Who Says The Best Ideas Come From Movies? [Open]

[bonnypiperlad]

Despite having traveled with the Doctor and having been awake on Stacy for however long now, there's still certain aspects of 'modern' life that Jamie often finds himself fascinated by - even if it's something he's experienced before. Watching the moving pictures in the media library is definitely one of those things. There's so many to choose from, he often doesn't know where to begin. Usually, he winds up picking something at random. This time around, it happens to be something called 'Back to the Future II'. During the movie, he can't help but wonder about what he's seeing. For instance, what would the Doctor or any of his other companions think of a time traveling DeLorean? Or a flux cap...capic...that 'y' shaped thing with the glowing lights? But what catches his interest the most is the hoverboard chase. Stacy's a big ship. Something like that would come in very handy, if they could figure out how to build it. The main problem, of course, is how to get started.

However, there's an easy solution for that, at least to Jamie's mind. All he needs to do is go down to the Sensoriums and imagine up one of those boards to test it out. Once he's done that, he can maybe see what would be needed to turn it into something more real. It doesn't really occur to him that a fictional technology might not translate so well - especially since he never really got a good look at the inside of the thing. All he knows is that it won't work over the water, so he's going to avoid that.

A short time after the movie ends, he can be found down in the Sensoriums, ready to try out his idea. Something that resembles a skateboard without wheels appears, floating slightly above the ground. It's pink. Very pink. Jamie quickly switches it to a much nicer red color before hopping up onto the board, fully expecting it to start right up. It wavers a bit but doesn't otherwise move. Frowning, he takes one foot off and pushes it against the air, like he saw in the picture. It continues to sit there, not doing much of everything, and Jamie scowls down at it. "Och, why isn't it working?"

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[bonnypiperlad]

"Oh, ye know Ax? I'd not realised," he says, moving off to the side so she can take a look at the board. "I've not talked to him much, though."

At least, not much past that discussion of soap operas and those android-things. Jamie simply doesn't see Ax around enough thanks to ship life. Marco he's seen more often, and the Scot wonders if maybe he might know something, too. It's a possibility, and he files the thought away for future use.

"This is supposed to something ye can use to fly through the air on," he goes on. "I saw it in one of those moving pictures in the Media Library and I thought I'd have a go at thinking one up."

Cassie isn't the only one for whom technology isn't necessarily their strong suit, apparently. He frowns at it for a moment. "Aye, well, maybe I'll have to see if there's someone who knows how these things actually work about. How are ye, anyway? I've not seen ye about since the mission we were on."

[caringcassie.livejournal.com]

"Yes, I know Ax well." Cassie answered easily enough, although she refrained from sharing much more. She liked Jamie a lot, but that didn't erase the three years of learning just how dangerous it could be to share too many personal details. Curious, she asked, "You know Ax then? May I ask how?" Even though she'd made the suggestion, she hadn't realized that the two were acquainted, although it wasn't a total shock either. Ax had been here longer than she had and he was more involved in the workings of the ship. Jamie seemed to be much the same from what she could tell.

"Which one?" To be fair though, even finding out the title might not help much. She had watched TV and movies some while on her homeworld, but it had never been much of a focus for her unless there had been something about the program that held some particular appeal for her. Besides, given how things seemed to work on Stacy, it was likely to not be one from her world, but that didn't change the fact that she was still curious.

"There are a lot of people on board with a good grasp on technology. I'm sure one of them might be able to help," she said cheerfully with a smile and a nod. "I've been just fine. How about you? You're right that it's been far too long. I'm really happy to see you again."

[bonnypiperlad]

"Mostly from watching soap operas with him and Marco, although I've seen him around the ship a wee bit as well," he replies, flipping the board upside down so the metal circles on he base were visible. Interestingly enough, it still hovers, and he gives it a thoughtful look. "I wonder if it's supposed to do that or not? Maybe I'll ask someone, like ye suggested."

It takes him a few seconds to glance up from the board, caught up as he is in trying to figure that out. "Mm? Oh, the moving picture. Aye, it was something called 'Back To The Future Two.' I guess there was one before that. But they didn't have anything like this back in my day, so it's all a wee bit new to me. Maybe I'll ask someone, like ye suggested." He gives her a brief grin. "It's good to see ye as well, Cassie. I'm sorry I've not managed to track ye down before. I don't have as much free time as I used to." He snorts a little. "And to think, I thought I'd never miss being bored."

[caringcassie.livejournal.com]

Cassie nodded, lifting her hand to her mouth in an attempt to cover her smile. That sounded like them, especially Ax. "I see. That sounds like fun."

Her eyes turned on the board at Jamie's comment and she watched curiously as it floated a short distance above the ground, but she had no answers on the situation. "That would probably be for the best. There are a lot of people on board who could probably figure it out."

The name rung a bell for Cassie, but she couldn't remember much about it. Had she seen it at some point or at least heard of it? Or was the memory a false one? It was hard to know sometimes. "Interesting... thank you for telling me."

"Don't worry about it," she said reassuringly. "I've been meaning to come check in on you for a while now, but I kept not getting to it so I'm sorry too." Shooting him a curious look, she added, "So, what have you been up to since that last mission?"

[bonnypiperlad]

"Aye, ye should go see it sometime," he says. It wasn't a bad moving picture, all things considered. Just...not the most realistic for some. Then again, what's not realistic for one person might be more plausible for another, he thinks, the time-traveling Delorean coming to mind. But that's neither here nor there at the moment.

"Fair enough. I've not done anything too exciting. No invisible beasties about," he replies, a bit of a crooked grin appearing. "At least none that I've seen. Mostly I've been training, or working on the house we found in the city. How about yourself? Any invisible beasties where ye are?"

[caringcassie.livejournal.com]

Cassie returned his grin with one of her own, joining him in the joke. "Technically if it was invisible, then you wouldn't see it. I think that we proved that on the last mission." Then she shook her head. "Mostly I've been trying to keep myself busy. I spend a fair amount of time in Hydroponics watching the animals that live there." Even as different as the animals were from the ones that she was used to, it was comfortable for her to be there, learning more about the incredible creatures that inhabited the area.

"Where's your new home? Assuming that you don't mind telling me. It would be easier to keep up with one another if I knew were to look for you." Cassie then paused as she further considered the part of the statement that had confused her. "We? Do you have a roommate?"

[bonnypiperlad]

"Why would I mind?" he asks, giving her a puzzled look. There's only one or two people on the ship that he wouldn't want to know where his house was - and Cassie's not one of them. "We're over by the park. Not the wee one, the larger one up north. It's that big Victorian house out there. You'll not be able to miss it."

At least, he hopes so, but there weren't too many large houses in that particular style in the city that he knows of off hand. The chances were pretty good she'd be able to find it.

He's a little bit confused by her confusion until it occurs to him that they never got much of a chance to talk beyond that invisible beastie hunting. While he had found the house by the time they had gone on that mission, it never actually came up in conversation.

"Well, it's a big house, so she has her own room. But, aye, I do. Her name's Victoria. She's a friend of mine as well. We used to travel together, back before we both woke up here."

[caringcassie.livejournal.com]

Cassie smiled and shrugged. "I find that it often doesn't seem wise to assume things like that without reason." Some people were more private then others after all and she hadn't wanted to risk offending him by assuming too much. Nodding, she added, "I've passed by that way before and I think that I know where you're talking about. It's a beautiful house." The park itself was one that she enjoyed flying around when she felt the urge to take to the air and an osprey's eyes gave her a good view of pretty much everything in range.

"I'm glad that you have a friend from home here with you," she told him, obviously happy for him. "You two sound close. I hope that I'll have the chance to meet her at some point."

[bonnypiperlad]

"Oh, I've a few other friends about from home as well," he admits. It's one way to explain the multiple versions of the Doctor that were awake at the moment - although he considers the other companions his friends as well, even though he technically didn't know them before he got here. "But I'd not seen Victoria in some time when she woke up here."

It was her, out of everyone, he thought he'd never see again, and he had missed her quite a lot. Even more than the Doctor wasn't awake yet, in some ways - and for a moment he drifts off into thoughts of her before managing to refocus on the conversation at hand.

"I'm glad ye think so. I'm sure Victoria would like to meet ye as well and maybe show off the house a wee bit." He smiles at Cassie, one of those crooked smiles of his. "She likes animals, too. I think the two of ye might get along just fine. Although...it's funny. I'd not ever really thought we'd be here, like this. Er, with a house and all, that is."

[caringcassie.livejournal.com]

"That's good to hear. Can I ask who? I'm just curious if I've met any of them," Cassie smiled. "You both must have been excited to be reunited."

She nodded enthusiastically. "Maybe we can try to arrange a get together at some point. I like to meet new people." Cassie bit back a smile. She didn't know how close their relationship might really be, but she could hear the affection in Jamie's voice and she at least had some suspicions about his feelings. "How has it been sharing a house?"

[bonnypiperlad]

"Aye, well, there's the Doctor, but I think ye might have figured that out on the last mission too." Jamie's never made any secret of the fact that they're friends, anyway, so he figures that if even if for some reason she hadn't, asking anyone on the ship would turn that up.

"Victoria and I used to travel with him a long time ago. Apart from him...well, there's Amy. And Rory, but...I think he may have gone back to the pods. I've not seen him in in some time. But they've traveled with the Doctor, too, just not at the same time as I did. Come to think of it, River might have as well, but she's very mysterious about the whole thing. She knows the Doctor from somewhere, though."

There's Martha and Rose, too, but he thinks GLaDOS may have them at the moment, as he's also not seen them recently. So the odds are good Cassie may not have seen them. Other than that, there's only one other person he knows for sure is from his universe, and that's the Master (Sorry, Ian, he hasn't figured out your connection with the Doctor yet). And that particular one is someone Jamie doesn't consider to be a friend.

"Ye might have seen one other person from my world, too. He was on the mission with us - brown hair, about my height, a wee bit too good at showing up where he's not wanted? He's...look, I can't go into too much detail, but don't trust him if he tries to talk to ye."

He doesn't think the Master would bother to try and use Cassie for his own purposes, but it couldn't hurt to warn her to be careful around him...just in case. That said, though, he turns back to a happier topic.

"Sorry, I'd not meant to go off on a tangent there. I'd say that it's not so different from then when we were traveling together. There's just more repairs and less beasties about. I think we'll eventually be able to get it fixed up, though. It's more a matter of when we'll be able to get the things to do that with."