Out of instinct; Marcus’s gaze followed her, it was only when he realised what she was looking at that he wished he hadn’t and he rolled his eyes to the back of his head and quickly refocused his gaze against the hospital building as the gloom held sway across it.  Watching Jake’s naked wet ass disappear into the dimness would not be marked as a mental high point in the day so far.  His gaze flashed across her as she made her comment laced with a soft infectious giggle<br/><br/>He responded to Kristie with a roll of his eyes and a smirk of his own at the thought of Jake and Dinah; “Guess it will make a change to be kept awake at night by the living moaning and groaning rather than the dead.”<br/><br/>The second time he turned around was more rewarding, certainly in his eyes as his watched the lithe scantily clad figure of Dinah slip back into the building, her hips swaying in a harmony that conjured the kind of thoughts he probably shouldn’t be having about her.  As his gaze pulled back around, both his eyes and those thoughts lingered; just for a moment against the defined figure of the Marine.  It was an almost breathless moment; Kristie seemed to project such strength that just her being there gave rise to his own courage, but at the same time she seemed almost …fragile; if that was the right word; perhaps not, but her eyes looked like they had borne witness to things she wished she could erase.<br/><br/>Everyone had their story in this brutal aftermath of<em>that</em>day, their own private hell that they had to find a way to placate in order to move forward.  A wavering smile flickered across his lips at the mention of the word<em>sins</em>, he hadn’t a religious bone or thought in his body but there would be no easy escape for him …not this time; every instance before he had been able to rely on his helicopter in extracting him from immediate danger, giving him a chance to regroup his thoughts …collect himself and find somewhere safe to catch his breath.  Now that had been taken from him; but the possible means to returning his wings lay within the dark municipal building, but in order to earn them he would have to face whatever lay within, and if not that, then maybe a chance to lay his nightmares to rest …or at least conjure fresh ones to take their place.  But even so, maybe he would find something else in there; even if it bought about his end, maybe he would find redemption.<br/><br/>Hell …who was he kidding, this was no challenge set by a omnipotent being; it was just that his ‘luck’ had ran out as his copter flew across this town.  Marcus nodded softly at Kristie‘s logic; there was no sense in risking all of them, this was likely a foolhardy enough task as it was without endangering everybody; and putting at risk what they had accomplished this day.<br/><br/>She had pegged him pretty well and he never even thought to volunteer anything that might indicate what had bought him to this point; not that it mattered anyway.  Like himself, he knew that she had her reasons, but sought not to pry or understand; what good would dwelling on the past do either of them; it would only detract from the focus of the ghostly edifice the stood a little way from them still in the slick sheen of the nights rain.<br/>His imagination was all to adept at conjuring the possibilities that would face them in the heart of the hospital.  The building had become embedded in his thoughts throughout the day, from his aborted decision to use it as a landing spot to his mentioning of raiding it for medical supplies earlier in the day.<br/><br/>How to slip away unnoticed was a concern, but the one thing that Jake and Dinah likely could not stave off was the need to sleep; something Marcus had tried to avoid for fear of what his dreams bought him, it seemed that his latent insomnia could prove to be a useful tool in biding his time until the opportunity arose for them be long gone before they noticed.  “They will have to sleep sometime.” he spoke with an absent minded drift to his tone, aware that he was setting himself on a course from which there would be no backing away from.<br/><br/>Protecting them, he didn’t think was quite so much of a problem, something about that grin told Marcus everything he need to know with regard to Kristie’s thoughts of shielding Jake and Dinah from whatever lay within;  Her skill with explosives set against supporting structures would likely bring the building down on top of them and in the event that anything should go wrong.  It was a far from pleasant prospect, but was less distasteful to him than the thought of being torn apart by the rotting ravenous dead, and worse; becoming like them.  No, compared to that, being crushed under hundreds of tonnes of falling masonry was a far preferable end, should he need to meet one.  He responded to her slick grin with one of his own, slowly creeping across his face.