Private Finished Brains and Brawn

Laurie cursed as the wounds that she made in Clayton closed up almost the second that she made them, gritting her teeth. So that theory was right. She definitely needed to hit him with something hard.

Holstering her pistol, Laurie broke and ran. Fast enough to hopefully put some distance between them, but not so fast that he'd completely lose sight of her. She wanted him to follow.

Once she had the time to make the climb, she was scrambling up a tree that she was pretty sure he could cleave through in one swing. She wanted to get up as high as possible so that when it came down, she'd have time to jump to a different one.

Well the tree idea worked. Dumb brutes were easy to bait like that. But it still didn't solve her other problems. She couldn't kill him - not with that level of regeneration. And the tree wouldn't keep him down forever. Thinking wasn't an easy task right now - Laurie's head was pounding with adrenaline and her ribs were sore from where she smacked into the branch of the other tree she'd leapt to.

Getting her bearings on her new perch, Laurie drew her pistol once again and scanned the tree line. That other demon was still around - and this guy had been trying to get away from something. She was starting to put two and two together. The demon had some influence over this guy, maybe? The demon had consistently tried to stay just in line of sight.

So her goal right now was to find it and - if not kill the asshole outright, at least maybe make him go away.

Laurie caught flashes of the demon in another tree, but didn't waste her ammo. She couldn't hit it with so much cover around. But she could see what it was doing, and two could play at that game.

Leaping to the next tree, a branch several feet lower, Laurie started moving to intercept. The demon wanted to keep the crazy sword guy focused on her rather than it. So she'd just have to make that as difficult as possible. She leapt from tree to tree, barely making a few jumps and bruising her ribs in the process to getting to the ground.

But once she was there she bolted. Keeping her eyes on the movement above of the demon running away. Following it's path to keep it in view as much as possible and hoping that Clayton could see it too when he inevitably followed.

Laurie did the thing that her training told her not to as she heard Clayton crashing ever closer to her. She turned and looked at the thing chasing her. Or things, rather. The demon was hot on her heels too, and looked like it was trying to lead Clayton directly to her.

Idiot.

Laurie ducked hard to the left, disappearing behind a tree so that the demon couldn't see her. All she needed was a split second and she was doubling back around them. Crouched in the underbrush to keep her out of their field of view. She figured that the demon wouldn't stop - not wioth that crazy asshole chasing it.

But she could wait for it to slow down to try and get a bead on where she'd gone. And in that time, she'd shoot it in the fucking head. Or try, at the very least.

She blew a hole in the damn thing's head and it kept going. Of course it did. Cursing, Laurie could see it coming her direction and knew that it was going to either attack her outright or lure Clayton over to kill her himself.

"Come and get me, fuck face."

And Laurie charged at the demon. It could dodge at thirty paces, but how about closer? How about point blank? As long as she could time it right, she could at least get out of the immediate way of Clayton's swing when he came crashing through. He wasn't subtle and she could hear him lumbering ever closer.

So she took her shot when she was close enough and prayed.