Aug 13, 2011 21:06
mary bennet, raven, tyler marlocke, enzo matrix, elrond, guppy sandhu, ako (negima!)
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Guppy jumps over a sofa and crouches next to the woman, feeling for a pulse.
"Can you hear me?"
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To find a strange young man with his hand at her throat.
Still somewhat disoriented, Mary's hands go flailing at the unwelcome intrusion, making her look not unlike someone who is being attacked by a wasp.
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"It's okay, I'm a doctor." he says. "Are you all right?"
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Unless the last few moments were all just the product of imagination. Perhaps she was stricken with a fever?
But a quick look at her surroundings tells her that this is not, in fact, the case.
Mary pushes herself up to sitting, and one flailing hand finds her sister's curling iron, which she raises and points like a pistol.
"You...you...send me home at once!"
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"You can just go back through that door. I take it you're new..."
He asks a passing waitrat to get the poor girl a glass of water.
"I'm Guppy, what's your name?"
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She's about to say door, but Mary is then distracted by the servant-rat that the man so calmly asks for water.
What kind of unholy place is this?
"My name is no concern of yours," she says after a moment (after she's regrouped).
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"You're in a place called Milliways Bar. It picks people up through different doors in their worlds."
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"I don't care what this place is called. I want to go home."
"Return me at once or...or....my father will call out the militia."
All right, so it's probably not the militia's official job, but what good are they if they are incapable of rescuing a respectable young lady?
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"People sometimes get stuck here, but they usually get back in the end."
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"Are you mad? There's nothing there but a wall."
Nerves and upset always did make her a bit testy.
"And what do you mean, stuck?"
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Guppy gets up and opens the door to his world.
"This is my door."
Through it, if she's able to see, is his landing with a large black cat on it.
He shuts the door.
"Were you able to see that?"
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She saw it. Saw him open a door in a blank wall and close it again.
And a black cat, of all ominous omens. Or Mary would consider it an ominous omen, were she of a superstitious bent.
How very quickly one succumbs.
"Well then.....open mine. Open mine and I'll go home and tell no one about this."
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Possibly to prevent herself from betraying the true extent of her distress.
"What am I meant to do?" she asks.
If she is not allowed to leave.
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Beat.
"If you're not going to tell me your name, what should I call you?"
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