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youronly_friend

RL with the Doctor

Aug 26, 2008 23:22

The Doctor clutched at the railing of the TARDIS helplessly for a moment, hanging there in the silence seconds after Rose had vanished from his view. He was alone. The tracks of tears cooled on his cheeks, and for once, he did not bother to brush them away or ignore them. Gone. She was gone. Forever. It took him a moment to release his grip on the ( Read more... )

rl, i'm watching you, the doctor

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youronly_friend August 27 2008, 04:30:49 UTC

Ohh, the Doctor was so sad. The Test Card Girl knew him; or knew of him, at any rate. He made very entertaining viewing, the Doctor, rocketing about the universe in his TARDIS. She sometimes got jealous; why should he have so much freedom when she was stuck in the little glass room all alone?

But now... now the poor Doctor's hearts were breaking, tears trickling down his face. He needed a friend now, more than anything. And besides, one little blonde girl was much the same as another, wasn't it? Eeeheeheehee. The Test Card Girl smiled an eerie child's grin, hugging her clown close to her. All that was needed was to find a television on the Doctor's ship, and then she could go to him.

Onboard the TARDIS, the console monitor flickered on with a sound that most decidedly did not belong on a ship of that level of technology. A small, ringing click- the sound old tube televisions made when they were turned on- and suddenly and silently, the Test Card Girl appeared, sitting crosslegged on the console next to the screen. She ( ... )

phd_query August 27 2008, 04:42:00 UTC

The Doctor was incredibly sad. More sad than he'd been in a long while... well, not such a long while. Why was it his life aways tended to be melancholy. Zipping around time and space indeed, his life always in a tizzy, always on the go and never, ever looking back. Freedom was his lifeblood. He needed it to survive - you couldn't keep a bird caged up for long, and the Doctor was one of those birds that would simply pine away if locked up.

He rubbed at his eyes with the tips of his fingers - they were a bit red from crying. Swallowed. Managed to compose himself, at least a little, but his posture completely belied any attempt he might have had to appear unaffected or normal, really.

The Doctor looked up at the voice of the girl, sitting up and putting his feet on the deck slowly - he was normally a graceful creature, but his movements read as weary.

"You there," he said quietly, tilting his head to the side, "How'd you get in, then?"

youronly_friend August 27 2008, 04:56:32 UTC

The girl just smiled a small smile, tilting her head to the side in a mirror of the Doctor's gesture. He hardly seemed surprised at her presence there, and certainly not terrified in the way Sam had been when she first appeared to him. Oh, he was going to be fun

'I'm always here,' she said, in answer to his question. 'I'm everywhere, watching and listening. You needed a friend.'

And he did. The Doctor was so, so lonely. Ancient and terrible, and utterly alone. She could see all the years in him, behind him, weighing him down. And now without his Bad Wolf, he didn't know what to do. She could be his friend, if he wanted her to be, or she could make his life much, much harder than it already was. His choice, really.

phd_query August 27 2008, 05:06:18 UTC

Plainly said, the Doctor was really quite used to unusual things happening to him. This was not the first time someone had appeared in the TARDIS, and it certainly wouldn't be the last. The Doctor leaned forward to gaze at the little girl, offering her at least an attempt of a smile.

"Really now?" He was intrigued - and too tired to be to ornery that she'd just appeared He was curious, anyway, and that could be his worse vice at times. Inwardly, quietly, he hoped it wouldn't be his end someday. "You're an odd one, you are. Not that odd is bad, or anything, but really."

A pause.

"How do you know my name?"

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phd_query August 28 2008, 07:06:23 UTC

"Yep. Long as you like, come and go as you please. I'm sure you've got all sorts of people in your world to torment and amuse. No point in sending you off like the others. Humans. Get old. Wither. Get senile. Die. Depressing, really... having to see that over and over-..." he stopped, shaking his head.

Time Lords had a really strange way of outrunning death. Continually outrunning death - it was a merry chase, and they seemed to enjoy it mutually enjoy it, Death and the Time Lords did. Usually.

The Doctor stretched his arms and legs out, looking over to the girl with a bright grin. It was a happy, almost childish expression on his freckled face.

"Anyway. This is the TARDIS - blah blah, dimension in space, blah. She's alive. I'm not sure if you knew *that* - I don't talk to her so much when I've got someone else on board. I guess you know where most of everything is?"

youronly_friend September 5 2008, 03:23:00 UTC

The Test Card Girl nodded solemnly at the Doctor's words, looking at him in her eerie, unblinking way. 'I know. It's sad, so sad. You'll never age, and they drop off like mayflies until you're Theta again; a lost little boy with no-one to play with.'

The Doctor looked lost in thought, though, and maybe didn't hear her. Maybe he was ignoring her on purpose. People did that sometimes; the girl was used to it.

When he turned to her with a smile, though, her expression of sombre understanding transformed in a moment into a child's bright grin, and she nodded. 'I came out of a musical box,' she said cryptically, with a little smirk, before her brow creased.

'I don't know if she likes me,' she said matter-of-factly. 'I'm not right- like Captain Jack. She can tell.'