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alwayscoward

On the value of proper TARDIS maintenance

Aug 10, 2008 02:45

When the TARDIS finally comes to a stop, the Doctor thinks that maybe Jack had a point about the TARDIS needing a tune-up after sitting in Cardiff for three months. Stupid of her, not to listen when he was just trying to keep an eye out for her, but nooo, she's the Doctor, she knows what she's doing ( Read more... )

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dalekmade11 August 11 2008, 08:44:16 UTC

The Doctor has been staring at the TARDIS since it started to appear. It was luck (potentially the bad kind) really that he happened to be in the area. He'd left Ten on another planet, one the clone couldn't get into much trouble on (hopefully). They didn't often spend time apart, but occassionally they liked to have their individual adventures.

If Ten were here, he'd be doing his signature, "Wot? Wot?!" But he's not, so Eleven is filling in with his own version: the 'What the flying fuck' expression.

No words required, but the face speaks volumes.

And then someone steps out of the TARDIS. Not anyone he expects. Rose steps out, except she's not Rose at all. Timelady. No, no this makes absolutely no sense at all. He is the last of his kind. The Doctor walks toward the other TARDIS (his is parked within sight), approaching her.

"Why did you steal Rose's face?" There is a quiet fierceness in the question. Apparently, it is more important to ask that question than even Who are you or How/Why did you get a hold of the TARDIS?No, it ( ... )

alwayscoward August 11 2008, 14:20:46 UTC

The Doctor is not exactly feeling social today, just antsy. She honestly wouldn't have stopped, even if she'd thought he was talking to her, except for the fact that he mentioned Rose.

She stops and whirls around, wide-eyed, expecting, somehow, to see her previous body even though the voice registers are all wrong. And then she doesn't and she's not sure what to think about this. Her mind races down various possibilities, but... there aren't many. The possibility that her rough trip actually sent her tumbling through to a very close parallel universe and that this might be her... well, it doesn't occur to her, somehow.

So until she knows who this man is, she's going to play dumb. "I... I don't know what you're talking about," she says in Rose's voice. Her voice.

dalekmade11 August 11 2008, 20:34:33 UTC

And her voice. If he were more partial to giving into his fierce, subdued anger he might have said that immediately after she speaks, but it's petty so the words get stuck in his throat.

"Rose Tyler." The fierceness is most present in his voice when he says her name. "You're not her. But you sound and look exactly like her and you've got the TARDIS. Well. It must be from a parallel universe, because the TARDIS, mine... is right over there."

The Doctor turns his head and points behind him. The TARDIS is not that easy to see. It's just in the shadows of an empty alleyway, but if one's looking and knows what to look for it's quite obviously there.

"I am the only one left. The last Time Lord." (Of course, Ten is around, too, but he's a clone of himself so it doesn't quite count and it would seriously take away from his words if he said that)

Except now he's faced with another.

alwayscoward August 11 2008, 21:02:32 UTC

TARDIS. If she squints, she can see it, in all its phone box glory. He knows Rose. He's the "last of the Time Lords".

"Oh, bugger," she says, and turns around, fumbles with the key to unlock the TARDIS, and races to the console. The door's open, if the other Doctor would like to follow her.

Inside, she's flipping switches, pushing buttons, and staring at a screen. "Ooooh, no no no no no!"

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