+1 Doctor

[not_the_question]

The Doctor arrives in the Nexus.  And he's not sure how he got here.  Not that it matters.  He has no TARDIS and no memories of Clara.  All he has are the clothes on his back, his sonic specks, and his trusty guitar.  Okay, he has a little rucksack filled with a change of clothes and other odds and ends that he's collected on his quest.

He looks around and this place looks... rather American, considering.  Of course, everything looked American to him these days, he's spent far too long in the States looking first for the TARDIS and then for Clara.  He so far has been unsuccessful at both.

"Excuse me, has anyone seen someone called Clara?"




{{OOC: The Doctor's Canonpoint will be in flux until I figure out which one is best for this setting.  I'll make it clear in his threads.}}

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[synthdetective]

"Or when the people who put me together didn't think I'd be running for two hundred years." Nick points a finger at his head with a metal finger. "Yeah, I've seen what happens to people when they start to age. Heh. And I have to wonder if people think the same when they see this old mug walking around The Nexus."

Treating someone just because they come from another planet with awe, suspicion, and fear is something Nick is all too familiar with.


"But would you know her if you saw her?" Nick asks. "Because if you don't that might be a problem, and you may have passed her without even realizing it."

[not_the_question]

"Two hundred? Impressive. How do you keep yourself running?"

Because, well the Doctor likes to tinker. And if he can learn a thing or two, all the better.

A very faint smile appears.

"There's one thing I know about her. Just one thing. If I met her again, I would absolutely know."

Doesn't mean he'd admit it. Because sometimes that makes goodbyes harder, but he would know.

[synthdetective]

"The key for my success is to try and not to get myself in over my head." Nick can't help but to laugh at himself. "But that's not always the case. But either, I'll do some self repairs or find someone who I can trust to help."

He looks at The Doctor and then he looks down to the ground with a long look on his face. "It isn't like I can exactly go back to the people who put me together and ask for a tune-up every time I get dinged up."

[not_the_question]

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"Not as long-lived as you?"

Or maybe the planet died, or maybe they were all killed. Many options, but the Doctor is trying.

[synthdetective]

"There's that and I don't exactly think they would be receptive to me coming back." Nick knows his 'friend' sold-out everyone to the damned Institute and even with his so called friend-running things, Nick won't go back there if his life depended on it.

And he looks up to The Doctor. "The people who built me aren't exactly warm and friendly. And I know this from having to spend time working on cases where people were abducted by them." And he mutters something about a filing cabinet of cases that are still open.

And a dead planet would be somewhat close to Nick's home. "What about you? Couldn't your own people help you and your friend?"

[not_the_question]

The Doctor smirked a little.

"Let's just say, the relationship you have with your people is similar to the one I have with mine."

He supposes at least he has people now, but sometimes he wonders why he ever saved them.

"Besides, it was their fault that she died and I had to save her to begin with. If I go to them for help, they will just put her back to the moment of her death."

Which would defeat the whole point of saving her.

[synthdetective]

"Do you now? I'm a bit of a one of a kind when it comes to 'my' people. And the people working the Institute are human. And I never had a chance to develop much of a relationship with them, and perhaps that is a good thing that I hadn't." It is moments like these that he's grateful for his 'brother' freeing him.

But still he thinks he can relate to The Doctor, and he frowns when he hears mention of his people being responsible for the death of his friend. "Good enough reason to avoid them. And maybe you will run into her here. Because this is the perfect place to be if you're looking to hide from people who might want you dead."

[not_the_question]

"There is always hope."

Except for himself. He never quite worked out how to offer so much hope to everyone else, when he himself doesn't have near as much as he pretends to.

"Homo sapiens are a good species. They get a little misguided sometimes, but they're still young. Time Lords, have no excuse. We're the oldest race in the universe."

Yes, he's still connected to them. Still claims the title.

[synthdetective]

"Maybe there is, and that's why I'm willing to still call The Commonwealth home."

Nick still is going to hold on to hope for his friend to make a change, but he saw him become a different man from the one he met. A man who saw him and others like him as objects. "Humans are good, but if I were to show you the world they now call home. But that doesn't mean that all of them are horrible, and not capable of change."

"And there needs to be people to help those who are just trying to survive."

[not_the_question]

The Doctor nods, because, Nick clearly understands.

"A majority of humans are decent enough. Unfortunately, those are usually the quiet ones, being oppressed, rather than those in power."

It's just the way it is sometimes.

"Well... I do what I can. I don't always succeed, but I try."