She can't keep Durant from jerking away, and he unbalances her slightly when he curls over, but that's better than straight up defending himself. She's left standing over him, her hands on her hips. Such a pathetic, piteous display. Even though it's presumably not acted - it's Rush's real emotional energy, or whatever - it still isn't real. He's exhibiting it in a vacuum. He doesn't have Rush's myriad problems to cause this. It feels appallingly appropriative. Which it is, in a far more literal sense than she could have imagined.

Rush's question draws her attention back to him. He's not passed out like before, so maybe this wasn't as aggressive an assault, but he's still obviously in a bad state. She can't approach him - even if she could help, which she doubts, she doesn't want to step away from Durant for one second.

Anyway, Rush's question is devoid of good interrogation tactics. She turns her attention back to Durant, nudges him with her foot, and says, "I think we can all respect each other's intelligences enough to strongly posit that you stole energy from him in the form of reactive emotions. I think you've done it before: when you spilled coffee on him and, more obviously, the other night in the TARDIS. I have a series of follow-up questions but seeing as you're moderately indisposed, through gratuitous fault of your own, I think we'll go at your pace. Feel free to start talking any time."