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Tweak says, "OH NOES! WHERE'S MAH BODY?!"

Jenny (jennysmith) wrote in hotelhelllogs,
@ 2013-04-03 00:01:00

Entry tags:

jenny, leeloo

Who: Jenny and OTA
When: Tuesday afternoon
Where: Hotel lobby
Warnings: None
Summary: Jenny has just checked in, and isn't sure whether she should explore the hotel first, or take a peak outside.
Status: Open/on-going

Jenny scanned the room around her curiously. She was sure she'd just opened the door to her cockpit but had stepped into this strange hotel instead. The idea seemed quite exciting, if not a little frustrating. Where had her ship gone, after all? She hadn't had it long, but it was home and she supposed she'd feel a lot better knowing it was safe. She forced herself to focus. First things first...

She made a mental check of all the exits and potential cover points. She doubted she'd need them...the place didn't look exactly violent...but one could never tell. All exits save one appeared to lead further into the hotel. Logic said she should turn around and try the front door. If this place had snatched her from space, then it probably wasn't a place she wanted to stay. Still...curiosity pushed her to take a few steps further into the hotel interior. She wished she had a weapon. Even if she didn't need it, she'd have felt safer with it, despite what her Dad had told her. If she lived a hundred years, she'd never understand why someone would be so averse to using a gun. She'd been bred to hold one, and she was certainly happy to do that.

She glanced back towards the front door. She'd set off to see new worlds, and here she was. The question was...should she stay inside, or see what world she had landed on?

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jennysmith
2013-04-03 04:25 pm UTC (link)

Jenny jumped slightly and turned to face the voice, instinctively crouching and reaching for a gun that was no longer there. She took in the form of the woman on the couch, and relaxed to see that she at least looked human. That didn't means she wasn't a threat, but her military training upload had conditioned her to be more responsive to humans than to those of other species.

"Who are you, and how could that thing possibly be for me?" she asked in a bright, yet businesslike tone. The word telephone clearly refereed to whatever was ringing, but it as a word she was not familiar with. She wondered if it was some kind of communicator. If so, it was certainly making a hell of a racket. Completely impractical form of communication. Anyone would know exactly where you were the moment that thing went off.

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pleadingthe5th
2013-04-03 04:42 pm UTC (link)

"I am called Leeloo, " she said, getting up and moving to the desk to pick up the phone. She'd remember the room number that it gave, if it would give the number to her and not the newcomer. She remembered everything.

"It always rings when someone new arrives," she explained, "to tell you your room assignment." She didn't understand how the assignments were made. There didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason why some people, like the doctor, kept getting more and more roommates when there were plenty of empty rooms. It just was the way it was.

She held out the reciever, offering it to the pretty blonde. "Welcome to the Crowne Plaza."

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	jennysmith 2013-04-03 05:15 pm UTC (link)
	Jenny took the receiver the girl...Leeloo...offered. It was, in fact, a communicator. She listened to it's message with a frown on her face. "Well that isn't very helpful, is it? Didn't tell me how I got here..or anything really useful. I'm Jenny, by the way. Pleased to meet you. Are there others here? What sort of world is this?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

pleadingthe5th
2013-04-03 07:59 pm UTC (link)

"Jenny," Leeloo echoed, testing the name on her tongue and committing it to memory. It was a nice, short, Earthy-sounding name. But there was something different about Jenny, something that made Leeloo wonder if maybe Jenny wasn't so Earthy. Especially when she asked what kind of world this was. Not what sort of place, or where am I? but 'What sort of world is this?'

"Today?" Leeloo shrugged. "Today, we appear to be visiting 1960s era Earth, or a reasonable facsimile. There are many others here, from many places and points in time. No one has found any answers yet, just more questions." There was a pause, and she added, "I am sorry."

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jennysmith
2013-04-03 08:30 pm UTC (link)

Jenny flashed a radiant grin at the woman before her.

"Sorry? Sorry for what? This is brilliant!" She'd wanted to explore the universe and now, here she was, exploring the universe. How could that be anything other than brilliant? She took an excited step towards the door, suddenly much more excited than before. Whatever this place was, it hardly mattered in the long run, after all. One destination was as good as any other when you hadn't been anywhere.

"What's Earth like? Is it habitable? Will I need a space suit or any weapons here?" She looked at Leeloo with joy on her face. "Can we go outside?"

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pleadingthe5th
2013-04-03 08:58 pm UTC (link)

"That there are more questions than answers," Leeloo said. Unless, of course, one asked the right question. The next few questions that Jenny asked, Leeloo could answer quite readily.

"Earth--the last time I was there in 2286 AD--was a densely populated, industrial planet, orbited by two moons. One natural, and one semi-artificial. It is less heavily industrialized here, and less densely populated, but the atmosphere is still much the same: roughly 78.09% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.039% carbon dioxide, and trace amounts of other gases, with an average of 1% water vapor. Humans can breathe the air safely without the need of extravehicular equipment or breathing apparatus."

She gave Jenny a mischievous grin as she added, "And you may go outside if you can. Some of us have weapons that came with us, but I have not had any need to use mine. The people here appear to be peace-loving, and most of the hotel guests are not aggressive unless provoked." Leeloo kept her blasters set to stun, thanks to a certain Timelord who would have probably preferred that she carry a banana or a bar of chocolate.

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jennysmith
2013-04-03 09:04 pm UTC (link)

Jenny was surprised by the in depth answer she received and took a moment to really study Leeloo. She didn't look, at first glance, like the kind of person who could rattle off the percentages of air consistency off the top of her head...but then neither did Jenny. If what the young woman said was true then the air here was only slightly more impure than the air on most spaceships. More water vapor, certainly, but it's not like that was really a problem.

But there was something else. Leeloo had said human like she wasn't one, though she clearly looked the part. Another thing she and Jenny had in common.

"You're not human." It wasn't accusatory...but it also wasn't a question.

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	pleadingthe5th 2013-04-03 09:25 pm UTC (link)
	"I am...and I'm not." Leeloo said, shrugging her shoulders. "Like, but unlike." If Jenny were to scan her DNA, she would find that Leeloo's basic genetic makeup was essentially human...but more. Even the Doctor got tongue-tied when he tried to explain what Leeloo was. Imposssible, he called her. "You're different, too, aren't you?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jennysmith
2013-04-03 11:14 pm UTC (link)

"I am." Jenny smiled. "According to my dad I'm a Generated Anomaly. He's something called a Time Lord, though, if that helps. Not sure on the specifics, but I got two hearts for the price of one, so that's something." Jenny swelled with pride ever so slightly. In an army of clone soldiers, it took a lot to stand out, and she certainly had thanks to the Doctor's DNA.

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	pleadingthe5th 2013-04-04 04:25 am UTC (link)
	Leeloo broke into an ear-splitting grin, then--and if she were the type to impulsively kiss someone, she might have planted one on Jenny. However, Leeloo did not believe in kissing without permission, so she just smiled like the cat in the cream. "You're the Doctor's daughter?!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jennysmith 2013-04-04 04:29 am UTC (link)
	Leeloo's grin was infectious and Jenny returned it. She liked this woman, without having to give the matter much thought at all. "Yeah, I am. Do you know him? He talked a big game, like he was famous or importnat or something, but I wasn't sure I believed him." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pleadingthe5th 2013-04-04 04:42 am UTC (link)
	"Do I know him?!" Leeloo laughed. If she were honest, she probably had a huge crush on him, but she'd never admit that, even to herself. The Doctor's hearts already belonged to someone else. "He is the only person here that I do know. Well, at least the only person I know who actually remembers me from the last place we were stuck in." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jennysmith
2013-04-04 04:56 am UTC (link)

"Wait...he's here?" Jenny did an excited little jump. "That's amazing!. He'll be in for the shock of a lifetime when he sees me. He probably thinks I'm dead!"

Jenny looked around, half expecting him to pop out of the woodwork at any moment, all stern and giddy at the same time. For the first time she was glad to not have her weapons. He wasn't a big fan of guns, she remembered.

"Do you think he's in here somewhere, or maybe outside?"

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pleadingthe5th
2013-04-04 05:11 am UTC (link)

"He is here!" Leeloo nodded, looking like she might start bouncing up and down herself. The Doctor would have his hands full with these two, that was for sure. "I can show you to his room--and the TARDIS is downstairs but she's grounded."

She made a sad face. She so wanted to go flying away in that beautiful blue box. But she supposed she was used to being stuck in one place until she was needed elsewhere, and not really having much say in when or where. "Or you can send him a message from your room. There will be a communication device for you there."

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	jennysmith 2013-04-04 05:39 am UTC (link)
	Jenny thought for a moment. As much as the thought of his shocked face made her smile, she thought it would probably be more polite to contact him rather than showing up at his door. "I think I'll wait. Give the old man time to adjust before I spring out at him, you know?" She smiled. "What else is there to do around this place?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pleadingthe5th 2013-04-04 06:17 am UTC (link)
	"There is food, exercise rooms, a pool, a casino, an arcade and a game room, and a library," she said. She'd already read most if not all of the library a few times over, and learned several new languages. "All of that is inside the hotel. Outside, it depends on where we are, but there is usually a town or city of some sort." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jennysmith
2013-04-05 02:27 am UTC (link)

"Oh, a pool!" Jenny exclaimed excitedly. As part of her military training upload, she knew how to swim...and most likely was very good at, just as she had been very good at running, shooting, and planning. The problem was that there hadn't been an actual pool at the station, let alone time to use one, so she wasn't sure what she was supposed to do with the information. In retrospect, she supposed it was probably a basic package sent out to all stations...standardized. Still, until now it had been a waste of her mental capacity as far as she was concerned.

With a wide grin she jogged towards the elevators at the end of the lobby.

"Which one of these will get me there? The largest body of water I've ever seen was only about 2 inches deep and a foot wide."

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pleadingthe5th
2013-04-05 02:46 am UTC (link)

Leeloo sprinted after her, keeping up easily. She pressed the 'down' arrow, and the pointed to the light that illuminated which elevator was going down. "The pool is on basement level three," she said, having memorized the entire floorplan within a very short time of her arrival. "Would you like company?"

She had nothing better to do, and she felt drawn to Jenny almost as much as she did to the Doctor. They were different, like she was.

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jennysmith
2013-04-05 03:11 am UTC (link)

"Of course!" Jenny smiled. "You're sort of my first friend, who else would I ask?" She liked Leeloo, though she rationally assessed the other woman, just in case. She was fit, apparently athletic, probably had combat training. Maybe weapons, too, but there was no way to know that without actual weapons. But she seemed friendly enough and, trying to think about what her Dad would do in such a situation, she decided it couldn't hurt to look at the woman as a potential friend.

"I've never been swimming. Have you?"

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	pleadingthe5th 2013-04-05 03:40 am UTC (link)
	Leeloo smiled brightly. The way she saw it, any friend of the Doctor's was a friend of hers--and since Jenny was his daughter, well, that practically made them family. The Fix-it Man, as she called him, was the closest thing she had to a family. "Before I came here? Not in a very long time. Since I've been here, I have used the pool quite often." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jennysmith 2013-04-05 04:06 am UTC (link)
	Jenny pressed the button for the lift and waited with remarkable patience, considering how much she desperately wanted to just run about and explore. "So, how do you know The Doctor?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pleadingthe5th 2013-04-05 04:48 am UTC (link)
	"We met in a library, on a train," she said, "A train that traveled through time and space, like this hotel does." She smiled at the memory of that meeting. "I guess you could say we've been traveling together ever since. But then, there are a lot of us who can say that now." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jennysmith 2013-04-05 05:09 am UTC (link)
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