[They're getting close, and Chris keeps shifting his attention back and forth between glancing toward their destination and looking at Emily; those two points are all he's focused on, because they're all that matters right now. They have to get back.
It's in one of the moments where his gaze is fixed on the house that Emily suddenly moves and he finds himself on the ground, throwing his arms up in an attempt to block the claws coming toward him, but then she misses entirely and he isn't sure why but it doesn't matter.
It's fight or die now, and friend or not he's survived too much to let his desire not to hurt Emily to override the need to live.
He could shoot her. He has Mike's gun and he knows he's a good enough shot to hit her--there's an odd sense of underlying confidence there, not even a question of if he could manage it--but even now can't resort to that. She's still Emily, still fighting not to kill him and the least he can do is do the same. If he absolutely has to shoot her he will, but he has another option first.
Chris pulls the gun from his belt, but not to fire it; if she's still mostly human, maybe he can just knock her out. Everything in him still balks at hitting a girl--even if she's a girl turning into a monster--but he shoves that moral issue aside and rolls up onto a knee, then brings the end of the gun as hard as he can down toward her temple.]
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It's in one of the moments where his gaze is fixed on the house that Emily suddenly moves and he finds himself on the ground, throwing his arms up in an attempt to block the claws coming toward him, but then she misses entirely and he isn't sure why but it doesn't matter.
It's fight or die now, and friend or not he's survived too much to let his desire not to hurt Emily to override the need to live.
He could shoot her. He has Mike's gun and he knows he's a good enough shot to hit her--there's an odd sense of underlying confidence there, not even a question of if he could manage it--but even now can't resort to that. She's still Emily, still fighting not to kill him and the least he can do is do the same. If he absolutely has to shoot her he will, but he has another option first.
Chris pulls the gun from his belt, but not to fire it; if she's still mostly human, maybe he can just knock her out. Everything in him still balks at hitting a girl--even if she's a girl turning into a monster--but he shoves that moral issue aside and rolls up onto a knee, then brings the end of the gun as hard as he can down toward her temple.]