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Martha Jones ([info]notrosesshadow) wrote in [info]marinanova,
@ 2016-05-18 18:27:00

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Entry tags:felix gaeta, lelouch vi britannia, martha jones, spike

Day 376 - Open Action
Upon waking up from the dreams, Martha's first thought was she clearly needed therapy. She elected to stay in her flat that day.

The next day she discovered she was out of tea. Perhaps it was time to get back out into the world dome. They were only dreams after all. It's not like anyone else experienced the same things, right?

Her day was much like any other. She started at the Coffee Bean for a quick pick-me-up, then spent some time in Trois park meditating. She did need to get some shopping done as well, both for food and clothes, so she could be found in the various sectors getting things.

Late in the evening, when she was sure Ianto would be gone, she even ventured over to the library to grab a novel or two.



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[info]didwhaticould
2016-05-19 01:28 am UTC (link)
Trois Park is a beautiful place to walk, enjoy this environment's best simulation of nature, and not think abut dreams. It's also, it turns out, a good place to run into strangers who wandered into those dreams. As much as Gaeta doesn't want to talk to anyone, he feels he owes it to her to apologize. After all, she did die.

"Martha Jones, right?" He's not interrupting, is he? He's probably interrupting. Maybe he should be somewhere that's not here.

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[info]notrosesshadow
2016-05-19 01:32 am UTC (link)
The voice is faintly familiar. Martha opens one eye to see who's talking to her and her jaw drops.

"You! A dream. Am I still dreaming?"

Forgive the choppiness. She hadn't expected to run into said stranger. And he knows her name. It has to be a dream.

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[info]didwhaticould
2016-05-19 01:40 am UTC (link)
"This is probably a bad time to say that we're apparently all dreaming, isn't it?" Yes, it is. "You're awake enough. I'm sorry you got caught up in... that."

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[info]notrosesshadow
2016-05-19 01:44 am UTC (link)
Martha cocked her head. "How do you know what I was dreaming?" She hadn't participated the last time around. She was too busy healing from a vampire bite. Thus she wasn't aware of the nature of the dreams.

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[info]didwhaticould
2016-05-19 01:47 am UTC (link)
He hasn't participated before, either, but of course he had to look into it after the strange dreams ended. "You were there, I was there. It felt like a safe guess. Am I wrong?"

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[info]notrosesshadow
2016-05-19 01:50 am UTC (link)
She shakes her head. "No. Explains why I had no idea where I was or who anyone was?..." Her voice suddenly turns more... frustrated. "I was trying to save you! What the hell?"

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[info]didwhaticould
2016-05-19 02:37 am UTC (link)
"I was trying to save you, too." He holds his hands up in a gesture of pacification. Maybe surrender. "Sorry that didn't work out. Thank you, though."

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[info]notrosesshadow
2016-05-19 10:24 pm UTC (link)
He has a point. Martha takes a deep breath. "Where were we anyway?" Maybe if she asks questions, he'll sit and she won't have to crane her neck to look at him.

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[info]didwhaticould
2016-05-20 08:11 am UTC (link)
Sitting demands an ease that Gaeta isn't feeling. It's a lot easier to run away from a situation when you're already on your feet.

"On the Galactica. It's a battlestar—a space ship. Not the friendliest place to be if you get on the wrong sides of the wrong people."

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[info]imperious
2016-05-19 02:19 am UTC (link)
Coffee is, really, a perfect complement to most mornings. Especially mornings after a first day in prison that went as spectacularly terribly as his did. Lelouch spends a moment in seemingly deep contemplation of the menu, rubbing a finger lightly over his jaw.

His clothes are currently about half a size too large for him in places; too broad across the chest, loose in the upper arms and thighs... but paradoxically his pants are also about an inch too short. Borrowed, all in the most neutral colors Suzaku's wardrobe had to offer, which... means only one far too primary color.

Lelouch glances back over his shoulder reflexively at the sound of the door opening, and offers the stranger an ingratiating smile, even sans-caffeine. "Ah, good morning -- or, at least, hopefully a better one soon." With a little sweeping gesture, to indicate that she should feel free to go ahead of him. "Still making up my mind, I'm afraid."

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[info]notrosesshadow
2016-05-20 03:12 pm UTC (link)
"Morning," Martha nods with a small smile of her own. She steps up to the counter and orders her own drink, feeling coffee would be more appropriate than tea. After taking a sip, she smiles again at the stranger before taking her cup to one of the arm chairs where she can observe him more closely.

Definitely new. At least, she'd never seen him before. Curiously, his clothes didn't fit him, which seemed odd considering how easy it was to find clothes here. When he orders and turns, she waves him over, inviting him to sit with her.

"Hello. I'm afraid I wasn't fully ready for human company yet before. I'm Martha."

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[info]imperious
2016-05-21 02:32 am UTC (link)
Yeah, he'll fix that in a little while, but... coffee was the priority this morning, for all of the obvious reasons. The invitation to join her pleases him; just what he was hoping for. He brings his coffee -- medium, black, dark roast -- and settles down across from her with another smile.

"I completely understand." Lelouch chuckles, flicking a few strands of hair out of his eyes. "Supposedly human society managed very well without caffeine for centuries, but I can't imagine how. Lelouch," he adds, with a tilt of his head. "Pleased to make your acquaintance."

Martha. Aramaic in origin. A common enough Britannian name... But that doesn't necessarily mean she's not speaking Greek, or even a wholly alien language. He keeps being tempted to take the communicator off for a while. Not the moment, of course; but eventually...

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[info]notrosesshadow
2016-05-22 12:51 am UTC (link)
"Likely because they weren't addicted to the caffeine," she remarked with a small smile. "And most of them went to sleep with the sun, so they had a better sense of their sleep rhythms. Or at least kept to them better."

At least, all the high class citizens of a country. Servants and the like probably had it worse. And they didn't have the coffee to make it easier.

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[info]imperious
2016-05-22 01:47 am UTC (link)
"I prefer to think of myself as being... in a serious, long-term relationship with it." Matching her smile. "But maybe only because I can't see myself as a farmer."

Or getting nearly that much sleep, just in general.

"Have you been here long?" Lelouch adds, helpfully, "I haven't, just in case it's not completely obvious."

Because if it isn't already, it will be once he starts asking more questions, and... if their positions were reversed, he thinks he'd feel better about being asked leading questions if the other person were clearly also willing to answer them.

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[info]notrosesshadow
2016-05-22 01:50 am UTC (link)
Martha laughed. "No, nor can I. And as a doctor, coffee is sort of a requirement." Sleep is one of those things Martha didn't get enough of usually. Though she got more here than at home. The coffee was more of a habit by this point.

"Yes and no. It's been about five months, but I was home for a year in between." It sounded weird to say it out loud, but there it was.

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[info]imperious
2016-05-25 01:55 am UTC (link)
It's on the tip of his tongue to say something like, Yes, alertness is rather necessary in that line of work, or to congratulate her on the achievement -- perhaps with some of the mindless flattery adults always like to indulge in when they see someone young and accomplished...

But the rest of her commentary forestalls that. She's... one of the people who have left and come back. Like -- he has, supposedly. Lelouch's gaze slides to the coffee in front of him. He watches the steam swirl lazily.

"Do you actually remember having been here before?" Trying for -- light.

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[info]notrosesshadow
2016-05-25 02:58 pm UTC (link)
Martha nods. "Yeah. Went to sleep one night, and woke up a couple weeks later. Oddly, it never felt like I was gone. Other than the year worth of memories jam packed in my head."

She shook her head. "Definitely felt sick though. Time travel can do that to you. It took a few days for the various memories to find their proper places in my head too."

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[info]chipswiththat
2016-05-21 02:27 pm UTC (link)
It's late when their paths cross. He's still not an early riser — probably won't be, ever — and so his day has barely started when hers is winding down. Maybe he should just leave it be, wait for her to confront him, but where's the fun in that?

Sipping blood from a take out mug, Spike nods in her direction.

"Martha."

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[info]notrosesshadow
2016-05-22 12:45 am UTC (link)
Of course, out of all the people she could run into, Spike would be one of them. At least it was a dream and not reality. It wasn't like he would know what happened. Martha closed her eyes momentarily before turning towards him though.

"Good evening, Spike."

Polite. She could do polite. She would do polite.

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[info]chipswiththat
2016-05-22 04:58 pm UTC (link)
About that. Staying on the right side of civil, Spike raises his take out mug of blood, motioning at her with it.

"You want some?"

Oh yeah, he remembers. Not in perfect clarity, but he remembers the important parts.

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[info]notrosesshadow
2016-05-22 08:26 pm UTC (link)
Martha wrinkles her nose. "Fuck no I'm firmly in the tea camp, thanks."

He should know this. Unless he's decided to be randomly antagonistic. Or perhaps he just figures he is being nice. Martha doesn't know.

"Just getting up then?"

God, she's boring herself. Best to just get his answer and walk on.

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[info]chipswiththat
2016-05-23 07:43 pm UTC (link)
"Figured maybe you got a taste for it."

He quirks a brow, takes a long sip. Yeah, not even going to answer that boring question of hers. They both know there are more interesting things to talk about. 

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[info]notrosesshadow
2016-05-24 02:35 am UTC (link)
"Not while my heart still beats," she replies. "I was hoping that was just my dream and not one you also happened to be in on." This was her first trip in the shared dreaming realm, so it still freaked her out more than it probably should.

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[info]chipswiththat
2016-05-24 08:55 pm UTC (link)
"No, I remember. Most of it, at least." He's actually making an effort to not sound like a complete asshole right now. It's not so much trying to mend bridges on behalf of Ianto and Jack — those assholes can take care of themselves — but rather that he's gotten quite intrigued by Martha lately. Maybe they can find some common ground. Not a friendship but it's so much easier to live here if you got some people around you can tolerate.

"We had some fun, didn't we?"

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[info]notrosesshadow
2016-05-25 03:02 pm UTC (link)
Martha's not so sure she'd call killing a teenager fun. Of course, it was in the dream. But that was because she wasn't her. Wasn't human. Demon. "Seems I'm a hoot when I lose my soul." She inadvertently wipes her mouth at the memory of the blood, pulling a face as she thinks of it. More of the dream comes back to her and Martha covers her face in her hands. "I suggested we shag! Oh god."

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