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Dora Tonks is (polymorphic) wrote in vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-05-25 19:40:00

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!complete, day 08, location: museum, nymphadora tonks, the doctor (ten)

Who: Tonks and the Doctor
What: Running to burn off energy!
Where: Starting at the Museum
When: Afternoon
Rating: Low-ish?

Tonks was irritated, truth be told. This was mostly because there was someone trying to be her. Some people might have thought it was ironic, that the person who could be people was upset over someone trying to be her, but it wasn't that. She was new here and still had to build people's trust. How, on Merlin's beard, would that be accomplished by the subterfuge used by someone else?

Not only that, but Tonks did not use that much slang. Or, if she did, it was generally because she was upset. Still, thought the pink-haired woman as she made her way toward the museum, the slang could come in handy. They were going to need a code eventually. Jean was right about that. Maybe rhyming slang was the code they could use. Hair was in pigtails, thanks to the hairties that were left on her person, and bootlaces tied up tight. Wouldn't do any good to fall flat on her face while running. Then she was looking for the man everyone called the Doctor, who would be her running partner this afternoon. Safety in numbers, and she was able to meet yet another person. Both were excellent things.

This was her line of thinking as she headed up the road. And stumbled over a half-hidden rock in the road. "Pavement. Pavement would be ace, thanks." Said to no one in particular.

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polymorphic
2009-05-25 10:38 pm UTC (link)

"I'd wager that they are!" Laughing, Tonks started jogging beside the Doctor and took in a breath before letting it out slowly. "I propose joggin' for most everyone who's getting wonky in here." Said with a firm nod. Then she was curious.

"Oi, you're one of the ones who knows about those Weevil blokes, yeah? What's their deal?" Someone had said that they were creatures, ready for the kill. But the Doctor and a few others defended them. Tonks preferred to understand both sides of the story before deciding something was truly a Dark Creature or not.

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fromgallifrey
2009-05-25 10:45 pm UTC (link)

"A jog would certainly do that lot a great deal of good," the Gallifreyan replied with a waggle of his brow. He wasn't quite used to running just for it's own sake - generally used to being chased actually - so to be jogging was a unique experience in the realm of things he'd been up to lately.

"The Weeviles?" The Doctor replied, hopping over a snarled tree root with ease. "Ah, well, they, er.." He wasn't quite sure how to explain the Weevils quite away, so, he didn't bother trying. "Well, they tend to show up any time there is a rift in time and space - especially in Cardiff, actually," the Doctor liked Cardiff; wished he could be there right about now. "They're of fairly low level intelligence; though, it's not all that common that they go off seeking people to feed off of. Usually they just stick to sewage, actually."

Yes, the Doctor was rambling and jogging and he didn't even sound like he was short of breath. Good knowing that this place hadn't managed to get him out of shape yet.

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polymorphic
2009-05-26 11:01 am UTC (link)

Tonks had heard a lot of things and, being as she was a witch and saw things that other people considered weird a lot, was relatively easy going with all of the traveling stuff. But this? This was fantastic! "You travel through time and space? Wicked!" Honestly, she felt like she was twelve again and reading her dad's muggle science fiction books.

It was probably a good thing that she was on the other side of the root, because otherwise she definitely would have fallen face first. As it was, there was the occasional trip or stumble while they jogged. "S'that why the Captain got all defensive over them? Just animals like?"

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fromgallifrey
2009-05-26 11:07 am UTC (link)

Had he said that? Had he said that he had travelled through time and space? Really? He didn't recall saying that; but, just because she'd sort of inferred, didn't mean that he ought to go and try and lie about anything. That would be sort of pointless and only lead to complications later.

"I'm sort of surprised by Jack. I'm not sure what sort of reaction I expected him to have to the Weevils, actually." The Doctor was musing. He was proud of Jack, even if he didn't say so in as many words. No moral ambiguity there - Jack was actually protecting them, not exterminating the Weevils as the Doctor imagined the 'old' Torchwood might have.

Another root and another hop. The Doctor's mind went back in time to the time he and Rose were forced to hop for their lives. That was a brilliant time and still made the Doctor smile.

"Tell me about where you're from, Tonks?" He asked, snapping himself away from the pleasant memory.

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polymorphic
2009-05-26 12:26 pm UTC (link)

He hadn't, but she assumed. How else would he know about creatures who also came from time and space rifts? Tonks had a big imagination, really. She smiled and shrugged. "Sometimes some people, or creatures, ain't as bad as others make them out to be." So she told her werewolf friend time and time again.

Hah! This time she saw the root in her way and managed to hop over it as well. That caused a very triumphant smile to appear. Take that, root! At least it wasn't the troll-leg umbrella stand. That thing had it out for her, seriously it did.

"Oh, I'm from England. London, to be precise." Nothing out of the ordinary for that answer. "Though I wonder if my England's like yours..And we might never know." Wizards and witches didn't exactly go shouting from rooftops, the pink-haired witch thought with a wry smile. "I'm from the part that's got magic."

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fromgallifrey
2009-05-26 01:19 pm UTC (link)

"You're right about that," The Doctor mused. He liked Tonks' perspective - it was surprisingly refreshing. Usually, when people heard about things they didn't know or understand they just sort of assumed things. Bad things. With Tonks, it seemed to be just the opposite.

Looking over the Doctor caught sight of the triumphant look and grinned. That bit, that was fantastic.

"The magic sort?" The Doctor asked, ducking round a tree before returning back to her side. "You must be from the same place as Luna, then?" He asked, remembering Luna and her talk of magical London. Another world apart from his.

The Doctor, afterall, was quite certain he would have known if a magical London existed, even if it didn't want to be found.

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polymorphic
2009-05-26 01:34 pm UTC (link)

"Yea! And the other bird, Merope? Though she's from me an' Luna's past. And I'm from Luna's past." Though she didn't stop jogging, she was obviously thinking about that. And stayed quiet for a moment or two before talking again. "It's a bit weird, knowing that you're from someone else's past." It would likely be even more weird if Tonks ever found out what happened. Time-travel rules were there for a reason, though.

"Where are you from, Doctor? D'you mind if people call you Doc?" If it was his name, the title, then she supposed that it would be more polite to ask first whether a shortening was alright.

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fromgallifrey
2009-05-26 01:40 pm UTC (link)

"Oh, it's not that weird. I try not to cross my own timelines too often; though, it does happen every once in a while."

She and the Doctor were moving along at a pretty good clip, actually. The Doctor's cheeks were starting to flush as twin hearts pumped away in his chest. It was nice to have a respiratory bi-pass sytem, it let him talk a bit without sounding winded.

"Chiswick," he said. It had been his story from they very first person he'd met, and it would be his only story. Well, unless Jack asked. Apparently, Jack knew more than he did anyway. Jack AND Sarah. Maybe even Ianto, too. The Doctor didn't much care for being in this position.

"I've never met so many people wanting to call me that, actually. Usually it's Doctor."

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polymorphic
2009-05-26 02:07 pm UTC (link)

She laughed, though it came out quieter than it would have normally since they were running at a good pace now and it was a bit more difficult to talk and keep up the pace. "What kind of wizard are you, then? Different than us, obvi." Of course he was a wizard. What sort of Muggle did all the time travelling sort of stuff? "Oh Chiswick! I'm off in Stepney." Said with a nod and a smile.

"Quite proper of you, Doctor." Her cheeks were pinking up as she looked over, amused. "What's it you do when not kept in ant houses like this one?"

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fromgallifrey
2009-05-26 03:38 pm UTC (link)

"Wizard?" Well, he hadn't been accused of being a wizard for quite a few years, actually. "I'm not a wizard." He said this plainly, and on this point there was no room for argument. Not that the Doctor had anything against wizards - he just thought that calling him one was a sort of insult - he was a Time Lord, big difference.

"Oh Stepney!" He said with a sort of enthusiasm. He liked hearing people were from places he knew. Not that there were all that many places he didn't know...

"Oh, it's just my name, is all," he said narrowly avoiding a tree branch. Squinting the Doctor realized they were quite close to the church. They had come quite a way, hadn't they?

"Oh, I travel," completely accurate.

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polymorphic
2009-05-27 10:28 am UTC (link)

"Not a wizard." She repeated, definitely curious now. "Just a bloke, then?" Not that she believed that at all, but it was amusing to think that a simple bloke could do magical time-travelling stuff. Then Tonks was nodding cheerfully, thinking about home.

Of course, thinking about home got her thinking about her family and friends. "Do you reckon that time's stood still while we're stuck here? Or that our friends and family are looking for us?" She hoped for the former, really. They didn't need to search for her on top of everything else. A frown turned her mouth downward slightly, but then Tonks shook it off. It didn't hurt that she had to pay attention to where they were going.

Back to the other subjects! "Where's your favourite place so far?" Tonks stopped then, catching her breath a little and feeling better. "Oi, there's the church!" She noticed it as well.

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fromgallifrey
2009-05-27 09:22 pm UTC (link)

"No." He said it plainly. He certainly wasn't a wizard nor was he 'just a bloke,' either. The Doctor had spent the last eight days trying to avoid telling anyone about himself; partly out of fear that what had happened on Midnight might happen here, too. A bunch of humans running about blaming him for everything. Somehow with all of them, it was always his fault.

"I'm quite certain time has not stood still, it always keeps moving," the Doctor was quite certain of that bit. It would take a lot of energy to stop time; to invert temporal fields and keep the bowels of time from clanking away. No, time kept moving in all their universes. He wondered what Tonks' universe was doing right then.

"Favorite place?" The Doctor sort of shook his head. He really couldn't say. It wouldn't make any sense. He could never go back to his favorite place again.

"Won't you look at that," he said, his pace slowing a bit to take in the structure. "Has good bones, this one," he said, referring to the construction; a lesser structure would have fallen in on itself long ago.

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polymorphic
2009-05-27 09:55 pm UTC (link)

No, not just a bloke either. "You're a mineral, then?" She grinned, asking the next question as if they were playing Twenty Questions. Then was chuckling and tightened up her updone hair, thinking about time. "Hopefully it's moving..slowly."

Then the nosy witch was lifting her eyebrows and placed a hand on skinny hip. "You travel, and don't have a favourite place? That's just silly." Tonks trailed off, looking at the church as well, and smiled. "Nice t'know that it withstood this cage. If it can, then so can we." Said in determination.

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