[Thread] Roll your sleeves up

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Characters: OU: Cissie King-Jones, OU: Helena Campbell, OU: Alice Liddell, OU: Tenth Doctor, *open to others who want to offer Helena help
Where: The Church Rectory
When: Shortly after this post
Summary: Helena battles cockroaches and dust-bunnies. Cissie comes to help.
Warnings: None yet

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The Doctor had been napping. He'd done that quite a bit in Econtra, spent quite a bit of time dozing away on his pew-bed. Helena's racket though, had woken him from a nice dream about flying, and he staggered, cockeyed and a little groggy, down the stairs and into the sanctuary.

"Wot?" he mumbled, running a hand through his hair. "Woooots all the noise about, then?" Estuary British. "'elena, is that you?"

Staggering forward a few steps, the Doctor yawned widely, seeming to come to his senses. Hands went into pockets, and he ambled, barefoot, down the center aisle.

"Ooh. Is it? I didn't expect you'd be so... well, you know. Young! Nice to meet you, finally, I'm the Doctor."

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"Doctor! Glad to see you! I'm really sorry about all the noise, I mean, it kind of looks like I've woken you up... and really sorry about that but I kind of ran into some problems... many little problems with several legs and twitchy heads..."

Helena looked about her to make sure none of those problems were sneaking up on her and suddenly remember her company.

"Oh and Doctor this is Cissie!" pointing at the tall blonde next to her, "And this is Alice." She smiled and pointed to the shadowy wisp of a girl next to her.

And even in the chaos that was the rectory, in the midst of so many strange people, Helena looked comfortable and at home, fitting right in with everything good and odd. She did work in a circus and everything not normal, had, over time, become quite normal and comfortable to her.

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Cissie gave a polite, friendly smile. So this was the Doctor--she hadn't had a chance to meet him yet, though they'd exchanged a few comments over the PDA--not many, but some. "Hello. Sorry if we've interrupted anything."

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Helena was still bending down towards the pile of cockroaches with a dustpan when it ocurred to her, as the Doctor stood sleepily in the doorway, that she needed a broom, and she had no idea where one was.

"Sorry to, uh, interrupt, Cissie, but, Doctor, do you know where a broom is in this place, I found the dustpan but I need a broom for the cockroaches." She said, scowling at the pile of frozen corpses near her.

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The Doctor peered at Helena for a moment, and then winked rather cheekily towards Cissie.

"All's well, then. Don't tell anyone about this but ah-..." and then he sort of pulled a rather cartoon-like appearance of a broom. Actually. He pulled it out of his pocket. No joke. Right out of his pocket. "Here you go! I'll be wanting that back, you never know how useful brooms are. That one collapses, too. There you go."

The Doctor, for sort of reference, was a tall, impossibly skinny man with a long, slender face and hugely expressive brown eyes. His hair was entirely unkempt, but his suit was in good repair - a little rumpled, like he'd slept in it for a night or two, but nothing hideous.

"Nice to meet you, finally!"

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Helena laughed in stunned amazement as the Doctor pulled a broom from his pocket. She didn't quite hear much of what the Doctor had to say -about- the broom because Helena was much to enthralled at the simple existence of it

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Cissie also laughed, both at the Doctor's cheeky wink and broom-procuring as well as Helena's giddy, bubbly rambling. Helena seemed to her to be something of a force of nature--she reminded Cissie of Bart, back when he was still Impulse and young and sweet. She missed him.

Cissie shook her head a little as Helena dashed off, smiling fondly--she was surprised by how much she already liked the girl. She had never made friends easily, but she wasn't about to question it. Her smile widened as returned her attention to the Doctor. "That was impressive," she said. "Those pockets must come in handy!"

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Alice had been in the corner freezing insects, but looked up when she heard the familiar voice. "Oh, the Doctor," Alice exclaimed. "Are you also squatting here too? Sorry to have woken you (have we?) but as Helena said, we're tidying this place up a bit. How are you?"

The broom was definitely new, and confirmed Alice suspicions that, in the Doctor's case, there was more than meets the eye. Alice wasn't surprised (in her wonderland, how could she be), but still gave appreciative clap. "That was brilliant."

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Helena ran back inside the church after discarding her frozen pile of roaches. She almost stumbled coming back into the church a few times. Lots of stuff everywhere. However, Helena was happy. Finally she had something to do and people to do it with. All she needed was a good distraction from her new entrapment and cleaning out the church and making a room for herself to get away to would help considerably.

Helena quickly fumbled her way back into the rectory to find Alice, Cissie, and the Doctor looking quite alright and, to Helena, happy.

"Back! Alright... so, these books! I need to put all these books back on the shelves.. I feel bad about throwing them, I mean I -like- books but I don't like the roaches more."

Helena smiled, set down the dustpan on the desk, and headed over to pick up the larger of the books that she had thrown. But she was still wary of the roaches and picked up each book slowly, checking every inch above, on, under, in, and around the books where a roach could be hiding.