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It's early evening and in the half light the Bay has a comfortable quiet. Jack sent the team off to have a little social time. They've all worked so hard lately and they could do with it. He went for a walk, somewhere with a high roof and a vantage point for him to look over the city.
He's back on his way home now, taking a slow stroll down Lloyd George Avenue and back towards Butetown and the Bay. Outside the Millennium centre are couples and people milling around, all preparing for an evening of entertainment. It makes Jack smile as he seems them all, all safe in this city he loves so much.
On his way across the Plass he takes a slight de-tour to one of the poster boards, to take a look at just what these people are waiting to see. The sight before him though is not one he expects, and one he's far from prepared for.
The face is familiar, oh so familiar, and his breath gets caught in his chest, taking him a moment or two to realise he isn't breathing at all.
"It can't be," he whispers, but there's nobody there to listen.
Jack's eyes are swimming and he's glued to the spot. This can't be right, he's sure this can't be right. Just an odd co-incidence. Someone who happens to look similar. It has to be. It can't be her.
But it doesn't hurt to make sure. So instead of back to the Hub, Jack heads into the Millennium center and with the aid of the word 'Torchwood', he goes backstage.
He's back on his way home now, taking a slow stroll down Lloyd George Avenue and back towards Butetown and the Bay. Outside the Millennium centre are couples and people milling around, all preparing for an evening of entertainment. It makes Jack smile as he seems them all, all safe in this city he loves so much.
On his way across the Plass he takes a slight de-tour to one of the poster boards, to take a look at just what these people are waiting to see. The sight before him though is not one he expects, and one he's far from prepared for.
The face is familiar, oh so familiar, and his breath gets caught in his chest, taking him a moment or two to realise he isn't breathing at all.
"It can't be," he whispers, but there's nobody there to listen.
Jack's eyes are swimming and he's glued to the spot. This can't be right, he's sure this can't be right. Just an odd co-incidence. Someone who happens to look similar. It has to be. It can't be her.
But it doesn't hurt to make sure. So instead of back to the Hub, Jack heads into the Millennium center and with the aid of the word 'Torchwood', he goes backstage.
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Date: 2009-04-30 01:14 am (UTC)He feels her move in his arms and his grip tightens. It takes him a moment to process what she's done, but then he realises. "Mina." He calls her name like a demand, trying to keep her with him, to make sure she's all right. "Mina, stay with me."
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Date: 2009-04-30 01:21 am (UTC)"Jack," she purrs, turning in his embrace and trailing her hands up his chest. "You're as handsome as I remember you being."
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Date: 2009-04-30 01:24 am (UTC)The sight of the blood and fang sends a shiver down his spine, but he stays strong, his arms loosening a little as she turns.
He looks down at her, seemingly struck speechless. She can see him now, see him as he is, how he really is. His eyes flick down to her hands for a moment, and his pulse races again. "Flattery will get you everywhere," he whispers.
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Date: 2009-04-30 01:31 am (UTC)"You wanted me to be able to see you, husband," Mina points out. She drops her voice to a throaty purr, "Didn't anyone ever tell you to be careful what you wish for?"
After a small eternity, she lifts her head without tasting him. Good girl. Her gaze, hungry and focused and intense and greedy, wanders over him. Drinks in the familiar curve of his jaw, the swell of lips, the line of his throat emerging from the blue shirt. Her fingers briefly curl into claws at his chest before she calms again, returning splayed fingers instead.
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Date: 2009-04-30 01:36 am (UTC)His voice lowers too, unconsciously mirroring hers. "Yeah, well I've never really been one for being careful."
The intensity in her gaze is enough to drive him almost mad. He watches her, lips dry, his tongue darting out to wet them. His hand reaches to her hair, to brush a little back again, but it stays clear of her skin, not quite touching. Not quite.
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Date: 2009-04-30 01:41 am (UTC)So very different from the woman the world had always seen her as.
His voice echoes in her head -- the veiled offers, the seduction in his eyes. He wants it, surely he does. Every little gesture seems to be screaming his desire for --
No, she thinks. Her small hands make fists in his shirt: a visible reflection of her inner struggle.
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Date: 2009-04-30 01:46 am (UTC)His throat feels as dry as his lips did, and as he stares at her he finds himself without words. He recognises this in her, he saw this, on occasion. But there's more in it now, a depth and a danger. (And he'd be lying if he said he didn't find the danger erotic in and of itself).
"I wanted you." His voice is gruff and deep. Full of need and want and desire. Curiosity he shouldn't allow himself to have.
As her fist tightens in his shirt he looks down. He spots something of her struggle and immediately covers the hand with one of his own. Comforting. "It's okay. I'm here."
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Date: 2009-04-30 01:58 am (UTC)The words come out in a rush, a soft breath of the human side of her even as the demon looks out through her eyes.
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Date: 2009-04-30 02:00 am (UTC)His hand moves to her cheek, a finger brushing over her lips. "I believe in you. And you're beautiful."
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Date: 2009-04-30 02:05 am (UTC)But there's the warm rush of blood into her mouth, sweet-tart and metallic and utterly delicious. She closes her eyes and suckles, obscene little growling noises coming from her throat.
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Date: 2009-04-30 02:08 am (UTC)The noises are enough to drive him near mad. Deep throaty noises that remind him of ones he produced from her so long ago.
And so he seals his fate. "Take what you want."
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Date: 2009-04-30 04:13 pm (UTC)But his words are her undoing, startling Mina deeply enough that she releases his finger and pushes herself away from him as she fights a very literal inner demon.
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Date: 2009-04-30 05:52 pm (UTC)"Hey," he speaks softly, stepping back to her. His hand immediately reaching for her shoulder. "It's okay. It's okay. I know, I know. God it must be so hard for you."
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Date: 2009-04-30 06:37 pm (UTC)"Please don't touch me. Not yet."
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Date: 2009-04-30 06:38 pm (UTC)"If there's anything I can do to help..."
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Date: 2009-04-30 06:47 pm (UTC)Eventually, she looks up at him and rises to her feet, coming to sit beside him.
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Date: 2009-04-30 06:52 pm (UTC)"I'm sorry." He whispers after a moment. "Guess I'm not a very good influence, huh?" Cautiously, he raises his arm out to wrap around her and pull her close.
"Maybe I'm a little reckless. I'll admit that."
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Date: 2009-04-30 06:56 pm (UTC)She goes into his arms, a little more centered in herself but still completely alert to his heartbeat, to the smell of his blood drying on his hand.
"Oh," she says, "it is rather a pretty hotel room, isn't it?"
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Date: 2009-04-30 07:00 pm (UTC)He shakes his head and then whispers to himself, barely audible. "In fact, I'd probably quite like it." He drifts for a moment, his focus seemingly gone before he pulls himself from his reverie.
"Hmm?" He asks, highlighting his distance. "Yeah it's great. Lovely little place."
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Date: 2009-04-30 07:31 pm (UTC)"Ah. I was..." he clears his throat. "Thinking about if you did... you know."
"Sorry."
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Date: 2009-04-30 07:38 pm (UTC)He's a grey area. Perhaps the only grey area in her black-and-white world. She won't feed because of the surrender of it, and moreso because she doesn't trust herself to stop, doesn't trust herself not to kill... but he claims he can't die...
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Date: 2009-04-30 07:43 pm (UTC)"Yes." He whispers. Admitting something he long ago kept secret.
Over his lifetime Jack has experienced many different kinds of pleasure. Some taboo, some unexplainable, some simply just unspeakable. But often his main crux is that he just simply can't and won't refuse. Too eager to experience.
"I'd like it better if it was you."
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Date: 2009-04-30 07:47 pm (UTC)She can hear his pulse racing, taunting her, and even in the face of his blatant request, she has the strength to hesitate. (It's heartening, or, rather, it will be later when she has the sense to think on it.)
"What if I hurt you?"
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Date: 2009-04-30 07:51 pm (UTC)"You could never hurt me. Not you."
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