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Olivia burst into a coughing fit, having held her breath for as long as she physically could. She tried to stifle it with her shirt, which helped a little to bring the noise down, but ultimately she just had to hold her breath again, hoping she could beat her past record of 2 minutes.

"Almost there, Olivia, we're almost at the town." the Doctor said. They reached it just in time, Seni felt like she was going to pass out–why did she still travel with this idiot again? "Shelter, now." he said. The whole place was barren and empty, the streets echoed and the gusts of wind wailed, but it was more pressing they got indoors, lest they end up choking or freezing to death.

Olivia let her breath out and immediately started coughing again, doubling over and falling to her knees. She wasn't sure if there was blood of phlegm in her throat, but either way, it was now on her hand. When she finally stopped coughing for a few seconds, she pulled her hand away and saw tiny flecks of red. So, blood, then. That was unfortunate. This wasn't supposed to keep happening. She took a deep, shaky breath and leaned forwards, shaking. After a moment, she stood up and walked over to a wall to lean against it. "Sorry about that. My body hates me," she explained.

(Does Olivia have a medical condition I never noticed? Just wonderin'.)

"Are you alright? That walk was quite a lot on the old energy reserves." the Doctor said, closing the door of the abandoned, strangely unlocked building they'd entered.

(Oh heck I forgot to put this on her character sheet but she gets hemoptysis and the doctors don't know why but like ~ yay ~)
Olivia nodded, opening her eyes. "I'm fine. Just - ouch - a little sore," she explained with a smile that didn't match her feelings. Standing away from the wall, she asked, "what are we going to do now?"

(No problem! Just checking!)

"Were going to catch our breath." Seni butted in. "No action for now, my lungs are flaring up like hell."

Olivia let out a quiet breath of relief. "Right. Excellent idea."

"I know, I'm a genius. That or I just have common sense." Seni said, despite her fatigue she still used the same snarky humor, quote unquote.

Olivia rolled her eyes. "Yes, you've made that glaringly obvious," she said, coughing again briefly before taking a deep breath and holding it until she trusted herself to breath again.

"Seni! You're not yourself! I expect snark, sure, but you're going out of your way to be petty!" the Doctor said, shocked. "Olivia hasn't done anything!" "Exactly." "What?"

She crossed her arms. "Olivia hasn't done anything. On a whim, you just pick up a random person and show them the stars. Classy." she rolled her eyes.

"Okay, stars, do you want me to leave? I'll just walk out there into the… smog, or whatever, and wait until I cough a lung out. Then you can have the Doctor all to yourself again." She winced slightly as she stood up, but walked over to the door with a fixed, blank expression.

"No, we're not having that. Seni, you're going to get over yourself, get that bee out of your bonnet, and apologize." The Doctor glared. Seni took a deep breath, and held it for a second before letting it out in a gust. "Sorry. For saying you're useless. Happy now?" she asked.

"No, actually, not a all. But I appreciate your… effort," she said slowly, turning away and sitting on the floor with her head in her hands.

"We're going to figure out what's going on in this town. And it's rather dusty in here, isn't it?" the Doctor commented. He stood up and voyaged to the other room, looking through cupboards and drawers. It was reasonably advanced here, but still had that nostalgic human feel to it. And it was covered in dust. The stuff was inches thick, it would take days to really clean it all out well. Wooden floors creaked and groaned, the hallways echoing eerily and a strange smell wafting through each mostly empty room.

Olivia nodded. "It's making my allergies act up. I've never seen this much dust in one place, it's really strange," she commented, not bothering to look up.

"Peace offering. It'll adapt to your biology." Seni handed Olivia a blue, glassy looking, faintly glowing in short, dull pulses, inhaler sort of thing. "You just suck into it, like a straw, it'll provide at least temporary relief. I stole it from this one merchant on Duun 4. It's come in handy."

Olivia hesitated. "Is it poisoned?" She asked, only half joking as she took the object from Seni's hand.

"Of course not, stupid." she said, letting out an almost kind chuckle. "Just biodegradable little… bot thingies that get into your system and repair minor damage. Good when your basically coughing up your entire blood supply, it still hurts like hell but it'll stop for a time until you get help. This thing is totally illegal anywhere else in the galaxy."

"I'm not coughing up my entire blood supply," Olivia muttered, cautiously raising the thing to her mouth and breathing in. Almost immediately, her lungs caught fire. At least, she was pretty sure they had. Gasping, she inhaled in short bursts, clutching her chest. "What - the - bloody - hell?" She exclaimed as soon as the pain stopped. She took a deep breath and was caught between a confused frown and a smile when her lungs didn't burn with the urge to jump into her throat. "This is weird," she muttered.

"You look like you're constipated. Did it do something to you? It's worked for me and I'm human, it should have worked for you…." Seni mumbled, tugging at her hair.

"Yeah, it, um," she held the object away from her. "Thanks, I appreciate that, but I'm never - yeah, never doing that again. Unless I'm dying, I guess. Maybe." She shook her head, clearing her throat simply because she was used to doing it.
(I couldn't remember the word for when you do something just because you're used to doing it, even if you don't have to, and now it's really bugging me.)

(Routine? Repetition? Habit?)

"Okay. It's not the most comfortable, I know." Seni agreed, taking back the inhaler and shoving it in her jacket pocket.

(HABIT! H A B I T! I can die in peace now.)
Olivia nodded, blinking hard as she stood up. Her vision went black for a moment, as it always did when she stood up too fast. "Thanks, though," she told Seni.

"You're not okay, are you? Be honest or I'll rip out your ovaries and shove them up your ass." Seni's eyes glinted over menacingly. "Yeah! Just do it whether she's honest or not!" a deranged, short and tough blonde man jeered. It was the Three, if course. He always appeared when she was stressed out. Seni was in the verge of punching the phantom of her mind but decided to ignore him and pay attention to Olivia.