Accidental Video | Location

[solemnly_swere]

Warnings: Descriptions of violence, werewolf transformations and pain.

It's dark at first. Pitch black. Nothing but the scuffling noises of movement. The phone is slowly adjusting to the bleakness, there is a crack running along the video, off to one side, as if it has fallen. Perhaps that's what turned it on.

As it adjusts, it's easy to tell the location is a cave. There are a few scattered things in the cave. A broken chair with teeth and claw marks in it, a tattered sack with someone's stuff that looks like it's seen better days. A pillow with more stitches than fabric. Sitting off to one side, with his head in his hands, is a young man who looks just as tattered as the rest of his things. He's got a raggedy cloak draped over him, but visible patches of skin are equally covered in scars and bite marks.

The glow from the moon is the only light drifting through the cave, and after a moment there is a low whine from Remus' hunched form that draws out the tighter he curls in on himself. For a brief second, his eyes catch sight of the phone, and panic floods them as he lunges for it, but it's too late. He falls short with a pained cry and what follows is hard to watch. Time doesn't make the transformation any easier. Bones crack and shrink, muscles and tendons rearrange, organs are forced to shrink to the right size. By the time it's finished, the phone has been knocked against a cave wall, another crack finding it's way across the screen.

The lens gets a final glimpse of the beast in Remus' place. A wolf, larger than average, and with a few differences that someone with a keen knowledge of wolves might notice, but otherwise, very obviously a wolf. It throws it's head back in a long, frustrated howl. When it stops, canine eyes catch the phone again, and with a flash of teeth the video goes dead.

Comments

[allons_y_alonso]

[scan]

[video]

[30languagesofbeer]

...Damn. Is this the "Shoot me" or the "Please rescue and do not shoot" kind of giant spooky animal? 'Cause I think I only have the patience to deal with one of those right now.

[reanimated]

Oh shit

[reanimated]

I TOLD EVERYONE THERE WERE GAY RAPIST WEREWOLVES HERE!

[notvictorious]

WHAT?

[reanimated]

What?! I was right!

[jenratedanomaly]

What?

[reanimated]

Let's just say I've got experience in this area.

[reanimated]

Not like that

[chronosexual]

Jesus...

An Actual werewolf?

[jenratedanomaly]

I thought werewolves weren't real. Like ghosts.

[chronosexual]

I've never seen one, but there were always stories about Torchwood One.

Still. It's exciting, isn't it?

[Audio]

[coimiceoir]

He's all right. Just hurting. He doesn't want anyone to get close. You shouldn't go near him.

[Audio]

[chronosexual]

[ Jack's voice sounds hurt.]

What? Why not? It's not like he can do a whole lot to me. Or... Oh, I see.

You're afraid of what I'm going to do to him?

[Audio]

[coimiceoir]

[Firmly and evasively...]

You should stay home.

[lifewithoutrest]

Dear, Lord.

[She's well accustomed to Henry's transformations, but this? This is different.]

Who is afraid of the big, bad wolf?

[just_so]

Hm. This is new.

[rule_britannia]

... Oh, bloody hell.

[pelagically]

Aren't you full of surprises.

[icanbuyafez]

Am I thinking what I think I'm thinking?

[jenratedanomaly]

What are you thinking?

[icanbuyafez]

There's a real, live, werewolf here. And it's one of the good ones!

I had heard from me that Remus Lupin was here, but I'd been so busy, what with your kidnapping and everything, that I'd forgotten.

Oh, this is brilliant!

[icanbuyafez]

Then again, perhaps I shouldn't be quite so enthused. It's brilliant that he's here, but he does seem to be in pain. We should see if there's something we can do for him - perhaps he'd be more comfortable in the TARDIS?

[Audio]

[coimiceoir]

Be careful, Doctor. He isn't very friendly when he's like that. You really shouldn't get too near him.

[Audio]

[icanbuyafez]

Well, yes, I suppose he isn't very friendly when he's like this. But his propensity to hurt himself while in this form isn't something I can just stand back and watch, not when I might be able to help. Jenny and I are going to see if we can do anything to help him.