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The Doctor (fromgallifrey) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2009-01-24 22:15:00

Entry tags:

complete, day 30, jareth, the doctor

Three days....
Who: The Doctor and OTA
What: Kicking a football around outside
When: Mid-Afternoon
Rating: None At this Time
Status: Complete
Warning: Minor Spoiler Allusions

It's come to this. It's come to the time where the Doctor is unable to focus on the problem any longer and has to have an outlet. Much like using his big toe to expel energy, or sending his energy off some place else; sometimes the Doctor just needs an outlet. A useful outlet. A place to put his attention and focus that was productive - because it was becoming clear that the more time he spent in the TARDIS The less productive he was becoming.

It was like the planet was trying to drive him insane. Each time he'd repair one circuit another would fail. Just as he found the frequency he was looking for it would shift just so. Just when he thought he'd figured out where they were the flipping stars would change. THE STARS.

Then came when he'd met that blonde girl, Shannon. She'd called him edgy. Perhaps he was.

So, the Doctor decided that just for right now, just for an hour or so, he'd think nothing of the planet, escape, or fixing things. He needed to jsut release. So, he found a football and a net and set out on the lawn of kicking the ball at the net and the Golem playing keeper. The Golem wasn't very good - but he'd do.

"Oh, c'mon you can do better than that!"

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fromgallifrey
2009-02-03 04:52 pm UTC (link)

Playfully the Doctor sent the ball again careening in Jareth's direction. He still had too much restless energy to be rid of to stand around thinking and bantering. He'd come out for some football and he was going to kick the ball around until he'd had his fill.

"Oh, just your standard academy fare, really," he dismissed the Goblin King's response of 'oh, really,' and sort of shrugged.

"Have you headed to your room yet? I'm betting it'll be styled like that Underground of yours," the Doctor replied hopefully, letting his attention kind of wander back to the idea of alternate realms. He wondered if he could use an alternate, paralel dimension as a place of refuge from the planet. It's not like the planet could keep science from working, could it?

The ball with it's eventual goblin were observed and tucked away in memory. Certainly seemed like more energy-matter conversion to him. There certainly were a lot of people working very scientific magic around these parts with no idea of how it actually worked. Then again, if the Doctor could do those sorts of things he probably wouldn't care how it worked either. Wait... yeah he would. He most certainly would care how it worked.

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labyrinth_king
2009-02-04 10:01 pm UTC (link)

Jareth nodded and pursed his lips. "I see." He tried to keep his body language non commital, though he was starting to get worried. This person seemed innocent enough, but he was really starting to wonder just how much of it was an act. There was a strange sort of power coming from him, and it disturbed him.

But he kept that down, and snapped his attention back to the game. Jareth did nothing by halves, and that included kicking a ball around. Or in his case, playing keeper to it. Once more, he sent the ball sailing back toward the Doctor, much quicker and also less predictably than a golem could do it.

"Yes, of course." He stopped for a moment and gestured. A crystal appeared in his hand, which he held out to the Doctor. In it appeared his labyrinth, with the goblin city at the center. He tossed it up into the air, and the thing disappeared for a second. "I feel right at home there."

Both the scrying crystal and the apparent goblin disappeared just as quickly as they'd appeared, and Jareth caught the ball this time. He kicked it somewhat harder now, not enough to send it really flying but enough that the Doctor was going to have to move for it. "Let's get serious about this, shall we?"

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fromgallifrey
2009-02-14 12:42 am UTC (link)

He had to move to get the ball, converse trainers squishy on the grass. It was nice to have a challenge, but as the ball went back and forth it became clear that Jareth was playing more than just a friendly game of pass the ball - which was really all the Doctor was in for anyway.

Taking up the ball he sort of shrugged, "Serious? What's serious about a game of pass the football?" Tossing the ball up he dribbled for a couple of minutes, passing the black and white icon back and forth between his knees and feet. It felt good to sort of jitter a bit - since getting here the Doctor hadn't had occasion to run to or from anything - and it felt like his world was lacking something.

Sending the ball back to Jareth he aimed the pass right for him and obviously not the net.

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