welcome, new visitors

[modconcierge]

There isn't much fanfare for the new crop of visitors who have come in this month, but what they encounter is quite wondrous. Is it a cruise ship? Is it a hotel? Is it a tiny planet? No one can give them a straight answer, but all are encouraged to take part in the buffet, where visitors may find an assortment of foods both familiar and unfamiliar to them. There is an open mic night happening in one of the lounges on site, featuring staff and visitor performances. Or there are a handful of shops to browse if you're amenable to trading.

Visitors will find that the Hotel Multiverse at the Edge of the Cosmos between Canons (its official name) is very much alive beyond the bustling crowd. In fact, it might just be listening to you and anticipating your needs.

As for the rest? Well, that's up to you. You may as well socialize, right?

Comments

[familyalien]

[He loves how Rose is still Rose regardless. He should ask how Meta Crisis but really doesn't care. He was young and dumb and pushed everyone away that day. Even Jack. Only to go off and snog other people he didn't love. He wanted someone like River; expect she wasn't forever like he had thought. He should snog her. He really should. He knows Mulder would want them too. Gently he tilts her head up at his.]

Same face again. Been a very long time, Rose Tyler.

[Then slowly presses his lips against hers.]

[bigbadrose]

[But he doesn't care! Oh Doctor.]

[Before she can respond to his comment she's getting kissed, and her eyes widen at first, a little -- no, very surprised, but there's an overenthusiastic kiss right back as if she's been holding back billions of years of longing instead of maybe five minutes or whatever since he last saw her and Meta Crisis off. She's not going to make it easy for him to figure out what she's thinking for once!]

[She is going to make it very hard for him to escape this kiss too, if she was a koala before, she's in full Bad Wolf mode holding him close!]

[familyalien]

[Her enthusiasm is matched with his own. Rose isn't going anywhere, even after they slowly part. The Doctor feels his hearts racing. Been awhile since he's felt that after a kiss.]
Hope I wasn't out of practice.
[He teases about himself and replies in a high pitch squeaky voice]

[bigbadrose]

[A small giggle, and she kisses him again, with a very small light bite!]

Better if you were. [Ooops. Some of her jealousy showing. She's fine... ish.]

[familyalien]

[He probably shouldn't mention how he's snogged everyone but her. However, he got a memory in his brain. A time as his Tenth self when somewhere and when they were kissing. Another nexus.]

I'm with Donna and her family now. Found myself settling.

[bigbadrose]

Really? [It makes sense, but it's also like... there's something missing. A lot missing. The HOW he got there. Her eyes narrow. He's trying to make it easier for her, her time point, but that isn't honesty. She just grabs his face with both hands.]

How. Don't hold back. Don't try to protect me, every time you do, that's how I get hurt. I believe you, but there's something -- a lot of something that happened first.

[How important is it to her to know? Very. But if he wants to hold back she'll keep it on a back burner. Who knows how long.]

[And she chews her bottom lip because... it's not like she's not holding secrets close to her chest. But he kissed her first, even after seeing his human double do so and trying to push her away. She drops the hands and takes his hands in hers and gives them a small squeeze.]

[familyalien]

[The Doctor is silent and his eyes are terribly old. Billions of years old]

Because I finally realized why I fought in all those wars.

Thar's a lot of something that happened, Rose Tyler. And I could be here all day telling you about it because I went though four faces.

[The Doctor smiles softly at the hand squeeze; better with two echoes in his head. That was a really long time ago. Back when they first met in that daft big ear face.]

[bigbadrose]

[She shivers. Yes, that's definitely... a lot. But she's so happy he told her, no running away verbally or mentally or emotionally, and she loves the way he says her name, and she just... snuggles into his chest with a giant glomp not letting go again!!!]

I'll be here listening.

[She's sad and happy for him all at once. And it's not much she can do, but she is there, so she will be there for him.]

[familyalien]

The an old enemy was able to cross into my reality. He calls himself The ToyMaker. He can bend reality to his will. He turned someone into a puppet for losing his game and created a maze for me and Donna to walk though.

We played a game - and he zapped me... and I bi-regenerated. Another me came out of me, so I didn't change my face. Then we played another game- The Ball. And he lost and got locked up for the rest of eternity.

I suppose I just realized after everything I've lost... I really liked being with Donna and her family and not having to fight.

It's been nothing but adventures for four regenerations, Rose.

[bigbadrose]

[She didn't know what she was expecting... but her head hurts.]

[A beat.]

[Okay. Let's think...]

So you're another Meta-like???? [Hand through her hair. Explains it and also... what?] And there's another - other Doctor also? [Closes eyes. Okay. So Donna is like... some sort of special key to cloning/splintering the Doctor... APPARENTLY.]

Two hearts? [She just places a hand over his chest!]

Hah! Good. [She DOES click her teeth shut so she doesn't admit the "Wish I'd been there to see them." He knows. She knows he knows. He might even know she knows he knows. That's too much and not enough.] Can't say the same, it's not been that long for me... I... [A small tremble. She doesn't know what she wants to say. She'll have to think on it, and the worst part is, she doesn't want to. She just hugs him instead and holds him hard.] You fight to do what's right, you travel to see the universe, and going back to the ones who love you is home, yeah? [Ahhhhhh it's agony. She's blinking away tears and can't look up, just looking at his shoes, face buried in his chest still. The ones who love you. Family. It's all pain. She loves it, but it's pain. He pushed her towards them for her sake, but she'd already chosen to be with him and --]

[She is going to cry so VERY MUCH later.] Sounds like you finally found home. [Or now whatever.]

[familyalien]

Yes, there's another Doctor. He came out of me. Like we splintered. Yes, I still have two hearts.

[The Doctor returns the hugging he doesn't want to let go of her either.]

Yeah. That's home. [The Doctor states in a loud whisper and tearful looking eyes and slightly squeaky voice]

[bigbadrose]

[Okay. Rose makes a decision, shoving emotions back under her bed to ignore until later!]

[She looks back up, kisses him again, and when she finally finally breaks it off:] Run away with me anyway.

[Homes are overrated.]

[familyalien]

[The Doctor smiles] Rose Tyler... You're a bad influence. [He teases]

[bigbadrose]

I learned from the best.

[familyalien]

Well - right now. I want to explore this hotel.

[bigbadrose]

Me too. [Swings his hand in hers.] You know they have little shops?

[familyalien]

[The Doctor beams] No, I didn't blimey this hotel is more than what it seems.

[bigbadrose]

It'd have to be for us to both be here and nothing exploding yet. [Wink!]

[familyalien]

This place exists in a state of chaos, this Nexus.

[bigbadrose]

Makes sense. So what does that mean for the people here? Not just us.

[familyalien]

That anyone from any when from any universe can end up here.

[bigbadrose]

[Wry grin, though she's underestimating the meaning of that:] I gathered. I mean prospects. I think.

[familyalien]

No wonder the Tardis isn't happy being here but there's also Atron energy for re-charging.

[bigbadrose]

[Hand over heart.] She's alive though. Is she freaking out as much as the blackhole? [Unlike Pete's universe, where she DIES... ish.]

[familyalien]

It's not a blackhole; it's a rift, an infinite rift.