homeless, for now

[aciculated]

You are a strange girl.

If you wish to-- ap-ply me to this community of yours, then do so! My history is neither so long, nor so complicated that it should be beyond your pretty words. I do not say that I like this; I do not wish to leave Romana, but it is better to act than to stay still forever in indecision! You are like a Time Lord, and I am sick to death of hesitation and debate.

--Leela

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[cluttered]

How long has she been debating then?

[aciculated]

Doctor!

[She's still kinda new at this whole multiverse thing, and it's at times like this that she really wishes she still had her sight. She knows Time Lords do not see regeneration as something awful, but she cannot help how she thinks, and she had mourned her Doctor, when she had learned that he had died several times over since last she saw him.]

[And oh, right, he asked a question. She shrugs.]

I do not know; some weeks. She already has a man there, from another universe, but she has been distracted-- [rather dryly]-- by you and all your travels, and now she wishes to send me. I do not entirely trust that she will not grow bored of me as well, and leave me stuck there, while there is work to do on Gallifrey.

[cluttered]

Leela!

[ Bright smile? Yay? ]

I'm not surprised; I'm very distracting. But don't worry. You'll still be able to do all those things there is to do on Gallifrey.

[ The smile turns a little more on the genuine side. ]

Good they've got you and Romana there. Goodness knows they need it.

[aciculated]

You are. She has thought of little else in weeks.

[And then she sighs.]

They do need Romana, but I do not know if they realise it. And even Romana cannot be the lady president all the time; she is weak and tired after the war, but she will not rest.

[cluttered]

No, of course she won't. Silly woman. She refuses to see her own limitations.

[ Which is part of why she's always been able to become greater. That's the thing with all those sorts of people, because others just limit themselves. But he'd prefer if Romana didn't go and get herself killed or something. ]

[becauseichooseto]

And where is the Lady Leela headed, dare I ask?

braaaaaax~

[aciculated]

[She grimaces]

Some place called bigapplesauce. It is a stupid name, if you ask me; I do not see what it has to do with apples. [Possibly that's just her being slightly petulant.]

Leela!

[becauseichooseto]

Perhaps it was bought for the price of an apple. And then crushed. Which would make think it would suit nicely!

[aciculated]

[Well done, Brax, you've coaxed a smile out of her. Just a little one.] Perhaps. For what price would you buy a city, Braxiatel?

[And would you look at that, she's actually teasing. It could be that she's missed Brax.]

[becauseichooseto]

[He smiles, enjoying the fact that he's cheered her.] Only what it's worth.

I haven't hear Series 6 yet (no spoilers, please), so I'm not sure when you're taking Leela from

[romana2]

Leela, I am glad you feel so devoted to me, but I will be all right. I used to travel with the Doctor as well.

[She's not trying to push Leela away, but she doesn't want to be the reason Leela makes a decision to stay.]

no spoilers, righto. leela comes from midway through series iii, after the defeat of pandora

[aciculated]

You always say that you will be all right.

[And really now, Romana.]

I-- I do not know if you are the same Romana from my universe; this place is strange. But my Romana, she-- you-- may not need me as a bodyguard anymore, or to aid you in your politics, but I think you do need someone you know is on your side.

Haven't listened to that one in awhile, but good to know :)

[romana2]

[Romana smiles slightly.]

I value your opinion. And your... friendship.

[Though that's hard for the Time Lord to admit.]

Though, I am surprised that you claim to not have a complicated history when you live with Time Lords.

[aciculated]

[She knows it's hard for Romana to admit; that's what part of what makes it especially sweet to hear. Particularly now. With Romana no longer really president and Leela blinded, she sometimes doubts how useful she is at all. And Romana values utility. So she says simply:]

Good.

[And then a shrug.]

And yet my own time is still-- linear. I grew up as a warrior, and then I was exiled; I met the Doctor and travelled with him, and then I met Andred and we married. It is you Time Lords who have stupidly complicated histories; I merely... stand to the side of them.

[romana2]

[Romana chuckles softly.]

Don't ever change, Leela.

[And turning a bit more serious.]

I do wish you the best wherever your writer is sending you. Though, if our past experiences are anything to go by, you will do well.

[beforethewar]

Leela, I completely agree! This person needs to hurry up and make up her mind. No time like the present, after all, and many of these..."game" things have short windows of opportunity!

Does she...happen to have a place in mind?

[aciculated]

[Hello, Doctor! Leela smiles, because she is glad to hear him, even if she is still annoyed at her writer.]

It is some place called bigapplesauce. [Which, seriously. Her writer has explained to her that the Big Apple is a nickname for New York City, but she still thinks it's stupid.]

There is a [wait for it] tem-poro-spati-al rift there which pulls people through and entraps them, and two factions warring over what to do with them. It would be good to fight again, but I fear I will find as little satisfaction there as I have in this war.

[beforethewar]

Fascinating!

Poor New York. It's almost as bad as London when it comes to bizarre alien disasters.

I've been placed in a strange world that claims to be a city from Norse legend called Asgard, where I'm expected to fight in a war. And I've been made human! One heart and everything! It's disconcerting to say the least, but at least I've got Charley with me, and an unnerving amount of past and future incarnations. It's amazing the universe hasn't cracked yet.

[aciculated]

You are human? How is that-- And you have not changed your face? Your voice is the same as last we met.

[Because in case you hadn't noticed, Doctor, Leela's blind, a fact which she steadfastly refuses to seem ashamed of.]

Ahh, that's what canon point you're at!

[beforethewar]

My voice? I do-- oh.

[He frowns and is tempted for a moment to offer his sympathy, but he knows Leela better. She'd snap at him for even trying.]

I...well, yes, effectively human. They do claim to be gods, and if they can manage to rob me of my abilities and put me into a one-hearted human body without changing my appearance, I'm almost inclined to believe them.

I didn't regenerate. I just temporarily have a different physiology. It's not so bad once you get used to it.

[janisthorn]

Mundanes are easily distracted. They seem to believe they have real lives they need to attend to. They are mistaken - none would call what they have lives - but that they believe it is all that matters. At times I have gone months without doing anything at all.

[aciculated]

[Blinkblink. Leela stares hard in the direction of the voice-- a habit, pointless, it won't help her see who's there, but the last voice she expected to hear was her own.]

You are-- me? [And then, bafflement turning to warning as she lays her hand on her knife] Or have you stolen my face? Speak!

[janisthorn]

[Leela's own knife hand drops toward her scabbard. She's not about to try to kill herself, but she's not...erm...suicidal enough to leave herself defenseless. Against herself. Okay, that made no sense.]

...I am you. Or so it would seem.

[Leela looks into her other self's eyes - she can recognize blindness when she sees it. This does not bode well.]

I am probably from your past. I have yet to meet Romana.

[aciculated]

[Sense is a frequent victim of multiverses and time travel. Leela's expression is still wary, but her posture relaxes, muscles no longer tensed to attack at any moment. She keeps her hand on the hilt of her knife, but that is more for comfort than anything else.]

You are still with the Doctor? Oh, that is strange.

[She has met past and future versions of Time Lords she knows, but somehow she has always thought of herself as immune to that sort of thing. Leela, human, occupying only one time and space. Obviously that's untrue.]

[janisthorn]

It certainly is...unexpected. But we have encountered strange things before.

[Leela has spoken to the TARDIS herself in a bar at the end of the universe. Still, this is a first. And an unsettling one.]

I have been told I will settle on Gallifrey. I find this hard to imagine.

[Her and everybody else upon their first viewing of The Invasion of Time.]