I'll Keep You Safe, I Promise (p)

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    A few members of the Grizzlies were stumbling around drunk from a local bar. They walked down the sidewalk and spotted a young girl around their age or so just trying to find her way back home. The leader of the group initiated and neared the girl. The group forced her to the back of an alleyway planning on hurting her. They started beating her up and were about to go further when two footsteps were heard at the entrance of the alley. They turned and saw them. Riley Johnson. Riley Johnson was standing before them. "Gentlemen, I'm going to give you 5 second to get out of here before I knock you into next week" they threatened before starting to count. The three Grizzlies freaked and ran out by the time they got to three. They then neared the beaten up girl who was going to need some help. "Hey, you want some help?" they asked

    The young woman coughed up a bit of blood feeling her... well everything hurt no throb as she sat up. Upon seeing a stranger suddenly approached them caused her to flinch awa in fear a bit. "Y-yeah...." she squeaked, hugging herself as if it was her only form of protection.

    "Can you stand?" Riley asked. They noticed how she was developing bruises...well practically everywhere. Especially near her chest. They reached out a hand for her to grab onto hoping to help her stable herself as she tried to stand. If she couldn't then Riley was going to carry her. They weren't going to leave her out in the back lot of a building to die.

    Hesitantly, the currently nameless young woman took the stranger's hand and attempted to stand. Only to fail and find her legs collapsing under her. Okay so she can't stand so it makes sense that she will be unable to walk anywhere.

    Riley watched her stumble and scooped her up in his arms before lifting her up in their arms. "I'm going to take care of you, okay? You're going to need to heal for a few days. Now let's start off with some introductions. I'm Riley, who are you?" they asked as the two of them walked to his small apartment.

    "Zoe, huh? I like it" they smiled climbing up the stairs and leading her to the couch in their small apartment that housed now four people. "Alright, let's start with your bleeding mouth" they suggested noticing a cut lip

    Riley came back and tended to her sounds showing a more gentle side that many never really saw all that much of them. It was about two in the morning when they stopped to sleep and crashed on the floor in front of the couch.

    The sun started to rise and sunlight hit through the window shining through. Riley groaned not wanting to get up, but ended up doing so anyway. "Zoe, you doing okay?" they asked sitting up at looking at the young woman

    "You're an easy target. You were walking by yourself at night and didn't have any indication of a rival group. Not to mention those guys were drunk out of their minds so they wanted to have some fun"