I Moderate (i_moderate) wrote in we_archive, @ 2006-06-26 05:15:00 |
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Entry tags: | eddie dean, rose tyler |
i_travel TARDIS-placement (OPEN, Rose explores The City)
The dodgey cranking siren sounded before the box faded from the spot, leaving nothing but a vacated white plastic lounge chair in it's wake.
That same ear grating sound wound up to it's loudest pitch, warping reality to suddenly shift itself into being. The TARDIS never assumed anything, it merely was, or wasn't as it's direction told it to be. Rose hardly understood the dynamics of it all but she did know this...it had moved. That alone was some small victory, sure she wasn't the Doctor, but she had gone somewhere.
She took the time to change into something a bit more covering then her bikini, no need to repeat the previous run ins, besides she wasn't entirely sure she was where she thought she was going. The TARDIS might be empathic but that was far from fool proof.
Once more Rose stepped out into the world...one which looked like some SOHO art district, this was not Cardif.
"....oh."
From: i_crackjokes Date: 06/28/2006 08:36:54
Oh indeed. Eddie was (as always) a man on a mission. Current mission? Find the damn hospital, but the streets where not cooperating with him. He had experienced twisty time before, and he had experienced twisty streets before, but this? This took the cake. And than came the phone booth appearing out of nowhere and some blonde girl stepped out of it.
“You know …” Eddie paused gathering his scarred thoughts. “You don’t look a hell of a lot like Superman, so you might want to watch that. Your steeling his thing.”
It said something that this was not the strangest thing he had seen in his life, heck this wasn’t even the strangest thing he had seen today.
From: i_travel Date: 06/28/2006 12:21:09
The blond head was consumed in looking about and fairly disturbed by the odd sense that she'd gone much of anywhere. This place, looked like New York--ish. But it wasn't. Things were mishmashed, times jumbled. Buildings from one ear mashed up against those from several decades later and both looking new.
Great big blue eyes snapped onto the quipping Dean ands he sized him up. Well..at least he lacked the sardonic wit of her former conversation with the endless smoker.
"Yeah, right. I'll bear that in mind."
Voice full of that south London accent that rolled like honey off her tongue. False smile before she stepped out fully and turned to lock the TARDIS up behind her. Sure..she could travel..but to where? Not like she knew the intricacies of it all...sometimes she would swear even he hadn't.
From: i_crackjokes Date: 06/28/2006 18:03:28
Oh great, he's run into Eliza Doolittle. Oh well. At least her accent suggested she was from Earth. Some version of it at least. Where people apparently locked phonebooths -- or whatever that was up.
"You from here?" He had to know, maybe in this City people traveled around in whatever it was she had just stepped out of. Closer inspection showed it had the word Police on it. That made Eddie a tad nervous.
From: i_travel Date: 06/28/2006 18:12:40
"'bout as much as you I'd say."
The look gave him away, Rose knew it after wearing it herself far too often. It wa the look of someone not in his or her right time/space. She watched him eye the call box, that wary reaction got a chuckle from her.
"Afraid I'm gonna arrest ya? Don' worry, seems this is my time off."
Not much more explanation than that, obviously she'd picked up some of the Doctors quirks along the way.
From: i_crackjokes Date: 06/28/2006 19:01:19
"Well than it must be my lucky day. So what your a cop?" Eddie wanted to find the hospial but if she was a cop of some sort, she might know. Hospitals, cops they went had in hand.
God that accent was thick. And people said that he sounded funny.
From: i_travel Date: 06/28/2006 20:51:00
Normally the yanks loved a british girl, something to do with the mild exotic of it. But this was Mr. Deans lucky day, she was not in fact a cop, downside..she also had no idea where in the City she was.
"Not a cop. Just travlin'. You?"
From: i_crackjokes Date: 06/29/2006 04:03:54
"Just travelin as well." Added after a moment; "not a cop either, and nope not a local." Wow he felt he was getting a little better at these types of conversations. "Just out of curiosity, what year are you from?"
Her dress looked normal-esque, but she traveled around in a Police/Phone Booth thing. So he was figuring she was from after his time, but before Inara's. Or maybe she was from a whole other plane of existence.
From: i_travel Date: 06/29/2006 12:25:46
She stared at him, Time.. why was it she seemed to be running into people who knew things but in a vague kind of way?
"I'm from 2005,you an Agent?"
Another like Jack? Ohh Captain Harkness how could she have forgotten him so quickly?
From: i_crackjokes Date: 06/29/2006 15:07:20
"A what now?" Eddie glanced down at his clothing and than back up at her. "Do I look like a Fed?" He was a little insulted. His clothes might not be in style for 2005 (heck they weren't in style for 1987) but a Fed?
From: i_travel Date: 06/29/2006 15:20:06
Fed? She looked every bit as put off by that as he was, obviously he wasn't, or was smart enough not to mention it.
"Never mind. So... when are you from then?"
Yes actually this all wasn't too awkward for her, so she could at least take it in causally. Bebopping through time and space and being filled with the heart of all that the TARDIS was, even if she couldn't remember it, tended to open ones mind.
From: i_crackjokes Date: 06/29/2006 17:46:11
"1987. New York." Well that's where he was originally from, he decided to keep the whole 'Hi I'm on a quest for the Dark Tower' thing to himself. Also the whole 'before I was here I was in a version of reality that was wiped out by a killer plague'? That was kind of a downer. Best to keep that little factoid to himself.
From: i_travel Date: 06/29/2006 20:43:07
Her smile was quirky at that, eighty seven...it was a good and bad year for her.
"Year after I was born." Overbite nibbled away on her lower lip which then slid into a half smile. She left off the part about it being the year her dad died, and having gone back in time, nearly ruining the time stream to save him. In the end her dad did what all dads are suppose to do. He gave his girl a better life, a life at all by sacrificing himself.
But he wasn't alone in his sacrifice, the Doctor-- yes..the Doctor..where was he now? He'd been distant since his regeneration. Kept himself from her more then he had before, but leaving her entirely? That was just not like him. Unless.... he was in mortal peril and refused to have her harmed.
This time she had no idea where to go to help him though, no idea how to get to him or even if she could do anything when she got there.
"Well, guess it's just us then. Mister 1987 New York, name's Rose. Rose Tyler."
She stuck out her hand to him.
From: i_crackjokes Date: 06/30/2006 04:15:38
Eddie felt old. It only lasted for a second (so what if he came from a year that was after the year she was born? He was still a kid for chirstakes compared to Roland.) and he gave a little shrug.
"You can call me Eddie, Eddie Dean." He took the hand and gave it a quick hand shake and gave her a grin.. "Now you wouldn't happen to know where the hospital was would you?"
This Rose girl, she seemed … all right. Not costumed and crazy like the first two people Eddie had meet here. Not calm, collected and serene like Inara, but she didn't have fangs. So that was a step up from his last encounter.
From: i_travel Date: 06/30/2006 11:08:11
"Eddie, good. Right. Well I don'tknow...seems like Doctors an hospitals are all lost."
Another laugh, yeah well he wouldn't get that but it was ok. She stepped back and looked around her, not really having much more then gut instincts to rely on she was going to have to wing this one. She disliked the idea of leaving the TARDIS though...wait a minute! Of course!
A grin that might well worry Eddie pulled up those pretty peach lips.
"Come on then. I fink I know how to find you a hospital."
Rose moved back to the TARDIS door and unlocked it, stepping inside and waving Eddie in behind her.
"S'a bit bigger on the inside then it looks...come on then."
From: i_crackjokes Date: 06/30/2006 19:16:27
The grin did worry Eddie, as did the laugh. He was getting the feeling that he was missing something here. But than again he wasn't about to go sharing all his secrets either. "Into the box thing?"
He hesitated. But not getting in that dam car thing had meant he lost his one ally here. He also had a gun. And Rose didn't look that intimidating. Muttering something about appearances being deceiving and something about his mother telling him not to go with strangers he moved forward. Cautiously.
"We going to end up in Narnia or something. Oh wait. That was a wardrobe .."
From: i_travel Date: 06/30/2006 19:42:10
"Great movie that, the books always got a bit preachy for me though."
Nonchalantly Rose tossed her red hoodie over the entry way rail of what Eddie would now see was an immense room. Huge and metallic it spanned out in a more or less octagonal shape, bisected with bronze and brass structures and all sorts of tubs and hoses. Dominating this room was a circular central console with a mish-mash of intrsturments, gears, and literally all the bells and whistles.
"Hospital ya said?"
She'd seen enough to know how to get it going, and since the TARDIS was at least partially telepathic she had a good idea it would know where to go from here.
From: i_crackjokes Date: 07/01/2006 08:18:29
“They made it into a movie? You don’t say.” Eddie’s voice trailed off as he looked around the inside. Technology made him nervous now … anything that was more advanced than what he had seen in his own world of New York, circa 1987 gave him the creeps.
He felt this was justified. Technology in Roland’s world (well no that wasn’t fair, Blaine had taken them to some crazy reality that was foreign to them all) had a habit of trying to kill him.
“Uhh, hospital yeah. Assuming there’s only one …” Voice trailed off again as he looked around, and looked for something to grab on to. “Do you now what your doing? I mean, this thing isn’t going to …”
Come alive and try and riddle us to death?
“… move is it?”
From: i_travel Date: 07/02/2006 13:54:04
"Yeah good movie."
Blond head bobbed a bit as she walked around that center console and pumped one thing, then spun another. One dial ratcheted left and her palm gave a odd sort of spinner thing a good shove.
"Should know which one just by thinking about it. Bit empathic..or telepathic this old girl. Yeah it moves...but you won't notice."
Fond soft stroke of fingers over the metal, this box that had lugged around her dearest friend..deeper then that really.. for nine hundred years.
"So..you sick or what?"
From: i_crackjokes Date: 07/03/2006 12:28:33
“Its going to … know what I … well see I don’t know what hospital I’m looking for. I mean I’m looking for some … it’s going to know? Do you know how to drive, or steer, or sail this thing?”
Eddie was having Blaine flashbacks. He glanced towards the door wondering if it was too late to bail.
“I’m not sick now, but I might be in a few seconds …”
From: i_travel Date: 07/05/2006 00:25:59
"You won' even notice. Just fink about what it is you're looking for."
Ok, so it was a best guess situation, the TARDIS could do amazing things, and really what did they have to loose? Not like they were anywhere near a hospital now. So, with a cross of her fingers and the groaning whine of the main temporal displacement drive, they were off.
From: i_crackjokes Date: 07/05/2006 17:44:57
Right. Looking for a hospital. White sheets. Beds. Doctors. Nurses. Needles – oh wait let's stop that train of thought right there or this contraption is likely to land them in a most decidedly un hospital like place. Right. Hospital. Inara. That Mal guy….
If this worked? He was going to thank this Rose girl. And than ask her if they could take this thing for a spin again while he thought about his wife.
Eyes closed he asked Rose;
"Okay I'm thinking about where I want to go. Should I be clicking my Ruby Red slippers together or anything?"
From: i_travel Date: 07/07/2006 21:20:52
"Jus' hold that thought."
At least that was what she hoped. There was only one way to find out, and this was it.
(Picking up form here in Inara's Hospital thread)