003 [The Coward's Way]

[anoblesavage.livejournal.com]

[The woman that arrived on the Plane was not a warrior. She was a coward.

Her movements had once been graceful and fluid, but she crept across the starry ground with tense muscles and darting eyes. Although she had a knife at her belt, she could not have drawn it. Not without risking an injury. Her hands were trembling.]

I cannot stay here!

[But, at the same time, she could not return to the dangers of Gallifrey. To the war and the uncertainty and the fear that hovered in the air like smoke from a guttering fire.

She was trapped.]

Comments

[maturelildevil.livejournal.com]

Oh! Then you're an alien! [despite his cry, he looks extremely intrigued by this!] Funny though, you don't look like an alien. The Doctor didn't either. Are the Sevateem also from Gallifrey?

[anoblesavage.livejournal.com]

No! I am no Time Lord.

I am human. I only live on Gallifrey.

[maturelildevil.livejournal.com]

Ehhh? [admittedly, he's a bit surprised by her assertion that she isn't a Time Lord] But if you're human, how did you get there?

[anoblesavage.livejournal.com]

I traveled there with a friend called the Doctor.

[maturelildevil.livejournal.com]

[he beams] I've met him before! And his twin. I heard there were others too, which is a bit weird.

[anoblesavage.livejournal.com]

Other Time Lords or other Doctors? There are many of them on the Plane.

[maturelildevil.livejournal.com]

[he thinks for a second.] Other Doctors, I think. His twin wasn't his real twin, though. He said his name was Omega, but I haven't seen him in a while.

[anoblesavage.livejournal.com]

Omega? Why would he want the Doctor's face?

[maturelildevil.livejournal.com]

[he shrugs] I don't know. Do Time Lords normally steal faces like that?

[anoblesavage.livejournal.com]

There are many things I don't know about Time Lords. They change faces. Perhaps they can steal them as well.

[maturelildevil.livejournal.com]

[gasps] Even yours and mine?! But...but why would they need to? Are they part-time spies?

[anoblesavage.livejournal.com]

Some of them, but I do not think they would want human faces.

[maturelildevil.livejournal.com]

[he shudders, bringing his knees up to his chest] I hope not...

Leela? Can I ask why you stayed there?

[anoblesavage.livejournal.com]

My husband was a Time Lord.

[maturelildevil.livejournal.com]

[glances at her] "Was"? Did he--[he stops and forces a smile]--no, that's rude of me to ask. It's none of my business.

[anoblesavage.livejournal.com]

He died.

[maturelildevil.livejournal.com]

[hesitantly, he reaches a hand out to touch hers] I'm sorry to hear that.

[anoblesavage.livejournal.com]

Thank you.