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Lawrence is, at the moment, settled down with his arms behind his neck on the grass next to the lake.

To the untrained eye it might appear that he's fallen asleep, but he's really paying quite close attention. He's enjoying the cool evening - his shirt is bunched up behind his head to act as a pillow.

As such, his fairly scarred upper body is exposed, but he doesn't seem very bothered.

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"No."

Curls up a little farther.

Lawrence really, really doesn't want to go in the tree.

"...please?"

So she comes down.

Or rather, falls. But what with the whole 'flying' thing, she hovers an inch or so above ground, then drops.

"No."

"Why not?" He rubs a finger over Orion's back idly.

"Because."

Shuts her eyes, a swell of killriptearrendhurtbitekill.

"It's worse."

"I thought there might be reprecussions, Mal."

He frowns.

"Come and sit with me?"

She doesn't move.

Sitting with means being with means being near to a warm living body with (blood) life in the veins.

She. Can't do that. Not now.

"Mal."

He sighs, stroking his hand over Orion's back.

"How long has it been?" Whether he's asking about the actual 'when did she start drinking blood again' or 'when's the last time you had some blood' is up for debate.

"I don't know."

Shuts her eyes to think.

"Wednesday."

"That's almost a week."

Yes, he can tell dates.

"Yeah."

There were intervals. Small ones. But something is very, very wrong, and she can already feel the gun gaining control over her mind once more.

He sighs.

Because really, he'd like to figure out what's wrong, but it's a bit difficult at the moment.

"Anyway."

Rests her head on her knees, eyes fluttering shut.

[ooc: I must bed - so sorry!]

[OOC: No worries.]

Lawrence watches her curiously, hoping she'll be able to sleep soon.

No, not soon. Not while there's other people. So she gets up and moves back to the tree, sitting with her back to the trunk and quietly watching Lawrence.

Lawrence sighs again, leaning against the trunk.

Buggering vampires.

That's one way to put it.

She's eying him with something like longing.

He frowns.

"If you want to come and sit, Mal, then come and sit."

"I. Can't."

"Because you're going to try and eat me?"

He sounds rather amused.

"Because I don't want to lose control again."

Flatly.

"And so sitting up in a tree for the rest of your physical life is the obvious solution, as opposed to learning some form of self-control."

Right.

"Yeah."

Sulkily.

"Right."

He shakes his head. "Self-control is, I'm told, a good thing to learn."

"I had self control."

Plays with the grass.