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Characters: The Ponds Amy Pond and Rory Williams, and YOU.
Setting: In the hallway
Format: Slight preference for brackets, but really, whichever suits you.
Warnings: Possible spoilers

[ Amy's just woken up in a strange place only to find a letter that her world has been destroyed. To say that she is a little annoyed would be an understatement. Her world. The earth. She might have lost a lot of the childish faith she once had in the Doctor, but there is no way he would have let the Earth be destroyed without doing something about it. So here she is, letters in hand and a frown on her face, marching down the hallway. ] Rory. You better be here. [ Louder. ] Rory. Doctor. Doctor.

[At which point, Rory looks carefully out into the hallway, sees Amy, and calls out.] Hey! Amy! [He steps into the hallway and waves, already walking toward her.] Over here, hi. [He's travelled with the Doctor for long enough to already be completely suspicious of this entire set-up, but at least the morally dubious aliens running this place were good enough to send his wife here as well as himself. Or keep them together, at least. He's not certain Amy's better off here but he can't help but be glad they're together.]

Rory. [ The relief is written over Amy's face as she rushes over to Rory and hugs him, before holding up the letters, waving them in front of his nose. ] Have you read these? Like that'd ever happen. Like the Doctor'd ever let it. So, we've been kidnapped, yeah?

[A hug then, ah, yes, straight to business.] Yep. Looks like it. Usual slightly ominous building sort. Slightly less usual than big white building kidnaps but you know. Still to script.

I don't like it. Maybe this is some sort of alternative universe thing. We've not done anything to warrant kidnapping, have we? Must have something to do with the Doctor. 't always does. [ She looks around, studying her surrounding, before turning back to Rory and lightly hitting him in the shoulder, grinning now. ] Hey, at least you're not dead.

[Rory raises both hands to gesture with them, smiling ruefully.] Yet.

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Eeeeee! Ponds!

[spiritsup.livejournal.com]

[Romeo was walking down the coridoor, he was doing his best to practice walking so though he still used the hoverboard, which he held in his mouth at the moment, for going up and down stairs and through the scarier rooms he was trying to walk a lot as well.

It was slow progress since he had four hooves instead of hands or feet, bones showing where the skin couldn't stretch. So he heard most of the end of the conversation completely by accident.

At the mention of the Doctor Romeo looked up, again something easier said than done thanks to the large antlers on his head. He drops the hoverboard so that he can talk.] Do you mean the man that calls himself The Doctor and not just a normal doctor miss? He's here, or was here. I haven't seen him in a while miss.

[He smiles, even though it probably looks grotesque as his mouth and nose are stretched out like a deers, bone showing again where skin doesn't reach]

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[ Amy whirls around. ] Hah. So he's here. I knew it.

[ And then she stops for a moment to study Romeo, who seems a mix of deer and human, which is -- weird, but far from the weirdest she's seen. ] Hello. Who're you, then?

1/? I DON'T EVEN

[spacehipster]

[It can't be.]

2/?

[spacehipster]

[The Doctor had thought he was alone, left to suffer, unable to save, guilty guilty guilty --

But those are his ponds.]

3/4

[spacehipster]

[His ponds are here!]

4/4 DONE

[spacehipster]

[For once, he has no words.

Only pond hugs.]

[waitedforyears.livejournal.com]

[ Hugs. By the Doctor. This is good. Or possibly very bad indeed, but Amy chooses not to believe that. So there's hugging back. A lot of hugging back. ]

Doctor. Hi. [ Drawing back to look at him. ]

<3

[waitsforever.livejournal.com]

[...they've seen enough weird stuff that Rory assumes this is just another alien. Sounds like a kid alien too. And of course, he zeroes in on the IMPORTANT stuff.]

Is that a hoverboard?

[spacehipster]

Oh Amy, Amy Amy Amy. Amelia Pond. [ He kisses her forehead]

Are you alright? Are you okay? They haven't done anything to you, have they?

[ a beat ]

I missed you so much.

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[Rory sort of...eyes the Doctor and waves almost hesitantly with one hand.] Hello... [He is smiling, though. Just try and STOP him smiling. It's one thing to HEAR that the Doctor is alive and another thing entirely to KNOW he is, first hand evidence. Doctor.]

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Did you? [ A slow blink. He's the one who left, who thought it was too dangerous for them to continue travelling with him. And he died -- of course not really, if they believe River, which Amy is definitely, definitely doing. But in light of this, his reaction seems a little--strange.

Not that she doesn't like it, but it's time to borrow a page from his book. Or possibly River's. ]

When're you from, then?

[spacehipster]

Rory!

[RORY YOUR HUG IS MUCH MORE INTENSE. It's more of a tackle, really.]

And 'course I missed you, you're my ponds. My wonderful, amazing, brilliant, best best best of humanity.

[--that's a surprising question]

I just went off to rescue Melody--River--Melody--River--

Point is: rescue!

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Ha-ah! [Which is sort of a surprised exhalation noise. BUT YES this is. Well. Nice. Tangible Doctor. Good.] Doctor! [He hugs him back. He's not quite that surprised.

Only.]

Oh.

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Oh. [ That complicates matters. It does. How much can they tell him? They can't tell him he dies, can they? Or that he doesn't die? ]

Melody. My baby.

[ That's something Amy will never forget, not watching her baby grow up. ] We're from your future. Actually, really really from your future. Does that mean I get to say 'spoilers' now?

[ Okay, look, this is a lot to take in and you've just died, except you haven't, but she saw you die. So have another hug. A kind of group hug, really. She's laughing, but she might well be crying. ]

[spacehipster]

I suppose you have rights to the word, but one River is more than enough.

[Whoa, okay, The Doctor's alright with hugs, but tears are banned.]

...I'm guessing the spoilers aren't the "and we lived happily ever after" sort.

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Close...enough? [He pats Amy comfortingly on the back.] Anyway, if anyone gets to be a second River, it's her mum. Should we, um... [Pause. And then he squares himself, Rory-into-action.] What's our plan? For here?

[waitedforyears.livejournal.com]

Plan. Good question, yeah. [ Amy turns to the Doctor. ] What's 'here' anyway? Some alternate universe of some sort? Or have we been kidnapped?

[spacehipster]

[It's go time. Official Team Pond Doctor huddle is happening.]

Right, okay. We're in a tower, probably in an alternate universe, maybe a pocket dimension. I can't really tell because my gorgeous, sexy TARDIS is gone, and my screwdriver refuses to analyze the surroundings, stupid thing.

Here is The Tower. It's dangerous. More dangerous than I first gave it credit for. The people who've put us here claim to have rescued us from our world--that was supposedly destroyed, as if. You're from my future so that only proves there was no world destroying involved, which is good! Very good. Great, even. The best of news.

But there's a problem. A bad news problem.

We're lab rats. Experiments. I'm sure of it now, sorry to say.

--Not to worry, though. We're going to escape and bring everyone with us. Not sure how, but it's going to happen. I promise. I will not fail you, or anyone else.

[Because the Doctor is back in action! Emo and angst please stay in that corner over there. The Doctor has better things to do now.]

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[Rory listens politely until he's sure the speech is done.] Right. So...no plan, then. What does "experiment" entail, exactly? ...mazes? Please tell me it's mazes.

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The world's definitely still there. And we're lab rats, are we? [ Amy won't make a good lab rat, she's sure of that. ]

How long've you been here, then, anyhow? [ Long enough to miss them. Long enough to have figured out that everyone is a lab rat.

And she wants to believe the Doctor, badly, when he says that he'll save them all. She does believe that he'll do whatever he can, his best, which is a lot, but she's let go of the blind faith. ] We'll get out of here. [ Together. They'd work on it together. ]

[chapsandcowl.livejournal.com]

[As Tim is walking down the hallway, he overhears their conversation and pauses to observe. To look less suspicious, he opens the book in his hands and flips through it to make it seem like he's looking something up as he continues to eavesdrop. Both of them are mentioning the Doctor and he remembers the Doctor telling him their names and appearances before. Once he's sure these are the Doctor's Amy and Rory, he lowers his book and approaches them.]

You're looking for the Doctor?

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[ Amy whirls around and musters him. He looks nice, so he gets a smile. ]

Yeah. Yeah, we are. Have you seen him, then?

[spacehipster]

No, Rory, not mazes. [But he leaves it at that]

Nooooooot too long. [Dismissive wave. You don't need to know.]

I've been thinking about doing some experiments of my own, actually. Experiments of the explosive variety.

And then there's the possibility that if I request separate pieces of the TARDIS...

[chapsandcowl.livejournal.com]

[Tim automatically smiles back even if his current Tower-induced paranoia is telling him not to trust these two immediately. If the Doctor gets hurt--but he can handle it, Tim's sure.]

He's a friend of mine. I don't know where he is right now, but he should be relatively easy to find.

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[Great. Not-mazes. Not-mazes are his least favourite kind of experimentation.] They'll just...give you bits of TARDIS.