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Caitlin Burns (quien_es) wrote in thereincarnates,
@ 2011-02-03 00:21:00

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caitlin burns, kai polivander

Who: Lin Burns/the Doctor and young!Kai Polviander.
When: February 3, 1996.
Where: Kai's childhood home.
What: Lin overshoots his mark by, oh. Fifteen years. The result: the Doctor meets little Kai for the first time (from Kai's perspective). From Lin's, things start to make more sense.
Rating: G. It's an 8 year old and the Doctor.

It had been a strange night for Lin Burns. First, he'd managed to get talked into some sort of 'apology kiss.' He still wasn't sure how that had happened. Why would Kai ever want to kiss him, anyway? And then afterwards, he'd been off to explore Cardiff.

Granted, most of Lin's nights were odd ones. As far as nights go, it hadn't been so bad; he'd met some brilliant new people and he certainly hadn't been bored, but he'd gone to sleep confused. When he woke up? Still confused. There was only one thing for it, really. He was going to have to take the TARDIS over to Kai's to ask the other time-traveller some questions.

Unfortunately, the Doctor occasionally had problems with precision and punctuality. As the narrow blue shape of the TARDIS materialized, it wasn't the bustle of 2011 that met the fellow who stepped out the door. The mistake in time wasn't what caught Lin's attention, though - it was the fact that he was, rather inexplicably, in Kent. Huh. Had he meant to go to Kent? (Err, Doctor? he asked inwardly. Did you mean to land us here? Perhaps we ought--)

But it was too late. Lin heard a sound behind him. They'd been spotted, which meant he couldn't just dash inside the TARDIS and go.

Well. He could, but it wouldn't have been very polite. And, while the Doctor didn't always care about 'polite,' Lin usually did. "Ah," he said. "Hello. Strange bloke in your garden, I know, I'm sorry." He slowly turned on his heel, hands up so that the garden's owner could see them. It never hurt to be careful, right?

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littlebluebook
2011-02-05 07:17 am UTC (link)

"Good," Kai said with another sniffle as he pulled away. "Because I'll be really mad if you do." He smiled back at the Doctor, though it was less the same cheeky grin and more of a sort of watery imitation of the thing.

He started towards the door again, and then glanced over his shoulder to say one last thing. "I'm not going to say goodbye. Because it isn't. So... See you later."

And without another word he slipped out of the TARDIS and back into the chilly night air, trying very hard to convince himself that his stinging eyes was because of the cold. It didn't work very well. He stood a little bit away from the TARDIS and just stared at it, wondering what was going to happen now.

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	quien_es 2011-02-05 07:24 am UTC (link)
	It started with the sound - that vrrrrrwwwww thrumming that had announced the TARDIS's arrival - and the box began fading in and out in time. After a few seconds, the blue object was gone, leaving behind poor Aunt Mildred's ruined turnips. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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