traveller in time

[out-of-my-time.livejournal.com]

I'm back!  I'm back, and they're all still here, and they're alive.  Gene and Annie and Chris- hell, even Ray.  I saved them.  And I'm... happy.  I'm actually, properly happy.   I think I might be dead; actually, I know I'm dead.  At least in 2006.  But I don't care.  I'm back.

I'm back.  I'm alive.

And River?  I didn't look.

Comments

[timey_wimey]

You managed to get back? That's brilliant! How?

[out-of-my-time.livejournal.com]

Jumped off a roof.

[timey_wimey]

.... What?!

[out-of-my-time.livejournal.com]

Off the roof of Manchester CID, yeah. I just... had to take the definitive step, see? And that was it.

[timey_wimey]

... Are you sure you're alright?

[out-of-my-time.livejournal.com]

I'm brilliant. Honestly, Doctor. Come see me if you like; I'm here and I'm alive, and at the moment, I can't think of a time I've been happier.

[timey_wimey]

Well... if you're still using the community then I suppose it can't have killed you, not really, so... hmm. Alright, I'll buy that. You still owe me a drink, as it is.

[out-of-my-time.livejournal.com]

Even if it did... it was worth it. I woke up, and the real world was more like a dream than this one. Couldn't feel anything, didn't really care, and I- I couldn't live like that.

Gladly. You'd like Nelson, I think.

[sickartist.livejournal.com]

Congradulations! How'd you manage to do it?

[out-of-my-time.livejournal.com]

Jumped off a roof, actually.

[sickartist.livejournal.com]

...you killed yourself?!

Doesn't that kind of go against everything everyone ever says ever?!

[out-of-my-time.livejournal.com]

No I didn't! Well, I suppose I technically did, but not really. I just had to take the definitive step, see? And I'm alive here now.

[sickartist.livejournal.com]

..You took a...

Well, where exactly did you turn up, anyway?

That's insane.

[out-of-my-time.livejournal.com]

Definitive step, yeah. Ironic, really.

1973. It's, uh, kind of a complicated story.

[sickartist.livejournal.com]

Call me crazy, but I had no idea they had computers way back in the day.

I'm going to assume you're from my time, or somewhere close.

[out-of-my-time.livejournal.com]

That was a strange thing, yeah... still can't explain it, but this computer just showed up in my flat one day. Don't know where the bloody hell it came from, but it works, so... Thought I was crazy at first, but I think that possibility's since been ruled out.

2006, yeah.

[notleprechaun.livejournal.com]

Back in the 70s? How'd you manage that one?

[sickartist.livejournal.com]

That's... well, I don't know, I've actually dealt with crazier.

Well, you're about two years or so behind me, but close enough.

So, you're Sam, huh?

[timey_wimey]

Not many people could, I imagine.

Nelson? He wouldn't happen to be that barman you were talking about, would he?


((OOC: Mental images of Nelson and Ten talking... now we need a Nelson on the community. |D))

[out-of-my-time.livejournal.com]

I guess, well- I'm just lucky I had somewhere to go back to.

That's him, yeah. Runs a pub called the Railway Arms.

((OOC: We so do. Because Nelson? Totally a Time Lord in disguise.))

[timey_wimey]

Yeah. Not many people have that.

Hmm. He sounds like my sort of man.


((... I BELIEVE YOU COULD BE RIGHT. Now we need to find his fob watch.))

[out-of-my-time.livejournal.com]

I am, yeah. DI Sam Tyler. And you are...?

[out-of-my-time.livejournal.com]

Ah, I jumped off a roof, actually.

[out-of-my-time.livejournal.com]

Ah, well that, as he'd say, is a barman's job, is it not? Be everyone's sort of man; part of the.... bonhomie associated with the profession.

((Is it bad that the first thing that popped into my head when you said that was that he could be Romana? Which... totally no. Not at all))

[timey_wimey]

Suppose you could be right. I haven't chatted with any barmen in a while, so I wouldn't know.


((... Romana got a sex change? XD *bricked*))

[out-of-my-time.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, anytime you want that drink, Doctor... just stop by. It'll give Gene a heart attack.

[timey_wimey]

I can't imagine he'd be all that pleased to see me in my blue box, no.

[out-of-my-time.livejournal.com]

Well, he did say he'd stop drinking altogether if you ever showed up in the Arms, didn't he? Could be the only thing in the world capable of putting him off the bottle.

[notleprechaun.livejournal.com]

Well, that wasn't very smart now, was it?

[out-of-my-time.livejournal.com]

Well, it worked.

[and-dont-blink.livejournal.com]

[biverbam.livejournal.com]

Better that way.

[out-of-my-time.livejournal.com]

Much better. The feeling as I jumped... I finally knew what I was doing. I was taking control, choosing what I wanted to do, and it was brilliant.

[biverbam.livejournal.com]

Flew.

[out-of-my-time.livejournal.com]

Just for a minute there, yeah. And I felt. As soon as I jumped off that roof...

[biverbam.livejournal.com]

Gravitational pulls were fighting. Hard not to notice them.

[out-of-my-time.livejournal.com]

Not so hard. Not really. I mean, once I figured out what I was going to do.

[biverbam.livejournal.com]

Riddles are easy when you know all the words.

[out-of-my-time.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Ah... thank you, River. For, you know- 'don't look before you leap.' I think it helped.

[biverbam.livejournal.com]

Didn't think you would.

[out-of-my-time.livejournal.com]

Don't suppose I would have thought I would, either, if you'd have told me beforehand. But we all surprise ourselves sometimes, yeah? And I mean... that's what I was going to do at first, to get out of 1973- take the definitive step. And I did. Just... not quite the way I thought I was going to.

[biverbam.livejournal.com]

Your feet knew.