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[sexyhitchhiker.livejournal.com]

[This is completely and utterly maddening. One day, the weird blue thing is sitting under a tree, the next day, it's gone. Then she finds it snug against the castle walls, like it had always been there. Then it's gone again and she only happens upon it when she was passing by the duck pond (it seems to have a rather nice view too).

And today, it's just sitting in the middle of the lawn, sticking out like a sore (blue) thumb. She glares at it for a few minutes, before turning and heading out the door. She's gonna find out what the hell that thing is today - even though the last time she tried something like that, she ended up on some EXTREME odd game show.]

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[honorinflames.livejournal.com]

And why haven't you fixed the problem of this place yet?

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[n0secondchances.livejournal.com]

[...you tell people you're a brilliant alien and The Doctor...and this is the reception you get? His expression is caught somewhere between disgruntled frustration and bemusement]

Really now, I've only been here two weeks, haven't I? I'm just getting my feet wet.

[stepping closer so he can peer down his nose at the two of them] And now I think that's quite enough of me answering the questions, seeing as it would appear you both are in my home, as it were. So come on, then. If I'm going to be buried in questions, I'd at least like to know the name of my questioners, hmm?

[sexyhitchhiker.livejournal.com]

[have an amazingly icy glare to make up for being so short before she answers with a huff]

Natsuki.

[at least you don't /seem/ to be infested with an evil alien head parasite. Thus far.]

[honorinflames.livejournal.com]

[yeah really... he has been glaring up at commanders and generals he outranks his entire life. Some weird alien that lives in a box is no problem]

I'm Zuko.

...What is this place, anyway? [a 'something something police box' really doesn't cut it as an explanation] Where did it come from?

[n0secondchances.livejournal.com]

[a sigh] It's a start, I suppose.

[He's faced armies. Two children, however belligerent, were hardly enough to give him pause. They might, however, give him a headache.]

[to Zuko] She's the TARDIS. My ship.

[there's another brief pause while he considers the pair in front of him, before promptly spreading his arms and beginning to usher them back to the hallway]

Come on then... out of the wardrobe room.

If we're going to stand around blathering, we might as well do it somewhere comfortable.

[sexyhitchhiker.livejournal.com]

A box shaped ship? [keeping an eye on Ten, even as she lets herself get kicked out of the giant closet - it's unlikely that a closet will have another exit, if it came to that.]

[honorinflames.livejournal.com]

[he doesn't like being ushered around, but he doesn't exactly want to spend more time in the weird giant closet]

Doesn't seem anything like a ship to me.

[n0secondchances.livejournal.com]

Oh, but she's the best of ships. Traveling through space and time. Well, back home. Here, she can really only travel through space. Well...within the boundaries of the castle's powers, anyway.

[he...seems less than pleased about the limitations.

Meanwhile, he'll herd them towards the library, where there are plenty of comfy chairs and it looks a bit more impressive and library-ish instead of like the inside of a giant walk-in closet]

[sexyhitchhiker.livejournal.com]

[a snort, even as she scans the place]

So you're just as trapped as the rest of us.

[honorinflames.livejournal.com]

[glancing around as they go... really not happy about the fact that he's pretty sure that he's completely turned around and lost now]

So much for "fixing things."

[n0secondchances.livejournal.com]

Oi! 14 days! I'm working on it.

Blimey, everyone's a critic.

[sexyhitchhiker.livejournal.com]

[actually cracks a small smile. A bit sardonic, but still a smile.]

That's what you do when you figure out you can't actually do anything.

[honorinflames.livejournal.com]

[being that he recently burned up a chunk of the castle over this subject, he's going to decline to comment]

[n0secondchances.livejournal.com]

[there's a small tsking noise at that, but if anything his expression becomes more understanding....even as his tone becomes that much more confident]

Nonsense. Just because no one has doesn't mean it can't be done. Honestly, if people settled for logic like that you humans would never have made it out of the caves.

[sexyhitchhiker.livejournal.com]

[don't need your pity, old man :|]

If destroying stuff isn't part of the solution, I'm pretty much useless.

[sidelong glance at Zuko]

[honorinflames.livejournal.com]

[...don't give me that look!]

[n0secondchances.livejournal.com]

Well, that's the beauty of not knowing, isn't it? There very well might be something that needs destroying. Or rebuilding or convincing or puzzling or befriending. It's all waiting to be discovered.

[sexyhitchhiker.livejournal.com]

The power of love and friendship? Seriously?

[...she's had enough of that back at home.]

[honorinflames.livejournal.com]

[...a glance to Natsuki]

He really is new.

[n0secondchances.livejournal.com]

The power of-

[a disbelieving look] Oh really, now. [a pause as he reconsiders] I mean...well... I did save the world with the power of love once. I did do that. But I was thinking something a bit more scientific.

[to Zuko] And I'm not new. Or not as new as all that. And I've faced far worse than a kidnapping, transdimensional castle.

[sexyhitchhiker.livejournal.com]

[muttered aside to Zuko. Not that she's trying to be all that discrete.] Did the optimism give him away?

[barely suppresses a twitch at the love thing. Coming from a world of magical girls does have its drawbacks (i.e. a lack of comeback).] This place wreaks havoc with science.