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The Doctor ([info]fromgallifrey) wrote in [info]vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-03-28 21:31:00

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Entry tags:!complete, day 02, location: gas station, shannon rutherford, the doctor (ten)

Who: Doc and Shannon
Where: On the road between the gas station and art gallery
When: Just after sun-up, day 2
What: Not feeling happy.
Rating: None
Status: Complete

The world was again wet feeling.

The world was wet feeling, cold, and dank.

Wet feeling, cold, dank, and surprisingly quiet.

Well, quiet until the birds started heralding the morn and the Doctor awoke in the chair at the front of the gas station's convenience store alone. He'd slept lightly, but to see the boxes of supplies left him feeling a twinge that was mostly unfamiliar. He hadn't managed as much exploration as he would have liked the day before - mostly because the glass wall had managed to rather effectively dampen his spirits.

True to form, however, The Doctor would not have his spirits dampened by inoppertune weather or an uncomfortable circumstance. An entire race of genocidal robots didn't call him the oncoming storm for nothing. He scraped himself out from behind the counter and stepped out onto the road trying to take in the scope of the world around him. The town, for all it was worth, seemed vacant. No matter what his ego had to say about the whole situation there was no way this place was built for just him and Dean.

"Hello? Anybody else around out there?" He called from the doorway before stepping out from beneath the awning and out into the street.

Hopefully nobody else would respond. As much as the Doctor craved adventure and companionship, he wouldn't want anyone else to be dropped in this science experiment.




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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-03-28 10:14 pm UTC (link)
It was still dark when Shannon's eyes opened and she looked blearily around the room. The torch she'd made was still alight although the flames were weaker now than when she'd shoved the end of it into a tight crevice in the floor so that it'd stay upright. She groaned and closed her eyes again. Not a dream, then. No Sayid, no Vincent. No dirt or sand; just a dusty wooden floor beneath her. She let out a pouty moan and frowned.

Hello? Anyone else around out there?

Shannon sat bolt upright. That was another person. A male person! Thank God!

"Yes! Hello?!" she shouted back, getting to her feet and all but running across the room, yanking the door of the building open again and looking out. The voice was faint in the distance and she couldn't see anyone when she looked left and right, but she knew there were buildings nearby. She just couldn't tell from which direction the voice was coming because of the echo in the early morning air.

It was raining again and Shannon wasn't planning on going outside fully until she knew for sure. "Hello!" she called out pitifully. "Over here!" Maybe whoever he was, he'd be able to tell where her voice was coming from and he'd either come to her or at least come into view.

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-03-28 10:23 pm UTC (link)
'Yes! Hello!' Was the first voice he heard from his spot. 'Hello!' the same feminine voice followed up. The voice, it seemed, sounded desperate. He didn't like the sounds of desperation much.

Pulling up his collar the Doctor was following the sound of the voice; or at least where he'd thought he'd heard the voice come from. At first he didn't see a structure and thought that he'd heard things - that his mind was playing tricks on him.

Dragging his feet along a bit he listened harder. 'Over here!' "Hello?! Are you in there?" He asked, taking a look at the crumbling sort of building. It was large, and it was all he could do not to want to walk all the way around it just to see how big it actually was.

"Well, hello!" He said cheerfully from his spot on the street in front of the building. Suddenly the rain didn't matter too much. It was someone else.

Oh drat, it was someone else.

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-03-28 10:32 pm UTC (link)
Continuing to look around, Shannon heard his voice call back, a lot louder. She took a few steps outside the building. Enough so that she was still beneath the awning, but so that she would be out in plain sight.

She heard a 'well, hello!' to her right and she startled, whirling around. "Oh thank God, I--"

Shannon completely deflated as she cut herself off and she saw him. He wasn't any bigger than she was. "Oh," she said in a far less relieved and much more disappointed voice. "Hi. Are you...Sam?" she tried.

She sincerely hoped not, since Sam had been the one in the journal talking about getting out of there and if this was Sam, well...they were screwed, because she couldn't even begin to fathom a guy this size trying to break the glass wall when Shannon herself hadn't been able.

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-03-28 10:39 pm UTC (link)
'Oh thank God, I--'

Could the Doctor help but beam a little? Of course not. All he wanted to do was be helpful, and with a reaction like that he certainly was helpful or at least wanted.

'Oh,' That came next and that didn't sound good.

In fact, that 'oh,' made him want to deflate. Was that actually a sound of disappointment? Well, THAT he wouldn't stand for.

'Are you Sam?' She asked. "Sam? No, I'm the Doctor," he grinned cheekily hopping up into the doorway because he really didn't want to stand outside and soak further. "Who's Sam?" He was holding out hope that Sam was someone who'd left instructions on how to leave this place.

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-03-28 10:47 pm UTC (link)
Shannon took a few steps back, cautiously, eying him as he hopped up into the doorway. "The Doctor," she said with suspicious glance. It wasn't a question. Swallowing thickly, she looked back at him warily. That was far too much enthusiasm on top of the fact that he'd given a title rather than a name. He was too calm to be a captive. Maybe...she was looking right at an Other and she didn't even know it. They'd never seen any of the others, save Ethan and he disappeared after Claire had been found.

Shannon took another step back. "Sam's--" she started and cut herself off. No, the normal reflex excuse wouldn't work. Sam was obviously not her boyfriend or husband if she'd been asking this guy if he was Sam.

Licking her lips, she stared back at him. "This guy from the journal," she finally said honestly, for lack of a better option.

She paused and sized him up. If he was part of the reason here, the cheerfulness could be a facade. She could take him, maybe, if he attacked her. As she backed herself into the wall without realizing she'd even still been moving, she realized, well...she'd have to, if he did. "Where'd you come from?" she asked. "I was looking..." she added, putting on what she hoped was a confident and self-sufficient expression. One that she hoped said if he planned on touching her, she'd kick his ass. Or try. No way was she just going to stand there and let him drug her again if he was the one who'd done it to begin with and she sure as hell didn't like the idea of anything else he could be capable of, especially when she thought back on her conversation with Laura and how the possibility of rape had come up. Like hell she was letting him get any closer, at that thought.

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-03-28 10:58 pm UTC (link)
She repeated his name back at him, and it was sort of refreshing not to reply with the customary, 'just the Doctor.' In fact, he almost had, rendering it necessary to literally swallow his words.

"The journal?" He asked trying to smother the life out of his hair as he wondered just what she was talking about exactly. "What journal?" Maybe the journal was some sort of instruction manual left by the people who made the town?

"Oh, I came from the gas station, right over there," He said this as he pointed in a direction through the wall. "It's hasn't got power, however," he said kind of sadly.

"You haven't seen Dean around, have you?"

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-03-28 11:13 pm UTC (link)
He either hadn't noticed her fear or he didn't care and he was messing with her. Shannon licked her lips. "Just...my journal," she said carefully, watching his face for any sort of recognition. Please God, let him know what I'm talking about, because if he doesn't have a journal, I'm so fucked... she thought miserably.

While she took a mental note of the fact that he was aware of the gas station she'd been too lazy to go into yesterday, as well as the fact that it apparently had no power (which didn't surprise her, as her own building didn't, either), she still eyed him warily. "Dean?" she asked, confused. "No. No Dean. You're the first person I've seen since--" she cut herself off and shook her head. "You're the first person I've seen." She might not have liked George, but there was no reason to put the poor girl on this guy's radar just because Shannon had been stupid enough to respond to a strange voice without anyone to back her up should he be dangerous.

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-03-28 11:21 pm UTC (link)
Reaching into his jacket pocket (it paid to be a timelord) he pulled out the journal. "So you got one of those handy dandy welcome to the wilderness packs, too, eh?" he asked opening the book for the first time. There were all kinds of scribbles in there, weren't there.

"Doesn't make much sense their giving out used journals, eh?" The journal he'd read later, for now he was sort of concerned that the girl looked kind of terrified. Terrified of what exactly he wasn't sure.

She'd started saying he was the first person she'd seen since someone. He didn't want to press. She was scared, being pushy wasn't going to help at all. "Well, I woke up in the woods with Dean he seems like the generally helpful sort. Though, when I woke up this morning he was gone," the Doctor said this sort of distractedly as he tried to think of where Dean could have gone off to.

"Are you alright?" The Doctor asked, eyes awfully full of concern. "You look like you've had a rough go."

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-03-28 11:37 pm UTC (link)
When the man who called himself The Doctor reached into his jacket, she flinched, relaxing only when he pulled out a journal almost identical to the one she'd had in her kit. Then, he asked if she had gotten a kit and she relaxed entirely, letting out a huff of relieved half-laughter as she dropped her head back against the wall of the building. He was one of them...he wasn't an Other.

"Yeah. It wasn't used," she pointed out. "Mine was empty when I first wrote in it and then all this other stuff started showing up on it. Stuff that wasn't my handwriting," she explained.

He explained that he'd woken up in the woods, too, with someone named Dean and Shannon nodded, understanding. "Me too. Uh, only, not with a guy named Dean," she clarified. "Obviously..." she added, wanting to roll her eyes at herself for the unnecessary clarification.

Shaking her head, Shannon looked back at the man and gave a half-apologetic smile. "I'm about as far from all right as I've been in over a month," she replied honestly, "but I just...thought maybe you were someone else," she added, furrowing her brow. "I'll be okay."

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-03-29 12:34 pm UTC (link)
He listened as she talked about the journal. Sure, at the moment he'd take it at face value - he'd just have to run some trials later to see what happened when he wrote something in it.

The Doctor didn't bother to really respond much to her ramblings about not being with Dean and such slide. She was just sort of shaken up, as her following bit proved.

"Someone else - Sam, right?" He didn't know who Sam was; but, he assumed that he seemed to be at least a little important to her. Watching her mannerisms, the apologetic smile and the furrowed brow that followed, the Doctor was fairly certain that she wasn't in fact okay. Though, if he had to guess, the first step to being OK was getting her and Sam and Dean out of this place.

"Do you know how many other people there are here?"

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-03-29 01:45 pm UTC (link)
"Sam? No, I was hoping you were Sam," Shannon clarified. In the interest of keeping from sounding like a complete nutcase - again - Shannon chose not to divulge who exactly she thought the Doctor was. "I don't even know who Sam actually is, hence my asking you," she added.

He asked if she knew how many other people were around and Shannon shook her head. "No, not really. In the journals there's some...seems like every five minutes I see a new name. Eight? Nine? Including you and Dean...maybe ten or eleven? I can't remember, but if you lemme look," she said, gesturing toward his journal, "I can pick out the different handwriting, I think. For the most part, anyway."

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-03-30 11:22 am UTC (link)
He held out the journal for her to look at. She was sharp, sharper than most anyway. It made the Doctor smile.

"You're pretty clever, you know?" That was a pretty big compliment coming from the Doctor. He thought he was very clever; so, to call someone else clever was fairly endearing.

"Eleven people?" His brow furrowed mentally betting there'd be more than that. Judging from her accent they weren't all going to be from the UK, either.

"I think I'm going to go explore more, try and find more people. Up for an adventure?" He asked this with the most charming, excitable Doctor smile- it was sort of patented for when he invited people to come explore the TARDIS, though, this sort of situation warranted the same sort of excitement, really.

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-03-30 11:43 am UTC (link)
Shannon gave him a weak smile and took the journal, flipping through the pages and counting the different handwriting in it. "Oh, wow," she said softly. "Fourteen, including you and Dean," she told him, handing back the journal. "And people didn't wake up alone...so there's bound to be more than the people who've actually written in here. Like, that Dean guy you're talking about? He hasn't written in it yet, at least as far as I know; I've been introducing myself to everybody and taking names for Sam's census. I'd remember if I heard 'Dean' because Sam's looking for someone with that name."

Clever, where Shannon was normally concerned, went directly hand in hand with being manipulative and coy and was not entirely a compliment, but given his accent, maybe the word had different connotations wherever he came from by comparison. His tone of voice seemed genuine enough and Shannon knew that, in a literal sense, it meant 'smart.'

"Thanks," she replied. "I'm really not...it's common sense stuff, I just haven't got anything better to do," she added with a shrug. She thought of the way Kate always went straight into the eye of the storm and Shannon had only ever contributed her ability to speak and read French. This was no different. She wasn't really doing anything important; it was busy work. That was all anyone ever trusted Shannon to do.

Here, take this and get out of the way, Shannon, she thought to herself.

Only, he was asking her to come along to find more people. Looking back at him, she decided that he was good looking...albeit in a pretty, Boone sort of way, which wasn't really her style, but Shannon's comfort zone included good-looking people, however shallow a person that made her. He was smiling widely at her and Shannon dipped her head. No, she'd only get in his way, if she went along. "It's raining," she replied, running her hands through her hair only to push it away from her face. "I'd only get in the way, anyway, but thanks," she added.

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-03-30 11:51 am UTC (link)
Judging Dean a bit harshly the Doctor had a feeling the only thing Dean was looking to do with the journal was use it when he went to the loo.

"Well, I'd say you're clever. Not many people would think of paying attention to handwriting. Besides, what you're doing is important. There's nothing more important we can do than organize," he looked a bit serious there, a sharp contrast to the sparkly smile that had slipped off his face once she'd declined his offer.

"Get in the way?" He didn't see how that was possible - but he got the snese from Shannon that pushing her certainly wasn't the way to go. The rain, he'd decided, was just an excuse. Then again, adventure wasn't for everyone, was it?

"Suit yourself, I suppose," He thought for a moment that he ought to ask her to keep an eye out for his friends. Though, he didn't want them here. This wasn't a place to want someone to be - a cage, a prison, a rank dirty old place.

"You know how to reach me if you need to," he said, waving the journal a bit before putting it back in his pocket. "If I'm back this way, you mind if I pop in to dry off?"

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-03-30 12:18 pm UTC (link)
Shannon gave the Doctor another shrug and another weak smile to go with it. "I'm not really good at a lot of things, but I am kind of anal retentive with organization, so...it's not that hard for me. No big deal, but, I mean, if it helps..."

She'd noticed the way his smile had fallen away when she'd rejected the offer to come along. For all it was worth, Shannon couldn't figure out why he'd seemed so disappointed when she had expressed disinterest in going along. That was new. Shannon was used to people being disappointed when she showed interest in tagging along. "Yeah, I'm kind of useless, so..." Shannon let her voice trail off and she shrugged again, tucking her hair behind her ears. But he seemed willing to let the subject drop, which was simultaneously a relief and a disappointment to Shannon. On one side of the coin, he wasn't going to be pushy, it seemed like, but on the other, his willingness to let it drop lent Shannon the idea that he was only asking her along because she happened to be the only one around just then; not because he actually wanted her company. It wasn't anything new, though, so she wasn't actually surprised by it.

Nodding at the sentiment, Shannon gave him another weak smile. "Yep," she confirmed. "So long as you remember to look at it every once in a while, anyway," she added.

Actually, she did mind if he 'popped in' to dry off, because as nice and harmless as the guy seemed, Shannon still didn't trust him as far as she could throw him. Maybe he just wouldn't come back around knocking on her door, though, so as a formality, she nodded again. "Sure, yeah," she replied.

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-03-30 01:31 pm UTC (link)
It took him a little while to figure it out (must be the exhaustion creeping up on him); but, the Doctor finally figured out just what was going on. She was wounded. He knew that look - in fact he'd given it to Rose a million times over. Though, he'd never been one to downplay himself - he would avoid like mad, pushing and yanking and forcing things away. Wrathful and sad and a bit broken. Crossing his arms a tick he tried to think of what he could say. There wasn't much, was there?

"Well, I happen to think you're very clever and useful," was the best he could come up with and he punctuated it with a firm nod. A nod that said, 'no, you're not going to change my mind.'

"I don't beg very often; but, I do give chances - you sure you don't want to come?" He said, kicking a rock before squinting in the direction of what looked to be... a carnival?

"Come if you want yo, I think I actually see a Ferris Wheel..." His feet were almost squeaking on the ground as he walked abruptly off in the direction of the assorted structures.

That was.. odd.

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-03-30 01:41 pm UTC (link)
Smiling back at the Doctor, Shannon shook her head. "Well, thanks, then," she finally said. Her expression was meant to let him know that even if she didn't agree with him, she appreciated the sentiment.

"I think you just don't wanna go by yourself, 'cause you're scared," Shannon teased, rather than take the offer seriously, because that would've meant believing for a heartbeat that someone actually genuinely wanted her around. "Thanks anyway, though. Good luck," she called after him as he started off.

Tucking her hair behind her ears again, as the wind had blown it free, she watched him go, Shannon shivered at the cold. Yeah, it was nice of him to ask, but he was on his own. It was still raining and, besides, she really would've just been in his way if he was actually planning on some sort of adventure in the midst of looking for people. Shannon was never good at all that. No reason to drag him down with her. The Doctor would do better without her.

With that thought, she sighed and headed back inside, closing the door behind her to keep out the cold.

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