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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.

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That…wasn’t meant to go up there. Just ignore that, everyone.

This is…some sort of social networking thing, is it? It

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Where are you? I'll come get you.

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'course I'm alright. Don't be daft. [It's easy enough for Amy to shrug off his obvious concern, to grin and act like they've never been apart. Like she didn't spend two weeks here without him, and without the Doctor she knows. She's always been independent, after all, and there's nothing to worry about.

So she links arms with Rory and pulls him away from the wall and onto the square and into the direction of the TARDIS.]

I've been here for two weeks. [That seems to be the most important question to him.] Don't really understand how this place works, but apparently it's a pan-dimensional nexus. [She figures he'd be able to make more of that than she does.] Or so the Doctor says. Oh, and he's here, but he's from before he knows me-- us -- so no spoilers. And he looks different. But he's obviously the Doctor. I've been staying in the TARDIS. And this place is weird, but interesting. [She's ticking off the various items on her fingers as she goes.]

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[Well, nothing TOO bad can have happened if she's acting exactly the same as usual. Rory takes comfort in that. It isn't as if he doesn't know she's prone to pretending nothing's been wrong, but she is acting so very much like always that he just leaves it for now. Maybe if it looked like there was something really seriously wrong, he'd push it.

As it is, he links arms with Amy, takes a step forward, and goes squish.]

Oh. Yeah. Right...the fountain...

[He takes another squishing step forward. It feels weird, but he hasn't much of a choice but to live with it until he gets where Amy is leading him to.]

Pan-dimensional nexus... [Oh. Not good. No easy plane ticket home.] Okay, well, travelling into the multiverse, that's something new, I suppose. [Now, the Doctor. He's here, of course he is and...he and Amy haven't left yet. Waiting for Rory? Or else is there something they need to do here first before leaving. Something incredibly dangerous and foolish to attempt, no doubt. At least he's here, rather than...not here.] What have you

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[waitedforyears]

You're wet. [That's half-disgusted and half-laughing. But she doesn't move away from him.

At his questions, she gives a shrug.] We've had tea. [Truth.] The Doctor's been tinkering with the TARDIS and I've been exploring, mostly. Apparently, we're stuck here. Really, really stuck.

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Well, yes, water does do that, especially when there's a fountain full of it that you've just been tossed into unexpectedly.

Stuck? [What? How?] But...do you mean the TARDIS can't get us out? Really? [He pauses, and then comes to the only really logical conclusion.] Alright, what did the Doctor bollocks up? What's happened to the TARDIS? [...after all, it can't have been him, this time. He wasn't even flying the TARDIS when he'd disappeared.]

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[waitedforyears]

Yeah. Really, really, really stuck. I thought I'd just have to find the Doctor but nah, he's stuck as well. I don't think he did it. I think it's just this place.

There's a guide, even. [And she figures Rory, dependable Rory, might actually read the thing as opposed to just browsing through it like she did at first.]

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[Stuck. In an unknown city in a pan-dimensional nexus, and he is already trying to work out what they'll do if they're trapped here forever, though it would be easier to plan if he actually knew, well, ANYTHING about where they were.]

Well, that's...good, probably. Is it a helpful guide? Do you still have a copy?

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[waitedforyears]

Yeah, yeah. [She waves him off, but she's smiling, fond and happy that he's here and not alone, not that she was alone, because she wasn't, but... well. Still. He's here and she's happy. That's allowed, he's her husband, after all. So she just leans over and kisses him on the cheek, for no reason other than that she wants to.

And then she opens the copy of the guide on her phone and hands it to him.]

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[He looks very slightly surprised but mostly pleased when she kisses his cheek but oh, good, an explanation for this place on her phone.]

Thank you.

[He takes it from her and scrolls down a bit, starting to read it, completely intrigued, before it occurs to him that this, possibly, is not what he should be doing, right at this moment, with his wife beside him, Amy, who's been trapped here for two weeks with nobody who really knows her. The guide can wait. For a bit. Not that he isn't going to study the damn thing but for right now, he sends it in a text message to his own phone and then hands it back to her.]

I'll look later. [He puts his arm around her waist and pulls her against him, still walking (still squishing a bit but at least the walking is drying out his shoes. Slightly).] Come on, you've been here for two weeks! Why don't you show me around? Or... [He looks down, and then back at Amy.] Why...don't...we go to the TARDIS so I can change my shoes and socks, and then you can show me around.

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[Now she's definitely laughing at him.] It's just a little water. C'mon. I'll show you some of the places I've been to so far.

[And their first stop is, hey, a pancake house.] I had lunch here with an angel. A proper one, with wings and all. Well. A punkrock angel, I s'ppose.

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[It's...a bit uncomfortable, but not enough he wants to distract her from his distraction. And it's easy enough for him to get caught up in her enthusiasm, honestly, it always has been, at times like this.

And....oh, look, a pancake house. Rory is very slightly confused, and is going to ask if the pancakes are particularly GOOD or something before Amy answers his unasked question.]

A punk rock angel?! [He's amused, verging on laughter.] That...is pretty cool.

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[waitedforyears]

Yeah. [Amy's grinning. The Doctor was right when he said that this place was not exactly normal. Amy likes not-normal quite a lot; it's fun that way.]

Oh, and that day some people had to obey everything others said. One of those curses [she gives a little vague wave.]

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[Rory did manage to get a vague idea of what curses entail. But it all sounds a bit weird to him. There has to be some sort of explanation for it, something scientific, probably, must be. As for the actual reason for them, maybe it's just a natural phenomenon of the area? He's seen some equally weird stuff, travelling with the Doctor and Amy.]

Mind control? That sounds a bit...kinky. [And he sounds a bit amused, but mostly, he can't avoid thinking of it exactly in that same kinky way and he can't help it showing a bit in his expression. Not that it would be all that different from normal but it's...oddly compelling all the same.] Are they all like that?

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[Amy gives that a thought and then grins, very much like the figurative cat that got the canary.] Why, feeling like you missed out already?

I don't know, though, 'bout all of them. Some are supposedly not that much fun.

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[Rory gives Amy a bit of a squeeze.] Only if you would've been the only one ordering me about. [Actually, knowing Amy, he's not entirely sure he would have wanted to be completely under her control. Even if aaaall the less sensible parts of him disagree. (Or part, even.)

And then another thought.] And that....nobody was ordering you about. Nobody did, did they? [Because PROTECTIVE, not to mention, it would be sort of weird, really.]

So you haven't actually been through any of the less fun ones yourself yet, then? [And back to sort of vague protection again. If Amy's going to have to go through something horrible here (please please no) he wants to at least be here to help.]

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[You're a wise man, Rory Williams. Her grin is more of a smirk now, really] I did get to order some folk around.

And 'course no one got to order me about, no. Some tried, but whatever it was that made some people obey others didn't work on me.

[And his protectiveness is sweet. Amy thinks it's unnecessary, 'cause she can handle herself, of course she can, but it's still sweet.] Nope. The ordering about was the first and only one so far I noticed properly.