Well, here we are in a new and strange place...as always.

[darkened_doctor]

Ah, hello my dear mundane. Here we are again, for the first time, hmm? How long you've considered allowing me frrree reign.

[A smile]

And such interesting people here, too. Hmm? Yes, I'm well aware you've gotten a better reception in games here in short order than in all your time at livejournal, and I'm more than willing to pass the compliment from your brain to my mouth - but we do have other things to discuss. Now, there's bound to be an Ace about somewhere. I would, of course, not at all mind seeing a familiar face.

[And keeping an eye on her, his friend, his pupil, his surrogate daughter in many ways.]

Well, time and tide melt the snowman. And I'd best be off. Somewhere, sometime, something is happening that I need to be a part of. Or that I'll at least prod my nose into. Let's go, mundane - once more unto the time vortex.

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[sandwormie]

'Ace'. It's a name?

I like it. [He would.]

[darkened_doctor]

[A smile]

As does she. A fitting nom de guerre, as they say.

[sandwormie]

Nom dee... like guerrilla? Who's 'they'? Is she a pilot?

I'm Luke.

[darkened_doctor]

"A phrase in another language, Luke, from a far away place."

He shakes his head in the negative.

"I scarcely dare think about what would happen were she to find herself airborne."

[sandwormie]

Oh yeah? How far away? Is it from that Earth? A lot of people here are, it's weird! What does it mean? The phrase, I mean, not why there's so many Earth people. Though that's interesting too. Have you been there? [...Luke gets incoherent sometimes.]

Aww. Well, there's only two ways to find out. ...Three. ...Okay, a lot more than that, but you know what I mean.

[darkened_doctor]

[He smiles at the young fellow's enthusiasm, and nods]

I believe I do. And yes, Earth. I come from rather further afield as you may already know.

[sandwormie]

Yeah, my mun told me a little. I wish - well, I'm getting to travel for a while, anyway. I finally got to see trees! They are so weird! I don't even know how they can be that solid, they're mostly water but it all holds together and they barely move! And they have the most ridiculous roots.

[His greatest enthusiasms are flight and other worlds, in case there was any doubt.]

Earth's got trees, right? People say it's a little like Corellia, but I haven't been there yet. Corellia, I mean. Earth is a completely different galaxy or reality or whatever.

[thecricketer]

I'm sure she's making herself known, wherever she is.

[darkened_doctor]

Ah!

[A tip of the hat]

Undoubtedly so, undoubtedly so. But then, such has always been our taste in companions, hasn't it?

[thecricketer]

[he mirrors the gesture, eyes glinting] It has, rather. Like attracts like, hmm?

[darkened_doctor]

Absolutely.

So, where are you now? I wish I could reciprocate, of course.

[romana2]

My mun would like you to know that she used to have an Ace. That said, she let Ace go to take on a Time Lord. I frankly think it was quite a wise decision.

[Romana pauses and smiles warmly.]

Good to see you again, Doctor.

[darkened_doctor]

[He removes his hat and bows, slightly]

And you, Romana. It has been some time. Tell me, where are you now? The Guardians? Adric?

[romana2]

....Mmmm.... [The Doctor rescued her from E-Space, but spoilers don't matter here and she was destined for it and he knew it even when she traveled with him.]

President of the Supreme Council of Gallifrey and all her Dominions. Holder of the Wisdom of Rassilon. Preserver of the Matrix. Guardian of the Legacy of Omega. Keeper of the Rod and Sash of Rassilon.

[darkened_doctor]

Goodness me, that must make for a rather crowded business card.

[He's pleased, secretly. She's about the only person he'd actually want in the position. The least likely to be corrupted. A decided improvement over the last incumbents]

[romana2]

[Her face falls slightly, but only just.]

So, as far as you're concerned, I'm still in E-Space, then.

[Well, at lease she knows what she can and can't talk about. After all, he's the one who rescued her. Literally, this version of him.]

[darkened_doctor]

For the moment.

[A smile]

But only for the moment.

[iwasherefirst]

You're goin' into the time vortex? [Someone is trying not to get excited but she doesn't know many people who go into the time vortex.]

[darkened_doctor]

Indeed I am, young lady. And you know of it. How very interesting.

[iwasherefirst]

Oh. [She's always a little flustered when she's meeting someone that she thinks is the Doctor but she doesn't know for sure.]

You're the Doctor, yeah? 'm Rose Tyler. 'm goin' to travel with you...later? Pretty sure it's later. I...sorta absorbed the time vortex once. Kind of accidentally.

[darkened_doctor]

[He's honestly flabbergasted by that. But he covers it well. Absorbing the time vortex? Goodness.]

Indeed I am, Miss Tyler. [He lifts his hat] And very pleased to meet you, before I meet you, as it were. Time has a way with such things, doesn't it?

[iwasherefirst]

Wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff. [Such a big smile.] Pleased to meet another you, after I met the future you.

[darkened_doctor]

Wibbly wobbly....[He smiles, tapping his chin] yes, yes, that's it precisely.

[And thus, a catch-phrase is born.]

And it appears my taste in traveling companions does not degrrrade, which is quite a nice surprise.

[stopbleepingme]

Well, that's just stupid. Nobody actually goes in the time vortex.

[darkened_doctor]

[He arches an eyebrow]

There is such a thing as allowing for some drrramatic license, my dear lady.

[He tosses his umbrella with one hand, catching and spinning it with the other, the epitome of showmanship]

Besides, the Shakespeare doesn't work, otherwise. Always be willing to bend to make a convincing statement - even if it is, in every particular way, entirely false.