realityshifted | 01. into the wild and fire

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01. into the wild and fire

[Peri Brown appears on the Plane, stumbling like she just stopped running. she looks much like any of the Doctors who knew her might remember, with one exception. her brown hair is cut in the same short bob and she is wearing impractical wedge shoes as always, but there is a glaring lack of spandex leotards. instead she's wearing khaki shorts and white-and-blue-striped boatnecked tank top. well-endowed chest is still there, however.]

Woah ... what happened here? Where am I? D-Doctor? ... A-Anyone?

[she turns in a few circles, looking around her with increasing concern]

Can anyone hear me?

[to herself] I thought that store was weird ... the Doctor said I could go shopping and that place just seemed to pull me in--and I didn't even recognize the name of the store. And those twins. Creepy ...

[louder] Doctor?! This isn't funny!

[slumps down miserably on the nearest rock] ... I have a headache.

((ooc: so totally did not raep my app sample >_> ))

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[his eyes widen slightly, and he glances curiously at himself before asking softly] Are you quite all right, Peri?

[looks concerned, then realizes] Right! Post-regeneration. He's from a time before that, well, obviously. Can't go spoiling him, though.

[to himself] Companion of yours, in her reality. Might still be, in your future. Who are you traveling with, anyway?

[her eyes never leave the new Doctor as they talk between themselves, and when she manages to find her voice she says the first, dumbest thing that pops into her mind]

W-What are you wearing?

[another glance; absently] Turlough. [and then he's looking at Peri again, and her question produces a slight, wry smile]

Silk and velvet, mostly. You're accustomed to beige, I take it? [his voice is casual, but gentle, and his gaze remains concerned]

Ah. [this makes sense, yes]

It's all right. Everything's a bit different when you hop dimensions. You should see the me from another dimension around here, he actually likes the Master.

[nods 'yes' to the beige question, swallowing thickly] So ... [she still hasn't stopped staring at Five] You're from another dimension. N-not the one I knew?

[and then she almost chokes, taking a step back from them] The Master? You m-must be joking. He's terrible.

[and then a guilty, lame look at Five] ... T-Thought you were him at first.

[shakes his head] Not quite. [and then a slight pout] But not at all like the Master, I assure you.

[to his Tenth] And I'm not certain I'd use the word like, precisely.

Well, I was trying to explain universal differences without getting too complicated. And you know they can get fairly complicated. [the person he's attached to notwithstanding]

Right! Well, you know I've got ten feet of chain here. I'll grab us some tea, shall I?

[ooc: I've got to head to bed! Consider him indisposed and getting tea! Please play on!]

[watches the skinny one go, feeling slightly bereft; she'd rather not face this odd not-ghost of her past alone. so she turns back to face him awkwardly, not quite wringing her hands. her voice is sad] You have no idea who I am, do you.

[slight nod] Sounds lovely. [he turns back to Peri, with another smile; this one, warm and sympathetic] I'm afraid not. Not yet, at least. Though I certainly wouldn't mind getting to know you.

((<33 Sleep well!))

[small smile] Oh, t-that would be weird, wouldn't it--you getting to know me when I already know all about you. Well ... the you I knew, anyway. I don't even know if things would turn out for you the same where you come from, as they did for me. [distressed look] Though he did say not to spoil you.

((yes! do sleep well! *hugs*))

[the smile widens] I'm rather used to weird things. [again, he shakes his head] I'm...not certain just how different our universes are. If you do say anything harmful, however, it can be dealt with. [gestures to the scenery] The Plane seems to work as a stabilising force itself, of a sort, and I can suppress my own memories.

Kind of like the Eye of Orion? [she remembers the Doctor she's currently with mentioning it, once] Except this place doesn't look very peaceful to me. [shivers]

[she's quiet for awhile, hugging herself and staring out into the blackness, before she asks quietly] Have you ever been to Androzani Minor?

On a cosmic scale, yes, a bit. [earnestly] It is a tranquil place, for the most part.

[he simply waits, during his silence, patient and still; when she speaks his eyes widen, and he nods] Some time ago, yes. There was a nasty war on, then, involving it and its twin - took quite a lot of effort to get it all sorted out.

I'll just have to take your word for it. It looks so ... dreary. And dark.

[looks askance at him when he speaks, then nods and stares at her feet] I went there with you; you said it was supposed to be nice. I d-don't know if it was an actual war going on, but--well, it definitely wasn't good.

Some points are brighter than others. I – or we – could take you on a tour, if you like.

[slow shake of his head] I ought to have known better.

A tour would be nice, as long as it doesn't involve too much walking. [rueful look at her wedge-clad feet] I didn't exactly wear my walking shoes today.

[shakes her head empahtically] There's no way you could've known. You said all that trouble was at least a hundred years in the past. I don't even think it was supposed to be inhabited--we were just going to look at the sand formations.

[resumes staring at her feet--this has to be one of the most awkward conversations of her life]

[soft smile] We needn't do it right away - or even today.

[the smile widens, then] Quick to defend. Thank you. I suppose the coordinates were off again, then. It...seems to happen in other universes more often.

[amiable shrug] Whenever you want, Doctor, is fine with me.

[can't help but bask in his smile even as she feels her heart constrict a little] There's nothing to defend--you just did what you thought was right. I just wish ... [and here she wrings her hands a bit, then drops them into her lap with a faked bright sigh] Well, I just wish I hadn't been so clumsy.

[scuffs a toe in the dirt]

[he simply gazes at her for a moment, before slowly shaking his head] Whatever happened, Peri, I'm quite confident I'd never blame you.

[frowns at him, a glimmer of that same lost look when she first saw him] I might, if I were you ... on a bad day, maybe.

[softly] Would you really?

[interrupting Ten interrupts with a few mugs of tea]

Here we go! Sorry about that, had an incident with the kettle.

[her mouth had been open to reply what she had been dreading--you died--but she shuts her jaw with a click and pastes on a happy face at Ten's arrival, shutting Five completely out for the moment]

Took you long enough! [but she is smiling a little, yes] I'm curious ... do you remember how I take mine?

[he affects a hurt expression, only for an instant, before he smiles at himself as well, voice strained but playful]

Do try not to hurt yourself.

01. into the wild and fire

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damn LJ notifs

/muzzles Frank :|

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