Previously: The Rose of Whitby – Chapter 116

John doesn’t fucking want anybody to take a look at it. And he doesn’t want them to fucking think about why he has a clue what it means, either. He hates that he had to learn about this girly shit. Although, right now that doesn’t hurt half as much as the fact that, yes, he’s heard her say it over and over that she doesn’t love him right, but still, seeing it like this stings. Despite that, she cried out for him.

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Previously: The Rose of Whitby – Chapter 115

The actual drawing of the blood goes quickly, Jack has too much experience with setting needles, although he more often has injected things into people rather than drawn blood out of them. Apart from that time nearly twenty years back, of course. By now, he knows that blood transfusions are generally seen as risky, if not downright dubious, by most medical practitioners, but back then he had trusted Van Helsing and they were so very desperate.

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Previously: The Rose of Whitby – Chapter 114

Vlad really doesn’t like this pattern, now he has to slink back empty-handed a second time, and he is glad that he makes a point out of not intruding on anybody’s minds, tempted as he may get, but still, it is beyond him how Mr Cobb would just flat out refuse to come back with him. Stress about his wife being in danger should fuel his wish to help with the solution, not make him stubbornly and rather immaturely refuse to leave the pub he’s in.

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Previously: The Rose of Whitby – Chapter 113

Arthur sighs. “As I understand it… an enthrallment creates a feeling of love, doesn’t it?” He looks at Mr Basarab for confirmation. “That seems to be its emotional core. So I think love is the emotion to target.”

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Previously: The Rose of Whitby – Chapter 112

If Quincy wasn’t currently a bit hard-pressed to answer immediately, he doesn’t think Gregory would have even made it through all his complaining and whining about how Jack is just so weird and Lucy didn’t do what he wanted her to do and that he’s just so badly off. This is so hard.

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Previously: The Rose of Whitby – Chapter 111

Having leaned in to follow along the calculations, Jack pulls back from where he was already doing his own calculations, probabilities of different approaches and likelihoods of what materials they could procure. “I believe that is part of the reason why you bring two hands for a minstrel. Art, am I right in assuming that every person gets a different version of the plan, and the one who knows the actual full picture stays behind?”

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Previously: The Rose of Whitby – Chapter 110

Jack, if he’s completely honest, really doesn’t want to try to console Mr Cobb. The man… boy, has not shown him anything but vitriol and dismissal for the entire time he had to deal with him. But he is the more parentally inclined one between them, and maybe, if he is going to the utmost end of his willingness towards the benefit of the doubt, maybe it is the lack of a positive father figure in Mr Cobb’s life that makes him so stand-offish.

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Previously: The Rose of Whitby – Chapter 109

To fill the silence and to discourage Art from losing his temper after all, Mina starts to report on Vlad’s progression. He is not sharing his senses with her yet, she suspects he’s still rushing along the skies and she concurs that she wouldn’t really have the capacity to process the way his senses work then.

But that doesn’t stop him from talking to her.

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Previously: The Rose of Whitby – Chapter 108

For a moment, Jack wonders if it’s wrong of him to maybe not pray for that, the lack of running into a problem vampire, he means.

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“I hadn’t even considered the missing baroness problem…” Arthur admits. (And at least no one is accusing him of failing to prevent the entire situation in the first place…) “The problem we have with that one is… how do we do it? Radu already called her to him once, and she attacked Quincy and John to get to him. That’s why John has been keeping her asleep, but he can’t do that all the time. But if she’s awake, Radu can spy on us through her, and… I’m not sure how we can contain her without hurting her while also not giving her the chance of hurting us? Like… she can turn into fog,” he remembers. “And we didn’t like the option of letting Llew take her to the nexus. Though I suppose that point’s moot now?”

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Previously: The Rose of Whitby – Chapter 107

What is happening here? Jack finds he has no data to go on. He threw the dice of probability at seeing Arthur rush off at Dracula’s words. He decided this is the place he has to be (much as he does not like to leave Art on his own in a situation like that).

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