003 ☆ Voice ☆ Both Courts

[parallels]

Clara Oswald here.

So...

[There's a lengthy pause as if she really doesn't want to be doing this post but feels compelled to for some reason. Or perhaps she just has no idea how to start.]

So this is Draubwurld's chance to play advice columnist. About-

[There's another painful silence. Or space for a long suffering sigh.]

Relationships.

[Another pause and then suddenly she bursts into speech, going to quickly that it's a little frightening that someone's mouth can move that fast.]

I'm mean I can't be the only one, can I? Had someone back home and then ended up here. Or back here, technically, for me. And now you've got to figure out what's to be done about it. Can't stand around the station hoping your mobile will finally, someday, send them a text message back. The one that you meant to reply to before you showed up here.

If we're trapped here for years and age slowly, it's not quite going to work to just pop back in when the war is over. "Hey, sorry, got kidnapped by fairies 65 years ago, sorry about that, yeah I'd love to go to the cinema like you said in your text". And all the while, they've wondering why you went missing all those years ago.

[And there it is, the sigh.]

Do you just... remain loyal even if it means they might have forgotten you when you return? Or moved on? Or do you call it a wash and start thinking of this place as a new life.

Either way, feels like a bit of losing game, no matter what you do. Suppose that's part of war. But war doesn't usually last centuries. For humans like me, anyway.

[Then she realizes something she probably should have said way back from the start.]

Sorry. For the too much information. And the personal questions. And personal answers if-and-or-when they are given.

Thanks.

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[parallels]

I hope you find her. And that she's safe from all the mess going on out there when you do.

[Hopefully, finding her would be by going home, not her showing up here. And she takes in the words about his fiance and mulls them over in her head. Could she live without Danny? She didn't like to think about it. The thought of living without him make her stomach twist in pain and her entire body feel weighted by loss. But unbearable? She wasn't sure. Life without the stars and space. That was what seemed unbearable.]

And thank you. For indulging my questions.

[writeswrongs]

Thank you. And it's no problem. Stuff like this is hard and sometimes you just need other people to talk about it with.

[Of course the ideal would be to go home. He's seen that it's happened to others. The only problem is that he's not sure if he's dead or not at home. Staying here would be preferable to returning home and dying.]

[parallels]

Suppose so. I've always been the "barrel ahead and figure it out later" sort. But this is a bit over my head, considering the whole "trapped here for centuries" possibility.

[writeswrongs]

That's usually my MO too, though as I get older it seems like less and less of a good idea. We definitely stand the chance of being here a long time. It's hard. [He sighs, not wanting to think about being without Kate for that long.]

[parallels]

I. I always used to wish I might get swept up into something exciting.

Never thought it would be like this.

[writeswrongs]

Well, it doesn't get much more exciting than this. Magic and fairies and a war to boot.