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Post by The Tenth Doctor on Nov 6, 2010 21:26:57 GMT -5
Fifteen year old River sat alone on a bench some distance from her home. Bag in hand, she had managed to relieve her parents of some food they had had in storage. She'd also brought along an extra set of clothing.
Running away, River had decided, was the only solution to her troubles with her parents. To put it bluntly, she didn't agree with their rules, nor did she like to do any of the chores around the house. She also hated to be lectured about school. She honestly didn't care if she ended up flunking. She had planned to drop out anyway.
Sitting on the bench, she took out a cigarette and began to smoke, wishing all her problems could just fade away.
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Post by The Valeyard on Nov 6, 2010 22:19:35 GMT -5
The Valeyard had been looking around his TARDIS when he found the small weapon, a sonic blaster. He held the metal weapon in his hand before an idea came to mind. This particular sonic blaster had once belonged to Captain Jack Harkness. After the first “goodbye” with the Nine version of the Doctor, all of Jack’s things had stayed behind in the TARDIS. The Doctor wasn’t the type to visit his companions rooms and most of them stayed the same after said companions left. After the Doctor’s “death”, the Valeyard had simply asked the TARDIS to seal them away in places he didn’t venture that much anymore. But every now and then he found objects from said rooms, small objects. It wasn’t that rare things, he lost things in her corridors and others appeared in their place.
But this time he wasn’t thinking about the Captain, original owner of the object. But of a strange woman that had appeared in the Doctor’s life, in one of those time she had carried a weapon very similar to this one. The Valeyard walked back toward the control room, sonic blaster in hand, placing it later in the console. River Song’s first meeting with him had been a mystery since the days of the Doctor, but looking at the sonic blaster and idea had come to mind. What if everything began with him? River held knowledge about the Doctor that no one else knew, no one else but himself. The person who had lived every moment and every life of the Doctor.
He smiled at the idea, of all the things he could do with that knowledge, how much damage he could cause the Doctor with them. Not thinking it twice he set the coordinates for River home, a bit of knowledge that had come to him with one of his later meetings with the woman. He landed not that far from her parents home, looking at the 8th year old the Valeyard decided it was too early. He wasn’t that good with children this time around, but he could still manipulate an alder but still young River. He set the coordinates for 7 years in the future and with her familiar sound she landed in the same place, 7 years later.
The Valeyard could see River a few fete away, a closer look and he could see the familiarity of someone that was running away. It was something familiar to him and at this time perfect for his plans. He smile from where he stood, the TARDIS doors’ open, giving anyone an inside look to her vast interior. No one was around too see it, but River and it would hopefully catch her attention and lead her human self to investigate the rare police box standing a couple of feet away. “You seem out of place, a girl your age should be fast asleep now.” The Valeyard didn’t move from his current location as he spoke, instead he placed all of his hypnotic abilities into his words, along with a lot of the Doctor‘s old charm. |
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Post by The Tenth Doctor on Nov 7, 2010 10:37:25 GMT -5
Noting that the wind seemed to have picked up, River tossed the cigarette that she had been smoking. Smoking didn't seem to help -- it only seemed to make her feel worse. At the noise and the continued wind, she looked in the direction it was coming from, frustration written all over her face. What could it be now?
Looking in the direction, she noticed a strange blue box. What was that ugly thing doing there? She wondered to herself. She hated bright colors, especially blue. Preferring black, she wore mostly black clothing. However, what made her look a second time was the....interior...if it really could be called that. It looked strange...and inviting. There was an older man standing inside.
Cautiously, she approached him and the box. "Is this some kind of trick?" she asked him, obviously interested. As she got closer, she realized that it was bigger on the inside.
She then heard the man speak to her. In response, she said, "Who needs sleep."
Even though the man was older, he seemed...handsome. River hadn't had much luck with the boys her age. She flirted with them plenty, but they had always turned away in disgust. She wasn't from a rich family, nor did she have a very high social standing. She was often seen by herself -- a loner.
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Post by The Valeyard on Nov 12, 2010 22:56:19 GMT -5
“I’m not familiar with human anatomy, but it was of my understanding that your species did.” The Valeyard smiled a but, circling the console. He already like this River, she went straight to the point. Or more important she wasn’t screaming off about the strange box, that was bigger on the inside.
The TARDIS was an amazing and strange thing, he back when he went by the name of the Doctor, he had been impressed by her. In general TARDISes were amazing and powerful machines, it was no wonder Time Lords were so protective of them. Jealous to have any other species copying their creations.
“Trickery? Not really, is simply science. Far more advanced that anything you have on this little planet at the time or will ever have.” The Valeyard took a few steps closer, eyeing the human standing before him. He had never met River at this age, she was very young compared to the versions he had met. She wasn’t completely bad looking, for a human.
“She is dimensionally transcendental, meaning that its exterior and interior exist in separate dimensions. Which of course makes her look bigger in the inside and smaller in the outside. She’s a ship, that can travel through both time and space. So no, this isn’t trickery, as you so simply put it.” |
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Post by The Tenth Doctor on Nov 13, 2010 20:49:26 GMT -5
River looked at the Valeyard suspiciously, and then said to him, "So....if you're talking like that....that means you aren't human, right.....so what are you? You don't look like an alien....but then," she grinned at him, "you have a spaceship.....so......"
Realizing that she actually had sounded interested in what this grown up was saying -- at least she thought he was a grown up -- he certainly looked like one -- but if he were another species....maybe he was really around her age. Nevertheless, she didn't want to look too interested. Folding her arms again, she gave a reply.
"And, yes, humans need sleep. I only meant that.....I can get sleep whenever I want to. My parents aren't going to tell me when I can go to bed and when I have to get up. They can't make me listen to them, and neither can you," she said in a defiant tone.
River glanced around the inside of the TARDIS. If a human boy her age wouldn't have her, then perhaps an alien would -- even if it weren't this alien. He probably knew of aliens her age.
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Post by The Valeyard on Nov 25, 2010 1:49:49 GMT -5
The Valeyard smiled, circling the console finally ending before River. He allowed some space between the two of them, he didn’t want to scare the still young human. He also wasn’t sure how River would react, humans were like that, you never knew with them. The last thing he wanted was to end with a slap to his face, he had grown that years ago. “Human…” he laughed “not really, well I am half-human, from my mother‘s side. But yes for the most part, I‘m not human” The Valeyard looked at River, trying to see her reaction to guess what she could be thinking.
“I’m in human standards an alien, a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey.” The Valeyard didn’t tremble at the mention of his home plane, long gone. He was simply cold, the TARDIS weather and temperature system had been a bit crazy in the past months. “Again, she isn’t simply a spaceship as you so well put it. She doesn’t do much flying, she mostly jumps between places across space and time”
At her following words the Valeyard simply nodded, she surely had the spirit of her older self. Just a bit more annoying than he remembered, but by the looks of things she was in her teen years. Humans and other aliens across the galaxies were a bit annoying during those years of their short lives. No wonder he avoided traveling with them. When he was the Doctor he picked young things, but other than those rare cases they tended to be already in their early twenties.
“Is not really up to me to choose that, humans have free will after all. I personally didn’t remember much about my parents. I don’t want to remember much about them either, they die a long time ago.” The past wasn't something the Valeyard thought much about. Probably because it reminded him too much, he was still in one way or the other, The Doctor. |
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Post by The Tenth Doctor on Nov 27, 2010 20:27:31 GMT -5
River glanced at the Valeyard with greater interest, although she still attempted to hide it.
"You're half human? I didn't know that was possible -- an alien and a human.....so...what's your name? I don't deal with people that I can't name." She stared at him, defiance still coming through in her voice.
"What do Time Lords do? Where is Gallifrey?"
Smiling at the thought that this half alien might take her somewhere -- his home planet or something -- she needed to know about this planet. If his kind looked human, she might yet find someone.
"So.....you can travel in space in time. Does that mean that you can take this ship anywhere?" She raised her eyebrows at the last sentence, imagining all the possibilities for herself.
River would have to find out about the Valeyard's parents as well, trying to see if she would have any chance with this alien.
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Post by The Valeyard on Jan 3, 2011 11:43:18 GMT -5
Sorry I haven't replied, I try to begin something but I end up disliking it in the end.
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Post by The Tenth Doctor on Jan 19, 2011 21:31:06 GMT -5
(so...what does this mean....are you dropping out...or just taking a break?)
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Post by The Tenth Doctor on Feb 9, 2011 16:14:52 GMT -5
(our plan in this was to have the Valeyard kill off River, and torture the Doctor by sending River to him. However, we were going to have the Valeyard teach her everything that she needed to know in order to know all that she knows about the Doctor and flying the TARDIS and everything. Then, the Valeyard would send her to go hunt down the Doctor and annoy him and torture him psychologically )
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