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The Doctor ([info]fromgallifrey) wrote in [info]vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-04-16 19:42:00

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Current location:The Art Museum
Current music:Martha's Theme
Entry tags:!complete, day 04, location: museum, shannon rutherford, the doctor (ten)

Evening, Day 4
Who: Shannon and the Doctor
When: Evening day 4
What: Listening to what goes bump in the night
Where: The museum
Rating: PG-13 for suspense and probable language
Status: Complete

The day had been a roller coaster. More people had gone missing; a body found in the woods; and Martha Jones nowhere to be found. It was not hard to believe that the Doctor was a basket case - well, at least internally. Thus, the habitually hyperactive Doctor was eager to go look for supplies from the thrift store and petrol station with Shannon. He couldn't stay in one place - there just wasn't a chance of it. He had a basket on each arm, a can or two of this and that in one; and a couple extra blankets in the other. Shannon had warned that the floor was hard; so, the Doctor figured it would do him well to gather some padding.

Coming up through the door that had Shannon's note of occupancy on it, the Doctor hardly paid any attention. It was kind of strange, though, coming in to a place where he had felt formerly so unwelcome. Peeking within he looked left and right, half expecting to run in to Sam. Sam wasn't much taller than him - three inches, perhaps; yet, the Doctor found himself looking up for him.

Looking around he found a cleared spot and waited for Shannon to point which way they ought to actually be heading. This was her and Sam's place, wasn't it? Narrowing his eyes for a moment he took a few slow steps up Van Gogh's Starry Night - the canvas much bigger than it ought to be and the colors just a shade off. It was clearly a fake; but, it was almost surreal to see it there, strung up like a real piece of art. "Well look at that?" He said, pointing, "You know he painted this while in asylum," the Doctor quipped, straightening the frame just a bit. "Not a half bad fake, I'd say."

Letting his mind wander he started to think that Martha would have liked to have met Van Gogh. Letting his mind shift a bit he wondered what he'd have to do once they got out of there to convince her to travel with him one more time - just one more time to see Van Gogh. My, he was worried about her.


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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-04-16 09:08 pm UTC (link)
Shannon's breath had gone shallow and ragged as she looked back at the Doctor with the same raw fear she'd looked at Jack with when she'd been having her first asthma attack on the Island. She opened her mouth to speak and a hiccup of a squeak came out instead, but she nodded.

Feeling paralyzed with fear wasn't something Shannon recognized. Even back on the Island, she hadn't felt as much fear as she felt now, if only because back then she'd felt a certain sort of denial that anything could happen to them before the rescue boat came. Here, she had no bubble of security whatsoever and it was worse, still, because at least the Island hadn't been an enclosed space.

"They're coming," she whispered. "Like they came for Claire and Charlie... The Others, it's them, I know it's them. The Smoke Monster..." she babbled disjointedly, pausing to hiccup over a sob she didn't want to release. Her eyes went back to the Doctor's face just before he looked over his shoulder. You can't stop it; nobody can, she thought miserably.

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-04-16 09:19 pm UTC (link)
She was breaking. She had told him that she had stress induced asthma. He could already see and hear the signs. The Doctor was not about to let her slip down that slope.

"Look, right here," he said, forcing her eyes right on his. "Alright, now I want you to listen. You say there's a smoke monster out there, yes? Something fearsome and nasty, yes?" He took a breath, he was fairly certain she would be nodding and weezing any time now.

"Now, listen to me. I've dealt with worse then smoke monsters. How much worse? Flesh eating creatures worse. They took one look at me, heard my name, and they ran, Shannon. Now, listen to me, we're going to go in there where it's warmer and a bit more quiet. We're going to close the door, and if something is unfortunate enough to come through it, I promise you that it will regret it."

There was no movement by the Doctor to look over his shoulder again. As far as he was concerned there was no noise, no whipping of the trees and no talk of smoke monsters. He had a girl who was going to wind herself up into not being able to breathe if she wasn't careful. He needed her to trust him - if he picked her up and carried her inside she never would; so, the Doctor held his ground - that space between she and the howling.

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