homeless

[failedhullabaloo]

Oh, so you finally come back to me? Swan off and leave me behind, but now suddenly you're all interested again. Because of what, some years-old story you read again last night? And you think I'll just go along with it?

Fine, but don't think I'll be going along with it if you decide a game'd be a lark, I've had quite enough of those, thank you.

It's not as if my Doctor's easy to find, anyway. The new ones are all skinny and wearin' suits and what-have-you, and it's downright weird.

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[riverborntorun]

It doesn't get weird until he tries to justify what he wears by insisting that it's "cool".

[sasstastic]

Well, that's reassuring.

[failedhullabaloo]

Cool? Seriously? I mean, the pinstripes and trainers weren't awful, but that bowtie...

[failedhullabaloo]

[GRIN, hallo Doctor] What, that you're bloody weird in the future or that it's hard to find you?

[sasstastic]

I'm not weird now? I'm not sure if that's a compliment. Anyway, they're still me, me with bad fashion sense and too much hair.

[failedhullabaloo]

Yeah, you are. You're not trying to sport a bowtie and bracers, though.

[she makes a face] I know they are, I've learned that much, it's just... they're not exactly you. Not really.

[sasstastic]

Don't... don't get me started on Bowtie. He looks twelve. How am I supposed to get anything done when I look twelve and I'm wearing a bowtie?

[failedhullabaloo]

You could go undercover in boys' schools? [she is not giggling at you. really.]

[sasstastic]

Oi! This is serious! I got important work to do.

[ofdrumsthesound]

Even Tens are hard to find these days.

[failedhullabaloo]

What's that then? Burning all the bow ties in the TARDIS so you can't wear them when that one comes 'round?

[sasstastic]

I'd buy more. I can get stubborn about clothes.

[failedhullabaloo]

Hadn't noticed.

About the muns and all that... are you stuck off anywhere, or are you loose in the wind like me?

[sasstastic]

New Moore island, been there for a few months now... no TARDIS, it's all very boring.

[failedhullabaloo]

Can't imagine, you in one place for more than a couple weeks, tops. Practically domestic, we all know you don't do that if you can help it.

Go on, then, what's it like? Other than very boring.

[sasstastic]

Domestic's a good word. With "events" every so often, people forgetting who they are or having their personalities switched. Nothing to do about those, they wear off.

Oh, and you're told you're fictional when you arrive. I reckon it's to stop people from trying to leave the island.

[failedhullabaloo]

Seriously? They just tell you you're not real? [under her breath] Bet that goes over well.

[sasstastic]

The claim is that you were made real by their technology. I don't believe it for a second, but it's not a bad story.

[failedhullabaloo]

I guess. Doesn't make a lick of sense, though - if folks were actually fictional, they wouldn't have... I dunno, memories of all those totally mundane moments that aren't part of the book or the film or whatever. Or all the years before it started. But they do, a person wouldn't be a person without all those memories, would they?

[sasstastic]

[boy he's missed her]

Yeah, yeah. You pull out a character from a story, you don't get a full person. And they're getting full people.

[failedhullabaloo]

[Ain't nobody like her!]

Which means they're finding people, real people, and bringin' 'em there, and lying to them to keep them from trying to get home.

[she puts her tongue up against her lip, like she does when she's feeling mischievous]

How much trouble are you planning to cause for them?

[sasstastic]

Uh... looks like most people they bring are about to die or— [clears his throat] Anyway, better off on the island than home.

Relatively better. In any case.

[failedhullabaloo]

Blimey, that's... food for thought. [SHE CAN GUESS WHAT THAT THROAT-CLEAR MEANS, DOCTOR. :c ]

Still, doesn't do to lie about it. Why are they doing it anyway?

[sasstastic]

[IT'S OKAY ROSE, YOU GET PINSTRIPE SUIT!]

No idea. The goodness of their hearts, supposedly.

[failedhullabaloo]

[NOT AS GOOD. Give her a few weeks of him, she'll warm up to it.]

[snort] And I'm the bloody queen.