34 Howls: [Accidental video]

[coyote_walking]

Mercy's clearly inanimate body was laid out on Thomas' bed where it had been since he'd brought it there Monday night. He'd cleaned it up and placed it in a place she'd recognize when she woke up.

If she woke up.

The camera was focused on the body for nearly a minute before there was a sudden startling gasp for breath and Mercy sat bolt upright with a cry, scrabbling backwards on the bed and grasping at her chest where she'd been shot.

"THOMAS!"

Comments

[justashow.livejournal.com]

Not smart. I think it's the dojo for you until I'm reasonably satisfied with your self-preservation skills.

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

I still work out pretty regularly.

Wish my Sensei was here, though. Well, no, I don't wish anyone here, but... It would be nice to work with him again.

[justashow.livejournal.com]

Here is pretty terrible then?

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

It's... yeah. Sometimes it is.

Mostly because it's not home and you can't leave.

And there are curses.

[justashow.livejournal.com]

Some gave me a guide of sorts that mentioned those. It sounds absurd, frankly.

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

Absurd, but true.

Unfortunately, you'll see that for yourself soon enough.

Still, it's not all horrible.

[justashow.livejournal.com]

No? I've been rattling around someone's huge and empty house all day, watching reports of all kinds of terrible things on this news feed they've got set up on the computer.

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

It's your house. I stay there too. And if you rattle towards a bedroom near the front you'll find Medea.

But yeah, this has been, well... I've apparently been dead for two days, but it had been a rough few days before that happened.

[justashow.livejournal.com]

I'm still not getting this 'dead' thing, Mercy. Unless you're a vampire, the dead don't walk and talk.

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

I think it must have been some kind of a curse. You, well, you never quite die here. You die and then you wake up the next day City Dead. No heartbeat, no breathing...

But Shalimar and Thomas confirm it. I was dead for two days and now... I'm not. And I'm not City Dead either.

It's so impossible to really explain because it's all too impossible to believe.

[justashow.livejournal.com]

You're right, it is impossible to believe. It hurts my head to try.

If this place is mine, why the hell do I have such a large house? It feels like a mile from the upstairs bedroom to the kitchen.

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

There were... there were more people living there with us. Gwen, Abby, Owen, Ianto, Jack...

But now it's just us. At least for now.

[justashow.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, I don't know any of those names.

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

Probably just as well...

Well... it's enough to know we weren't always just us there.

[justashow.livejournal.com]

But you're not here. You're at...your boyfriend's. Your boyfriend who is not Adam, because he's not here.

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

I am right now because, well... I died.

But I don't live with him.

And no. His name is Thomas.

Back home, in my time, I wasn't involved with anyone. I'd gone on one date with Adam, which was supposed to be he and Jesse taking me out for a thank you dinner, which she backed out of, the little minx!

[justashow.livejournal.com]

That seems so long ago. So much has happened since then...

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

I haven't been there in six months. It seems like an eternity.

[justashow.livejournal.com]

People really have to stay here that long? Mercy, I can't stay here. Warren is going to go berserk trying to find me.

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

He won't even know you're gone. Apparently no time passes back home - we return to the moment we left and don't remember anything about here.

[justashow.livejournal.com]

...I suppose that's a good thing. But it sounds horribly cruel.

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

You have to try not to think about it.