soundsofdrums: (The face of innocence)
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Ah, it's been nice to be back in my own body. Last week wasn't particularly what I would call pleasant, though we've had worse tricks played on us by the Animus. Not that I'm any more pleased with them, of course.

It really is strange to watch seasons pass by sequentially in an Earth fashion. Time Lord and all, I hardly lived my lives in anything close to a linear path through time. How...quaint. A little dull and so slow but I suppose it has a bit of charm to it.

I am looking forward to proper snow. Ooh, we can even build snowmen, have snowball fights, it'll just be like childhood.


Private to Juliet // Unhackable

...I have a question. Do you know how to knit? If so... [He looks more than a little uncomfortable and hesitant about this next part.] Would it be possible for you to teach me the basics?

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Date: 2011-12-18 06:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hideyosammich.livejournal.com
Unless you'd rather I just leave now...?

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Date: 2011-12-18 06:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] soundsofdrums.livejournal.com
[Eyeroll.] Tell the story, Doctor.

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Date: 2011-12-18 06:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hideyosammich.livejournal.com
Weeeeell, it all started on a empty spaceship...I was with Rose and Mickey the Idiot then. [He smiles slightly in recollection.]

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Date: 2011-12-18 06:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] soundsofdrums.livejournal.com
[Not going to bother asking. He just waits for him to continue.]

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Date: 2011-12-18 06:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hideyosammich.livejournal.com
[He pauses.] Long or short version?

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Date: 2011-12-18 06:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hideyosammich.livejournal.com
Alright.

We found this Victorian fireplace in the ship, and on the other side was a little girl. I found a way to get in. [A huge smile spreads across his face.] Victorian France! It was a window through time to France in the 1700's! Ahh, it was genius.

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Date: 2011-12-18 06:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] soundsofdrums.livejournal.com
....And hooooow is a fireplace suddenly a time traveling machine?

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Date: 2011-12-18 06:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hideyosammich.livejournal.com
Time window. [Look, it just happens, okay.]

Aaanyway. This little girl had a broken clock, but something was still ticking. There were these...[He pauses, trying to think of a way to describe them.] A bit like robots. Weeeeell, they were robots. But clocks too. There'd been one hiding under Reinette's bed, and it answered only to her. And it had been scanning her brain. Anyway. It said she wasn't complete. So I left, went back to tell Rose and Mickey. But there was a time discrepancy. It had only been a few minutes for me, a week for Reinette, and five hours for my companions.

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Date: 2011-12-18 07:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] soundsofdrums.livejournal.com
[It sounds a bit on the silly side, but he listens intently anyway. The kittens seem to find the story intriguing enough, as they've hopped onto the bed and are sitting there, looking at the Doctor and listening as well.]

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Date: 2011-12-18 07:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hideyosammich.livejournal.com
We went back to wandering the ship and found human parts wired into it. We had to assume they were what was left of the crew. I went back through the fireplace. It was Reinette's life still, but decades had passed. She was all grown up. [He pauses slightly to smile, recollecting how she snogged him up against the fireplace.] Mmm.

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Date: 2011-12-18 07:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] soundsofdrums.livejournal.com
... [He's giving him a look right now. A "you are saying something that I am not liking very much" look.] "Mmm", what?

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Date: 2011-12-18 07:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hideyosammich.livejournal.com
Just...I found out she was Madame de Pompadour. [He smiles.] She thought I was her imaginary friend. She really knew how to make herself look beautiful, you know?

[He hesitates a moment.] She was in love with me.

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Date: 2011-12-18 07:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] soundsofdrums.livejournal.com
How terribly unsurprising. You and your Earth girls.

[He keeps a straight face, but doesn't look teeeeeerribly amused at this part of the story. He motions for him to just continue on.]

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Date: 2011-12-18 10:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hideyosammich.livejournal.com
[A retort is on his tongue about how they weren't just any Earth girls, but he bites it back. No point in antagonizing the Master. Not in the middle of a story, anyway.]

Anywaaay, the clock robots kept opening all these windows in time, all along Reinette's life, because for some reason they had decided they needed her brain to replace their ship computer, but that she had to be the same age as the ship before she was considered 'complete'. I promised her I'd come for her when she needed me, but I almost didn't make it. In order to ensure Reinette's continued safety, I knew I had to break one of the windows, which would prevent anyone, including me, from getting back.

[He sighs, rubbing the back of his head.]

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Date: 2011-12-18 10:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] soundsofdrums.livejournal.com
Sacrificing yourself for one of your humans. Your story doesn't amaze in the least, but...continue.

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Date: 2011-12-18 11:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hideyosammich.livejournal.com
[He shrugs.] There was a horse on the ship and I sort of...broke through a time window with it. [brief grin] If anything, it was an entrance. Then I saved Reinette, turned off the clocks, the usual. But I was stuck.

She didn't mind too much. Of course not. [quiet laugh] She wanted me to 'take the slow path' with her. Live a normal life. Hmm. I would have liked that, but that's not me. I figured it out, of course. Found a window that was still connected to the ship. And...[He bites his lip slightly.] Well. That's all the important parts.

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Date: 2011-12-18 11:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] soundsofdrums.livejournal.com
Mm. [He just....nods.] Intriguing. ...but that isn't you. I would have had to come steal you away, rescue you.

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Date: 2011-12-19 02:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hideyosammich.livejournal.com
[He's quiet for a moment.] What do you mean?

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Date: 2011-12-19 02:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] soundsofdrums.livejournal.com
I could never let you take a slow path. That isn't for us.

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Date: 2011-12-19 02:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hideyosammich.livejournal.com
It's definitely not for us. Yet here we are. Living in a house. With cats. Taking the slow path.

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Date: 2011-12-19 02:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] soundsofdrums.livejournal.com
....Well. This is different. The two of us. Forced to, but together. Two of us suffering together can manage somehow, I think.

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Date: 2011-12-19 02:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hideyosammich.livejournal.com
Somehow we'll make it. [He smiles slightly.] At least it isn't all suffering.

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Date: 2011-12-19 02:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] soundsofdrums.livejournal.com
Happy you're stuck with me?

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