15 Characters Meme: Answers (Part 2)
And for the rest...
From john_amend_all: Dr Seward and Ros Myers face an obstacle course. Who wins?
Ros, no question. It's not so much that Dr Seward is a total snowflake, although he is, but he's also the sort who'd stop and help if anyone else fell over an obstacle. He might not have been too bad in a straight sprint, but somehow I don't think he can compete with a trained MI6/MI5 officer, especially not Ros. Also if dirty tricks were called for, Ros would win on that score too.
Why might Sherlock Holmes be chained to Joey Bettany?
Okay, my mind is boggling. I imagine that one of Sherlock Holmes's investigations took a surprising turn, causing him to follow up some leads in 1920s Austria, where a plucky young girl tried to help him, but the villains caught them anyway?
Fear not, though, I should think they'll get out soon.
How does Steel react to meeting a doppelganger of themself? (Time loop, alternate universe, magic mirror, or whatever plot device you like).
Well, for Steel, it's just another trick of Time. He stands still and looks mildly alarmed before getting rid of it by freezing it - or scowling at Sapphire or Silver or Lead until they sort it out for him.
From a_phoenixdragon: Jenkins and Missy aren't ready for an adventure, but one seems to happen to them on a simple trip to the post office. What happened and how to they get out of the mess (or do they even try??)
Somehow, I feel sure it must have been Missy's fault, not Jenkins. She was no doubt up to her usual schemes, landed Jenkins in a mess and scarpered. So, no, she doesn't try. As if she cares! Here's hoping his colleagues are having one of their more competent days and can hurry over to help him! But either way, he's probably resourceful enough to survive whatever Missy can throw at him on the way to the Post Office.
The Doctor and Ace decide to go parasailing over a tropical island. Who picks the destination? Who decided the activities and who will chicken out?
The Doctor no doubt picked the location. He is maybe less keen on the activity (why parasail when you can TARDIS?) but Ace wanted to. Definitely nobody chickens out here. Even if they were both seriously scared of it, they'd make themselves do it.
(And Twelve and Ace, yes. Let there be fic...)
From jaxomsride: Steel, Deva and Sherlock Holmes are in a film noir detective show. Who is the gumshoe? Who the femme fatale and who is the villain? Which of them succeeds in acquiring the Maltese McGuffin?
Okay, so Sherlock has to be the detective, because he is, although he's not really going to adapt well to the noir scene. From an outside point of view, Steel obviously looks like the villain, apparently having killed someone (who was in fact most likely meant to be dead in the proper timeline/never have existed/weirdly inhuman vessel for time) and calmly walked off with the dangerous time-breaking McGuffin. Deva will, somewhat wearily and in an unamused fashion, be the femme fatale if no one else will, but his heart isn't in it & neither the detective nor the villain are in the least bit interested in him or anyone else anyway.
Ros Myers, Regina Mills and Lynda Day are in a band? Who plays drums? Who is on guitar? and who provides the vocals? Will their single be Top of the Pops or the Flops?
Well, that is one band of awesome females if nothing else. I suspect it's not Top of the Pops, though, because I'm not sure any of them have any interest in music. So... Ros is playing the drums, but only under protest, or possibly undercover, or both. In fact, there's a good chance they're all undercover for reasons. Regina sings. (It's hard to imagine her risking her nails by playing guitar.) Which means Lynda has to play the guitar and will, despite her completely terrible playing, refuse to admit that she can't do it, or stop.
From astrogirl2: The Doctor's home is on fire! What one object do they rescue from the burning premises?
If the TARDIS is on fire, the Doctor's saving the TARDIS or going up in flames with her, sorry. If it's Gallifrey that's on fire (again), then the TARDIS.
Dr Seward writes his memoirs. How accurate or embellished are they? What's the title? What kind of review does Rogelio de la Vega give the book?
They're not entirely accurate, because The Memoirs of a Yorkshire Lunatic Doctor, his earnest account of his work with mentally ill patients at the turn of the century, doesn't include any details about what happened that time with Lucy, the Count, Mrs Harker and Van Helsing. They are fairly accurate about the rest of his work, though, as he took painstaking care over them. They're also probably very long-winded and Victorian and now available on Google Books for anyone who might be interested, which is how Rogelio came to be 'reviewing' it.
Rogelio meant to link to Black Beauty, which somebody had said he should read (and he did read the blurb at least, okay), so he Tweeted that he now felt very bad for the poor horses & linked to the wrong book without noticing. A thousand and one fans rushed to correct him, while others objected violently to the word "Lunatic", which he didn't like at all. (He doesn't think much of the late Dr Seward. Why would a person hang around in the same century as someone with a similar name, using offensive terms and writing books and confusing people?)
Regina Mills and Sherlock Holmes show up on your doorstep and announce that they need to stay with you for a week. Are they decent housemates? Exactly what kind of chaos does your life suddenly become?
Well, thanks very much astrogirl2! That was all I needed right now. Clearly, I am in the middle of some crime scene while simultaneously facing a major magical incident. Also They both notice everything, it's going to be terrible. Even if Sherlock doesn't care about my house, Regina won't think much of it and will probably say so. It's going to be ten times worse than having my middle sister to visit.* All the bits that need painting, the ex-damp bits, my taste in decor, my tiny old terrace house, my ugly yard, the contents of the fridge. NOTHING WILL MEASURE UP. She might, if feeling kind, refrain from saying too much, but she won't have to. I'll see her looking. She gets the spare room, Sherlock gets the sofa-bed - that way if must sneak in and out in the middle of the night or do experiments in the kitchen, Regina and I won't get disturbed.
Also, I predict a massive row between the two of them at some point during the week. And when the week is ended, I shall suggest that they go and stay with astrogirl2 instead. ;-p
From sidleypkhermit: Missy, Travis, and Rogelio are in some kinda West Wing AU. Who's doing what? Do they have a snowball's chance of winning this election?
Rogelio is El Presidente, of course. And he thinks he's in a glorious WW AU, but if he's being aided by Missy and Travis, there's no way it can be. Missy, of course, has past experience about winning elections and no doubt Travis is useful when it comes to bullying people in government and organising a coup. They have a far, far too good chance of winning an election with their combined skills. I hope that the Doctor will swoop in to stop them and rescue Rogelio before this turns into a terrible mess. Poor Rogelio!
Dr Seward knows the Doctor is innocent -- but how can they prove it?
Heh, this is just about par for the course for the Doctor, so proving his innocence is irrelevant, the important thing is that Dr Seward can get the key to let him out of his cell, because if there's anyone around who can be convinced that seeing/believing weird stuff doesn't mean you're mad, it's Dr Seward, who's had some experience in that direction. And then the Doctor finds the aliens and defeats them, with some help from Dr Seward in between his panicking and fainting and offers to call in Van Helsing.
Why is Regina Mills afraid of Deva?
LOL, this is very hard to imagine. Deva's not scary! Regina is. I can only imagine that Deva knows something terrible she did one time and she doesn't want him to tell someone now she's reformed?
From dimity_blue: The Doctor and Regina go shopping for a high tech gadget. Travis is their salesperson. How does it go?
Times are hard for a Federation officer on the run. Travis maybe wants cash in order to help him get to Star One, but even so, I think anyone would think twice before buying used goods off him, and the Doctor has a tendency more to 'borrow' things anyway. Regina and the Doctor get their gadget, but in true B7 form, it's worthless. Travis gets singed.
Joey Bettany and Jenkins enter a haunted house and find Steel and Lynda asleep in the cellar. Was the house really haunted? What was going on?
Steel and Lynda just have days like these, really. Lynda is probably wearing her pyjamas and unclear on why she's not in the Gazette office. Steel merely exits without a word, despite the fact that he knows exactly why Lynda's not in the Gazette office and also what was 'haunting' the house until he stopped it. Joey and Jenkins have nothing to do other than help Lynda get a bus or train home and lend her a coat. Joey is glad to help, Jenkins is fed up with everyone and life in general.
Sherlock Holmes and Georgina Jones have to share a hotel room unexpectedly. Does it go well?
Georgie is well-versed in annoying late Victorian/Edwardian crime-fighters, so probably not. To be fair, Sherlock Holmes makes far less unnecessary fuss about the impropriety of sharing a room with a lady than her usual Edwardian adventurer, and Georgie takes an active interest in the weird experiment Sherlock spends the night concocting in one corner of the hotel room instead of complaining, as even Watson might have done, even after it explodes. But then she insists on trying to help Sherlock solve the crime, which Sherlock finds highly annoying. Simms and Adam would sympathise.
From doreyg: Missy and Joey Bettany decide to go on holiday together. Where do they pick? Does anything go wrong on the way?
That one time Joey's habit of befriending everyone didn't end well? 0_o I imagine that they meet on the way to Austria and Switzerland, and then... well... You know Missy.
The Doctor and Jenkins find a stray kitten. How do they react?
Are you trying to kill me with the adorable fluff here? So, the Doctor and Jenkins find a kitten and pretend that neither of them care about it or find it cute, and yet it mysteriously gets fed, petted, and generally looked after by both of them (and they are totally not having an argument over whether it most prefers the Library or the TARDIS because neither of them would do that). The kitten is just a furry nuisance that disrupts people's experiments and damages the books, obv. (Not unlike some people they could mention.)
Deva and Dr Seward are competing for the same job. What job is it and which one of them gets it?
Well, since Deva is from millennia in the future and knows about computers and technology, while Dr Seward is a 19th C doctor, it's a bit hard to imagine what job they would both be applying for or why they're both in the same time period in the first place. If it's a medical post and it's the past, Dr Seward would probably win, but he'd lose out to Deva for any future-set posts. Maybe it's outside of reality in Meta-land and they're applying for the position of "Side Kick to a less homicidal Hero/Mentor"?** In which case, I'm not sure which of them will win. It depends on the less homicidal hero and whether they like sidekicks of the clinging, wilting sort (Dr Seward) or sidekicks who gently nag about irresponsibility while being technical wizards at stuff (Deva). They've both been asked back for a second interview, but will inevitably lose out to someone who looks better in a mini-skirt.
Travis and Ros Myers have to fight a dragon, how well does this go?
That is one seriously dead dragon. Possibly one seriously dead Travis as well, depending on what he does after they kill the dragon.
From graycardinal: Lynda Day is forced into a live "shag, marry, cliff" scenario involving Steel, Sherlock Holmes, and Missy. What consent issues arise, if any, how likely is the marriage to last, and can Jenkins save the "cliff" victim from imminent doom?
Okay, well, this is Lynda. If she's being asked to take part in a live shag marry cliff scenario involving Steel, Sherlock Holmes and an intergalactic super-villain, she's going to assume her subconscious is working seriously overtime tonight - and you know what part of that sentence you shouldn't have mentioned?
Yep, they are all going over the cliff. If this dream had involved Spike Thomson, she would have shagged, married and cliffed him (in any order), but since it was set on being completely ridiculous, what else is a busy Gazette editor to do?
Luckily for everyone, Jenkins has an actualfax magic door to hand and will save them all, although he's not impressed about meeting Missy again and will kick her out of the library asap, and will try to put Sherlock Holmes back in a book. He and Steel could have an interesting conversation, though.
(If you want the pure logic answer, then of course, Lynda would cliff Missy, because she's evil, shag Sherlock if he'll let her (there probably would be some consent issues going on there, yeah), and marry Steel because marriage to an elemental thingumy who doesn't seem to live in time should be pretty easy to annul or ignore.)
Ros Myers and John Seward awaken next to one another and find they've mysteriously been transformed into Muppets. Who actually auditions for Kermit, which of Regina or Rogelio was responsible, and who on the list is able to reverse the process...for a price, of course?
Well, Ros is never auditioning for Kermit, so Dr Seward will do that. Since Regina has magic powers, it must have been her doing - it's so hard to be good all the time - but Rogelio accidentally influenced the outcome of the spell. He's very sorry about it, but also thinks Ros and Dr Seward look dead cute and has Tweeted several #adorablemuppets pictures of them already. Regina will make amends by reversing the spell - if she can. Ros may have to shoot both of them afterwards, however, as they will have completely trashed her tough reputation between them. Dr Seward will do his best to save them and patch them up, and as long as there are no vampires around, may even manage it, especially with magical help from Regina.
The Doctor, Ros, and Ace are a bar band. What sort of music, what sort of bar, and how much of a fan following do they develop before the inevitable breakup?
The Doctor plays the guitar, Ace the spoons and they do folk and rock and blues and whatever else they feel like in some pub in the middle of nowhere. Ros is there undercover again, and will personally kill Harry Pearce if he makes her pretend to be musical one more time. Or, as she's pointed out, other people will probably kill her if she has to pretend to be musical again. She plays the drums when forced and kills people with the drumsticks when necessary, which leaves Ace dead impressed and suffering from a serious crush, which Ros has not got time for.
* Having my sister visit isn't a bad thing, but she also notices everything and will clean stuff for me if I haven't done it properly.
**1968 Van Helsing's plan seems to involve deliberately getting all the women killed before he stakes anyone, so it's a fair complaint.
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From john_amend_all: Dr Seward and Ros Myers face an obstacle course. Who wins?
Ros, no question. It's not so much that Dr Seward is a total snowflake, although he is, but he's also the sort who'd stop and help if anyone else fell over an obstacle. He might not have been too bad in a straight sprint, but somehow I don't think he can compete with a trained MI6/MI5 officer, especially not Ros. Also if dirty tricks were called for, Ros would win on that score too.
Why might Sherlock Holmes be chained to Joey Bettany?
Okay, my mind is boggling. I imagine that one of Sherlock Holmes's investigations took a surprising turn, causing him to follow up some leads in 1920s Austria, where a plucky young girl tried to help him, but the villains caught them anyway?
Fear not, though, I should think they'll get out soon.
How does Steel react to meeting a doppelganger of themself? (Time loop, alternate universe, magic mirror, or whatever plot device you like).
Well, for Steel, it's just another trick of Time. He stands still and looks mildly alarmed before getting rid of it by freezing it - or scowling at Sapphire or Silver or Lead until they sort it out for him.
From a_phoenixdragon: Jenkins and Missy aren't ready for an adventure, but one seems to happen to them on a simple trip to the post office. What happened and how to they get out of the mess (or do they even try??)
Somehow, I feel sure it must have been Missy's fault, not Jenkins. She was no doubt up to her usual schemes, landed Jenkins in a mess and scarpered. So, no, she doesn't try. As if she cares! Here's hoping his colleagues are having one of their more competent days and can hurry over to help him! But either way, he's probably resourceful enough to survive whatever Missy can throw at him on the way to the Post Office.
The Doctor and Ace decide to go parasailing over a tropical island. Who picks the destination? Who decided the activities and who will chicken out?
The Doctor no doubt picked the location. He is maybe less keen on the activity (why parasail when you can TARDIS?) but Ace wanted to. Definitely nobody chickens out here. Even if they were both seriously scared of it, they'd make themselves do it.
(And Twelve and Ace, yes. Let there be fic...)
From jaxomsride: Steel, Deva and Sherlock Holmes are in a film noir detective show. Who is the gumshoe? Who the femme fatale and who is the villain? Which of them succeeds in acquiring the Maltese McGuffin?
Okay, so Sherlock has to be the detective, because he is, although he's not really going to adapt well to the noir scene. From an outside point of view, Steel obviously looks like the villain, apparently having killed someone (who was in fact most likely meant to be dead in the proper timeline/never have existed/weirdly inhuman vessel for time) and calmly walked off with the dangerous time-breaking McGuffin. Deva will, somewhat wearily and in an unamused fashion, be the femme fatale if no one else will, but his heart isn't in it & neither the detective nor the villain are in the least bit interested in him or anyone else anyway.
Ros Myers, Regina Mills and Lynda Day are in a band? Who plays drums? Who is on guitar? and who provides the vocals? Will their single be Top of the Pops or the Flops?
Well, that is one band of awesome females if nothing else. I suspect it's not Top of the Pops, though, because I'm not sure any of them have any interest in music. So... Ros is playing the drums, but only under protest, or possibly undercover, or both. In fact, there's a good chance they're all undercover for reasons. Regina sings. (It's hard to imagine her risking her nails by playing guitar.) Which means Lynda has to play the guitar and will, despite her completely terrible playing, refuse to admit that she can't do it, or stop.
From astrogirl2: The Doctor's home is on fire! What one object do they rescue from the burning premises?
If the TARDIS is on fire, the Doctor's saving the TARDIS or going up in flames with her, sorry. If it's Gallifrey that's on fire (again), then the TARDIS.
Dr Seward writes his memoirs. How accurate or embellished are they? What's the title? What kind of review does Rogelio de la Vega give the book?
They're not entirely accurate, because The Memoirs of a Yorkshire Lunatic Doctor, his earnest account of his work with mentally ill patients at the turn of the century, doesn't include any details about what happened that time with Lucy, the Count, Mrs Harker and Van Helsing. They are fairly accurate about the rest of his work, though, as he took painstaking care over them. They're also probably very long-winded and Victorian and now available on Google Books for anyone who might be interested, which is how Rogelio came to be 'reviewing' it.
Rogelio meant to link to Black Beauty, which somebody had said he should read (and he did read the blurb at least, okay), so he Tweeted that he now felt very bad for the poor horses & linked to the wrong book without noticing. A thousand and one fans rushed to correct him, while others objected violently to the word "Lunatic", which he didn't like at all. (He doesn't think much of the late Dr Seward. Why would a person hang around in the same century as someone with a similar name, using offensive terms and writing books and confusing people?)
Regina Mills and Sherlock Holmes show up on your doorstep and announce that they need to stay with you for a week. Are they decent housemates? Exactly what kind of chaos does your life suddenly become?
Well, thanks very much astrogirl2! That was all I needed right now. Clearly, I am in the middle of some crime scene while simultaneously facing a major magical incident. Also They both notice everything, it's going to be terrible. Even if Sherlock doesn't care about my house, Regina won't think much of it and will probably say so. It's going to be ten times worse than having my middle sister to visit.* All the bits that need painting, the ex-damp bits, my taste in decor, my tiny old terrace house, my ugly yard, the contents of the fridge. NOTHING WILL MEASURE UP. She might, if feeling kind, refrain from saying too much, but she won't have to. I'll see her looking. She gets the spare room, Sherlock gets the sofa-bed - that way if must sneak in and out in the middle of the night or do experiments in the kitchen, Regina and I won't get disturbed.
Also, I predict a massive row between the two of them at some point during the week. And when the week is ended, I shall suggest that they go and stay with astrogirl2 instead. ;-p
From sidleypkhermit: Missy, Travis, and Rogelio are in some kinda West Wing AU. Who's doing what? Do they have a snowball's chance of winning this election?
Rogelio is El Presidente, of course. And he thinks he's in a glorious WW AU, but if he's being aided by Missy and Travis, there's no way it can be. Missy, of course, has past experience about winning elections and no doubt Travis is useful when it comes to bullying people in government and organising a coup. They have a far, far too good chance of winning an election with their combined skills. I hope that the Doctor will swoop in to stop them and rescue Rogelio before this turns into a terrible mess. Poor Rogelio!
Dr Seward knows the Doctor is innocent -- but how can they prove it?
Heh, this is just about par for the course for the Doctor, so proving his innocence is irrelevant, the important thing is that Dr Seward can get the key to let him out of his cell, because if there's anyone around who can be convinced that seeing/believing weird stuff doesn't mean you're mad, it's Dr Seward, who's had some experience in that direction. And then the Doctor finds the aliens and defeats them, with some help from Dr Seward in between his panicking and fainting and offers to call in Van Helsing.
Why is Regina Mills afraid of Deva?
LOL, this is very hard to imagine. Deva's not scary! Regina is. I can only imagine that Deva knows something terrible she did one time and she doesn't want him to tell someone now she's reformed?
From dimity_blue: The Doctor and Regina go shopping for a high tech gadget. Travis is their salesperson. How does it go?
Times are hard for a Federation officer on the run. Travis maybe wants cash in order to help him get to Star One, but even so, I think anyone would think twice before buying used goods off him, and the Doctor has a tendency more to 'borrow' things anyway. Regina and the Doctor get their gadget, but in true B7 form, it's worthless. Travis gets singed.
Joey Bettany and Jenkins enter a haunted house and find Steel and Lynda asleep in the cellar. Was the house really haunted? What was going on?
Steel and Lynda just have days like these, really. Lynda is probably wearing her pyjamas and unclear on why she's not in the Gazette office. Steel merely exits without a word, despite the fact that he knows exactly why Lynda's not in the Gazette office and also what was 'haunting' the house until he stopped it. Joey and Jenkins have nothing to do other than help Lynda get a bus or train home and lend her a coat. Joey is glad to help, Jenkins is fed up with everyone and life in general.
Sherlock Holmes and Georgina Jones have to share a hotel room unexpectedly. Does it go well?
Georgie is well-versed in annoying late Victorian/Edwardian crime-fighters, so probably not. To be fair, Sherlock Holmes makes far less unnecessary fuss about the impropriety of sharing a room with a lady than her usual Edwardian adventurer, and Georgie takes an active interest in the weird experiment Sherlock spends the night concocting in one corner of the hotel room instead of complaining, as even Watson might have done, even after it explodes. But then she insists on trying to help Sherlock solve the crime, which Sherlock finds highly annoying. Simms and Adam would sympathise.
From doreyg: Missy and Joey Bettany decide to go on holiday together. Where do they pick? Does anything go wrong on the way?
That one time Joey's habit of befriending everyone didn't end well? 0_o I imagine that they meet on the way to Austria and Switzerland, and then... well... You know Missy.
The Doctor and Jenkins find a stray kitten. How do they react?
Are you trying to kill me with the adorable fluff here? So, the Doctor and Jenkins find a kitten and pretend that neither of them care about it or find it cute, and yet it mysteriously gets fed, petted, and generally looked after by both of them (and they are totally not having an argument over whether it most prefers the Library or the TARDIS because neither of them would do that). The kitten is just a furry nuisance that disrupts people's experiments and damages the books, obv. (Not unlike some people they could mention.)
Deva and Dr Seward are competing for the same job. What job is it and which one of them gets it?
Well, since Deva is from millennia in the future and knows about computers and technology, while Dr Seward is a 19th C doctor, it's a bit hard to imagine what job they would both be applying for or why they're both in the same time period in the first place. If it's a medical post and it's the past, Dr Seward would probably win, but he'd lose out to Deva for any future-set posts. Maybe it's outside of reality in Meta-land and they're applying for the position of "Side Kick to a less homicidal Hero/Mentor"?** In which case, I'm not sure which of them will win. It depends on the less homicidal hero and whether they like sidekicks of the clinging, wilting sort (Dr Seward) or sidekicks who gently nag about irresponsibility while being technical wizards at stuff (Deva). They've both been asked back for a second interview, but will inevitably lose out to someone who looks better in a mini-skirt.
Travis and Ros Myers have to fight a dragon, how well does this go?
That is one seriously dead dragon. Possibly one seriously dead Travis as well, depending on what he does after they kill the dragon.
From graycardinal: Lynda Day is forced into a live "shag, marry, cliff" scenario involving Steel, Sherlock Holmes, and Missy. What consent issues arise, if any, how likely is the marriage to last, and can Jenkins save the "cliff" victim from imminent doom?
Okay, well, this is Lynda. If she's being asked to take part in a live shag marry cliff scenario involving Steel, Sherlock Holmes and an intergalactic super-villain, she's going to assume her subconscious is working seriously overtime tonight - and you know what part of that sentence you shouldn't have mentioned?
Yep, they are all going over the cliff. If this dream had involved Spike Thomson, she would have shagged, married and cliffed him (in any order), but since it was set on being completely ridiculous, what else is a busy Gazette editor to do?
Luckily for everyone, Jenkins has an actualfax magic door to hand and will save them all, although he's not impressed about meeting Missy again and will kick her out of the library asap, and will try to put Sherlock Holmes back in a book. He and Steel could have an interesting conversation, though.
(If you want the pure logic answer, then of course, Lynda would cliff Missy, because she's evil, shag Sherlock if he'll let her (there probably would be some consent issues going on there, yeah), and marry Steel because marriage to an elemental thingumy who doesn't seem to live in time should be pretty easy to annul or ignore.)
Ros Myers and John Seward awaken next to one another and find they've mysteriously been transformed into Muppets. Who actually auditions for Kermit, which of Regina or Rogelio was responsible, and who on the list is able to reverse the process...for a price, of course?
Well, Ros is never auditioning for Kermit, so Dr Seward will do that. Since Regina has magic powers, it must have been her doing - it's so hard to be good all the time - but Rogelio accidentally influenced the outcome of the spell. He's very sorry about it, but also thinks Ros and Dr Seward look dead cute and has Tweeted several #adorablemuppets pictures of them already. Regina will make amends by reversing the spell - if she can. Ros may have to shoot both of them afterwards, however, as they will have completely trashed her tough reputation between them. Dr Seward will do his best to save them and patch them up, and as long as there are no vampires around, may even manage it, especially with magical help from Regina.
The Doctor, Ros, and Ace are a bar band. What sort of music, what sort of bar, and how much of a fan following do they develop before the inevitable breakup?
The Doctor plays the guitar, Ace the spoons and they do folk and rock and blues and whatever else they feel like in some pub in the middle of nowhere. Ros is there undercover again, and will personally kill Harry Pearce if he makes her pretend to be musical one more time. Or, as she's pointed out, other people will probably kill her if she has to pretend to be musical again. She plays the drums when forced and kills people with the drumsticks when necessary, which leaves Ace dead impressed and suffering from a serious crush, which Ros has not got time for.
* Having my sister visit isn't a bad thing, but she also notices everything and will clean stuff for me if I haven't done it properly.
**1968 Van Helsing's plan seems to involve deliberately getting all the women killed before he stakes anyone, so it's a fair complaint.
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