realityshifted

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doctor who (d1) jamie mccrimmon

[006].

[Stumbling onto the Plane is what, at first glance, appears to be a new arrival - a shorter man with rumpled hair, wearing an equally rumpled coat that is too large for him, checked trousers and a bow-tie. One hand is currently clutching at his head, and his eyes are closed as if in pain.]

Ooh, my head...

[The man opens his eyes slowly, squinting a little as if not sure what to expect. But when he sees where he is, he visibly relaxes and starts to head towards the kitchen. Apparently, he knows exactly where to go. However, he stops after a few steps and looks somewhat confused. Something doesn't feel right.]

Hey?

[He glances down at the trousers that he didn't have on a few minutes ago, then starts patting at various bits of clothing. His fingers grasp the bow-tie, tugging at it experimentally. Almost as if that's switched a light on in his head, he starts to feel at his face - slowly at first, then with increasing agitation as he goes over features that, while quite familiar, don't belong on his face. For a moment, he looks rather alarmed, then frowns deeply.]

Och, no. Not this again! You would think they would have gotten tired of this by now.

[It sounds like something Jamie would say...except the voice is lacking his normal Scottish accent. Instead, he sounds like, well, Two.]

Does anyone have a mirror?

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[smiles wryly] It's all right. I'm not sure I'd like remembering much better. At least this way I still feel like I'm me.

[busts out laughing at that thought] No, thank god! I can't imagine what that would be like! I'd be all sort of... [flicks her hands out from her face in an imitation of his curls and widens her eyes for a second, grinning with all her teeth showing] I couldn't take myself seriously!

[curiously] Is that who that is? Is that your Doctor?

If what you say is true, then, aye. That is my Doctor.

[His face lights up in realization, and he starts rummaging through what he finds to be surprisingly deep pockets.] Hey, maybe the Doctor has a mirror in here, somewhere...

[His fingers close around something and he pulls out...a small white bag, which may look familiar to Olivia.] Well, that's not it. [He goes to put it back, then thinks better of it and offers the bag out.] Sweet?

Oh, Jamie... [frowns, not really sure what to say] I'm sorry. That must be...really...weird.

[but she smiles when she sees that bag. reaches into the satchel she's carrying, withdrawing an identical white bag and holding it out for Jamie to see] The Doctor--the pinstripe one--is my Doctor right now. He had one, too.

[He's still rummaging through the pockets with his other hand, but looks up and nods in agreement.] It is a wee bit odd. [The two heartbeats, especially, but he's trying very hard to ignore that part of it.]

Oh, aye, is he? [He's caught the smile, and saw the bag, but is still hunting for that mirror and therefore only paying half attention to what Olivia is saying. It seems to have been worth it, though, as he finally finds what he's looking for.]

Ah! [And one look later, he finally does confirm his suspicions.] Och. Sorry, did you say something?

[watches him as he looks into the mirror] It is your Doctor...isn't it?

Just that we're not the only ones this has happened to. [is still holding out that bag of jelly babies]

Aye, that's him. I mean me. I mean...oh, I don't know what I mean.

[He gives the bag of jelly babies a closer look, then realizes what she's on about.] Oh! So it's not an experiment, then.

[laughs lightly, amused] I know what you mean.

[takes a jelly baby from it, popping it in her mouth and chewing as she puts the bag back in her satchel] I dunno. It might be, but if it is, it's not the sort they only do on one person.

[Well, at least one of them is amused. Jamie looks mildly disgruntled for a moment, but then lets it go and puts his own bag of sweets back in his pocket, along with the mirror.]

You mean they can do experiments to more than one person at a time?

[It hasn't occurred to him that everyone being dragged to the Plane and being forced to stay there for a month could be considered an experiment.]

[blinks. she's always looked at it like that] Yeah. I mean, we've had the deathmatches and everything. And those choices you told me about... [her expression grows a little distant. she's begun to remember those, though she hasn't really wanted to]

Aye, but those weren't experiments. Those were someone making us play their games.

Experiments are when they change your face or make you a kid again. I've not seen that happen to more than one person at a time before.

[smiles wryly] Before now, you mean.

But how are those any different? I mean, they're all more of their games.

Well, aye, but...

[What Olivia is saying makes too much sense, though, and Jamie frowns.]

I'd not thought about it like that before. So what you're saying is that everything that happens here is some sort of experiment?

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I think so... I don't know what it's all trying to find out, but they must be after something with it.

[still frowning] Or they just like making us dance like wee puppets. [He snaps his fingers, suddenly, as something occurs to him.]

No, hey, wait. What if we have something that they need somehow? Like with the Daleks, when they wanted to find the human factor.

[raises an eyebrow at that] Well, we know some people are after someone to run the Machine. But the Twins and Meredith... I don't know...

What makes you think the Twins and Meredith did this? There's the others to consider.

[It occurs to him, a little belatedly, she still might have that amnesia from the citrus foam.] Er...you do remember the others?

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I... [frowns] I guess I hadn't thought of that. They usually announce things before they do them, don't they? Or Weber did, at least...

I think so. I do remember the deathmatches--Shay, and Weber, and the King. Were there many others?

Some. There was a wee boy, Ezra, I think. And a man, with him. They showed up just before we got stuck on the Plane with all the monsters.

A boy--oh! Yeah, I do remember him. [frowns] Vaguely.

But what would any of them get out of doing this?

I'm not sure. There must be some reason they're doing this, though.

I just wish I knew what it was.

[thoughtfully] Could it all be just for the black hole? And control of the Machine?

Hey...it could, at that. What if that's what they want? Something we have that would control the Machine?

Or one of us to do it...

Why one of us, though? Unless it's that it's dangerous...

I think that's why. We talked about it before...didn't we? [thinks for a moment, trying to convince her memory to give her more details than a sense of deja vu] During the deathmatches. They'd rather use someone expendable than do the hard work themselves.

And who knows what happens to the person who goes in there...

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