The Romans are Invading

[bigstupidface]

Oookay. Normally, I would say being told that my life and my wife were fictional would rate pretty high on the list of 'things I never expected to happen in my life' but I've been worse things than fictional, I guess.

I'm sure you are all very nice people, just doing your jobs.

I just have one question for you.

Where. Is. My. Wife.

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[icanbuyafez]

Rory!

2/3

[icanbuyafez]

Oh...

3/3

[icanbuyafez]

I'm afraid to say it looks like they're telling the truth, or something like it. Amy's not here. I don't know about the not real thing, but we're definitely in a different universe, and I'm afraid to say we're trapped.

I've been here for four months, and a previous regeneration has been here for a couple years, and neither of us have been able to find a way off the island.

... On the bright side, I've heard she's been here before, before I got here! We still don't know where people go when they leave, though.

[bigstupidface]

Of course, you're here. You would be. Trapped in an alternate universe where our lives are storybook tales and you are here.

You said we would find her. We are getting off this island. Weare finding my wife, and then we are going to rescue her from whatever or whoever kidnapped her and we are getting my wife back.

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[icanbuyafez]

But...

2/3 oops

[icanbuyafez]

OH!

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[icanbuyafez]

I must be from your future. We saved her, Rory. You two were safe when I... when I left you.

[bigstupidface]

Well that's just great. Everything is all fine and good in an alternate future timeline. You might be used to this future past whatever it is, Doctor, but in my reality, she is still in danger. I still haven't saved her.

I promised, Doctor. I would always. Always. Come for her. No matter what.

Can you promise me she is safe, now? Can you tell me that she is not in any risk of harm or danger and is not alone, somewhere, without me with her?

Because unless you can, I am not giving up. I will never stop trying to find a way to get back to her. Not even if it takes me centuries and a dozen other universes.

[icanbuyafez]

I know, Rory, but... given the evidence we have, the only conclusion I can draw is that she isn't alone. You're with her, Rory. Just... not this version of you. When we appear here, it doesn't seem to have any impact on the established timeline back home.

And even if not - I can promise you that she is safe, she... will be safe, after you and my past self rescue her. It will happen, Rory. That point wasn't in flux.

Even if we do get off, though, Rory... it's not going to happen right now. I've been here for months, my past self for years.

I haven't stopped trying, Rory, I'm never going to.

[bigstupidface]

I know.

[His energy drains a little as it all sinks in and his shoulders slump slightly, the phone loose in his hands. It's not Eleven he's mad at. Not really. All right. maybe a bit because if she had never run off with him- but no. Not mad at the Doctor. Mad with himself, more so. Frustrated and aching inside as well.]

I mean, I don't really. None of this alternate reality ...thing... makes any real sense. But I know you won't give up. I know we'll save her. Because we have to.

[And he believed the Doctor when he said they had -would?- save her, but-]

What do we do?

[icanbuyafez]

[The Doctor takes a deep breath, looking just a little worn out.]

We keep our heads, Rory. We look around, investigate, figure out what's going on. There must be clues about this forcefield somewhere, we just have to dig deeper.

And then, maybe, just maybe, we get everyone off this island and back to their own lives.

That is, of course, assuming that neither of us vanish or get killed by monsters or change into a different version of ourselves and don't turn back or get shot by one of the other residents.

Again.

I may have forgotten to mention - reality is a bit more... wibbly, here. Much more than it aught to be.

[bigstupidface]

How do you forget to mention time being... wibbly. What does that even mean, anyway? Wibbly time.

Wait- you got shot?

Your assumptions about our survival or lack there of on this island are growing increasingly lax in reassurance.

[icanbuyafez]

Well... strange things happen here. Stranger than usual. Invasion of kittens, strange monster's and an hour where time stands still every night, everyone shifts to a different point in their timeline or even an alternate one altogether... Oh! And the beaches have normal sand on them! I haven't seen normal sand in years - it's all automatic and synthetic in the future...

[He's far to cheerful when he responds to Rory's next question.]

Yep! Right between the hearts - I nearly regenerated!

What are you worried about? Have I ever let you down before?

[Please, Rory - don't answer that question.]

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[bigstupidface]

[Give him a moment. He's processing and resisting the urge to respond to that question.]

[bigstupidface]

Have we landed in the Bermuda Triangle of Space-Time?

Does this sort of thing always happen when you're around, or are we just extra unlucky?

[icanbuyafez]

Just extra unlucky, I suppose.

Well... I suppose there have been a few time like this before.

... When I say a few, I may mean a few dozen. Hundred. More than a few.

Never quite like this, though! The strangeness is all so... regular.

[bigstupidface]

How can strangeness be regular?

Actually, never mind. I don't think I really want to know.

Do you know a Captain Jack Harkness?

[icanbuyafez]

Jack! Yes, he's an old friend. A very old friend, actually.

Umm... Be careful around him. He's a little too... well. Friendly, if you know what I mean.

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[bigstupidface]

Too friendly? How can someone be too friendly?

Several minutes later (2/2)

[bigstupidface]

Oh.

this face

[icanbuyafez]

Yeah.

[chronosexual]

Hey-hey! Look who it is!

Oh. Shoot. Wait. I forgot that you don't know me yet. Stupid island.

[chronosexual]

Captain Jack Harkness.

[bigstupidface]

Let me guess. Wibbly Time Things?

Captain ofwhat exactly?

[chronosexual]

'Wibbly'? You really are a friend of The Doctor's, aren't you?

Oh, I'm captain of lots of things. Originally it was a title I got back around the London Blitz.

[bigstupidface]

So, you're what. Another Time Traveler? One of the Doctor's friends? Any chance you are captain of an armed force?

[chronosexual]

You could say that.

Wait, he seriously hasn't mentioned me? At all?

I think I'm offended.

[bigstupidface]

He may have. He mentions a lot of things, rapidly, for long periods of time.

[bigstupidface]

It's not exactly easy to follow.

[chronosexual]

Oh, I'm aware.

How are you adjusting? Everything all right?

[bigstupidface]

I'm on an island trapped in a force field in an alternate reality where my life is a storybook tale, my wife is apparently fictional and still in the other reality waiting for me to come and rescue her. There are apparently monsters and gun-wielding lunatics here that would probably like to kill us, and I'm stuck here with the wibbly wobbly bow-tie madman who probably finds the entire thing exciting.

I am adjusting perfectly.

[chronosexual]

So just another normal day with The Doctor, then? Good.

Say, by any chance, you aren't still into Nursing, are you?

[bigstupidface]

Okaay. That- will never not be disconcerting.

I guess I can skip the 'Hi, I'm Rory Williams, nice to meet you,' bit.

Yes. I am still a nurse.

[chronosexual]

Sorry. I've just had a thought. You seem a little different than from the last time I met you, but I think it might be a good thing.

Come out for a pint with me. I'd like to get to know you a little better.

[bigstupidface]

It's a bit disconcerting to know someone knows you and not know them.

But I guess a pint or two might be okay. Since I am stuck here, anyway.

[chronosexual]

Brilliant. If you meet me at the Nancing Phony, I'll be more than happy to get you sorted.

[malfunctioning text]

[bloodywelsh]

The cows in the attic are displeased.

[bigstupidface]

Cows?

[Video]

[dontmindmepleasecontinue]

I am afraid I have no information about your wife. There are many of us "fictionals" who have been taken out of our ordinary lives and trapped here. We don't know much more than you do about this place.

I must say, however, that I'm intrigued - you've been worse than fictional?

My name it Koizumi Itsuki. Though I wish I could say this under better circumstances, it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance.

[Video]

[bigstupidface]

I was plastic.

Rory Williams, and I am really starting to doubt there will be much pleasant about this place.

[Video]

[dontmindmepleasecontinue]

You were plastic. Ah, well there's something you don't hear every day.

[His voice is curious, though not at all incredulous, and he is smiling pleasantly.]

You may have that right - there's nothing particularly positive about our situation. The bright side, of course, are the people here - though they can be a mixed blessing as well, at times.

[allons_y_alonso]

Rory! Knew you'd be back eventually!

[bigstupidface]

And you are?

[allons_y_alonso]

I'm the Doctor.

Well, I'm the Doctor too.

No, actually, he's the Doctor too, I was him first.