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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 09:32 pm UTC (link)
At his command, Shannon looked back at the Doctor, feeling her chest tightening in that uncomfortable tell-tale way she knew all too well as a warning sign. At least she had inhalers stocked in the museum, now, thanks to Domeki. With each "yes?" Shannon nodded rather than waste her breath speaking.

The Doctor sounded so calm and confident even when he had no idea what was out there. Shannon had never seen the Smoke Monster. She'd heard it like this and she'd heard whispers of people talking about it when they thought no one else was listening. Still, Shannon nodded again and, with effort, forced herself to back away from the railing and back into the museum.

She could feel the rumble in her chest and could hear the wheezing when she took a breath. At that all too familiar sound, she forced herself to turn and paw through her stash of alcohol, tea, water, apples, and SlimFast bars for one of the inhalers. She didn't hesitate pulling off the cap and taking a puff on it, even as she looked back toward the door in fear, looking probably like a scared little girl, huddled on the floor with her asthma inhaler and wrapped tightly in a blanket. She was exhausted and afraid...and all she wanted was to be numb.

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-04-16 09:46 pm UTC (link)
He could hear the rumbling of her breath as it passed through her lungs and back out again. It was the asthma, taking hold. With a quiet sense of relief he watched as she backed into the museum and through the door. Carefully, quietly, he shut the door, walking to the left of the entry to push one of the heavy display stands against the door. If Sam came back in the middle of this, he'd have to wait for the Doctor to let him in because that case was going to be rough to move on it's own.

He heard her rifling through her things, searching for an inhaler. When the Doctor finally found a spot to sit he wasn't very far away - but he didn't want to impede. He was fairly certain it would be best to let her have some air. Some quieter, more restful air.

"I wish you could meet Rose," he said off handedly. "She's not too different in age from you. She has this funny way of not being afraid of anything - never seen anything like it, actually. One time she actually stood up to the Sycorax. Can you believe that? A species that lives for conquest like locusts, and she was standing there spouting off about the Shadow Proclamation, and the Gelf, and Raxacoricofallapatorias like she'd spent her whole life there. Meanwhile, whole time, shaking in her boots. Though, she did it because she was the defender of the earth. Well, that and daft."

The Doctor knew he was babbling - but he needed to babble. He needed to fill that silence. He needed to fill it with the happiest thing he could think of - and in that moment it was Rose.

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