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Tweak says, "Marriage is a doomsday machine"

mightbelate (mightbelate) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2013-04-10 12:07:00

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dirk strider, duo maxwell (au), ianto jones, jack harkness, jean-luc picard, martha jones, rose, rose tyler, roxy lalonde, sookie stackhouse, spencer reid, zatanna zatara

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[Rose can be found sitting in the middle of the pet cafe. Despite the fact that she's got a passel of kittens crawling over her, one on her shoulder and is cuddling one in both hands, she looks miserable. She's obviously been crying a lot and fairly recently. There's a definite pout & mope sort of expression to her face. When she speaks, her voice reflects her expression.]

Doctor's gone.

I was thinkin' 'bout gettin' a kitten.

[Before he left actually, but she thinks it's an even better idea now.]

Call him Doctor. Maybe John Smith or Oncomin' Storm. Y'know. Somethin' like that.

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	foreverjack 2013-04-13 06:12 pm UTC (link)
	As she leans into him, giving in to the need for comfort, he finally slips his arm around her, squeezing her firmly. It's not much, he knows, but it's all he can give. "We'll be okay," he nods, rubbing up and down her upper arm. "We've done without him before, eh? We can do it again." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mightbelate 2013-04-16 01:13 am UTC (link)
	It's good though. It's exactly what Rose needs right now. In return she slides an arm around his waist, wedging the kitten between the two of them for the most part. "REad him the riot act when he shows up again." She assumes the Doctor will come back for her, because if she can't get to him, that's what he's supposed to do. Right? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

foreverjack
2013-04-16 07:31 pm UTC (link)

And if the Doctor abandons her like he abandoned Jack, then not to worry, Jack will get her out of here somehow. Eventually.

"Apparently he does that a lot here?" It's what he's heard, anyway. "Doesn't hang around for long, but keeps on coming back?" He chuckles, warm and affectionate. "Mind you, that's him all over, isn't it? Can't make that man stay in one place!"

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	mightbelate 2013-04-17 03:22 am UTC (link)
	She doesn't like to call it abandonment. She prefers to think that she got lost, but in the end, there's not much difference. She believes he will get her out of it though. She trusts Jack implicitly. "Yeah, pops in and out like it's his personal universe." She's actually smiling a bit through her tears now. "Don't know why we expected any different." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2013-04-18 07:23 pm UTC (link)
	"Heh, you never know, the number of us here who know him, this might just be his personal universe!" he grins. "I'm sure he'll be back. And if he isn't, well. We'll just have to make sure we get out to him! Enough people here who ought to be able to find a way out, after all!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

mightbelate
2013-04-19 12:17 am UTC (link)

"Sounds like a plan to me," she smiles back at Jack, glad to have him there and glad for his words whether he believes them or not. Sometimes pretending is the best option. "Sides, me and a buncha military guys figgered a way outta a sealed universe. Ought to be able to figger out a way here with lots smarter blokes." She nudges him lightly with her shoulder as if to say 'like you'.

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foreverjack
2013-04-20 03:34 pm UTC (link)

He chuckles, squeezing her against him. "Oh well, yeah, if your Torchwood boys could manage that over your side even without me around - surely we can find a way out of here!"

He lets go of her to dive away after a kitten who's trying to escape and brings it back to the little pile she's got in front of her. "Maybe you should have this one. Looks like he shares the Doctor's love of running away!"

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	mightbelate 2013-04-20 08:59 pm UTC (link)
	'See. Got the best here. No reason to fuss." She laughs softly when Jack captures the kitten. "Might have a point there." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2013-04-22 07:18 pm UTC (link)
	"Well, have them both," he suggests, picking up the ginger one too and holding them up together to see how they go as a pair. "They can keep each other company when you're not home, and when you are, you've got more to snuggle up with!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mightbelate 2013-04-22 09:14 pm UTC (link)
	"Don't think you can," Rose responds. "Adopt two of 'em, I mean. It's...one pet per person or somethin'. Would be nice though, for them to have the company." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

foreverjack
2013-04-23 01:10 pm UTC (link)

Jack stares for a moment, and then laughs bitterly. “Oh, that’s just so like this place, isn’t it? Even the pets aren’t allowed to be together! What, are they scared they’ll breed or something, even if they’re the same sex? Hey, maybe we could get them some blue bands to make it ‘legal’!”

…Sorry Rose. You’ve hit on a bit of a sore point with him there.

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	mightbelate 2013-04-24 04:52 pm UTC (link)
	Rose understands, at least to some degree, but more than that she knows that Jack is hurting over this and that bothers her. She lets go of one of the kittens and twines her arm around Jack's waist. "Is that what's going on with Ianto?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

foreverjack
2013-04-24 08:22 pm UTC (link)

He could congratulate himself on distracting her from the Doctor if he wasn't so preoccupied with Ianto and what the hell was going on with him and Martha and – well. What the hell was going on between him and Jack as well.

On the other hand, he's still Jack and that makes him instinctively reluctant to admit there's anything wrong with his love life, even to Rose. Or perhaps especially to Rose, since he wants to protect her from… just about everything.

So he blinks at her a bit and says glibly, "Who says there's anything going on with Ianto?"

He's not shrugging off that arm around his waist, though.

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	mightbelate 2013-04-24 11:50 pm UTC (link)
	"Me," Rose answers bluntly. "I know he went to the luau with Martha while you went with someone else. " She's not buying the glib act. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2013-04-25 08:26 am UTC (link)
	"Oh, that! Rebekah asked me, and he made Martha go, to cheer her up or something. Doesn't mean anything's wrong!" Except that it is, of course. He glances down at her, one eyebrow quirking upwards. "You know we're not exclusive, right?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mightbelate 2013-04-26 12:35 am UTC (link)
	Rose suspects that Jack is full of crap right now. "Does he?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2013-04-26 11:45 am UTC (link)
	"Oh come on, he's not stupid! This is why we have red bands, not blue." Which... is probably a mean thing to bring up considering the Doctor's disappearance so soon after getting blue-banded to Rose, but he needs to distract her from this line of questioning somehow! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mightbelate 2013-04-29 12:28 am UTC (link)
	Rose doesn't wince or shy away from the subject. She hasn't actually thought much about the blue band that's around her wrist and means absolutely nothing now. "Sometimes we settle for what we can have insteada what we want." She did it for years with the Doctor. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2013-04-30 07:33 pm UTC (link)
	"Well, yeah, like I'm having to settle for not being able to actually have intercourse with anyone for the sake of upholding my principles of polyamory!" Duh. Still a little - okay, a lot - pissed about that. About having to choose. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mightbelate 2013-05-01 02:22 am UTC (link)
	"I get it, Jack. I do." Having your freedom restricted and your beliefs squashed is enough to make anyone angry. ''m sorry. That you're havin' to deal with this." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2013-05-01 06:10 pm UTC (link)
	"Yeah." He sighs heavily, and squeezes her tight. "I'm sorry. I think I'm going to go now before I try and offload any more of my issues onto you!" (Reply to this) (Parent)

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