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The Doctor (fromgallifrey) wrote in vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-08-20 10:54:00

Entry tags:

!complete, day 19, location: gym, rose tyler, the doctor (ten)

Day 19: 9:23 PM
Who: Theta Sigma and Rose Tyler
What: Somebody has to get the kid to go to bed!
Where: The gym
When: Day 19, Time Lord bed time
Rating: A for Adoreable

Under rather dubious circumstances the boy who'd run around calling himself Theta Sigma, or just Sigma, all day found himself back in the gym. He hadn't wanted to come back here. No, it'd been his intention to keep looking for the TARDIS until he'd run out of places to look. He'd tried every door he could find, and even some things that weren't doors. All had landed with the same result: No TARDIS. He hadn't give up hope, though! He'd find that TARDIS and the mean old Doctor would get everybody back home. He'd take him back to Gallifrey and Spock back to Vulcan and Dora back to England! They'd all get to go home!

Instead, he was dragging little red chucks down the road with half lidded eyes until he'd been told it was time to go back into the gym for the night, which made him sort of cranky. "I don't want to!' he'd protested to his caretaker even as he was being scooped back up and carried up the stairs and inside.

Though, once he was in past the double doors and set down on hard wood he was suddenly much more awake, even if all the other kids were settling in for bed. No, he saw a giant gym of possibilities, now; maybe the TARDIS was actually here? Splitting from the bunch he'd slip back into a dark corridor. It was sort of scary, yeah; but, it was the perfect hiding place for a TARDIS! Look at all those lockers! Clank! Squeal! Slam! He was working his way down the row. He still had the entire other side to go. Sorry, Sigma, if you thought you could search for the TARDIS undetected, you were sorely mistaken.

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fromgallifrey
2009-08-20 05:16 pm UTC (link)

"I know," he said quietly. Not that the Doctor had managed a difficult life, in so much that the Time Lord wasn't really mean. Cranky, perhaps; but not out and out mean. The sensitive boy was good at reading people; he didn't get mallice from the Time Lord, just pain. Still, it made him feel better to call it mean-ness, it meant that he didn't have to feel bad for the older man. No, he could just call it 'mean' and dismiss it entirely. He could ignore the pain and just be angry right on back.

"Gallifrey?" She didn't know about Gallifrey, either? "I live in a house on the side of a mountain with my family," his mum, his dad, a brother, perhaps. Though, it seemed the more he talked they seemed less important than the man who lived down the side of the mountain. "Down at the bottom there's the Hermit. He asks all sorts of questions and tells me stories." He was breathing a little more steadily as he thought. "The sky is orange and red, though sometimes they turn it blue," he laughed a little. "Don't know why they do that bit," he shrugged. "But, the ground and rocks are red and the grass is, too. I don't know why everything is green here, though. Do you know why?" He looked away. "Though, I miss the silver leafed trees and the two suns... and I miss the citadel, too. It's big and it's glass and you can see it from my house!" He sounded excited. "That's where the Time Lords go to, the Citadel."

He breathed a moment. "What's your home like?"

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jeopardysfriend
2009-08-20 05:25 pm UTC (link)

Rose was smiling as Sigma described his home for her. In his childish voice, it was almost possible to forget that the man she cared so much about would never return to that beautiful planet, with the different colours and the beautiful glass building. "It sounds wonderful," she told him, absently running her fingers through his hair. "I think the grass here is green because of...chloraphyll?" As she'd told his adult self, botany was not Rose Tyler's best subject. "Just as I'm sure there are chemicals and elements that make your ground red instead." Two suns, silver-leafed trees... No wonder he missed it so.

She'd give her own heart to let this little boy go back to the home he loved so much. And, perhaps, the older version, as well. Despite the hurt he'd caused her, she wouldn't wish the loss of their home on anyone. And he tried so, so hard to keep any other race from losing their home, too. It wasn't fair. It wasn't fair at all.

Leaning her head against the wall, she considered. "My home... It's busy. It's not nearly as beautiful as yours. It's full of buildings, large metal structures that go really high. There's a large river nearby, but it's old and dirty because the people who lived before my time didn't take care of it." How many would describe the great Thames quite the way Rose did? "There are people, so many people, all going their own way without notice of each other. And the grass, what we have of it, is green just like here. But mostly it's all concrete...a sort of man-made stone. It's wonderful, in it's own way, but it's nothing like your home." No, his home sounded like a race of people who appreciated what they had. Rose had learned the hard way that humans rarely did.

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fromgallifrey
2009-08-20 05:50 pm UTC (link)

"Chlorophyll?" He asked, pondering. "It's the Iron in the grass that turns red as it oxidizes," the Hermit had taught him that.

He was thinking more of home and less of how it could really be gone. He was thinking of the things he could still see in his mind's eye. Things he hoped he'd see again. Though, like a flash he was imagining Rose's home. A place with tall, twisting structures that brushed space itself as they pushed out of the atmosphere! Where the river was bright yellow with age and people hustled about in flying cars and busses and tiny little floating skooners. A place where green and grey crisscrossed across the land in jagged ribbons. It sounded wonderfully interesting to him.

"I'll sneak you back to Gallifrey when I get back home. I want to show you my rock pile and my books and the Hermit." He was talking more slowly now as the little Time Lord started to drift. "You and Sarah Jane and Remy. You're all going to come see Gallifrey."

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