(each feather, it fell from skin) CLOSED

[sunflowersister]

Who: Ukraine, the Eleventh Doctor.
What: just checking -- surely a Time Lord can't be affected by a time-perception warp, right?
Where: wherever the TARDIS is parked
When: rIGHT NOW, or rather, today, mid-morning.

Wandering around downtown in a thoughtful sort of daze, Ukraine considers how she'd thought for a while that she'd found a sort of stability in New Moore. Sure, it was unpredictable in dangerous and perplexing ways, but she had people she cared about to look after, and honestly, it wasn't like she couldn't use the rest. She realizes she had been, in an unorthodox sort of way, comfortable.

Except a better word for it would have been complacent, or blind. Now it's all poised to collapse like a house of cards, and she's berating herself for shutting her eyes and pretending it could possibly be different just because they're not at home. What a fool she'd been! it's not as if she hasn't seen the perception warp happen.

Of course, she doesn't blame Poland. She couldn't blame him for it any more than she could cut off a limb, neither of them had considered worrying about it -- but other than keeping quiet and avoiding Tim, he doesn't seem to have much of a plan, and Tim doesn't seem as if he's likely to comply with his side of that. The simple fact that Tim is so determined to figure out what's wrong makes Ukraine think Poland might be underestimating how much Tim might be trusted -- but it's still a risk Ukraine isn't willing to take any more than Poland.

Either way, someone has to make sure everything will be okay, and it's a responsibility Ukraine is more than familiar with.

At the unexpected sound of a knock, Ukraine blinks herself out of her thoughts, only to see her own fist raised before a scuffed blue door. Oh. Well, she'd intended to speak to him anyway, though perhaps not without some preparation, with some time to consider what she could possibly say, how on earth she could talk about this without actually talking about it --

Having absolutely no time at all, Ukraine blurts out as soon as the door creaks open, "Oh, um! Are you -- How's your head feeling? Do you know what day it is? Er, I mean."

Comments

[sunflowersister]

Best make sure those thermocouplings are never left unattended after this, then, Ukraine thinks. "If it's nothing dangerous, then tea sounds really lovely right now. Goodness, she can still move around the island though, right?" she asks, satisfied with her level of nonchalance.

[icanbuyafez]

"Of course! The kitchens are down this way, then! Or they were last I checked, she does love switching them on me, occasionally." He starts moving down one of the corridors, past the swimming pool and a couple bedrooms. She was hiding something, but it would be better to ask after that in someplace more comfortable. "Of course she can! I just have to be careful if I'm changing them and she's in flight - last time that happened, Rory dropped one of the couplings, and she materialized inside herself! Trapped us, for a time."

[sunflowersister]

"I'll keep my hands to myself," Ukraine says, smiling, looking fractionally more relaxed as she follows the Doctor through the TARDIS. "Still, there's worse places to be trapped than in here, right?"

[icanbuyafez]

"Yeah, but if I hadn't managed a controlled temporal implosion, we would have been trapped in here for all eternity. The TARDIS would have basically become a separate universe, completely separate from the other one!

Don't worry, though, there's no danger of that when we're not in flight." He leads her casually through the corridors, casually stepping into the open air and drifting upward when the reached what appeared to be a vertical corridor.

[sunflowersister]

There's a moment in between observation and reaction where Ukraine emits a shriek like a train whistle, then immediately reaches out and snatches the Doctor by the hem of his jacket to anchor him. "Watch out!" she gasps, horror-struck. Is something broken!?

[icanbuyafez]

He looks down, startled by her reaction. "It's all right - it's just the corridor anti-grav. Push off and float upward, it's perfectly safe. The kitchens are on the second level, we just need to go up a bit."

[sunflowersister]

"Oh," Ukraine says dumbly, feeling foolish, and then "oh," again, a little faintly, and she lets go of the Doctor, her hand fluttering uselessly before she drops it to her side. "I'm sorry," she says, both to the Doctor for panicking and to the TARDIS for not trusting her. "I have to admit, I'd have probably looked for stairs..."

She peers up through the corridor, still a little hesitant, then follows the Doctor's instructions, squeaking slightly as she lifts off. Then after a moment -- "Actually, that's kind of fun...!"

[icanbuyafez]

"Well, there is a ladder at the side, but where's the fun in that?!" He points to the side of the corridor, where there is indeed a ladder. Then he grins. "I'm glad you like it!"

He makes his way up to the next horizontal corridor, where he expertly snags a handhold and, seemingly without thinking about it, pushes off the wall at just the right speed and angle to land perfectly through the corridor, his feet making a sharp 'clack' with the floor as gravity reasserts its hold on him. "Kitchen's just through here!"

[sunflowersister]

With significantly less grace, Ukraine manages to follow the Doctor without getting left too far behind or tripping embarrassingly. "She does make you work for your supper," she comments with a small smile.