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[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

Sam! Guv!

[have an Annie mid-run screeching to an almost halt, looking around herself, confused.]

Wha -

[she stops, looking back from where she came from again]

That was just a shop a minute ago, wasn't it?

[still looking around herself, eyes looking up, then down in confusion]

Doesn't seem to be much of a shop at the moment. Doesn't seem to be much of anything, really.

[turning around herself in a small circle and finally taking a deep breath]

Now just to work out what this is all about. Suppose I coulda slipped and fell back there. Hit my head and now I'm seeing stars [her eyes shift a little, still taking in her surroundings] everywhere. Or maybe I'm still in bed and I never even woke up yet this morning. Drugs maybe? They did bring in those hippies the other night. Really oughta try to keep a better eye on that lot.

Whatever it is, is enough to make you think you lost your mind.

[laughs, rolling her eyes]

And I'm talking to meself now, too. That solves it.

Comments

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

From what I've heard, no one can be expected to take them on all on their own, sir. Not even you.

[theguv.livejournal.com]

Maybe not, but it's better than risking the lives of my team for something they aren't even part of.

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

When they decided [hesitates again] when they decided to come into our world or however it works, we all became part of it as it were.

When someone attacks any part of CID they go after all of us, isn't that the way it works, Guv?

[theguv.livejournal.com]

Not this time, luv. It doesn't always work that way.

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

What's so different about this time then?

[theguv.livejournal.com]

That's none of your business. [ie: he started it]

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

[hesitates, but takes a breath, gathering up her courage] If we're all a part of it now, I think it is. [i.e. what she just said]

[theguv.livejournal.com]

[he has to give her credit for speaking up, but it took him weeks, if not months, to fess up to Sam, so sorry Annie] Nice try, luv, but no.

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

Course, sir.

[embarrassed and looking to switch the subject now, and man, it's weird talking to the Guv when he's looking like that]

Have Sam or Chris or Ray seen you since, well, since you started looking like you are?

[theguv.livejournal.com]

[thank you, Annie, for having the sense to back off. really]

Tyler and Skelton have, yeah. Haven't seen Carling around much. And now you. [a beat] Any of you says a damn thing I'll have you locked up so fast you won't know what hit you.

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

Not sure anyone'd believe me anyway, outside of those three. If I told anyone, I'd get locked up in the loony bin before you'd ever get the chance to put me in a cell.

[theguv.livejournal.com]

[smirks, then laughs] You've got a point there. This place makes Tyler look pretty sane.

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

[laughs] It's worrying is what it is.

[after a moment, more seriously and worried]

He's got a mobile phone, and he said he had a flat he showed you.

[theguv.livejournal.com]

[and that sobers him right up, thanks Annie] Yeah, he does.

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

[sorry but Sam broke her brain with things and she needs someone to confirm to her that Sam is still crazy]

That still can't be right though, can it? It's just this place or something, manifesting some sort of delusion of his. Just like you're not really how you look right now.

[theguv.livejournal.com]

[frowns, finishing his fag and crushing it underfoot, only to grab another] Yes. 's somethin' like that, luv. [looooong drag] Like I said. Don't worry your pretty little head about it.

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

[still worried, but she nods]

All right, Guv.

[wanting to switch the subject]

Anything else I should watch out for around here, then?

[theguv.livejournal.com]

Yeah. These blokes called the Doctor. Biggest bunch of faeries I ever met.

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

Someone said before there are a whole load of those running around with the same face.

Sam mentioned him when he was saying about the Masters, too. Do they all work together or something.

[theguv.livejournal.com]

The bloody lot of 'em live together, the queer bastards.

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

[for a minute she's puzzled, wondering if they actually are gay or this is just Gene being Gene. she shrugs it off, one way or another. he probably wouldn't be the person to talk that over with anyway.]

So we're fighting that lot too, all however many of them there are?

[theguv.livejournal.com]

Don't think they'll be an issue, no. Just be careful 'round 'em. I don't trust the lot of 'em more'n I do the Frenchie.

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

The Frenchie? Is he another one, like those Masters and Doctors?

[theguv.livejournal.com]

The Master, yeah.

[mouthyplonk.livejournal.com]

[trying to get all of her facts straight, because information overload was achieved a while ago, and now it's just a matter of sorting it all out]

So the Frenchie is the Master? Sam had said there's one of them walking around looking like him. Is that one it?