#41: And I won't feel a thing...

[horrible_phd]

[Voice]

So is the City breaking or what?

[He doesn't sound like he really cares, either way.]

[ooc: So after much internal debate I went with updating him all the way to the end--I'm sort of assuming at least a month or two has gone by for him. He's kind of broken but he'll snap out of it. Eventually. Expect something of a different Horrible until then. He remembers everything from the city, but it all feels a little distant right now.]

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[horrible-phd.livejournal.com]

Yanked through to what, exactly?

Voice;

[neverendingbeat.livejournal.com]

[He gestures behind him at his TARDIS: gothic, stony, guttering candles, big circular console behind him with a lighted white tube emerging from the centre and a lot of complex technology on it.]

A facsimile of my TARDIS. I don't know what it is in actuality. The machines I brought with me analyse it as a TARDIS but it isn't one. I can't access most of her--its processes and I can only access the back rooms that don't have close-able doors leading to them. Everything is locked down. And I can't communicate with her at all.

Voice;

[horrible-phd.livejournal.com]

I've was in a TARDIS once...didn't know they were so popular. Nice interior, by the way.

They're telling us to patch the holes.

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[neverendingbeat.livejournal.com]

[The Master looks momentarily confused.]

You--?

[And then it makes sense.]

The Doctor's, I assume. They're not that popular. We're just the same species. But thanks, I guess.

[He is personally less than impressed with his previous incarnation's design preferences.]

I saw. I can't imagine that patching the walls of reality with polymer will be very useful but it could slow the process down, potentially. [He shrugs.] Or it could just be busywork.

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[horrible-phd.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there was this party, a while ago.

[He's trying to sound normal, or not normal but not as apathetic as he feels.]

Maybe I'll whip up a batch of glue, after I run some tests. The barrier appears to be disturbingly close to--well, anyway, I think I'd prefer the city didn't disintegrate.

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[neverendingbeat.livejournal.com]

Good luck. I'd like to know what you find out. I'd prefer that the City not fall to pieces. At least not while I'm probably still inside it.

[He gives Doctor Horrible a thoughtful look.]

I assume...the history-changing didn't go as planned?

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[horrible-phd.livejournal.com]

Of course not.

I learned what it's like to get everything but the girl.

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[neverendingbeat.livejournal.com]

And I suppose having her here doesn't make it any better?

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[horrible-phd.livejournal.com]

You know, life is really easy when you don't actually care. You can get away with almost anything. And if you don't, well, doesn't matter.

I think I'm supposed to start caring now. I don't know if I'm ready for that. So things should be better here, but it's complicated. I don't know.

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[neverendingbeat.livejournal.com]

Oh, I agree completely. Feelings have a nasty tendency of getting in the way.

I don't know that I've ever been in your exact situation, and I think there's something to be said out of caring somewhat and getting some fun out of the whole thing. Additionally, I wouldn't give up all hope yet on Penny. The City doesn't seem to follow a quite a few of the rules of physics, so if you could harness any of their more interesting exceptions, including the "magic"...
I haven't had a need to study that in particular, of course, so I can't be certain.