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Eva Salazar ([personal profile] economicalrhinoplasty) wrote2011-12-10 02:46 pm
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Tuck Those Ribbons Under Your Helmet [Closed]

Eva waits on the log for a very long time, until the chill from the shoe tree leaves her shivering slightly, her teeth clicking irregularly as a replacement for her normal twitching and jerking. She's become a very patient person, she thinks - she measured her life in three-day cycles for so long that she thinks she no longer views time like a normal human being, but rather in some extended and flimsy nature, like a rubber band with all the elasticity stretched out of it.

Given that she has no watch on her - Stacy's unique perspective on time, even more distorted and deformed than Eva's, has long since made watches useless - she can't properly estimate how much time she spends sitting there waiting, but she expects it must be hours, since she feels tired and bored and tiny icicles are starting to form around her eyelashes and bangs.

Somehow it seems strangely appropriate to sit around waiting for the Doctor. He doesn't seem to follow anyone else's schedule. She wonders how many people before have sat on this log, waiting for something, maybe for the Doctor or for deliverance or for God. Or maybe she's singularly unique, the sole passenger in this log's history, and this is the one moment in time where this log not only exists but is sittable, and has been seen by sentient eyes.

She's starting to think like him. All the silence in her own head is getting to her. Maybe she should get her Yeerk back. She misses conversation.

That's a terrible idea.

She gets up and twists her back some, eking little pops out of her spine. She wipes the ice from her eyes, careful not to harm her makeup, although it did get smeared somewhat during the dumbwaiter trip and library attack. It's the principle of the matter.

Tossing her hair up into a clip again, she walks in the direction the Doctor took off towards, her feet adjusting to the sockless interior of her new shoes. "Doc?"

[identity profile] vissernone.livejournal.com 2012-02-17 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Centipedes, really. They were called Taxxons. And they were...well, the epitome of a tragic race. A complete subversion of our expectations." She looks sad for a moment. She didn't envy the Taxxons, found them disgusting, really, but out of any race she ran into, she found their decision to be voluntary controllers the only sympathetic one. "We thought they were evil and naturally, they were just scared and tortured. Much like many things in this reality."

She stares back at the Doctor. Yes, he's alien, and yet familiar, somehow. Not like the aliens in her life, the ones that tugged her around and ruined her and never once asked her permission before they upended everything she ever worked for. Before they stole her face and drafted her teenage son.

How could she ever blame him the way she blames the rest of the universe? He's like her - isolated. Carrying the wounds of pasts no one cares to delve into.

"No. I wanted to be president. But I was an immigrant." It's an honest answer. She did have quite the ambitions when she was young, but none of them involved traveling the galaxy. "I don't know that I want to see more of it now."
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[personal profile] makeherblue 2012-02-26 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
The Doctor nods as he takes in Giant Centipedes and Not-As-Evil-As-We-Thought. Eva’s completely right, of course. Very sensible for a human, and not in the Leadsworth Sensible way, either!

“You know they do change that. In the future. Different definitions of presidents and what counts as a human. Bit stretchy by then,” the Doctor points out. As spoilers go, he considers it harmless. It’s a future he probably would have liked to show her, if things had been different – and that, by the way, is a very human way of looking at it, as if that’s just how it will be. Why, he could still take her there! Show off the universe to her when it’s not trying to kill her or enslave her! Or…at least keep those bits away from her as best he could.

The Doctor has one of those Looks on his face, as if he’s plotting something. Maybe a scheme. His Scheming and Plotting Faces look the same anyway. Still, he’s past the days where he just pushes his companions into the TARDIS and they’re basically glorified prisoners, so it still all banks on Eva agreeing to go on an adventure or two in the end. The Doctor nods, watching the fire crackling in front of Eva. The firelight casts those scars of hers in deeper shadows, making her look old, and not just in that way humans get once they reach the end of their short lifespans.

“It’d be better off having more Eva Salazar,” the Doctor remarks. “The real you.”
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[personal profile] makeherblue 2012-03-13 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
What, this is seriously his innocent face, Eva. Look how innocent it is. It’s so innocent it’s almost painful.

“Enough, I think.” The Doctor looks thoughtful, reaching down with a stick to nudge at the little fire they have going. A few cinders float up into the night air, the flames crackling. Between the water and the fire, they’re safe from the library. At least for the time being. “You’re one of the special ones, Eva. Not that all humans aren’t, even the excessively reasonable ones. But you’re you. Maybe you ought to consider what you’d like to do after this. All this.”

He waves at the dark sky over them, impossible big even for being on Stacy. “All of this”, as if encompassing not just the Ohm and saving Earth (again), but what she saw herself doing if she could be back on her home world and there was laundry and…that other stuff her species did. What then? Most humans would be glad to go back to that rountine, but Eva didn’t strike him as just like every other human. Sometimes she reminded him of Amy.

And then there were the other times, where she turned wild and she had it in her to take man-eating libraries on. Suffice to say he’s impressed.
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[personal profile] makeherblue 2012-03-15 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, Eva Salazar is good! The Doctor blinks at the finger pointed at his face.

Actually, she's wrong about one of those points, because the Moon can be a perfectly lovely place to vacation in the 51st Century and he could recommend white-out dates if she ever gets it in her mind to have a holiday.

And then Eva has to go and prove that she's more than just good, the human deciding to get almost uncomfortably perceptive. The Doctor's smile is still on his face, the corners of it twitching for a second as if he's trying to fight off an even bigger grin. She's right, of course. Almost a thousand years and even he sometimes wonders. Maybe it's not even important anymore. There's a point where you can sit in your study or the console room and think and think and the silence becomes too much. When you think about yourself and it stretches out and seems to lose all meaning.

It probably explains why he keeps running back to restock on his human friends. They have a habit of making things interesting again.

"I'm working on it," the Doctor says with a half-wounded tone. "I can't be expected to be brilliant every breathing second, you know!"

As for the rest, well. He's so busy wanting to impress Eva (and get her out of the TARDIS alive) that he doesn't think it worth going into the whole...Time Lord thing. Not really here nor there!
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[personal profile] makeherblue 2012-03-27 12:12 pm (UTC)(link)
The Doctor gives Eva a snort at that, the sand bouncing off. “Well, I’ve been known to manage something even then.” He could list how amazing he’s been even during a regeneration, but he’s far more interested in how to sort Eva’s problems. “Don’t worry. I’ll have you out of here. You can cut all the sandwiches you like.”

It sounded a bit…dull to him but from what he’s observed of humans, sometimes they like to cope by doing mind-bendingly dull things. It seems to work. Of course Marco’s invited to come if he ever pops by to kidnap Eva for a well-deserved vacation After All This (that’s what he’s calling this Ohm thing – “After All This”, as if it’s that simple). The Doctor seems content to stay by the fire and enjoy Eva’s company for a few moments before he suddenly snaps his fingers, remembering those banana leaves. Right! Blankets! You could do worse than gigantic banana leaves!

He gets to his feet, seeming to unfold up like scaffolding than just standing like a human, and turns on the spot, surveying their little campsite. After a pause, he reaches into his pocket and pulls out what looks like a terribly antiquated mobile phone, looking like something from the 90’s.

“Try using that to see if you can contact anyone on the outside. I’ll be back in five.”
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[personal profile] makeherblue 2012-04-03 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
The Doctor’s a dark shadow a few yards away, facing the sea. He turns at her voice, just an outline. There’s stars alright, bright and alien and none of the constellations match but after Stacy, that’s really just a given.

“I’m right here, Eva,” the Doctor’s voice is gentle.

It’s about an hour or so before it should get lighter out – dawn in the TARDIS, basically! It’s been awhile since he’s gone this deep into the old girl and seen her stars, and he’s glad that he’s doing it with a friend. There’s something far too lonely about doing it by himself. Even if Eva has a habit of drooling into the sand. Well. Crying, mostly, but there’s some drooling too. The Doctor reaches into his pocket to pull out one of his typically hideous handkerchiefs, flapping it in the air like he means to put out a fire as he walks back up the beach. The handkerchief is offered to Eva as the Doctor bustles about the remnants of their little campfire, kicking sand over it with his boot.

“So I think maybe we ought to make a detour. Just a little one.” The Doctor glances up at Eva, having given her plenty of time to get cleaned up. Some humans are fussy like that (he knows Amy is). “I’ve been having problems with the time engines since the TARDIS landed on Stacy and I think if we can get to them, maybe we could fix them.”

He lets that sink in, as if Eva’s been with him every step of the way to know what that means. After having so many humans with him, sometimes it blurs together which ones have been there long enough to know and which ones haven’t.
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[personal profile] makeherblue 2012-04-04 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
The Doctor only laughs. “Unlike some species, I don’t find humans to be very tasty.”

He’s pleased to see she’s putting that handkerchief to good use (yes, paisley, really!), the Doctor already dressed and brushing off the sand from where he’d been sitting. His expression smoothes out for a split second at Eva’s observation. Right, sometimes he forgets that she’s got a good set of eyes on her.

“One of the things,” the Doctor says with a shrug. He wrings his hands together, thinking outloud. There’s thinking and then there’s thinking with an audience – he’s always loved the second one. “The TARDIS is already hooked to Stacy. If I could fix the time engines and use Stacy as a boosting board, it’s entirely possible to sort All of This. Provided the library doesn’t get us first,” he adds as an afterthought.

If they stick to the water – any oceans, lakes, rivers, or ponds – the chances of that happening are rather low. Besides, they made it this far and Eva has proven herself to be very anti-library, so he thinks they’re off to a good start, relatively speaking.
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[personal profile] makeherblue 2012-04-05 11:30 am (UTC)(link)

The Doctor takes the handkerchief with a scrunch of his nose. Despite having been used to…slimy encounters, both Stacy and pre-Stacy, he still isn’t a fan of things like getting a handful of bogeys. He’ll probably toss it over the side of the dinghy when Eva isn’t looking.

“That’s the spirit!” The Doctor is, if anything, double-pleased. It’s like being pleased but better. “First we’ll have to get there. Have you ever seen a TARDIS time engine? Of course you haven’t,” the Doctor answers for her. “You really should, you haven’t lived until you’ve seen one in person. C’mon!”

He spins on his heel and stalks off down the beach toward where they beached the dingy last night. It’s going to be a beautiful day, that dawn creeping on the sky and casting the island in a comfortably warm glow across the palm trees and the stretch of sand. He pauses once he’s got one foot in the dinghy to lick his finger and stick it in the air like a lightning rod, waving it around until he gets his bearings. Eva might not be technical – he suspects she can still manage better than Jamie McCrimmon, although that isn’t terribly hard to begin with – but he appreciates her willingness to help.
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[personal profile] makeherblue 2012-04-08 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Sailing again, yes. He hasn’t quite mastered the natural teleport, so sailing it is and anyway, a lovely day like this deserves dragging your feet!

The Doctor began pumping at the cranks in the dinghy like the day before as steam whistles at the seams of the mast. He works at it furiously like he meana to bicycle with his hands. “Oh, it’s very shiny and glowy! I wouldn’t have it any other way! Although,” he seems to have second thoughts even as their little boat begins to slide away from the beach. “Maybe you ought to be careful in there anyway. First time and you haven’t had enough temporal touristing to get used to this sort of thing, I’d imagine. Don’t worry, I’ll be right there with you.”

Whatever she sees in there besides the time engines, he has faith she can manage. Eva is exceptionally tough. Frail, too. Oh so frail. But something in her has gotten her this far and he thinks it will still keep going, throughout the rest of her short human life.

The Doctor turns to cast a glance at the island they’re leaving. It, like much of the TARDIS internals, doesn’t have a name yet. It probably won’t until he has time to come back and unlike Eva, he has loads and loads of time.
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[personal profile] makeherblue 2012-04-19 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
“That’s the spirit!” He grins, looking impish. “The library is nothing compared to what a time engine can do to you. Besides, what does knowing about the library matter when it’ll still try to chomp you while you’re waiting for another one of your human explanations?”

He means well. But if he cared about silly things like money, he’d probably be rich for all the times he’s had to slap a human’s hand from constantly putting it where it’s like to get zapped, chopped, burned or otherwise mutilated. At least Eva is kind enough to give him some warning. The Doctor rolls his weight with the dinghy, his legs slightly bowlegged and he looks for all the world like he would desperately love to have a sailor’s hat on right this second. Of course he’ll probably have to pay more attention to where Eva steps or even looks when they’re close to the time engines, especially if there’s some…glitches, but he supposes he can worry about that when they’re back on land.

By now they can no longer see Xiros, the island long ago fading into the distance, first a dot, and then the blue ocean stretching out into the horizon line. The dinghy chops through the small waves, sending some white foam spraying up every now and then over the low-slung railing.
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[personal profile] makeherblue 2012-04-28 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
The Doctor frowns, as if a little startled that his usual hasn’t quite…had the same effect on Eva as it usually does on most humans he pops in on. But her knowing the intricacies of the time engine won’t help much, if any, in the end and he decides if she absolutely needs to know something that will save her life, he’ll be sure to tell her. The thing is even he isn’t entirely sure what they’ll find there. There’s a strong possibility he doesn’t want Eva to know he doesn’t know either.

He’s been watching that storm cloud growing from an ugly smudge in the distance to the low-hanging wall, fast approaching. Their dinghy is fast but not that fast and there’s simply no way to outrun it.

“I see it!” He has to raise his voice. The cloud promptly dumps a bucket of water at them, rain slapping at the boat and their faces. The Doctor wipes his hair out of his eyes and tries to blink paste the water as lightning flickers across the underbelly of the cloud. “I’ll need you to take over the mast for me, okay?”

The Doctor doesn’t have time to look for the mast’s manual, instead hoping that Eva can sort it out on her own. He drops to his stomach and tries frantically to sonic the base of the mast where a jumble of wires and other alien bits and bobs have come loose, trying to add in some extra power so they can try to scoot to the side.
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[personal profile] makeherblue 2012-05-17 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
“What am I doing?” The Doctor doesn’t look up from his worm. “I’d like to think I’m saving both our lives! And – oh! There we are!”

The dinghy suddenly scoots to the side with an extra burst of power (yes, that might be part of the dinghy on fire like a jet – the inverse-flux pattern may have just blown), sending the Doctor sprawling on his back. He flops in the bottom of the boat, wriggling over to try to grab Eva and stop his friend from tumbling right off the side. Maybe that inverse-flux wasn’t a good idea to stick in there. He’d basically forced it in with good will and a hammer, after all! The Doctor manages to pull himself up against the low slung railings just in time to get a good second look at that storm. Lighting cracks over head and dances across the clouds, Eva’s cutlery fish leaping up in schools out of the water and heading away from the storm.

The first chunk of hail is baseball sized. It thuds into the deck only feet away from Eva with heavy dull think. The Doctor winces as he gets a smaller one right upside the head before he can duck away.

“Press that, then this!” the Doctor’s hands are blurring all over the mass. Maybe he ought to have built a proper shelter for the boat. He will, assuming they get through this with it intact.
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[personal profile] makeherblue 2012-05-20 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
The Doctor’s surprisingly easy to shove – being distracted and being a walking scarecrow probably didn’t help either. He glances over at her yelp, turning as if he’s been shot. Oh dear! It seems she’s taken a ball of hail right to the face, which…sounds right for a human and their instinct to downright attract this sort of thing. You’d think they would have evolved out of this stage by now. The Doctor scurries over, looks her over to make sure she hasn’t lost any teeth – and yes, Eva, his ears are red at the sheer language -- and satisfied she’s more or less alright, hands her another one of his typically awful handkerchiefs and scurries back to his post.

For how busy he looks, it doesn’t look like there’s much to be done about getting out of the storm. Hail contains to clatter onto the deck. More splashes into the often, the waves choppy and sending up big white sprays.

The Doctor has time to wonder if this might be another glitch in the TARDIS.

It takes him a moment to realize there’s a roaring sound, even over the thunder and the lightning. The Doctors squints against the gray rain slapping against his face, wiping his sopping wet fringe out of his eyes as he yells at Eva.

“What’s the noise?” It’s one of those human failings he’d picked up. He thinks he knows exactly what it is, he just hopes he’s wrong.

Through the gray murk, there’s a foaming line of mist up ahead, water churning, the ocean rushing toward that line where it simply drops off. Odd, he didn’t remember a waterfall being here…

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