InsaneJournal

Who: Elle Gray and the Toclafane.
What: People die in apocalypses, but sometimes they take down the bad guys with them.
Where: The park.
When: Evening.
Rating: R for violence and character death.
Status: Narrative. Complete.

For once, Elle was really useful in a crisis. Usually, being a mother of a young child kept her out of the fray, but she couldn't stay out of this. The danger was too great, as a Doctor Who fan she knew just what the Toclafane were capable of and not to take them lightly, and her ability was one of the only things that could stop them. So that meant that this time she had to be out there fighting. And she was okay about that. There had been a time when she wouldn't have cared much about the greater good. When she would have stayed safe because she looked out for herself first and foremost. But she couldn't be that person any more. She had changed too much.

So instead her daughter was with her best friend and she was in the park, taking down toclafane left and right without breaking a sweat. If one good thing had come from her father's approach to parenting it was that she had absolute control over her ability. The more she took down though, the more came. She backed up as they got closer, continuing to send lightning at them. The ground around her was covered with the metal spheres, in front of her and on the sides and behind. She wasn't, after all, stupid enough not to send electricity in all directions. The things could come from behind or above, after all. She continued to move back, not really thinking about it, until she felt it touching her feet.

Water. She was standing in water. They had backed her up until she was standing in the very start of the pond. There was no way it hadn't been planned, but she had been so focused on taking the things out that she hadn't realized until it was too late. With a grim determination, she narrowed her eyes at the metal spheres and shot out more eletricity, screaming as it hurt her as well. Still, it took out some of the toclafane. "Is that all you've got," she said, determined to take them out or die trying. Preferably the latter. She had a daughter and a husband and a life and she really didn't want to die.

But she couldn't control the direction as easily when she was in water, so she hadn't been able to take out the ones behind her. She gasped in shock as a blade stabbed through her back, and she felt the power welling up inside her as the blades sliced at her. Closing her eyes, she let out a sharp scream as the electricity released in one massive burst, a greater outburst of power than anything she'd done before. The toclafane exploded around her, and when everything cleared, there was a large circle of destruction in the park. Demolished spheres littered the ground and the water.

And in the center, Elle's body was lying at the edge of the lake, blood coloring the water around her red.