your troubled mind...

[smithnjones]

Martha Jones woke up before Des did, of this, she's proud. Although, she hardly remembers falling asleep sitting on the floor, head on his arm in the first place. Her neck protested at the awkward position it'd been forced into for a few hours, but it didn't take her very long to ignore the pain, get a shower taken, a change of clothes, down a

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[thatsortofaman]

There's not a lot of warning when the Doctor locates Martha. The door to the medical room opens. And then there's a pinstripe-wearing Time Lord practically attached to her, having bounded across the room in nothing flat.

"Martha! You're alive! I was starting to worry about you, you know - you've been gone for ages!"

[smithnjones]

Martha laughs and after the immediate surprise of being attached to, she hugs him, tightly.

"Yeah, I know. Sorry. Kept getting sidetracked on my way back." She pulls away enough to look him over, but her arms are still around his waist. "What about you, though? Glad to see you're in one piece. I was worried. Without me to keep an eye on you, God knows what sort of trouble you'd get yourself into."

[thatsortofaman]

"Oh, I wouldn't worry about me," he says with an absent wave of his hand. "Honestly, it's me. Do you really think a little earthquake's going to stop me? I've got a rift to close, and all these people to save!"

Yes, the time on his self-imposed deadline is drawing near, but he's still counting on that last-minute epiphany. It usually comes through for him. He's saved entire planets with twenty minutes to spare, sometimes less.

"You could have called," he says accusingly, and then stops himself. "Oh, no. I sound like someone's mother, don't I? Ah... Pretend I didn't say that."

[smithnjones]

"Well. Not an earthquake. But a building falling on you... now that could present a problem." Martha's smiling even as she tilts her head to the side. "Yes. Save the people. Close the Rift... how's that going, by the way?"

She raises her eyebrows at the accusing, motherly phrase.

"I'll try to remember next time. Just ignore the fallen buildings and leave people to fend for themselves while I call you." But she smiles, cause she probably will call next time.

Well, if she gets a second and there isn't anything that needs her attention.

[mordundgeister]

Morona's back after having been absent for the past couple of days. She's been autopsying the dead from the earthquake. Very few surprises regarding cause of death. Mostly blunt force trauma and asphyxiation due to crushing.

She stops by the medical room and pokes her head in to see Martha working on getting things cleaned up and asks, tentatively, "Do you need help, Dr. Jones?"

[smithnjones]

Martha looks up and shrugs a little bit, with a worn smile. "Sure, if you'd like to. If not I've got a pretty good hold on it. You deserve a bit of rest after all, didn't you just come off a ship at your real life job?"

[mordundgeister]

"Yeah, but I'm here, aren't I?" Morona states, wryly. "Might as well help while I can." She moves into the Medical room and begins helping Martha with the cleanup. After a few moments of silence, she asks, "So... how long have you been here?"

[smithnjones]

"True." Martha smiles. "Uhm, about ten hours, I think. Fell asleep half way through, not in the best of positions, but... couldn't be helped." She shrugs a little in a way that shows she really didn't mind how she fell asleep.

"I hope this place wasn't too much trouble while I was away. No serious injuries or anything?" Her tone is laced with worry, but it's difficult to hear.

[just_the_spare]

Regulus sat down next to Ricky, but didn't say anything. He picked at his bandaged hand before finally blurting out a soft, nearly inaudible, "Hi."

He hadn't seen Ricky in a while, partially because he too had been holed up in his room.

[rbodyguard]

Ricky looks up at the words, surprised that he hadn't noticed till then that he wasn't alone, and he manages a smile.

"Hey." He raises his eyebrows at the bandages. "What happened to your hand?"

[just_the_spare]

Regulus smiled back at him and then looked down at his hand, "Third degree burns...from the earthquake."

[rbodyguard]

"Yeah, but how?" He'd kind of slept through the earthquake himself. "Earthquake doesn't mean fire... wait, was there a fire down here?"