Dubious Arrangement: Day 9

Word Count: 54,004

Summary of Events:
Greyson had an incredibly lengthy and winding conversation with Shelli that gave him the feeling he really ought to break off their relationship, although he couldn't bring himself to do it. He was going for his morning jog when he was attacked again.

Excerpt of the Day:
"Brush crackled and Greyson quickly slowed to a stop. There was no breeze, and breezes didn't cause brush to crackle like that anyways. He looked at the trees to his left. He couldn't see anything. He didn't hear anything more.
Unsettled, but wanting to properly close out his workout, Greyson slowly picked speed back up to be jogging again. A shot rang out and embedded itself into the fencepost Greyson was approaching.
Greyson jacked up his speed to full bore running and forewent the corner, turning hard and making for the trees as fast as he could — for once he was actually making for the river without having to double back.
More shots rang out, but Greyson went unhurt and managed to dive into the trees as a couple of them took bullets for him. Scrambling to his feet, Greyson cut hard right before starting on a bit more of a forward trajectory along the lines of the one he'd been taking.
He decided to cut right again a ways and see if he could throw them off by running around in circles. As he ran he saw Mr. Odell's cabin, and he decided he'd run past it close just because he could.
The door opened as he ran past and a few moments later more bullets were fired in his direction, with much greater rapidity than the bullets that'd been shot at him before.
Greyson dove to avoid them and found himself sliding headfirst down a pretty steep slope. He reached out for a tree and managed to catch one, which jammed his wrist and swung him around, smacking his ankles into a sizeable tree.
Releasing the tree he'd grabbed onto, Greyson rubbed his wrist and grimaced. That hurt. He went to sit up and ground slid out from underneath him, sending him tumbling again.
Before he got so much momentum as the time before Greyson managed to stop himself with less pain than the first time. From there he got to his feet slowly and looked at his ankle that'd hit the tree directly. It was bleeding a little, but nothing serious.
Looking up the slope, Greyson decided to go back up and see if Mr. Odell had been shooting at him. Part of him thought that might be the case, which lent to Mr. Odell being in cahoots with his other attackers — although Mr. Odell seemed more intent to kill him.
Greyson caught a glint of something shiny out the corner of his eye. He turned and saw the pistol he'd dropped when he'd just about frozen sitting there. Taking it up, Greyson shook it to make sure there was no dirt in the barrel and checked to find it was still mostly loaded.
Even though he'd dumped it once, Greyson decided to take it up again, that way he had something in case Mr. Odell decided to shoot at him again; or so he could take on JL and Odie."