The Park/TARDIS, Late Wednesday Night

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Vala had snuck out of the dorms as soon as she realized she might hold the key to fixing Jack's memory problem. She had considered waking him up -- after all, she knew where he was sleeping -- but that seemed premature.

Trudging alone across the park, she walked right up to the big blue box (that definitely didn't look like it had room to house one person, let alone five or six!) and knocked on the door. Hard.

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Stomping out of the living room where she left Billy Mays hollering about the wonder of Shaazzam, the new all purpose cleaner, she grabs the door and yanks it open. Wearing only an extra large man's t shirt and carrying a liter bottle of wine that's more than half gone, she lists only a little.

"Vala...you came."

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Vala frowns. She'd really hoped to not meet up with professor Cregg again. "Hi," she says shortly, "is The Doctor in?"

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Gesturing vaguely to the cavernous interior with a photograph in her hand, she steps back from the door. "Someplace, yeah. He's sick. C'mon in." She tips the bottle up, swallowing like it was water. "Jack's not here though. Just me, and Ten. No Jack anymore."

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Vala steps in cautiously. Damn! Much bigger on the inside than it was on the outside! "Yeah, I know," she said absently, looking around. "He's got my old dorm room now."

The Professor was clearly drunk, but if The Doctor is sick, somewhere in... just how big was this place anyway?!?....

Vala dithered for a moment, then decided she'd have to take what she could get, for Jack's sake.

"Look, I finally figured out what you were having a hissy talking about earlier. The Doctor thinks he can use the time-thingy they gave me to find a way to fix Jack?"

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"They gave you one? For keeps? That's handy...did I know that?" she wanders back through the control room and down a corridor. "C'mon punkin. Let's go find the guy who knows." She sets the bottle down on the floor, still clutching the photo.



((ten mun's crashed out, SP or do you want a drunken tour? ))

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"Uh, that's o.k." Vala wasn't sure someone who knew how to use the device for anything sounded very safe to her at this hour of the night, and Cam would freak if he woke up without her. Damn! Why didn't I think to leave him a note?

"I'll just leave it here," she set the Victoria's Secret box down on what looked more-or-less like a table-like-thing..., "And you be sure he gets it."

She took another look at the Speech Professor. "And I suggest you not take it out and look at it or tonight or anything, because I think it's pretty easy to set off."

Stepping back toward the door, she gave a bright fake smile. "So, see that The Doctor gets it, and I hope he's not too sick, and if he needs to know what they told me about it -- which wasn't much! -- he can call me. He's, uh, got my cell number.

"And I really hope you guys can help Jack. He's too nice a guy to be stuck like this."


((I figured. Nah, Vala trusts at least that CJ will deliver it... when she sobers up.))

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"Sure thing kiddo. No peeking, give it to Ten. Fix Jack. Can do. fire bad, tree pretty Sorry about crushing your cookies earlier." she says absently as she stares at the picture of Jack, smiling back at her.


[[toldja so...not coping well at all]]

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"Great," Vala says, nodding slowly. "You do that, I'll just go back to bed."

With a little wave she ran walked briskly out of the box, heading back for the dorms and the nice, non-drunk psycho-teacher, non-weird time-spell, warm bed Cam was waiting for her in.

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[[Vala may be my new favorite character ever! TY!]]