gotosleep_idiot | May & June Test Drive

"You might," wry grin. "Yeah, apparently not." Hahahahahah... she's sorry Jack. Less sorry for the Doctor.

And she rubbed the back of her neck with her hand. "He kind of picked it up from me. The talking like crazy. And I picked it up from my Mum. Like I said; people said the Doctor and I are... a lot alike."

A huff. "He really told you he had a crush on the Master?" She chewed her bottom lip. "He got on my case just for calling the Master good looking in sunglasses, and then went and kissed him..." all the fuming. "I am so dumping a bucket of water on his head when he gets home!"

A pause and then a small laugh and Rose shook her head. "Fluffy can either talk for hours with no break and no words in edgewise, or he goes totally silent to trick you into doing all the work for him. Drives me mad. Much prefer--" She clicked her teeth shut a moment. "Um. The talking. Yeah." Tight grin.

"All right, so enough about him." She rolled her hand in a circle. "How'd you meet? Are you settling into Nautilus all right? Anything I can do for you since the version you know isn't here yet?"

"Said the Master was his man crush back in the day when they were kids. Which was the first I heard Missy had a male form in the first place. Gotta say, hard pressed to know which one of her I want to punch more." She considered. "Might just help you with that bucket though."

She got up to help with the tea, since she'd skipped answering that question. "Just got here a bit ago, still a little confused. Decided Heather could find me well enough, but not the Doctor or Nardole, so I went looking for them, wound up here. So not exactly had a chance to settle in anywhere yet."

Probably a good thing the Master wasn't here anymore then. "He didn't get over it," Rose said sipping her tea.

"Heather? Nardole??" a head tilt. "Gotcha. Okay. Well... welcome to a sentient multiverse nexus. That is just as mad as it sounds, but since you know the TARDIS, he's a bit like her, but with worse taste. Sexy -- that's the TARDIS, guess who named her," wry grin, "Always had the good sense to avoid the Master. The Doctor's a little more... Oh no he's the only one like me!" A snort. "Which, okay, I kind of get, that's how I feel... FELT about him sometimes, the Doctor I mean, but still." A huff. And Rose pushed her hair back with a hand.

"But yeah Nautilus is a good sort mostly. Wry sense of humor. Hence the body-swapping. Oh and there's a Doctor-lookalike who's married to River Song. No idea whose sense of humor that is. Fate? Irony???" A shrug. "Oh! But everything's free here! So that's really nice. And you can do just about anything with bending, which is kind of like will-magic. Like I said, Nautilus is a bit like the TARDIS in that regard."

"Bit to process there," she said with a laugh. "but yeah, the Doctor was all 'The Master's the only friend I ever had who was the most like me' and whatever. S'why he wants so badly for her to be good. Guess he thinks that'll tell him he's good or something. But he is. Missy? Aint. Knew she was going to get me killed, and I was right." She shook her head.

"Now when you say free. what exactly do you mean? When me and Shreen and the others found a house that was too good to be true for us being able to afford it, it was. Doctor had to go in and destroy it. I mean, it was eating people and there was no wifi, but still. First place we found we could afford that had room for us all. So bit sceptical about things being cheap or free these days."

Maybe free would explain the whole magic thing? If not, she'd ask. If she could. This girl's got a gob on her like the Doctor for sure.

Rose growled to herself and started practically carving into a notebook procured out of nowhere with a pen, more wielded like a knife. She's having a jealous fit, don't mind her.

Her ears perk right up at the name though. "You have a best mate named Shireen too?!" A headshake. And a laugh. "Sounds about right for London. Nah, it's not free like--" a face scrunch. "Cyberman upgrades. It's free because... everything that would normally charge money can be done with pure will. It's--" Rose scrunched her face again. "Between all the universes. So your normal dimension rules are right out, yeah?"

"Sorry, back up, explain that bit about the Cybermen again." She scowled and looked at her hands. "Is that why I'm not all watery? Am I back in that stupid suit? Is this that perception filter thing?" Someone was starting to get a little scared now and was backing up towards the door. "I can't be in the Tardis, not like this. I might blow it up or something...." Her chest was heaving a bit as she held her hands out like they had betrayed her.

"What?" Rose just looked baffled. Because she was, truly.

"You can't blow up the TARDIS," she scoffed quietly, a little amused by the idea. "Trust me, stronger forces have tried." Zagreus is in your -- stop that! She mentally yelled at herself.

"Sorry, I must have stumbled on something. Cybermen is a -- CLEARLY you know what they are. But all the rest, I don't know what you're talking about. I just meant, it's a catch, yeah? First it's like "Oh we'll upgrade your phone for free" and then it's 'and your body' and then it robs you of your free will. Nautilus is... totally the opposite, I promise." She made a giant X with her arms. "Noooooo cyberman here. I don't think they could come without a soul, or at least the ability to change their minds. And that's kind of... not how cybermen work, yeah?" A head tilt. "Sorry, I've upset you. Didn't mean to do that. Here, the only catch to being here is that you've been called to wake, but you can't change your timeline or you'll cause flaws, and it can be really devastating to find friends you'll never see again outside of here, only to lose them again here. That's it. That's the only catch."

Another head tilt. "And besides that, there's always hope, yeah? This place... has a lot of hope."

"Hope. that's what he said, at the end. Where there are tears there's hope. But something messed up somewhere." She shook her head, then stopped, forced herself to stop moving at all. "When you see me, what do you see? Honest now, please, don't try and spare my feelings or nothing. I know what I looked like then. I need to know if I look like that now."

Rose pulled up a mirror.

"You're a cute girl, remind me a little of my ex boyfriend Mickey Smith, more than Martha Jones, I think it's the attitude." A pause and a firm nod. "Definitely. You're not into videogames and addicted to watching football at the pub, are you?" A wry grin to show she was joking.

Her shoulders settled as relief filled her. The mirror helped. "Right then. I look like me. Well, me before. Long story, might sound a bit crazy, but till about an hour ago, maybe two now? I was a Cyberman. Only sort of not. But everyone afraid of me, things blowing up when I got angry. Bit of a long story but... just glad that being here I didn't become that.. again."

Rose nodded solemnly. "I was one in a glitched timeline. Killed my Mum."

She grabbed a bottle of liquor out of the cabinet, eyed how low it was with a grimace, her kids had been drinking a lot of late, and poured them both some. "Cheers."

A headshake. "Not a cyberman here." And Ianto was gone so she didn't need to warn him or her or-- Another gulp of the whiskey.

"I'm not sure how Nautilus figures out who to bring and what points to bring them from, but I know even a dalek showed up once! Mind, not a regular dalek. One who wanted to destroy all the other daleks. Bit weird. Loved him to pieces. I miss Rogue." A shrug. "Mostly people brought here aren't rampaging psychos. Or yanno, as with the case with Rogue, can sort of control it and channel it to not-all-sentient lifeforms other than themselves."

She eyed the bottle then shook her head. "Nah, not thanks, mate. If I'm really me again, want to feel it for a while. Going to just stick with tea I think. Unless you got chips. Met a Dalek once. Well, a few of them a bit, but only one really. Tried to kill my girlfriend. Then... was my girlfriend for a short while there." She was reconsidering the drink now, actually.

"Yeah, I can make chips," Rose beamed. And then blinked. "Your girlfriend was a dalek?" WELL, there was a first for everything... "This I've gotta hear."

"Used to be a chip girl, back home. Still could be if I want. Not sure. Universe is great and all, but also liked having a part of my life that was just... life. Course that was back when I actually was alive." She shook her head. "And there am I sounding like the Doctor, telling the whole thing wrong way round. Bit of a long story though, not sure you want to hear it all."

"Me too!" beam beam. "For a bit. But I would nevar wanna go back to it!" Rose laughed. "Micks kept sayin' I would get fat if I ate all the chips, and I couldn't really stop myself from tastin' each batch. And I nevar wanted to kick the Doctor as much as when he was makin' leers at my cafeteria uniform while he got to be a teacher." A huff.

"I absolutely want to hear all of it," Rose beamed looking like a pouncing wolf. "And don't you dare leave a single detail out."

"Yeah well, not one to kiss and tell, mate," she said sipping her tea. "So there will be at least a few details left out. I actually got someone fat by accident once, as a chip girl. Blame the Doctor really. Pretty thing. Could been a model. Felt bad after. Took me a while to realize I'd even done it."

A pout.

"Eh, chips are better than being a model anyway. I'm sure she was happier." Rose winked.

A beat. "Wait, how is it the Doctor's fault though?" She believed her, since it usually WAS his fault.

"Well see, she was in one of his classes. I went sometimes back then, back when I thought he was just another bloke. His lectures were interesting. And well, sometimes she'd be on my line talking about his class or reading the assignment. When ever she was, popped in some extra chips on her plate. Never said nothing. Just kind of wanted to see what would happen. She talked about him, extra chips. Kind of became a little game for a while. Went on for ages, her not noticing or nothing, then one day she did notice. She realized I'd been giving her extra chips, and she smiled and thanked me. Which is when I noticed she was fat now. I'd fatted her. But hey, she liked the chips so not all on me, yeah?"

An amused wry grin. "Well, like I said. Chips are better than bein' a model anyway," Rose said as she made up a batch.

"So what's your favorite part of his classes?" Rose laughed and shook her head. "He didn't even really do much teaching here when he was pretendin' to do the 9 to 5 job thing tutoring Adrien. It was mostly just a farce so the kid could go adventurin' despite his Da's iron-fist rules."

"Really? Well he teaches now. Thing is, he almost never keeps to the subject he's meant to be lecturing about. Like this one time, I went to his lecture on crop rotation. Whole thing was about how many ways you can die in space. Even drew a skull on the board and everything."

Rose nodded. "That's a joke, on crop circles. Ever see that movie? Signs?" Rose shrugged. "It's about aliens wanting to kill humans, but being weak to water. Kind of a dumb planet to invade then, yeah?"

"I could just about hug you. I try movie after movie against the Doctor, and you know which one he knows? Only one? Frozen."

Rose laughed quietly. "I'll let you," she promised and shook her head. "He loves Disney. Disney and Muppets. But I made him watch some others with me. Ghostbusters. Pirates of the Caribbean... hang on, is that Disney too? I always get it mixed up from his universe or my Da's. He hates the Harry Potter movies though. Not enough like the books, and he's convinced he looks like Barty Crouch Jr. I don't see it, but he gets super squirrely about it. Oh! I should have said this earlier. That multiverse nexus thing? So Albus Dumbledore is here! Really here. But super young. Like back in his twenties. Way before becoming a teacher and the works. Before he met Fawkes the phoenix too, of course."

"Dumbledore? No way. Okay, kind of loving this place. I mean it. Once Heather shows up, I could happily just stay here. Make this my home. Place to rest between adventures." She leaned back smiling. "And not just for the view." She winked.

"Yeah," Rose beamed, and blushed slightly at the compliment, "Oh! Ta. Tell me about Heather though. I know you said you're not one to kiss and tell, but I'm dyin' of curiosity here, yeah?"

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