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Post by Eleven on May 21, 2011 3:31:30 GMT -5
"Ow!" The Doctor looked down at Micaela reproachfully, "What? No! No! Absolutely not! Of course not!"
He pushed the drapes further aside, partly so that Rachel could get a better view, "It's Paris--but--at the same time--it's not really Paris, not the way either of you know it, and not the way I've ever known it!"
"You've got--the Tulieres out there, and the court of Henry the--no--no that can't be right--there's a Henry, but it's not even the French Henry, it's the English one--and you've got--the opera house that should've burned down last year with the one that won't be built till the next century--" The sonic screwdriver was waving back and forth scanning frantically, and he checked and checked it again, but the results it yielded each time failed to compute.
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Post by Micaela on May 21, 2011 3:33:35 GMT -5
"Oh dear Lord that woman is wearing a bustle. That is a carriage." She stared at the Doctor. "How did-- how does this even work? Isn't something wrong? Can we get back?"
Unfortunately he probably did not know all the answers, but being a time traveling alien he had to know more than she did.
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Post by Rachel on May 21, 2011 3:34:28 GMT -5
Rach had looked over her shoulder incredulously from her seat but what she saw mixed with what he was saying made her spring to her feet.
"What?" was all that came out of her gaping mouth.
It was official, she thought: the Italian sun had cooked her brain.
After a moment of gaping stupid silence, Rachel shook it off and peered harder through the window.
"I'm not dreaming, or high or in some sort of weird costume... convention thiny. Okay I don't think Michio Kaku is crazy anymore-- this has GOT to be an alternate universe."
Or whatever... but she had gone through a quantum physics geek phase a few years ago and all the apparently dumb theories weren't looking so dumb anymore.
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Post by Eleven on May 21, 2011 16:57:13 GMT -5
The Doctor pushed past them and raced back downstairs to the courtyard.
"No, no--wrong. This is all wrong!" He waved his shrilling screwdriver at the air, then stared at the readings again. "Irregularities. Too many irregularities but--irregularities operating on a pattern. Like--a great big jumble--but one that's being nice and playing by the rules..."
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Post by Micaela on May 21, 2011 17:01:14 GMT -5
Oh, balls. "Rachel, you're going to want to follow him, just-- ugh, leave the door open."
She was a little peeved at having to leave a nice hot dinner that she'd worked hard on behind, but mostly excited. Would they get to go in the time machine again? Adventures? Excitement? She'd almost begun to think the whole thing was some ridiculous dream...
"Okay," she said to Rachel as she headed down the stairs. "Basically, he's a time traveler. I met him last year and we went to 1536. Right now, I don't have any idea what's going on, so I'm as lost as you are."
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Post by Rachel on May 21, 2011 17:15:37 GMT -5
Rachel stayed behind for a second and blinked.
"Right, so when I was getting my ass kicked by temperamental, short, Austrian conductors, you were hopping around 16th century England with a mad man?" She shook her head. "Nevermind; I guess I picked the wrong major."
Brushing all the other witty quips in her head aside, she ran outside after the Doctor.
"Okay so you're acting like all of this should make some kind of sense-- and what is that thing you're waving around?"
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Post by Micaela on May 21, 2011 17:17:52 GMT -5
"It was only the once, and we were supposed to be seeing Midsummer Night's Dream at the Globe--"
She reached the bottom of the steps. "... okay yeah, what is the blinky green thing that looks like an electronic toothbrush with a light?"
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Post by Eleven on May 21, 2011 17:25:26 GMT -5
"It's a sonic screwdriver." The Doctor tapped it impatiently, "And it's giving me some very, very--unusual readings. It's as though" he looked up, "all sorts of these--layers--and great big chunks of time and space have just been thrown together--like cutting up cake and pie and putting it in a bowl--then shaking it around--except--it doesn't come out of the bowl and it still tastes good."
"There should be all sorts of--irregularities, and schisms, and temporal quakes--but--there's not--it's as though--I can't even detect any dangerous levels of vortex energy." He grinned at them. "Well, you know what they say--when there's no danger in sight, it's time to start looking!"
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Post by Micaela on May 21, 2011 17:27:25 GMT -5
"I don't think they say that, I think that's just you..." But she grinned back.
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Post by Rachel on May 21, 2011 17:31:59 GMT -5
"--Wait! We're going into THAT hot mess?" she said, clearly not liking the idea. "I mean, if dimension are collapsing into each other-- and we know this because time's one dimension and it's obviously been screwy-- who knows what could happen to the fabric of reality... or... whatever this is-- and I think that thing's a misnomer because it doesn't look like it screws screws."
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Post by Micaela on May 21, 2011 17:36:03 GMT -5
Micaela looked at Rachel, impressed that she had any grasp of what might be going on. Her conception of time and space was more that stuff happens, and somehow the Doctor in his blue box knew how to navigate the stuff.
"Is she right, is the dimension collapsing?" Micaela turned to the Doctor. "I mean it doesn't... feel like a dimension is collapsing. It feels like normal. Then again I've never felt a dimension collapsing... do they do that?"
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Post by Eleven on May 21, 2011 17:41:07 GMT -5
"Rachel--it's Rachel isn't it--you're quite right--"The Doctor pointed to her with his screwdriver, and grinned more widely, "Reality's like a fabric! You can fold it and twist and do all sorts of things to it, but as long as it doesn't tear, we should be perfectly fine. I think. Now--who's coming with me?"
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Post by Micaela on May 21, 2011 17:44:46 GMT -5
Huge grin now. "As if I could say no. Rach?"
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Post by Rachel on May 21, 2011 17:45:09 GMT -5
Rachel considered it for a second then shrugged: it was a valid point... she thought.
"Meh, why not? Who am I to pass up a chance to check out legit bustles?" she said before grinning like a derp, linking arms with Micaela and walking on.
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Post by Micaela on May 21, 2011 17:46:18 GMT -5
"Oh you should have seen the dress I got to wear last time," she told Rachel. Then she turned to the Doctor. "So how long has it been for you? It's a year and some months, for me..."
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