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Rose M. Tyler (jeopardysfriend) wrote in vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-07-21 00:06:00

Entry tags:

!complete, day 16, location: carnival, rose tyler, the doctor (ten)

Who: John 'The Tenth Doctor' Smith and Rose 'Not As Oblivious As I Look' Tyler
What: Probably? Keeping Rose out of trouble...
Where: The Carnival
When: Day 16, afternoonish
Rating: PG
Status: Complete!

It was rather irritating being told what to do. But honestly? Rose was used to it. The Doctor had a knack for telling her where to be and when to be there, and she was pretty good at following directions. Mostly because, with him, if she didn't it was life or death. So when Dr. John Smith told her to get to the gas station to seek out food, she listened. Also sort of life and death. Starving and all.

But Rose was also known for her exploratory nature getting the better of her. She was good at it, frankly. It usually got her into trouble before it got her out of it, but she often got answers because of it, too. And it was only her first real day in this strange new city. The day before had been spent with Dr. Smartass and then finding Remy and the Doctor and being introduced around. She never had claimed her grand tour with Remy, but she was honestly just as happy to do it herself.

And honestly, who wasn't attracted to a giant ferris wheel in the middle of nowhere?

Though the map said to go to the left, Rose followed the trail to the right, arriving in front of what was apparently a long abandoned carnival. But even if nothing worked, what girl wasn't drawn to the carousel and the ferris wheel and...oh god, was that a tunnel of love? Rose couldn't help giggling. Even if there was something seriously messed up about this place, it pulled her in just the same.

Gas station? What gas station?

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jeopardysfriend
2009-07-21 05:45 pm UTC (link)

Rose's breath caught as he held up the sign. Clearly having no idea of its significance, he brandished it like it was nothing. He and his mates nicked it? What was he, thirteen? "Maybe it made it to the wrong person," she said quietly, and though he hadn't bothered to move any closer to her, her curiousity won out and she stepped closer to him to look the sign over. What were the odds? The small phone, so smashed by her side that morning. The Doctor having his own blue shards. And now this?

Should she speak up? Say what it actually was? Maybe it was completely unrelated but please, what were the odds? "It's off one of those police boxes. The ones around in, what, the fifties? Sixties?" She could play stupid. Rose had been doing it long enough, mostly whenever her mum mentioned she should leave Jimmy. Of course, she was pretty sure Jackie Tyler hadn't meant by going off with a nine hundred year-old man, but there you had it.

Rocking back on her heels, she tried to smile despite the anxious jolt she'd gotten at first sight of the sign. "'Those' museum people, as you call them, were all tied up in their own things. Stop worrying, I stayed on the main road and there was a--always someone in sight." So what if she'd been about to say almost always? He didn't need to know. Besides, it was broad daylight. Surely people didn't get snatched up from--

Well. Okay, it'd been broad daylight when she'd left the flat in London and wound up here. Oops again. A shudder ran down her spine, but her smile stayed firmly in place.

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fromgallifrey
2009-07-21 10:40 pm UTC (link)

Sure, he knew what her reaction would probably be. Still, it took a bit of restraint not to react to her. He was just John Smith. He wasn't her Doctor. No, he was just some bloke from somewhere else. "The wrong person?" He said incredulously. "This is mine." He said pulling it back and putting it right under his arm where it belonged just after she stepped closer, shoving his hands into his pockets.

"Right," he said sharply, taking a step backward, maintaining his space. Of course it was from one of those, Rose. Right.

"Well, they might have their own things; but, that doesn't mean one of them couldn't take a little time to go for a walk with you." The one in particular he was thinking of was the Doctor. Then came Jack. Sarah Jane certainly would have agreed had she asked."

When she'd told him to stop worrying he shot her a look. Of course he'd worry. "We should get you back to your Doctor, yes?"

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jeopardysfriend
2009-07-21 11:58 pm UTC (link)

Rose's eyebrows lifted sharply. Who was this guy kidding? He wasn't her care giver and she wasn't a small child. "Oh, really?" she retorted, crossing her arms in front of her and taking a large step back. With narrowed eyes she fixed a glare on him.

"I said I said I appreciated your concern, and I do," she told him, her voice cold. "But I'm also a grown woman. I don't need the Doctor baby-sitting me any more than I need you doing so." In fairness, running into Remus had put a lot of things into perspective for Rose. She wasn't the youngest, nor was she alone. She'd gotten out of enough scrapes on her own without the Doctor, Jack, or this complete stranger giving her grief.

For a moment she bit her lip. Perhaps she was being mean and a little unreasonable. He really was only trying to help. But she hated being undermined, and she especially hated him, someone who barely knew her, acting as if she couldn't function without the Doctor. So she tossed her hair over her shoulder, turned on her heel, and began walking off in the other direction.

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fromgallifrey
2009-07-22 12:34 am UTC (link)

Wait? What?! What? Wait! She was really glaring at him, wasn't she? A perplexed look crossed over his features. Alright, the perplexed look crossed over his features. "What?" He asked, articulating the look. "I--" He started and stopped as she looked like she might have something more to say.

Instead of saying anything she just turned on a heel and walked away. Oh, that just was like a punch to the gut. She's walking away.

"Rose, wait, just a second, alright?" He said, long legs carrying him up beside her, his free hand coming from his pocket and up to touch her shoulder. "Just hold on a moment, alright?"

Whether she stopped or not he'd keep on talking. He was good at talking. "It's not that I think you need to be babysat..." Well, what was it then, Time Lord? "It's that, well, ehrm," Doctor for a loss of words? "It's the only safety any of us has."

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jeopardysfriend
2009-07-22 01:12 am UTC (link)

She did stop at the touch, but her stop involved spinning around to meet his eyes with a 'look'. "And yet here you are, Dr. Smith, parading around very much on your own." Of course, she had spoken before thinking and she looked around to verify that he really was on his own and Remy or someone else wasn't right behind him.

Hazel eyes met brown, annoyance flickering in her features despite his gentle words. "Why?" Rose asked a moment later. "Why do you seem to think I can't get by on my own?" And why did he care so much?

Sure, he was cute. Maybe not Gambit levels of cute, but he wasn't bad on the eyes. But that didn't give him the right to make her miserable, either. For someone who seemed so nice half the time, he could sure be a git when he wanted to.

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fromgallifrey
2009-07-22 01:22 am UTC (link)

Should have seen that coming, Time Lord.

"There's nothing they can do to me." Factual. Partially. Marginally. Kind of.

"Why get by on your own when you don't have to? Why leave it all out to chance, eh? You have some very good friends here." She was interrogating him. She was challenging him and it was an odd sort of place for the Doctor to be in having not been on this side of Rose Tyler before.

Was he making her feel miserable? It hadn't been his intention. He'd meant to make sure she was safe and he'd meant to keep her entertained in the journals. He'd never intended to meet her, much less alone. Much less this close.

"Sorry," he said quietly, taking a step backward and turning to head off in the direction of the bumper car pavillion.

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jeopardysfriend
2009-07-22 01:38 am UTC (link)

Argh. Now she felt guilty. "Wait, wait," she called, heaving a sigh. Frustrated, she ran a hand through her hair and groaned. There were few people in this world who could make her this irritated. And he gave off more mixed signals than most of them.

Rubbing her temples with her fingers, she looked at him with a curious look. "What is it with you?" Rose asked, leaning her weight back on her heels. "How come you can get under my skin better than anyone? And believe me, when you're competing with Jack, that's saying a lot."

In an attempt to reassure him, she smiled gently. "I know you didn't mean anything by it. Honestly, I do. It's just... I don't need the Doctor. You make it sound like I'm helpless without him. And I'm not, honestly. I care about him...so much, I do, but he's not like, my father or anything."

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fromgallifrey
2009-07-22 01:45 am UTC (link)

He couldn't not wait when Rose said to. Well, perhaps if there was a Dalek. Or maybe a Cyberman? How about an Ood? could he wait if there was an ood? In any event, the Doctor halted, peering over his shoulder at the blonde.

Practice, he thought. Well, less practice than just experience. He knew you, Rose Tyler. Instead, he just shrugged. You'd just have to keep on wondering about that, Rose.

Her smile was gentle and her words were simple, the Doctor only had one simple response. "Well, perhaps he needs you." And he did.

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jeopardysfriend
2009-07-22 02:27 am UTC (link)

At his declaration that the Doctor needed her, Rose didn't even hesitate to throw her head back and laugh heartily. "Oh, no, no," she replied, shaking her head, glad things seemed on slightly less shaky ground now. "He doesn't need anyone. Half the time I'm surprised he lets me tag along with him."

She was smiling despite her words at the thought of her brave and brilliant Doctor depending on the simple shopgirl. "He's a genius, or perhaps you haven't heard." She smirked then. Let's see this man of science go up against the man who knew everything.

And yet she didn't actually want this mostly kind stranger hurt or humiliated. He'd been kind to her, at least in writing. In person, well, that was still up for debate. But this city seemed to lean on him, and that Rose Tyler could understand.

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fromgallifrey
2009-07-22 02:42 am UTC (link)

It wouldn't be right to say he'd been at all surprised by her reaction. "I'd say he's luck to have you along, Rose Tyler," he smiled fondly, looking at his Chucks and then the path and then the little patch of grass.

When she proclaimed he was a genius he sort of wanted to remind her of when they'd first met. When he'd failed to see the Eye of London for what it was: a transceiver. However, all he'd do was shrug.

"Alright, you win this one," he conceded. No sense arguing. He knew he needed her, and that was enough for the Time Lord.

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jeopardysfriend
2009-07-22 02:49 am UTC (link)

Why did he insist on complimenting her so? It made her a little uncomfortable, honestly, though she was pretty certain that wasn't his intention. But he didn't know her. He didn't know how stupid she felt half the time and how she felt like a useless limb with so many brains around her now.

But she couldn't call him out on it. Not when he was smiling that sweet smile that she knew somewhere, in whatever town he was actually from, probably turned all the local girls to mush.

"I usually do," she informed him, even though that wasn't entirely true. She liked to think she won. Sometimes, the Doctor even let her think she had, even when they both knew she hadn't. But she appreciated the effort.

And the idea occurred to her and when Rose Tyler came up with an idea, she didn't usually back off of it. "You could come with me," she declared. "If you wanted. I mean, if you're so insistent I check out the gas station and don't want me going alone. If you felt like it, I mean."

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