Beyond the Rift: It was a preface to motion, rolling down the Oklahoma highway...

[thatsortofaman]

A bus from the Conrad hotel is currently rolling south down I-55, toward Oklahoma. Which is the most logical place for a bus from a hotel in Chicago, right? Loaded onto the bus are a couple ancient and forever boys, a Time Lady, a couple doctors, and a couple guardian angels who really didn't have any choice in the matter (one of those people was

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[smithnjones]

Martha Jones does a lot of driving during this trip. She loves to drive. She especially loves driving giant vehicles like buses and trains. Not that she's ever gotten to drive a train, but... some day she hopes to. Instead of collecting dolls as a kid, she collected model trains and toy automobiles.

Anyway, she is up front for a good portion of the journey, driving and up to having conversations.

[2ndchanceacharm]

Grace isn't about to offer to drive. She's okay driving cars, but even her dad's SUV used to make her edgy when she got behind the wheel, and no way in hell is she going to drive a giant metal box full of her friends at 80 miles per hour down the interstate. She'll just... hang around and let the people who are actually confident in their driving do that.

She flops into the seat furthest to the front, leaning forward against the divider between the seat and the stairs down to the door. "You don't mind company up here, do you?"

[smithnjones]

Martha glances and smiles at Grace when she flops down. It has slowly become easier to disassociate Grace from Tish. It's almost a little frightening to realize how very little she thinks of her family anymore.

"Not at all," she says. "Driving gets a bit boring after awhile without comp- Oi! Get on your side of the road, wanker!" Martha smiles all apologetically. "Well. Not too boring with idiots like that on the road. And anyway, how are you?"

[2ndchanceacharm]

Grace snorts a little as Martha starts shouting at the cars, and rests her chin on her arms. "Well, if it's any consolation, you can totally run him down. We've got so much more momentum, they don't stand a chance. ...Not that I'm suggesting vehicular homicide or anything." Of course not. That would be wrong.

"I'm alright." She shrugs. "A little nervous. I mean, it's good that we're going, I just... You know. Des." He has a habit. Of getting into trouble. Not nearly as much as the Doctor, but here they're practically going in asking for trouble, and God, she's nervous.

[smithnjones]

Martha grins, perhaps a bit deviously, at the not suggestion.

"Oh, no. Of course not. But it's always an option. Would hate to put a dent in this thing though, I'm only lending it." Not that she wouldn't love to have a big bus of her own to drive around for fun. It's just not exactly practical.

She nods, glancing at Grace.

"Yeah, I know. I do. I guess I'm not as nervous as I might be, because I'm going in with both of them for a change. It's much more worrying when you're stuck somewhere, no idea what's going on, and knowing how he can be. How either of them can be," Martha says, softly. She should probably be much more worried than she is, but she can't really manage it

[2ndchanceacharm]

Grace grins a little, and leans forward. She'll worry about Des' life being in peril when it's actually in danger, but right now she can distract herself with this. She can't help but be a little fascinated by Martha and the Doctor - Grace always liked scifi, and their whole life is just... well, incredibly impressive.

"What did you... do out there? I mean, I've got Des' whole life story - pages and pages of it, which makes sense, because he's, you know, ancient - but I never really heard anything about you and the Doctor..." Except what they did in Chicago before she got here, Martha down in the medical room for months keeping everyone safe and together, the whole thing with Calisto... That alone is pretty damn impressive, and slightly terrifying.

[smithnjones]

"Well, the Doctor's done much more than me. He's ancient like Des and I hardly know his entire story, but we did a lot together, too," Martha says with a little smile

[2ndchanceacharm]

Grace is grinning like a little kid hearing this. It's just so... amazing. And sure, she's a girl with wings, but Martha's been to the moon. That is, in certain ways, even more impressive than Des' life history - hey, Grace is a scifi geek through and through. Some things are just naturally awesome.

"That's... wow. I can't imagine doing things like that myself, it's just so... Do you miss it? I mean, being stuck in Chicago after that?" Hell, being stuck on Earth after that seems like it would be a little claustrophobic.

[smithnjones]

((OOC: BELATED COMMENTING LIKE WOAH))

"I don't know. Sometimes I would miss it, sometimes I still do, but I could never tell if it was the traveling or him that I missed so much and eventually I shut out that part of me. I decided to leave him, because I had to. I spent a year on my own Earth before falling through to here, and he's here now so yeah, I guess I do miss it," Martha says, softly, with a little smile as she looks off into the distance.

She stares down at the road. A lot of memories play through her head, but she doesn't really settle on one in particular. All of her adventures with the Doctor were beyond amazing.

"I miss the adventures that I knew would always turn out well in the end, would always turn out for the better no matter what. Of course, that changed right before I left him so I can't blame Chicago for that. I miss visiting other people, other planets, and making a difference. In Chicago, it almost feels like we're all just trying desperately to hold on and not be sucked into all of that turmoil."