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mary lampion is anything but ordinary ([info]momentouschild) wrote in [info]colligo_threads,
@ 2012-01-26 18:38:00

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Entry tags:mary lampion, the master

WHO: Mary Lampion and the Master [with a guest appearance by Mickey the Mogwai]
WHAT: The resident crazypants!Time Lord meets the resident tiny!reality-hopper. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
WHEN: Mid-afternoon
WHERE: The Doctor's TARDIS → an AU!Colligo
RATING: TBD
STATUS: In Progress

With things going to back to what passed for normal in the city, Mary had taken to exploring other realities once again. Some of the ones she visited were really interesting and some of them weren't very different at all. Each and every time, though, she always came back having learned something new and exciting and wanting nothing more than to share her findings with the Doctor. Unfortunately, the Doctor had other things he was busy doing sometimes so Mary sometimes found herself arriving back on the TARDIS with the Time Lord nowhere to be found.

This time was one of those times. Although, unlike other times, Mary had known the Doctor wouldn't be there when she returned. It wasn't often that she knew such things but this time she did, which made her arrival a bit different than what was normal for her.

Appearing seemingly out of nowhere courtesy of a small fissure in the reality walls, the eight-year-old's re-arrival was forewarned only by a sudden, small wave of water. She showed up immediately after it, pants rolled up to her knees and barefooted, with a small, clearly wet Mogwai in her arms. The creature made a displeased sound and Mary huffed, bending over to set him on the ground. "It's not my fault," she insisted as she stood straight again, crossing her arms over her chest and frowning down at him. "I told you not to touch that valve. I told you it was the only thing keeping the water back. You need to listen more! You're just lucky that I was able to shut it off or we'd both be in real big trouble right now. You know the Doctor'd give us one of his looks if we went and flooded a whole other Colligo."

Mary rolled her eyes when Mickey squeaked something back at her, turning on her heel as she slid her backpack off her shoulders. "Don't start in on that again," she groused as she plopped down on the ground and pulled out her shoes and socks - carefully tucked inside a plastic bag inside her backpack - and began putting them on. "I told you, it's not my-"

The squeak of alarm from the Mogwai stopped Mary in her tracks. Immediately she was on her feet, absently catching the creature as he leapt into her arms and pressed his tiny face against her neck. Eyes wide, it was only then that she finally noticed the man who was standing off to the side of the room. Not the Doctor, her mind instantly hissed at her. Not River Song either. But definitely a Time Lord. If nothing else, the way he shifted and glimmered ever so slightly to her unique vision alerted her to that much.

Not sure who he was, though, aside from his species, Mary hesitated for a few brief seconds. Then she finally managed to find her voice again, with only the slightest of wavers as she straightened her shoulders and demanded, "Who're you and what're you doing here?"


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[info]cantyouhearit
2012-01-27 03:37 am UTC (link)
Not really surprising. A lot of people had that reaction to his name until he'd forced them to submit to it, but right now, the Master was pretty sure that that wasn't the best tact to take in this situation. No, if he tried submission mindgames on the tiny child in the Doctor's care, he was likely going to get shot by River. Again. And that really just shouldn't happen more than once in a twelve month period. "Well, it is my name," He said with a shrug even though he knew that wasn't really quite true. It was his title. And he was certain the Doctor would probably be clearing that statement up as soon as he was gone. "But if you'd rather not, fine."

Listening to her explanation didn't lessen the Master's intrigue. If anything, it made it that much worse. He glittered? She'd come from a place like this one but not. Temporal and dimensional sensitivity? In a human? That was next to unheard of. It happened, sure, but usually only because of prolonged exposure to a rift field or temporal crack, and this one here, she wasn't really old enough, the Master figured for prolonged exposure to really be a factor. Furrowing his brow, in a way perhaps a little more obviously speaking his confusion at the situation, he was a bit taken back when she said he should be going.

"But I'm waiting for the Doctor," The Master said, offering her a smile. "Wherever you're going, I'll be fine here. The old girl doesn't mind keeping me company. Isn't that right?" The Master asked as he patted the console lightly only to draw his hand back with a hiss as a piece of it burned him. "All right. Fine. You're still pissed. Message received."

Turning away from the console, his attention shifted back to Mary with a shrug, "All right. Maybe I should be going, but I'm not particularly inclined to. Where are you going, anyway?"

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[info]momentouschild
2012-01-27 03:48 am UTC (link)

Was he serious? Really, actually serious? Mary stared at him for a long moment, waiting for the laugh and admission that he was only joking and would be leaving now since the TARDIS herself didn't even want him there.

Except, it never came. No, instead he seemed to actually shrug off the ship's complaint and focus back on her. Then asked her where she was going, as though she wanted to talk to him and hadn't just told him to leave. A bit too surprised at his audacity to come up with a snark-filled response, Mary replied almost without thinking, "I don't know. I never know until I get there. Not really. I just open a door and walk through it."

Okay. In the scheme of things, that probably wasn't the smartest thing she could have said. In fact, if she wanted him to leave, she probably should have said something ridiculous. Like she was going to a land filled with princesses and rainbows, where everyone rode a unicorn and sang songs that you might find on shows like Barney. Yes, it was over the top and no place at all like one she might visit, but he didn't know that. Right? Except, he might. So it was probably best that she hadn't said that. In fact, it was probably best if she just stuck to the truth, like her parents had taught her. Even if this guy was determined to bug her about stuff, at least she didn't have to keep a bunch of lies straight in her head as long as she avoided telling any.

Still. Just because she was going to tell the truth didn't mean she had to like being forced into it. So with a heavy, long suffering sigh that most kids were prone to do more often than not, Mary asked in a virtually monotone voice, "Do you want to go with me?"

It was quite clear that she didn't want him tagging along. However, if that was the only way to get out of the TARDIS and not leave him behind to do who only knew what, then so be it.

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[info]cantyouhearit
2012-01-27 04:14 am UTC (link)
Well, that hadn't been a question he'd been expecting, even if it sounded like she was issuing it under the duress of a firing squad or something similar, and he took a moment to ponder exactly what she was offering. He hadn't left this dimension in years since it had been a next to impossible task with Gallifrey destroyed. And he couldn't help but be a little intrigued about what was alternative to a reality that shouldn't really exist in the first place. After a long moment, the Master gave a definitive nod to her inquiry. "I don't see why not," He said with a chuckle. "It'll keep me busy until the Doctor finishes with whatever shiny has distracted him this time. And it'll stop the old girl from deciding I need to be locked somewhere because I've lingered too long," He said, sparing a glance around before turning his attention back to the child in front of him.

It was obvious she wasn't exactly thrilled by the idea of company, but since when did the Master really care about what other people thought or felt when the situation benefited him? And this situation, most certainly did.

"Shall we?" He asked, extending a hand to her with a smile. "Do whatever you've got to do, kid."

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[info]momentouschild
2012-01-27 04:26 am UTC (link)

"It's Mary," she replied simply, eying his hand for a moment as though it might bite her. Part of her was sorely tempted to just shove him through the crack that she spotted a few feet behind him. However, while it would be unquestionably satisfying, if a bit mean, it also ran the real risk of her not being able to follow to the exact same place, or even time, that he'd gone. Which would probably be bad. So rather than do what she wanted, she instead did what was right and took his hand. "Don't try nothing funny," she warned in a partial mutter. Then she tilted her head, jerked her arm sharply against her body, and jumped.

The TARDIS immediately faded around them, replaced by a lot of multicolored lights in a long cylinder that seemed to stretch on forever. Making sure she kept a firm grip on the Master's hand, she cast a brief glance up at him before peering out into the void of flashing colors that surrounded them. "There we go," she mouthed the words, pulling him close against her once more before spinning slightly...

And, just like that, the city of Colligo materialized around them. Or, rather, an apartment appeared. It was the same apartment that the TARDIS had been in, except the sudden plunge of darkness indicated that it clearly was not the same at all. Distantly, there was the sound of sirens and a few shrieks of people clearly in distress. Releasing the Master's hand, Mary's forehead furrowed slightly before she sighed heavily and cast the Time Lord a disgruntled sort of look.

"You know, this would've been a lot easier if you weren't what you are," she said in an almost accusatory tone. "I couldn't even hardly see in the doorways with you along for the ride."

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[info]cantyouhearit
2012-01-27 04:49 am UTC (link)
Don't try anything funny had always struck the Master as a very odd command. Funny was a word with a variant of definitions, and he felt himself always pushed to test those whenever the statement was uttered around him. Funny ha ha or funny weird? Funny bad or funny good? He could always cover himself by saying that he wasn't doing something funny, he was doing some mean, or cunning, or calculating, or any number of words that could still fall under the same umbrella. But he'd already rejected the idea of misbehaving with this one anyway so not only was it an odd warning, but it was also an unnecessary one.

And one that left his mind that second that she grabbed his hand and jumped.

Dimensional vortex travel shouldn't have phased the Master so, but doing it without the safety of a capsule was something that he hadn't done before. Ever. And something that he hadn't really intended to do so the way that reality shifted around them, the various colors of the worlds leaking in, sent his mind spinning until he was solid footed back in the other reality. Feeling his gut shifting every so slightly, the Master took a deep breath to steady himself, certain that he wasn't going to let it show that doing that unprotected had effected him at all.

Luckily, the screams and sirens pulled his attention from what that adjustments his body was making and then back down to Mary as she sniped at him, "Because it's my fault we ended up somewhere that seems to be plagued by perpetual darkness?" Or at least, was night at a time when they'd left day. "Besides, that could be anything," He said, knowing all too well just how easily crime happens in the evenings.

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[info]momentouschild
2012-01-27 05:03 am UTC (link)

True to her young age, despite the intelligence that she possessed that often made people forget just how young she really was, Mary huffed in mild annoyance. With a look of pure determination, she marched to the door that led out to the balcony and quietly opened it. Then, casting a glare over her shoulder at the Master, she peered out into the darkness of the city spread out before her. A look of nervousness crossed her face but she forced herself to step outside anyway, her stubbornness refusing to let her give away any obvious signs that she thought what she was doing might be a bad idea.

Inching closer to the railing, she paused a few inches away. Common sense, along with a strong sense of survival, wouldn't let her move any closer to the edge. Whatever was going on in the city, she just knew it was bad and wasn't about to risk being spotted by whoever might be out there and able to notice her. Drawing in a sharp breath as a loud explosion sounded somewhere to her right - a good few miles away but still more than close enough to scare her - the girl turned and all but fled back into the relative safety of the apartment.

"We should go," she said a bit nervously, casting a worried back toward the patio before turning to face the Master. "It could be anything," she agreed quickly, brown eyes wide, "but it's probably something bad. So we should go. Right now."

Yet even as she said the words, she couldn't help but feel a slight draw to figuring out just where they ended up. Whether that was because of her own, insatiable curiosity or whether it was because she figured if she explored now she could definitively put a 'do not enter' mental note on the doorway to the reality they were in for benefit of future travels, was anyone's guess. Whatever the reason, for all of her insistence that they needed to leave, she didn't do a thing to ensuring it actually happened. She simply stood there, peering over her shoulder ever few seconds before looking back to the Master with an expression that was an odd mixture of anxiety and a desire to know where it was they had wound up.

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[info]cantyouhearit
2012-01-27 05:38 am UTC (link)
Go? So soon? When the only issues were a small explosion and a few screams? "Hardly," The Master said before turning on his heel and heading over towards the balcony himself. She might have been a bit timid about the circumstances that they'd ended up in, but this was his bread and butter. Chaos, destruction, it was the siren song calling him to indulge in this reality before heading back to the one where he had to keep himself in check and watch every step that he had if he didn't want to end up regenerating or lifeless. "This doesn't look so bad to me," He said, stepping over to the edge of the balcony and leaning out over it to scoop out the city in front of them.

He was taken back a moment as one of the cops that seemed to be patrolling the streets outside turned the second he appeared and leveled their gun at him, "Curfew is still in effect! Head back in doors immediately!" He called, causing the Master to quirk an eyebrow at him and withdraw his laser screwdriver from his breast pocket. "I think not," He said, point it downward and sending the beam directly into the man in question, leaving him a smoking pile of dust with a gun resting on top of it. "Manners."

Tsking quietly, The Master stepped back inside before closing the doors behind him, "Rather oddly, it seems that this chaos is being enforced by the local police. Can't say I'd know how that would happen."

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[info]momentouschild
2012-01-27 07:02 am UTC (link)

Mary was just a split second too late when it came to figuring out what the Master was planning to do. By the time she'd put it all together, the cop was dead and the Master was turning and making his way back inside. Mary, meanwhile, was staring in abject horror and trying to process what had just taken place before her very eyes.

Dead. The man was dead. Murdered at the hands of someone she had brought there, no less. Instantly she knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that he was most definitely no friend of the Doctor's. And, immediately on the heels of that understanding, she knew he wasn't a friend of hers, either.

He was, however, a very smart, very dangerous being with a weapon that could reduce human beings to dust. Which meant that while she wanted very much to screech at him that he was bad and then leave him in this reality and return to her own alone, Mary knew she couldn't. It wouldn't be fair to condemn other innocent people in the city to whatever fate he chose for them, after all. Just like it wouldn't be fair to shove him into another reality even worse than this one and leave him to rot.

No, the only way to deal with this was to see it through. She hated the thought, and loathed the Master for insisting they not leave right away, but she also knew she had no real choice. She had to bide her time and let him call the shots until an opportunity came up that would enable her to grab him and get them both home in less time than it would take for him to hurt her. If that was even possible.

Realizing she'd yet to speak, Mary finally found her voice and managed a somewhat distant-sounding, "Most places are different only by one or two things. Whatever made this one like it is probably happened because of someone in charge. That's the only real way to make the police act like that, right?" It made sense to her, but she also knew for all of her smarts, she was still only a young girl. A human girl, at that. So it was entirely possible she was overlooking something that might be obvious to a Time Lord, especially.

She just hoped that if she was overlooking something obvious to one, the one she was stuck with wouldn't get too upset that she'd done so.

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[info]cantyouhearit
2012-01-27 07:24 am UTC (link)
Oh, she was so young. It was sort of precious, that unsoiled view of the world that told someone that good was good and bad was bad and never the twain shall meet, but the Master just shook his head at her question, "Not the only way," He said, chuckling. "People who are given carte blanche to point guns at people for no reason and still do so are usually the type that would have done it anyway without someone saying it was perfectly fine." But all the same, this was probably caused by whoever had taken control of the city and allowed chaos to slowly eek its way into the very fiber of the place. "But there's usually someone at the top giving those sorts of orders for it to trickle down the chain of command." But who it could possibly be wasn't clear in his mind.

After all, this was far too subdued to be his style.

"Care to find out, or should we just leave?" The Master asked, flashing a toothy grin at Mary. He knew all too well that she was his only ticket how, and that she probably wouldn't hesitate to leave him behind if he got to be too much trouble, but true to form, he still wanted to see how far he could press those boundaries until they broke.

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[info]momentouschild
2012-01-27 07:40 am UTC (link)

Mary knew they should probably just leave. It was the safer bet, the smarter bet. It was what her parents would have encouraged her to do, of that much she was absolutely certain. In fact, most of the people she knew would have insisted on the same thing. Better to leave when it was still safe than to press your luck, after all.

Except, Mary didn't really want to leave. She wanted to know what had happened to make this Colligo so different from the one she'd come from. And she knew, if the Doctor was there, he would want to do the same thing. Because nothing ever happened without a reason. People didn't just pop into places they shouldn't be by chance, whether they had a Time Lord along for the ride or not. Which meant she was there because something had brought her there. So why not stick around and figure out why?

Honestly, when she looked at it that way, she couldn't see a reason to really go. Yes, the version of the city wasn't a particularly friendly one. But she was with somebody who clearly knew how to take care of himself and was smart enough to realize he wasn't getting out of there, ever, if he didn't make sure she stayed safe too. So long as she had that much going for her, she was protected at least a little bit. And that was good enough of a reason for her to decide that leaving right away really wasn't as necessary as she'd first thought.

"Well," she finally said slowly, looking around before turning back to face him with a small, determined if still somewhat nervous smile, "We sure aren't going to figure it out standing around here. Let's go see what we can find out." A pause before she added pointedly, with as much of a warning look as she could muster amidst the heady combination of excitement and nervousness that she was feeling, "But when I say it's time to go, it's time to go, okay? Don't make me push you some place else. I'll do it even if it's not a real polite thing to do."

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[info]cantyouhearit
2012-01-28 03:30 am UTC (link)
The Master sort of felt the urge to put up an argument. After all, he wasn't normally one to take orders from anyone that he could easily pick up and throw over his shoulder, particularly when they had the age to match. But the Master wasn't a moron. He was smart enough to know that Time Lord or not, the only way that he would get back to where they'd left was if she deemed him worthy to take back. So the Master smiled, snapping to attention to half mock her before declaring, "Ma'am, yes, ma'am!" And doing a half spin as he headed towards the door. "I should probably go first," He said, pulling it open as he flashed her a smile and twirled his laser screwdriver between his fingers. "You're not exactly prepared to deal with men with guns," He said before slipping out into the hallway and holding the door for her to follow him.

There were police patrolling for some type of curfew, so that Master was certain that getting out of the building was going to be no simple task. But down one flight of stairs and along another hallway, and they hadn't encountered any obstructions yet. Perhaps it was just enough to get them to let down their guard so that they would be able to apprehend them easily when they did reach the people keeping watching.

Sparing a glance back over his shoulder at Mary, the Master motioned for her to move ahead of him. Police, even corrupt ones, were far less likely to shoot a tiny child wandering about a night in the hallways than they were a grown man. After all, she could just be lost or locked out of her family's flat. It would just be bad form to shoot a lost child.

Of course, Mary was smart so she could probably easily see that he was offering her up as distraction bait for whoever was waiting for them. Then again, maybe he'd get lucky and she wouldn't.

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[info]momentouschild
2012-01-30 03:13 am UTC (link)

Mary gave the Master a knowing look, wholly unaware how odd the expression was on a child her age. She'd always been smarter than other kids, something she'd inherited from both of her parents and therefore had been raised to embrace rather than feel self-conscious about. And while it was true that sometimes she missed important details of situations due to lack of life experience and a true belief that everyone had at least something good within them and could therefore be trusted and redeemed to some sort of degree, she typically saw right through rather obvious attempts to undermine or belittle her.

Or, in this instance, use her for bait.

"Chicken," she muttered with a dramatic sigh and shake of her head. "Big, fat chicken." Yet even with her opinion of the Time Lord being stated, she moved past him to the corner of the wall. Peering around it, Mary didn't immediately see anyone. Still she paused, drawing in a breath and exhaling slowly before working up enough nerve to step out into plain sight. She had taken a few tentative steps and was just starting to think that maybe they really weren't going to come across anymore scary policemen when a voice stopped her dead in her tracks.

"Hold it right there!"

Instantly Mary froze, eyes going wide as she slowly turned her head to look at the man in uniform who was approaching her. He was by himself, at least, but he was also resting his hand on the weapon in his holster, which wasn't good. She couldn't risk being arrested and getting in trouble here. That would be bad in ways she was pretty sure even she could imagine. Not only would it possibly get the guy killed anyway, but it would end with her being found out as someone who didn't belong. No matter what else happened, Mary couldn't take the chance of that happening. So, thinking quickly, she did the only thing left at her disposal that she could consider.

She started to cry.

Large tears, prompted by a rather remarkable acting ability, began to roll down her cheeks as her shoulders shook and sobs echoed in the hallway. "I'm sorry!" she exclaimed loudly, sniffling for good measure as she began to babble a bit. "Please don't shoot me! I went into the wrong building and the man at the 'partment was mean and wouldn't help or call my folks and I was just trying to get over to the next building and... and... I WANT MY MOMMY!" The last bit was a full-on wail, causing the stunned cop to spring into action and cover the distance between them with a few quiet shh's.

Mary waited until he was close enough then immediately wrapped her arms around his waist and buried her face in his stomach. She turned the waterworks up for good measure and continued to babble into his material about not wanting to go to jail and that she was in so much trouble just as soon as she got home. Eventually, after a few seconds of hysterics, she let the cop believe he'd calmed her down to the point that she was no longer sobbing. He continued to reassure her, awkwardly patting her head and telling her that he wouldn't report her and would make sure she got across the street and avoided the patrol coming by in a few minutes, but that they had to leave now if they were going to manage it.

"Thanks," Mary said as she pulled away enough to peer up at him, eyes shining as she offered him a small smile. "And I'm real sorry about this." There was sincerity in her voice even as he frowned down at her in confusion at her sudden lack of tears. He didn't get a chance to ask what she meant, or was doing, though, because as soon as the words left her mouth she took a small step back, released her hold around his waist, then shoved him with all of her might.

For one brief second, the cop teetered backward, arms flailing as he both tried to regain his balance as well as snatch back the utility belt that Mary was now holding firmly in her own grasp. Then he was gone with no sign he'd ever been there to begin with. With a soft sigh, Mary dropped her attention to the various items in the utility belt - including the identification card that had a picture of the man as well as some sort of barcode for scanning - and called out calmly, "You can come out now. He's gone someplace else."

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[info]cantyouhearit
2012-01-30 03:55 pm UTC (link)
The Master had intended upon Mary merely serving as a distraction, a decoy to occupy the officer's attention until he could better position himself to eliminate the threat, but as he watched her, quietly impressed at just how well she held her claim in the face of opposition as well as how seamlessly she came up with a suitably plausible and emotionally manipulative lie, he became so transfixed upon her performance that by the time his mind had finally told him that the moment was opportune for him to strike, she already had.

The unbalancing of the cop followed by him seemingly vanishing from existence gave the Master more pause to think about how he was acting and would be acting. He really didn't want to vanish to parts unknown, and it was pretty obvious now that she had no qualms about doing so. A fact which also prompted the Master to think about just how she was really being wasted on the Doctor. He'd never be willing to put skills like that to use. In fact, the Master was certain that if he were here, he'd be frantically demanding that that man be brought back from wherever he'd been sent to immediately without any thought about the fact that after that was done, he'd likely shoot all of them.

Stepping out from where he'd been concealing himself at her call, the Master beamed, a sort of odd pride and quiet admiration in his features as he secured his laser screwdriver back in his pocket. It was obvious he wasn't going to need it at the moment. "You know, you could make a killing doing that," He said, with an idle wave of his hand. "I'm sure everyone has someone in their lives they want to make disappear, and it's less sloppy than killing. And probably not even illegal," which was a shame all in itself, but still. "And I'm not a chicken," He said, seemingly out of nowhere. "I'm just highly strategically minded."

Particularly when the alternative strategy ends in him getting shot.

"Think that ID card will help get us the rest of the way past security?" The Master asked, sincerely curious about her opinion. They didn't have a uniform for him to try and disguise himself, but he was in a rather nice and plain looking suit. He could pass as government if he tried. Or, hell, given this reality, he could actually be government.

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[info]momentouschild
2012-02-01 02:59 am UTC (link)

Truth be told, Mary had every intention of eventually going after the cop she'd sent someplace else. She just wasn't going to do it now and certainly wasn't going to mention her plans at all to the Master. No, she decided it was probably easier to simply let him think what she'd done was something she did all the time rather than admit that she felt pretty guilty for having done it the handful of times she had thus far. She had been raised to treat people nicely, the way she wanted to be treated, and she certainly wouldn't want somebody coming along and shoving her into a place where she didn't belong. Which was an awful lot like what the Asaph guy had done when he'd brought her to Colligo, now that she thought about it. But, unlike the being in charge of Colligo, she had sent the cop someplace real nice, that he'd be perfectly safe, until she fetched him.

Shaking her head a bit when the Master seemed to change topics to defend himself against accusations from a kid, she simply fixed him with a look that was similar to the 'I don't believe you at all so you can just stop right now' one that her mother wore every so often. "My daddy says that for every pound of objecting, there's bound to be at least an ounce of truth to it. Otherwise, nobody'd bother objecting in the first place," she said simply, in a matter-of-fact tone. Considering the discussion closed no matter what the Time Lord might have to say about it after that, she turned her attention fully down to the identification card in her hand.

"Hmm." She looked back to the Master. "Stay right there. Don't move," she instructed him before fully turning her back on him. Then she stared straight ahead for a long moment, seeming to really concentrate on nothing more than thin air. Finally she glanced over her shoulder at him with a decisive look on her face.

"I don't know how far it'll get us, but if we want any answers we need to go that way a good bit. The lines get brighter in that direction so whatever the biggest change was, that's where it started," she said decisively. Pausing for a second, brow furrowed in thought, she finally held the badge out for him to take in a sign of trust, even if she wasn't sure she was one hundred percent sure she really felt it just yet.

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[info]cantyouhearit
2012-02-01 09:19 am UTC (link)
The Time Lord wanted to know what she was seeing. As much as he could feel the flow and shape of the universe moving about them, the feeling just enough of for him to be able to tell that they weren't in the place which they should bee, any deeper details like the ones she was speaking about alluded him. She was able to see the strings of causality, follow the events as they tied together until they traced back to the root cause of the fundamental differences between this universe and the one they'd just left?

No wonder the Doctor had taken such an interest in her well being. There were a number of ways that an ability like that could be put to us. Especially if she had any foresight built in with it. Of course, that probably wasn't the best thing to ask when they were in the middle of some place that seemed to be built up as a small scale military dictatorship. Not really any way to fix that.

Taking the ID card that was being held out to her, the Master flashed her a smile as he reached out and settled a hand on her shoulder as though he was keeping her captive. "Best make a good show if it, then, if we're going to make it that far," He said, smirking as he gave her a small nudge towards the doors and headed out into the lobby with her, trying not to be phased by the way the two remaining guards cocked their weapons at him.

"Who goes there?" One of them demanded, prompting the Master to smile lazily and proceed the ID with a flash, his finger masking the picture, before he slipped it back into his pocket.

"Government attache. I've been told to take this one back to the capital," The Master said, having quietly noted that the direction she had pointed when referring to the lines appeared to be the way to city hall. With that fact in addition to the assumption they'd made about this being the responsibility of the person in charge, it was a simple enough leap to make that was where they needed to go. He really hoped he was right.

The guards spared a glance downward at Mary, a brief look of confusion crossing each of their faces as they exchanged glances, but they lowered their weapons all the same.

"Of course, sir," One said. "I'll alert the patrols that someone is coming through after hours on official business."

"Good, good. As always, gentlemen, we thank you for your cooperation," The Master said, giving Mary another shove as they headed out of the building and onto the street. Moving away from the door and down to the abandoned courtyard, the Master flashed Mary a smile, "So far, so good. And I didn't even have to kill anyone!" Disappointing, really.

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[info]momentouschild
2012-02-11 07:07 pm UTC (link)

Mary wasn't sure this was the smartest plan ever. It was one thing to be on some kind of adventure with the Master. It was another entirely to be in a situation where he was the one whose behavior determined if they wound up being shot at or worse. Especially since he really seemed to like the violence a whole lot more than he really should.

Still. She did want to find out just how things had gotten the way they had in this place, and the only way to do that was to head for the source of the change. Which meant she had no choice but to play along, pretend to be in some kind of trouble, and let him seem like the one in charge. It was dangerous, of that there was no doubt, but she could only hope that he realized the only way he was getting back to his own reality was by keeping her safe. Because if he turned on her, she would leave him here. She'd feel guilty for it, and the Doctor would probably make her come back to get him, but she'd still do it.

Fortunately, the plan seemed to work well enough and, all too soon, they were on the street and away from the guards with the scary guns. Casting a glance at the Master at his comment, she snorted softly. "You don't have to look so bummed at the thought," she muttered before turning her attention back to the empty courtyard and, beyond that, the eerily silent streets.

"This place is too quiet," she said warily. "I don't get it. Why would somebody want to turn the city into something like this?"

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[info]cantyouhearit
2012-02-13 12:13 pm UTC (link)
"Fear is a very unique weapon," The Master said, responding to her last question despite the fact that a tiny part of his brain was pointing out that it was rhetorical. It still sounded like it deserved an answer. "When properly mastered and utilized, one doesn't even need to do much more than exist to bring either civilizations to their knees, make it do whatever you want it to, make its citizens do whatever you tell them. The police are really just for show," He said, motioning to the near empty streets by doing a slight twirl as they were walking.

"This is a true marvel because it's not because of any outside enforcement or brutal regime that's been put into place. It's because people are just too damn afraid of what might happen to chance it," He said, a certain amount of admiration in his tone as they walked. "It's beautiful."

Realizing after he'd said that how it would sound, who he was with, and the fact that, as beautiful as this place was in his mind, he did want to get back whence they came, The Master flashed Mary a very sheepish smile, the best he could feign, "In a completely horrible, not at all correct, very morbid sort of way," He said before relaxing his expression back to normal. As much as he wouldn't have hated the idea of staying in a place more suited to his disposition, at least back home, he didn't have already well established competition to deal with. The best he could manage here would be middle management.

And that simply wasn't acceptable.

"The fact is, whoever turned the city into this had a use for everyone being too scared to question anything that happens here. Whether he's making money with it or plotting interplanetary domination from an unlikely seat of power, he's got a plan for everything that's going on."

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