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[bonnypiperlad]

[Jamie is on his way towards the kitchen and keeping a wary eye out for the monsters when something catches his eye. He stops, blinks a few times, and then a glad smile breaks out on his face.]

Victoria!

[He takes off, running towards a spot where there's...nothing at all. He stops, extending his arms out to clutch at the air excitedly, then draws it in for a long, long hug. Once he lets go, he starts talking quite rapidly.]

Victoria, when did ye get here? You've not been attacked? Good. Look, there's things ye need to know about. We can't talk now, though. It's not safe here. We need to get inside before...

[There's a screaming sound, then, picked up and carried by multiple voices. A group of corpses have spotted Jamie and start to converge on his location. Jamie pushes the air behind him and draws his sword before turning around to address the air urgently.]

Stay behind me, and as soon as ye can, make a break for it. And whatever ye do, don't go in the water!

[Determined to protect someone who's not there, Jamie stands his ground and starts to hack at the corpses as they close in.]

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[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

[Despite any initial misgivings, Axel hops in to help. Jamie is badass, yeah, but there are a lot of zombies and he is kind of a civil servant now. Wheels of fire cut across the swatch of screaming corpses, taking out a few limbs and catching one or two corpses on fire before returning to their owner.]

Burn, baby!

[bonnypiperlad]

[Jamie is not about to turn down the assist, although it takes him a few minutes before he's able to actually say anything - since he's a little busy fighting for his life. After a particularly well-timed swing takes off the head of one of the zombies, he does manage to get out a few words.]

Thank ye, Axel. Look...we need to talk, but I've got to see Victoria safe first. Do ye mind?

[He gestures at the empty air behind him to make his point.]

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

Uh... huh. First, let's take care of these suckers!

[He tosses a chakram up into the air, spinning, and then there's a clap of thunder, and various bolts of lightning jump from zombie to zombie.]

Man! They're persistent today!

[He throws both chakrams into the remaining zombies. Then they both explode. Awesome.]

[bonnypiperlad]

[Quite emphatically] Aye, let's!

[He's about to lift his sword and go running after the zombie, but since they've gone all kersplodey, he doesn't have to. He does grin, because, hey, who wouldn't grin at exploding zombies?]

Did ye see that, Victoria?! [Jamie turns back to where he thought Victoria was standing, but no longer sees her there. He looks rather upset by this.]

Victoria?

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

[Axel summons his chakrams back, and then they disappear in twin puffs of fire.]

She wasn't there, man. The whole time, you were just... talking to yourself.

[suddenly, strikingly honest]

Sorry.

[bonnypiperlad]

[Axel's right, of course.] Aye. I was. I just thought...och.

[He looks at the place where he thought she had been standing, a little sadly, then takes a breath and turns back to Axel.]

I'd meant to see if I could find ye before now. I...uh...owe ye a bit of an apology. For trying to kill ye and all.

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

[Axel still looks pretty sad even though there's a little quirk in his eyebrows.] Eh... [He scratches the back of his head and looks away.] It's not your fault. Some kinda experiment, right? I didn't know how to help so I just... tied you up and left ya for your friends to find. Best I could come up with on such short notice.

Anyway, you weren't the first person to go crazy and try to kill me. It seems to be a recurring theme lately.

[lamb_of_gold]

[A few of the corpses in the back rise as though picked up by cosmic hands, and go flying off in the general direction of one of the pools of water.]

[Yelling somewhat, to be heard over the din of SCREAMING ZOMBIES.]

Jamie?

[bonnypiperlad]

[There's an invisible monster who now has a snack to nom on while Jamie hacks at the zombies nearest to him. He yells back.]

Mu! Take Victoria and get her out of here!! I'll hold the corpses off while ye do.

[lamb_of_gold]

[Of course, Mu's first thought is that there's someone new on the Plane, and thusly redoubles his efforts to get to Jamie. Zombies are FLYIN', I tells ya. When he's close enough to see....]

Where is she?

[bonnypiperlad]

She's...

[Gone, apparently, and Jamie looks around rather frantically, trying to see if he find her.]

Victoria! Victoria, where are ye?

[lamb_of_gold]

[Mu eventually fights his way in, only getting abused once or twice by the Zombies]

People have been seeing things. Its likely you followed suit.

[bonnypiperlad]

Aye, I must have. [He's not even going to argue the point. If Mu says that he's seeing things, he trusts that to be true.]

I wish I could see her again, though. [wistfully] Maybe if we ever get to go home again...

[oliverplus]

Jamie, be careful! [Oliver is running your way, brandishing...a baseball bat, actually. not the most useful against zombies, but at least it should help?]

[bonnypiperlad]

Oliver! Am I glad to see ye! [He's grateful there's someone here - and if Oliver only has a bat, well, Jamie thinks that'll be perfect. It'll still keep the zombies away from Victoria!]

Victoria - stay behind Oliver. I'll take care of these right enough.

[And he starts slowly carving his way through the zombies, leaving Oliver with a lovely patch of blank air to protect. The zombies haven't seemed to notice it either. Go figure.]

[oliverplus]

Wait, but-! [but Jamie is into the zombies before Oliver has a chance to explain. he considers going after him, but Jamie seems to be doing all right. so Oliver holds his bat ready, prepared to jump in as backup if he needs it]

[bonnypiperlad]

[Fortunately, there's not a lot of zombies left to be carved up, and although it takes awhile - and there's a few close calls - Jamie manages to get through the remainder of them without any problem. He heads back to Oliver, breathing a little bit heavily from the exertion.]

That should do it, but we should take Victoria and get somewhere safe before more show up.

[oliverplus]

You all right?

Jamie... [he isn't sure how to say this, but...well, there aren't many ways to, are there?] Jamie, there's nobody here but us.

[bonnypiperlad]

No, Victoria's right... [He turns to where she was, but she's gone, and he just winds up staring at the spot where she was in a bit of shock.]

[bit_impossible]

[catches sight of this, since he's on his way to the kitchen too. to himself:] Oh, I can never just fetch a cup of tea, can I?

[starts running over, forgetting that he has a sword of his own tucked away securely in his long coat] Oi, over here! Come and get me! [waves his hands frantically to catch the corpses' attention]

[bonnypiperlad]

[Jamie is extremely happy to see the Doctor, because if anyone can figure out a way to get the zombies to leave, it'll be him.] Doctor!

[The zombies seem pretty happy, too, because, hey, it's more things they can attack! Well, okay, not really happy, since they're zombies and all. But a large chunk of the group not trying to claw Jamie's face open breaks off and heads towards the Doctor. Jamie seems...oddly unbothered by this. Normally he'd be anxiously trying to get through to his group to go over to help. Instead, he nods.] I see you've got those, then.

[Confident the Doctor will be absolutely fine, he goes back to chopping his lot to bits.]

[bit_impossible]

Yes, that's it, come at me! [but he before he starts running away, he frowns when he sees that Jamie isn't taking advantage of his distraction tactics]

Jamie, what are you doing?! Run!

[bonnypiperlad]

[Oh. Right. Running. That was it! Jamie blinks, then nods fervently.] Aye, Doctor!

[And after lopping the arm off one of the zombies, Jamie runs towards the Doctor, pausing only long enough to reach out and grab a patch of air - like he was grabbing someone's hand.]

Ye heard the Doctor, Victoria. Come on, let's go!

[bit_impossible]

[he starts running as well the moment he sees Jamie move, but he finds himself skidding to a halt the moment he hears the name "Victoria"] What? [glances behind him to see Jamie talking to air, and he lets out a little sigh, a hand running through his hand] But she's not... Ohhh, of course, that must be it. [he dodges a swipe from one of the zombies and continues to run away]

Head for the kitchen!

[bonnypiperlad]

[Jamie slows down a touch, slightly confused by that.] She's not what, Doctor? [A zombie lurches towards the air-space that Jamie thinks is Victoria, and he maneuvers so he's between 'her' and the zombie.]

Run, Victoria!

[Don't worry, Ten, Jamie is right behind her - although he only narrowly manages to avoid getting grabbed by the corpse. Once he's sure that 'Victoria' has gotten far enough ahead she can avoid the remainder of the zombies, he picks up his pace, not stopping until he reaches the relative safety of the kitchen. He turns back to make sure the Doctor is still okay.]

Doctor!!!