Hospital, Bristol, Monday

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Early that morning, George had offered to get Annie a taxi. "Oh, no need," she'd said, and vanished before his very eyes; supposedly, back to the house, to see if the Door was still there. Which left George sitting at Mitchell's bedside, fidgeting, and watching the nurses argue about the heart monitor.

They were still pinning that on a possible defect in the system, but they were going to catch on sooner or later.

As the day progressed, he might have gone out to get some coffee occasionally, but mostly he spent his time here, watching Mitchell lie there, motionless, confounding the doctors. Apparently, his body hadn't forgotten how to simulate breathing just yet.

And because it wasn't enough of a clusterfuck yet, the hospital sent in a vicar later into the Monday evening, too, which was really complicated to deal with.

[[ for anyone who has reason to be in this Bristol hospital room any time today. spoilers for Being Human 1x06 likely if there are any comments. ]]

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"Jesus, pull yourself together!" Kate snapped at George, because he looked like he was having a panic attack (though didn't he always?) and she wasn't having that. Not that she was doing much of use.

Then she glanced at the vicar. "I don't think that's such a good idea."

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"Oh, I was hoping you'd say that," the vicar said, sagging back together with relief--

"No!" George exclaimed, pulling away from the bed. "No! You're a vicar! Religion! That's an excellent idea, you really should go talk to them."

The vicar looked like he'd rather bang his head against a wall.

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And Kate looked like she couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"Whoa, what?" she asked. "What the fuck, George, do you want to get him killed?"

Even Kate wasn't that anti-Christianity.

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"No, trust me, if anything, he's the best weapon we've got," George said. He'd already gripped the poor vicar's arm and started to pull him along. "Stay here or come with, I don't care, but he's our last chance!"

"Well, bugger," said the vicar.

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"I don't get it," Kate said, but followed anyway. It wasn't smart but she wasn't thinking clearly.

Maybe she'd have the good sense to stay close to the door, at least?

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Maybe.

"Maybe they're lost," the vicar prattled on as George dragged them down the hall. "I know I can never find anywhere in this place. In fact, on this one occasion--" He froze up at the sight of the two very burly men making their way down the hallway. "--oh."

The light flickered. For a moment, he was sure he'd seen black eyes and... and fangs? "What are they?" he stammered.

"Say something religious," George hissed back at him.

"Christ!"

"No!" George snapped. "From the bible!"

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Okay, so Kate didn't exactly stay by the door, but she did stay firmly behind the two of them. Even moreso, once she saw the vampires, and froze.

"... Fuck."

Yeah, she had nothing more to contribute at this point, and of course now, now staying in the room with Mitchell was looking like the smart, obvious option.

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"My mind's gone blank!" the vicar exclaimed. Okay, that was a bit of a flail there, don't mind him. But 'fuck'? She was right. Fuck was a very good word.

George reached into his shirt and yanked out his Star of David. "The last sermon you gave. Anything," he snapped.

"Right, uh, yes." The vicar swallowed audibly. Grasping for something. "'When... When I was
a child, I spake as a child... I understood as a child, I thought as a child, but when I became a man, I put...'" he stammered once, then regained his courage. "'I put away childish things.'"

The vampires kept on their advance and advanced and-- stopped, like they'd hit some invisible barrier in the middle of the air.

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"Hail Mary, full of grace!" Kate called out from behind George and the vicar, helpfully. Or not.

Considering she'd been reaching in her mind for stuff Alice had said, they were lucky she didn't just exclaim that tampons were sin missiles.

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Yes, the vampires... might have been slightly less impressed with that. They turned away slowly, almost hesitantly, but when they'd finally twisted around they were moving in quite a hurry, like they didn't want to get anywhere near them any longer.

George gave his Star of David necklace another tug. Just to be sure. "You can't come here!" he hollered. "You're not welcome here!"

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Yeah, Kate was just going to be quiet now, feeling a mix relief and I just said that, didn't I?

She was keeping her eyes fixed on the backs of the vampires for as long as they were in her line of sight, though.