[Locked to 11, Rory, River, 12]

[im_with_stupid]

"I messed up. Again. I shouldn't be allowed anywhere near him, I'm just going to keep hurting him."

[She looked a wreck.]

"The person I want to hurt.... Kovarian is here. I've seen her. And I am going to make sure she never hurts any of us again. River, I owe you two guns."

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[spacepeterpan]

[FFS Amy why do you have to be difficult when he's making a point.]

Eyes on her, step inside, tell me what you see, go on.

[Three easy steps, he knows you can do it.]

[im_with_stupid]

[It is a measure of how much she loves and trusts him that he'd hear her stumbling back. The phone would get pressed between her shoulder and ear, eyes still on Kovarian, gun still raised, as her now free hand fumbled for her keys. She opened the door then frowned.]

"No good, Doctor, if I step back I'll lose sight of her."

Because of the door frame itself.

[spacepeterpan]

[Of course.]

...right... all right, you said she's on a rooftop, what's she doing right now?

[im_with_stupid]

"Sitting. Smirking at me and..." [A moment, then her voice somehow manages to get even more ticked off.]

"She. Just. Waved."

[spacepeterpan]

...sitting, brilliant, quick as you like, inside to the nearest window you could see her from, she's not that fast, on her own she's just a cross lady with a vendetta and wrinkles, you should be able to make it before she can get out of sight, if she's really there.

[im_with_stupid]

"........................... You better be right about this... Doctor...." [she said, trying to figure out which window would be the best.]

[spacepeterpan]

That she's not that quick, yeah, not a doubt about it.

[im_with_stupid]

[A rude sound. then she figured out which window was best.] "hold on, going to have to put down the phone to move fast enough," [she warned.]

[spacepeterpan]

[Just the briefest pause; there wasn't a better way to be sure, to make her sure, and he doesn't want to make her think he's doubting it. Really, his main concern's that it might be harder for her to stay on task without him Jiminy Cricketing at her shoulder.]

...all right, I'll be here when you can get to it again.

[im_with_stupid]

She nodded, not that he could see it, and bent carefully, eyes still on Kovarian, to set the phone on the ground. She stood, glaring, then RAN for the window and looked out. There was the muffled sound of Amy muttering at herself before she came back to the phone, and cried out.]

"You're right, she was gone, but she's back now. And she's holding a baby, Doctor..."

[spacepeterpan]

Whot- ...Amy, you're outside, again?

[He pauses just a tick.]

...it's showing you the thing you want most not to see, or at least, the thing that's easiest to shove into a shape and have it follow you about trying to hurt you... you remember the psychic pollen, yeah? The Dream Lord, just after Rory came along with us?

[im_with_stupid]

"Of course I remember that... It wasn't really it wasn't...." [Oh this was going to stink.]

"I have to let her kill me, then?" [she asked, striding forward, phone between shoulder and ear again, gun still raised.] "Mind if I take her down with me, then?"

[WRONG LESSON, AMY! ABORT! ABORT!]

[spacepeterpan]

Whot, no, of course not, are you listening?!

[That might have struck a chord, there... ...or he's just getting impatient.]

No, that was a dream, this's a projection, but it's malicious like the Dream Lord, so it shows you the thing you want the most not to see, and tries to hurt you with it. I get a Dalek, it doesn't need to be clever, it's got a gun built in, and anyway, it's a Dalek.

[Because he can't resist throwing in a burn against the Daleks as a matter of principle.]

You get Madame Sourpuss, but what's she going to do to hurt you without a plan and a small army, be snide? No, if she's going to hurt you, she's got to do it by luring you into a trap, why d'you think she's on rooftops? She'd probably try to get you to climb in the oven, too, given the chance.

[im_with_stupid]

"You can't be serious that I should just... just ignore her then. Doctor, she might be an illusion, but something's behind it, something that just ticked off the wrong redhead."

[spacepeterpan]

Yes, good, and your plan's, what, to give it what it wants?

[Just a brief pause.]

You don't ignore her, you avoid her while you're in Attleton, and if you haven't got a reason to be, you either stay indoors or get out of there, either way she doesn't exist, which means you can't really ignore her then either, if you think about it, and did I mention the candy houses?

[i.e. there's plenty going on elsewhere that probably isn't going to try and get you to hurt yourself.]

[im_with_stupid]

"Fine... I'm coming. But we need to get Rory and River out safely too. They're at least as headstrong as I am..." [she backed into the house to write them a note.] "Well... River is."

[spacepeterpan]

Oh, you'd noticed.

[He kind of blames you a bit for that, Amy.]

River's... ...clever, I've got every confidence that she can handle it, and Rory, well, Rory the Roman, make sure he knows you're okay and he's got nothing to be afraid of.

[im_with_stupid]

"I left them a note. I'd tattoo it on his stupid face or just take him with me, but he's at work."

[spacepeterpan]

That'll do. Come along, then, Pond, best you get out of there before she starts miming.

[im_with_stupid]

"You say it like she could do anything worse than she's already doing," [she muttered. She closed and locked the door one handed, the other hand holding the gun, phone still on her shoulder. Just in case, she wasn't putting down that gun for a good long while. She was even walking sideways to keep Kovarian in her sights.]

[spacepeterpan]

I'll be just inside Everglade, got my fez, y'can't miss me.

[He had his priorities straight while packing to be out of the house for awhile, after all.]

[im_with_stupid]

"Of course you do..." [she muttered, still keeping Kovarian in her sights as she walked.]

[spacepeterpan]

Yeah, well, that's how you'll know it's me, I'll be the cool one.

[im_with_stupid]

"I didn't realize Everglade was a whole alternate reality." [Snarking at him, even in this circumstance.]

[spacepeterpan]

Cute, but bow ties are cool in ev'ry universe.

Not replying to the other until 12 and River get a chance.

[im_with_stupid]

"Ah, still delusional then..." [A glance at Kovarian, who seemed to have jumped, because she was on a different roof now.] "And apparently not the only one either..."