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[donutsnotwar.livejournal.com]

It worked! I'm here again! I thought it'd all been a dream, but I knew somehow that I'd be able to reach out like that and touch this place...

[with a small, bemused grin on his face]

Say what you want about it, it's beautiful here. It's a lot different to see the stars without anything in the way.

I see you (or sense you?) other people out there. Has that Meredith lady made an appearance? She didn't answer my questions the last time!

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[didorothy]

Ahh, so he's still in good spirits. You'd think I had a DCI's pay.

[donutsnotwar.livejournal.com]

I've known a few people like that. It takes pulling a fast one on them to get them to pay for anything.

[didorothy]

Usually he only buys me a round after I save his life.

[donutsnotwar.livejournal.com]

Oh, ouch.

[didorothy]

That's the Guv. Still haven't got your name, though.

[donutsnotwar.livejournal.com]

[laughing] You didn't? It must've slipped my mind!

[didorothy]

[waiting~~ and slightly suspicious, for he is a copper and therefore concerned with this hesitancy to give any ID]

[donutsnotwar.livejournal.com]

[grinning stupidly] It's Akagi.

[didorothy]

Akagi? That sounds Japanese. Where are you from? I know it sounds like a strange question, but there's a bloke from London and another from Godric's Hollow.

[donutsnotwar.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of either of those places before. I'm from a desert planet they call No Man's Land.

[didorothy]

A desert planet?

[donutsnotwar.livejournal.com]

Yeah, all the water is underground, so it makes for harsh living conditions.

[didorothy]

But, a planet? I really have gone mad.

[donutsnotwar.livejournal.com]

Is it that strange?

[didorothy]

No, I seem to go mad regularly.

[donutsnotwar.livejournal.com]

I didn't mean that! Look, you're not going crazy! I'm as real as you are.

[didorothy]

Yeah, and so is Albus Dumbledore, apparently. [looks at him] Sorry, I just... forget it. So you're Akagi from No Man's Land, a desert planet, and I'm DI Sam Tyler from Manchester, England, Earth, 1973. Good to meet you.

[donutsnotwar.livejournal.com]

That Manchester place is on Earth?! I had no idea...

[didorothy]

So you know Earth?

[donutsnotwar.livejournal.com]

Yeah, of course! My planet was colonized by people from Earth.

[didorothy]

[links his hands behind his back] Really? How long ago was that? Is Earth still a... functioning planet?

[donutsnotwar.livejournal.com]

The Fall itself happened a little over one-hundred fifty years ago. They left because Earth had grown too polluted to sustain so many. There are still people living there, but I couldn't tell you how many.

[didorothy]

That's far easier to believe than I would like.

[donutsnotwar.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. I hope your Earth doesn't turn out that way.

[didorothy]

You don't think you're from my Earth, from its future?