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ι∂яιѕ (stoleatimelord) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2011-05-29 21:25:00

Entry tags:

idris, river song

Who: Idris and River Song
When: Sunday, 5/29. Daytime.
Where: Around the city
What: River gets to meet the TARDIS face-to-face for the first time.
Rating: PG?
Status: In Progress

Being in a flesh body continued to be complicated. Far more complicated than the previous time she was inside of Idris's body. The last time it was just running about and saving the universe, and having to make sure to return to her proper home before she burned through the human body. That wasn't the case in the odd city she found herself in. She turned the body off at night when it began to ware down from a lack of energy, and when she turned it back on, it was perfectly fine. Nothing was shutting down internally from her presence inside the body.

It was a very distressing thing. However, she had learned from Donna that making a public act of distress was not always the best idea. It drew far too much attention to herself. Instead she settled for pacing about. When pacing around the room proved utterly useless and frustrating on top of the distressing, she decided to move out into the city. Her Doctor did it all the time, walking out into new and strange environments without any clue of what exactly he was doing. If it worked for him, it should certainly work for her.

If it would help the feeling of distress was another matter.

Idris had stopped her wanderings when she found the park. Her head tilted as she glanced around. This spot seemed to be as good as any. With a small twirl she plopped herself down in the grass, hands on her knees, and closed her eyes. Simply waiting. Oh, this seemed to help the distress much better than wandering about aimlessly.

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thenameofsanity
2011-05-30 05:00 am UTC (link)

River had spent the better part of the day avoiding the public network and her PDA in general. She had no real reason for doing so, aside from feeling as though she was far too connected to the thing for her liking, and therefore was wholly, blissfully unaware of the current chaos befalling the other citizens as the technology seemed to take on a mind of its own. In fact, the only chaos that was affecting River at the moment was her worry that the general chaotic state of the city would somehow ruin her plans to take her class on a joint field trip with Professor Cutter. And as that wasn't really a worry to be having on a Sunday afternoon, she wasn't letting it affect her all that much.

In fact, River wasn't letting much affect her at all if she could help it. She was bound and determined, in fact, to not even let the feeling of constantly being stuck in one place bother her all that much. Which was much easier to do when she wasn't physically in one place for very long... and is precisely how it came to be that she was making her way through the park about the time Idris had arrived and gotten comfortable in one of the sections of undisturbed grassy areas.

Spotting the human version of the TARDIS was easy enough. When you traveled through time and space courtesy of the being itself, not to mention knew how to properly fly her, you tended to have a sort of connection that not even flesh itself could come between. Plus it helped that she had seen an albeit small-sized photo of the human version of her favorite time traveling spaceship not very long ago.

With a glance around as though to make sure that the Doctor wasn't going to come popping out of the proverbial woodwork and fuss at her for the mish-meshing of timelines while he was around, River made her way to the other woman with only the slightest bit of hesitation and a very large curiosity that simply would not be ignored.

"I can't be easy, can it?" she questioned simply, studying the woman as she addressed her. "Being stuck inside that form, I mean. I can only imagine how utterly frustrating you must find it..."

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stoleatimelord
2011-05-30 05:16 am UTC (link)

Idris's head tilted to the side at the sound of River's voice. A smile crept on her face. "Frustrating is being trapped inside a small space where it is hard to pace. Distressing is being stuck in a flesh body that I am incapable of destroying from the inside by simply being. Distressing, yes, that's the word. You all have so many words to describe the tiniest variations of emotions."

Her eyes opened and her smile grew at the site of the woman. It was rather far ahead in her timeline, wasn't it? The River Song standing in front of her was fully grown and matured.

"You were right on time." Idris continued on. "Hello, Sweetie."

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thenameofsanity
2011-05-30 05:31 am UTC (link)

River couldn't help but smile in response to the greeting. Others might have been surprised and, truth be told, River would have been as well if she hadn't already anticipated as much. Of course the consciousness of the TARDIS would know who she was. Would know most everything about her, in fact. And while that normally would be more than enough to make her very, very nervous, with Idris it was different. Or maybe it was this city that made it different. Whatever the reason, River wasn't as worried about timelines and spoilers as she was back home. Which made this meeting a much less messy affair and served to make River much more at ease.

A fact that certainly helped, at least, when Idris called River by the very same nickname that River herself tended to use when addressing the Doctor.

Then again, even if River wasn't more at ease given their current settings, this was the TARDIS they were talking about. She probably could have called River 'girl with the curly hair' and it would have been perfectly fine. But there was something... fitting, about the use of that nickname and hearing it served to put a rather amused smile on the woman's face.

"It probably helps that I didn't know I was on a schedule," she replied lightly to the human-shaped woman. "Mind if I join you?" She certainly had nothing else better to do and, frankly, couldn't think of anything she'd rather do more than spend a little alone time with a magnificent being she'd never again get to meet in such a way.

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stoleatimelord
2011-05-30 05:45 am UTC (link)

"Mind? Why would I mind?" She asked as her eyebrows came together in confusion. "You're going to anyways. Why would you ask?" Despite the confusion, Idris had already gestured for River to join her.

The humanized TARDIS studied River closely. Not in the sort of way that her Doctor did. She knew who and what River was. She had always known. It was simply a matter of waiting long enough for River to step inside her console room for the first time. Instead the look was an attempt of gaining a sense of when River was from, not where.

Like the time traveling archeologist, Idris had her own secrets she had to keep. There were things she could not tell her Doctor, Pretty, Orange-y, Flower or even the Master. Events had to be lived. Not told.

"When is this for you?" She asked. "Oh, so many questions. That is what you ask him and what he asks you. To make sure you don't say something by accident, yes?"

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thenameofsanity
2011-05-31 04:44 am UTC (link)

River smiled as she sat down. "I've been told it's considered polite to ask before joining someone. Thought I'd try it on for size. I can't say it suits me, though," she commented before meeting Idris' gaze and waiting for her to ask what she was fairly certain would come next.

She was right, too. Her smile grew a bit fond at the all too familiar question of when it was for her. "Yes," she replied, "That's certainly how our reunions tend to go, more often than not. Must avoid spoilers, after all." There was a touch of... something, there. A sort of vague sense of loss and pain that, the further River moved away from her Doctor, the more she felt it. She was losing him, with each and every meeting, bit by bit. Eventually the day would come when he wouldn't even recognize her anymore. She knew it, he knew it, and she was quite certain the TARDIS was more than aware of it as well.

However River was nothing if not resilient and she refused to let sobering emotions weigh her down. For now she wanted to focus on the humanized version of the TARDIS sitting beside her. She'd have more than enough time to feel sorry for herself later should the mood strike.

"And to answer your question, I was just leaving Alfava Metraxis." She didn't elaborate. She didn't mention having left the note for the Doctor in his native language, the angels, or any of the events that followed their arrival on that planet. She knew she didn't need to. If there was any being anywhere in the entire universe who would know when, precisely, she was talking about in her timeline, it would be the woman beside her.

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stoleatimelord
2011-05-31 05:26 am UTC (link)

"Ah." Idris replied as she smiled fondly. "You like Alfava Metraxis. A little too much."

It meant that River had not gone to the Library yet. She hadn't met the Doctor for the final-first time. It was good. Was it? It was sad, but good at the same time. River had more time to spend with the Doctor before the Library. Her Doctor could know her a little more before he went on their travels.

Idris's face fell, just slightly, as she paused to think of their reversed timelines. They grew older and younger at the same time in opposite directions. There would be a day when River would meet a Doctor who didn't know her, and a day when the Doctor met a River who didn't know him. She had to take him to both those days. Oh, she put her Doctor through so much heartbreak.

"I had burned through this body." Idris suddenly said, as if asking a question that hadn't been asked yet. "Before I arrived. Idris's body was dead, and I had to return home."

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