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Selene (bulletsandblood) wrote in vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-07-31 04:16:00

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!complete, day 17, location: forest, selene, the doctor (nine)

Who: Selene and The Doctor (Nine).
What: Avoiding the chaos in town, the vampire tries to hunt.
Where: Out in the forest somewhere between the gas station and the gym.
When: Day 17; evening, near sunset. About 5:30pm or so.
Rating: PG-13 to be safe, since Selene's so prone to cursing lately.
Status: Complete.

Selene wasn't expecting to see anyone. In fact, it was likely best she didn't.

It had taken a fair amount of walking, but the vampire had finally gone far enough into the woods that she could no longer hear the noise from town -- particularly the screams coming from the theater -- unless she stopped and strained to listen. Something she had no intention of doing. The trees acted as a natural buffer for the sounds and she was more intent on the wildlife she might hear around her. When the sounds from the monitors stopped she was more than preoccupied enough not to notice. Some might have thought it cowardly but she had no interest in walking around the town looking for the monitors; seeing one was enough. What good would it do to have a vampire in the midst of a bunch of panicked or otherwise highly emotional people? That was how accidents happened. Particularly when that vampire was hungry.

Which she most certainly was. It had been three days since drinking the blood of the patriarch of the Immortals, four or possibly five since she had actually fed. While Selene wasn't exactly feeling weak, she knew it would do no good to put off finding a meal. Especially if things seemed to rapidly be heading for the worst the way some of the other captives seemed to think. There was no telling what might happen next and she wanted to be fully prepared. If she had to be without her weapons the least she could do was keep up her strength and senses. And if she was going to have to contain a werewolf? Well, she definitely needed to be at full strength.

The only problem was it had been easily decades since she had hunted to feed, and a good deal longer since wildlife had to suffice. In olden days cattle had sometimes been easier to come by than humans, or at least easier to kill in secret. It might not have been so bad, if only she had a throwing knife or something of the sort. But she had only her bare hands, and had already gotten tangled up in dense undergrowth when trying to lunge at a doe. The vampire was frustrated, and hungry, so when her sensitive ears picked up rustling somewhere behind her, back towards town, she immediately snarled as she spun around. Her chin tilted up as she scented the air, but it told her nothing. Blue eyes narrowed and she started toward the noise at a pace much quicker than she had walked in town, her slightly dirty hands loose at her sides. If the noise was caused by one of the other captives rather than an animal, it had best be one of the few people she already knew. In her current state, the vampire just might take an easy meal.

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so_impressive
2009-08-02 11:05 pm UTC (link)

"They were shown dying and then the screens went black. I had considered that they might not be dead at all, rather that it's just a rouse.. but I've been told that if that's the case, the people usually show up within the next hour or two, or at least that they can write in their journals, as I've seen them do, to communicate. None of these people have, to my knowledge, and none have returned. I suppose we just wait now, to see if they show back up." He had his secret hopes, of course.. but he wasn't about to get anyone else's hopes up. He didn't want them more upset than they already were.. and they would be. That was what happened when you got someone's hopes up, only to have them crash down again. That was dangerous.

"Quiet as the grave." The Doctor agreed slowly, looking around. There were no bird chirps, no noises of animals, no leaves rustling in the breeze. It was silent. Too silent. Almost as if there was no life in the forest at all.. though she had been told that animals were out there, and she'd seen a deer with her own eyes. But there was no noise. Not anywhere.

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bulletsandblood
2009-08-03 12:43 am UTC (link)

Selene shrugged again at his reply, and voiced her thoughts. "Unless there's physical proof I never assume things are dead. Where I come from, assumptions like that are a good way to end up dead yourself." She refrained from saying she didn't really care either way. Comments like that tended to make people upset. Since he was essentially the closest thing she had to a friend there -- well, perhaps more ally than friend -- she wasn't going to say anything that might piss him off.

She had half a mind to quip that graves weren't exactly silent depending on where they were, and whether it was actually a grave or a crypt, but then, with her sensitive hearing there were few places that were truly silent for her. He was right, though. It had become almost eerily silent, save for the two of them, and it made the hair rise at the back of her neck. Blue eyes moved from him to the forest around them, searching for any signs of life. Perhaps this particular area wasn't the best place to try and hunt; she couldn't hunt what wasn't there. "Well, if you're looking for quiet I suppose you've found the perfect place. I can leave you to it."

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so_impressive
2009-08-03 03:12 am UTC (link)

"That's a good policy to have." It wasn't one that the Doctor had, particularly. He believed a great many things, without having exact proof. Because he knew it to be true.

Of course, he knew all of the Daleks were dead, too. He'd been proven wrong, on two occasions. How was it that they lived on, while all of his people died? It was wrong. But he wouldn't think of that now, he was pushing it far from his mind and focusing on this woman. He smiled, when she said she'd leave him to it.

"Thank you, that'd be nice." He did want to be alone, after all. But as she was walking away (and he'd let her get about ten steps away), he would speak up. "Vampire, are you?" Oh, clever Doctor.

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bulletsandblood
2009-08-03 04:10 am UTC (link)

When he indicated that he wanted to be left alone she wondered if he had seen someone on one of the monitors that meant something to him. It would make sense for why he wanted a little solitude. She could respect that. But then he was speaking again and his words made her pause. Selene didn't bristle, as the silence around them had already made her tense, but she did wait a beat before turning partway around to look back at him. "Why would you think that?" Her voice was even, if not a touch curious. "Vampires can't stand daylight." It was a true enough fact, although she was now the exception, at least as far as the vampires she knew of were concerned. Even Marcus had needed to seek shelter from the sun. But she knew she was no hybrid, like Michael. She was... different, and was still learning what that meant for her. Selene wanted to hear what the Doctor had to say before she confirmed his assessment.

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so_impressive
2009-08-03 05:04 am UTC (link)

"Oh, legends and myths. Not all of them read the same. But all species eventually evolve, Selene. Even your kind." Arrogant Doctor, but he was smiling at her all the same. "You flinch, when you're out in the light. You seek out the shadows. You have a distinct odor, not human. I thought your tensing up in that room, when the blood was splattered on us, was a normal human reaction. It wasn't, was it? You wanted to feed. That's fantastic." You were fantastic, Selene.

"Have you not been able to walk in the sun you're whole life? I suppose not, if you're so unsure about being in it. How old are you?" Curious Doctor. Curiosity killed the cat, Mr. Smith.

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bulletsandblood
2009-08-03 05:34 am UTC (link)

Arrogance was not something Selene particularly appreciated, and the smile on his face almost felt condescending. Especially when he started ticking off what he noticed about her, as if what she was was a mystery to her. She narrowed her eyes, unamused. "You like to think you know everything, don't you?" The vampire was probably about as close to flustered as she was capable of being. She'd come out in the forest to hunt, to mind her own business, and now she was being treated like some sort of intriguing find, as if she'd be happy to spill whatever he wanted to know. "Why ask when you seem to think you know all about me already? You clearly have your mind made up about what's fact and fiction."

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so_impressive
2009-08-04 03:07 pm UTC (link)

"Sometimes, yeah." He smiled over at her, easily answering that question of if he liked to think he knew everything. The Doctor, in fact, was arrogant. It only didn't show most times, in this form. It'd come out more, later. Once he wasn't so humbled by the Time War.

"Oh, I don't know. I suppose it's because I want to learn, there's more to know about you than I already know, I'm sure. You're always learning, Selene. Until the day you die. I've got loads of questions." Of course he did, he learned by asking, by doing. Sure, a lot of his knowledge came from birth and early childhood.. but the rest? The majority? Came from his travels in that phone box. Nine hundred years of space travel.

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bulletsandblood
2009-08-05 03:09 am UTC (link)

Perhaps part of why his attitude bothered her was that she came from a place where questions were not encouraged. One didn't go against the grain unless they wanted to risk being cast out, or even killed. Her whole life had been following another's word, following orders, not questioning what was deemed necessary. And now what did she have? Nothing. There was nothing left of that life, even if she found a way out of this place.

"Questions are dangerous. Especially if you aren't prepared for what you might hear." Yes, she just might have been talking about herself. But the statement still held true. With narrowed eyes the vampire stalked back to the Doctor... or rather, stalked for a pace and then was simply there, standing before him, eyes bright and fangs just visible behind her lips. "I am nothing close to fantastic. I am what I was made to be by the will of another. An instrument of death. Do not ask me about my kind because that is not what I am. Not anymore." The sharp edges of her fangs were visible as she spoke but she did not consciously bare them. She wasn't trying to intimidate, but was simply angered and emotional. "Whether it is evolution, as you say, remains to be seen."

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so_impressive
2009-08-05 02:39 pm UTC (link)

"Questions are never dangerous. It's the answers that are dangerous." The Doctor assured her with that wide grin spread across his face, but it relaxed into a normal one as he inspected her once again, then turned to fully face her. "Well that's being rather hard on yourself, isn't it? What makes you different from them now?" This may have been one of those 'dangerous' questions that she was talking about, but the Doctor didn't heed her warning, he was more interested in finding out the answers to all of those questions.

He knew how vampires worked, of course, but still wanted to hear what she had to say. "Of course it's evolution. Just look at the werewolves, they've evolved up, haven't they? From mindless beasts into brilliant, deadly creatures." Oh yes, he knew all about your Lycans, Selene. He was the Doctor, and you were from his world, not a parallel one. But he knew little about the vampires, save for what he could figure out on the outside. They were much more elusive and secretive than the werewolves were.

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bulletsandblood
2009-08-06 03:43 am UTC (link)

"I've been killing Lycans for over six hundred years." she snapped rather matter-of-factly. "So no, it's not being hard on myself." Selene didn't really want to talk, and she certainly didn't want to talk about herself. Who knew just what kind of mindset dwelling on all that deception and misery might put her in. She wanted, needed, to hunt and feed. And hadn't he wanted time to himself, to likely grieve? It would likely take the vampire awhile to get used to the Doctor, though at the current moment she was torn between being his constant questions or grin being most infuriating.

She scowled at his talk of calling werewolves 'brilliant'. Despite Michael, and now Remus, it would take her quite some time to shake the notions set in her head that they were anything more than animals. Particularly since that was what she commonly saw them as. "They may not be as mindless but they are still beasts." Beasts that once protected and looked after her kind. There was a reason it had been practically vampire law not to allow digging in the past after Lucian and Viktor's war began.

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so_impressive
2009-08-06 09:06 pm UTC (link)

The Doctor watched her for a long moment.. then nodded once, as if he'd decided something, before that smile overcame his face again. "There's a little Lycan boy running around the town, I'm sure it's possible you've already met with him. He's fast become a favorite of a friend of mine, you'll do your very best not to kill him, won't you?" He didn't want to threaten her, which is how he often handled this like this.. but he also didn't want to sound so completely flippant, which he often did.. So for now, he was saying just that.

And crunching footsteps were taking him deeper into the forest then. "There might be some fresh meat on the other side of the town there. If you can't find any tonight, look for me in the morning and we'll figure out a way to get you some." She had to be hungry by now, they'd been here three days, and he hadn't seen her eat, hadn't seen anything she could feed from. Not yet.

But he did need to mourn, and he did need that time alone, so for now he'd leave her in peace.

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bulletsandblood
2009-08-07 02:36 am UTC (link)

'So long as he doesn't hurt anyone.' was the first reply that came to her mind, but Selene bit her tongue. There was no sense in dragging things on when they were both clearly ready for a little time to themselves. That and she didn't fancy getting in any sort of argument with him, at least at the moment. She heard no threat in his words, only a slight warning, though even if she had she likely would have rolled her eyes.

"I don't need help finding blood." she snapped. Although that had precisely been the problem. She couldn't find what she was used to. But she'd be damned if she would tell anyone that. As it was, if too much more time passed she was going to say the hell with it and pick off someone. They were apparently likely to die anyway, if those people on the screens truly had died. But she said nothing more and didn't spare a glance back his way, moving in a different direction. Selene wanted to be far from the Doctor when or if she found something suitable. Not because she was worried about turning on him, but more not wanting to give him the chance to observe her like some kind of science experiment.

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