005 - Video

[got2haveasmith]

[Sarah Jane has gone out among the mists, and has been out for hours. The fog makes it both brighter and darker, and the light from her sonic lipstick, and from the PCD, both of which she's using as torches, cast odds shadows as she walks. The feed isn't on her, but on the mists around her, the occasional tree, the gravestones, the path

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[video]

[soundsofdrums]

Found the UNIT Graveyard?

[video]

[got2haveasmith]

[Glare.]

Don't see Mike's or Benton's about.

[Doesn't mean she hasn't seen others. People she'd kept in contact with over the years - professional contacts, people she could go to and trust the information was good and solid. People she knew died during that business in Downing Street with the Slitheen.]

Feel like kicking stones, do you?

[video]

[soundsofdrums]

Don't I always? [He grins a little bit, feeling perfectly like trolling, thank you very much.]

[video]

[got2haveasmith]

It seems your style, yes.

[What is this Death Zone where she met you for like 2 seconds, Master? She remembers nothing of it. If she did, she might be amused at the memory of you running away with that cape billowing, though. Or of the Brig decking you.]

I don't suppose you've seen familiar names out among the tombstones?

[audio]

[greatcuppajoe]

I wouldn't trust those gravestones too far, Sarah Jane.

[Accurate dates or no... there's no point overthinking the trick.]

[audio]

[got2haveasmith]

I know.

[But it's one thing to know and another to know. It hasn't been that long since she's seen the Brigadier - Sir Alastair - and he was hale and healthy and just as stubborn as ever.]

It has to be a trick. It has to.

[audio]

[greatcuppajoe]

My guess is it's all a trick, with just enough real information mixed in to make you worry.

[He lets out a breath.] And even if it's not, the future's a fluid thing.

[audio]

[got2haveasmith]

No, it really isn't. Not in the way you mean.

But I wouldn't put it past the Animus to do exactly what you're saying. Feed just enough truth into it so we believe the lies.

voice;

[grandvision]

Friends of yours?

voice;

[got2haveasmith]

Some of my oldest and dearest friends.

[She's just glad she hasn't seen Andrea's grave yet. Then she'd worry more about it being real.]

voice;

[grandvision]

I wouldn't linger by them. I've heard they're causing hallucinations.

voice;

[got2haveasmith]

Hallucinations?

[That is a new thing for her. And it causes her to move away from what she's looking at quickly. She doesn't want to see how her friends die. She's seen enough death in her lifetime.]

Further proof it must be a trick.

[video]

[hideyosammich]

[There's a reason the Doctor hasn't gone outside for a while. Graveyards are not good places for a man whose caused the deaths of more people than he can count.]

Maybe it's time you head home, Sarah Jane.

[At first, it sounds like his voice is flat, but there's underlying concern there.]

[video]

[got2haveasmith]

[She gives the Doctor a thin-lipped smile.]

Maybe.

...

Are they real, Doctor? These gravestones?

[Because she figures if anyone would know, it would be him. Even if he hasn't met her again, perhaps he's been somewhere in the near future where he would know one way or the other.]

[video]

[hideyosammich]

...No, I don't think so. Just illusions. Nightmares. [There's not even a trace of a smile there.]

[video]

[got2haveasmith]

Illusions and nightmares. Like the Pied Piper.

[And she suppresses a shudder at that memory. There's no Clyde here to turn the fear into humor.]

These Animus - they're completely unlike any other race I've encountered. They seem to have so much power, and yet they act like children. You're never quite sure what's real here and what isn't.

[The screen jostles a bit. She's taking everyone's advice and moving away before she starts seeing things.]

I thought at first they might be part of the Trickster's Brigade. The kidnapping certainly seemed like his style.