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May 03, 2011 09:24

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I’m sure you’ll not even get this as someone’s messed with my mobile but I’ve been abducted. Or something’s gone off with the TARDIS. Either way, if you do get this…call me. Please.

[Further Text, about a half hour later]
That…wasn’t meant to go up there. Just ignore that, everyone.

This is…some sort of social networking thing, is it? It ( Read more... )

*c: stephen stills, *c: suki, *c: buffy summers, rory's storm, *c: amy pond, just coping, space/time traveller, *c: nathan young, text post, wife: amy pond, freaking out on the inside, devoted not clingy

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Action? totallyinaband May 3 2011, 20:30:30 UTC

[Stephen is walking home from grocery shopping when he notices a sopping wet man standing by the fountain, texting furiously. He's had a long day at work and really wants to get home and start making spaghetti, but unfortunately his Canadian-ness kicks in and he has to make sure the guy's okay.]

Uh, hey man. New here?

Action! waitsforever May 3 2011, 20:46:22 UTC

[Rory doesn't notice right away, his one complaint about Storms is the interface--maybe if it was just a BIT more user-friendly he'd have worked out how to text Amy's actual PHONE by now!--but it does register on him soon enough that somebody just talked to him. So he looks up at Stephen and manages a brief sort of weak half-smile.]

Hi...yes, I am, actually. [An American. Does that mean he's in America? Nowhere recognisable, there, if he is.] This will probably sound a bit weird but...where's "here"?

Re: Action! totallyinaband May 3 2011, 20:49:37 UTC

[He could just as easily be in Canada! Just sayin'! :-P]

Oh god, new person. I'm really bad at this.

So basically, this is The City. We're all stuck here. No one knows how we got here or how to leave. We all just kind of make the best of it.

That helpful?

Re: Action! waitsforever May 4 2011, 13:45:29 UTC

[Rory's eyes flick down and unfocus a bit inward as he tries to work out what this means. Not that it isn't clear, the basic meaning, but as far as what it means for him. He looks back up again to ask the first question that comes to mind.]

Can you define "stuck"?

Re: Action! totallyinaband May 4 2011, 16:45:13 UTC

Can't leave. Basically. Some people do go home eventually, but no one knows how or when. Some people are here for a month, others four years.

I know, it's kind of fucking terrifying.

Re: Action! waitsforever May 4 2011, 17:08:15 UTC

[Rory feels a bit of panic rising in his chest--what if he's trapped here forever! Away from AMY, away from the Doctor, away from Leadworth and AMY, away from his mum and his mates and his job and AMY--and has to swallow and regulate his breathing. Four beats, in and out, breathing through his nose. He can wait, he will wait, however long it is, it's not as if he can't do that.]

Is there...is there a pattern to it? People...leaving. Or. Anything?

Re: Action! totallyinaband May 4 2011, 17:39:22 UTC

Not really. Sorry, man. Believe me, if there was any way of working it out, I would be out of here by now, too.

Uh, I'm Stephen, by the way. Hi.

Re: Action! waitsforever May 4 2011, 18:14:48 UTC

Right. Of course. [He squeezes his eyes shut for a moment before opening them again and giving Stephen a quick smile.]

Hi. I'm Rory.

Re: Action! totallyinaband May 4 2011, 18:19:48 UTC

You said you were looking for someone, right? Do you know they're here?

Re: Action! waitsforever May 4 2011, 18:31:02 UTC

Did--oh. Yeah. Amy. Amy Pond. [And, alright, because the fact makes him so happy, he adds it. He can't resist.] My wife. She isn't here, is she? I haven't found her. Yet.

Re: Action! totallyinaband May 4 2011, 19:12:25 UTC

Amy Pond. Red hair, Scottish accent? Yeah, she's been here a few days now.

She's your wife?

Re: Action! waitsforever May 4 2011, 19:18:57 UTC

Oh. That's her, yeah. [A proper smile spreads a little bit nervously across his face, though he doesn't say "Good". It...technically isn't, after all, they're still trapped here. But, well, they're neither of them alone, at least, and if Amy came here first, he's glad he can be here with her.

And then his smile becomes a bit more relaxed and genuine.]

Yeah, she is.

Re: Action! totallyinaband May 4 2011, 19:46:15 UTC

[Okay, so Stephen is a little impressed.]

Not bad, man.

Well she's definitely around. Keep trying the network, it's the best way of getting in touch with people around here.

Re: Action! waitsforever May 4 2011, 20:21:39 UTC

[Proudly.] Thanks. [And then with a bit more amusement:] It took aaages.

I will do. Thanks for helping. [Wait.] You don't know how to switch mobiles back over to mobiles, do you?

Re: Action! totallyinaband May 5 2011, 15:31:35 UTC

[Stephen glances over at Rory's Blackberry.]

That's a cellphone? Why doesn't it have any buttons?

[/is from 2005]

Re: Action! waitsforever May 5 2011, 15:47:21 UTC

[Rory gestures the phone at Stephen.]

Because it's a touchscreen, look. [Oh.] I guess that means...you probably don't know, huh?

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