taxonomites | fifteen | various notes around Taxon | visual

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fifteen | various notes around Taxon | visual | location: central

Several notes have been left around Taxon over the last few days.

For Fred >> An electronic cart has been folded up and is leaning against the door. There is a note.

HC Clements

Bring the Drill

For Rose >> A note:

I'm okay.

Please take care of yourself.

Love, D

For Tara >> A note:

I'm sorry about before.

HC Clements. Tomorrow.

For Fitz >> A map of Taxon, with a segment of woods circled, and a circle around HC Clements. Also, a note:

Tomorrow.

Once all are delivered, the Doctor plants himself in a nondescript alley in central, smooths out his hair, and flips on the tablet to visual. He grins madly at the camera.

Of course, right before he opens his mouth to speak, music begins playing. Ah, it's that old familiar tune, the first bars to "All By Myself". The Doctor feels the music tug at his heartstrings, and he opens his mouth and says:

"No, I'm serious. I'm not singing that, stop it."

He says it with enough force, that an Extra walking behind him stops and turns to stare at him. The Doctor focuses on the tablet.

"So, rumors of my disappearance have been greatly exaggerated, of course," he says, all smug and self-satisfied, as per usual.

The Extra behind the Doctor picks up a pipe from the ground and starts towards him. The Doctor, focused on the tablet, doesn't notice.

"But! Since the Council, or whatever you call it, is doing such a fantastic job of keeping law and order, I think I might give the citizens of Taxon a head's up about the actual threat around this place."

The Extra is now right behind the Doctor, and it raises the pipe above its head.

The Doctor continues. "You should really look out for---"

The Extra slams the pipe down, and the screen goes suddenly static, then fizzes back to the Doctor, struggling with the strangely violent Extra. The Extra smacks him across the face and he falls over, out of camera range.

OOC: To those whom he's left a note, you're welcome to just meet him at HC Clements after or prior to the events with this Extra.

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The benefits of a human brain, she's only focused on him and the way he feels inside of her, the way her entire body feels like it's made of fiery pins and needles. It's not enough but nothing will ever be enough with him. She suspects even forever would fall short but she'd spend the rest of her life here in this prison if it meant she could spend it with him.

She wraps herself around him, keeping him as close as he can get. Her breath comes in pants against his neck and she cries out his name like it's a prayer or a confession. Maybe both.

Hearing his name like that on her lips is almost enough to send him over the edge immediately, but he holds back. Once he finishes, he has to leave, and he doesn't want to go. He doesn't want this to be over, not yet. He doesn't want the moment to end. It's all they have, after all; moments.

"Rose." He's wanted her and longed for her for so long, it's almost impossible to believe he's here with her, and she's loving him and wanting him and well, he's pretty thrilled about it, actually.

He smiles, despite everything. He smiles at her, and presses a gentle kiss to the side of her mouth.

She can't help but smile back at him. She never has been able to do anything but smile back at him. The little breather is nice. It does let them hold onto the moment for a little while longer. She laughs softly, turning her face to kiss him then tilting her head to kiss his jaw.

These little moments are worth all the crying and worrying she does the rest of the time. At least as far as Rose is concerned. She'd walk through fire for one of these moments with him.

"Doctor," she smiles, putting another kiss just underneath his jaw. She's still got him wrapped up tight against her, unwilling to let any space come between them for the moment.

He wishes that they could have forever. He wishes that he could kiss her mouth and tell her that they could have this for as long as time stood. But he can't. They have until they leave Taxon, and he's trying to convince himself to keep looking for a way out.

He holds her close, the intimacy something he was once afraid of but now clings to. He needs her. He loves her. Every movement of his hips into hers just reaffirms that feeling.

"I---"

I love you. It's not hard to say, but he can't choke it out. He just kisses her again. The words are in the kiss.

She's getting the message right now. Not that hearing the words wouldn't be good but it's not something she needs. Not as long as he's here. She kisses him back, not desperately this time but reaffirming the words he can't say. She tries to slow it down a little, promising him all the time they can steal.

If she can just hold onto this, hold onto the knowledge, the feeling and help him hold onto it as well, she won't hate that he has to leave. She won't like it but she won't hate it either.

He braces one hand against the wall and holds onto her tight. He feels himself slowly moving towards climax, but he doesn't want to. He doesn't want to end this, he doesn't want to leave her.

"Come with me," he says. "Away with me. We can...run. Together."

It's said in the heat of passion and he'll regret it the moment his body temperature has lowered, but right now, it feels right.

She's just as close to climax as he is and fighting it for all the same reasons. "Yes." She captures his mouth with hers again to keep him from taking it back, to keep him from arguing.

There's never any thought to it. "Anywhere you go, Doctor," she promises fervently against his mouth.

Unfortunately she won't forget he's asked.

Anywhere. He'll lead her right to her death and he knows it. Still, he holds her close and fights his body's desire to finish, fights it because he doesn't want to leave her.

He can't hold out forever, and he braces himself against the wall, crying out her name as he climaxes.

She knows it and she'll go willingly anyway. She's believed that for a long time anyway.

It's the way he cries out her name that does her in. She can't fight it anymore and her climax follows his, her leg around his hips tightening and her arms clinging to him as she buries her face in the crook of his neck, breathing hard and trying to right the world.

He holds onto her as his body shudders and relaxes, and he holds onto her even after. His eyes screw up tight, as though he can block out the rest of the universe that's intent on keeping them apart.

He opens his eyes and pulls back finally, looking down at her and memorizing her face, her flushed lips, her eyes. She's beautiful and he loves her. Why can't he stay? Why does he always have to run?

He doesn't talk, he just leans down, pressing a tender kiss to her mouth.

She knows that look. Of course it took her a little while to realize what that look was. It's the look he gives her when he doesn't think he's coming back. She returns the same sort of look but her hands smooth down his back, over his shoulders, down his chest. She's memorizing the feel of him because so long ago she memorized what he looks like.

She arches up into the kiss, not making it deeper so much as trying to make it linger. She knows what's coming and she's trying to hold him here longer. She's trying to put off that argument she doesn't think she's going to win; the one where he sticks to the offer he made her in the heat of the moment.

He thinks about the human Doctor back on the beach. If he had only one life to live, he'd want this, he thought. Holding her, making love to her, just being with her. Living out a life, one life. It would be good.

He breaks the kiss, but doesn't pull away from her.

"If we had forever," he says, brushing a finger across her cheek. "It would be---it would be brilliant."

She tilts her head just slightly into the touch and reaches up to run a finger down the bridge of his nose and over his lips. "It would be brilliant. This can be too. While we're here, we can be brilliant."

She wonders when she went from fighting for the rest of her life to settling for here. She's pretty sure it was right about the time their relationship went too good to be true.

"We can't stay here," he says. "We're prisoners here, Rose, and you've got a brilliant life out there. It's just waiting for you."

He presses a kiss to her fingertip when it touches his lips. How is he supposed to just give her up? In moments like this, the universe seems so small. Just them, together.

She nods, more for the sake of not arguing with him. "I know." It's just a whisper that conveys how much she hates that she knows this. She bites her lips, trying to make some sense of all her thoughts and emotions. "Maybe this is our--We won't get forever so maybe this is--maybe this is our forever. All this emotion and all this that should last forever crammed into this little slice of time here."

Or maybe that's just what she wants to believe. They get a reward for everything they've done; everything they've gone through and how far they've come.

He takes her hand and places it above his left heart. He closes his eyes. Forever is something they can't have, never. But it's something they both want. And maybe, here---

"I can't stop trying," he says. "To get us away, but---as long as we are here. You have my heart."

Her eyes get teary and she closes them, just feeling the thump-thump of his heart beneath her hand. She slides her free hand to rest over his right heart. "What about the other one, Doctor. Do I get that one too?"

"Oi," he says, offering her a small, cheeky smile. "I need something for me, you know."

She laughs softly, very quietly and dips her head to kiss both sides of his chest.

"Alright. I s'pose I'll settle for just one." She licks her lips, looking back up to him. "You've always had mine. Take care of it 'cause I've just got the one."

He's sad, then, and he does his very best not to show it. She gives him her heart, but one day she'll give it to someone else. She'll give it to someone else and he'll stand there, helpless to stop her.

He hates this life as a servant to time. He hates the way time works for him.

"I will," he lies, because it is easier to lie.

She hates the way he feels so bound not to change things; so trapped in what will be, what must be and what has been. She tilts her head up, pressing a kiss to the corner of his mouth.

"I trust you."

And not with just her heart. With everything.

He finally moves back from her, feeling almost pained at the lack of contact. The books he needs are still on the other side of the room, but he can't make himself go to pick them up, not yet.

"Sorry," he says, feeling suddenly very awkward. "I should've---gotten a prophylactic or---something---"

Caught up in the moment, as it were, even the Doctor made mistakes.

Rose shakes her head although she does feel a little flutter of nerves in the pit of her stomach. A baby would only make everything worse. Especially here. "It's--we'll remember next time. Probably not all that--" she stops short because she doesn't know that they aren't very compatible. She's just assuming. She forces a smile and reaches out to take his hand, more to keep him near than anything. "Should have said something. Wasn't thinking clearly. Ought to see about taking the pill anyway."

"Right, we might not be," he says, gesturing to her and then to himself. "Course we might be and, well--"

He clears his throat. "Yeah, some sort of pill-thing---yeah, that might be best."

Rose ducks her head and runs her free hand through her hair. "Right. Then I'll get on the pill. Bit less for us to worry about."

And they could use less to worry about. Especially if they were going to end up in situations like this.

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