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[notadoctoryet.livejournal.com]

((oom medical student Martha Jones meets a very interesting 'man' known only as the Doctor))

Martha opened the door of the Tardis and looked out at the bar in confusion, this was it? Her one trip? He was taking her to bar, he could travel through time and space and this was where he'd chosen, well that was a bit of a let down.

"Um Doctor?" she said turning back but seeing no sign of the Tardis, "Doctor?!" she said again, this time a little more panicked.

"Great, he's dropped me off in a bar and left me, so much for this being a thank you," she muttered to herself.

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[falconryu.livejournal.com]

"Well, there are worse places to be dropped at." The asian man who just happens to be there (damn sneaky) flashes a small smile and a nod. "Besides, if this is your first time here, the first drink is free."

[notadoctoryet.livejournal.com]

"Well yeah I suppose, but it wasn't exactly what I was expecting," she replies, "although I don't know exactly what I was expecting."

She smiles slightly at the mention of the free drink, "that makes it a bit better then. Oh I'm Martha by the way, um stupid question maybe but where I am?"

[falconryu.livejournal.com]

"I am Ryu. It is a pleasure to meet you, Martha." He smiles and nods. "You are in Milliways. The Bar at the End of the Universe." And of course, now comes the questions.

[notadoctoryet.livejournal.com]

"You too," she says, momentarily distracted as she looks around for the Doctor.

"The end of the universe," she repeats, oddly enough that makes this a little better he's not just taken her to some random bar it's a bar at the end of the universe, which she has to admit is pretty cool.

"When you say end do you mean in terms of time or space?" she asks, clearly Doctory things rub off pretty quickly or maybe the weirdness of the situation is yet to hit her "or is it both?"

[falconryu.livejournal.com]

"I would dare say both." Ryu indicates the large observation window, with the sights of planets and stars crumbling, exploding, and collapsing to nothing. "A misterious figure known only as The Landlord created the bar here to shelter accidental and lost travelers. From here, portals connect to every world and time, but not constantly."

[notadoctoryet.livejournal.com]

She follows his gesture and stares at the sight for a few moments. She's been on the moon, but seeing this is something else, it's beautiful and horrible all at once. Finally she tears herself away from the view and shakes her head to rid herself of the imagine.

"But I'm not lost," she protests, "I was bought here by the Doctor, or at least I thought I was, but since I don't see him..." she trails off.

"Every world? Do you mean like different planets and everything, because that is what he told me he'd show me, but I sort of assumed we'd be going to the actual planets, not wait for the people from those planets in a bar."

[falconryu.livejournal.com]

"I don't think this Doctor is responsible for your presence here. People seem to come here purely by accident, when they step into some kind of invisible portal." Ryu shakes head. "Visits seem to be all accidental."

[notadoctoryet.livejournal.com]

She wasn't sure if this was better or not, she was leaning towards the not though.

"So you're saying I've been pulled here and the Doctor might not even know where I am? Great, just great. I only agreed to this trip because he said he could travel in time, I really don't have time to be staying in a bar at the end of the universe, I have exams!"

[falconryu.livejournal.com]

"Oh, no, please, calm down. Milliways is outside normal space and time, and time is not passing back at your 'home'. Once a portal reconnects you, you should be able to return to your own place and time without having lost a second."

[his-sarah-jane.livejournal.com]

She knows how rude it is to be staring at somebody, yet Sarah Jane can't help it when she hears Martha shout out for the Doctor. It's a familiar enough shout, one she's been guilty of many times in the past.

Still, it's Martha's clothes that are really getting to her. The fact that she looks like she's from James' time and that means she's after her and --

"The Doctor?" Sarah finally forces herself to ask. "You're looking for the Doctor, aren't you?"

[notadoctoryet.livejournal.com]

Martha's too busy with the 'where the hell am I and where's the Doctor?' thing to much notice the staring, but the question certainly gets her attention.

"Um yeah that's right," she confirms, the question only making her even more confused, because a) she could have been looking for anyone and b) how can someone else here know the Doctor. "He promised me a trip in his Tardis then I end up here, apparently without him. You're not Rose are you?"

[his-sarah-jane.livejournal.com]

"No, I'm not," Sarah answers, perhaps a tad too defensive. The Doctor, well the one here, hasn't ever mentioned Rose (that the mun can remember), but enough other people have.

She takes a step forward, offering a hand in greeting. "I'm Sarah Jane Smith. I travel with the Doctor."

[notadoctoryet.livejournal.com]

Funnily enough Martha's starting to know that feeling already.

"Right sorry, I thought with you knowing the Doctor..." she says sheepishly.

"Martha Jones," she replies shaking the offered hand, "I was meant to be traveling with him too, only I ended up here instead and there's no sign of him now. He told me he wasn't traveling with anyone anymore."

[his-sarah-jane.livejournal.com]

"He didn't tell me that," Sarah answers with a glance towards the back door. Then again, aside from James, they hadn't really discussed anything of significance last time she had seen him. "He shouldn't be. It's not like him at all."

There's worry in her eyes, and she glances back at the door again. Despite everything, there's a part of her that always wants to be there for the Doctor.

Still. "Were you in the TARDIS when you wound up here? Because that happens to me most of the time. There's a door in there, at least for me, and it winds up here even if it probably shouldn't."

[notadoctoryet.livejournal.com]

"Well if you were traveling with him he wouldn't would he?" she points out, "and he shouldn't be what? Sorry I'm missing something aren't I? I haven't known him for very long."

"Is something wrong?" she asks, noticing the glances.

"Yeah I was, he promised my one trip for saving his life I opened the door and here I was. I hope he's not going to count this as that trip, I mean when you're expected the whole of time and space a bar's a bit of a disappointment you know? Even if it is impressive."

[his-sarah-jane.livejournal.com]

Sarah can't help but glare at Martha's first comment. "Sometimes I don't think we get much choice in the matter, you see. If it was up to me, I'd travel with him for the rest of my life. But that's not going to happen. The regeneration here has hinted to as much."

But she can't imagine it would be her choice. Oh, alright, maybe it would be. After all, James and a normal life and just for once not getting covered in some sort of alien goo... But he's her best friend. She'd never leave the Doctor alone like that.

"Anyway, Milliways is much more than impressive. If you really do want all of time and space, well, you have it right here."

[notadoctoryet.livejournal.com]

Martha shrugs, "well I'm only get one trip anyway so that's not really much of an issue. I have my medical exams anyway, I want to be a doctor, so traveling with him isn't all that high on my list of priorities to be honest. Sorry the what now?" she questions.

"I was on the moon before I came here, it just seems a bit wierd waiting for the whole of time and space to come to you, I mean the moon was so beautiful, standing up there it wouldn't have been the same just to meet someone from there, you don't get the whole experience."

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

"Would y'all calm down? I swear the kongs won't go away. Y'all get some." Says a somewhat exasperated and harried smallish brunette in a much-bepatched black leather coat, to a small pack of dogs. One is a doberman with very floppy ears, and the other two are monstrously fluffy puppies (they must be puppies - look at those paws!), and all three are swarming around the woman's feet in search of treats.

Ace fails at keeping order.

"Geeze, greedyguts, you'd think we never feed you lot."

(ooc: Yay Martha! I meant to tag earlier, but the computer had an small crisis)

[notadoctoryet.livejournal.com]

Martha looks down at her feet torn between how cute the dogs are and the slight worry that they might drool all over her boots.

"What's a kong?" she asks looking up at the woman, "and all of these yours? I didn't they allowed dogs in bars, health and safety and all that. Um not that it bothers me!" she adds quickly.

((not a problem, not toally sure how long I'll be around for, but slowtime is our friend))

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

Ace blinks at the stranger, caught a little off balance.

"Oh, you must be new." She concludes, since dogs in a bar is hardly the great health concern around here.

That'd be the curry, yes.

"Magic, take Rasia an' Stepan outside, would you? No mud puddles!" She calls after the three retreating dogs. It's probably a vain order - Magic is magnetically attracted to puddles, Ace suspects.
"So, new then?"

[notadoctoryet.livejournal.com]

She nods as she watches the dogs leave. "Yeah I just sort of um ended up here, I was meant to be going a trip with a friend, opened the door and well here I am. Are most people here regulars then?" she asks, feeling slightly out of place and very much wishing the Doctor would show up.

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

Ace can sympathize. Well. She could if she knew. It's been a long time since she's been new here.
"That's how it goes. A lot of folk are regulars, but new people show up all the time. This is Milliways, a pub built right at the end of the universe. It connects t'all multiverses, so y'never really know who's goin' t'show up next."

Ace believes in the 'sink or swim' theory of life.

"I'm Ace, resident British pyro, among other things."

[notadoctoryet.livejournal.com]

"A pub at the end of the universe, sounds like somewhere the Doctor would take me to, well I think it does, I've not really known him that long but from the things he's said..." she trails off.

"Martha, I'm a medical student in London, pleased to meet you. Do you always introduce yourself as a pyro? I mean doesn't that get you in trouble?"

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

Ace would answer the pyro bit, but she got distracted.

The Doctor, Martha has to admit, is very good at causing distraction, even when he isn't there.
"The Doctor? F'serious? I am behind the times, I thought Rose was still with him. Unless you're from an earlier version... what does he look like?"

[notadoctoryet.livejournal.com]

Oh she understands completely, the Doctor is a very special man.

She nods and smiles in a dreamy way, until the mention of Rose at least, the Doctor mentioned her in a way she didn't like very much. "No, he was with her. I'm not sure what happened he didn't say, but he isn't with her now. Neither I am really, it's just one trip he said, so I was hoping for somewhere a but more exciting that a bar even if it is at the end of the universe. But to answer your question he's got short brown hair, wears converses, quite cute. Wait sorry an earlier version?"