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Remy LeBeau ([info]ace_of_clubs) wrote in [info]vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-07-16 02:38:00

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Entry tags:!complete, day 15, location: barn, remy lebeau, the doctor (ten)

Who: The Doctor & Remy LeBeau
What: Ten didn't lie, but he didn't tell the truth.
Where: The Barn
When: Day 15, 9:58 p.m.
Rating: PG-13 - Angsty!
Status: Complete

Remy was a confident sort of man. He always knew what he was doing (or so he'd like everyone to believe) and never second guessed himself. He made his decisions and he stuck with them, as a rule. Of course, some rules were meant to be broken. And while he'd been sitting there on the couch across from L'Autre Docteur and Rose, he'd been completely and totally confident. The other Doctor had smiled at her and had watched her a few times, but nothing more. He hadn't held hands with her or tried to kiss her or said anything that would indicate any feelings beyond friendship. He didn't even look particularly pathetic around her, as lovers often did around one another. As he imagined Jack would, around The Doctor. No. The big-eared Doctor and Rose had been completely platonic, though they'd laughed and chatted and picked on one another (the banter was amusing, actually), they hadn't seemed like anything more than friends.

When the more solemn Doctor, with those puppy-brown eyes had shown up, the mood hadn't chaged at all-- but he had watched, he had studied, and he had very quickly learned everything that he needed to know, but it didn't show on his face or in his attitude while the four of them were together. He'd laughed, he'd jokes, he'd picked fun at 'John Smith', and he'd flattered Rose, as was his won't when women were involved. And even after they'd left, Remy had remarked on the earlier version of the Doctor, and on how nice Rose seemed, but he didn't say much more about the encounter. Instead, he busied himself with other questions, other yapping about this, that, or the other. He'd kept it very light hearted, and hadn't asked anything else for a time. It wasn't until the two were sitting together on the couch, just on the other side of their shared bed, that the Cajun drew in a slow breath  and turned red eyes onto the Doctor.

"You ain' tell me you was in love wit' her." Well, when he got to the point, at least he did it. No beating around the bush when he finally got down to it.


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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-07-16 02:12 pm UTC (link)
He was there, his back up against a couch arm, hardly really listening to Gambit as he spoke. Gambit could actually out talk the Doctor at times like this: A Time Lrod known for being rambly was actually being out talked by a mutant.

Journal up, pencil in hand, the Doctor was carefully sketching. He was drawing Gallifrey with it's pillars and parapets, that shining glass dome and the mountains just behind. He needed to do something, and that something was not talk about Rose Tyler. Not think about Rose Tyler. Not have anything even remotely to do with Rose Tyler. He'd sent his mind back into his most painful memory in the hopes of avoiding thinking of the big fat wound right in front of him.

'You ain' tell me you was in love wit' her.'

Well, wasn't that the straw that broke the camels back?

The Doctor snapped his journal shut. "What are you talking about?"

That's right, Cajun, he wasn't going to come out and confirm anything you think you know. Additionally, he wasn't going to let you go on thinking it for long, either. "Rose Tyler i--was my companion. We travelled, that's all." And it was all. There'd been hugs (but the Doctor hugged pretty much everybody), there had been laughter, there had been life and death situations. There'd been no declarations of love, no hints at infatuation, and given the opportunity he hadn't even been able to tell her. That Rose, his Rose, the one he'd almost told? Cut off in a parallel world; where she'd never know. Too bad you don't know all this, Gambit.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-07-16 05:13 pm UTC (link)
"Tough' I was 'de liar an' you was 'de hones' one." He tilted his head some to the side as he watched the other man, dark eyes focused sharply onto him in the dim light. There was a little smile playing at his lips, but it wasn't anything great or grand, it didn't say he was happy, nor that this was a joke. But nor was it unsure and hesitant. It was simply there, because in a pinch, the thief smiled. It was his default setting, and though this one was small and quiet, it was still there.

"So does 'dis make me hones'?" Since The Doctor had taken up his role of being the liar.

But really, he wasn't planning on letting The Doctor answer that question. Because he was pushing himself to sit up more properly on the couch, legs stretching some, then bending in towards the bottom of the couch, socked feet slipping along the old wood. But his eyes never left the other man, turned to face him, back against the arm of the couch. So Gambit was turning then too, pulling one leg up into a sort of half-indian style position, while he let the other one hang off the couch. "She don' know?"

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-07-16 05:19 pm UTC (link)
The Doctor completely ignored the Cajun's insinuation that he was lying. That he was covering up or holding something back. That's what he did, he held everything back. He tucked it away and shielded the world from it all because that's what he was supposed to do. Always there and never present. The fact the Cajun was smiling, a gesture the Doctor intepreted as the Cajun implyng he knew something he didn't, was met with the stern face of the Time Lord.

"It doesn't make either of us anything. And it certainly doesn't make something from nothing." He opened his journal up again, back to Gallifrey.

The couch shifted as the Cajun curled up on it, getting comfortable. Remy's presence at this moment was irritating. It made the Gallifreyan internally wince. He didn't want to go through this. Not at all. "I need you to give Jack back his coat. Or I will." He interjected over the Cajun's 'She don' know?' in a distracted tone. He'd ignore it.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-07-16 05:34 pm UTC (link)
"I give him 'de coa' back, no worrie'." He tilted his body to the side, conforming it to the back of the couch and letting his head rest there a moment as he continued to study the other man, eyes drooping to half-lidded in his studies. And he was still for long enough that the Doctor might have believed that he had fallen asleep.. but then he was breathing in deeply through his nose, though his body didn't make any immediate movements. "Y' love her. Bu' she dunno who you are. She ain' your girl, she his girl, 'de youn'er you. Bu' she ain' really his. 'Dey ain' like you an' she. He don' look at her like you do." He finally sat upright, pushing away from the back of the couch and pressing his other knee up onto the couch, crawling forward on his knees, until they came near the Doctor's toes, where his legs were drawn up to use as an easel.

Then he tilted his upper body forward, reaching his arms around the Doctor on either side of him, and he planted them on the arm of the couch, effectively trapping the other man as his upper abdomen came to rest against the other man's knees. He was leaning slightly over him, but only slightly. He'd wanted his attention. He always wanted his attention. It was like a drug and Remy was the worst sort of junkie. "You t'inkin' 'bou' her?" When it was just the two of them, he meant. When they were alone and.. talking. Was he thinking about her?

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-07-16 05:43 pm UTC (link)
"Thank you."

His response was curt and quiet although the fervor of his drawing had taken on a life of his own. He was shading in the mountains of solitude and the area just below the dome where plains met glass. His hand was heavy and his strokes hard. He didn't want to talk, Remy, couldn't you see that?

Anything he'd said, everything he'd said the Doctor would ignore. Even as Remy crawled up and invaded his space, he'd continue to work. "I'm thinking about Gallifrey." How's that for honesty, Cajun. Because despite what the mutant might have intended, that was the response he was going to get. Rose had been off living her new life in another world for a long time now. Perhaps she and Mickey had managed back together. Rose and Mickey Mouse. Mickey who'd turned out to be more of a hero than the Doctor had originally thought. She was living her life there, without him, and he'd accepted it.

So, no, he wasn't thinking about her, Remy. Until now.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-07-16 05:49 pm UTC (link)
That damn journal. Remy remained where he was, stationary there against the Doctor's legs for a long moment, watching him sketch his birth place, before it finally got to him and he moved a hand away from the couch back suddenly, grabbed hold of the side of the book, and flung it away from them, a good ten feet, before it hit the ground and went sliding along the barn floor a few more feet, the journal still open, the pages flipping slowly in the breeze blowing through the drafty barn, until they stopped, flipped open to something blank. But Remy didn't notice, his eyes were locked onto the Doctor's brown set, eyebrows narrowed in some, but then that hand was coming right back down to the couch and resting there again.

"M' talkin' t' you. Don' do 'dat t' me. I 'serve more 'den bein' ignore'. Lookit me." It was a soft demand from the Cajun, who had every ounce of his attention focused completely onto the older man below him.

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-07-16 06:02 pm UTC (link)
There was a heavy scratch of black that ran across the page as the journal was yanked from his hands, leaving the Doctor with nothing to hide behind. when he managed to look up at the Cajun who for all intents and purposes was encasing him against the couch, there was a hardness to his gaze that didn't leave much to question as to what he was thinking just then.

"You're talking to me and making ridiculous assumptions that you know absolutely nothing about." Well, how's that for plain?

The Doctor actually pushed the Cajun's arm out of the way, pulling himself out of his part of the couch, down to it's end and quickly walking across the room to take up his journal. Flipping the pages back open to where he had been. He forced his narrowed eyes up from the page. He wasn't going to be making any apologies for this one. Not even a hint of an apology. Remy was trespassing in a place he was most certainly unwelcome.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-07-16 06:10 pm UTC (link)
"So tell me an' I won' know not'in' 'bou' it anymore!" He snapped back, quickly climbing off the couch and moving after the Doctor, gloved hand coming out to snatch the journal once again, plucking it violently from his hands and holding it behind his back. "I ain' uh chile, an' I ain' some stran'er. T'ough' you trus'e' me, Docteur. You keep doin' 'dis. You gimmie lil' by lil', 'den you shu' up an' you forge' 'bou' 'de times 'fore 'dis. 'Dis time ain' no differen' from 'de ot'ers. I'm still me an' you still you, an' I still ain' goin' 'way an' I still ain' gon' hur' you. C'mon, Docteur.." That last part was said more quietly and he wet his lips afterwards, but didn't break that eye contact he was holding with the other man.

"Why can' you tell me?" The Cajun asked after a short moment of silence. But at least he'd calmed down.

For now.

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-07-16 06:20 pm UTC (link)
"You don't get to know everything," he spat. Careful where you pushed Cajun, you might actually find yourself without the Doctor there to catch you.

When Remy snatched the journal, playing a game of keep away, the Doctor growled, throwing his pen at him, too. Had the Doctor wanted to he could have done some actual damage with that pen. Instead, it flopped off the Cajun's chest and onto the floor with a tap and a bounce.

"Stop behaving like a child," he said coldly, wishing he had his coat on so he could shove his hands in his pockets. "Just... stop." He knew it was no use even as he said it. "Just leave it.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-07-16 06:34 pm UTC (link)
The pen that impacted with his chest was ignored for the moment, but he'd pick it up later. He didn't want it to get lost, after all. The Doctor would need it back once this argument was over.

"I know you trus' me." He accused after the other man, turning to watch him as he backed off just a step. "I ain' askin' f' much, Docteur. Jus' tell me wha' happene'. I ain' 'de youn'er you, I ain' her. I ain' gon' ruin time or 'de fabric o' time or 'de universe or not'in' like 'dat. I ain' a time trav'ler. Not'in' you tell me gonna ruin' not'in'. I ain' nobody impor'an', not'in' you say to me gonna change not'in'. Not for time an' space, not for you an' her, an' not for you an' me, nei'ter. 'Cep' 'dere'll be on less lie you gotta tell me." He wasn't stupid, Doctor, he knew you probably lied to him, kept things from him, all that neat jazz, and he hadn't ever really minded.

But now one of those lies was very big, very real, and very blonde. And she was standing on their doorstep. Remy had decided it was time he needed to know.

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-07-16 06:48 pm UTC (link)
"That has nothing to do with it. This?!," he breathed, "This is none of your business." And it was none of the Cajun's business. He didn't need to know any of it. Not one little bit. Not what he knew about Rose Tyler. Not how he felt about rose Tyler. Not what he'd wanted to say to Rose Tyler. None of it.

"There's such a thing as privacy, I know it's a foreign concept. In this case, I invoke my right. By all authority of the Shadow Proclaimation I command you leave this bit of my bloody life alone." It was sort of wrong to use the Shadow Proclaimation that way, especially to a species under whose domain it didn't technically apply in this context. Still, it felt fitting. Just another thing to make the Cajun squirm.

"Anything else you care to press me on?" His voice sliced.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-07-16 06:56 pm UTC (link)
"I t'ink it's my business. You don't--" He stopped himself short and stared a moment, before moving in a step closer, lowering his voice down into just above a whisper. "You don' do wha' we done, Doct'r, 'den say 'dat you lovin' uh girl ain' my business." Well.. really.. normally it wouldn't matter to him. He knew that he'd been a substitute a few times, but it was okay because they'd meant nothing. The Doctor meant something, and Remy knew he meant something to.

"Don' go spittin' ou' 'dat alien shi' t' me, don' soun' impressive." He lowered red eyes between them for a second before he looked back up at him. "You los' her, non? She die? She leave you? You leave her? Tellin' me ain' gon' make not'in' worse, Docteur, on'y gonna make t'in's better. You don' gotta hi'e 'dat kin'a stuff from me. Ain' 'cause you wan' privacy, 'cause you don' wanna talk t'me 'bou' it. Maybe you don' wanna talk 'bou' it at all. Hur's, non? Know you ain' human, bu' I know you feel like 'dey do."

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-07-16 08:13 pm UTC (link)
He's not letting you in, Cajun. Not on this one. You can push you can pull you can clutch you can grab. When it comes to the Gallifreyan giving this up when the wound was so fresh and painful, you can forget about it. It was like he was back on the TARDIS watching the supernova sun die all over again and totally unable to say such very important words. Words he'd never get to say. He was hurting, mutant, let him just hurt.

The Doctor bristled. He knew what the Cajun was implying and his look could move mountains. "Don't you dare." Comparing? Was he really comparing? Was he really acting like he'd been supplanted? Who was this creature, Jack Harkness?

"You have no idea what I want. You keep pretending to know and to assume. What's wrong is that I keep on letting you. Just stop. No more." The Doctor, a man who seldom raised his voice in anger should have been doing so now. Instead, it was a quiet rage that was in his words. Words intended to pound and cut and cause submission.

He quickly reached around the Cajun, snatching his journal back. Bending he picked up his pen. The next step and he'd be out the door, socks and all. Keep pushing, Cajun, you're too close to the edge now to stop. Not much closer until you tuble in.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-07-16 08:23 pm UTC (link)
"Don' I dare wha'? I jus' wanna know. Jus' tell me wha' happene'." He curled both hands into fists after the book was snatched away, but he didn't do anything. Not yet. The Doctor, clearly, was in some sort of war with himself over this. He didn't want to talk about it, that much was obvious, but the Cajun could also swear that-- well. He turned his face to the side and stared at the wooden walls for a moment before looking back at the older man.

"I know you don' wanna be 'lone. Why you an' me frien's, non? C'mon. Docteur. Why can' you tell me? You can' even tell me why you can' tell me." Confusing red-head. But still, it all made sense to him. And he was reaching out a hand to curl his fingers into the Doctor's suit coat, against the lapel. It wasn't a tight hold, but it was there. "M' worrie' 'bou' you. You don' gotta be nas'y t' me. You always tryin' t' hur' me so you ain' gon' have t' 'xplain yourself. Hopin' I'm gon' run off. I ain'. Shoul' know 'dat by now, mon ami."

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-07-16 08:28 pm UTC (link)
He actually swatted that hand away. He pushed it from his lapel and took another step away. Strike two Cajun. His hands were out of his pockets and white nuckled at his side, nails digging into the flesh. He was seething. He was angry because he was hurt. He was hurt because he felt out of control. he felt out of control because this bloody place had played one miserable mind-fuck right on him. Well, the Doctor didn't use the term 'mind-fuck' it was more something along 'psychological trickery,' but the meaning was just the same.

"Well, on this one, you should just give it up." The Doctor took a deep breath, he was done talking. He wasn't going to defend or imply or respond any more. This was past the point of words, and he didn't like where he was being pushed into.

I don't care what you do right now, Remy, he thought.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-07-16 08:49 pm UTC (link)
"Non. I don' give up. Don' t'ink you do, eit'er." The Cajun wet his lips and stared at the Doctor a long moment, then finally stepped forward again, this time lifting both hands to curl into the Doctor's lapels. And this time? He held on tightly. "Come an' si' down wit' me. We don' gotta talk righ' now, d'accord? Jus' wanna have y' here." Maybe just having the other man near to him would be enough. Maybe it would be enough to give him some comfort. He was clearly upset and angry, but Remy didn't want it to stay that way, he never did. No walking away angry, he'd said. And though the Doctor wasn't walking away (yet) the Cajun had no doubt that he would, soon. "Stay here an' jus' lemme si' near, oui?" He was tugging them, pulling the Doctor towards the couch on the other side of the make-shift bed.

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-07-16 08:55 pm UTC (link)
Remy stepped up, wrapped his hands around those lapels and started to tug. He was pulling. He was physically pulling. Strike three.

The Doctor tried to step back, to get himself out of the tightened grip; but, he found as he stepped back the Cajun moved with him, his arms extendd and he held fast. This caused the Doctor to growl. Not only growl but to shove. Not only to shove, but finally swing. His fist came into contact with the mutant's jaw. The punch was hard He wasn't just hitting Remy, he was hitting himself and the peeople behind the curtain.

He wouldn't be pulled or pushed or invaded any longer.

Try him.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-07-16 09:02 pm UTC (link)
Remy had been expecting anything but that. He'd been punched and he stepped back, head turning a little, hands releasing the Doctor's jacket, red eyes getting wide-- then they narrowed down. Poor Doctor. You'd bitten off more than you could chew. You wanted the mutant to try you? You'd gotten your wish.

Gambit stepped in again, but he didn't swing. He didn't have to. He had an inch of height and ten pounds on the Doctor, and plenty more muscle. So he was taking that second step and slamming his weight into the poor older man, hard and fast enough to take him right down, straight onto the ground flat on his back, and the Cajun landed atop him, gloved hands scrambling for the Doctor's arms, gripping at biceps, before releasing and gripping at fore-arms. Once he had those, he was lifting his body just an inch or two, shifting his weight, and using it to pin the Doctor's arms down at about shoulder-height, one knee coming down hard in the space between the Doctor's thighs, giving him balance there and a place to level the rest of his weight, as he let the other leg stay stretched out, to keep his hips nearly pressed down against the Time Lord's, to keep him from bucking around too much.

And soon, the Doctor's suit coat was glowing. "Calm down!" It was shouted down at him, but it was clear Remy needed to calm down a little, too. Okay. A lot.

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-07-16 11:34 pm UTC (link)
For a moment the Doctor hoped that he had literally knocked some sense into Gambit. He saw the man step back wide eyed. If his hand had gone to his jaw, the Doctor knew he'd be able to back out quickly and get away. He wasn't so lucky.

Instead the mutant rushed him, and even the man with superior reflexes couldn't dodge that charging bull. He took a shoulder to his chest, hitting the barn floor hard with an "Oomph," as the wind was knocked out of him. Those hands moved quickly, perhaps a bit too quickly for the Doctor's own good as he found himself pinned.

He found himself with the Cajun on top of him, and a glowing coat. It didn't calm him down, it only infuriated him more. The Doctor's legs were kicking. "Get OFF me. NOW." He growled. still kicking with sock clad feet. "REMY."

He was pushing against the hands at his wrists and somehow, he'd managed to push his knee up high enough that the extremely long limbed Doctor was nearly kicking at the Cajun's hip. "NOW."

Had the Doctor been thinking he would have pressed up against the Cajun, trying to lever the other's weight away and flipping on his hips. Clearly, the Gallifreyan wasn't thinking. He was raging.

Next step he head butt's you. Seriously.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-07-17 12:35 am UTC (link)
The Doctor had to be very careful about how quickly he threw that Cajun off, if he decided to throw him off-- or could figure out how in his raging mind. Because if Gambit let go too quickly, the charge would be left in that suit coat and it would explode, possibly before the Doctor had a chance to get it off.

And as the Doctor fought under him, it had just helped to fuel the red-head on and his eyes had quickly started glowing, as the charge in the coat became stronger-- until his name had been shouted out, and he hissed out a breath through his teeth and tightened his fingers, but drew the energy out of that coat, allowing it to turn blue again.

"Don' hi' me!" It was shouted down at the older man, but he wasn't getting off, not yet. He had pushed himself back a little, though, to be able to look down at the Doctor, though he still refused to release him, despite being kicked at the hip and down the thigh. "Wha' 'de hell wron' wit' you! I was jus' askin' ques'ions!" But the rest of his shouting would quickly turn into French peppered with small bits of English, because he simply was too angry to think in English, let alone speak it. And he was hauling the Doctor up some, then shoving him back down into the floorboards, having shouted something about the other man being stupid. But he did calm himself down a few seconds later, and grunted angrily for the thrashing and kicking that was still happening, shifting his weight, then spreading his legs and moving up, so he could sit down directly on the other man's hips, and sit upright, keeping hold of his wrists though he was no longer holding them down. "Calm down, Docteur!!" This time it wasn't shouted, just forceful, though he knew it wouldn't work.

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-07-17 12:48 am UTC (link)
Gambit pulled the charge from the Doctor's coat and the Time Lord had hardly noticed. He was too focused on getting out from under this oppressive Cajun. Far too occupied with being angry at the world. Far, far too far gone to see that he was standing on the edge and looking over with little chance he wasn't going to fall off.

Just asking questions? Nobody questioned a Time Lord. Nobody pushed him around like this. He'd been manipulated long enough and true to form his very patience had been stretched to breaking. He had snapped. He hadn't fallen to bits like this for a very long time, and the rage was showing no signs of tapering off.

'Don' hi' me!' The Cajun tried to command and the Doctor only hit harder. He kicked and he flailed. As the Cajun shifted, so did the Time Lord, Turning on his hips so that he'd worked up a bit of a gap between he and the floor. While the grip on his hands was lessened, the Doctor pushed down, his palms to the floor and rocked his torso up with a twist as he worked to get his hands free. You might be on his hips a moment longer, Cajun, because the Doctor was pushing you off.

"GET OFF!" He said with a final, terminal shove of his hands to the Cajun's shoulders, pushing the other man off of him and onto the floor. For the instant, the Doctor was glaring.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-07-17 12:54 am UTC (link)
When that final demand came, he abruptly released the other's wrists and allowed himself to be shoved off to the side, rolling a little with it so he could immediately push himself up to his feet and raise gloved hands a little to show that he wasn't planning on going for any more of what the Doctor had to offer. "M' sorry." He apologized seconds later, but he didn't expect one from the Doctor, he was too angry right now. He might very well never apologize for it.

"Je suis désolé vraiment." I'm really sorry, came the apology in French. But he'd allow the next move to be the Doctor's. He wasn't going to let him run off, though. Not this time. Not any time, really.

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-07-17 01:06 am UTC (link)
'M Sorry.'

Didn't matter Cajun. You'd done enough damage. You'd pushed your friend too far, and now what did you have to show for it? Nothing except maybe a bruise on your jaw. Do you really think 'sorry' is going to cut it on this one?

The Doctor couldn't even look at Remy. He was too busy trying to just breathe as he pushed himself up to stand. He was already walking in the direction of his shoes. Yes, he was going to walk away. You were going to accept this or he was going to beat you within in an inch of your life. Sitting down the Doctor worked red Chucks on.

He had no words.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-07-17 01:21 am UTC (link)
"Docteur.." The red-head wet his lips and came a step closer, allowing a slow breath to escape him as the Doctor started pulling on his shoes. "Don'. S'il vous plaît. Séjour ici." Stay here. He wanted him to stay, but when didn't he? "We don' gotta talk no more," Not that they were ever really talking in the first place. "Je suis désolé." Another quiet apology. But he was standing between the poor Doctor and his exit, a few feet away from him, just watching as he pulled his shoes on.

It was very clear to him now that the Doctor cared a lot more for Rose than even Remy thought. If he was willing to get that upset-- violent, even-- over it? It had to be something more. Or, that was what he'd assumed.

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-07-17 01:35 am UTC (link)
Gallifreyan paused just long enough to raise a hand. He couldn't look at you, Cajun. He didn't want to hear you, either. So, he'd ignore you and sit mute as he tightened laces and made a bow. He was going to be walking out very shortly.

Both feet on the ground he took up his jacket and paused to collect his journal and pen. Gambit may have placed himself between the Doctor and the exit, but that didn't mean the Doctor wouldn't walk around, without so much as a look up.

Was it that he was so upset about Rose? No, that was only half baked. It was more he was so upset that the Cajun had again invaded his space, his thoughts, and demanded to be let in. The Doctor couldn't tolerate it, wouldn't tolerate it. That's what made him so angry - that like a child the Cajun just didn't know when to stop.

"Good night." The Doctor said quietly as he passed by.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-07-17 01:40 am UTC (link)
"Non, Docteur." He reached out again and caught the sleeve of his coat. "Where you gon' go? Shoul'n' be 'lone. Jus' stay here. S'il vous plaît. Stay 'de nigh', an' in 'de mornin', we talk, non? No' 'bou' her. Jus' talk. When we bot' less angry." Well, when the Doctor was. The Cajun wasn't angry anymore, not in the least. He'd gone from 60 to 0 in one second flat and he was still reeling from the sudden change in emotion.

"S'il vous plaît." He asked again, stepping after him, but keeping that loose hold on the sleeve of his coat. He knew the Doctor was angry but he didn't think it was a great idea to be wandering alone at night, or to leave so abruptly after a fight. But he'd voiced that before, often. And the Doctor had told him that sometimes he needed to walk, so if he got a negative again, he'd try to bargain, maybe that would work better.

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-07-17 01:46 am UTC (link)
"I'll be at the carnival."

Shouldn't be alone.

That gave the Doctor pause a moment, "I've spent centuries alone. And I can't die." Well, that was kind of false; but, it was plain enough.

He was walking again, pulling his arm away abruptly. He didn't realize that Remy was so sorry, if he had, he might have been a touch more gentle. He needed to get away before he said something even more hurtful. You're not going to yank his leash this time, Cajun; remember what Jenny had told you about his being a fearsome creature when angered? Well, you'd just managed to wake the wrong sleeping dragon.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-07-17 01:50 am UTC (link)
"Docteur." He came after him again, following this time, but not grabbing. "S'il vous plaît. Je suis désolé. Je suis un idiot et je suis désolé." Please. I'm sorry. I'm an idiot and I'm sorry. So much easier for him to express things in French than English, but he was switching back almost immediately as he followed the Doctor out of the barn and a few steps away, before he came to a stop.

"Walk if y' gotta, bu' come back tonigh'. Don' stay 'dere. S' col' an' ain' much shel'er 'dere. Come back." Now he was trying to bargain. He'd let you go, as long as you came back. He'd rather have you stay, but if he couldn't get you to stay, Doctor, he'd settle for having you return.

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-07-17 01:55 am UTC (link)
There was a twinge of regret that captured the Time Lord's features, not that the mutant could tell from over his shoulder aside from the abrupt clenching of his shoulders. He didn't want to hear Remy apologize one more time - it just made him feel worse. He wished there was something he could do to silence him, just for a few minutes. Remy LeBeau, you talk too much.

"I'll come back if I want to."

His words were quiet. Don't press now, Cajun. Let it lie. Please.

He meant it, really he did. If he was ready and if he wanted to, he'd come back. Otherwise, he'd sleep in the carnival in one of the bumper cars. He'd done it before, he'd do it again.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-07-17 01:59 am UTC (link)
When he said that, Gambit shifted once, but didn't take another step after him, only waited silently there, a few feet from the door. But once the Doctor got about ten feet away, the Cajun was speaking up, louder this time, so he'd be heard in the distance, though there was nothing but silence around them.

"L'ai-je ruiné?" Did I ruin this? It was an earnest question. Gambit had a habit of ruining good things that happened to him, and it wasn't very often at all that something good actually did happen to him. But never fear, every time something good showed up on his doorstep, Captain Screw-up was there to ruin it.

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[info]fromgallifrey
2009-07-17 02:09 am UTC (link)
The Doctor stopped in his tracks, if the Cajun listened he'd notice the cessation of crunching steps. He stood there. He'd heard that. He'd heard it and it made him see clearly for a moment. He was kicking and biting Remy because he didn't have anyone else to do that to. He'd already beaten himself up to a pulp.

Abruptly he turned, quick steps back to the barn. A hand landed on Gambit's bicep and held, just a moment. The light from the barn was on the Doctor's face and it was clear he was looking anywhere but at Remy. He took a deep breath. "No," he said quietly before rescinding his hand and turning on his heel. He couldn't do this now. Wouldn't do this now. He needed to go, couldn't stay. Wouldn't be tethered and kept. Not now.

His steps were swift and before he knew it the Doctor was out on the road on his way to the Carnival.

Goodnight, Remy.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-07-17 02:14 am UTC (link)
As the Doctor turned around and came back for him, the Cajun tensed his jaw and muscles but didn't move. His body was reacting to the fact that the Doctor could very well punch him again, but he didn't look scared, didn't look worried it'd happen, only watched as the other man came back so quickly and he stared directly across at him as he grabbed his bicep.

'No', the Doctor had said in that whisper of a tone, before abruptly releasing him and walking away. He'd only make it a few steps before Remy spoke up again.

"Merci." For not leaving him, even though he was, for the moment. Remy was sure now that he'd come back, eventually. When he didn't hate the Cajun so much.

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