⚡ ❱❱❱ RIVER !

@rocksolute continued from HERE

Maybe this wasn’t such a stellar idea, after all.

No… He has to know. He deserves that much, to finally be aware of all the danger he’s unknowingly subjected himself to, and-… Frankly, River doesn’t think she holds the will to hide it herself anymore. Not with this blood-aching beast yet ‘scheming’ and straining to free itself of those inner chains holding it down. Part of her wonders if it’s laughing at her now, grinning a fang-filled smirk as the cat is sprung from its bag.

“Think we’re both a bit old for jokes, when we get all ‘Serious Sam’ like this, dear.” Even still, River scoffs with a strained half-mirth before heaving a sigh, “Would you believe me if I gave you-… Well… ‘Proof’?”

_{❛  i concur with you one hundred percent, my sable-clad friend.  ❜  friend. wild concept, ain’t it? but ted…ted actually did have friends. what’s more, he still does. he had friends by the truckload back home and they all came in shapes, sizes, and complexions. thing is, the more ted remains in hell’s asshole, texas— the more the word starts loosing it’s meaning. a friend went from a dude he used to hang out with on the reg from any joe blow he just met out on the street, willing to give him directions to the next town over.} 

_{it’s not that he doesn’t care about riversong locke to consider her the first definition of friend, it’s just that…after all the shit that’s hit the fan— his wife and son in the hands of the mexican cartel. death, their bass player’s sudden disappearance— the most heinous destruction of his good robot counterpart and bill’s presumed death after getting beaten to a pulp by those…uh, the hell’d you even call these things? fiends? demon, snake hybrid things that look like they came out of a 90′s robert rodriguez movie? well, because of those things…whatever they are, ted was still trying to pick way through a minefield.} 

_{after about a minute of silence, the younger portion of the pair looked at her again.  ❛  let’s clean the air and put our cards on the table.  ❜  he can clean up the glass later, it isn’t going anywhere.}