[Location | HC Clements]beenthroughhellMay 19 2010, 00:23:18 UTC
Tara debates whether or not to come. She doesn't know what to feel about the news that the Doctor is still in Taxon after all. Relief? Anger on Rose's behalf, for what he put her through? Frustration that he doesn't seem to understand how badly he's acting?
But she decides that it doesn't matter. If he wants to make up, she can't deny him the chance. She can at least hear him out. She's in transit during his broadcast, which means she's more than a little alarmed when she finally gets there, running.
Re: [Location | HC Clements]rude_not_gingerMay 19 2010, 02:55:22 UTC
By the time the Doctor makes it back to HC Clements, he has a bruise forming on his jaw and his lip is split, though he's dabbing at it with a napkin from the sweets shop Doul and he ran into.
He hobbles to the door just as he sees Tara running towards him. Despite how much he, once again, hurts, he smiles over to her.
[Location | HC Clements]beenthroughhellMay 19 2010, 02:58:52 UTC
She'd hoped seeing him would help her know how she felt. It doesn't. But she moves as if she might hug him, registers he's hurt, and says with feeling, "You stupid man." There are tears in her eyes, but they don't fall.
Re: [Location | HC Clements]rude_not_gingerMay 19 2010, 03:18:29 UTC
"Yeah," he says, nodding to her words. "Yeah, just about. But you don't have to slap me, Donna already did."
Flippancy is, as always, one of his biggest defense mechanisms. He becomes more serious, because this is Tara, and she deserves that. "I couldn't stay their prisoner forever, Tara. People are disappearing. People are vanishing without any trace and no one is doing anything to stop it."
[Location | HC Clements]beenthroughhellMay 19 2010, 03:25:03 UTC
"I know people are disappearing. We thought you had." All she'd had to do was a simple spell, and she could have saved Rose a large amount of heartache, but after Giles and Ethan, she hadn't thought there'd be any point. (And though she hasn't totally admitted it, her magic's still a little weak after healing him.)
She wraps her arms around herself, maybe so she wouldn't be tempted to do anything, or maybe just for support. "Or that the Master had done something," she adds, softly. She hadn't said it to Rose, but she'd thought of it.
Re: [Location | HC Clements]rude_not_gingerMay 19 2010, 03:36:27 UTC
"I'm sorry," he says, and he means it. "I didn't want you or Rose to know where I was, in case the Council went after me. You'd be the first they'd go to, and if they thought you knew anything...they might do to you what they were planning to do to me."
And the Doctor would rather spend the rest of his lives in this place than watch Tara or Rose suffer for his actions. "It's why I left you a note."
Ah, the Master. The point of contention between him and Tara. The one thing that can never be properly explained.
"He won't kill me," the Doctor says, with utter confidence. "He needs me."
Re: [Location | HC Clements]rude_not_gingerMay 19 2010, 03:48:56 UTC
"I'll be all right," he says, gesturing to the cuts and bruises on his face. "It was violent, but it didn't seem to have anything specific in mind. Just general chaos."
He sniffs and tries to brush his injuries off.
"We need to figure out what's going on with the Extras," he says. "And why everyone's been vanishing."
[Location | HC Clements]beenthroughhellMay 19 2010, 03:50:46 UTC
"The Extras - there's something changed about them. Fundamentally. That's more recent." In fact, she'd only noticed it less than a day ago, and she hadn't seen them act much differently until now.
Re: [Location | HC Clements]rude_not_gingerMay 20 2010, 03:31:18 UTC
"Yeah, I noticed," the Doctor says, gesturing to his split lip. "Maybe our captors are finally through with us. Making people vanish, throwing the Extras at us violently."
He looks to Tara, suddenly very nervous. "Did something happen to you?"
[Location | HC Clements]beenthroughhellMay 20 2010, 03:37:55 UTC
"No, I just... they look different." He may or may not be too preoccupied to observe that while her words are innocuous enough, she's more disturbed than just normal human observation would merit. "And it doesn't seem to fit. The vanishing maybe, but violent Extras? Everything they've done has been like coddling a favorite pet. You blew up half the city and they seemed mildly exasperated but not angry. This is... malevolent."
[Location | HC Clements]beenthroughhellMay 20 2010, 05:02:43 UTC
She goes inside as he holds the door. "Um." After a moment's hesitation, she goes with honesty. "I don't think you'd believe me, if I told you. But their... purpose. Their will, such as it is. It's changed."
Re: [Location | HC Clements]rude_not_gingerMay 20 2010, 05:30:09 UTC
The Doctor gives her a Look. "Tara, I'm in an impossible city run by hamsters and I travel daily by little blue box. There's very little I wouldn't believe."
He shuts the door, glancing briefly behind himself to make sure no one has spotted them.
[Location | HC Clements]beenthroughhellMay 20 2010, 11:20:56 UTC
She shakes her head. "Auras. I can read people's auras. Sometimes it tells me basic things - you're not human, for example, and the Master's not human in the same way. But it tells me a little more than that too." A pause, then she adds, "The Extras aren't... alive, at least in a conventional way. But something's changed them. Pointed them in a new direction."
Re: [Location | HC Clements]rude_not_gingerMay 20 2010, 21:32:58 UTC
"Psychic energy visualization," the Doctor says with a nod. He doesn't believe in either magic or auras, so he does what he does best: Makes science out of the impossible.
"What sort of direction?" he asks. What he wants to ask is, of course, what she can see in his visualization, but if he asks her to look, he has a feeling she won't like what she sees.
But she decides that it doesn't matter. If he wants to make up, she can't deny him the chance. She can at least hear him out. She's in transit during his broadcast, which means she's more than a little alarmed when she finally gets there, running.
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He hobbles to the door just as he sees Tara running towards him. Despite how much he, once again, hurts, he smiles over to her.
"My favorite savior," he says.
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Flippancy is, as always, one of his biggest defense mechanisms. He becomes more serious, because this is Tara, and she deserves that. "I couldn't stay their prisoner forever, Tara. People are disappearing. People are vanishing without any trace and no one is doing anything to stop it."
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She wraps her arms around herself, maybe so she wouldn't be tempted to do anything, or maybe just for support. "Or that the Master had done something," she adds, softly. She hadn't said it to Rose, but she'd thought of it.
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And the Doctor would rather spend the rest of his lives in this place than watch Tara or Rose suffer for his actions. "It's why I left you a note."
Ah, the Master. The point of contention between him and Tara. The one thing that can never be properly explained.
"He won't kill me," the Doctor says, with utter confidence. "He needs me."
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He sniffs and tries to brush his injuries off.
"We need to figure out what's going on with the Extras," he says. "And why everyone's been vanishing."
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He looks to Tara, suddenly very nervous. "Did something happen to you?"
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"What do you mean, different?" he asks, serious again. "Apart from the bit where they're holding weapons, now, what's changed?"
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He shuts the door, glancing briefly behind himself to make sure no one has spotted them.
"Can you see that?" he asks. "People's will?"
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"What sort of direction?" he asks. What he wants to ask is, of course, what she can see in his visualization, but if he asks her to look, he has a feeling she won't like what she sees.
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