[network/open] WTF???

[thedoctorsmate]

Who: Donna Noble
Username: supertemp
Warnings: Discussion of teeth, serial killers

Right.
Donna Noble.
New arrival.
Question:
What the flip is going on with the teeth?
Why are there bags of teeth in the park?
Who does that?
Whose teeth are they?
Isn't that like what a serial killer does?
I saw a program on Ted Bundy once.
Mad stuff.

Comments

[thedoctorsmate]

Oh, he'll want to know what's going on here. And he'll want to help. That's what he does. What I've been helping him do. We go places with problems, and he does whatever he can to try to make it right.

[abrightboy]

What kinds of problems? What kinds of places?

cw: mention of slavery

[thedoctorsmate]

All sorts, really. Big problems a lot of the time, but little things, too. He's a time traveler with a space ship. We can go... anywhere. Any when. He's saved Earth a few times from invasions. It's how we met. There were spider aliens. It's complicated. But... yeah. He stopped them. He helped stop a war that had gone on for generations, but had lasted only a week. He saved thousands of people who were trapped in a computer program. He helped free an entire race of people from slavery... And he managed to save one family when Mount Vesuvius erupted. It wasn't much. It isn't always. Some days? Feels like you've barely won at all. But it was something.

[abrightboy]

I understand that. Um. Time travel, huh? That makes the places he'll have to look for you multiply across all of time, doesn't it?

[thedoctorsmate]

Yeah. It does. But I found him once after I turned down the chance to go traveling with him. Reckon I can find him again. Or he'll find me. I'm going to be with him for the rest of my life. I just... I know it.

[abrightboy]

When you say that, do you mean for the rest of your entire lifespan or do you mean it's going to get you killed?

[thedoctorsmate]

[Donna stares at him for a long moment, pressing her lips together.]

See? This is why I said you were morbid. The rest of my lifespan, you silly goose!

[abrightboy]

I've never time traveled. I imagine it could go either way.

[thedoctorsmate]

It is dangerous, but I'm not planning on dying anytime soon. Dunno about you. Reckon this place might be a bit difficult, but you've survived, yeah?

[abrightboy]

Well, I've stayed out of some of the more bloodthirsty situations, but not usually on purpose. This place can mess with your head pretty intensely.

[thedoctorsmate]

Well... that just sort of goes along with the dangerous, doesn't it? You're not a stark raving loony. So that's something to say on your mental fortitude.

[abrightboy]

Valid point. I haven’t seen anyone crack completely yet, but that’s not to say it couldn’t happen.

[thedoctorsmate]

Could happen... but maybe not today? [She sips down the last of her cooling drink.] Today, I think we probably need to be getting back to the office, yeah? Appreciate the chat, though. Like to know who I'll be working with... and what I'm getting myself into.

[abrightboy]

[He nods and offers her his hand to shake.]

Welcome aboard.

[thedoctorsmate]

[He gets a firm handshake before she rises.]

Ready for duty, Captain.