001 ∞ [holo | location: Sanctuary]

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Amy appeared on the platform and jumped, letting out an "AUGH!" Hadn't she just been in the TARDIS? How did she end up here? She looked all around the stark room, seeing a pedestal in the corner, and then noticed the thin book in her hand. Turning it to read the cover, she murmured out loud, "The Legend of Pandora's Box?" She flipped it open, sure that it was the book from her bedroom back home. How did it get here? Or perhaps a better question was, how did she get here? And what was this weird bracelet on her wrist?

She'd been in plenty of strange situations in the past, and plenty of those separated her from her friend and her husband, so she wasn't as freaked out as she could have been. The Doctor was always able to find her, to save her, and so she was confident that he would do the same now.

Stepping off the platform on which she stood, she called out, "Doctor?" before coming up to a pedestal with some sort of mobile on it. Picking it up caused the door behind her to open, and she quickly spun around, the strange little device still in her hand. Amy moved forward cautiously, sticking her head out the door.

"Doctor! Rory! Oi, anybody there?" She clicked her tongue and stepped out into the hall. "Well this is just great." She picked a direction and headed down the hall, clutching her book and the device as the door slid shut behind her. Pausing to look down at the object in her hand, she wondered if it really was some kind of mobile, and if so, if she could use it to find the Doctor.

She slid the screen down over the keyboard and held it up to her ear, listening. "Can anybody hear me on this thing? Hellllllloooooo." She waited a moment for a response and, when none came, she sighed and held it out to look at the screen. Seeing a button with a picture of a house on it, she assumed it was the home key and so she pressed it. It brought up a map with a colored dot in the middle, labeled, 'Amy Pond.' "Great," she replied with a sigh, "now I know where I am. I'm... in some building in some strange place and I'm a dot on a map. So very helpful, that."

Dropping hand and tablet to her side she decided she would just have to explore, and see if anyone could tell her where she was.

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If there's one thing that's sure to get Jenny's attention, it's someone calling out the word doctor. Most of the time they don't actually mean her father, but those are usually the times when someone requires medical attention, so it tends to turn her head pretty quickly in any case. This doesn't sound like that; doctor sounds like a name, not a cry for help.

Switching on her tablet, she grins and laughs silently as the girl on the screen pokes around and quickly finds her way out on her own, clearly only somewhat put out by her sudden change in location, rather than upset or bewildered. The chances of this girl knowing her father have just risen exponentially. Fiddling with the buttons one-handed, she turns on her visual.

"Hello," she says sunnily.

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Amy hadn't gotten far when she heard the greeting coming from her hand, and she lifted up the strange mobile thing to see a pretty young woman wearing a smile.

"Hello yourself. Mind telling me where I am?"

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"You're in Taxon. Weird city-slash-terrarium controlled by aliens who've kidnapped us. But if you know the Doctor, that probably isn't very surprising, yeah?" She says it like having your life randomly turned upside down by aliens is some kind of big inside joke. Because if they're talking about the same Doctor, it really is a big inside joke.

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Amy's eyebrows furrow together as the woman speaks. It wasn't the kidnapping part that surprised her really, but rather the fact that she was abducted from inside the TARDIS itself. But she had learned in her travels that not even that magical blue box was truly safe, so maybe she shouldn't be surprised at all.

"Yes! You know the Doctor too? Is he here?" Now that is welcome news. The Doctor can sort everything out.

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"Yup! He's here, and we're trying to sort it, but fair warning, these guys are difficult," she responds, as if reading Amy's mind. She's not, of course, but everyone seems to have certain (understandable) expectations of her father.

"I'm Jenny, who're you, then?" Always nice to meet one of dad's friends. She might have to have a talk with him at some point about his questionable practice of collecting young women, though. People might assume things.

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"Oh. Well, the Doctor always loves a challenge. Keeps him young." She smirks at that, knowing quite well just how old he really is.

"Jenny, hi. I'm Amy. Has the Doctor mentioned me by chance? Or Rory. Has he mentioned him?" The smart thing to do would be to ask how she could get in contact with the Doctor, but Amy's brain is getting there, slowly but surely.

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"Nice to meet you, Amy! Can't say he has, but you know how he is," she says with a hand gesture that probably means something like scatter-brained and easily distracted at the best of times. "He would've gotten around to it eventually. Who's Rory?"

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The Doctor scrambled for his tablet the moment Amy's voice could be heard over it, tossing aside discarded objects - a ruined shirt courtesy of the Master, a notebook he'd forgotten he'd picked up, and a broad-brimmed hat that got a strange look before he tossed it aside again - until he located the tablet and activated the visual feed.

"Amy!" he announced loudly, tablet in one hand as he quickly headed for the door. "Aren't you a sight for sore eyes? Not literally, of course, but it is good to see you. Well, not so good to see you're here and trapped as well, but that's better than some places you could be, isn't it?"

He smiled at her image and added; "Is Rory with you?"

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"Doctor!" She lifted the tablet and grinned widely at the Doctor's image on the screen. "Trapped? We're trapped? What's-- no, isn't he with you?" She sighed loudly. Where had Rory gotten off to? Well, if she and the Doctor were in this strange place, able to communicate, maybe Rory was there too and just couldn't figure out how to get a hold of them. "Explain."

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"That's all right, Rory must not be here then." Which hopefully - all right, likely, considering how Amy was reacting to everything - meant that Rory didn't really have anything to worry about because as far as his time line was concerned, Amy and the Doctor hadn't even left.

"We've sort of been kidnapped," he explained to Amy, as though this was something fairly standard she ought to be getting used to by now. "One zap with a teleporter they've got set up, and we're here! Can't even tell anything happened except for the being in an entirely different place."

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"That's all right? I'd rather he was here than stuck somewhere without us. You know how clingy he gets. What'll he do if we aren't around? He can't exactly fly the TARDIS." Sorry, Doctor, Amy hasn't yet caught up to your superior brain in realizing that time worked differently here and Rory wasn't missing them yet.

"All right, kidnapped, yeah." She nodded along as if this was standard practice. "But you've got a plan to get us out of here, right?"

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"Well I've been here a few months and you've been alright," the Doctor pointed out reasonably. He was confident Amy would pick up on what that meant in her own time and didn't offer much else by way of an explanation.

Her question does make him falter a little, the smile waning as his hand comes up to rub at his jaw and tap against his lips lightly. "Oh, you know me. I've got a... thing. That I'm working on."

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"A few-- no you haven't! We were both on the TARDIS minutes ago." Nope, Amy never gets time fluctuations unless you spell it out for her. Twice. In little words.

"Right, sure, a thing. Look, just, can you tell me how to get to where you are? Or can you come find me?"

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"Hello," Tara said. "Yes, we can hear you. Has the Doctor called you yet?" ...either of them, she supposed. This was bound to get complicated quickly.

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Amy looked at the tablet and peered back at the stranger. "Hi there. Yes he has, which is a damn good thing, because I've not a clue what we do now." The Doctor was usually full of bright ideas, so she had faith some grand scheme would come to him in due course. She just had to sit back and wait for it. And if she complained a little to get the ball rolling, well that was the Doctor's problem, wasn't it?

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"You're not alone there," she says, with a shy smile. "I think we're all just making do, as best we can." She seemed slightly reassured, which means whichever Doctor had contacted her was the one she expected. That was good; it was always helpful to have a friendly face to greet you.

"I'm Tara. Welcome to, uh, being kidnapped by aliens."

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She nodded along. The Doctor could help. She was sure of that.

"I'm Amy. Oh yes, this sounds like great fun," she said with a sarcastic edge. She'd met plenty of murderous aliens before, so this was nothing more than an annoyance to her.

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"Well, since you've got the Doctor here, you'll probably want to stick with him, but I know he can be, uh... better with the big things than with the little ones, sometimes? So if you need any help settling in, or need to know how to get a toothbrush or anything..."

Tara's friendliness is genuine, and if there are any aliens watching, she hopes they don't think this is just so they'll bring her cat here. She really would like to help.

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It had finally occurred to Amy that when the Doctor said he'd been there for months already that he wasn't just pulling her leg. People seemed to know him quite well, even though the two of them had just been on the TARDIS together mere minutes before.

"Oh yes. We leave the little things to me." She smiled a bit proudly at that. "Thanks. I'll be sure to let you know if anything comes up. Sometimes I'm surprised the Doctor remembers to tie his shoes in the morning."

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"You know the Doctor?"

The question wasn't really necessary. She recognised the tone of voice that Amy used to call out the Doctor's name. She'd used that tone of voice. But you couldn't afford to take things for granted in Taxon, so she asked it just in case.

"He's here. Sort of." Explaining his appearance might be difficult, though, depending on what she knew about regeneration. "You're in a city called Taxon."

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"Yeah, you too, huh? I'm finding he's been around the block a few times here. That's all right. He starts talking to himself if he gets too lonely."

The part that really made Amy smile though was that this was the third young, pretty woman who claimed to know the Doctor. Ok, one of those was his daughter, but still, he definitely had a type he liked to hang around.

"Right, Taxon. And where exactly is Taxon?"

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"He just ... picks us up, doesn't he?" said Martha, giving Amy a wry smile. She'd hated that, once. She'd hated that he'd travelled with so many people and that he replaced his companions as easily as he found them. Now, she was glad that he'd ... not replaced her, not really. Just moved on, like she'd moved on. He was lonelier than anyone else she'd ever met.

"We don't know. Even the Doctor doesn't know."

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"He does. But I'm glad he does. It's an exciting life." And to think, she nearly gave up on him to grow up. He was right; you never want to do that.

"Well, then I guess this is a bit different than what he's come across before." She frowned at that, having a million more questions, but not knowing quite where to start. Then she decided introductions might be a good place.

"So who're you then? I'm Amy."

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"Oh, I know." Her voice was a little wistful. She didn't miss it ... well, no, she did miss it, but she knew that her place was on Earth. With Mickey and UNIT and her family.

"Martha," she added with a smile, "Martha Jones."

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"Hey there, Martha Jones!" She gave the woman a bright smile. "So how long have you been here?"