❝ and now it's time to build from the bottom of the pit right to the top. ❞

[thatoldthatkind]

Who: The Doctor and Fortescue
When: Day 162
Where: Hola there is an outside world!
What: ADVENTURE. What are the odds of running into zombies?
Warnings: None that I can think of.

One of the goals the Doctor had since he had woken up in Cape Kore was to find a way out. Maybe not a way out of the planet (though that was a work in progress) but a way outside the building! Humans got testy if they didn't have sunlight for awhile, so god knew what it would be like if they never saw the outside world again.

You'd think the all knowing and powerful machine would of thought that one through!

Which led to the Doctor, after the fiasco of the hellhounds, to testing every door he could think of. He'd mark one with a small pen if he had tried it before. It was similar to marking their skin when a Silence was round, but not quite the same. Which was good because he very much did not want to think about all of that again.

He clapped his hands together and rubbed them as he walked down the hall.

"Eenie Meenie Miney...." the Doctor turned his head and grinned. His eyes fell on a green door he hadn't seen before. Jack pot. "Mo'."

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[thatoldthatkind]

"That state again? No, no. You certainly will not. Not as long as I am here."

Which of course means that as soon as she is home? He can't stop her. She was a friend of his--one that he doesn't remember. That means he owes her a debt and he will make damn sure she is taken care of.

Normally he huffs when people do that. Instead he offers her a soft smile. An old one at that.

"You never know. I never plan on changing me, and I've got twelve new mes."

[blackmagus]

The difference, maybe, is that Fortescue also takes the time to gently smooth his hair back down again, even if that's only a few seconds. Fortescue likes carding her fingers through people's hair. It's oddly comforting. She returns his smile, hers younger but strained with too much life (and death) in too few years.

"That's sweet of you, love."

Here, in Kore, she has people to look out for her.

That's why she isn't looking too hard for the escape hatch, so to speak, even if it would be nice to find it for everyone else.

"...Twelve of you sounds terrifying," she chuckles quietly. "Shall we head back to the Center, Knight in Blue Armor?"