[RL - Haruhi; Lockon later on - ... and sometimes, everybody lives.]

[timey_wimey]

((Just setting this up now so we can get the ball rolling, albeit at a nice steady pace. :3))

[The Doctor was sitting in the TARDIS. Not to go anywhere - the TARDIS was staying safely parked in Haruhi's living room until everybody was properly ready for another adventure. After all the recent hijinks, even he was feeling the strain.

No, the Doctor was in here to think, leaned back in the pilot's seat with a faraway, odd expression on his face. Now that everything had calmed down, he'd been doing quite a bit of thinking, and the TARDIS was the best place to do it. Nice and quiet.

You see, to the Doctor's mind, there was a certain something that... wasn't quite adding up. And it was niggling at his mind. Not just a discrepancy of logic, but a discrepancy of time. An ever so small one, small enough that a distracted enough mind would miss it. And he'd certainly been distracted enough.

But where? He'd had an idea, asked Feldt if he could borrow Haro and review the tapes from... from before the rescue. It had taken a bit of persuasive talk, but he'd finally got a look at them. And something... was definitely off. But what? What was it?

He'd been in here for quite some time, and he wasn't moving anytime soon. If he kept this up, people were probably going to start wondering where he was. But the problem was annoying him, so in here he would stay until someone startled him out of his reverie.]

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[godisagirl.livejournal.com]

[the sound of coughing signals the arrival of Haruhi to the TARDIS. She knew the Doctor was planning something, she'd been with him long enough to tell when that was happening..

He'd ask to borrow Haro which made her think it had something to do with Lockon, but she didn't want to get her hopes up. It had been a long time since she'd had any.

She stumbled into the TARDIS and into her father's arms]

[timey_wimey]

[Haruhi stumbling into his arms counts as something startling out of his reverie! He blinked and looked at her, smiling distractedly before his gaze returned to the TARDIS ceiling.]

Hi, Haruhi.

[godisagirl.livejournal.com]

[buries her face in his shoulder, still coughing]

You left.

[timey_wimey]

Sorry. I needed to think, and I couldn't do that around everyone else.

[He really is distracted.]

[godisagirl.livejournal.com]

I didn't feel good and I couldn't find you.

[timey_wimey]

Well, you've found me now...

[godisagirl.livejournal.com]

...

[timey_wimey]

[He doesn't really want to broach the subject of Lockon with her, but two heads are better than one, as they say, so... well. He's got nothing to lose.]

.... Haruhi, when someone dies, what's the one thing you expect to find?

[godisagirl.livejournal.com]

...[puts her hands over her ears and shrinks away]

I don't know.

[timey_wimey]

[Bluntly - he's getting into his "train-of-thought-out-loud" mode.] A body. And they never found a body. Doesn't that seem odd to you?

[godisagirl.livejournal.com]

No, no, no! I don't care, stop it!

[timey_wimey]

[Sorry, Haruhi. But he's too far gone to spare your feelings right now. He knows he's onto something, but. What? As he speaks, his voice gets more agitated and animated.]

But something's wrong, don't you see? I mean, yeah, sometimes explosions mean that there's no body left there to find, doubly so when it's an explosion in space, that's why I asked for Haro's tapes. But I watched them, and I saw that explosion. And that explosion - it looked pretty lethal, yeah, but it wasn't the sort that would rip a man apart. So why isn't there a body? If there was one floating about I should have found it when we were there last week but I didn't, why is that?

[godisagirl.livejournal.com]

[takes off her shoe and throws it at him as hard as she can before making a break for the TARDIS door, hands still over her ears. :\]

[timey_wimey]

Ow! Okay, I deserved that.

[He's still talking, by the way.]

But don't you see, this is important? If there wasn't a body to find that means that something must have moved it. Something... or someone.

[He's still following her, by the way, talking faster and faster.] No. No. Nononononononono. YES! Haruhi, I've solved it! They never found a body because there wasn't a body to find, it had been moved! But not after he died - before it happened!

[When he reaches her he grabs her shoulders - not to hurt her, but out of enthusiasm as he desperately tries to explain coherently.] There's a flux, a tiny flux in time, right at the point of the explosion, where there shouldn't be, who could have caused that? I'll tell you who could have caused that!

[He rushes over to the console and presses a few buttons.] Us! We're the only thing that's been in that universe which can possibly travel in time. [He looks up, grinning.] Haruhi, that point of time is in flux! That event isn't fixed, I can change it!

[godisagirl.livejournal.com]

[doesn't move, just...stands there looking small and pale]

...Are you promising me we'll save him, or just saying? I'm tired of false hope.

[timey_wimey]

[He looks directly into her eyes, his expression serious.]

Haruhi, if I'm detecting a ripple in time, then I can almost guarantee that it's a foregone conclusion. I'm planning on keeping this promise.

[After speaking, he reaches over and twists something on another part of the console.] But if I'm going to pull this off, I need a second pilot.

[godisagirl.livejournal.com]

[goes over to him, staring back into his eyes]

I'll go if you promise me, really promise me, that we can save him. 110% chance.

[timey_wimey]

[He puts his hands on her shoulders and meets her eyes.]

Haruhi, I promise you. We're gonna save him. And we're gonna do it right now.

[godisagirl.livejournal.com]

[looks very close to bursting into tears and flings her arms around him]

[timey_wimey]

[He can see that, and he puts his arms around her to hug her.]

Come here.

[godisagirl.livejournal.com]

[clings to him, sniffling]

I want my brother back.

[timey_wimey]

I know. We're going to get him back.

[godisagirl.livejournal.com]

[clings to him as tightly as possible, there is no way she can ever express her thanks to him in words]

[timey_wimey]

[He hugs her back for a long moment, then lets go and looks at her.]

Right! Well as lovely as hugging is, we're not going to get anything done standing round here clinging to each other all day.

[godisagirl.livejournal.com]

[coughs painfully a few times before taking her position at the TARDIS controls]