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The After Effects

Mar 19, 2011 08:14

Characters: Martha Jones and Eddie Brock
Rating: PG... maybe PG-13 dealing with a dead body and all.
Time Period: Modern Day
Location: Basil's room and probably back to Martha's
Relative Date: Directly after this
Status: Closed... PM to enter

Martha walked the way to Basil's room, stopping only once when they passed her room to grab her med kit. She was ( Read more... )

eddie brock, martha jones

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eddie_plus_1 March 19 2011, 17:55:34 UTC

Eddie followed Martha to Basil's room still bristling and smouldering with bottled rage and boiling frustration. They were running out of bottles and fast.

Inside the room they laid the body down upon the bed, arrangeing the arms at its sides comfotrably. Then Eddie stepped back to let Martha to her work though they thought amongst themselves that such a think was for morticians and the like to attend. Guilt work, perhaps? Something to keep her busy and take her mind off of his death.

"Its not your fault that he died," Eddie put in clumsily. "It was that vampire's fault," he added for good measure. Just to keep everyone on the same page.

notrosesshadow March 19 2011, 18:18:06 UTC

"Yes, it was the Vampire's fault," she replied, her voice weary and quiet. She reached for her bag and found the supplies she needed for her next task. She needed to keep herself detached for a little while longer.

"Thank you for coming when I called. It means a lot to me... I..." she steadied herself with a deep breath... but fell silent when she realized she didn't quite know what she was going to say next. She didn't want to anger him more than he already was.

eddie_plus_1 March 19 2011, 18:24:43 UTC

"Of course," Eddie said gently, voice softening if only a touch, "Its what friends do."

Removed from the occupation of carrying the body Eddie took up a position against the wall, leaning against it and folding his arms across his broad chest. "You want to say something." More a guess than an understanding but he tried his best to sound encouraging and certain of his observation. They had a number of things they wanted to say to her in return. But those things could wait a breath or two. Their immediate value decayed the longer and further they got from Alexei although Basil served as a grim and posthumous reminder.

There would be time later for those things. Plenty of time. The rest of their (un)natural lives, even. However long or short that turned out to be.

notrosesshadow March 20 2011, 00:34:13 UTC

"I know you have things you want to say to me," she finally said. She really didn't know where she had been going before, and she figured at this point, it'd be best if Eddie just said what he wanted to say. She continued stitching up the wounds.

eddie_plus_1 March 20 2011, 00:45:41 UTC

"We'd like to know when would be the right time to pass judgement on the actions of that vampire-child," he said frankly. "We would have expected that with everything you'd seen, all the horrors that you've faced, you'd appreciate more than anyone our need to protect those around us from monsters such as that. We don't understand how you could let the vampire tell us that people are not innocent, not deserving of protection as it confessed to its murders on the spot ( ... )

notrosesshadow March 20 2011, 01:23:45 UTC

She was glad to be doing something with her hands. It allowed her to stay in the calm... detached mode she needed to be in right now ( ... )

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