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The Tenth Doctor (lonely_god) wrote in silverage,
@ 2011-08-26 21:22:00

Entry tags:

!log, 10th doctor, ginny potter

Who: The Tenth Doctor, open
When: Friday evening
Where: Central Park
What: Noticing his other self on the boards gave the Doctor a bit of a shock. Since his running away default, taking the TARDIS to another time and place, is currently not an option, he adapts by running away to Central Park. If anyone asks, he can always say he's just out for a walk.
Rating: Low at the moment
Status: open

There were things the Doctor could say to his other self, so many things that he couldn't find an end to them. There were questions he could ask, truths he could tell, arguments he could have, and every one of them would be a way of trying to escape the truth that the man Amy Pond knows is him, just older and with a new face and new quirks. It's a truth that's especially painful for the Doctor, and he's afraid of it. He's so very afraid because he knows he close he came to becoming that man, and he knows how wrong it is that he isn't that man yet.

So, the Doctor takes the course he so often chooses when faced with things he can't handle, and he runs away. Oh, not literally, not this time. In fact, he walks to Central Park, but at such a brisk pace and with such intense focus on his destination that he may as well be running. People on the sideway automatically step out of his way. There's something in the severe line of his mouth, in the darkness of his eyes, in the set of his shoulders that tells everyone in no uncertain terms to leave him alone.

By the time he reaches the trees and lawns of the park, he's burned off the worst of the restlessness. His expression loses some of its harshness, and his step slows to a more reasonable pace. He continues until he finds a nice, quiet spot near the edge of Turtle Pond, near the middle of the park and not far from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. At this hour, the number of park goers is modest, allowing the Doctor to people watch without feeling crowded. He's being an idiot, again, or so he tells himself. He needs to come to grips with the fact that, one day, he's going to change, and the proof of that change is walking and talking and breathing in the same city and time as he is.

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bat_bogeys
2011-08-30 03:14 am UTC (link)

"All right," she agreed to his lack of desire to talk about it. She could understand that and she wasn't the least put out by it. She wondered though if she should leave or simply try to talk about something else. They were here and she was in no rush to head off ... so she guessed she'd try some small talk and see how it went.

"So have you been here long? Or ... are you a native to the area?" She didn't know, of course, though after her adventure with disbelief from a native, she was going to try to keep the 'yes, I'm from 2012' bit to herself unless the person she was talking with admitted to not being from here, either.

[No worries :) it happens]

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lonely_god
2011-08-31 05:11 pm UTC (link)

"Oh, I'm not native. Not by a longshot." The Doctor summoned a shadow of a smile. "You could say my travel plans were derailed, and now I'm stuck here until I can make new ones." He appreciated the effort the young woman was making, and who knew? It might help, to make idle conversation. Half the time, he stumbled across the most brilliant people by accident, and half of that time, he managed to enter their lives and leave without ruining everything.

"What about you?"

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bat_bogeys
2011-08-31 05:36 pm UTC (link)

"About the same," Ginny agreed. "Minus the traveling bit. I was at home with my children, and then I was in some alleyway not too far from here. No idea where I was or how I'd gotten to be here.

"Fortunately, one of my friends found me. He did his best to explain what was going on, but it's a bit hard to swallow. Despite all the evidence." And Merlin was there ever evidence. "I'm just waiting for the day they tell us they've found a way home for us all." Or could at least assure them everything was fine at home. She worried about her kids. About Harry.

"Nothing to be done about it on our end, I suppose. Still, I'd like to thoroughly explore the confines of the area we're restricted to. Maybe enough sets of eyes will find the missing puzzle-piece to fix this muck-up."

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lonely_god
2011-09-01 01:53 am UTC (link)

He raised an eyebrow at the young woman's ready assumption that he was amongst those trapped in the general area of the city. The Doctor hadn't had much contact with misplaced individuals whose lives hadn't intersected with his at some point in his own universe. He realized now that it was an oversight on his part. He should have made a greater effort to become familiar with those drawn to the city who might have no connections to him at all.

"That's good," he found himself saying, "that you aren't alone. Well, maybe not good, precisely, since that means yet another person who doesn't belong here is trapped, but good that you're not completely on your own, definitely. I tried that, not long ago. Being on my own. Bad idea. Very, very bad idea. Still ... Well. I'm hardly alone here, am I? Even if I didn't know anyone, seems more than a few of us don't quite belong, doesn't it?"

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bat_bogeys
2011-09-01 03:49 am UTC (link)

"I know what you mean," Ginny admitted. "I hate the idea of more of my family coming here, being trapped here, but I ... but I want them here." She wanted Harry here more than anything, but at the same time if he was here ... did that mean her children would be alone?

"I wouldn't know what it was like to be on my own," Ginny said quietly. "I was the youngest and the only girl in my family. Six brothers. Then it was school, and after that it was ... life with Harry and our friends from school. I've never been alone." And she wasn't, even now. There were the people she was living with, and all the other misplaced people she hadn't met yet.

"If this was something voluntary, I don't think I'd mind so much," she murmured. It was nice enough here, the panic of having to find a job and a place to live aside. But since it was involuntary and unexpected ... well, if Ginny ever found out who'd done it, there would be words.

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lonely_god
2011-09-02 01:00 am UTC (link)

The Doctor would have minded a great deal more if his kidnapping hadn't indirectly saved his life. As matters stood, he was torn. He hated the idea of being trapped here, particularly with evidence of his future there to be tripped over, but he also flinched away from the prospect of returning home and potentially becoming the man with the bow tie he knew was somewhere in New York, the man Amy called her Doctor.

"I have friends here," the Doctor admitted, "friends who shouldn't be here. Friends I haven't met yet, or who haven't met me. I don't know yet if I'd rather they were home or not."

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bat_bogeys
2011-09-02 01:44 am UTC (link)

Ginny nodded. "I hear that," she murmured. "I appreciate the chance to meet my husband's mother, and to see some people who have been long dead in my time, but ... I'd handle this better if I knew everything at home was all right." And if they weren't so young and actually knew her, but ...

Not that she was handling it poorly, exactly, but there'd been some tantrum-esque moments early on.

"So have you been here long enough to ... settle in? Get a job, find a place to live? Things that they apparently expect us to be able to do?" She grinned slightly as she glanced over to him before she looked away again.

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lonely_god
2011-09-02 09:03 pm UTC (link)

"A job? Me?" The Doctor laughed a little. "I'm rubbish with domestics. No, I haven't gotten a job. Haven't needed to, really. You could say my house came with me." The TARDIS was hardly a house. She was much, much more than that, the only home the Doctor had left and the last of her kind, just as he was the last his. He wasn't certain what he would have done without her. Settled down in a rented place with one or several of his friends, he supposed, rather like he'd had to do with Martha when they'd last been trapped in the 1960s on Earth.

"I suppose most of the people who come here have to find work, though, don't they? That's not a bad thing, not really. Keeps the mind active, hands busy. Might be something to think about."

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bat_bogeys
2011-09-02 09:13 pm UTC (link)

"Well, that's fortunate," Ginny murmured. Pity her house (with the children inside, of course) hadn't come with her. "I'm sure you could find something, if you'd needed to." She was of the mind that if she could find a job in this Muggle world, anyone could.

Then again, maybe she'd just been lucky.

"But yes, so far no one I've known has come through with a house. We've all gotten jobs to help pay for a flat, pay the bills. Eat. Fascinating things like that," she said, teasing a little.

"I think if I ever find out someone's orchestrated this and it isn't simply some accident with the fabric of reality or what-have-you, there will be words." She couldn't honestly imagine anyone being strong enough (or possessing the technology) to do this.

Still, if that was the case, she'd be interested to hear it. Before she hexed the person senseless, of course.

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lonely_god
2011-09-03 04:05 am UTC (link)

"I expect it was done very much on purpose." The Doctor tucked his hands in the pockets of his long overcoat and sighed. "The chances of this happening naturally are astronomical. Plus, there's an element of planning in it. So many people have arrived here from separated realities, and so many of them have arrived here only to find that friends of theirs are here as well. Then there's that Welcome Center ... " He shook his head. "No. We aren't here by accident."

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bat_bogeys
2011-09-03 04:12 am UTC (link)

As true as it might have been, it wasn't anything she really wanted to hear. If it was done on purpose, it meant someone was screwing around with their lives, and she hated the idea of that more than she hated the idea of this being an accident.

Because it led her to ask why. Why them, why now, why here, why why why, and she hated unanswered questions.

"Well, I hope whoever did it gets bored and sends us back," she muttered. She wondered if it was possible that the person -- or being or whatever -- would get bored and forget to send them back before abandoning this game, or whatever it was.

Crossing her arms over her chest, Ginny tried to let go of all the anger building up at the idea of being trapped at the whim of someone else.

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lonely_god
2011-09-04 05:59 pm UTC (link)

Rather than answer immediately, the Doctor held his tongue and watched his current companion's reaction to the idea that they were trapped on the whim of someone or something that had been intentionally collecting people the way millionaires collected houses and cars. She was angry, no doubt of it, and he found himself smiling faintly as he thought, Here I am again, bumping into another ginger with a temper. It was becoming a habit, and not one he particularly minded.

"Oh, I expect one day we'll find a way home. These things have a way of sorting themselves out." After all, somehow, the timelines in his own universe had continued as they were meant to despite the removal of people from his past to New York, and it seemed that, eventually, he too would be returned right back to the time and place from which he'd been sidetracked, as his future self not only existed, but recalled no deviation from the path that had been prophesied for him.

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bat_bogeys
2011-09-04 06:04 pm UTC (link)

"I suppose we must," Ginny agreed. There had been the idea of 'alternate realities' tossed around when they'd discussed it in passing around the flat, because Lily and Sirius and Remus couldn't both be vanished at the age they were and continue on the paths she knew they'd tread. Lily had to give birth to Harry, and Remus had to have Teddy with Tonks, and Sirius ... well, poor Sirius had to break out of Azkaban, only to die a couple years later. She wondered a little if Sirius wouldn't have a better life here. Lily obviously would give to live, and ... Remus wouldn't die in a war, here.

She shook her head and uncrossed her arms and sighed. "Hopefully it won't take too long to sort out then. Wonder if we'll remember when we get back, or if it will be like it never happened."

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lonely_god
2011-09-05 06:30 pm UTC (link)

"I don't think we will. Remember, that is. I don't. None of my companions did, or if they did, they never told me. I can't see any reason why they wouldn't, though, or that I wouldn't have noticed they were holding something back." The Doctor took a deep breath and sighed as well, momentarily resigned to the truth of their predicament.

"I'm sorry. I wish I had answers. I don't. That's not a usual thing for me. Well, sometimes it is, but most of the time ... I can sort out what's going on and do something about it. Not here, though. Not now." Part of him still didn't want to do anything to sort things out, though he knew it wouldn't be long before he started to become restless again.

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bat_bogeys
2011-09-05 06:49 pm UTC (link)

Ginny nodded. She wondered honestly how this was going to end, and if Lily or Remus would remember enough to change things when they got home -- and whether or not it would be a good thing if they did. Would it impact her future? Would she go back to a world where Voldemort hadn't been defeated? Or had been defeated in a different way?

It didn't seem worth speculating about though. Whatever would be would be, and speculation was just going to make things more difficult to deal with.

She glanced over to him when he said he usually had answers, and she smiled. "I like to think I usually have the answers, too," she admitted. "This though ..." She shook her head. "It's well beyond my scope of experience." All things considered, she liked to think she had a decent range of experiences.

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