Alright, so!

[allons_y_alonso]

John Egbert! Rose Lalonde! Were you still going to bring your friends around for a tea party in the TARDIS? Not that you have to bring them around, we can always take the TARDIS to them instead.  However.  I'm afraid we'll have to do it quite soon.  Before long, she's not going to be fit for human habitation, so unfortunately this has become a limited-time offer.  It has to be this week.

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[turnedleft]

That's what you're thinking, then?

[riseup]

really???

[allons_y_alonso]

Would I joke about something like this?

[riseup]

maybe.
this is gonna be so cool!

[allons_y_alonso]

Of course. Too much time spent in England. I always think about tea parties.

[riseup]

wait, why won't she be fit for human habitation?

[allons_y_alonso]

Bit of a refit. Nothing too major. Not sure how long it will take.

[riseup]

oh, ok.
thank you for inviting us, doctor!

[riseup]

even if i am sure rose knows way more about tea parties than i do.

[allons_y_alonso]

Doesn't matter! I'm sure we'll all get along just fine regardless!

[riseup]

pinkies out.

[allons_y_alonso]

Molto bene!

[lone-defender.livejournal.com]

[To be fair, though she's not being directly addressed, her name is Rose.] 'Not going to be fit for human habitation' how?

[allons_y_alonso]

Just temporarily! Changing a few things around, it won't be exactly safe until... well... later.

[lone-defender.livejournal.com]

Changing what around? How long's 'later'? [Doctor do you have any idea how often she prefers to lurk around there rather than her room or New Moore? Probably, but that proves her point.]

[allons_y_alonso]

[Locked to Rose//Time Lordy Security]

Until....

Until the Master is fit for human company again.

[lone-defender.livejournal.com]

[Scooting along with that security~]

What's that mean? Fit for company?

[allons_y_alonso]

Until I know he's not going to kill anyone again. Until he's... sane.

[lone-defender.livejournal.com]

And...he'll just wander freely through the TARDIS until then?

[allons_y_alonso]

What? No, of course not. Locked in a room as deep in as I can put it. But still. For safety's sake, no more leisure jaunts. Definitely no tea parties with children, no matter if they are brilliant children with magic powers. Nobody popping in and out unless I'm there with them.

[lone-defender.livejournal.com]

We'll only be able to visit her occasionally, then? Until there's a way to help him?

[allons_y_alonso]

I'll be in and out a fair amount, I expect. As long as I'm with you... just no pushing open the doors if you aren't sure where I am.

[lone-defender.livejournal.com]

But won't the TARDIS keep the doors locked to wherever he is?

[allons_y_alonso]

She should, yeah. Problem is... as a general rule, the Master's better at TARDIS mechanics than I am. Slightly. Just slightly. And not this TARDIS. And I know I can lock the main controls and the doors so that he can't finesse them.

Inner doors... I can't be sure he doesn't know a trick I don't. Pretty sure, yeah. But not...sure.

[lone-defender.livejournal.com]

[She purses her lips.] Then what keeps you out of danger if you wander in on your own?

[allons_y_alonso]

I've known him for more than nine hundred years. If he was going to kill me, he's wasted plenty of chances.

[lone-defender.livejournal.com]

But you said something happened to him here, didn't you?

[allons_y_alonso]

That's true. But I don't think... well. He was already mad. This didn't change that. Not really. Just... let it out again. Unbalanced him. It shouldn't change things, not that severely.

[lone-defender.livejournal.com]

And...what can you do to fix it?

[allons_y_alonso]

Talk, mostly. Let the influence of the TARDIS do its work, maybe. He's been a long time gone from everything familiar to him. An exile. It might be all he needs.

Or... it might make it worse, in which case, it will be time for a new plan.

[lone-defender.livejournal.com]

There's nothing else we can do? No...special therapy tricks for Time Lords?

[allons_y_alonso]

Unfortunately. it was special therapy tricks by Time Lords that made him this way. Even if they'd work normally, if I tried anything now he'd fight me even harder.

Besides. Never exactly my specialty.

I'm not... entirely without other plans, though. Still have to see how they play out.

[lone-defender.livejournal.com]

If any of those plans need any help...or just extra hands...

[allons_y_alonso]

You'll be the first I call. Always.

[lone-defender.livejournal.com]

[She grins.] Better be, or I'll just tag along anyway and interfere.

[allons_y_alonso]

Even across dimensional boundaries! Yes, noticed that, actually.

No fear. I'm not planning on letting you out of my sight again, Rose Tyler.

[lone-defender.livejournal.com]

Told you you'd be stuck with me, didn't I? [The urge to point out last time she only left his sight because he turned around and walked away is there, but she grins right on through it.] Good, it'll make my job easier.

[allons_y_alonso]

Mine too! Fancy that.

[lone-defender.livejournal.com]

I think they call this 'teamwork'.