Arrival - Open

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She felt her palms, slick and sweaty grope around the handle as tight as she could but she was slipping and she knew it. Slowly she slipped a tiny centimeter, by centimeter and she wasn't quite sure if she could do this. If she could actually hold on for that long. She didn't think she could. Somewhere in the midst of panic, she started to scream

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Ellie didn't understand why everyone wanted to return home but then these days for her, home was the middle of a War. She'd lost all her friends and as the days passed it seemed ever more doubtful that she'd reunite with her parents.

The most she could do was remember them. Remember and introduce them to new and various other people via her diaries. She'd spent the past few weeks updating it, right up to the moment she'd been brought here. She was making the finishing touches now and soon she'd seek out the Doctor. She'd promised to let him read it after all.

Eyes dead and a wad of paper on her lap, pen in her hand Ellie looked up when the door opened. Another new person.

"Hi."

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Rose looked slightly relieved that there was someone there who appeared to be alive. She was alive right? The Doctor said there wasn't such things as ghosts, and she'd never believed any of that anyways. Especially since the last time she saw 'ghosts' they turned out to be Cybermen. This girl though, looked quite alive and she was talking to her.

"Um.. hi."

Of course she looked confused. She didn't want to ask if she was dead, or if they both were and risk getting laughed at. "You don't suppose you could tell me.. um.. where I am, could you?" as she looked around the place, it looked less like a haunted mansion and more like.. well a haunted mansion that people lived in.

Like a lived in look before there was some psychopath who went around and slaughtered people. That's what it looked like. Rose was beginning to have doubts again about whether or not she was dead. Hopefully this girl would know where she was, and what was going on. It's not like she could tell her she fell through a void.

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Ellie stared up at the new arrival, it almost seemed as if she stared through her. Inside she was attempting to determine if she was a threat or not. Her fight then flight reflexes were still going strong. Even if she didn't jump at the slightest noise any more.

She shrugged at the question before placing her wads of paper beside her and resting the pen reverentially on top, "Hotel California. I'm Ellie. Ellie Linton." She greeted the woman but made no move to stand up. If you looked close enough it might seem as if she tried ever-so-slightly to bury herself into the wall a little bit though.

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Rose couldn't quite tell if the woman was frightened or not. She kind of looked that way. But then it was hard to tell when you were someplace different. "Hotel.. California? Like that song?" she'd only heard it like once or twice, but it was one of those things that you just knew even if you didn't hear it all the time.

"I'm.. not going to hurt you. I just.. it's a long story I guess. Don't know how I got here." she dusted herself off. "Just one sore bottom. Are you.. all alone in here?" she kind of hoped she wasn't on one hand, and the other hand she hoped she was.

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Ellie nodded, "yeah, like the song. Exactly like the song. 'You can check out but never leave.' Or however it goes." Her father had liked the song and played it regularly. Ellie never could understand what he'd enjoyed about it so much.

A small hollow laugh escaped Ellie's lips, of course she wasn't going to hurt Ellie. The Soldiers had done that tenfold. Invading her country, causing the deaths of her friends. Forcing her to grow up before she was ready. No, almost anything that could be done she was sure had already been. "I know you're not." Her words were matter of fact. "No, not alone. There are a few of us here." Don't ask her for details. Ellie tended to live in the shadows, habits of survival tended to stick with you.

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One eyebrow raised up, "Is.. I mean when you say that's exactly how.. does that mean I can't leave?" right well then how'd she leave exactly? Walk? To where? Yeah right. Her eyebrows furrowed then, "How far can you get then?"

Rose rarely looked intimidating. Okay, so she never looked intimidating. She was glad that she was no longer looking like she was scared of Rose as it were. "Ah okay. So there are people around. Right. Well um.. what exactly.. should I do then? Any.. ideas?"

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Another shrug, Ellie hadn't really tried very hard to leave. She had nothing here and nothing back home. What did it matter where she was? At least no-one was trying to kill her here. "I dunno, a K. Maybe two."

She pointed to the desk and the Bellboy behind it. "Grab a room from him? Get settled in?" It's what everyone seemed to do except for "try to find a way out?"

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She'd barely seen the bellboy behind the desk. "Oh. Right. Sorry. Thanks." she was going to ssee what was going on and figure this whole thing out. After all, something weird was going on, and that's sort of what she did of course. Well when she was with the Doctor.

Right.

Anything to forget about what had just happened. She didn't want to think about it.

She went over to the desk to get a room, getting a key and all of that. Then Rose turned back to the girl, "Thanks for your help. I guess I'll go.. check everything out."