[visual / location: don's apartment] (way backdated)

[verylittlesugar]

It's been a couple days since the attack and her phone call to Don, and Mattie's feeling better physically, but still a little wrung out emotionally. Mostly that manifests in being very quiet and trying convince Don to let her cook meals for him, and a noticeable absence of tiny sternfaces. There's a lot on her mind, however, and one or two

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[smecker]

Have a visual of Smecker lying on his own bed, a not-dissimilar bandage on his own neck. His expression is wry as he takes in Mattie's appearance.

"Looks like no gardening for either of us for a while."

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[verylittlesugar]

Mattie's eyes widen at the bandage, and she leans a little closer to her tablet.

"You were bitten as well. Do you know anything helpful about them?"

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[smecker]

"Some," Paul says with a sigh. "Not as much as I'd like. Do you have any of the stories about vampires, where you're from? Like... the book Dracula, that sort of thing?"

Paul's not really sure when she's from, for that matter, but hell, vampire myths are sort of universal, aren't they? Then he remembers Cain's ignorance of them, so... maybe not. Gah.

"The things in the stories, like crosses, and holy water? Those apparently work. Well, it depends on the type of vampire, from what I hear, but..."

Deep breath. "Was it a girl who attacked you, dark haired, about your own age?"

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[verylittlesugar]

"Yes I know what they are supposed to be, but we do not have such books in our home, and I do not- that is I have never before believed vampires to be anything but fairy tales."

Her tone suggests how Mattie feels about fairy tales.

"I will get a cross and a Bible." It'll make her feel safer, and probably make Don feel better too. "Do you know her?"

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[smecker]

Paul closes his eyes and nods. "Dawn. Her name is Dawn. She's--"

He breaks off, lips tightened to a thin line, before he sighs. He's had time to come to terms with the fact that this is-- must be-- a glitch, but it doesn't make him feel any better.

"She's not usually a vampire," he says very dryly. "Anyway, I had a bottle of holy water with me, made using the hatches? That was very effective. So that works, at least. I haven't tried Bibles yet. God might strike me down for blasphemy, I don't know."

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[verylittlesugar]

"I am not certain it matters if a person used to be a vampire or not, if she is so now, but I am at present only learning about these things."

She nods very seriously, deciding that hatches can produce holy water, they can most certainly produce Bibles, and she really ought to have one anyway. "I will ask Mr. Draper for his assistance."

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[smecker]

Paul nods back at the young woman. There's a hell of a lot he could say about Mr. Draper, and he's really tempted to tell Mattie make sure he doesn't have any bottles near him when you do, but he somehow manages to refrain.

"Make sure to drink lots of fluids, eat some sweet things-- if you lost any amount of blood you need that to get back on your feet," he advises. "Get some rest, okay?"