I'm fine."
Yeah, Anthony, maybe if you tell yourself that long enough it'll come true.
He sighed, straightening his hand out. He was right, they weren't shaking quite as much now... Looked like it was fading away somewhat. Great. But he had freaked Coraline out and he half wished he could slap himself for that, but he'd probably miss. Oh well...

Cora kept blinking over at him every so often before lowering her hand and wiggling over to the edge of her seat, "You should probably rest Anthony... Or take a small break, maybe it'd help it go away faster..." She nods, blinkg up at him with innocent eyes.

He frowned down at his hands, finally sighing in resignment and coasting to a stop there on the highway. He shifted the car into park and studied his hands, not meeting Coraline's gaze.

Cora blinks at his hands for a moment before smiling a bit, "Maybe if you didn't FOCUS so much on it," she says with a playful poke to his shoulder, "than you'd be able to get rid of it quicker." She hugs around his arm a bit, hoping that'd calm him down.

"I try, I can't help it," he sighed, leaning into Cora's hug slightly. A hug- a hug? God, it had been forever since he had had one of those.
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, the shaking subsiding to a gentle twitch. "It's gone. I'm fine."