hai mươi tám ❀| but the darkness has a hunger; it offers you blood for wild blood

[lotuslife]

[The day wears on, and long streaks of golden light are starting to settle across Mayfield as the sun begins to set. Downtown, there's someone casting a long shadow as they walk slowly down the street. It's a young woman; she's dragging something large and unwieldy. Whatever it is, it's leaving a long, dark smear on the road as it's pulled along- a

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[coolbowtie]

[The Doctor is wandering around town, looking for Sen. He's called her but she won't pick up. He looks pale and slightly ill, as though he's just been through a horrible experience that's shaken him, but he's quickly heading towards her house]

((ooc:blanket permission for anything except death and loss of limbs]

[lotuslife]

[She won't answer the door, but there's the wound of water running upstairs.]

[ooc; So good to me *u*]

[coolbowtie]

[He enters the house and peers around, he's never met anyone else who lives with Sen. But when he doesn't see anyone, he dashes up the stairs towards the sound of the water, while managing to trip up the stairs a few times]

Sen?

((ooc: ;A;))

[lotuslife]

[He'll find her in the shower, rinsing blood out of her hair. She doesn't acknowledge his presence.

Come to think of it, there's a hell of a lot of blood leading from the bedroom of one of the children to the bathroom. S-sorry, drone daughter. You looked so tasty, okay...]

[coolbowtie]

[His face becomes even paler as he makes note of all the blood. He purposefully keeps his eyes on her, avoiding the blood on the floor]

Sen?

[lotuslife]

[She glances over her shoulder at him.]

It isn't polite to just walk in on someone like that. [A hand shifts to her throat, rubbing it. She's so thirsty...]

[coolbowtie]

Oh well, I was thinking that after you share a bath together, there's not really much left secret.

[The joke is weak, his face is blank, and his tone is flat]

[lotuslife]

[She looks him up and down, squeezing out her hair. Pinkish-red water runs out of it, diluting until it's clear as it circles into the drain.]

You don't look well. [Her tone makes it clear that she doesn't really care.] What are you doing here?

[coolbowtie]

Looking for you, of course. I wanted to show the TARDIS, but... she's all wrong. Everything here is all wrong.

[he approaches her, but still keeps his distance. He knows her well enough to know something is wrong here.]

[lotuslife]

You got her back? Ah, what makes you think I'd care...?

[coolbowtie]

Because you would, or normally would.

So tell me then, who I am talking to? Because you're not Sen.

[lotuslife]

Are you a fool? Why would I be anyone but me? [she shuts the water off and reaches for a towel, wrapping it around herself.]

[coolbowtie]

Because Mayfield is messing everything up again and it's done something to you. You're not the girl... [He trails off] You're not Sen, maybe you have bits of her, but you're not her.

[lotuslife]

Aah. Do I need to explain, then... of course I know who you are. [she makes a 'tch' sound.] You're a disgustingly overconfident man with a hero complex. [a short laugh; it sounds bitter.] And I told myself I'd never again--... [she trails off.]

...You should leave. I like you, Doctor. I'm really... [she touches her throat again.] --hungry, and you are at the bottom of my list. [she clenches a fist at her side; she looks like she's trying to resist doing something...]

[coolbowtie]

[He inhales, her words cut, especially with what he saw in the TARDIS today, but he's heard plenty of cruel words in his time]

And do you know why I have a hero complex, hm? Because I save people, I've saved billions of lives and I'm going to save you too. Save you from whatever [he makes inane hand gestures over her] this is.

[lotuslife]

I was told that by another man once, too. 'I'm going to save you'.

[her expression is hateful- at the Doctor, at America, at herself.] He nearly killed me.