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Character Meet and Greet

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"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

I. Exploring Main Street! Take a trip through a little town taken straight from 1890's America. Visit the shops, dine at the restaurants- but don't forget you are here on a mission. As an Apprentice, you will need to gather some supplies. A weapon, or tool for producing magic.

But we understand if that corn dog cart on Market Street is your first stop.

II. Apprentice Class 101! Practice your spell casting and weaponship on the open commons behind the Firehouse. Sparring, casting or just general confusion abound here. Try not to hit anything or...anyone, the paint on the infirmary is still drying.

III. Look out! A level 2 corroded monster has managed to get onto Main Street! Protect the citizens and defeat the cur, and please watch the damage, the paint is still wet!

IV. One Little Spark! Go ahead, show us the strength of your imagination and come up with your own scenarios. Just, stay out of the Corroded Lands...if possible.

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"Who are you asking?"

A defensive shrug about knowing demons, not really, but she was very attached to the idea of red bat wings and spiked tails and horns and pitchforks, for some reason.

"Mmmmm 'e said the forces of light trapped 'im there, in Krop Tor. Hell, but just a prison for 'im. So, I only met the one, but I was expectin' more red than black, yeah? And bat wings. Yours are --" she reached out in spite of herself to gently stroke them, "Nice." A beat, because that was probably a grave insult for a demon. "Not nice, very scary and intimidating, like a crow's." Gentle pets. "But yanno, they always draw you, demons, so ragged and torn up. Not handsome." She blamed the Doctor for the slip of the tongue there. And she'd take it out on him the second she found him.

Rose got miffed at the last question. "I am human!" a beat. "And a time traveler, and a dimension traveler." She suddenly felt protective of the Doctor, in case taking humans with him was against heaven and hell's rules or something, but luckily for her, she had a shortcut. "My Dad's an inventor. Sort of Steve Jobs of his universe. In the one I was born in, he died when I was a baby. But in a universe where I wasn't even born, he helped undermine a company building cybermen -- like cyborg zombies. So when they tunneled the void, Da' invented a way to follow them to the universe I was born in." She was specifically leaving out the parts for which the Doctor and her might be a little culpable. "He saved me from the monsters, re-married my Mum -- his universe version got turned into a cyberman -- and gave me a job helping stop the premature end of the world with his company Torchwood." Nod!! "Torchwood's the ones that went explorin' the black hole with Satan too. We get into all sorts of mischief," to say the least. "But we mean well!! Least me and Da' do."

At least she wasn't crying anymore.

"Some one who never listens..."

A glare at the air which remained just as silent as ever which was why he never saw that hand reaching out to stroke his wing. It was a common misconception that demon wings were as horrible as demons tended to be. Actually they were just like angel wings only black and maybe a touch better groomed. The wings were soft under Rose's touch, with an even softer downy fluff hidden just underneath the glossy fight feathers. He was momentarily stunned that this human had reached out to touch them but even if she had called him handsome, his wing twitched once and drew away. In fact he took a physical step away himself, favoring a quick pace around in front of the girl as he snarled.

"I'm not nice! There is not one thing about me that is nice! And I am nothing like a crow!"

Nevermind that he had seemed slightly concerned for her or had allowed her to cry on him, he was not nice! He was only helping out an MIA angel... who he was rather glad hadn't been around to see that now. Crowley never would have lived that down.

But at least he and Rose could be miffed together.

Now whether or not the lady's lifestyle was against any rules he couldn't have cared less. He was a demon, encouraging people to break rules was his thing. He had just been surprised she was so well traveled. The most humans had done on his Earth was make it to the moon and shoot off a long range satellites or two. They couldn't dimension hop... or meet faux Satans on distant prison worlds... or fight cyborg zombies... OK! Come on!

"Cyborg zombies? You've been watching way too much scifi..."

Just in case she wasn't crazy though he did have to ask.

"Did you dimension hop your way here? Could you say... hop away from this world again too?"

Rose laughed in spite of herself. Not the right reaction, but she couldn't help it. "Not nice," she agreed, "Very rude and ginger. You must be the reason they say gingers have no soul." An atrocious joke, and she's not even apologetic about it.

"I can't," she shook her head. "My mission is to stop the darkness spreading and find allies. I don't know that the Doctor would actually know anything, like I said, he can be really daft. So I can't just..." She closed her eyes, but it didn't stop the grimace of extreme pain, "Risk the collapse of two or more universes just because I lo-- miss him."

That might have been a joke but he just shrugged at it. Maybe he was. Having been on Earth from the beginning there were vast amounts of things he had created and things that had been created around him, so it was possible.

"You don't really need one."

A soul. A bit overrated those... Or so he said with a bit of a sneer. Hoping perhaps to startle, but if that outburst of his hadn't then it was likely the more sedate look wouldn't have either. Also he tried not to wince at the near mention of the word 'love', that still being deep in angel territory.

"What are you going to do then, hang around here and fight the corruption? You will never find this guy if you do."

Yeah, no, she wasn't fazed.

She just hangs her head morosely. It kills her all over again.

"My mission wasn't to find him. It was to find help to stop the darkness. He was the only one I thought who even could know anything about it, but now I know better. My mission was to stop the darkness... so yeah. If I didn't... If I don't..." a hiccup and she starts crying again. Deep breath. "If I don't do that... if I don't fight the darkness, if I just ignore it, to keep looking for him... even if I did find him again, I couldn't look him in the eye, he wouldn't be proud of me, he'd probably be really disappointed and angry...."

She looked up at the sky. "And might not forgive me, even if there was anything left to go back to."

Rose was really mixed up. Half of her wanted to crumple into a ball and cry her heart out. Back to the day she realized she was stuck in Pete's Universe. "I thought Bad Wolf meant I could get back to him, but maybe it's just where I'm supposed to be. Some things are bigger than just... who you're with." A bitter laugh through the tears she wiped off with one hand. "I do not relish my Mum's bloody 'I told you so.' She'll be relieved, and that's even worse, yeah?" A bitter hiccup. "I'm not useless without him. I'm not. I saved my world fine on my own. Saved him without him knowing it. And it's fine, I don't need reward or recognition, I just--"

She grinds her teeth and growls, "It'd be nice to know he won't be bloody dead, and pathetic, and hurting and lonely and--" she completely breaks down into sobbing anyway, the anger not quite enough to power over it.

Edited 2019-07-01 17:00 (UTC)

She was crying again. Crowley took a defensive step back not from fear or any desire to avoid her lunging at him again but because he found himself right back in that awkward place he had been in earlier. He could try to comfort her, it is what an angel might do if they were paying attention, or walk away, which he was very much tempted to do as all this was her problem did it really have to be his? Or he could offer a little demonic advice, spread a little discord.

"Who cares if he would be disappointed in you! You ought to be disappointed in him, leaving you behind, making you chase though dimensions just on the off chance this idiot will actually have a plan. Screw him!"

Demonic advice tended to be a little less forgiving than angelic advice.

"You don't need his forgiveness. Forgiveness for what, looking for him? Trying to save a world? This guy sounds like a real prick. You're better off without him."

She hiccupped, blinked at him owlishly, and then nodded fiercely. "Y-Yeah!!" A fist punch in the air. She didn't need him, he needed her!! "All the worlds!!" A wolf growl of determination, casting the Doctor out of her head for now, reverting to her classic anger whenever he did let himself die, which let her push on and ignore (however briefly) the anguish.

"And I've done just bloody fine on my own!!! Which is way more than he can say!!"

A deep bad wolf huff and she smiled softly, giving him a very quick hug again, hoping it didn't cause actual pain on him or anything. "Thank you. That was perfect, Anthony."

And it was!!! Even if the Doctor showed up in front of her right that very second, she'd kick his shins for making her cry with worry again, and dying in timelines she had to prevent from becoming reality, and making her doubt everything, including whether he was even worth it (because he was, of course he was, but he still sucked too).

Hugs weren't physically painful, he reacted as if they were, but that was only him being dramatic. This time was no different. Quick though it was he stiffened in her hug and tried to wriggle free like a snake being held against it's will in the arms of it's keeper.

"Don't thank me! I'm not supposed to be helping you lot no matter what Merlin or that Hades says. There are rules against that in Hell."

"I KNEW IT!" she declared loudly and pointed a finger at him. "Remember? I asked you that and everything!"

There was a finger pointed almost directly at his nose. A finger asking him to remember something that just happened. He almost wanted to bite it, didn't, but the thought did flash to mind.

"You say that like it's a great Revelation. Demons are meant to tempt humans, not help them, it's written down and everything."

To be fair... Rose might bite a finger pointed in her face too, so would the Doctor. And it wouldn't make her like him any less.

"Yeah, but why can't you just do what you want? Do you need me to kick Satan's ass again?" she says, like it's just that easy.

And she scrunches her face. She has no idea what even qualifies as temptation for her anymore, honestly. Honestly. She's been living completely on the full cusp of doing whatever she wants -- bar that one destroying two universes because yanno, that'd be bad. "I mean, what good is it telling everyone else to do what they want and hang the consequences, if you can't?" Is Rose Tyler trying to tempt the demon of temptation? Yes, yes she is. Rose Tyler though.

"He would kill you."

Crowley pointed out without a second thought. Human versus the ultimate evil, human looses every time.

"And I do what I want most of the time but even demons have rules. You do have to appear to be following them."

Just give yourself a good cover story and do whatever you like! That was his motto. If it wasn't he wouldn't have an arrangement with an Angel. But one did have to be careful of spies.

"Nah," Rose beamed calmly, "Killing is too good for me. Killing would get me out of his range. He sent me on a mission where I got to see the Doctor dead in hundreds of ways instead. Revenge for the black hole I shot Satan into, I'm sure."

A snort. "Why? Break them." A shrug. "I guess I get it. God doesn't smite, the devil does, that sort of thing. But what about here? The only other demon isn't from your neck of the woods, and the only reason he's not willing fighting the darkness is he thinks the people who want us to fight are the ones that stole his D-Hopper. If they paid him, he'd be down for it." Nod nod, "Proper demon." Not that you're not demonic enough for her.... but you aren't.

"I don't think he would really pay you much mind at all, not right now. He is a little preoccupied with the whole ending the world thing. Bringing about Armageddon and rallying thousands of demons to take part in the final battle, I think, would rank higher than tormenting one lady."

Crowley was the most approachable demon one would ever meet. He might even fight for this cause now and then, when it suited him, for no pay... ~~Or when a certain angel needed a hand.~~

"But don't believe for a moment God doesn't smite people. Remember the Flood? Just because she hasn't done anything like that recently doesn't mean she wouldn't quite happily test the humans of Earth right to their destruction."

Which funnily enough she was doing!

"You'd think that, but I keep thwarting his ends of the Earth. Defender of Earth, and other dimensions me, so I guess messin' with my head is just bonus."

Rose chewed her bottom lip in thought about the rest. "God sounds like a bitch. I won't let her either." Yeah. Yeah, she just said that.

"Defender of Earth?"

He scoffed with a demonic chuckle.

"You don't look like much of a defender. What could you possibly do against two supremely powerful beings like them?"

Rose shrugged, "Anything I want. Shot the devil into a black hole, poured time vortex into the dalek God and unmade it. Still feelin' useless at sittin' in a classroom and learnin' to obey somebody else's orders though."

She stretched her arms behind her back and over her head, hands locked together. "Remember when you were yellin' about the pointlessness of having billions and quadrillions and infinite Earth's only to destroy them before? Each road is looking for the path that has peace, that can survive, and thrive, and exist. But sometimes universes even try to invade each other. The darkness is what happens if existence, reality loses."

Another shrug, "I don't have to do that much individually. The worst part is, most times I can't do anything. I have to just watch and rewind and try to figure out why one timeline collapsed, try undoing that thing in another universe and just..." Sigh. "See what happens. This is all a dream right? I haven't really been sleepin' on the TARDIS, because with her dyin' it makes me cry, so I just... Imagined all this up, because I've been thinkin' too hard on the big picture instead'a focusin' one detail at a time, right?" She chewed her bottom lip ferociously.

"And I couldn't even give myself the Doctor fer a bit o' fun to distract me. Wow. Thanks self."

"I really... don't think you know what you are dealing with here. What ever you ran across before can't have been the Devil. I've met him, delivered his son... he was in a basket at the time but you get the idea, the Devil is alive and well! On Earth, trying to cause it's destruction!"

If he sounded almost frantic at times it was because these events had been moving so swiftly of late and this girl was beginning to sound insane to him. If it were so easy...!

"Whatever you met wasn't him! Might have looked like him, might have said it was him, but it wasn't. And you got very damn lucky that it wasn't! There is no way the actual Devil could be defeated by a mere human woman! It can't happen. If it were that easy I'd sic you on him in a heartbeat. Hell, I'd sic every loud blonde girl on Earth on him! It just doesn't work that way..."

"He was. How daft would a demon have to be to pretend to be the ultimate boss? If he wasn't him, he definitely believed he was. And I stopped him from gettin' back to Earth to spread his destruction throughout the whole universe! That's why."

A huff. "I'm not just any woman! I'm Rose Tyler! And I can do, and have done stuff you never even dreamed of!"

"He was trying to scare you!"

Seemed the most plausible explanation to him.

"Or make himself seem bigger and stronger than he actually was... Obviously Rose. Demons lie, its what we do. He was only lying to you."

A shrug. It didn't mean anything to her one way or the other, to be honest.

"You sound like the Doctor. But he was the Prince of Lies, right?" a snort. "He still told the truth about me dying in battle. Just left out the parts that wouldn't hurt the Doctor or me. Big bloody surprise."

"There see, all mind games."

The demon leaving out crucial details like that proved it for him!

"Guy's just lucky he ran into you instead of the real Satan... He might be amused by an impostor but if he wasn't, OH if he wasn't! You do not want to get on his bad side!"

"I did die. Legally. Getting stuck into another universe isn't exactly the kind of thing that they can explain in the papers or anyone but the Doctor even knew about. And it definitely felt like dying. 'Specially everything that came after," she grumbled. "My own private hell."

"Hell's not so bad when you get used to it."

He shrugged, an action more designed to stretch his neck muscles than make any sort of comment on what she had said.

"And now you're trapped here. Almost funny how you keep ending up trapped in unfamiliar dimensions."

"No, that's by design. I told you I'm fighting the Darkness. I've been looking." She tossed him a small glare over her shoulder, starting to walk off again. "And try getting used to your best friend, an immortal, still managing to die without regeneration or healing, or whatever, and knowing that he's so daft he made the whole of Earth dependent on him, so without him, everything falls apart and ends prematurely in its very own special Ragnarok of the air being lit on fire, taken over by hundreds of invaders, nuclear war, the whole works, and even though people are still good, even though people still fight, it's not enough, because no one knows what to fight or how to even save each other anymore."

Her eyes weren't even hard or haunted. After all, like she said, she was a ghost. A noisy ghost here. "And even if you try to help, people can't remember you, sometimes you find your friend, and you think it's in time, but you're still just a ghost. So he can't hear you, can't see you, doesn't know the darkness is eating reality, and doesn't even turn around." That was a bit more haunted. But her voice was eerily calm nevertheless. "Just try it."

Not that Crowley would know, but given how Rose was a billion kinds of passion looking for expression, the numbness or lack of showing it in her tone, voice, or anything else would have bone-chilling for anyone who did know.

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