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The Doctor ([info]cheekydoctor) wrote in [info]wariscoming,
@ 2009-10-26 17:47:00

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Entry tags:romana, the doctor (10)

Who: The Doctor and OPEN! Romana
What: Showing up in Lawrence. Ten's slightly confused.
When: Monday evening.
Where: The Streets Of Lawrence. Doesn't that sound like a movie title?
Rating: Eh, probably not to high.




The Doctor had been flying along in his TARDIS, nice and content, on his way to his next stop, when suddenly it started jerking around in a way that it really shouldn't. But it wasn't the first time it had started shuddering like that. She was getting old and sometimes she couldn't hold herself together the way she used to, after all. And it wasn't the first time she'd gone off course either.

The TARDIS landed where she wanted that time, and with a bit more jostling around than was usual. Enough that when she was finally still, The Doctor found himself on the floor by the console. "Wot?!" He said softly, pulling himself up by the ledge before he started going over the screens. Oddly enough, everything seemed normal this time. There wasn't even any reason to bang on it with his mallet, and just then he found that a bit frustrating.

He ran his hands through his hair as he made his way to the door, egar to figure out just why he was wherever he was. He landed in an alley, and that was good. While the TARDIS had her own difenses that made people's eyes slide right over her, usually not noticing anything out of the ordinary, it was always best to tuck her away where there was even less of a chance of her being noticed. Quickly, The Doctor made his way out of the alley and to the street, being careful to look around as he moved. There was no telling why his girl had picked this place to land, but she had, and there was bound to be a reason. There always was.

At first glance down the street, he decided this was somewhere in America. Nowhere else was laid out quite like this. But it seemed to be a part that he hadn't been to before.

It was only seconds before The Doctor made his way over to a nearby newspaper box and bent over to check the paper that was on display, putting on his brainy specs in the process. Lawrence, Kansas. Nope, he'd never been there before. And it was 2009. Well, both of those were a good ways off from where he had been headed.

But one thing was different from what he expected. He could sense there was another Gallifreyan there, and that could be very bad.


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[info]callmefred
2009-10-26 10:09 pm UTC (link)
On top of the Daleks, on top of everything else Romana sensed it almost as soon as it first found its way into her mind. Another Gallifreyan. Another like her. That could be good. That could also be bad. Armed with a very real and very human gun and a sonic screwdriver copied entirely from the Doctor and set off. The sense was...a Time Lord, nothing more yet. She wouldn't get to know until she saw them and even then.

She slipped out onto the streets, following the senses she knew. The senses she followed down several blocks, Americans always said 'Blocks' she found it very strange.

And then she turned the corner and almost collided with the man. Tall, lanky even, dark hair and dressed in a suit with a long coat.

And most assuradly a Time Lord.

"Who are you?" she asked tensing, falling back into the mannerisms of the Lady President, Because they were all dead...all gone. Bar two. One she would be more than happy to see, the other...the other had lied to her, betrayed her and she should have expected it, truth be told she should never have let him free. The other was a liar. She wouldn't believe until she was sure.

"Who are you and when are you from?" she repeated tensely her hand resting on the handgun in her pocket. It wouldn't kill the Master, if thats who she faced. But it would slow him down. It would slow him enough.

"You will answer me."

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[info]cheekydoctor
2009-10-26 10:24 pm UTC (link)
The Doctor could feel the other Gallifreyan moving closer long before he saw her, and he had started moving as well. To him, the woman couldn't have been more obvious if she had a large flashing sign over her head saying what she was.

The only problem was that he didn't know who she was. Ah, the down side of regenerating.

His eyes narrowed at her and he pulled off his glasses, sliding them, conveniently, into the same pocket that held his sonic screwdriver. He was supposed to be the only Gallifreyan left in time. He'd seen his world destroyed and watched The Master burn, and in all of his time since either of those events he had never even sensed the presence of another.

"I'm The Doctor," he said, his own words short, eyes remaining locked on the woman in front of him. "Who are you?"

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[info]callmefred
2009-10-26 10:35 pm UTC (link)
The Doctor.

The instinct was to run to him, hug him, or hit him, she was never sure with the Doctor. But just because he said the name did not make him the Doctor. People would use that name to get to her, why wouldn't they. People knew of her connection to the decidedly rebellious Time Lord. It was because of him the Lady President went funny in the head, with strange ideas. It all got blamed on him.

And Romana knew him better than any other Time Lord with the exception of one. The other one it could be. And that would be terrible. On top of the Daleks. Would he run from them again?. Would he run?. The Master.

"If you are the Doctor, then you will know who I am when I tell you you once told me my name was too long and I told you my name could be Fred."

If he hesitated to say her name at all she would know. Her hand tightened on the handle of the gun as she waited

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[info]cheekydoctor
2009-10-26 10:52 pm UTC (link)
"Romana." The Doctor all but whispered her name, his eyes going wide from surprise. She was one of the ones he was sure had died, and she shouldn't be there. She couldn't be there. So, The Doctor was confused, but at least it wasn't the first time for that. Or even the millionth time.

"How did you... Why are... Wot?" He ended up falling back on his standby question. When he got confused he had the tendency to ask "what" over and over. And over.

Part of him still felt like she couldn't be who she said she was, she just couldn't. But the slightly more rational part of him knew that no one else would know of that conversation about their names. It was so long ago, and most find it much too trivial to remember even if they did hear about it, which they probably didn't.

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[info]callmefred
2009-10-26 11:01 pm UTC (link)
That reaction. That was him. It was him and the tenseness left her. Oh it wasn't okay. They hadn't exactly parted well the last time. She'd given him that last terrible order and she'd lied, or she'd mislead, she hadn't told him what the Council had been planning. Who she had authorised returned. But none of that mattered in that instant. In that single second where he said her name Romana knew the world was just a little bit safer.

"I don't know...I know what happened. I know I should be dead. Of course I know. I believe I was pulled here by some sort of dimensional portal. Through Time and Space Doctor. And oddly I felt fine for the transition. It was all very strange." she stepped back slightly looking him up and down "You got lanky...and you lost those sleeves" she remembered those from his...she believed Eighth incarnation "You look well"

She would have her moment of happiness at seeing her old friend before she let everything else back in. Her lies, the walls between them. The Daleks.

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[info]cheekydoctor
2009-10-26 11:12 pm UTC (link)
The Doctor was still rather shocked as she gave her explanation of a portal, but a grin spread across his face none the less. He knew it was possible to go from one universe to another, he'd been to alternate dimensions himself, but he didn't know they could be used to bring someone back.

He felt like he should have known that, really.

"I... Yes. I rather liked those sleeves at the time, but now I think they were rather pompous looking. And they would get snagged on all sorts of things, like my old scarf. Might as well not wear something that just slows you down." Not that the long trench coat was much better, but he could always tell himself it was.

And then he really looked her over for the first time. "You're ginger! Well that's not fair. I wanted to be ginger."

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[info]callmefred
2009-10-26 11:20 pm UTC (link)
Well that grin didn't change. Not one bit. Oh how she'd missed it.

"I liked that scarf. Had one of my own remember...remember Paris, and all the running and the scarves" She looked over the trenchcoat again wondering how it didn't get snagged on things. Or maybe it did and he just wouldn't believe it. Maybe he was ignoring it. "Though the sleeves were a bit pompus" she admitted and then burst into laughter as he complimented her hair, or...well, sulked about it. Pouted even.

Her hand finally came away from the gun and ran through a few strands.

"You wanted to be ginger? Its not even ginger its auburn apparently. Its different. I've been dark and blonde. Never red until now...Anyway we should get off the streets. There are things you need to know. Things I need to tell you, and this is not the place"

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[info]cheekydoctor
2009-10-26 11:37 pm UTC (link)
"I've never been ginger before, always wanted to though." No, the Doctor wasn't pouting. Or, okay, maybe he was. Just a bit. And he was going to comment further on the hair delema when her other comments sunk in.

"What's going on here?" he asked, his expression instantly shifting to a more serious one. It wouldn't be the first time he'd shown up off target, but it ended up being somewhere that needed his help anyway, and unless this trip went horribly awry, it wouldn't be the last, either.

Placing a hand on Romana's arm, he began to gently lead her back in the direction he had come from, towards his TARDIS. If there was one thing that The Doctor could be sure of, it was the fact that there was no safer place in this city than his TARDIS.

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[info]callmefred
2009-10-26 11:49 pm UTC (link)
She sighed, the joking had been nice, and fun and comforting but now was the time for explainations. Some of them anyway. She would tell him that one of his other companions was here. Martha Jones, she expected he'd like that. And then she would tell him about the Dalek threat.

She'd say one thing for the Doctor. His timing was impeccable as ever.

"Quite a lot unfortunatly. But it is good to see you. It truly is...not to mention I believe you'll be able to help. There are good things too but...Oh, look lets just get somewhere safe" Romana let him take her arm and walk back the way he had come, following him until she saw the comforting sight of his TARDIS.

"Oh you have her here!. Oh thats wonderful..." she left his side momentarily and ran to the blue police box running her hand along the door. "Hello old girl" she whispered, turning back to her fellow Gallifreyan with a smile. "You make me tea and I'll start explaining" she said, waiting for the Doctor to open the door and admit them.

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[info]cheekydoctor
2009-10-27 03:22 am UTC (link)
The Doctor watched as Romana ran her hand over the wood that covered the TARDIS's exterior, a slight grin tugging at the corner of his mouth. "I think I have the safe place covered," he said simply as he made his way to the door and opened it for the ginger woman.

And that was just like her, too, thinking of tea when she saw the TARDIS. "Fine, fine, I'll make you some tea," he added, following her inside to fetch the things he needed. He wondered what all she could need to tell him. Though, really, it had been more years than he would like to admit since he had last seen the Time Lady. And there was no telling how long she had been in this city.

Which again brought him around to wondering why he had landed in this place.

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[info]callmefred
2009-10-27 03:42 am UTC (link)
She stepped inside looking around at the interior and rolling her eyes slightly. "You've redecorated" she told him, it was alright she supposed, and it was still the old girl. But even so...classic looks were classic for a reason. She wondered did she still have her room.

"You do make rather good tea. And since you started me on the whole business of liking tea you should make it. I had no tea on Gallifrey Doctor, none but for when you would visit and it made the Council look at me very strangely indeed."

This all said, and still wandering around the console room Romana finally spoke.

"Now, to business I suppose. Good news first, your companion, A Doctor Martha Jones, she's here, a good woman, a good choice for you to travel with, and that Time Agent fellow was for a while, Very...confident, I believe he was making a pass at me, but I haven't heard from him in a while. And well...

They've surrvived Doctor...they, the...the Daleks. Some of them have fallen through the dimensional shift too and there are some in the city. I'm so sorry to have to tell you"

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[info]cheekydoctor
2009-10-27 04:05 am UTC (link)
"Martha's here?" The Doctor had to smile at that. He rather liked Martha, after all. "And the other one must be Jack. He probably was trying to make a pass at you. He even did the same to me on occasion." He chuckled at the memory.

But the chuckles came to a quick stop when he heard who, or what else had shown up. "No," he said, eyes wide as he turned to look at Romana once more. "They can't be back." Not again, not after everything he and the others went through to stop them. They'd made horrible sacrifices, ranging from locking one away in another dimension to taking many of the memories of another.

But the Daleks were supposed to be gone, even they had said they were the last of them. But it seemed like they were evolved cockroaches. Tough to kill, and once they showed up the first time next to impossible to get rid of.

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[info]callmefred
2009-10-27 10:11 am UTC (link)
That was the look, the look that only one who'd faced the Daleks like they had, like young Martha had. It was the look they all got. Momentary helplessness, despair, fear, worry, anger. All of it mixed up into one. And the mere mention of them was enough to inspire that look even in the Doctor.

"I know...I thought if all else failed, if you had to do what I asked, if it came to that then at least that would be it. And I know you, you'd have tried everything, tried every other way. But it seems even the mutual destruction of Gallifrey and Skaro wasn't enough to destroy them forever. Or they were destroyed and this...portal, this dimensional shift has pulled them through. Its complicated Doctor but suffice to say we are dealing with some number of Daleks. Don't suppose you have a weapon in here that..."

It showed how much Romana had changed from the happy little blonde thing wearing the face of Princess Astra and running through Paris hand in hand with the man in front of her that she was asking now about weapons.

"Of course you don't, but thats the plan so far, immobilise one enough to make a weapon that will penetrate their shielding"

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[info]cheekydoctor
2009-10-27 10:46 am UTC (link)
It took a bit of effort, but the Doctor eventually turned his attention back to the tea he was making. It had been quite some time since he had made tea last, but he had done it often enough that he still remembered the steps.

Frowning, he handed a cup to Romana once it was finished, then took a seat. "Well, that plan is well enough," he mused, reaching up to run his hand through his hair once more, making it stand at various odd angles. He was fully aware that he never had one way that stopped the Daleks every time. All their meetings had been vastly different, ranging from mass destruction to seeing one ask for death.

That was the oddest of the bunch.

But not once had it been easy, and every time he'd seen people die.

"Dalekanium would help, but it'd be hard to get. I got my hands on some not too long ago, but they were putting it on a tower." Plus, that particular sect had been a bit more batty than usual.

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[info]callmefred
2009-10-27 10:58 am UTC (link)
She took the tea eyes following the Doctor as he sat, most of his incarnations did that thing with the hair, but never before had she seen it get so big when he did. It usually meant he was thinking, planning, coming up with some way or other to fight back, he may not have been more booksmart than Romana but he was decidedly cleverer.

"I haven't seen them doing anything other than the usual Extermination, they're moving in twos, but strangely they're not killing everyone, only the ones that get too close. I...might have gone out on recon yesterday. Someone needed to and I know for sure that I can surrvive by regeneration if I absolutely had to.

She paused realising what he'd said and tilted her head in confusion "Why a tower?"

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[info]cheekydoctor
2009-10-27 11:11 am UTC (link)
The Doctor just nodded at that. He thought it was rather stupid of Romana to go out on recon, but he also knew that it would be ridiculous to try and explain her stupidity. Romana would just get angry, and even if he had told her not to go out before hand, she would have still gone out.

"They found a way to turn humans into a sort of... mutated version of themselves," Ten answered, frowning as he propped his chin on his hand. Why couldn't beating these things ever be simple? Alright, sure, the last time had involved a button, but none the less that had been less than simple. And far too recent in his memory for him to be having to deal with them yet again.

"But they haven't started killing everyone they come across? That's odd."

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[info]callmefred
2009-10-27 11:20 am UTC (link)
Mutated versions of Daleks, Human ones...that was despicable, and the expression on the Time Lady's face showed the disdain she felt for the idea. "They tried to mix with humans, why to spread more hate across the universe? To turn another race into the evil they are?, Its disgusting"

It really was abhorrant to her, the very idea. It made her feel almost ill.

"No, no mass destruction as of yet, which is suprising, not unheard of, I mean the Emperor had me on Skaro for twenty years and I only died once, and to be honest that was accidental...an awful way to go out but the less said about my time there the better. Sometimes they have an agenda beyond death, and usually its the less pleasent alternative. I'd like to figure out why they're not killing en masse."

She sipped at her tea pleased he remembered how she took it.

"You still make good tea you know"

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[info]cheekydoctor
2009-10-27 11:42 am UTC (link)
"Everything about them is disgusting, Romana. There isn't a good thing about them." Though, telling Romana that was just silly. The Doctor was fully aware of the fact that she knew all of this.

But there was no destruction, nothing being built in a visible way like New York... What could they be after this time? Usually it didn't take long before they started boasting about whatever it was they wanted, especially once they found out who he was, but this time he knew he was there ahead of time. He wanted to have at least an inkling of a plan.

And alright, so he had one. It consisted of "maybe we can disable one." But The Doctor had his ways, he would make that happen one way or another.

"Oh? Well of course I do. I am brilliant, after all. Tea is not something beyond me."

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[info]callmefred
2009-10-27 02:30 pm UTC (link)
She knew that, of course she did but now the Doctor was saying that they'd tried to mix themselves with humans. Disgusting didn't begin to cover it. But she definitely felt safer with the Doctor here, felt like maybe now they had a chance at winning. It definitely felt right.

"You're reasonably brilliant. I'll give you that much. You have your moments, and importantly can still make good tea."

She looked around the TARDIS feeling safe just from being there too and knowing not even a Dalek could get inside here and decided it was time to finally ask him.

"So since...since we last saw each other, how have you been? Stupid question perhaps but from meeting Miss Jones and the Captain, you're still travelling, still helping people. I'm glad to know that at least"

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[info]cheekydoctor
2009-10-27 11:57 pm UTC (link)
"Oh, much more than reasonably, you know that." A slightly smug grin spread across The Doctor's face. But it wasn't as though the expression was unusual on him.

And then she asked about the years since she last saw him, and really, there had been quite a lot going on. "Oh, I doubt I'll ever stop traveling," he started, his voice going a bit more somber, closer to how he sounded when talking about the Daleks. "There's too much to see, too much that needs to be done." Especially now that he was the last. Or, close to it, it seemed.

"Oh! I ran into Sarah Jane a while back. I think I told you about her. She traveled with me for several years. Turned out she was looking into the same school run by Krillitanes as I was. She hasn't stopped fighting either." And really, he was a bit proud of that fact. Over the last few years, it seemed his companions hadn't stopped fighting, even when they have a chance to have a normal life once more.

Eh, normal lives were rather dull anyway.

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[info]callmefred
2009-10-28 02:33 am UTC (link)
"I'm still smarter than you" she teased, the fact she'd gotten a Triple First and he'd scraped by on the second attempt had been an ongoing joke with them. She might have been book smart but she would always admit the Doctor was cleverer than she was.

"But I suppose you'll do" she added and winced slightly in spite of herself at that tone in his voice, so many years, so much hurt. "You always take it on yourself, even before the Time War. You always look for people to help. The Doctor...you chose it well."

Sarah Jane Smith, Romana was entirely impressed with the stories she'd heard of the woman and it was good to know she was still fighing. And the Krillitanes.

"Ugh" she commented "Whatever do they look like now?"

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[info]cheekydoctor
2009-10-29 03:24 pm UTC (link)
"Book smarts hardly count," The Doctor said, a teasing lift to his voice. He was feeling much better now that the topic had been shifted from the Dalek's here in town, though a part of his mind was still working out what to do with them.

"There's no one else to do it," he added, shrugging a bit. "I'm the last of us when I'm from. Still not sure what to make of you being alive again, not that I'm not grateful for it. But anyway, it's down to me. Besides, you know how I love the excitement that comes with it." And that was definitely true. There was nothing like the feeling of saving people, or of running for your life. It was safe to call The Doctor a bit of an adrenaline junkie.

"Sort of red. Big wings, jaw like a bulldog."

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[info]callmefred
2009-10-29 03:32 pm UTC (link)
"Book smarts have to count!" she insisted with the same teasing tone, Typical him really, and oh how she'd missed it, things between them had gotten strained during the war but it seemed her living again had removed that somewhat. Or maybe they just weren't talking about anything that had happened on Gallifrey near the end. She was fine with that.

And he was the last again.

So Martha had been right and the Master was dead. Good. He deserved nothing less...only...he hadn't regenerated, Romana wondered why but dared not ask, she wasn't going to bring him up.

"You don't have to carry the burden alone you know...you have people like Miss Jones, and well, me for as long as we're here. And I know you like it...the running. I remember well, the running. But you're not alone now, understand?"

She narrowed her eyes slightly in some confusion,

"Wings...where'd they pick up wings?"

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[info]cheekydoctor
2009-10-31 01:22 am UTC (link)
"Oh, they don't count at all," The Doctor teased, grinning a bit wider at the Time Lady. "Book smarts alone can't get you out of half of the situations I've found myself in." Really, when it came to most of those situations it was less that The Doctor somehow ended up in them and more that he got himself into a good bit of trouble nearly every day.

"No one can do this forever," he said simply when the subject turned back to the fact that he traveled alone. "Aside from me, that is. Eventually people have to live their own lives." And, yes. It did seem like many of his old companions he had run into after they parted ways had continued to lead a life of adventure and hunting for aliens, but at least they were with their families. Even Rose, locked away in another dimension, was with her family. "And I'm never alone for that long anyway, you know that." He added a grin to go along with that last bit.

And those blasted trait thieves. "Apparently they conquered Bessan. I wish I could have stopped it."

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[info]callmefred
2009-11-05 09:04 pm UTC (link)
"They count a little. I've managed to help you sometimes with my book smarts haven't you" She shook her head, she missed the trouble, missed dealing with all sorts of craziness, and she missed the running.

Oh how she'd missed the running.

"I know, but I feel now like the fact that you're so alone is my fault. Because I asked you to do...I said if it got to the point where they'd win..."

She trailed off, she really really hated talking about the war. It hurt her more than she'd expected, especially when it was to him, and she still had in her heart the guilt for what she'd done in freeing the Master from the Eye of Harmony.

"Do you ever resent me for it?" she asked, unable to stop herself.

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