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Tweak says, "Be one with the orange"

Gwen Cooper (tw_gwen) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2008-06-27 20:58:00

Entry tags:

arrival, complete, day 5, gwen cooper, the doctor

Who Gwen and OTA
Where Near the lake
What Gwen's arrival
When early morning
Rating PG-ish
Status Complete

Opening her eyes, Gwen sat up and very nearly screamed. The last thing she remembered was doing paperwork and noting that her eyes were crossing - she'd been so tired. But, falling asleep on her keyboard was one thing - waking up in a field near a lake was something completely different. Eyes wide, she took a breath, noting that she was alive - she could smell the fresh air around her. She reached over and pinched herself, wincing when she felt pain - she was awake.

"Oh, my God," she moaned, leaping to her feet. She reached into her back pocket for her cell phone, but there was no phone. Reaching for her gun, there was no gun at her hip. "Oh, my god!" Gwen exclaimed, turning around in a panic, looking at the ground around her as she patted herself down, noting that she was wearing jeans and a light sweater - not what she had been wearing at the Hub the night before.

The only thing that she could imagine was that there had been activity with the Rift, and she'd gotten stuck in the middle of it. Turning around again, Gwen noted several large buildings - hotels? Resorts? "What the bloody hell?" she mumbled, heading toward one of the buildings, shaking her head a little. She had to be dreaming, right? She saw someone walking out of the building and she cried out to them. "Hello! Excuse me!" she shouted, running toward them.....

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notginger
2008-07-03 03:43 pm UTC (link)

Oh, that was just fantastic. The very second he'd let his guard down someone had figured it out. Perhaps she was some sort of archivist, perhaps she did work for UNIT after all. "Well, of course I'm real!" he exclaimed, assuming at first that she was so surprised because his existence following the Time War was something of a miracle.

And then she was on him, and his casual expression had changed to one of complete confusion. "Jack?" he asked, gasping a little; she had an amazing amount of strength for such a slim human. "What, Jack Harkness?" he asked, more amazed than intimidated. "What do you mean what did I do to him? I've not seen Jack since... well, for a very long time," he finished. He wasn't exactly sure what he was meant to say, the question was so vague and could have referred to any time period at all. "Who are you?" he asked, hoping it might shed some light on the situation. "And for goodness sakes, let me go, I am capable of talking like a civilised person, you know!"

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tw_gwen
2008-07-03 03:55 pm UTC (link)

"Let you go?" she repeated, "Let you go?! He has been looking for you for as long as I've know him and possibly much, much longer then that! One day, he just up and disappears and then I'm sucked onto this planet that has some kind of twisted personality and probably finds it amusing that I'm stuck here with the one man that Jack is desperate to find and you want me to let you go?! No!" she shouted, getting a bit hysterical. "You will tell me why he was looking for you!"

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notginger
2008-07-03 04:04 pm UTC (link)

The Doctor open and closed his mouth, lips forming around letters but nothing coming out as he tried to make sense of the woman's slightly insane rambling about Jack.

"What? I can answer you without your brute force, y'know!" he pointed out, getting rather irritated by her assumption that he'd just run away if she let go of her death grip on his jacket.

"How am I meant to know why he's looking for me? Did you never think to ask him?" he asked, his voice a little high pitched in frustration. Of course, he had a few ideas about why Jack might be looking for him, but none he was willing to tell some shrieking woman who wouldn't even tell him her name. "Maybe if you'd just calm down and tell me who you are I might be able to help you!" he suggested, the tone coming out a little more patronisingly than he had intended.

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tw_gwen
2008-07-03 05:47 pm UTC (link)

Gwen let out a frustrated noise then let him go, taking a step back. "I work for Jack - I work for Torchwood," she told him. "He's been looking for you for years - decades or even longer, maybe! What's wrong with him?" she blurted out. "He's gone, Doctor! And I know that you have something to do with it! Don't you?" she accused. Gwen was being irrational, and the rational part of her brain knew that - but she'd just lost Jack, gotten sucked onto some bizarre planet and was now face-to-face with the infamous Doctor. She could afford a little irrationality.

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