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got2haveasmith (got2haveasmith) wrote in vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-06-07 16:17:00

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!dropped, day 10, jack harkness, location: museum, sarah jane smith

Day 10: Early Morning
Who: Sarah Jane Smith, Jack Harkness
What: reunion!
Where: museum
When: Day 10, early morning (let's say 8?)
Rating: TBA
Status: Active

Well, the museum was certainly not the most comfortable place Sarah Jane had slept, but it felt more secure than the carnival where she'd spent her first night. She could have been here for her first night as well - the Doctor had certainly offered - but she'd wanted to explore, and lost track of time, and didn't feel she should be walking across town after dark alone. It was far more comfortable than the carnival as well. The hard floor was at least able to be swept free of dirt and rocks. Sarah found that she couldn't sleep much past daybreak here, which was in keeping with her usual routine at home. And, being Sarah Jane, she couldn't keep still for long in the morning either. She'd munched on the remaining bits of venison she'd had from the day before, then decided to wander the museum.

She hadn't gone far before she spied a familiar figure in one of the exhibit rooms. She grinned, despite their circumstances. "Captain Harkness?" she said, stepping into the room. The Doctor had said he was here, but this was the first she'd seen of him.

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got2haveasmith
2009-06-15 04:17 pm UTC (link)

Sarah Jane blinked at Jack. "You have a pterodactyl? How long has it been there?" Operation: Golden Age had been years ago. The Doctor had been very different then, and so had she, although her change wasn't quite as dramatic. "If he's left over from when the tyrannosaurus went through London, he's been very good at hiding. It must have been at least thirty years back, perhaps nearly forty." She looked at him curiously. "Surely someone in your lot would have heard of it. The Brigadier's story wasn't good enough to escape notice by people in the know." She still wasn't quite sure how he'd managed to spin that particular episode, considering the city had been evacuated.

Sarah shut her eyes a moment as Jack confirmed what she hadn't wanted to accept. "I thought as much when he mentioned Donna and a mauve alert, and didn't know I had a son." Her eyes widened. "I hope I haven't mucked it up too badly for telling him about Luke." She considered Jack's words a moment. "Hang on, does that mean Martha isn't from our time either?" She didn't want to give up hope that the other woman was still here, somewhere, and still okay. That body she'd found with GLaDOS when they'd first arrived couldn't have been Martha's. It just couldn't.

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capt_harkness
2009-06-16 11:25 pm UTC (link)

How long had it been there? That was quite the easy question. "Little over two years," Jack replied. "One of my operatives found it and he used it as a bit of leverage to get a job with me. Have to say it worked." Jack rubbed his chin thoughtfully, the rememberance of a tyrannosaurus was only vague in the back of his mind. "Heard of it," He agreed with a nod of his head, "but don't completely remember it to be honest. Then again, the amount of 'spooky-dos' I've seen over the years, it'd be impossible for every one of them."

Jack reached out a hand, lightly rubbing Sarah's shoulder. "No, I don't think you've mucked it up. Besides, who knows what's going to happen with timelines now anyway with us lot here and no control over the outside world anymore. No one really knows how things will be affected." Jack frowned, slowly shaking his head. "Sarah... Martha isn't here," He said softly. "I heard she was here briefly but... I've been here nearly a week and I haven't seen her. I don't know what to tell you."

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got2haveasmith
2009-06-17 03:27 pm UTC (link)

Sarah Jane chuckled at his terminology. "'Spooky-dos'?" she asked. "Is that what we're calling them now?" If they'd only known about their pterodactyl for two years, it was unlikely to be a holdover from that horrible business years ago. Someone would have noticed it over the years, and done something about it.

At Jack's next words, Sarah Jane felt a chill go through her. She had been so pleased to see both him and the Doctor that she hadn't considered fully what that meant. All three of them here, no one keeping an eye on things properly. "This is intentional, then," she said, lips set in a thin line. She reached up to squeeze Jack's hand. "The sooner we get out of this place the better."

Her spirits sank further when Jack said he hadn't seen Martha. "The Doctor had," she said. "But said she'd gone missing." She closed her eyes for a moment, the image of that woman's body flashing in her mind. "When I first arrived, remember I said there was something awful I found in the woods? It was a woman's body, face too badly mangled to be recognizable. It couldn't...." She turned away from him as her voice caught in her throat. She'd known the woman for such a brief time, but still felt a close connection to her, as she did with any of the Doctor's companions she'd met.

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