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Post by Valkyri on Jul 1, 2011 14:29:54 GMT -5
Now I know I took for granted that things would always go the
way I wanted. I was going to be a tree top, a sea, a boat, a rock of ages.
A grin. A smash of a button and the whole machine lurched to the side violently. It was enough to make a brave man crap his pants and Valkyri didn't really give a crap. “I'm gonna put a hole in my TV set – I don't wanna grow up!” Her voice almost reverberated off the walls of the time machine as she swung around one of the metal support bars and kept herself from smashing her skull open on the floor of the control room. It was all the same to her, she didn't have much to loose and if anything having nothing to loose, nothing to tie you down meant that really if the crap hit the fan you had nothing to worry about. Considering Valkyri was in her peoples terms a child and she didn't really have a sense of danger in the first place it didn't exactly make for a great combination did it? “Open up the medicine cabinet I don't wanna grow up!”
Everything was a distraction from one thing or another, the singing was a distraction from the fact she didn't know what the hell she was doing, that and you know she kinda liked it. There was something about the raw sound, the frustration of youth, sure they might have been a different species but she still related to the words. She found something a little comforting in the fact that certain things didn't get lost between species, the truth was teenagers were the same right across the universe regardless of species. They all were moody little shits that thought the world owed them and right now Valkyri was no different. The universe freaking owed her for what happened to her family, to her home world and most importantly for leaving her abandoned like this.
It wasn't something she liked to dwell on.
Bringing the TARDIS to a stop in the softest way she could, which meant crashing it in to something she got herself upright again, brushed herself down and picked her bright yellow hoodie off the chair. It took just seconds to bounce on outside seemingly unaffected by the fact she had just crashed the damned ship. Looking up at the sky she pouted a little and scratched her cheek as she tried to work out where the hell she was, and when she was. “Mhmmm...” She mused, tilting her head to the side and sighing. “BORING!” She declared loudly at the empty hills a fields. “God damned countryside!”
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Post by The 11th Doctor on Jul 1, 2011 22:33:17 GMT -5
The Doctor had caught onto the other TARDIS from deep space where he'd been hanging around a supernova in hopes to see it end but the fact that his TARDIS picked up another TARDIS quickly changed his mind and he locked onto the other source, flicking the stabilizers on before following after them. Another timelord, this was just turning out to be wonderful for him. He'd come out of the time vortex a few seconds after the other TARDIS had opened, his blue box materializing in mid flight, only just missing a tree and taking the top off a hill, the box jammed into the side of it.
Well that hadn't gone so well had it? He'd had to crash or else he'd have hit the other TARDIS, his own TARDIS being too precise for once and coming out right behind them, heading in the exact same path, the Doctor having to manually drive her which was pretty much impossible. But she survived it, the surroundings not too rocking, mostly green and.... well... boring.
Pushing his doors open, a whole heap of steam coming out behind him, the Doctor climbed into the doorway, trying to look dignified as he stood, on an angle, in the door way, his hair at odds with itself and a goofy grin on his face. "Oh, wasn't that fun?" he questioned before falling on his face in the grass.
No. Not fun. His teeth still ached. He slowly got back to hid feet and wobbled just a little before he was straightening his bow tie and heading down the hill towards the other TARDIS.
"HELLO!" he grinned widely, his hands trying to fix up his hair, face smudged with oil or something, a little on his nose and cheek. "I'm the Doctor, and did YOU SEE THAT?!" he exclaimed with wide eyes, pointing back at his TARDIS. "My TARDIS is in a hill. A HILL!" he exclaimed. "Why are there hills? this is so BORING!"
"I don't even see any horses, horses are cool."
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Post by Valkyri on Jul 1, 2011 23:23:08 GMT -5
Now I know I took for granted that things would always go the
way I wanted. I was going to be a tree top, a sea, a boat, a rock of ages.
Everything had been still, everything had been nice and quiet and boring and then....crash. The other TARDIS caught her immediate attention and it wasn't good. She felt her heart skip a beat, her breath caught in her chest as she stood there taking a few nervous steps away. This was the last thing she wanted, of course there was a huge burst of relief in her chest that there was another Time Lord out there, that there were other people of her kind and that she wasn't alone...but truth be told it terrified her. Why? Well she wasn't too sure, maybe it revolved around the fact that she wasn't a Time Lord, she hadn't passed the Academy, she hadn't been old enough and the truth was she didn't want to be taken home like a little kid in trouble.
A face popped out, Valkyri just looked at him as he fell on the grass. She didn't move, didn't offer a hand, just stood there and looked at him as if he had eaten a baby or you know, killed something cute. She didn't know what to make of this entire situation, she didn't care much for Time Lords, they had this whole holier than thou attitude, they always thought they knew all the answers and most of all they had always looked down on her. After all she was dumb ass kid, the one that was going to fail, amount to nothing, the mistake that society made when she had been loomed. The thing was maybe they had told her that enough times deep down she kind of believed it. After all children were impressionable and they carried what you said to them through the rest of their lives.
Unmoving as he started....talking...well more like yelling really but still it wasn't something she wanted to involve herself in. It was a near glare she gave him as she looked around as if to try and verify his claims about their surroundings. “Yes. Its a hill. Well done want a badge?” It wasn't that she had an attitude problem, it was the fact she wanted to be left alone, she didn't want to see other people of her race and she sure as hell didn't want to stand around and swap chit chat with them. Raising an eyebrow she couldn't help but wonder if this man had a screw fully tightened in his head or if he was just genuinely crazy. “Yeah horses are great. I'm going this way now.” Valkyri said bluntly with little emotion before she turned and started walking back toward her TARDIS. Stupid piece of crap had brought her here and now they were going to have words. This was the last place in the universe she wanted to be right now.
Dear God just let him go away!
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Post by The 11th Doctor on Jul 2, 2011 16:22:13 GMT -5
Well. The Doctor stared after her with his mouth agape. "I'm the Doctor and I just crashed my TARDIS in to a hill for you, to save your life! My TARDIS was so intoned to yours we came out at the same point." he spluttered, exasperated, unsure of what was going on or what he had done wrong. He'd never met this Timelord in his life, he was sure he would remember such rudeness, this was one of the main reasons he'd left Gallifrey in the first place, Timelords were so insufferable. Though... this one felt a lot younger than himself. He smacked at his forehead before following after, not meaning to be a pain, but not understand what he did. "Please, don't go! We haven't even met yet!"
He stopped where he was standing and held up his arms, clueless. Timelords or Gallifreyans they were all the same proud, selfish and insufferable. "You know, ever since I found Gallifrey I've been meeting all sorts of people some really really awesome-and some... rude... And you're currently being rude." Yes, he was calling her rude, because that's what she was! "I fly across time and space, hurtle through the time vortex and then crash into a hill and you-Oh you're all insufferable nit wits anyway, I don't know why I even try! This is why I went exploring..." he grumbled looking as though he'd quite had enough and he started to stomp away, shoulders slumping.
"And I'll have you know; A BADGE WOULD BE GREAT, THANK YOU!" he yelled over his shoulder as he faced his TARDIS. She would need to rest and repair after that and he went over and used the corner of his coat to wipe at his TARDIS, knocking a bit of Earth off the corner, apologizing profusely to her as he pulling himself up off the ground, sitting in the doorway and watching her.
"ARE YOU SURE YOU DON'T WANT TO STAY? I COULD MAKE TEA!" he called out, not really mad about the whole situation, just a little insulted. "It's really good you know... one of my favorite Earth things, next to fish fingers and custard... Jammy dodgers are pretty good too... I have some left. I stocked up." He was mostly talking to himself now, not even sure if she would leave or come back.
He was hoping for the latter. There was always hope, after all.
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Post by Valkyri on Jul 2, 2011 21:31:19 GMT -5
Now I know I took for granted that things would always go the
way I wanted. I was going to be a tree top, a sea, a boat, a rock of ages.
It was easier to walk away. The was the horrible fact of the matter that sticking around wasn't going to be easy and right now sure she wanted her people to be alive but she couldn't be around them. It was too much. The feeling of him in the air was enough to bring back a whole host of emotions that she had tried to bury and Valkyri wasn't sure how to deal with it all. It wasn't that she didn't want to talk to him and she didn't care about the fact that he just crashed his ship....it was just easier. It was easier to walk away from everything, to not care and that was her problem. Valkyri cared too much. Everything effected her and if she let it get to her she wouldn't have coped with it, so walking away seemed to be the only option right now. It was the 'please don't do' that stopped her though, because she couldn't walk away from that. Sure she might be a bit rude and short but she wasn't a complete ass hole all together.
Standing there his next words brought her world down like a hurricane was mowing through it. All the colour drained away from her as she stood there just looking at it. She felt as if she had disappeared, just an imprint on the countryside of wherever the hell they were. He had found Gallifrey? All the colour drained from her skin and she said nothing. What could she say to that? There was a spark of hope that her family would be okay....that she could go home and it would be just like the old days where her brothers would roll their eyes at her and she would try to beat them up. They would go climbing the trees outside the city and cause trouble, run wild across the fields while they're parents were busy trying to help run the planet and losing their mind over their run away children. Then again they weren't run away children...they were just trying to be children full stop. You were meant to drive your parents crazy it made you grow up big and strong.
Valkyri didn't even know what to say to him now, she just let him ramble on and on and the best part was...well she wasn't even listing. Her head was somewhere else completely...her brothers were gone that was for sure. They had been on the front line fighting, lost in a war that to her seemed completely pointless but then again she really had been too young to understand at the time. She never grasped how big it was and just how bad it had been, her parents had sheltered her from the truth, much like the rest of the youth her age on the planet. She had always assumed that her parents were gone too but maybe they weren't? Maybe they were okay...maybe they were looking for her? Then again, she might have been getting ahead of herself.
Then he offered her tea. Pausing she looked at the ground, looked at him and then back to the hills a half torn half cut expression on her face as she tried to weigh up the options here. How the hell was she going to get out of this. “...tea would be nice...” She said and for a moment she sounded so small... “is Gallifrey still....in one piece?”
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Post by The 11th Doctor on Jul 9, 2011 5:11:28 GMT -5
She wanted tea! The question that she asked next, though, was one he'd expected a little and he turned to face her, eyes sad and regretful. "For the most part-I thought I'd time locked it, but somehow it was moved...." he told her serious, the first serious moment he'd really had so far. "But that's not what you asked!" he exclaimed as he leaned inside of his TARDIS, climbing up and in, sliding down until he reached the tea pot. Hew clambered to his feet and managed to keep his balance as he headed down the gangway to the the kitchen, heading in and grabbing a few teabags and some sugar, ducking a spray of hot steam from the TARDIS fixing herself up.
When he came back out again, the teabags were in the teapot and already boiled thanks to the fast equipment he had inside, he dropped back down to the ground only to find that he hadn't brought cup and that would end up being a rather big problem.
But, really, the biggest problem was the deep worry and wariness he saw on the other Gallifrayns face. She smelled so young, seemed it too. And not in the way he was because he was so old even if he acted a lot young than he was and even looked.
Setting the teapot down on a flat surface, the Doctor climbed back inside and tumbled all the way down until he hit the console, grabbing on and using it to steady himself, standing and grabbing two cups before he went back, wavering in the doorway before he jumped down and crouched tipping the tea into two cups, holding one out for her before he leaned up against his TARDIS and took a sip of his own.
"It's not the same," he told her, not looking happy about it. "But it never will be again anyway. Not only is it in the most impossible place that it shouldn't be, it's still healing, the city and it's dome is gone..." he said, voice a mumble now, face looked depressed. "I feel like it's all my fault. But, there was never anything I could do. I had to do what I had to do..." he said, needing forgiveness more than anything in the universe, his face miserable and his shoulder slumped just a little.
"Its not the same. Because, it's not in one piece-" he stopped and took a mouthful of his tea before throwing both the pot and the cup in the grass, tucking his hands behind his head, looking at her with old blue eyes. "Who are you, anyway. I don't think I remember you... not even how you feel-you feel like me..." he paused, listening. "Only one heart beat there, though," he told her pointing to her chest, his head tilting before he smiled. "Did you know, it's nice to know that I'm not alone..."
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Post by Valkyri on Jul 9, 2011 16:26:22 GMT -5
Now I know I took for granted that things would always go the
way I wanted. I was going to be a tree top, a sea, a boat, a rock of ages.
That was the thing, she thought it was gone, she thought the whole thing was gone. Valkyri had spent so long trying to work out how the hell they had just disappeared off the earth. It wasn't until she had found the recording from her father hidden away in the computer she realised that something had gone wrong in the war. Badly wrong. Valkyri didn't care, she didn't want to know what had happened to it the idea of it broke her heart and she could feel it starting to tear itself apart. Valkyri existed in a strange world, somewhere between a stitch away from making it and a scar away from falling apart.
The Doctor disappeared for a few moments, leaving her with her own thoughts and she stood there, looking between her own TARDIS and his...and she thought about running. She thought so hard about it. She could see herself doing it right there and then, picturing herself getting in to her ship and running to the other side of the universe because she didn't want to know. Valkryi didn't want to hear stories of her old world, of a world that she wanted to go home to but never would be able to. Closing her eyes for a moment she could see it in her head in all its glory. The shining jewel in the heavens that it was. The way the trees and the grass glimmered in the light and how the dome of the city looked like a giant diamond cut to perfection scattering the light as it hit it from the sky. How on earth could you ever recreate that? How on earth could you ever conceive or be that arrogant?
As he sat the tea pot down and disappeared back inside she sat down. She couldn't walk away now but right now she felt...nothing. She felt like stone and it was terrifying. Right now she would have given anything for a taste of feeling, everything in her head was out of place, she felt sick right there and then. The truth was she knew she was scared, and that was why she was running like an idiot. She was running because she was terrified of what was going to happen if she stopped. Inside the seemingly peaceful exterior she could feel her soul purging and shivering away at the idea of Gallifrey standing it was a sure sign that the sky was falling. Still there was no place like home when you had no where else to go. Her life should have been calling her now, she should have been graduating in a few years and getting her wings instead she got shoved out on a life boat and left to fend for herself. There was part of her that was deeply hurt but the very idea that they hadn't come for her...they hadn't wanted her? Left out as a stray in the gutter for the winds to take wherever they pleased. How holy.
His voice jolted her out of her little thought bubble and back in to the real world. He talked about the planet about the city being broken and how it wasn't the same and she just nodded. Valkyri didn't have anything to add and the truth was she didn't care. She just wanted to pretend that it was gone because it was better than realising that they had left her for dead. At least she had assumed that. Who knew if it was true but who left a child in the wind like that? Then he asked who she was, she glanced up at him the full name falling off her lips easily and yet it sounded so damned strange “Valkyrirhoadhatheilongourine...but everyone called me Valkyri.” And that was how she wanted it to stay...and he was right only one heart. “I was too young to graduate...I just...all I remember is talking to my father and then...waking up in his TARDIS in the middle of nowhere on some planet that I'd never heard of...so I skipped town.” And kept running.
As for being alone...well she knew how that felt. They were the same yet they were so different. She said nothing just stared off in to space, memories of nothing and everything floating through her head. “It gets old after a while doesn't it.”
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