Character Meet and Greet

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"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

I. Exploring Main Street! Take a trip through a little town taken straight from 1890's America. Visit the shops, dine at the restaurants- but don't forget you are here on a mission. As an Apprentice, you will need to gather some supplies. A weapon, or tool for producing magic.

But we understand if that corn dog cart on Market Street is your first stop.

II. Apprentice Class 101! Practice your spell casting and weaponship on the open commons behind the Firehouse. Sparring, casting or just general confusion abound here. Try not to hit anything or...anyone, the paint on the infirmary is still drying.

III. Look out! A level 2 corroded monster has managed to get onto Main Street! Protect the citizens and defeat the cur, and please watch the damage, the paint is still wet!

IV. One Little Spark! Go ahead, show us the strength of your imagination and come up with your own scenarios. Just, stay out of the Corroded Lands...if possible.

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[funnylittleclown]

Oh, poor girl. He let her cry as she obviously needed to but dug through a few pockets until he found a clean handkerchief. She was in luck, this one was stylishly red with white polka dots... though she might not have noticed with her head on the table sobbing. It was the most natural thing in the world to reach out to her and place a hand on her head, smoothing the hair like he might have done had any of his other friends been upset.

"It does sound like you have gone through quite a lot. I can't say I understand most of it... but it was successful. You did find me!"

His voice grew soft, trying to cushion the fact that he knew he wasn't the version of him she had been so desperately searching for.

"I... I know I mightn't be what you were expecting but the two of us can still work together to put an end to this darkness business. Then maybe we can see about getting you home. Where ever you decide home ought to be. Hm?"

The handkerchief was laid nearby so all she had to do was reach out and take it.

[bigbadrose]

"Yeah," Rose sniffled, but calmed down, gratefully using the handkerchief, with mild amusement at the pattern and held both hands on his. "Thanks... so long as you let that home be with the Doctor, not my parents," she poked her tongue out the side, half-teasing, but definitely ready to fight like a wildcat if anyone tried to decide otherwise for her.

[funnylittleclown]

"Oh well that would be entirely between you and me, older me, which ever me that was..."

He squeezed her hand.

"You know what I mean!"

[bigbadrose]

"Yes," a quiet nod. "I don't think he--" she glanced sideways. "He was in a very rough place without me." That's all she could say. "Worse than just before."

[funnylittleclown]

"Before?"

It occurred to him he might be better off not asking this but, when did he ever do what made him better off?

"Before what?"

[bigbadrose]

"Me," Rose said as naturally as anything, tilting her head as though bemused it could be anything else.

"If he doesn't want me, then that's fine, I'll deal with it. Hardly the first man in my life to get engaged to someone else or need someone different," she snorted quietly, moving her hands, one to prop up a fist to her cheek to lean on and the other doodling circles with her fingers. "But he spent six months looking for anyway at all to get the TARDIS through to me. The goodbye via star hologram was all he could manage. And it was at Bad Wolf Bay for me, so that... I knew... thought I knew it meant I could get back to him. Led me here. Out of my Dad's Universe. Now... I'm not sure." She bit her lip and sought out his eyes. Not as soul-piercing as big-ears', but deep and ancient like her daft puppy's. "Whether it's just... fighting the Darkness, the corruption, or a way back to him."

She wasn't crying, but she was clearly miserable about it.

"Not that I'm not loving this," she laughed softly and squeezed his hand lightly, "Thank you." She glanced sideways, dropping his hand again. "He promised he wouldn't leave me behind and I promised him forever, yeah?" A sigh. "I don't need anythin' specifically it's just...." she chomped her bottom lip in thought. "What's the longest you've ever been without the TARDIS, yeah?"

[funnylittleclown]

"Forever is a very long time."

It was all this talk of engagements and needing some one different that had the Doctor squirming a little in his seat... or the fact the the chair was uneven! Wobbly thing! It was horrible! Momentarily distracted he pawed through his pockets until he found a little matchbook and then quick as a wink disappeared under the table to place the box under the short leg of the chair. That problem was easily solved, if only they all were!

"The TARDIS?"

He asked but even under the table he had heard. It was more a play for time as he tried to recall.

"Oh, Marco Polo probably. Took my key and wouldn't give it back. Why do you ask?"

[bigbadrose]

"Yeah, but how long was it?"

A beat. "He took your key?" She remembered her first Doctor's promise that not even the Mongolian horde could get through the TARDIS, and they'd tried.

Rose rubbed her face, trying to think how to explain it. "Just... She's the only thing stable in your life, yeah? The one constant. Half convinced it's why she likes the blue police box look so much."

Rose chewed her thumbnail sheepishly. It was too embarrassing now that she was on the spot, and she was chickening out again. She glanced sideways. "I'm just being daft, aren't I?" A quiet snort. "You asked before about side effects, now I'm wondering..."

[funnylittleclown]

"Months, had to have been. It was a long journey along the silk road."

Just as the whole affair was a long story. The Doctor, perhaps frustratingly so, decided to remain vague about most of her questions. Choosing instead to use the moment to suck every last drop of milkshake from the bottom of his glass as if he hadn't heard them... and squirm in his chair just to make sure the wiggle was still cured.

"You're being meandering, but daft? No, I don't think so."

[bigbadrose]

"Wow. What a stupid jerk," she huffed, wanting to punch Marco Polo for some reason.

"It's not meandering. I made the Bad Wolf trail when I fused my heart. I followed it to here. You're here, but if I'll ever see your future again..." She shrugged.

[funnylittleclown]

"Hm? Oh, he had his reasons. We did part on good terms."

So there was no need to break through the barriers of time to punch the guy. Though as he said that the Doctor had no idea he was saving Marco Polo from such a fate!

"If you did make a trail that leads back to my future self then you will eventually find him and you will know what to do once you do. You didn't do all that just to be indecisive now, did you? No!"

He answered that part for her as her self confidence seemed a little low at the moment, but anyone who could do the sorts of things she was talking about and survive had to be very spirited. She was just worn down by it all right now.

"What you need is a little rest and maybe some music?"

Run.
The recorder was in his hand before Rose could say boo!

"Any requests?"