taxonomites | 001 ∞ [holo | location: Sanctuary]

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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Amy nods along, completely understanding. "Oh yes, I know!" The Doctor was very old and there was so much Amy didn't know about him or his past. It was hard to imagine, since she had such a big personality, but she was probably only a tiny blip on the Doctor's radar. There must be loads of tiny blips, all people he'd had in his life who were gone now.

"Rory's my-- my husband." She smiles a bit. She's still getting used to calling him that.

"Oh, that's lovely, congratulations!" It's pretty clear from Amy's hesitance that this is a new thing. "So nice to see a happy couple traveling together! Most pairs I've met just want to settle down." Her nose wrinkles, just a bit. She may have strong opinions on the subject of settling, in any context.

"Thanks. I dunno, I'm really not the settling down type. Guess I'm lucky he wants to travel with me." She smiles at that, but it's a bit wistful. She knows he won't want to travel forever, but she hopes the day he decides to stay put is far off in the future.

"So Jenny, any idea why these aliens kidnapped us? Are we a weird... zoo, or something?"

"Something like that, yeah. Not sure what they want us for, but they mostly leave us to ourselves. Which is a bit boring, really." She feels that Amy, who is not the settling type, may understand her frustration.

"Anyway, Dad's around here somewhere. Has he said hi yet? I can go poke him if he hasn't."

"I'd say so. What, do they just watch us through binoculars or something?" She makes a face at that possibility.

"Your Dad?" Why would she want to say hi to Jenny's dad? She wants to find the Doctor. "Err, if you... want? But I'd love it if you could tell me how to find the Doctor."

"Or something," she responds, her own expression echoing Amy's. The Hamsters are officially creepers.

"Oh!" She hadn't realized she'd never even said-- "No, the Doctor is my Dad. Sorry, that's an important bit to leave out, isn't it?" Sadly, she really did pick up some of the man's genes.

"The Doctor is...?" Amy gives this young woman a 'You-almost-got-me' look. "Shut up." Apologies, Jenny. That's just how Amy talks sometimes.

Jenny pouts a bit and looks down at herself as if trying to see what the problem is. "Well I know I haven't got his nose or anything," either of them that she's seen, anyway, "or his hair..." She trails off and then frowns lightly. "There's really not much family resemblance at all, is there? But I don't know that's fair to say with a species that changes faces on occasion."

"But he's--" she stops herself right there. For everything she knows about the Doctor, there's five hundred more things she doesn't know. And she seems to have upset Jenny by what she said, so she quickly backtracks. "Sorry, umm, of course. Just... he said once he was the only one of his kind left, so I didn't think he'd have family."

If Jenny was more than mildly put out, she breezily gets over it. "Oh, well," she waves a hand, "he thought I was dead, so. Actually, I was dead, it just didn't stick." She shrugs. She still isn't sure how exactly that worked, whether it was regeneration energy or something else, as it's one of those talks she still needs to have.

"Yeah, funny thing, death. Didn't stick to me either." She guesses the Doctor had something to do with that. In the future, she should keep him away from any graveyards, lest he accidentally raise a zombie horde.

"Well Jenny, could you give your good ol' Dad a ring for me?"

Welcome to the Whoniverse, where people don't stay dead and linear time is sort of eyed briefly and then dismissed out of hand.

"Consider it done! I'm sure he'll be happy to see you. He doesn't say it, but I think he really misses his friends when they're not around."

Only on Doctor Who could you kill someone, make it so they never existed, and have them turn back up as a Roman soldier... made of plastic.

"Hey, thanks! He'd better be happy to see me. He was awfully lonely before he picked me up."

All perfectly reasonable.

"I bet! I don't think he's any good on his own; gets mopey." She says it affectionately, though. "Anyway, I'll leave you to it. I'm sure I'll see you after a bit, once he's done gesticulating wildly at you and catching you up on things."

"Exactly. He needs people around him, so he has an audience for all his nattering on." Still, she smiles as affectionately as Jenny when she says it. "All right. Thanks for the help, and I'm sure I'll see you in person soon." At least sometime before the Doctor gets them out of there. Because he would, of course. And he could bring Jenny too.

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