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The Tenth Doctor (_ten_) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2011-07-01 12:52:00

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lily potter, the doctor (10)

WHO: Lily Potter and the Tenth Doctor
WHAT: Collecting the worried pregnant lady from her flat.
WHEN: Just after this.
WHERE: Starting in the hallway outside Lily and James', then the TARDIS.
STATUS: In Progress

Another experiment, it seemed. This time separating people from their our own realities. From their friends and, in some instances, their families. It was like putting everyone in a web of extremely complicated, overlappting parallel universes that bled into each other in certain ways but remained stubbornly separate in others. Clever, actually. Good bit of physics and stuff. It'd be fun to work it out. But then people were worried and upset about it and it was understandable. The Doctor wasn't completely worried. He knew Rose would take care of herself, had friends to keep her company and even though he'd miss her, he'd see her again soon. Compared to some experiments this wasn't really too bad.

Still, Lily Potter was pregnant and worried and he did like the company, so he went to help her. He'd grown to be friends with Lily during her friendship with Donna and the hard time after his redheaded best friend had left. She was a good person, and he was even starting to look beyond the fact that she was a central pillar in one of the most popular literary works in the 20th Century. That happened, he'd learnt. In the end you stopped looking at them in that light and started to just appreciate them for the people they were. In that vein, this whole city was rather educational.

The TARDIS materialised a few feet from the Potters front door, and the Doctor slipped out of the blue box to knock. He stepped back, shoving his hands deep into his coat pockets to wait.

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_ten_
2011-07-03 12:41 pm UTC (link)

"No problem! Pleasure to do it!"

The Doctor bounded to one side to let her move past him and out into the hallway. "Oh! Wow..." His eyebrows raised as he took her in. "You're looking very...." He searched for the word. Big? No... Rose would say that was rude. Round? Well, she was very round but that didn't seem right either. "...pregnant?"

He offered the last word a little tentatively, before shrugging and offering an apologetic smile. The Doctor darted around Lily, bouncing nimbly on his toes to spring towards the door to the TARDIS. "Right!" He pulled it open, revealing the pulsing room of lights and gentle sound gaping inside the small box. Blue light flooded the corridor. "Got everything? Wand and shoes and stuff?"

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goodatcharms
2011-07-03 02:31 pm UTC (link)

"I'm looking very whale-like, yes." She raised here eyebrow at him, but shook her head. She could tell he had struggled with what was the polite thing to say and she had lost count how many times something like that had ended with her being told how much she was glowing. Others just went for the plain comment on how big she was. In general she was no longer fussed by how anyone described the way she looked at the moment.

"I think I have everything I need, yes," she responded with a smile as she walked into his machine. She had been here before but the size of it never failed to amaze her. She looked around and grinned brightly as she took in her surroundings. "I do not think I will ever get use to this place."

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_ten_
2011-07-03 05:03 pm UTC (link)

"You're a witch!" The Doctor grinned. "Don't you have tents that do these kind of things?" He's actually really enjoyed the Harry Potter books - he'd read all seven one after another, during a very pleasant hour waiting for the moon landing to show up. He could have read them quicker, of course, but he wanted to take his time because the author really was very, very clever and he didn't want to miss anything.

He followed her into the TARDIS, closing the door behind him. Rose was probably in here somewhere, hidden in the bottom rooms somewhere. Unless she'd stayed in the house. He had no way of knowing. The Doctor wondered if she'd be confused if she opened the door and found herself someone mad. Did it even work like that? Perhaps he should ask someone to get River to drive this TARDIS and see if he opened the door to find himself in a new location... The Doctor realised he wasn't paying attention to his guest, and that he'd somehow bounded over to the console.

"Oh, take a seat," he waved a hand vaguely in some random direction. "I was gonna park up beside the University. Is that alright?"

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goodatcharms
2011-07-03 06:42 pm UTC (link)

"Yes, but they don't normally look like this."

The tents were made to look like home. This was far from normal, it was a machine. Yes their tents looked bigger inside than they did out like this thing but not as obviously mechanical. She placed her hand on her stomach as she walked further in, the baby seemingly enjoying this place too. He hadn't stopped kicking and squirming since she walked in and there wasn't exactly enough room for him to do so. She sat at his words, glad that it wasn't too low down or she would really embarrass herself and need to ask for help standing once more.

"That's fine."

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_ten_
2011-07-03 11:32 pm UTC (link)

The Doctor nodded and turned over to the console, starting up the TARDIS properly. There was a noise from somewhere deep underneath them, like something waking up. Then the lights intensified and started to pulse and several screens crackled into life. On one a feed of the network started to scroll downwards, while a load of Gallfreyian started to spell itself out on another. There were a few minutes where the Doctor was distracted, pirroetting around the console to press buttons and pull levers and finally bring them to a standstill.

"There!" he grinned, spinning back to look at Lily. "How're you feeling? No... baby squirming? I can do a quick scan if you like?"

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goodatcharms
2011-07-04 09:49 am UTC (link)

She watched him as he moved around the console, a hand holding firmly onto the arm of the seat. If it got bad she had her wand close to cushion the flooring in case. That was one of the great things about being a witch; it gave her the opportunity to protect her unborn baby a little bit more. But it didn't seem too bad and soon they had stopped. She gave him a smile when he looked at her.

"He always squirms, more so now though. I am sure it's fine."

She was. Squirming and kicking was okay, constant staying still was the worry.

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