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When; 9/28
Rating; PG?
Characters; Reeve Tuesti

urbandev & Rose Tyler

hisplusone
Summary; Coffee and gossip!
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Reeve waited at one of the outdoor tables on the sidewalk outside Pandora. OK, so he was biased. She hadn't expressed a preference, and this was his favorite place to get coffee in the city. Yes, it was fancy, and fine, he couldn't really afford it right now, but that was a problem for another day. Besides, here he'd always met Amanda for their strategy sessions, and he had a good feeling about Rose. She reminded him of his friends who'd left already. He quashed the thought, "had left him behind." They'd gone, whether they had any choice in the matter. He was still here. Maybe Rose would seek escape as eagerly as he did.

Really! A machine that allowed you to travel through time and dimensions? The possibilities were incredible, and it seemed the perfect thing to get him out of here -- to get everyone out of here. He was already scheming; with Rose's help maybe he could pick up where Amanda'd left off, maybe start working on Cait again...

It was good to have something to work for again.

He scanned the street before him, idly watching the passers-by and sipping his coffee, waiting for the lady to arrive.

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The blonde made her way towards Pandora’s walking calmly with her hands in her jacket pockets. She really hadn’t been to the establishment in quite some time, at least not since her arrival back in the City but at least the route was familiar enough. There was no getting lost for her. She started to think about all the things she could tell Reeve. All the different planets and places and about the TARDIS, of course. She had briefly mentioned it over the network but it was much better to discuss things in person. Maybe she could even show him, though she would need access again. She frowned for a second as she turned a corner. But surely the Doctor would give her access. She just needed to see him again and explain things. That was going to be one hell of a conversation when the time came. Hopefully he wasn't getting into too much trouble.

Soon, the building came into view and she looked around at the outside tables for some sign of her new and interesting friend. Seeing a table with just one man in it, she slowly approached and gave him a small smile.

"Reeve, yeah?"

He stood as she approached, smiling as well. "Rose. It's a pleasure to meet you." He offered her a hand. "In person, at least."

He gestured to the table, which had plenty of room to sit as well as a great view of the paths outside the gates. "Have a seat. Would you like anything? I took the liberty of getting a carafe of coffee, but that won't be a problem to finish off, if you don't want any." He smiled a little sheepishly. Addiction was a terrible thing.

Rose withdrew both hands from her pockets and extended one towards his to shake it with her smile intact. "It’s nice to meet you as well. I know at long last!" She said her last statement coming with a slight laugh. Usually people tended to disappear in the City but she had met a lot of nice and interesting people so far. Hopefully Reeve wouldn’t be disappearing anytime soon as he seemed like the nice and interesting sort.

Letting go of his hand, the blonde pulled back a seat across from him and sat down. "Thank you. Um," she bit her lip debating between coffee and tea. Usually she’d have coffee first thing in the morning though lately tea was starting to become a habit again.

"It’s fine. I’ll just order a coffee." She said looking around and then flagging down a waitress. She gave her the order and then looked at Reeve.

"Would you like anything else?"

He returned the handshake warmly, although he'd cringe a little if he could hear her thoughts. If Reeve had his way, he'd be out of this place at the first opportunity. Not that he wanted to abandon Rose or anyone else here.

Coffee on a schedule? No such thing! Coffee should be had with every meal, as well as in between. As a snack. Back home, Reeve had his office staff set up to bring him coffee every hour, on the hour. And by "office staff," he meant Yuffie. But the concept was the same.

"There's an extra mug and plenty to share, if you'd like," he offered. "I really shouldn't drink it all myself." Not that there was anyone he'd be keeping up, anymore, but on principle. He knew what she'd say, if she were here.

[...He'll stop thinking about Yuffie. I promise. *shifty eyes*]

In the City coffee for Rose was just on some mornings and maybe on some nights just before work. Back home it was entirely different since she lived off the stuff with the hopes of finishing that dimension canon faster. Not that it had really worked in the end. It had been a complete accident one day.

“Sure, that’d be fine,” she replied with a grin a bit surprised by his offer but not one to decline it. She canceled her coffee and ordered some scones instead. She wasn’t sure if Reeve had ever had scones before since food tended to vary from planet to planet from her experiences but hopefully he’d like it.

She leaned back in her chair completely relaxed, pondering her first question.

"So, I suppose I could tell you all about the TARDIS, but first can you tell me a bit more about your planet?" She asked, always one to be very curious about things, especially when it came to other worlds. She wondered if the Doctor had heard of such a place. She'd have to ask him about it sometime. Or maybe even John.

As soon as she accepted, Reeve turned over the other cup and filled it from the pot. It was true, they had plenty of coffee and could always get refills. No reason not to share. He passed the mug to her, leaving the cream and sugar for her to add herself. If she wanted to pollute her perfectly good coffee.

"I'd love to hear about the TARDIS," he said earnestly. "It sounds like a remarkable machine. But I'm always willing to talk about home, as well," he smiled a little sadly. He wanted to go back so badly. "What exactly would you like to know?"

[Teeheeee. Grill away!]

The blonde took the mug but didn’t quite bring it to her lips. "Thank you," she said with a smile before she started to talk about the old blue wooden police box that she once called home.

“"It’s pretty amazing,” she said recalling the ship fondly. “It has all sorts of rooms. Almost like a maze. You can get pretty lost in it sometimes." She warned, remembering several times when she had gotten lost. "Oh and she’s telepathic!" She added missing Reeve’s sad smile. There had been a time once when she believed that the blue ship could actually take her home, to her proper home. Now however she knew that, that was impossible.

She paused for a moment to bring the mug to her lips, taking a small sip of the coffee. It was actually good, not that she had expected it to be bad really. "Well anything else that you’d like to tell me. Do you have any flying zeppelins? How did you and your girlfriend meet?"

"Wait, wait," he backtracked. "She? Telepathic? Your ship was sentient?" Boggle! "That's remarkable. I've only heard of one sentient machine before." he edited mentioning that it was the one he'd built. "Do you know how they developed the AI? Real telepathy, or did you just have to plug in --" He was babbling now, and he realized it, burying his nose in his coffee.

"Sorry. We had zeppelins, but they were out of favor... Airships, though. Like zeppelins, only without the blimps. They're held aloft by motors and propellers."

He avoided the question of Yuffie. Because how did you explain, 'I was dressed like a cat working as a double agent and she was stealing my materia.

[It happens, no worries.]

"She is!" she replied with a wide grin not minding the ramble. It reminded her of the Doctor. "And once you’re inside or close to her, she can translate any known language! Like this one time me and my mate were on this ship and came across this time window thing and the other person was speaking French but it was all in English and then there was..." her voice trailed off as she recalled the only time that the TARDIS didn’t translate back on that base. "Um, anyway. She’s not really my ship. She’s the Doctor’s ship. They grow it, I think. It’s an alien thing. Gallifreyan." And now she was the one rambling on and on. She gave a small laugh, "Sorry about that. I sounded just like him for a second."

She shook her head and focused on the coffee, taking another sip before continuing. It was interesting hearing about the airships. "Ah, I’ve actually encountered a few of those during my travels. Good way to get around."

"So you and your girlfriend. Out with it. I bet it must have been interesting, yeah?" There was a smile that played on her lips at the question. "I’ll tell you how I met the Doctor." She offered, thinking that perhaps he’d find it interesting.

"I'd rather talk about your ship," he muttered. "There's... a lot you have to understand about our world before our relationship makes sense." He smiled a little, playing with his mug. He doubted she'd be very deterred, so he continued, "Gaia -- my home -- had no nations or countries. They'd all been united under the banner of a company, an arms dealership. Except for one nation. Yuffie is the heir to that nation." His smile was definitely rueful, now. "I was on the executive board of the company on the other side." He paused, wondering how best to summarize from there. "It's a rather longer story than that, but -- we eventually came together over not wanting to see the planet blown up." Three times.

Anyway, enough of that. "So the TARDIS -- is she here? Or could we -- er -- grow her?"

"Not my ship," she corrected again. It’d never be her ship. It was too complicated and alien though she would always consider it to be home in some distant memory. "It’s the Doctor’s." She said proudly with a grin. She really couldn’t wait to show him sometime. She listened on to his explanation about his planet finding it interesting that there were no nations or countries. "Ah, so like a monarch then," she replied. "Business-like." She really hadn’t been to a world that was quite like that.

"Well," she said with a knowing grin holding up her mug. "That’s certainly a good bonding point. Nothing draws people closer than wanting to save your own planet."

"Grow her?" she repeated arching an eyebrow and then laughing. "No, we couldn’t grow her." That’d probably take lots of time. Not that she had ever thought about it really. "She’s here actually. I’ll show her to you when I have access again."

"Sorry," he said, acquiescing to the correction. "But she just sounds miraculous. And if she could get you out of here --" He paused, looking sheepish. "I'm sorry. I sometimes forget that not everyone is as eager to excape this place as I am."

He smiled a little, thinking about his and Yuffie's relationship. "It was more complex than that, I think. The first time we were called to serve, at least -- neither of us started out there on honest terms, and we were both shunned by the rest of the party for it. It was sort of inevitable that after things calmed down and we rebuilt the government, she came to work with me."

"Oh she is just simply amazing!" Rose informed, setting her mug down. "Well she tried to once." She glanced down sadly for a second before tucking some strands of hair behind her ears and looking at Reeve. "She’s tricky. You really don’t like it here very much do you?"

The blonde gave a nod along with a small smile at his story. "Sounds like quite the story. I bet she must miss you."

"No luck?" He sighed. "I suppose it was a long shot that no one before me had thought of this. Still, though, maybe something will come up." He shrugged a little. "Back home -- my company needs me, and people are dependent on us. I'm not helping them from here." He looked rueful. "And I have a lot of helping left to make up for the harm I've done."

He shrugged and smiled. "I hope she doesn't. With any luck she's back home and forgotten all about this place."

"Something like that…But yeah I’m sure we can maybe come up with something." She said not about to give up on it even though she really didn’t want to go home but if she could help Reeve get back somehow, she’d do it. She missed her teleport jumper. Hopefully it still wasn’t functioning.

"Well you know, they say that time stops when you’re here. When you get back it’ll be like no time’s passed at all." She reassured, stating it as fact and it really was from what she had researched thus far.

"She probably has...It happens when you go back."

He smiled a bit. "Are you content to remain here, or do you take a more active approach to the city?" He inquired. Amanda and he had made so much more progress together than they ever had before.

"So I've heard." He frowned, nibbling at his nail bed. "I know it happened that way when I went home before, but I don't trust anything to remain constant in this place."

"I," she paused for a moment. Some days she did miss home. Her mum, her little baby brother, even her dad who had done so much for her when she was trapped and determined to find a way back. "I try to take the active approach. It's not really all that easy to stay here some days." Especially on those horrid curse days. "So I just do my best. You said you had mates here, yeah?"

She arched an eyebrow looking at him curiously. "If things were constant here, it'd be a tad boring. So you've been here before then?" She had discussed this once with Rudy which had lead to some theories about alternate dimensions and different versions of people. "With no memory of your stay?"

He pursed his lips and nodded. "The City doesn't work to make itself hospitable, that's for sure. I'm always amazed by the people who seem happy here. At least content." He shrugged. "I had Yuffie. Cloud -- I guess we're very close, we've saved the world, but outside of that relationship we have very little in common. It's disturbing to realize."

He shrugged. "Not exactly. I was here before, and when I went home it seemed like a dream. Then I came back and I remembered everything, but it was distant. Like I'd heard a story from someone ese, I recognized people and places but it still seemed detached."

"Well their mates are probably here," she guessed. "That’d make anyone happy." Especially if the circumstances of their home world prevented them from seeing each other again. And then of course there were those interesting people that one wouldn’t get to meet anywhere else. "Saving the world, or worlds does tend to bring people close." She said smiling fondly as it reminded her of how close she was once to the Doctor and Jack.

But then that fond smile disappeared and she got serious again listening. "Ah, right..." her voice trailed off for a second. "I know how that is. Your mind gets all fuzzy at first. Surreal, yeah."

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