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[oliverplus]

[Oliver has clearly not been having a good time of it lately. by the look of him, he's recently been in a fight. with what, exactly, is anyone's guess, considering what the Plane is like at the moment. in any case, he has bruises under both eyes, with scratches and contusions on his cheeks and forehead. actually, any later Doctors might find his exact injuries uncannily familiar. they are, in fact, the very same injuries he had when the Doctor found him in an alley after he was unknowingly possessed by a particularly nasty brain worm known as the Puppeteer]

[at the moment, Oliver is wandering the edge of the forest. his hair is wild, and so are his eyes. his clothing is rumpled and streaked with dirt, and he has a very stormy expression on his face. he's glancing around as he walks, his eyes flicking from one direction to the next, muttering quietly to himself]

I thought I could--no, he thought he could escape. Or even fight me again. Hah! [laughs darkly] Like he could do that, broken as he is now. Idealistic fool. He lost before he even started. And now... [grins] Oh now, I just have to find someone, and it'll be worth every minute in this pathetic human body. [chuckles to himself, but the sound is callous, his face twisted into a very un-Oliver-like sneer] People are out here somewhere...

[ooc: Posting again because I have free time this weekend, and Farrah is persuasive I couldn't resist the hallucination plot! Unfortunately, Oliver's hallucinations have been too immersive for him. While he isn't physically possessed by the Puppeteer, he has experienced a hallucination of being possessed (complete with getting a little beat up, oops), and at the moment, he fully believes he is. He's even hearing its voice in his head. This means that, though he lacks the accompanying super-human strength and speed of an actual possession, he is currently unstable and ready to start killing. Be warned that he will attack others--in his clumsy, human way]

[Also, if Oliver hasn't already interacted with your character since his choice last week, please still leave contact info so I can ask a question!]

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[bonnypiperlad]

Aye, if I have to. [Jamie has no real intention of hurting Oliver, though. Rather tellingly, he's not drawn his dirk. Instead, he relies on his natural agility to duck before the hands can wrap around his neck. He darts to the side and raises his hands fully, ready to block another attack.]

Not very fast, are ye?

[oliverplus]

[scowls, frustrated] I will be! If he's making some pathetic attempt to resist me, it won't last long! [kicks, aiming to sweep Jamie's feet from under him]

[bonnypiperlad]

Oh? So he's still in there, then?

[Jamie starts to move even as Oliver's leg shoots out, trying to jump back far enough to having his feet taken out from underneath him. It's not completely successful, and while he doesn't fall sprawling on the ground, his balance is off for a few seconds. He wobbles, but then bends in somewhat and drops his head so if Oliver does rush him before he recovers, he's going to quite possibly wind up with a skull ramming his solar plexus.]

[oliverplus]

He's locked away in a corner of his mind. Screaming because there's nothing he can do!

[he does, in fact, try to rush Jamie during his momentary loss of balance, which is unfortunate for him. Oliver is sent sprawling by Jamie's headbutt, hitting the ground hard, the wind knocked out of him]

[bonnypiperlad]

[Having now recovered, Jamie tries to take advantage of this by bodily flinging himself at Oliver. With luck, he'll be able to pin Oliver and keep him from getting back up again.]

That's not true. Ye can fight him, Oliver! I know ye can!

[oliverplus]

[he does in fact land on top of Oliver. the Puppeteer flails, trying to push him off] He...can't hear you!

[bonnypiperlad]

[He shifts slightly, distributing his weight to try and keep Oliver pinned to the ground. He moves his arm so it's over Oliver's throat, but he doesn't press down just yet.] Aye, so you'd like me to think. But ye just said he was trying to resist. So I say you're lying, and he can hear.

He'll break free of ye eventually, and I'll not let ye up until he does. Why don't ye admit you've lost and let him go?

[oliverplus]

[sneers at him, angry, but there's also a tinge of fear in his gaze] He can't break free. I'll take complete control, and then I'll overpower you!

[bonnypiperlad]

[Jamie still doesn't press down, and won't, unless Oliver starts to struggle. As long as Jamie is reasonably confident he can keep Oliver down, he'll leave things he way they are.] Aye? Are ye sure about that? How are ye going to stop him, then?

He's already figured out how to keep ye from using your full speed. Oliver's clever. He'll be able to work out how to use that to break his way out.

[oliverplus]

He will not! [the Puppeteer does, in fact, begin to struggle now, growing too afraid to stay still]

[bonnypiperlad]

[He exerts the tiniest bit of pressure, not enough to hurt, but as a reminder that he has the upper hand.] He will. Now, ye can let him go or ye can wait until he wins. Which will it be, aye?

[oliverplus]

[unfortunately, the Puppeteer is a horribly stubborn hallucination] I will break free of him! [and he gives the hardest push he can against Jamie]

[bonnypiperlad]

[Since Jamie's lacking super strength or anything of that nature, he gets pushed off out of his pin. Rather than try the move again, he goes for plan B.]

I hate to do this to ye, Oliver, but...

[He's going to try something much simpler - throwing a well-aimed punch in an effort to knock his friend unconscious.]

[oliverplus]

[oh Jamie, you're terribly good at plan B. Oliver is knocked out cold by that punch, crumpling to the ground. the question now is what he'll be like when he wakes up. and will you still be there to see it?]

[bonnypiperlad]

[Jamie looks at him regretfully.] Och, I'm sorry.

[He can only hope that whatever is wrong with Oliver will be fixed by being out cold for a bit, but just in case it doesn't, he takes out a small piece of thin rope that he carries in his sporran and uses it to tie Oliver's hands behind his back. He can't do anything about his feet other than move well out of the way, but he's not about to leave Oliver alone with monsters roaming about. He settles in to guard Oliver until he wakes up.]

[oliverplus]

[a trickle of black blood begins to run from Oliver's nose. otherwise, nothing changes for a while. when he regains consciousness, he awakens with a groan, trying to turn over] What...? [looks about him in confusion, absently trying to move his arms but not quite seeming to work out that he can't] Jamie? [blinks at his friend in bleary confusion]

[bonnypiperlad]

Oliver? [Jamie studies him for a long moment, trying to see if it's actually his friend or the...whatever it was. He's not sure, so he opts to try a question.]

Do ye still want to fight?

[Okay, so it's a rather blunt question...]

[oliverplus]

What...? Do I... [realisation hits him, and his eyes widen. struggles to get up] Jamie! Are you okay?

[bonnypiperlad]

Aye, I'm fine. [Well, that sounds more like Oliver, at least, and Jamie goes over to him. He's about to try and help Oliver up, but hesitates.]

What happened to ye before I got here, Oliver?

[oliverplus]

I...I don't know. I thought... [shakes his head, wincing] It was like...I relived something. Something that happened two years ago. I told you about it, didn't I? About the Puppeteer? [closes his eyes] Am I going mad, or is it this place?

[bonnypiperlad]

Aye. I remember that. Hold still while I get this for ye? [Jamie does go to finish helping Oliver up, and starts to undo the rope binding Oliver's hands together.]

If I had to pick between the two, I'd not say ye were going mad. I thought I was for a wee bit, but...och, never mind. There. [He gets the last knot, and goes to stow the rope away again.]

Look, I'm sorry I had to tie ye up, Oliver.

[oliverplus]

Oh...cheers! [he'd hardly even realised he was tied up, but he's grateful that Jamie's undoing it]

[glances at him] You mean that experiment? Maybe this was something like that.

You're... [gapes] Why are you sorry!? I was attacking you!

[bonnypiperlad]

Maybe so, but that's not what I meant. [He looks slightly uncomfortable for a moment, then shakes his head.] Och, never mind.

Look, I tried to talk ye out of it, but it didn't work, aye? All I could think to do was knock ye unconscious and then make sure ye weren't going to hurt anyone else. I should have gotten the Doctor. He could have fixed ye without my having to hurt ye any.

[oliverplus]

[stares] Jamie, I was attacking you. Of course you should've tied me up! I'm bloody grateful you did! Who knows what I could've done if you'd left to find the Doctor...

[bonnypiperlad]

Aye. That's why I did it. I don't have to like that I had to do it, though.

...Besides, even if ye were actually possessed again, I'd not leave ye alone in this place right now.

[He shudders a little and - now that he's not distracted by the fighting - looks about uneasily.] Nothing's safe anymore.