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[There's video of dark walls through a train window. The Underground, moving past. Rory's voice comes from behind the camera. He sounds, perhaps, very slightly upset.]

Soooo....that's all the Underground, right? Nothing else there? Nothing else you can...see outside? Anybody who's watching?

[Camera flipped about to show Rory's face, bits of the Express visible behind him. He's clearly trying to not look upset. Look stoic. It's not entirely working.]

I guess I can just...check the Network myself, after and see if it shows up on video.

[Around, and a bit more video of out the windows. And then he shuts it off.]

[ooc: Backdated to when they were still on the train. Rory's seeing visions of apocalyptic Earth. So. Much...as...usual, really, but he's still upset. Action for anyone on the train, if you want!]

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[He wanders over after Rory shuts the camera off, leaning against the wall of the train. Avoiding the windows, yay. And all that getting-the-train-going business was mildly wooze-inducing.] You alright?

[Rory glances out the window, and then turns back to the Doctor, quickly.]

I'm....well...no. Not exactly, no. I know it's not happening right now, and it's not there, I just...don't like not being able to do anything. I dunno. It's silly, cos it's not real.

[He sees the glance and briefly wonders what the future him has had the young man seeing and if it's anything like what he sees when he looks out the windows. Or hears, now. It's clearly enough to deeply unsettle him.

He nods, once, quiet for a moment, and looks out the window for a moment, instantly taking in a sharp breath and exhaling slowly as he looks back at Rory instead.] S'not silly. It's.. Understandable. [Beat.] Really understandable.

[Amy comes to step next to Rory.] What do you see?

[Rory keeps looking out the window as he speaks.]

It's Earth...but it's a flaming ruin... [He swallows.] Even Leadworth. [He turns back to Amy and she gets a low chuckle sort of bordering on hysteria.] I keep remembering...you joking about how the Dalek things'd never bother with Leadworth. Waste of time. Should be enough to clue me in that it's a hallucination already.

[Now that he's turned to face her, he can't make himself turn back. Well. Whatever. It's not real. It's not.]

You...can't see anything, then? Or....hear anything?

[A look at the Doctor, as he thinks. It could be either one, but he has to know. His voice is quieter when he speaks this time, hushed.]

Doctor...when you look out there, do you see Earth? Or is it your planet? [A pause, to remember.] Gallifrey.

.... So you've been travelling with me for a while then? [Playing it offffff. No? No. He's quiet as well, matching.] Mine.

[Buffy has been wandering through the train, checking on people, keeping track of the situation and trying to avoid looking out the windows herself. She pauses next to Rory when she sees and hears he's bothered by the things he sees, whatever they are.]

There are people back home that won't let those things happen.

[She sounds confident as she says this because she has to be. She knows her friends are back at home and they wouldn't let this happen, whether she was there or not. She assumes there are people in his world that would stop this as well.]

[Rory looks so obviously freaked out and worried that Amy can't bring herself to tell him that yeah, she was something to. She hits him on the arm which is... essentially her way of comforting him right now.] Nah. Don't be daft.

Yeah, long enough. [He doesn't really want to be quiet. He wants to keep talking, about ANYTHING, really.] Do you...hear them?

[In response to this, Amy get's a kind of searching look from Rory, trying to work out if she's brushing it off.]

Leadworth is so boring, it's probably the safest place on earth. [Nope. No brushing off here.]

[This warrants a slight amused smile off Rory.] Safest place? What about Prisoner Zero? Or the crack in your wall that was a crack in the fabric of time and space? Hey, and there were some pretty dangerous ducks.

Probably followed me from Scotland, those.

Oh, is that the trade-off for getting Amy Pond in Leadworth? Balancing you out?

Must be. [And she's nodding and grinning and definitely not thinking of anything that anyone might have seen while looking out of the window, nope.]

I will blame you in advance for the old people with eyeballs in them, then, if that ever ends up happening. And that one time when it was my ninth birthday and it rained so much my cake melted. [Mock-serious face, now.] You've got a lot to answer for, Amy.

Ah, but it's worth it, isn't it? [And she says it lightly, but... it is, right?]

Yeah, like I said, you're balancing it all out. [A little more seriously.] Everything.

[Rory tenses automatically--it's Buffy, he's never going to be used to this--and then nods slowly, turning around.]

I know...he fixed it before. My friend back in my universe. He always fixes it, and I know it's not happening and the train's just trying to mess with my head...but somehow, it doesn't make it any better, knowing that.

[Yeah, this topic of conversation is not one he normally willingly enters into even with people he knows, much less ones that he met very recently. It takes him a moment to decide whether he wants to know Rory and talk when the guy is clearly unsettled, or do the usual.] Yes. [Well, little steps.] Clearly not the only one though, so it's nothing special. Nothing I'm not used to, anyway.

[It's high past time for a topic shift.] How's Amy?

Yeah, I just....wanted to know I wasn't going mad all by myself.

[He will totally jump onto that topic change, yes.]

She is...still not entirely happy with me for trying to keep this thing secret from her. But...as far as the window stuff, she says she's not seeing it and...I'm not sure she's telling the truth. [He sighs.] I won't push it unless it gets really bad, I guess. Not when she's already cross.

[Another thing that's very understandable.] Welll, madness is always a bit relative. That bloke who helped get the train started... [He trailed off, making a slightly exaggerated face to insinuate that he found Myrnin a little. Off.

Hell yeah evasive conversational manoeuvres. He doesn't know Amy that well but he can see her becoming at least mildly annoyed about that.] I haven't worked out whether everyone can or not yet. The majority of us do seem to be avoiding the windows like they're some sort of.. Death rattle, so it's somewhat fair to bank on it being a universal effect. [Although, he doesn't know Amy, so. Maybe she really isn't. He's still a bit shaken up between the windows and the periodic pains in his chest now. That's been annoying. Two hearts! Double ow!] I don't.. really.. Domestic isn't my area of expertise, so the, talking.. I don't know. [Sorry Rory.]

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[And that gets him a hand in his and an Amy who's suddenly a bit closer than before. She's still annoyed with you, Rory. She's just also freaked out.]

[Rory's hoping that the hand-holding is possibly the first step towards Amy being a little less cross with him about hiding this from her.]

Should we go up the train again, do you think? Try and...find a room without windows?

We can look for one, but I bet there's no room without windows. Except maybe the bathrooms. [Which might normally be a come-on, but right now it really isn't. She's still angry.]

[....it's not stated like a come-on. She must still be mad with him.] ...right. Well...what do you think we should do?

[Well observed, Rory.] Wander about, see what everyone else is up to, check the road, maybe. Make sure there's nothing on board that'll try to eat us.

[But she's not moving from where they are.]

[Not moving. Uh oh. Knowing it's inevitable but trying to put it off another moment, all the same, Rory asks] What do you want to do, then?

It's not really more dangerous, this, than travelling with the Doctor. [Which is... not really an answer, but has to be said.]

Yeah, about that...why does he look exactly like you?

[Oh Doctor. Always so....the Doctor.] It's fine. I'll work it out. Eventually. You don't think there's a way to stop the visions, is there? Do something to the windows, maybe?

[Rory makes a sort of face. Travelling with the Doctor, right. Where they've each both died once.] Not...yet. I just--I heard things, about this place. The whole place filled with monsters. Animal monsters, ones you can't reason with. I just...couldn't...

Couldn't what. [Because really. She travels with the Doctor. Why not tell her about going here. It makes no sense and that just makes it worse. Rory is supposed to be the sensible one.]

[It's like he has to pull the words out from his head. Somehow.] I don't know. Couldn't watch you die again? I can't look at this sort of thing like it's fun, going on a creepy blood-fueled train into a set of tunnels full of vicious monsters. I do...

[Shouldn't have paused. It's an effort to start up again. At least while he's talking, he's not listening to all of Leadworth pleading with him to save them.]

I do this sort of thing, though. With you and the Doctor. So I felt...like I had to help out. It's just hard, telling you about something like this, because I know you'd want to go...but what if you die, right, and it's my fault for telling you?

[And now he's drifting into the realm of babbling. He's really not in a good place right now.]

Or....if I couldn't make myself go after all and you knew, you'd think I was useless and not... [Not as good as the Doctor.] Not good enough. [And then, becoming aware of the babbling, his mouth practically snaps shut. City, why are you?]

[It's a testament to how much she loves you, Rory, that she's not walking away or making some stupid comment to lighten the mood, that she actually... started this fight. Emotions are scary to deal with in this way. But this is something they need to discuss.

Still, doesn't mean that Amy has to be good at discussing it.]

I've seen you die more often. [Which is said very quietly, and the first thing that came to mind.]

[Rory's shaking his head, now, a little lost as to what that means, what he's supposed to say to that.] Alright, you win? [He swallows.] You're braver than I am, then, if it doesn't...you know, bother you.

[Of course it bothers her. How can he think it doesn't, how can he possibly think...

Amy's trembling, now, though she tries to hide it. She looks away. The thought of something happening to him is terrible, but it's not as bad as not knowing. Nowhere near as bad as him not telling her.

Amy's waited her whole life for the Doctor to come back after he left her. She'd trusted him, with all her heart, when he'd said five minutes and he hadn't come back. Not for the longest time.

Rory, though. Rory's always been there. The thought that he could just... go somewhere without her, without even telling her...]

At least then we'd be together. [Amy says, eyes shut tightly.]

[Rory stares at her for a while, the proper issue here finally dawning on him. Not that he's not enough like the Doctor, not for this. He can feel her trembling, she's still holding his hand, even if she's forgotten. Amy doesn't like being left alone. How did he forget that, not register that?]

I'm...we're together now.

[No, not quite. Not good enough.]

I promise, then. To tell you from now on. Okay? Either we both go, or I don't go.

Noticed that, did you? I haven't the foggiest. I mean, I'm used to clones and copies and imitations, and then there's that one kid here who looks like a younger version of myself I've never had, but that one.. [He shakes his head for a moment.] Best explanation is that sometimes that just.. happens? Personally I think I wear this face better than he's doing.

The visions don't seem to be there unless you're literally looking out the window. I tried limiting the light spectrum through one a bit earlier but there's something about them that didn't let it take. [That, too, was very annoying.] And even then, the voices would still be there.

I don't see anything. It's too dark.

That's good. That's what you should see. Or not see.

[Amy nods, almost imperceptible, and gives Rory's hand a brief squeeze. And that's the end of the discussion, because baring her feelings like that is ... Amy doesn't like it, and she'd much rather do something, anything, just to get away from this discussion. The promise is good, it's what she wanted and she can sort out her feelings some other time. Possibly never.]

C'mon then. Let's have a proper look at this place.

Yeah...I didn't think it'd work. Hallucinations... I don't know. Should we go looking to see if there's something we've missed along the train? Something...to pay attention to that isn't the windows?

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