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! ]

Comments

[iwasherefirst]

Yeah? That's brilliant. So even if the armies of Genghis Khan got through, they couldn't hurt us?

[leathered]

Might not be enough bathrooms for everyone, so we should probably try to avoid that.

[iwasherefirst]

Check. I'll forget 'bout submittin' that request to the deities for Genghis Khan and his army to visit.

[leathered]

If he ends up on our doorstep again, I'll know who to blame, that's for sure. [ He smiles, but only briefly, running his hand across one coral wall and looking thoughtful. ] I wonder if between the three of me, we could get her shackles off again.

[iwasherefirst]

[She mirrors his movement.] Travel through time and space with the lot of us. That'd be somethin' wouldn't it?

[There's a hint of uncertainty to her voice, that fear that he won't. He'll drop them all off where they're meant to be.]

[leathered]

It'd be an argument in ten minutes. [ He kind of likes the idea, though. ] Wouldn't last. But I'm sure we could find the other TARDISes. And then--

[ He'd have his Rose back, but she'd have to go back to her life. Or off with his tenth self. It was weird thinking of knowing her from two very different parts of her timestream. Probably one of those reasons that sort of thing is completely forbidden.

Because how could he tell her that she had to go back? And how could he let her go, when the girl she used to be already feels like a stranger to him? ]

--And then traveling again.

[ He doesn't look at her. ]

[iwasherefirst]

[His comment makes her go quiet, her expression fall and suddenly she doesn't feel much like swimming anymore. She just nods, unable to say anything for fear of saying too much.]

[leathered]

[ He's quiet too. There's a bit of a chill in the corridors, or maybe he's only imagining it. He swallows. ]

If that's what people want to do, I suppose. Of course, running a rescue mission out of the City would take quite a while. We'd probably have lots of wrapping up to do.

[ And they'd totally want to rescue everyone. ]

[iwasherefirst]

[She nods, finding a little bit of hope in his words.]

Could takes ages.

[They're both completely disregarding the fact that they have a bloody huge ship.]

[leathered]

[ Completely disregarding it. Yep. Not even mentioning it. ]

But we're putting the cart before the horse as is. It's just nice to be home.

[ He looks relaxed, calm, for one of the few times since he came into the City. Happy. ]

[iwasherefirst]

[Oh good. That makes it easier for her to ignore it.]

Yeah. Awfully nice. She kept my room y'know. [She says this with a toothy grin.]

[leathered]

Of course she did. I wouldn't be surprised if she keeps all of them. She's sentimental. [ He grins back. ] Missed your wardrobe, did you?

[iwasherefirst]

[She bumps his shoulder with hers.] Missed everything 'bout it. My wardrobe, all the little bits of things I kept from our travelin'.

[leathered]

And now you've more to add to it. You're going to look like a packrat. [ He's teasing. ]

[iwasherefirst]

S'all right. I hear this place is bigger on the inside. [teasing right back.]