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"I need a break from the Wastelands so I'm going to stick around for a bit. So if anyone happens to need a detective..."
Nick is a rather somber sounding mechanical man with a trilby hat, battered trench coat, and pants. He has a slender cigarette dangling from his skeletal fingers. Nick is standing under a street lamp, and he grumbles under his breath.
"I need to ask a question, okay, I'll ask a question. What do you do when you thought someone you knew turns out to be a complete lie?"
The somberness is gone, and Nick sounds angry very angry. "I've tried to reason with them, but he has decided to show his true colors." The old robot detective rocks back on the battered souls of his shoes, as he lifts his cigarette up to his lips to take a puff as if it will literally calm his gears.
Nick is a rather somber sounding mechanical man with a trilby hat, battered trench coat, and pants. He has a slender cigarette dangling from his skeletal fingers. Nick is standing under a street lamp, and he grumbles under his breath.
"I need to ask a question, okay, I'll ask a question. What do you do when you thought someone you knew turns out to be a complete lie?"
The somberness is gone, and Nick sounds angry very angry. "I've tried to reason with them, but he has decided to show his true colors." The old robot detective rocks back on the battered souls of his shoes, as he lifts his cigarette up to his lips to take a puff as if it will literally calm his gears.
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He pulls a face at the question, because maybe he misheard it.
"What do you mean they turned out to be a complete lie? Everyone hides themselves a little when they first meet new people."
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"When you seem to have a good head planted on your shoulder, only to show that isn't who you are. Though perhaps I ought to be less vague. A good friend of mine decided to go raider. And being a raider means pillaging and killing lots of innocent people."
His eyes look away from The Doctor, and they move to look down towards the ground at Nick's feet. "I know he went through a lot prior to us meeting, but I never expected to see him turn on all of the people who looked up to him."
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It was billions of years ago for him. And now, well, 'state of grace', but anyone's guess how long that might last. The Doctor listens to the story. It's a familiar one, sadly.
"Personally, I would wonder which is the lie. Is it the current behaviour or the first one."
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Lower his hand back down to his side, Nick purses his lips. "Current. All was fine, or I wouldn't have helped him out when we first met. I know my friend has been through a lot since we first met, and maybe more than most whom I've worked with before. That or the whole cryogenic freezing thing did a number on him."
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The Doctor hums in consideration now that he has more of the story.
"Then, is there some reason why you can't help him find his way back?"
Seems like the simplest thing. Of course, he had been doing that with Missy recently, so maybe it's all projecting.
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Nick looks down to study his battered feet. "And I know just as well as anyone that The Commonwealth has teeth, and if you're not strong enough she'll sink them into anyone simply for the sake of survival."
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At least to the Doctor. But, the more he changes the more he stays the same.
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"That there is the problem. How do you help someone who doesn't want to be helped? I tried to talk some sense into him, but he decided attacking a settlement full of settlers he originally was a better idea."
Then it dawns on him, and another sigh escapes him. "I think we could have done more to make sure he was in the right place and mind before putting on such a huge responsibility on his shoulders. Especially after all he was going through. But he didn't seem to mind, sure, there was a little sarcasm but there was no harm in it."
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He goes quiet for a minute.
"He wouldn't be here, would he?"
The Doctor could talk to him. He's not good for much else these days, it seems.
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Nick still sounds as if he couldn't believe what he saw. "And for the sake of this place, I think it is good that he doesn't. But I can't believe it. Here I thought we were going to check on one of the settlements he helped start, only to see him kill anyone in sight with his new friends. I tried to put a stop to it, but there was just too many of them. And all I know is he's operating in some old amusement park on the outskirts of The Commonwealth."
"If only I understood what drives humans to think the way that they do."
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"You're talking to the wrong person if you want to know that. I mostly travel with humans because they understand things I never could."
He's not being entirely honest. It's not quite false modesty, it's more than he's aware there are some things that he will never understand about humans.
"So he's found a new group to hang with. And they approve of his new behaviour...." He trails off in thought. "Nothing for it, use this place and this time to regroup yourself. Rest. Nothing you can do about him here, unless he shows up. But taking care of yourself? That should be done."
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Then it is back to his old friend, Nick folds his arms against his chest, and he nods his head. "That was part of my plans when I came here. I can't stick around for long, because I still got some cases that need my attention."
"And so long as things are frozen back there, I'll be able to like you said, look after Nick."
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"I'm not sure it's so much things are frozen back there. More we're taken out of time from there, dropped here and then put back at the same time. They don't notice the passage of time, even if we do."
He's not yet ready to show what he means. The state of grace of his regeneration that he's currently in is a blessing and a curse in equal measures.
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Nick sounds relieved, very relieved that he'll going back home to the same amount of work as before.
"So what's been up with you, Doctor? It's been quite sometime since we met."
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Well, maybe? He doesn't remember if they met before or after his experience in his Confession Dial, but even then, between Darillium and the time he spent guarding the Vault, it's still been awhile.
Obviously not something he's keen to talk about.
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Nick tries to keep up some form of conversation. And the fact the two of them are meeting on better terms, he figures there is no problem in being sociable.
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“None at all. My life continues to be a funny old thing. “
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“For the first time in a long while, no. Everything is fine.”
Well, no. He can feel the regeneration energy just under the surface, but it’s easier to hide.
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"That's good to hear. I never like it when these old joints of mine feel like they're held together with brass screws."
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"That reminds me of a friend of mine... His name was Nardole. Cut him out of a robot and glued his head back onto a body."
More complex than that, of course. But then, everything is with the Doctor.
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"Why would you remove his head?! I'm sure there was nothing wrong with the original body!"
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"Didn't look like it to me, but the Robot cut his head off and took it anyway. When the robot started to malfunction and die, I thought it was better to give him a body back."
Really, he's not explaining this well at all. Oops.
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"Couldn't you have repaired the robot body? I mean if you can attach the head to another body, you should have the knowledge on fixing whatever was wrong with the rest of him."
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It’s not like the Doctor didn’t have permission. What do you take home for?
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