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

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!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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fromgallifrey
2009-08-01 02:03 pm UTC (link)

He'd keep calling Nine her Doctor. Get used to it, Rose. Because he wasn't your Doctor yet and Nine was. Sorry for the confusion. You didn't give him reason not to, either.

"Well, if you do go wandering off, could you at least take someone with you?" He knew he shouldn't bother asking. If Rose wanted to wander around alone, she'd wander around alone, that's all there was to it. He wouldn't half mind if they were someplace that didn't have people trying to essentially kill them. Unfortunately, they weren't at some dinner party at the end of the world this time; no, they were in the middle of some crazy person's idea of a good time.

John Smith shrugged. "You're going to do what you like anyway, Rose Tyler." They came up on the stairs that lead up into the museum and the Doctor smiled. "At least wait until I'm out of sight before you go running off again, yeah?"

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jeopardysfriend
2009-08-01 02:53 pm UTC (link)

It was odd how he seemed to know her already. Maybe, in wherever his 'Smithton' actually was, people read minds. Or at least read character. There would have been a time when she would've thought that was impossible, but the Doctor had shown her that nothing she once thought would be was, in fact, impossible. Maybe he had some ability to read into the fact that she would hardly be caught in one place. And that she was more likely to do as she wanted than what he wanted her to do.

Besides, if she knew what he was thinking, she'd have told him she'd run off on her own many more times than just the end of the world. Nineteen-forties London was hardly the end of the world, no matter what Nancy had thought!

Rose dropped to the stairs, stretching her legs out in front of her as she smiled up at him. Partially because she was afraid if she continued standing, she'd do something embarassing again like hug him or touch him or something, and she'd already made him more than his share of uncomfortable that day. "You're too good to me," she told him, tilting her head to try and get a better look into those eyes. "For that, I'll spare you the responsibility of knowing I took off so you won't feel required to come rescue me. You can only do the Prince Charming thing so many times in one day."

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fromgallifrey
2009-08-01 04:08 pm UTC (link)

It really was surprising to the Doctor that Rose hadn't drilled him a bit more about where he'd come from. Maybe her time in that police box of his travelling to impossible worlds had taught her to respect other's desire for annonymity. Probably not. She was probably just formulating the best way to ask and push a bit. She could be quite snarky when she wanted to; but, maybe she didn't think that was the way to go? John Smith just smiled, sort of enjoying being on the other side of Rose Tyler for a change.

Rose settled down on the stairs and the Doctor found himself lacking something to lean against so he widened his stance and shoved his hands in his pockets, swaying a little back and forth on the balls of his feet as he decided where he ought to be traipsing off to next.

"Too good? Me? Never." What you ought to wonder, Rose Tyler, is if he treated everyone as good as he treated you. (No.) Then you ought to wonder why he treated you so well. Then you'd be half way to figuring out the puzzle that was John Smith of Smithton, England.

What Rose Tyler didn't know, at least this Rose Tyler, was that he'd always feel the responsibility to come and rescue her. He'd always have to come and pluck her out of danger and find a way to keep her from harm. Too many perilous times he'd worked to save you Rose, and you didn't even know about them yet! You thought Nine had saved you from some wicked stuff? Wait until you lose your face to the wire! Or when there's a werewolf chasing after you! Oh, he'd saved you plenty Rose; but, more importantly, you'd saved him.

"Oh, I never quite fancied myself prince charming. Think I could be more like Merlin? Got some fancy tricks, that one." He was grinning at you Rose and he could stop. Think you could do him a favor and shuffle him off some place else?

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jeopardysfriend
2009-08-01 04:22 pm UTC (link)

Rose tucked a few strands of hair behind her ear, watching her companion rock on his feet like a restless child. He looked nearly happy. No, he looked definitely happy, that wide grin that was basically contagious and had her smiling right back at him. And why not? Sure, they were in danger and could be snatched up to certain death at any moment. But they weren't just then. Just then they were chatting. And most people who knew her knew Rose was quite good at chatting.

She leaned back on her hands, grinning back at him. "Oh, I don't know. I think you'd make a rather charming Prince Charming." Helplessly, she giggled at her own pun. "Coming to a maiden's rescue and all. Do you do that for all the ladies around here or do I get to be one of the special few?"

Brushing off a piece of dirt from her denims, she shrugged her shoulders. "Merlin's probably more true to life than Prince Charming anyway," she reasoned, considering the thought. "I mean, some bloke who swoops in and saves a girl at the last minute who, I might add, ought to have the bollocks to save herself, or a wizard who can cast spells? Really, I've got ten quid on the wizard myself."

Oops. That was a bit rambly, wasn't it? Well, it happened. If he was going to befriend her, and it seemed beside all reason that he intended to, then he ought to go ahead and get used to her being all mouth. "But I always pictured him as old and grizzly and funny-looking and that, you're definitely not." Her cheeks turned a bit pink, but her smile didn't waver for an instant.

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fromgallifrey
2009-08-01 04:37 pm UTC (link)

He did have a propensity for bouncing about like a kid, didn't he? Maybe it was because on the periphery of his gaze there was always this sort of wonder. John Smith enjoyed the world, if you'd follow him Rose you'd see just how much joy he had in living - well, when you were around anyway. Did it really matter they were in a place where people died all the time? Where danger would pop up again every day and leave them all reeling? No, because for now they were two friends chatting it up on a fairly nice day.

"Oh, it's a habit. Blokes, ladies, kittens in trees." Planets, moons, solar systems, universes. Couldn't very well go and change his stripes, could he? Nope, John Smith saved things, you'd pegged him right on that one, Rose.

As Rose rambled the Doctor's smile spread infectiously. He didn't let her talk nearly enough when they were together, did he? Being so prone to long audiable streams of consciousness didn't really make it too easy for her to get a word in edgewise, did it? So, he'd zipped his lips and let her thoughts roll on finding it impossible not to laugh when it was all over. "Old and grizzly?" Well, Rose, he was old. Quite old. Not quite grizzly, would you take impossibly awry hair as a substitute? "Even Merlin had to be young once, noone's born old."

Wait, was Rose blushing? Wait? What? Oh. John Smith looked at his trainers, he'd never been on this side of Rose Tyler, either.

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jeopardysfriend
2009-08-01 04:47 pm UTC (link)

Oh, but you had been on that side, Doctor, though this Rose wasn't entirely sure of that yet. But the blushing on her part was usually hidden behind her jacket or in little grins of pleasure from his praise when he was already off on his next great adventure. And that went for him in both bodies.

Had she embarrassed him? Well, fine then. He deserved it, all the sweet things he'd popped out already. And not about her looks, as some blokes did, but he'd called her smart and brilliant and all sorts of things no one should considering she really wasn't. Hadn't even sat her A-levels.

Besides, he was definitely not grizzly. He was adorable. That bright smile of his. He was completely worthy of her blush, if she thought about it long enough. Not incredibly stunning in that way Remy could be when he flashed that crooked grin, or even in that way that Jack was, where he was beautiful and knew it. No, he was some other form of handsome entirely. And she wouldn't deny liking it.

"Nah, he's a wizard," she teased up at him, trying to catch his eyes away from his trainers. Which really were sort of cute considering the suit. "Wizards are born old. I bet they're not even born, I'll bet they're created out of thin air. Were you, Dr. Smith? Just one day, POOF. You're here?"

Oh, he was brilliant to tease, in a way the Doctor, her Doctor, couldn't be.

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