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[ she taps the screen once points it around her, showing the street she's on before aiming it back at herself ]

Where am I?

Like really am? Really-really? I got the entire you're-fictional bit but I'm going to keep my skeptical mindset about that one for a while and skip questioning that and go right to what planet are we on? Where on what planet? You can't be too sure these days. And the year? -Is The Doctor here?

Does anyone know?

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Let's hear one then.

Maybe he's jealous. He can't wear a bowtie. It'd look funny on him.

Well... [Damn, now he has to come up with something.] There are devices that can move through dimensional faults, but I've never seen one used as a weapon, or one powerful enough to force the TARDIS through when she didn't want to.

I've got plenty of ideas, but none of them are terribly probable, and there's not exactly a way to test them.

With all that leather, yeah. Wouldn't be very stylish!

[ did he just think that up because she asked? squints at him ] Unless she wanted to? Would she want to? Maybe something's here and she wanted to seek it out? Yeah-? No? I'm way off, aren't I?

Hmm.

Is that his thing? Being stylish?

No, she didn't want to be here anymore than I did. We're trapped on an island, cut off from the rest of time and the rest of the universe. After a thousand years with all of time and space as your backyard, imagine how she feels with a couple cubic miles.

[Enthusiastically -] I'm always about being stylish!

...Claustrophobic.

[ looks him up and down. amused smile ] Is that right?

Exactly right. I can't take her anywhere! And I'm sure she gets bored and lonely, with nothing to do and nobody but me for company.

Of course it is! Isn't it obvious?

Speaking of the TARDIS... if you want, I still have a room set aside for you.

[He raises his arms in gesture, almost defensively.] If you'd rather live in the apartments, though, I completely understand!

[You get the feeling that the TARDIS may not be the only one who's been getting lonely recently.]

Oh.. Yeah. Loads obvious. [ weirdest fashion sense ever though amirite? ]

[ She eyes him, thoughtfully then focuses on the TARDIS. Like she's debating it in her head. She said no before because he was a stranger pretty much, she had a life still, and kids to look after etc... Wednesdays were better.
Those probably don't apply here. ]

Is it a room near a toilet that she's not going to change the location of every morning for a laugh?

Edited 2013-05-24 15:09 (UTC)

[If by weirdest you mean absolute worst... well, that would probably depend on the eye of the beholder.] Thank you.

[He's obviously more nervous about this conversation than he was about the other one.] Yes, of course! I'll make sure of it.

[ he might look weird in anything but a bowtie now it's hard to picture. ] You're welcome.

[ She shifts a little bit and holds her hands together ] Hm. I suppose I should go check out the apartment they gave me first and let the roommate they assigned me know she gets to use all of the space.

[He looks almost surprised by her affirmative response, but it soon turned to relief and obvious happiness.] What?

Oh! Yes. Yes! Good idea.

Excellent. Well. Shall we, then?

Yes. Lead the way, Doctor.

Do I get a tour-tour? Someone told me you gave them an entire two hour tour.

Right-o! Do you know what apartment you were placed in?

[He looks startled, like he hadn't even thought of it.] You haven't gotten a proper tour yet? I would have thought...

[Then he gives her a wide smile.] Well, that's something we'll just have to fix, then, won't we?

Yes, I do. It was North 102. Oh. I rhymed.

[ She folds her arms ] Nope. Must've slipped your mind.

[ A smile back ]

North 102. That would make your roommate Kate Bishop, unless I'm mistaken. All right, then.

[He starts walking, gesturing towards downtown.] What are we waiting for, then? Come on! The apartments are this way.

Why do you know where a Kate Bishop lives?

[ She follows after him quickly ] Did you get an apartment too when you got here?

There aren't that many "fictionals" on the island, and I have an eidetic memory. It's not terribly difficult to keep track of them all.

[He's walking brisking, but absentmindedly. His attentions and his focus, however obliquely, remain solidly on Clara.] Yes, they did. I still have an apartment, actually. With a lovely chap that happens to be the anthropomorphic representation of the country of England.

[He has long since forgotten that this is an unusual person to have as a roommate.] I can usually park her anywhere, but it's still occasionally safer to park her in my apartment.

Right, right. How many of us are there?

[ She's walking right next to him, her attention wavers, eyes looking around every which way at the new environment. Looks just like a regular city. She darts her attention back to him every time he speaks up. ]

-Anthropomorphic what?

There are, let's see...

[Counting to himself -] one, three, forty-six, twenty seven, three hundred and eight... Ninety-eight of us on the island! Including a number of countries, trolls - though not the kind you're thinking of - fey, superhumans, and norse gods. Oh, and Sherlock Holmes!

Well... He's England. Literally. The spirit, the idea, all of it! The sum of the shared experiences and identities of the people of England, gathered and condensed into a living, breathing being.

Edited 2013-05-29 20:24 (UTC)

Really real Sherlock Holmes? Sounds like an exciting bunch.

...So does he know everything English? Is he going to know my name?

Not the one from the books - apparently there was a TV adaptation in present day London, and he's from that. But genuinely a Sherlock Holmes, at any rate.

Well... he actually might, though not in the way you're thinking. He's from a different universe than us - so whatever he may know or not know about the people of England, he won't know you that way. However, in his world, I'm in a popular English television series. He might know you from that - I never really asked how much he knew. [Because he doesn't like thinking about his future.]

TV adaptation? ...I knew I should've been watching telly more. I completely missed that one airing.

And you're a television series too? Does it air in chronological order or does it jump around? -Would there even be a chronological order to follow?

Well, to be fair, it may or may not have existed in our reality.

I dunno! Haven't seen it, myself. [There's a thoughtful pause.] It might be arranged on my personal timeline, or possibly the timelines of my companions. Neither would really be chronological, not in themselves and definitely not to the rest of the universe, but they would probably make more sense than anything else!

I would hope not. I'd be a bit miffed if my own reality was watching us do things.

[ She can't figure out how it would ever follow her if it goes by companion ] Would they? I'd think you'd be the main character though. Maybe it just follows the TARDIS?

I meant the Sherlock Holmes adaptation. I know our show didn't exist back home.

...Though I suppose I have been on TV more than my fair share.

[He gives her something of a sad smile.] I may be the more constant character, but my companions would be the main characters. You've always been the real heroes.

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