thelastgallifreyan ◾ ◾ Voicemail

2012-11-23 17:08

Helllooo!

Yes, you've reached the Doctor. I'm a little busy at our relative parallel temporal trajectories. Please leave your name, universal standard planet name or coordinates, species, year, and type of crisis after the beep. Excluding any malfunctions in the time stabilizer, I'll be right with you in minutes.

So just sit tight and speak calmly into your voice relay system.

*beep*

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Date/Time: 2012-12-09 00:41 (UTC)Posted by:

zelda_hylia

[How very... eccentric.]

Hello, Doctor. This is Zelda.

[She holds the camera up to show what's behind her - a blue police box.]

I was up on the island earlier today and I believe I have located your blue box. Since I was with someone else at the time, I waited to call since I'm not exactly sure what you're keeping in it.

Date/Time: 2012-12-09 01:34 (UTC)Posted by:

thelastgallifreyan

[About ten minutes passes before a reply is made, but once it comes - it's a live feed of a very excited looking Doctor.]

That's it! You've found it!

[He brushes back his hair with the hand that's not holding the communicator.]

I mean, hello Zelda, it's nice to see you again.

But you've found it!

Date/Time: 2012-12-09 01:37 (UTC)Posted by:

zelda_hylia

[She glances back at it for a moment. Something about this thing...]

It is up on the island near the abandoned village. I'm quite surprised really. Though it is rather large, I suppose I can see why it didn't just drop in the plaza with you.

[Since he's responded and now she's positive she has the right person, Zelda texts him some directions.]

There you are. Dress warm, it's a bit chilly up here.

Date/Time: 2012-12-09 01:43 (UTC)Posted by:

thelastgallifreyan

[He reads the directions almost instantly.]

I'm on my way! Tell the Station Manager to warm up the elevator!

[The SFC wobbles a bit, a tweed jacket flashes by as it's grabbed, and the video then cuts out.]

Date/Time: 2012-12-09 01:45 (UTC)Posted by:

thelastgallifreyan

[The Doctor arrives at the approximate location that Zelda sent to him. He's a little out of breath when he runs up next to her.]

Edited Date/Time: 2012-12-09 01:45 (UTC)

Date/Time: 2012-12-09 01:47 (UTC)Posted by:

zelda_hylia

You're certainly excited about it, aren't you?

[She can't help but wonder if he needs some alone time with his box with how utterly thrilled he looks at the prospect of it being found.]

What is a police box?

Date/Time: 2012-12-09 01:53 (UTC)Posted by:

thelastgallifreyan

[He catches his breath.]

It's a box where you can go in it and call the police.

Right, uhm...
[He scratches his head.]
police are people who enforce the law and help people out of bad situations.

Edited Date/Time: 2012-12-09 01:54 (UTC)

Date/Time: 2012-12-09 01:55 (UTC)Posted by:

zelda_hylia

[He certainly doesn't think that the police are going to show up in Vatheon, does he? That can't be it, he's too smart for that.]

What are you actually keeping in it, then? If you don't mind terribly, that is.

Date/Time: 2012-12-09 01:57 (UTC)Posted by:

thelastgallifreyan

Lots of things.

[He smirks and approaches the police box, leaning against the side.]

Why don't you take a look inside?

Date/Time: 2012-12-09 02:00 (UTC)Posted by:

zelda_hylia

There's a keyhole right there, isn't there? I assume that means it is locked, or that it is meant to be.

[The princess quirks a small smile. Of course she already tried to open it, but there's no way she'll admit that openly. There aren't even any fingerprints. Always wearing gloves is nice in that respect.]

Date/Time: 2012-12-09 02:06 (UTC)Posted by:

thelastgallifreyan

[He smiles.]

It is locked, and I very rarely give out keys.

[He snaps his fingers and the door cracks open just a bit.]

Of course, I don't need one.

Date/Time: 2012-12-09 02:08 (UTC)Posted by:

zelda_hylia

[Once it's open, any pretense she was making of not being interested fades away immediately. That feeling of something being here intensifies, and she takes a couple steps forward without even really ever noticing that it's bigger on the inside. There's something more important than that.]

This is...

Edited Date/Time: 2012-12-09 02:14 (UTC)

Date/Time: 2012-12-09 02:17 (UTC)Posted by:

thelastgallifreyan

[He follows in behind her, closing the door behind them.]

Bigger on this inside?

[He finishes for her. It's pretty standard for anyone entering the TARDIS for their first time.

He begins circling the control console, flipping a few switches and generally examining the state of his beauteous machine/wife.]

Edited Date/Time: 2012-12-09 02:17 (UTC)

Date/Time: 2012-12-09 02:22 (UTC)Posted by:

zelda_hylia

No. Not that...

[Though now that he mentions it, it is that too. Like time and space were bent to make this area exist inside something so small. In some ways, it reminds her of the Temple of Time. The ambiance is different, the visual is different, but the feeling is the same, something so ancient and timeless that she can't put proper words to it. The only thing she can think of to even begin to describe it is a song.]

Date/Time: 2012-12-09 02:27 (UTC)Posted by:

thelastgallifreyan

[The Doctor looks up as she begins singing. He continues to move around checking his controls.

At some point he slows, paying less attention to the TARDIS and more attention to her.

Eventually he finds himself sitting in one of the control chairs, somewhat enraptured by her tune.]

Date/Time: 2012-12-09 02:32 (UTC)Posted by:

zelda_hylia

[Yes, that was it. It was time that this place reminded her of. A gateway. Somehow, it feels like she's spent a long, long time like this, in a place outside time.]

It's time.

Date/Time: 2012-12-10 22:44 (UTC)Posted by:

thelastgallifreyan

[The Doctor smiles softly.]

I'm not sure anyone has ever put it so beautifully.

Date/Time: 2012-12-10 22:58 (UTC)Posted by:

zelda_hylia

[The princess folds her hands together, thumb rubbing against where the mark of the Triforce of Wisdom lays underneath her gloves.]

Doctor... what is this place for? Is it a temple?

Date/Time: 2012-12-11 05:50 (UTC)Posted by:

thelastgallifreyan

[He smiles.

Although her question seems quaint, it's also quite flattering.

He gets out of his chair and spins around, hands extended to the area surrounding them.]

She's a time machine.

Date/Time: 2012-12-11 05:55 (UTC)Posted by:

zelda_hylia

[Which is essentially what the Temple of Time is, albeit an old, unsophisticated version thereof.]

You travel in time, then.

[Zelda walks up to the console slowly, laying a hand on it in an oddly reverent fashion (and being quite careful to not touch any buttons or levers). He travels in time, and knows enough about it to possibly build a machine like this...]

...Doctor, what would happen to someone who went back on their own timeline repeatedly?

Date/Time: 2012-12-11 16:30 (UTC)Posted by:

thelastgallifreyan

Time and space. [He gently corrects her.

It's obvious to him that her question is more than just idle curiosity.]

Crossing one's own timeline is exceedingly dangerous and strictly forbidden.

Date/Time: 2012-12-11 20:03 (UTC)Posted by:

zelda_hylia

[She can't say she didn't expect an answer like that. Zelda's been researching the whole matter rather extensively for almost a year now, and it seems that the more she finds out, the more she realizes just how much her own world might be damaged. The princess won't look up at him, unable to meet the eyes of someone that could possibly really understand what she's allowed to happen.]

Edited Date/Time: 2012-12-11 20:17 (UTC)

Date/Time: 2012-12-13 23:47 (UTC)Posted by:

thelastgallifreyan

I've done it on several occasions.

Date/Time: 2012-12-13 23:51 (UTC)Posted by:

zelda_hylia

And you are alright? I have a friend who has done it many times, back and forth between the same two points...

[She worries for him. For the Link here in Vatheon who is already dead, for the Link she sent back to his childhood, for any other version of Link that might be out there.]