004 ∞ [voice || location: Amy's house in Shelley]

[iminmynightie.livejournal.com]

Stirring her tea with a spoon, Amy idly listened to the sound of the metal hitting the ceramic sides of her cup. She was thinking.

The Doctor had been gone... well, she didn't know how long, but it seemed to her she'd just become aware of it. When had she last spoken to him? Or even seen him? Somewhere in the back of her mind, she recalled brushing aside ideas of calling out to him from the living room, or knocking on his bedroom door. But why? What had held her back?

She stopped stirring and left the spoon in her cup as she picked her tablet off the kitchen table and turned it on. She searched the map for him again, and again it told her he wasn't there. The Doctor was clever though, so very, very clever, so if he had reason to, he could easily hide himself from the tablet's map. But for what reason? And why wouldn't he tell her before he rushed off to do whatever it was that he was secretly doing?

A little voice in her head said that the reason he wasn't on the map was because he was taken out of Taxon. The feeling of tears started behind her eyes, but she held them back and grew angry instead. The Doctor wouldn't abandon her. Not again. Not after twelve years of waiting the first time, then two more years after that.

Of course, that wretched little voice said, the Doctor wouldn't have a choice. The hamsters would take him away against his will.

"Shut it, you," she grumbled, then pressed a hand to her forehead because she was talking to herself.

Straightening up and clearing her throat, she turned the tablet over to the voice section and tried to sound like she wasn't upset at all.

"Hello, fellow Taxon residents! Anybody seen the Doctor 'round recently? He seems to be playing a very intricate game of hide and seek."


[ooc: Amy was glitched by the hamsters to not notice the Doctor's disappearance until after Christmas, so she could enjoy it and not be mopey. But now he's gone and it's time to feel abandoned. ;_;]

Comments

[voice]

[numbersnfigures.livejournal.com]

I met a woman who claimed to be called The Doctor... it was very confusing. But I suppose you're referring to the one with the bow tie? I haven't seen him in a while.

[voice]

[iminmynightie.livejournal.com]

A woman? God, I hope he wasn't fiddling with some machinery or something that changed him into one!

[voice]

[numbersnfigures.livejournal.com]

She seemed a bit like him... a bit scatterbrained and also had a dislike of my gun, but she acted as though she'd never met me before. The Doctor and I definitely knew each other.... I don't think he'd forget me unless the hamsters modified his memory.

[voice]

[timedaughter]

I haven't seen him either. I haven't seen him for a while, but I didn't even notice.

How could I not notice?

[She sounds more subdued than usual.]

[voice]

[iminmynightie.livejournal.com]

You too? I live with him and I didn't notice. And... it's like there was this fog over my brain or something, keeping me from noticing.

[voice]

[timedaughter]

Some kind of mind control, maybe? I didn't even think it was odd when he didn't go to the party. He'd never miss a party.

[Voice]

[aworldenchanted]

I haven't, Amy, I'm sorry. Is he gone from the tablets?

[He'd done that once and not been gone, but he'd been in the middle of a different situation. It was possible, but she felt it more likely he was just gone again.]

[Voice]

[iminmynightie.livejournal.com]

Yep. Though he could hide himself if he wanted. [She lifts her spoon out of her cup and looks at her reflection in it, making faces.] Not sure what to think, really.

[Voice]

[aworldenchanted]

He could, [she allows]. How long has it been?

[voice]

[slayersidekick]

I-I haven't. Has he disappeared?

[voice]

[iminmynightie.livejournal.com]

Yeah. And I'm worried it happened awhile ago, but the hamsters did something so I wouldn't notice. I just... I dunno. Wanted to check with everyone first before I decided that he was really gone. He gets into trouble, y'know.

[voice]

[slayersidekick]

They did that to you, too? [ Yeah, this is just bringing back her anger at the hamsters. Stupid aliens. ] How can they do things like that?

...He sounds like Buffy. [ She wants to say something comforting like wishing she could have gotten to know him more, but that doesn't sound like the sort of comforting thing Amy needs right now, so she leaves it alone. ]

[voice]

[lionofolympus.livejournal.com]

[Hercules' voice was male, boisterous, and hearty; like if Brian Blessed's voice was a plain hamburger, Hercules' was a double-burger with extra bacon.]

Which doctor are you looking for? Doctor Strange? Doctor Doom? Doctor Octopus?

[He laughed. Herc thought he was hilarious.]

[voice]

[iminmynightie.livejournal.com]

[Amy actually jumps back, then turns the volume down a little. Damn, is this guy from the Royal Shakespeare Company? He can project!]

Ehm, just... the Doctor. That's his name. About six foot tall, thin as a rail, wears a bow tie?

[voice]

[lionofolympus.livejournal.com]

A man of that name, I don't know. But I seem to recall a woman who used that name. She was definitely a she. Well, not that I could tell entirely certainly. I didn't have that pleasure.

[voice]

[noheatnikki.livejournal.com]

[Kate smiled initially when she heard Amy's voice, but the smile fades as she listens to what she has to say. The Doctor is missing?]

Hey! No sign of him?

[voice]

[iminmynightie.livejournal.com]

[Amy weakly smiles in return.]

Hey, you. Nope. Not an inkling. He's not on the tablet's map, and I can't remember how long he's been gone, which leads me to suspect there's hamsters involved.

[voice]

[noheatnikki.livejournal.com]

[The fact that Amy can't remember gets Kate suspicious as well.]

You're probably right. You think they sent him back?

[voice]

[supercompacted.livejournal.com]

I haven't. I know he can go missing on his own, though, so I- I'll keep an eye out, okay?

[she might be sounding a bit like she's trying to hide being rather sad to hear this herself. The Doctor's gone again? How many times are they going to take him away? But maybe, just maybe, he is hiding on his own. ]

[voice]

[iminmynightie.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I appreciate it. Though if he's just gone off on his own, he's spoiling everyone's mood.

[voice]

[supercompacted.livejournal.com]

Very true. But he has done it before... Maybe if we promise not to yell at him, he'll come back quicker this time?

[visual]

[not-theman-iwas.livejournal.com]

Oh! Yes! Someone asking after her. Someone she's not quite certain she's seen around, but then she's been a little bit off lately. Since coming here, really. But still, she fiddles with the device and turns it on. "Yes! Hello?"

[visual]

[iminmynightie.livejournal.com]

"Oh, hi there. Uh, don't think we've met?"

[Visual]

[allthatlife.livejournal.com]

The post on the network seemed to switch on a light in Martha's head.

The Doctor. Of course! Where was the Doctor?

He was one of her dearest friends and she trusted him more than she trusted anyone else in the universe, but, with a sinking feeling in her stomach, she realised that she hadn't seen him for weeks. Since before Christmas, actually. And not because he'd been off travelling and forgotten to pop in for a visit. Because he was ... because he was ...

"Oh my god."

He couldn't be. He wouldn't have left them.

With slightly trembling hands, she switched on her device to reply to Amy.

"I haven't seen him either."

[Visual]

[iminmynightie.livejournal.com]

Though she had tried to make her voice sound chipper over audio, now over the visual connection her face looks worried and her lips are drooped in a frown.

"Have you... I don't want to freak you out or anything, but have you sort of... forgot about him lately?"