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[holo] - Not so much helping, are we.

May 13, 2009 22:50

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... )

{ the doctor (tenth au), { river song, { ianto jones

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[visual] songofspoilers May 14 2009, 05:14:21 UTC

"Nice to see you're staying positive about it, at least." Have the patented look of River sarcasm, all smiles and smugness, Doctor.

[visual] who_never_would May 14 2009, 05:32:43 UTC

The smile on the Doctor's face drains off. It's replaced by a snide smirk that doesn't quite fit on the man's face, almost as if he'd learned the expression in self-defense at one point and had never gotten its vagaries completely memorized.

"Well, we can't all be gigantic balls of mope in the face of failure, now can we?"

songofspoilers May 14 2009, 05:42:21 UTC

"So that's it, is it? No way out, thank you very much, good evening and good night?" The look of incredulity that he's even using the word failure not hidden on her face.

"I hope that wasn't a dig at me, by the way." Knowing full well that she doesn't accept her own failure well at all, not until she's shouted at it, sulked about it and finally beaten it. All points he's more than aware of.

who_never_would May 14 2009, 05:52:00 UTC

"Sorry, what were you expecting? That I'd just swing in with my pretty time-traveling ship and be all Mighty Mouse, 'HERE I COME TO SAVE THE DAAAAAY?' and make everything better and perfect for everyone?" The Doctor cannot sing, but he belts out the Mighty Mouse theme with purity of conviction he's rather famous for. All of the manic energy vanishes, and the Doctor's shoulders slump a bit.

"It's not a dig at anyone, River, it's just a statement. Always was very like you to assume that everything revolved around your little universe and your short little life." There is an edge of cruelty on his tone of voice that is, again, foreign.

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[holo] damnfinecoffee May 15 2009, 07:24:14 UTC

Ianto stares for a moment, then leans forward in his seat to set his own tablet to holo quickly. He's surprised by that, and also a little annoyed that his data has amounted to nothing. "So, what?" he questions, not bothering to hide his irritation. "That's it? You're not going to do anything? You're not going to try anything else?"

He snorts, shaking his head. "You aren't what you're made out to be, Doctor. I didn't think you'd give up so quickly. All that transmission will do is upset people. Make them worry. And what for? We haven't looked into everything yet. There are other things we could try. Why aren't we?"

Re: [holo] who_never_would May 15 2009, 19:19:03 UTC

The Doctor wanders from across the console room to his tablet, picking it up and looking down at it with something close to blankness on his features. "We're not being gathered here for any sort of logical reason that I can see. The list of people that have been collected are all vastly different, but largely from the same time period. Most of them all have the appearance of being human, and if they're not, they used to be, or they're some sort of hominid or bipedal species that resembles humanity. It's like someone just... I don't know, grabbed different people at random and threw them into a world with their belongings. People bring things and sometimes even places with them, so it seems like the world is a constantly evolving thing, with each new person, something new gets introduced into Taxon, including that person's individual experiences, I suppose. What I don't get though is whyThe Doctor's eyes snap to meet Ianto's, "Whatever ideas you've got on 'the Doctor' -..." and he pauses. The Doctor looks down and away from the tablet ( ... )

damnfinecoffee May 15 2009, 21:22:04 UTC

Ianto looks as if he's about to reply, and then stops. It hadn't even occurred to him to consider why they might have been bringing people here. How that added to Taxon. He'd been too focussed on what people had in common, and more recently who they had in common. "Maybe that's it, though. Maybe that's why we're here. We add to this place. Every time someone gets brought here, so does something else. Or somewhere else. I don't know why they'd want that. Maybe we're pets, or something. Like tropical fish in a big glass tank for some rich businessalien to display in his office to impress his clients. Maybe we're some sort of game. A screwed up social experiment."

He shakes his head, not entirely sure where he's going with this idea. "I don't know. But the thing is we aren't random, Doctor. We can't be. How many people do you know here? And we aren't the only ones who have people we know here. It's too much of a coincidence for it to really be random ( ... )

who_never_would May 15 2009, 21:32:29 UTC

The Doctor's mouth sets into a firm, thin line as Ianto continues to berate him, until finally, he snaps, "Alright! Alright, that's quite enough of that, thank you! I am trying to help, what do you think I've been doing holed up in this ship for the last two weeks for? And yes, you're right, every time someone gets brought here, they bring something with them it's an ever changing landscape, an ever changing environment, which means the program that keeps this place running is a learning program of some kind. maybe it's ... oh, I don't know, some kind of advanced artificial intelligence with unlimited capacity for growth, change, and the ability to snatch people at random. What's one of the first part of every creation myth ever? In the beginning, some random "god" created the world, and then he put things in it! What if this isn't kidnapping, this is the creation of another planet, it's just that someone's technology got so advanced that it started just grabbing people from random points in time and putting them here. People that ( ... )

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