003 - Action - How it ends

[lone_defender]

Rose Tyler looked death in the face more times than she cared to count. Sometimes she did it on purpose, sometimes willingly, sometimes very much against her will. As it was, her fear of death long since burned away. Maybe when she'd gone falling to the Void. Maybe when she saw all of time and lived

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[unit_girl]

Jo turned at the sound of the crash and her eyes widened as she saw a van had crashed into a wall. She ran over to it and looked inside the cab. The front of it had crumpled and the driver was slumped over the steering wheel. There was blood all over the windscreen and when she looked closer, she could see the driver was beyond help.

So she left him to the experts and went around the van, hands shaking. She had seen some gruesome things, but there were some things you never got used to.

Around the other side, she could see through the hole in the wall and the girl who'd been hit by the van. "Are you alright?" she shouted, hoping she wasn't dead too.

[lone_defender]

It's disorienting to suddenly find yourself standing over your own...well, near to your own body, looking down at someone else over it.

Maybe it was more disorienting that...there wasn't anything different, except that now she stood outside of her body, and--she assumed--couldn't communicate.

It was worth testing. "Yeah...not so much."

[unit_girl]

The girl didn't move, so Jo went closer. And then realised that she really wasn't alright. "I'm so sorry," Jo said, sitting down beside her. She patted the girl's cheek. "You're so young."

[lone_defender]

The woman's response could have been construed as a response to what she said, but Rose doubted that was actually true. So she walked over and squatted down next to...her body.

It was ironic, surviving so much, going so very far...and ending up like this. "Still around here, though. S'pose that means I get to keep an eye on all of you from here."