~

"I tend to do that," she smirked, trying to make them laugh - even if it was a pity one. "Hey, it is what it is," she shrugged, knowing if she thought too hard on it it would affect her but right now she needed to focus on the present and the future - DC being her new normal and whatever was in the past was practically gone now

ianto wished he could be as blaise about the whole thing as jo was. he was struggling to deal with what he knew now. of course, from conversations with jack and owen-- what are the chances they knew two people who'd come back from the dead-- they had an idea of what happened after death. but to experience it himself.. the darkness. the neverending nothingness of it all. it was terrifying. "yeah. i guess it is." they said with a nod, taking a deep breath. they shouldn't get stuck in that mindset, they were alive now. they were here, and even though it wasn't home-- it was better than the alternative.

She blinked a few times, mouth slightly ajar as she wondered how to respond to, well, any of that. It was so innately weird that it sounded almost plausible in a way and with how convincingly this woman seemed to be it was hard to deny her. "Well, uh," she stammered, looking forward, "as someone who hunted supernatural creatures back home I guess I can't say you're wrong?"

"that wasn't even all of it." donna said with a laugh. back before all of the adventures she'd been on, donna would have balked at the idea of someone telling her they hunted supernatural creatures? but now? with everything she'd seen, everything she'd been through-- it wasn't that ridiculous at all. aliens, all of time and space? sure? ghosts and vampires? why the hell not! "really? so you were like.. scooby doo?"

"Oh. Well, unless he's a hockey fan or a player, I don't think that I'd know him. I'm sorry." Garrett knew that was true. He would have helped, if he could, because that was what he usually did. Not before? No, before, he had been someone different, but he liked to think he had changed. He liked to think Wellsy had made him better. "Have you asked around here everywhere? Maybe put up some pictures, if you have them?" He asked.

donna snorted out a laugh, imagine the doctor as any kind of sports fan. the concept was just ridiculous to her. "no-- no, definitely not a hockey fan." she said, shaking head. "i've asked around. no sign of him yet." and that was the problem, donna knew that if he was in this city too, he would stop at nothing until he found her. so that meant that maybe he wasn't here at all, which meant she was on her own.

"i mean, yeah, if you really wanna make an impact." tim said with a laugh, before folding his arms across his chest. he'd been called to a job once, a very angry businessman in a coffee shop throwing a fit about not getting the refund he wanted. it had ended with tim getting a faceful of cappuccino, and the man getting arrested for felony assault.

There was a part of her that felt empathy for every patient she had to treat, even those who made bad decisions and got themselves in horrible positions. Still, she didn't feel bad when someone tried to hurt others to gain something from it. It was always sad when someone lost their lives, but maybe the world would be a better place with one less bad person on it. "Could be drugs or alcohol involved, who knows? I guess you'll have to wait for the autopsy to know. I'm just glad no innocent person lost their lives, only the assailant."

"i wouldn't be surprised." tim said with a nod, his eyes still looking over the scene, always scanning for anything he or any other officer may have missed. he tried to have a level of empathy, especially with the things he'd gone through himself, the trauma from his childhood and his time in the army that he never really delved into. he knew that if he didn't have the academy and then his job with the police to keep him on the straight and narrow, he easily could have gone down a different path when he'd come home. he easily could've ended up like his father. "officers will be looking for his next of kin, hopefully that'll give us an idea of motive."

"That might be true, but still, you can't help but be worried, he's your friend after all." Lexa would be worried, if one of her friends went missing and she had no idea where they were. "From what I can tell, I've come across people who say they're from a different place, without any idea how they ended up here." She shrugged her shoulders.

"right. well that's definitely a problem." but without the doctor, donna didn't really know how she was supposed to help. yes, he said she was brilliant and smart, but she didn't even know where to start. "but why drop a bunch of people in a city and then do nothing with them. there has to be a reason, some kind of end goal."

"Try me," she said, knowing that if she said what the world was like where Jo was from it would be a hard pill to swallow for the redhead in front of her. How weird could it possibly be, right?

"alright.." donna said, crossing her arms over her chest. "well, i was there when pompeii fell. i met the agatha christie. i died-- twice, technically. except one time i wasn't actually dead i was trapped in a computer, and the second time i was in a parallel universe. then i had my memories wiped because i'd inhibited the mind of an alien who travels through time and space and he was so clever that me even knowing like 10% of what he knew would have burned my mind up and killed me." she stopped for a breath. "oh! and i almost married a man who was in love with a giant spider."

"Oh, a lot of people are like you," she said with a breathless laugh, stopping for a moment to look at them better. "Let me guess, your last moments in your original place were super traumatic and you're struggling to cope with what happened and be in a weird place?" she practically rambled. "Because same"

ianto stopped in his tracks and turned to look at jo, raising his brows. "that's oddly specific and, right on the money." they responded, thinking back to being on that floor in thames house, in jack's arms, wondering about if they'd be remembered. "i'm sorry-- for whatever you went through."

"okay.." tim muttered to himself, pressing his palms into his eyes and taking a deep breath. "okay, so i've officially gone insane. cool."

it was hard not to laugh at the stunned silence and the look on tim's face. and they couldnt wait to tell lucy about this later. "yeah, you do. she just didn't tell you about me. kind of a shitty move i know. but like in her defense i dont think she planned to have you even find out. so you were supposed to be like perfectly unaware." the more they ramble and put out details, usually seems to confuse people into believing what she'd told them.

he'd had a fling with a girl, before he'd left to join the army. it had only lasted a couple of months, and neither of them had bothered catching feelings because tim knew he was leaving as soon as he could. so he supposed it wasn't completely out of the realm of possibility that he could have a kid. he was a kid himself, he wasn't exactly careful. "..seriously?" he said quietly, letting out a shaky breath. "you're seriously my kid?"

an idea sparks in tamara's head as they're seeing that tim doesn't remember anything and she has to force herself to not smile. over her time on the street, tamara had developed being able to keep her emotions hidden. "jesus, dude, i'm your kid! alright?" she rolls her eyes. "my mom doesn't even know i'm trying to find you or she'd flip out on me."

that one sentence sent his brain into a hard reboot, and tim just stood in silence for a few moments, staring in shock at the young woman who just professed to be his daughter. "bullshit." he muttered when he brain switched back on. he took a step back, shaking his head. "that's not-- i don't.. i don't have a kid. what are you talking about?"

"If I'm not mistaken, you seem to be describing me but I don't really know you." Crowley replied with a slight shrug. "Who is this friend and what does he look like?"

donna was frozen for a moment. this man looked exactly like the doctor-- except not. he had bright red hair, and his entire aura was different. now she'd met like four different doctors, one with a different face. but this was something else completely. "what the hell.." she muttered, stepping forward and looking over him. "who the hell are you and why do you have the doctors face?"

"Right, of course. So, do you time-travel or something?" Yuri was being sarcastic, but she didn't realize that the other actually did do some time-travelling. "Are you really showing me a photo of the tenth doctor...or whatever doctor that is supposed to be? I thought you were being serious.."

"no. no, that'd be mad. time travel, that's make believe innit." donna said, trying to play it cool. she should probably play some cards close to her chest. "10th what? what do you mean?" she said, looking at the photo with a furrow of her brown. "he's just the doctor, i don't think he has a number. he's never told me he's got a number."

"that's the thing. i think i have.." tim said with a shake of his hand. "i think i've always had this niggling feeling, this-- intuition, that i was missing something. or that i was looking for something i couldn't find here." but tim wasn't a guy who based his life on intuition, or a feeling. "but i've just always pushed it aside, focused on doing my job, focused on the here and now. on things i could prove, but i don't know--" he rubbed at his chin in frustration. "i don't know. maybe i am crazy. maybe i'm way overdue a week off. but then i met this woman, and she told me she knows me. that we knew each other in a whole different life. and she knew things about me that i don't tell anybody, and i mean like-- deep things. how would she know that about me?"

it was important to have a good relationships with the other emergency services, helped scenes like this run a lot of smoother. and maybe tim could do with making some more friends-- being less of a lone wolf kinda guy. "if you need anything else from me. want any updates on the criminal side of things." he held out his card with his information on it, giving her a smile.

Sylvie was organizing everything in the ambulance, they did the best they could to keep the assailant alive despite what he had done but unfortunately, they weren't able to save him. It was now a crime scene and their services were no longer needed. "Yeah I'm guessing the coroner will come soon to confirm the death and take the body away." She said with a nod of her head. "Of course, we'll be at the station if you need anything." She nodded her head. "There are a few witnesses that saw what happened, although security cameras would definitely make better sense of everything."

tim found it hard to feel empathy for the person who'd lost their life. of course, people did crazy things when they were desperate. he'd come across many people in his career who'd been caught with diapers and baby formula hidden in the bottom of their stroller. doing the unthinkable just to get by. but this wasn't that, this had been a violent buglary, and unfortunately, they'd come out on the worst end of it. "in the middle of the day. sometimes you have to wonder what goes through these peoples heads when they wake up and make the decision that this is what they're gonna do with their lives today."

Lexa nodded her head. "I won't, I have enough craziness in my job as it is. But I definitely hope that you can find him and that he's safe." She said with a soft smile. She knew that people went missing all the time, some of them were found safely after a while, others didn't have the same luck. "I've come across quite a few people looking for loved ones."

"i'm sure he's alright. he can look after himself." most of the time, donna thought to herself. he was definitely better when he had someone by his side, reminding him of his humanity. "really? there's a lot of lost people in this city?" well now it made sense, maybe donna really was here for a reason. to try and help?