Entrance Post

[pc-cooper.livejournal.com]

[Pre-Milliways and Pre-Torchwood: Her life is normal, and this is how it should always be.]

After her normal, normal day as a Police Constable for Cardiff, Gwen Cooper just wanted to go home. Maybe Rhys had some food done, if he was home yet (and if not, oh God, there was that delicious pie on the counter...and she could just have wee piece and he wouldn't notice, hopefully).

Of course, when one really wants to go home, that's when Bar pulls patrons in and makes them whirl about and lose all sense of...what the hell is going on.

The door opens and she walks through the door, with a look of "whut." on her face.

Huh. This...is not...her apartment.

[ooc: the mun may leave...but she'll let you know. s'just new years eve with the family, y'see.]

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[pc-cooper.livejournal.com]

"Cardiff." Gwen nods, picking up her cup of tea, smiling. "Yeah, you can always tell someone from Wales."

[his-sarah-jane.livejournal.com]

"I haven't been there in years. Not since I lived with Aunt Livinia and she had to go there for some scientific meeting or another."

Of course, part of the reason is that nothing interesting happens in Cardiff in her time. Absolutely nothing that would call the attention of the Doctor or UNIT.

"I know this may be a little bit odd sounding, but could you possibly tell me what time you're from?"

[pc-cooper.livejournal.com]

Cardiff gets no love. Unless it's Torchwood. But shh, we don't deal with Torchwood yet.

"Uhm...2007." Gwen purses her lips slightly.

[his-sarah-jane.livejournal.com]

That's about thirty years into Sarah's future. Well, given the point in time she last left from with the Doctor.

"I think a lot of people here are from about that time," she explains, trying to sound reassuring. "Or at least most of those from Earth that I've met."

[pc-cooper.livejournal.com]

"There are different times, then." Gwen states, eyes slightly wider than usual.

[his-sarah-jane.livejournal.com]

"Different times and different universes," Sarah continues in a soft tone.

She can understand how surmounting something like this can be. After all, Sarah will never forget her first trip in the TARIDS.

"You're at a place called Milliways. It's a pub, of sorts, at the end of the universe. People come here from all times and places. It's quite wonderful, really."

[pc-cooper.livejournal.com]

"Huh. Amazin'." Gwen murmurs into her tea. "And to think, I thought life was so normal today..."

[his-sarah-jane.livejournal.com]

"Oh, but it isn't," she answers with a smile.

Life was far from normal for her now, and she loved every moment of it.

"Not if you look hard enough. That's what the Doctor taught me. You see, I'm currently from the late 1970s, but I walked in here from a 31st century space station."

[pc-cooper.livejournal.com]

"Oh...wow." Gwen's eyes are now...saucerish. And they were big in the first place.

[his-sarah-jane.livejournal.com]

Sarah chuckles and nods. "I'm a time traveller. Well, I suppose I'm actually a journalist, but my best friend, the Doctor, has this ship called the TARDIS and it goes all over time and space. That's why Milliways wasn't so odd to me the first time I came here."

No. She was just irked that the Doctor hadn't told her about this place himself.

[pc-cooper.livejournal.com]

"That must be amazin'." Gwen nods. "Seein' all those worlds and stuff. And times...lucky you."

[his-sarah-jane.livejournal.com]

Sarah decides then that she likes this girl. There's no disbelieving and no worrying or confusion. Everything just seems to be matter of fact, the way it should be.

"I love it. I wouldn't trade it for anything."

Or him, for that matter.

[pc-cooper.livejournal.com]

"It's a bit unbelievable that you get to do that. I mean...Rhys, my boyfriend took the fact we had an alien ship hanging over London as a joke...but I want to think these things are real sometimes, you know?"

[his-sarah-jane.livejournal.com]

"There was an alien ship over London?"

Oh, that sounds so exciting!

Sarah's now the one looking wide-eyed at Gwen, eager for more information. "We have our own share of odd events in my time, but oh, there's never been anything like that! What happened exactly?"

[pc-cooper.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I don't know. I...was at home, watching the news about it. But it was all in London, and they didn't tell us much. Mind control or something happened."

[his-sarah-jane.livejournal.com]

"Mind control too?" Sarah Jane sounds positively delighted by all of this. "Oh, that's terrific. I wonder if the Doctor was there."

Knowing him, he probably was. It makes Sarah wonder if she was there too.

[pc-cooper.livejournal.com]

"No idea. Never actually heard of him. But nothing ever happens in Cardiff, anyway." Gwen shrugs.


YET. AHAHAH.

[his-sarah-jane.livejournal.com]

"Oh, just pay close enough attention and you may find something one of these days."

It's advice Sarah's been following since she decided to go into journalism.

[pc-cooper.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, for now I'll just stay a PC." She shrugs. "Enough excitement there."

[his-sarah-jane.livejournal.com]

"You're a copper?" Well, that sort of explains some of the attitude. "That must be exciting."

[pc-cooper.livejournal.com]

"Yeeaah." She draws the word out with a wrinkle of her nose. "A bit."

[his-sarah-jane.livejournal.com]

She laughs. "The only experience I've had with coppers before is trying to talk them in to letting me see a crime scene. Your kind's a tough bunch, you know."

[pc-cooper.livejournal.com]

"Well. It's what society demands. Everyone wants us to be the good guys...but no one listens. So...we have to be a bit tough." She says, apologetically.

[his-sarah-jane.livejournal.com]

"But I'm simply trying to do my job."

Most of the time, to be honest. A good 40% of these 'times' is just Sarah being snoopy and curious - the typical plucky reporter.

"Still," Sarah continues, giving Gwen a look that tells her she's not blaming her, "it does give me a challenge."

[pc-cooper.livejournal.com]

Gwen gives her a smile. "Well, if you ever find yourself in Cardiff in 2007...just ask for PC Cooper."