Happiness slips in and takes a seat at a table in the corner...
The Doctor is in the common room. Sulking.
He had been limping around the basement looking for Rose, and been absolutely unable to find her anywhere. This bothered him, quite a bit - on top of the other thing that's been bothering him - so he's curled up in an armchair, journal on his lap, exchanging notes with someone. That is brightening his ( Read more... )
He had been limping around the basement looking for Rose, and been absolutely unable to find her anywhere. This bothered him, quite a bit - on top of the other thing that's been bothering him - so he's curled up in an armchair, journal on his lap, exchanging notes with someone. That is brightening his ( Read more... )
A Jet who is not only still feeling slightly useless but a Jet who is also vaguely realising that she's really began to care far too much about other people.
As such she's looking to annoy... to make herself feel better about her vulnerabilities.
The narration would like to apologize while there's still time.
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A manner which is slightly belied by her eyes which are completely failing to hide a good dose of guilt mixed with quite a few drops of fear.
Jet would never be a good actress.
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You know, for curiosity's sake. He doesn't miss that look in her eyes - he's very perceptive - but decides not to ask just now. Probably just the general brokenness of the hotel in general, and it's already been established that he can't do anything about that.
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Ok so as it turns out Jet isn't actually that good at annoying people on purpose, especially when her friends seem to like them.
So instead she's going to take the path of completely and utterly repressing her problems... and she's just going to have a extremely nice talk instead of annoying anybody.
Without getting attached again, completely no attachment whatsoever.
Jet doesn't really know who she's kidding but she hopes it's somebody.
"So what are you completely not sulking about?"
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He pauses, glancing down at the journal again, just for a second, and then back up at Jet.
"Name's Rose. You haven't seen her, have you?"
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Ah, and this demonstrated quite brilliantly is Jet being very attached and protective.
Probably too protective.
"No I haven't seen her, I'm guessing you haven't seen her? Well of course you haven't or else you wouldn't be asking me but..."
Jet takes a deep breath in and stops talking, right, that was embarrassing.
She really needs to chain all the people she mildly likes in one place.
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"You, uh... know her then? She's got a tendency to wander off. I mean, I doubt she's gone far, but she can get in a surprising amount of trouble in a short period of time."
He'd be out there looking for her now if it weren't for the fact that he has no idea where she is, several people (alright, mostly Charlie) would be very annoyed with him, and... well, limping aimlessly around Chicago just seems like a bad idea. He doesn't think he's broken his ankle, but it hurts about as much. (Again, when assaulting random inanimate objects, try not to injure self in the process. Very important.)
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Jet forces herself to slouch again and bites the inside of her cheek, resisting yet another urge to run off and start searching for Rose right away.
Still, the forgetting policy, works wonders and needs more practice "Did we exchange names the last time we met? I'm Jet."
Her smile isn't forced at all, honestly.
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"I honestly can't remember. I'm the Doctor."
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As in, do you have anything that can stop me from smelling anything ever? but she doesn't say that of course because... well she has vague memories of snapping out things like that and those things causing a big problem.
She doubts the Doctor will somehow morph into a fish thing and chase her around just outside Paris but it's always best to be prepared.
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Which is why he's sitting here with a badly sprained ankle. But that's just because he doesn't want to bother anyone. Or... something like that.
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Another reason is that this man has something faintly different about him... and Jet tries not to be a hypocrite until she knows what she's dealing with.
"Oh, no problem... I'm sure I can find something later, I may go outside soon anyway so maybe the fresh air will help" it seems prudent at this point to point out that Jet does not know just how many smells outside can carry.
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They have a similar approach to solving problems.
"Look while I'm out... shall I search for Rose? I mean what with the foot and all..." Jet does have tact, it's just that she rarely uses it.
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Pause.
"But if you happen to be out there, I wouldn't mind if you... kept an eye out for her? Maybe?" He looks almost pathetically hopeful. He's worried about her, but wandering around Chicago limping would get several people very upset at him for various reasons. And he just doesn't have the energy to get in another argument about that sort of thing.
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