11 ∞ WORKING

[leathered]

[video/action]

[ This is a quiet video, at first, just the quiet sound of air circulating, like slow breathing, and a glimpse into a strange room with oddly organic ceiling supports and green lighting on gold walls. Then the Doctor steps into view, his face backlit with strange shadows in the half-dark of the room. He smiles, and pats one of the coral supports, his face quite tender in expression, as if greeting an old friend. Then there's a loud electronic noise from out of frame left. He looks alarmed a moment and disappears out of frame, talking. ]

There now, old girl. What are you fussing about?

[ ooc: Open action in the TARDIS for Who crew; feel free to make your own threads and do whatever, I'm not going to subscribe to comments. Video for anyone else, or action if you just want to wander in, why not! ]

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[leathered]

I'm not complaining. It's good to have the girls getting along. [ Considering how uncomfortable it would be if the TARDIS didn't like Amy... yeah. ] You all right? Getting late.

[waitedforyears]

Yeah. [ Instead of answering immediately, she settles against the console, careful not to sit on anything that might do anything. ] You don't really sleep much, right?

[leathered]

Not much, no. [ One, he's a Timelord. Two, the nightmares. ] Too many things to do for sleeping.

[ Despite the fact that he doesn't seem to be doing much of anything at the moment. ]

[waitedforyears]

[ He's talking to her, that counts. ] Even in the City? What d'you get up to while we're all asleep?

[leathered]

[ A teasing grin. ] Secret Timelord things, of course. Used to be quite busy when there was the whole universe to roam. Now it's like being stuck in Cardiff.

[waitedforyears]

Why Cardiff? Have you been stuck in Cardiff? For long? [ A beat. ] I only know you'll do something to do with a goldfish at some point.

[leathered]

Few times, it's never worked out well. So dull. [ He makes a face. ]

[ The goldfish he finds interesting, though. ] I have fish now, actually. Thought it'd help with the ticking when I lived alone, but I suppose you'd need quite a few fish brains to get some real mental power out of. [ He shakes his head. ] Probably not the same one you're talking about, though.

[waitedforyears]

Duller than the City? [ Because there's days she's getting really bored, here. ]

You do? No, I think that one was— someone. Or someone else's. There was a lot of, well, talking and I was half asleep.

[leathered]

Dullness, and then a lot of fearing for your life. Rather like the City, come to think of it.

Something coming up, then. Well, hope it's fun. [ He shrugs. ] It's weird being so casual about your own future. We have laws, you know. Had laws. That you shouldn't cross your own timestream. And here I'm doing it twice.

[waitedforyears]

Spoilers, yeah. I know. If it helps, I'm trying not to tell you anything too important, right?

[leathered]

[ He snorts. ] Spoilers. Kind of like that. I know you are. And it'll all be gone when we leave, if the deities are to be believed. We're just treading water.

[waitedforyears]

You'll get to hear that more often. [ Raising her eyebrows. Yes, she's spoiling him for spoilers.

She's also ignoring the rest of his sentence, because sometimes she hates the City, these days, and it's easier not to dwell on it. ]