Somewhere in Toon Town - Dusk

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

Elle was bored again. She hadn't seen Spike in ages, so she decided she was going to go look for him.

She was unaware of any imminent threat that might be lurking, despite Cayce's recent warning about someone looking for her.


[post is open, but first thread is for Sylar & Elle (and the Mickey cops) only. read here for more info.]

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[hear-the-drums.livejournal.com]

Well, the Master certainly wasn't going to lose them. He wanted to know what the hell was going on. But he wasn't going to run at breakneck speed like that. Chasing after the Doctor was out of the question.

No matter how vehemently his coat flapped.

So that Master set off at his own pace in same the direction that the two had been carried off in.

[a-lonely-god.livejournal.com]

He found the Doctor sitting on a bench by the castle moat, which the two combatants were just wading out of, one leg drawn up and rubbing his shin absently as he… well, he wasn’t eavesdropping, exactly, he was just…

All right, he was eavesdropping.

[hear-the-drums.livejournal.com]

"Very subtle," the Master said on approach, stepping up behind the bench. "Anything interesting to be heard so far?"

[a-lonely-god.livejournal.com]

“Their world sounds complicated,” the Doctor murmured. “Something about a company that regulates people like them. She works for it, he’s in their files. He’s dangerous. She’s…” he shook his head. “He asked if she wanted to go get ice cream and she said yes. Easy as that. Did she miss the part where he tried to cut her head open?”

[hear-the-drums.livejournal.com]

"Probably not," the Master guessed. "She's not quite right, poor thing. Or at least, I imagine that's how most people interpret it."

He tried hard not to smile. It was always so amusing knowing something the Doctor couldn't at least reason out for himself.

[a-lonely-god.livejournal.com]

“She said this place was the best thing that could have happened to her, because her father isn’t here,” the Doctor continued, more to himself than the Master. “That she was kept away from the public because she was ‘too dangerous’.”

Poor thing indeed, although of course the Master’s comment was less than honestly sympathetic. The Doctor shot him a suspicious glance as the two started to wander away. “Have you met her, then?”

[hear-the-drums.livejournal.com]

"Mm," the Master affirmed, watching as the two young people continued on, oblivious to their surroundings or their company. "It's not as if I don't have experience with the type. Daddy complex and a sheltered childhood. This is probably the most time she's ever been able to spend out in the sun, the dear girl."

He didn't even have to try for sarcasm here. The Doctor certainly knew better.

[a-lonely-god.livejournal.com]

The Doctor huffed and made the same affirmative noise back at the Master. His body shifted as though he would have liked to follow them, but he didn’t.

“Wonder how long it’ll take the power to come back on.”

[hear-the-drums.livejournal.com]

"Faster it does, the more it speaks for whatever is running things around here." That went without saying, of course, but stating the obvious did make people feel more in control of their surroundings.

Not that he needed that.

[a-lonely-god.livejournal.com]

“Wish it’d let us do it,” the Doctor groused.

[hear-the-drums.livejournal.com]

"You're bored," the Master stated for him. "You're not cracking, are you, because that will make my life far too easy."

[a-lonely-god.livejournal.com]

“No I’m not cracking.” The Doctor sounded vaguely insulted. It wasn’t really even that he was bored –he was bored, quite bored, in fact– as he was feeling the need to be of use, somehow. –and possibly also the need to impress someone with said usefulness– Leave it to the damn park not only to imprison them and take away their sense of purpose but to solve even life’s little, ordinary problems like spilt tea or overloaded electrical circuits.

He stretched his leg out, rotating his foot before setting it down on the ground again and resting his elbows on the back of the bench. He glanced up at the Master.

“Are you just going to stand there and loom over my shoulder?”

[hear-the-drums.livejournal.com]

"Why, is it making you uncomfortable? Is your precarious hold on sanity slipping with every moment I linger behind you?"

He certainly wasn't bored. At all.

[a-lonely-god.livejournal.com]

“Yes,” the Doctor told him blandly, sinking down a little further on the bench. “In fact I think I’m developing a twitch.”

[hear-the-drums.livejournal.com]

Oh, he did so like it when the Doctor humored him. "Tell you what. Once I can see the twitch I'll move."

[a-lonely-god.livejournal.com]

The Doctor snorted.

“It’s a fair cop.” He clicked his tongue twice against the roof of his mouth and tried to think of something interesting to say.

[hear-the-drums.livejournal.com]

It seemed so unlikely that two Time Lords with so many years of history and experience between them could think of nothing to say.

Of course, there were all sorts of things to talk about. But that didn't mean they would ever get discussed. –not anymore–

So the Master didn't attempt to make the situation any more comfortable.

[a-lonely-god.livejournal.com]

“Big SIS,” the Doctor said after a while. “That’s what John called it.” He hadn’t been kidding.