Close Encounters [with the Angel of Death]

[didorothy]

[--FROM THE HORRORS HE HAS SEEN! THERE IS NOTHING THAT WILL LET SAM TYLER FORGET THIS NIGHT!]

[But Sam himself is much quieter, still carrying a shotgun, now bleeding in darkness and starlight from his left leg]

I think I found the cause. Part of it, anyway.

[a brief, cynical smile at Josef Mengele, Zombie Overlord]

I could do with one of the healers around here first.

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[didorothy]

If the green go would help...

[takes a seat]

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

[she sighs and takes out a cloth and starts cleaning the wound] I temped for a while teaching first aid. This won't heal it but you'll be all right until someone with proper doctoring comes along.

[didorothy]

No one who travels in a blue box, then.

Ta, Donna.

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

I don't think he is a proper doctor.

How's that feeling?

[didorothy]

Better. Well, it stings, but I think that means bettter.

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

My gramps always said the more medicine hurts, the better it's working.

[didorothy]

That's what my Auntie Heather always said. She also said to man up and stop getting so upset over injuries. Which I did.

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

My mate Liz always goes for the wimpy ones. Mine always turn out to be gay or cheating or into giant spiders.

[didorothy]

...You need better luck with boyfriends.

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

I took a break from looking. It wasn't really worth it.

[didorothy]

Men never are.

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

[snorts] And you'd know?

[didorothy]

[grins]

I have spent nearly a year in Gene Hunt's company.

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

You need a decent holiday. Spain is nice.

[didorothy]

I prefer Mexico.

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

Never been. How is it?

[didorothy]

The food is good. Mind you, that was in '86, but I don't think the food would change.

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't think so. I liked Spain for the sunshine and the beaches. The food was good, too. Spicy and all, I like that.

[didorothy]

I should make you something then. I am an expert at both Mexican and Indian.

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

[food is the way to a girl's heart] You know, I don't think I'll turn down a dinner like that.

[didorothy]

Take your pick and pick your day and hour. Some time after this mess ends.

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

[she laughs] All right, the next Friday that you aren't having crises all around you, it'll be a date. [pauses] Not a date, just a date, a- oh you know. I'll hold you to it.

[didorothy]

Not a date, then, it is.

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

Don't forget to tell me when you're not busy, then.

[didorothy]

Between Gene and the Twin Terrors, that'll be never.