At midnight, every flea and louse in Chicago drops dead, as if killed by the chime of the clock. For about an hour, everything is perfectly fine in Chicago, the most normal it's been in the past four days ( Read more... )

The Doctor has a thing. A particularly shiny thing that appears to have been crafted from parts of a mobile phone, what may be parts of a motorised toy car, and God knows what else, things probably scavenged from the TARDIS, or the Rift machine before he left the Conrad, or that little collection of Rift flotsam from the fireplace someone's been ( Read more... )

In the Conrad Hotel lobby, Martha Jones is in the middle of a heated conversation with Suzanne Norton. Martha has not slept. She stayed up all night trying to figure this all out, but has come up with nothing, and then in frazzled protest approached Suzanne on her way back into the hotel to wait for Sark ( Read more... )

The Doctor has finally wandered back to the house, and while he's sure he had something he meant to say to Des... he's currently distracted by the mess that's been made of the living room, and the disgruntled whistler grumbling (in a... whistly type way) and clinging to his legs like she's trying to trip him up... or possibly just alert him to the ( Read more... )

Charlie's truck pulls up in front of the house. The Doctor can't quite be the first one out, because there's Charlie on one side of him, and Grace and Des on the other, but as soon as he can get out the door, he tumbles out and starts for the house. The whistler rockets out of the bushes and presses itself against his legs - apparently it missed ( Read more... )

There is a naked blonde girl curled up asleep on the couch in Martha and Des' living room ( Read more... )

The week of the Doctor's vacation begins fairly innocuously, all things concerned. No explosions, no mass chaos, no localized apocalypses. Just a white dog hopping over his fence and running up to paw at the door ( Read more... )

[OOC: Okay, another party thread. :) Comment your characters in or have your characters respond to other characters' comments within. Uh, anyone who got invited can be here. And there's a huge list of invites. Well, not huge, but substantial. Like anyone she's ever had a decent conversation with. So come. Plz ( Read more... )

Des is standing in the basement lobby approximately five minutes after he received Martha's response. He knows this, because he probably counted how fast it would take him to bolt- and given the circumstances in the basement right now, he might have been there a lot faster, but he was in the common room and it's hard to run when there are people ( Read more... )