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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
2011-09-02 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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