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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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"He's been here more than once? He's never said-- well, there's a lot of things he doesn't say."

But hearing that gave her hope. She still knew barely anything about how this place worked, but she assumed if the Doctor had been here before, he had figured out how to leave. So all he had to do was figure it out again and the pair would be on their way back to Rory and more adventures in the TARDIS.

"He was. But he doesn't remember," she clarified. "We're not sure why, but it's not just him. Some people have gone and come back, and they usually don't remember."

That freaked Amy out a little. Losing memories was no picnic. Especially when there were tiny bits left behind and you found yourself crying for no reason. "Well... that sounds nice and creepy. Memories being erased and all."

"Yeah. There's also... I don't know how much you've talked to the Doctor yet, but he may not come from exactly the same point in time as you do. Most of my friends from home are from farther on than me, though a couple are from earlier."

That was probably the hardest thing to get used to, at least at the beginning.

"Ugh, this time travel stuff gives me such a headache sometimes." She rubbed her forehead with her fingertips in dismay. "I'll be sure to clear that up with him. Thanks for the heads up."

"You're welcome." She could only hope that, if Amy gets a glimpse of her own future, it went a little better than Tara's had.

"I live in Castle Summers. Once you're settled, you can drop by, if you like." There were, at least, usually baked goods to be had.

"Ooo, a castle, you say? Sounds fun! I'll be sure to drop by." And since Tara already knew the Doctor, maybe Amy would bring him along too.

"Do," she said with a smile. "We'll give you the Sunnydale welcome." ...minus all the monsters, hopefully.

"Sunnydale, is that where you castle dwellers are from? Well, if I were to give you the Leadworth welcome, it'd go a little something like this." She threw her head back, closing her eyes and making a snoring sound. Then she abruptly "woke up," and pretended to look startled. "Wha-- What were you saying? I fell asleep. Because I live in the most boring village on the planet."

She laughed.

"Well, I'm not a native, but I was in Sunnydale before here. It, uh. It's not 'boring' so much as 'a magnet for things that want to destroy the earth.'" Fun times.

"Ah," she nodded knowingly. "The UK seems to be a magnet for trouble too. Or maybe that's just the Doctor..." She trailed off and shrugged.

"Could be a little of both?" Tara suggested. "We have the Slayer - she's sort of specially equipped to fight the monsters, but it's sort of chicken and egg whether she ended up in Sunnydale to fight them, or if they came to Sunnydale to fight her."

"Probably. All of time and space and he really sort of seems to favor the UK." She tilted her head, brows wrinkled with confusion. "A slayer? Like a monster slayer, huh?"

"Just like. Vampires and demons, mostly." Well, while they'd already been captured by aliens...

"Oh wow, vampires are real? Well, I mean, I've met scary alien fish who happened to masquerade as vampires, and one bit me actually, but you're talking about real vampires, right?"

"Yeah. Suck your blood, hurt by holy water, can't go out in sun vampires. There are a few here, actually," Tara added, "but they're either the aberrant good ones, or they at least behave themselves. But it's how we figured out the sun wasn't real."

Back before it malfunctioned, at least.

Amy clicked her tongue. "The alien fish vampires couldn't go out in the sun either. I blew one up who was attacking my boyfriend. Used a compact mirror and a sun beam."

She pouted a bit about the sun not being real. "Is anything here real, other than the kidnapped people?"

Tara considered.

"I suppose it depends on what you mean by 'real,' but not much. Many of us come with objects from home, and those could be. Some people have places from home they know turn up, but no one is sure if they're just eerily exact reproductions or if they actually came with the person."

"Well, I guess if they look and feel real enough, it's ok." She considered the book in her hand. There were slight signs of age on the corner, and she wondered if it was a faithful reproduction or the real thing.

"Mine has some special properties, and it still works. But then again, I run a shop, and all the stock works properly even though it comes from the hatches." She caught herself. "Has anyone explained hatches yet?"

"Ehm, hatches? No." She supposed she could learn about hatches, though they sounded like something you climbed down.

"It's what we have instead of shopping. I mean, there's some shopping too but... it's where food and clothes and things come from. If you like, I can meet you and show you?"

"Oh, sure. That'd be great!" She glanced around the hall and then back to the screen. "Do you know where to find me? I saw I was a dot on a map."

"If you got outside, there's a big sort of square." After thinking, she added, "There's a little blue 'suggestion' box. It's the color of the TARDIS, more or less? I can meet you by that."

"Ehm, I-- hang on." She started walking in one direction and was surprised when the hall quickly opened into a large common room. "Oh, well now I'm getting somewhere." She turned the tablet around to display the room. "Is there a door out of here to the outside?"

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