InsaneJournal

Who: John and Helen (With cameo appearances by Honesty).
What: Talking. Being honest. This won't be weird at all. It's not like they have over a century of baggage or anythi...oh, right.
Where: Helen's flat.
When: Nowish.
Rating: TBD.
Status: In progress.

John was a Victorian gentleman, and that dictated that he should knock on Helen's door and wait for her to answer it. It was polite and respectful and certainly what he should do. But he needed to talk to her. It was a compulsion he couldn't ignore, and he was all too familiar with such things. This was why he teleported directly into her flat, rather than knocking.

"Helen," he said, when he saw her, "I am sorry for intruding but I needed to speak with you."

He was already pacing even as he began speaking. "I'm in love with you," he said. "I have been for all these years. But I've no illusions that you return my feelings or, in truth, that I deserve to have my affections requited. I have hurt you in so many ways, my dear lady, and I cannot ever atone for my actions. I can only hope that one day you will see that I am truly not the man that I was. My actions over the past century and longer weigh heavily on me. The things I did in the grip of that parasite...there is no recompense. There is nothing I can do that will ever make amends. I only wished to tell you how much I care for you and how truly sorry I am for all the things I've done."