[APPOINTMENTS POST] 13 Paternoster Road

[eversohungry]

[This is an appointment post for Vastra at luceti.]

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[eversohungry]

[Vastra smiles again faintly and shrugs.] I'm surprised I've kept it secret from you this long, Eugene. Like many lizards in your world, I am a carnivore primarily. I do enjoy all sorts of foods, however I garner most of my nutrition from protein. After starving myself, I need that most of all. It isn't a matter of you not knowing well enough how to help, Eugene. You're helping very much right now.

[She reaches for Eugene's hand and gestures for him to sit by her.] Listening will help very much. Where were you earlier in October?

[z_jay]

[So, carnivorous food would be far more applicable to keeping her healthy and... relatively happy than, say, cupcakes. He could deal with this, and it would give him a valid excuse to try out a few new culinary delights. The further implications of what meat was included, he'd let slide. There were worse things to be, and he'd seen that first-hand.

Sitting beside her after taking her hand, Eugene scritched the back of his head to remember.]

Working, basically. There seems to have been something happened to most of the people here in Luceti that's kind of mercifully missed me and Jack. But there's been a lot of oddities happening recently. Everyone's on edge emotionally...

[eversohungry]

I am glad it missed you, whatever it was.

[She pauses, holding Eugene's hand, wondering where to begin or if she should even explain. Talking would be the only way, though. Eugene couldn't guess.]

For a few days, I was convinced I had everything I wanted. I was retired, the universe and time was relatively safe, I was accepted here, Jenny was here. We had adopted a son.

[She squeezes Eugene's hand.] It felt so real.

[z_jay]

Me, too, truth be told. [If it had shaken Vastra, he knew it had to be something proportionally horrid. He squeezed her hand in return, clasping its twin over top]

Is it like how... when we shifted before and you were my mom? That's still not gone away.

[A grin followed, soft and not meant to be mocking at all, but if he didn't tease her, there was something deathly wrong with their relationship]

So do I have a new brother? I don't mind, just so long as I get to boss Max around still.

[eversohungry]

You may want to reserve your bullying to Max. A grown man pushing around a seven year old child might look a little too deplorable. [Vastra tries to smile, but it never reaches her eyes.]

How many more times am I going to lose her, Eugene? I never imagined I would fall to anything so slow as this has been, but I feel nearly broken by this.

[z_jay]

How old do you think Jack is?

[But all jokes aside, his smile dissolved slowly when he heard her speak further, confide and ask. Scooting a little closer, he kept quiet for a moment, but it was a contemplative sort of quiet. Choosing his words carefully]

I can't say. The Malnosso are so adept at their crafting of worlds that it could be many more times. As much as I wish it weren't so, I can't lie to you about that possibility. But... I suppose, if it matters at all, none of this is in fact real.

[Ultimately, useless consolation, the feelings were real enough to devastate]

They've left you nearly, but not broken. This won't be forever. Would it help if we try to figure out a way to get you home to her?

[Because when it came right down to it as much of a bond as he had for Vastra, he'd be willing to do what it took to send her home if it would make her happy]

[eversohungry]

It is very real, Eugene. [Vastra frowns deeply at him.] Simply because this is a pocket universe, and that when we are returned we don't remember anything, does not make this unreal.

[That said, she takes a deep breath and lets it out.] I would love that dearly. However I couldn't leave you both behind.

[z_jay]

[He felt like he'd been scolded, and even if he had, thinking it hadn't been real was one of the few things keeping his reality from unwinding. Vastra, though, she was far stronger than he could ever actually be]

What would Jenny want you to do? I mean, objectively. Would she want to see you in this place because of her?

[It would be a question that he'd expect to be asked if he were in a similar state, Jack absent from his life. Because he knew without a shred of doubt that Jack wouldn't want it for him, and that his memory was best served living life to the full... It wasn't asked to be cruel or reprimanding]