"Now that's more like it." Ripper shrugs out of the sports coat he had been wearing, leaving it to fall on the sidewalk, before slipping into the black leather coat he just pulled from the hatch. It feels, to borrow an overused expression, as soft as butter. He doesn't notice that in putting on the coat he's accidentally turned on the visual ( Read more... )

Charlotte sat well back on the stoop, her head down as she lit what was clearly not her first cigarette. It was very early in the morning, before the fake sun was all the way up. She couldn't sleep and didn't want to wake John, so this is what she came up with. Sitting on someone else's steps smoking too many cigarettes. His cigarettes ( Read more... )

"Do you see that, Professor?  Isn't it bril the way they...  Professor?"  Ace lowered the hands she had raised in excitement when she realised that she was no longer standing on the green sanded beach of Obegon 3.  There were no sleek many-finned silver animals dancing on the purple waves, under the lights of three moons.  There was no Professor, ( Read more... )

It's done. Toby almost feels lighter, being away from the bulk of Taxon's people - but also knowing that Dean is going to be okay. Sure, there's the Supreme Takeover to worry about, but in typical Toby fashion he chooses not to see the gravity of it. At least for now. He wants to be where his head won't be filled with hundreds of thoughts that aren ( Read more... )

"Not one. Not one response." River holds up one of the flyers she'd posted up around the city yesterday ( Read more... )

[River had intended on simply being honest and telling the Doctor she'd like to see him, especially after she found out from Ianto he'd asked after her. She wouldn't hide what she wanted to say under a cover of wit or sarcasm, she would be open and tell him that she missed him and given they were both stuck here, then this stand-off they seemed to ( Read more... )

River's been pretty much keeping herself to herself. It's been a long time since she was in her own house. And as academically geeky as it is, which it is, she's been reading through all her old papers. River has a tendency to shut out that which she'd rather not deal with and immerse herself in her work. And despite hers and the Doctor's ( Read more... )

The Doctor perches his tablet on the edge of the TARDIS' console, staring bleakly down at the information gathered for him by Ianto. He'd run the data through his head at least  ten dozen times, run it through the TARDIS' computer, and then, just for good measure, had run it through every single piece of stinkingly obsolete technology he had ( Read more... )

This was insane ( Read more... )

So, he's gotten his 'orientation speech' and knows more or less what's going on. Or at least, he knows what everyone else seems to know about this place. Which is squat. But being the eternal optimist he is he is a hundred percent n-ninety-nine percent sure there is a way out of here. There is always a way out. Always. One way or another it will be ( Read more... )