Beyond the Gates of Mist [Active]

[livingalegend]

Character(s): The Doctor, Lara Croft and Sonic
Content: The crew goes to the church a second time for further investigation.
Setting: from the Nifleheim gate through the Elysian Fields to St. Destino.
Time: I presume early afternoon, after they leave the cafe.
Warnings: Violence.

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[sir_doctor]

Guns. Why did she have to have guns? First Rosette, now Lara. And not just one gun, but TWO.

There was no mistaking the look of dislike towards her weapons as the Doctor watched her check her equipment out of the corner of his eye. All he was doing was checking his journal once more before he dropped it in his coat pocket, and pulled his glasses off, tucking those in a pocket in his jacket.

He liked Lara, really he did, but he'd had a long time to come to his decision concerning firearms. It wasn't anything really personally against her, of course. Hopefully she wouldn't need them, if they had any luck. He certainly hoped so.

Realizing she was speaking he turned, planting a smile over his face, "Oh, yes! Yes, I'm ready if you both are."

[itshowiroll]

Sonic normally wasn't the most observant of people, but even he couldn't miss the Doctor's look of dislike towards...nah, couldn't've been Lara. They wouldn't have had tea together if the Doctor didn't like her, The guns, maybe? Didn't make a whole lot of sense not to like a weapon...unless someone had used a gun on the Doctor. It was the same reason Sonic was none too fond of robots.

Yeah, that made sense.

"Been ready," he replied nonchalantly to Lara's question, idly tapping his toe against the ground. "Wanna go the same was as last time?" he asked with a grin. He knew Lara liked it, but it would come as a surprise for the Doctor. The guy needed to loosen up a little anyways, and what better way to do that than with a good run?

[livingalegend]

Lara, of course, didn't miss the irritation in the Doctor's glance when he looked at her guns. She looked at him and said simply, "It's better to be safe than sorry." Some things had already attacked her outside the gates, and who knew what else lurked out there? Where there were smaller, weaker monsters there were almost certainly bigger ones, and Lara had no intentions of dying as of yet.

"I'm ready, as well," she continued, with an amused glance at Sonic. "And I don't mind going the same way we did the last time, but perhaps you ought to explain to the Doctor what that entails." She hadn't liked being carried about, but she could deal with it, and the Englishwoman had to admit that it was much faster than the alternative.

[sir_doctor]

For now he let it go, looking from Sonic to Lara, learning that 1. Apparently they'd done this before, and 2. Apparently there was a "way" to do this.

"Way? Which way would that be? Other than that way, that is," the Doctor inquired, briefly indicating the direction of the church. He'd thought they were in for a good long walk, but that wasn't the case it seemed?

The Doctor, however, couldn't say he quite knew what other possible 'way' they could go.

[itshowiroll]

"Awesome." Sonic gave Lara a thumbs up, then grinned at the Doctor. "You'll see."

That said, he turned back to Lara - "Let's go!" - and with no more warning than that, scooped her up and started running. It didn't take long to get her to the church, where he set her on her feet and, with a "be riiiiiight back," ran back to the city to get the Doctor.

"Alright, Doc, your turn!" Sonic barely slowing down before he picked the Doctor up much the same way he had Lara - it was kinda weird doing this with a guy, but it worked - and headed back for the church at near-top speed. Barely minutes later, he skidded to a stop on the white grass and set the Doctor next to Lara.

He took a step back and grinned, rubbing a finger nonchalantly under his nose. "Well? Pretty awesome, right?"