Fandom High Library, Thursday Morning

[chasingangela]

Angela opened the library, started a pot of coffee, and put her head down on the desk.

She wasn't napping, just resting her eyes. She'd get to work annnnnny second now.

Honest.

[OOC: Summer=no OCD. SP from me after 1:30 EST. Etc.]

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[nine-and-ears.livejournal.com]

The Doctor wandered into the library on a mission. He walked straight up to the front desk and smiled.

If that didn't get the attention he needed, he'd resort to throat clearing.

[chasingangela]

Angela felt eyes on her.

She slowly raised her head and blinked. "Hi."

[nine-and-ears.livejournal.com]

The Doctor raised a hand in a little wave. "Hello!" He smiled again. "Where might I find some information on Milo Rambaldi?"

[chasingangela]

"I don't know that name," Angela said, a little doubtfully.

She went to tap at the computerized card catalogue. "How do you spell it?"

[OOC: What do you want him to find and Nadia's cool with this, yes?]

[nine-and-ears.livejournal.com]

"Milo, as in Milo and Otis, if you're familiar. Rambaldi, Ram. Bald. Single little i, thank you."

[ooc: He's just looking for more information on the Prophecy and general history of the fellow. Nadia's totally cool with this. And... now I run off to work, so it'll be a bit of SP from now on.]

[chasingangela]

"Ram. Bald. Single little i," Angela muttered. "Hrrm. Looks like we have a few books about him him over with the paranormal stuff. 133.3, right after Nostradamus."

She waved a hand vaguely to the right.

[nine-and-ears.livejournal.com]

The Doctor nodded and smiled. "Thank you very much, Miss..." He scratched his chin for a second. "Sorry, I don't think I got your name."

[chasingangela]

"Angela Chase," she said. "And it's my job. Are you a new teacher?"

[nine-and-ears.livejournal.com]

"What gave it away?" The Doctor pointed at his right ear. "It's the ears, isn't it? They just shout 'I can hear a note being written all the way in the back of the room', don't they?"

[chasingangela]

That made Angela giggle.

"Actually, it was more 'old - um, older guy who I don't know,'" she confessed. "I never noticed the ears."

Though they were rather prominent, now that she looked. "What's your name?"

[nine-and-ears.livejournal.com]

"The Doctor," he said, offering a handshake. "Nice to meet you, Angela Chase."

[chasingangela]

Angela took his hand and shook it. "Just The Doctor? We had another teacher called that," she said. "He used to, um, go out with the first librarian."

[nine-and-ears.livejournal.com]

"Did he?" The Doctor raised an eyebrow. "I was under the impression that he was involved with a Professor Cregg. He was me, by the way. Only me from the future. And definitely possibly from an alternate universe."

[chasingangela]

Angela blushed so deeply she was slightly purple. "I think it was kind of all three of them," she said, almost inaudibly. "At least that's what they told me, like, my first week at work."

She blinked. "How is he you if he looked really nothing like you? I knew he was an alien, or something."

[nine-and-ears.livejournal.com]

The Doctor, despite his morbid curiosity, didn't press the matter of the old Doctor's relationship dynamics. He could tell Angela was a bit embarassed.

"It's a bit complicated," he said. "Long story short, my race has the ability to regenerate their bodies in the case of fatal occurences. You come out looking a bit different. And acting a bit different, as well, but you're still the same person."

[chasingangela]

"Like reincarnation?" Angela asked, kind of fascinated by this. "Only, you keep your memories."

[nine-and-ears.livejournal.com]

"Though that adds a bit of spiritual connotation that isn't quite accurate, it's a good way to describe it, yes," the Doctor said. "We only get to do it a limited number of times, of course. Nobody lives forever, after all."

[chasingangela]

Of course not.

"How long can you live, total?" Angela asked. "And is it weird for you to know that there's a different you from your future who's already been here? I mean, doesn't that mean you-" She groped for a word "-aren't here anymore, someday?"

[nine-and-ears.livejournal.com]

"Long depends on how careful you are. I lived a good five hundred years before my first regeneration, and that's when I died of old age," he said. He chuckled. "Been through about eight more lives since then, in the same amount of time."

[chasingangela]

A thousand years. That was almost longer than Angela could imagine. "That's incredible," she said.

And then, not wanting to seem too nosy and because her player is about to run off to work anyhow she waved toward the books again. "I'll have to try to take a class with you sometime. Let me know if you need help with anything else, okay?"

[nine-and-ears.livejournal.com]

The Doctor nodded. "Absolutely. You have a fantastic day, Angela Chase."

With a smile and a nod, the Doctor wandered over to the books to go about his research.