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Tweak says, "I STILL have to go potty!"

// Leanne Jones (unrequitedjones) wrote in silverage,
@ 2011-07-23 22:00:00

Entry tags:

!log, 10th doctor, martha jones

Who: Ten, Martha
What: Martha reunites with the Doctor
When: Saturday evening
Where: central park, near where hooverville used to be
Rating: Low, likely
Status: incomplete

It had been a crazy few days - weeks. Oh goodness, how long had she been here? Never mind that, the Doctor was here! Her Doctor. The one she'd apparently got over and moved on with her life ... and well, so had he. While she had Donna, and liked Donna, and was glad to be living with Donna, she'd rather have her room in the TARDIS back. The Doctor would be able to figure out a way to get them home, right? He had to.

He hadn't taken long to reply on the bulletin board notes system (and that was really odd how that worked, it was like the internet, only not), and she set off for Central Park, near where Hooverville had been. How strange, to think this was her third time, in a third New York, with the Doctor. He seemed oddly drawn to New York. Or New York was drawn to him, either way.

When she saw the familiar blue box, she ran towards it, flinging the door inward and running into the central console room. "Doctor!" she yelled, stopping just short of hugging him. Was that okay? He had moved on? It felt like there were all of a sudden a whole new bunch of rules that she didn't know about it, between them. It was hardly fair, him knowing her future, and her knowing absolutely nothing.

Well, she knew one thing. She knew she loved him.

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lonely_god
2011-07-24 04:12 pm UTC (link)

"You gave it to me," the Doctor said, eyebrows raised and a smile tugging at the corners of his mouth. "Insisted. Said you wanted to be able to get in touch with me. Didn't want me to go off all by myself and disappear. You always have been brilliant." Martha had been right, to insist that she be able to contact him when she wanted to, the same way Donna had been right to say that he needed someone to stop him. He'd gone so very far when he'd lost Donna and Rose, too far. Perhaps part of that had been fate--his death had been prophecied, after all--but how much had been his own arrogance?

He shook off the thoughts as best he could for the time being. This wasn't the place for them. Martha didn't know the darker parts of him, not yet, but if he kept brooding on them, she'd notice and demand an explanation. It was painful enough to watch her and realize how young she was, how bright and curious and innocent, and to know that one day, those traits would be gone, all because she'd met him.

"So, Martha. What have you been doing with yourself? Meeting some very interesting people, obviously."

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unrequitedjones
2011-07-24 07:53 pm UTC (link)

Martha positively glowed when the Doctor called her brilliant. And she'd left him her cell phone! If only she'd grabbed it when they stepped out to see where they'd landed. If only it had been in her pocket with the Angels. Then she could have called him and avoided this whole mess. She'd called her mum several times from all over space and time!

"Does it still work?" She asked, picking it up and running her fingers over the keys. "I mean, could I call my mum, let her know I won't be home for a while? Or can you eventually get us back?" The true reality that she might never see her family again hit her and she again fought off tears.

"Oh, you know," she said with a scoffing laugh. "Been avoiding the race riots, been sorting papers at this job Donna got me since I can't type fast. There's a guy named Jack I'm supposed to know? And Gwen and Ianto? But I haven't come across them yet. Or any of the other Doctors - which, how can you do that, exist in the same place at the same time? Isn't that really bad for you, running into yourself, crossing your own line?"

The Doctor had told her some stories, explained some of the rules of time travel while she'd been with him, but it was still incredibly confusing to her. She just went along with it, because well ... why not?

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lonely_god
2011-07-24 08:09 pm UTC (link)

The Doctor hated to dampen Martha's spirits, but he would do her no favors by hiding the truth. He gently plucked the phone from her fingers and set it back in its place on the console. "No. I'm sorry, Martha, but I can only program a phone to reach across time in one dimension. The walls between realities aren't meant to be breached. It's nearly impossible to manage, now that my people are gone. We're stuck here, either until whatever brought us into this world kicks us out, or until I can sort out which dimension we're in and which way to go to get back to our proper one."

The rest of the things she had told him, he filed away. He'd have to go looking for Jack later, find out when he was from, and then perhaps do the same with Ianto Jones and Gwen Cooper. He needed to know how much of a mess this whole situation was creating. As for his other self ... Well, no need to go looking for that sort of trouble until he had to. He didn't exactly relish the idea of facing the man who would replace him when he died.

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unrequitedjones
2011-07-24 08:31 pm UTC (link)

"Oh," Martha said quietly, not able to hide how much this upset her. "So it wouldn'ta mattered anyhow."

She skulked around the TARDIS consul for minute, absently running her fingers over some buttons. The Family of Blood seemed like it had been ages ago. "I thought maybe you might have turned yourself human again," she said, more to herself than the Doctor. She realised he hadn't answered her question about existing in the same place and time, but if all the rules had been broken. "So what happens to my family then? They never hear from me again? Or does the same Martha-" she couldn't help but shudder at the idea of a clone!Martha. "Does the same Martha that helped you with Sally Sparrow go on to do ... the things she does?" Things Martha only had a vague idea of.

"Is it wrong?" she burst out, "to want to know? All Donna would tell me is that I leave of my own accord, and that ... well, the rest of of it, but she didn't tell me anything else, said it wasn't right to. Well, if she's got memories of Martha that never happened, because I never had them, then how's it so wrong to know?" She didn't have a folding chair to sit on this time, so she just leaned against the railing, arms crossed, staring defiantly at the Doctor.

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lonely_god
2011-07-24 09:13 pm UTC (link)

"Oh, Martha. It's not wrong at all." The Doctor gave her a sympathetic smile. "I don't know precisely how any of this is going to work out in the end. The fact that none of us seem to remember being sidetracked to this time and place suggests that either we won't remember at all, or history is being rewritten. I can't say what will or won't stick when this is all over. Just at the moment, I'm inclined to tell you whatever you want to know."

After all, if history was being rewritten, then what came next didn't particularly matter, did it? It would never happen. Somehow, the Doctor didn't feel that was the case. If it were, he would have felt the effects. Worst case scenario, he would have begun fading from time, because he would have walked a different road with a different Martha.

"So. What is it that you want to know? I won't promise that I'll have answers for you, but I'll try." He owed her that much, didn't he? It would be cruel, to lead her on now that he was consciously aware of her attraction to him.

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unrequitedjones
2011-07-24 09:36 pm UTC (link)

"You could start with those creepy statute Angels and Sally Sparrow, and then just go from there and we'll get the details as we go," Martha said, totally focused. He was going to tell her everything that Donna wouldn't. And maybe he'd include somewhere in there how and when she got over him. Because right now, with him in front of her ... well, he was the Doctor and he'd come back for her. Or he'd been walloped here just like her, but still, they were together now.

She wanted to ask about Rose, and why he'd picked Donna up after she left him, but clearly he wasn't as attached to her as he'd been to Rose. And why Rose? Clearly questions that would likely never get answered.

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lonely_god
2011-07-25 05:33 pm UTC (link)

The Doctor wasn't certain he should go into complete detail--a great deal of what he and Martha had been through was rather unpleasant, particularly for her--so he didn't. Oh, he still told her about finding Jack, and traveling to the end of the universe, but he glossed over the bits with the Master, telling her only that they had worked together to overthrow his old friend and enemy when he used his position as Prime Minister of England to take over the world. He then went on to describe how she'd decided on her own to leave, giving him rather a good lecture about not noticing her by way of telling him about a friend of hers. Then, he told her how he'd first met Donna, and then found her again, and gave Martha a few highlights of his journeys with his best friend.

"We eventually managed to track Earth down again and found out there was a bit of problem with Daleks again, you remember the Daleks. Rose was able to punch through the walls of the dimensions since the Dalek's had compromised their integrity and, well, it gets a bit complicated, but we sort of wound up with a second me, so when everything was sorted again, he went home with Rose after I dropped everyone off, and I've been on my own since."

He hoped she didn't notice how much he'd left out. He was willing to be honest with her, but only to a point. Certain things were still extremely uncomfortable to think about, let alone mention.

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unrequitedjones
2011-07-27 05:08 am UTC (link)

She'd started off enthralled, but then had wound up burying her head in her hands. Oh lord. She'd told him about that? But he didn't seem to harbor any ill-will towards her for it, so eventually she lifted her head for the rest of the story. All in all, it sounded just like the Doctor - "Nothing but adventure then," she teased, smiling.

"But a second you! That's way more interesting than Fob watch you!" And really, it was. Two Doctors! Two of the same Doctor! "I almost thought you were here, Fob watched and everything," Martha admitted. "But that seemed a bit silly. But! Now that we're all caught up and on the same page and everything! How do we get out of here?"

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lonely_god
2011-07-27 02:11 pm UTC (link)

"No idea." Since Martha didn't push him for more information, he didn't volunteer any. He'd rather not talk about the things he'd done after he'd lost Donna, or even how he'd lost Donna in the first place. For the time being, he'd let Martha think that he'd simply dropped Donna off and gone on about his everyday business as usual. Plenty of time to get into the messy details later.

"Trouble is, this place doesn't seem to be like any parallel dimension I've ever seen. There's a man here called Galen--terribly rude, extremely pompous, bit like dealing with the Time Lord on the High Council--who believes this is a pocket dimension, and I'm inclined to agree with him, at least on that count."

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