#desperate attempts

[isegmenti]

Asahi bites the Eldest on the shoulder as hard as he can. If this doesn't wake him, nothing will.

He barely reacted to the bite.

Il Dottore had been in many a scuffle and, unfortunately, suffered many a wound. It hadn't happened in a long, long while, but he also wasn't expecting the Sixth to develop such a feral attitude.

So while the bite hurt, and Dottore initially flinched at the pain, he didn't respond. Instead, he pried Scaramouche off of his shoulder, roughly holding him by his throat.

"You're desperate today," Dottore mused, tightening his grip on Scaramouche's neck ever so slightly. "I thought you would have appreciated the day off from our experiments, but if you're so eager to get more work done..."

Yes, that was a threat.

[honorhearted]

“I’ve been tryin' hard ta reach you, ‘cause I don’t know what to do.” ~ Elsie

@unyieldingvalxr / this meme (x)

Admittedly, Elsie Marion was the last person Ben expected to see in camp. How she’d found him, he couldn’t be certain -- he didn’t exactly let people know his whereabouts, save for a select few, and yet she’d always been exceptional at tracking.

Concerned, Ben immediately rose from his seat, his eyes cutting questioningly toward the messenger who’d shown her into his quarters. Once he nodded to the younger man, the messenger nodded back and exited the tent.

Once they were alone, Ben extended a hand. “Please,” he encouraged, “have a seat.” Elsie, however, didn’t exactly look as though she wanted to sit. She’d clearly been traveling for days, and a pang of guilt rippled through his stomach. What if he could have saved her the trouble, had he been more forthright about his location?

Abandoning his pretense of propriety, Ben came toward her and searched her eyes for answers. “What is it?” he demanded. “Has something happened?” Unbidden, a sickening undercurrent churned within his gut, and he exhaled through his nose. There had to be a reason -- a big reason -- for Elsie to feel as though she needed him. Her people could be prideful, and he knew they wouldn’t just ask for assistance unless it was absolutely necessary.

[citationneeded]

John George, Marquess of Montferrat

As the last of his family and despite his poor health, John George had no option than to become the new Marquess. In a desperate attempt to produce an heir, he married the 41-year-old Julia, daughter of Frederick IV of Naples, on 21 April 1533. He died 9 days later.

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[rhymesaplenty-blog]

I need a place to live. ASAP.

preferably close to the train. 

hmu

[newsdock]

Spain and Italy struggled to cope Wednesday with a huge surge of African immigrants, plucking more than 2,300 people from flimsy vessels in just 24 hours as they made desperate attempts to reach the shores of southern Europe. Spain's government said it was sending nearly 500 police reinforcements to cope with the flow. The Spanish maritime rescue services said it had picked up 920 people including 26 children from the Gibraltar Strait on Tuesday, and another 10 men trying to reach Spain on a dinghy on Wednesday morning. "These are people coming to Italy not for tourism but out of desperation. Source: AFP

[wigglesweird]

someone please talk to me