Your Truth Is A Lie ☤ The Doctor(11), Rex, Donna, and Sam
TAGGING: The Doctor, Rex Matheson, Donna Noble, Sam Winchester
TIME FRAME: June 2, evening
LOCATION: The Impala room and The tiger’s room.
GENERAL NOTES: Rex gets a text from Jack to go and find the Doctor. What he didn’t know was that a one man trip would soon turn into a group hunting. However, once they find the Doctor, they might wish they hadn’t.
Rex would hardly admit out loud, but he had grown a bit of a soft spot for the crazy alien he'd been rooming with. The man drove him insane half the time but it didn't take much to realize that there was something just not right about the Time Lord. So when he got Jack's message, he sprang into action- and immediately started checking the more obvious places to find the Doctor first. Their room, the room with the Impala, the kitchen. All absent of the face changing alien. He knew his best bet was the lower decks then, so he circled back to the car with the impala to start from there and maybe question the grumpy owner that had been there. But when he walked in, instead of finding Dean Winchester, he nearly bumped into a much taller man.
Sam was rifling through the trunk of the Impala when he felt someone run into him, lifting his head and hitting it on the roof of the trunk, Sam groaned before standing to his full height and looking down at the other guy. "Are you lost or something?" Rubbing his head, Sam squinted at the pain that was going to come sooner or later before focusing completely on the man. Realising that he seemed impatient and in a hurry, Sam's senses sprung into action and he stood on the defensive. "What's going on?"
Rex stepped back and stared. He had made sure to know everyone on the ship, even if he hadn't spoken to them personally. But this guy was new. "Who the Hell are you?" He blurted, completely ignoring his question. At least until he knew who the guy was that was going through a vehicle that didn't belong to him.
Sam scoffed before closing the trunk and then crossing his arms over his chest as he stared at the other man. "Uh, I think I should ask who the hell are you?" Raising his brow, Sam shook his head at the other man incredulously. "Dude, you ran into me."
Rex narrowed his eyes, in anything but the mood to play games with someone. "Yeah, and I'm sorry about that. Sorta in a hurry and you're not the owner of this car the last I checked." He pointed out, rushing a half-assed apology. "Have you seen anyone else come by here in the last several minutes?" He asked, looking around him and peeking in the car as if the Doctor would actually be hiding out in there. "Oh, and I'm Rex Matheson," he added, almost as an after thought. "Deputy Director in the CIA and captain of this ship. So if you'll excuse me."
Sam warily eyed him before rolling his eyes. "Sam Winchester, this car is my brother's, Dean. So I think I have every right to be here." Cocking his jaw to the side, Sam frowned at the other before turning to look around and shrugged. "My brother was just here with a lady named Gwen and some guy called the Doctor, why you looking for any of them?" Suspicion caught on quickly as Sam began to gear up for whatever might come. "Rex, right. Nice to meet you, and uh, would you like some help looking?"
Rex nodded with narrowed his eyes, "I'm looking for the Doctor. I'd tell you what he looked like, but I would probably be wrong." He held his ground for about thirty seconds and assessed the situation before losing patience and turning to leave once he figured the guy had a point if he actually was Dean's brother. He stopped at the door when he asked if he could come along, immediately suspicious. But he was in a hurry to find his roommate, so he nodded shortly. "If you get in my way or slow me down, don't be offended if I leave you." Was all he said before walking out the door and giving an exaggerated annoyed huff when he nearly ran into Donna Noble. "What the Hell."
Sam scoffed once more before turning his head and nodding. "Yeah, I'll keep that in mind." He mumbled before securing his gun and following the other. "I heard a little bit about you from Esther on the blogs. I figured I could help, I'm a hunter back home with my brother. I've seen some crazy things and trust me, I won't get in your way if you don't get in mine." Sam rambled quickly to make sure Rex knew he wasn't some asshat country kid who didn't know his way around a weapon. However, just as they were exiting to check another room, they ran into someone else. "You got a knack for this don't you?" Smirking he looked up to greet the woman, recognition appearing on his face. "Oh hey, you're Donna right?"
Donna had just made it to the lower decks when she heard some people talking in one of the first rooms. She was a little wary of the lower part of the ship after some of the things she'd heard and knowing that the Master was there and not knowing where either of the Doctor's were had her worried enough to go searching. She stopped outside the door to try and listen enough to see who was inside before barging in, and was just about to do just that when the door opened. She took a step back, looking guilty for listening in for about ten seconds before a more determined look took over. "Yep. That's me," she nodded, offering a quick smile at Sam that didn't quite meet her eyes. "And you're Sam, yeah?" She added before turning her stare to Rex. "If you're looking for the Doctor, I'm coming with you. I'm already looking for them anyway."
Rex was a little annoyed with Sam's rambling and hoped that he didn't do that the entire time, but he was at least a little more reassured that he wouldn't be completely useless in his search for the Doctor. "Not usually," he grumbled in response to Sam's comment about his running into people and quickly brushed himself off. His eyebrows shot up when Donna informed them that she was also coming with them without much of an introduction or apology for apparently listening in on their conversation. "Hell no. No offense, but you'll only slow us down and I wasn't planning on doing this a partner let alone an entire team. You'll probably be safer if you just go back to the top deck and avoid it down here altogether."
Sam smiled back at the woman before raising his brows at her abrasive behavior and then looking back to Rex. "I don't know Rex, it might be better to go as a group than just one of us. Probably safer too. Plus, if we have to split up, we'll be able to cover more ground." Giving a shrug, Sam reached for his back pocket where he pulled out his sheathed knife and handed it to Donna. "You might need it, I heard there's a tiger down here." Looking back to Rex, Sam raised both his brows and gave him as much of an innocent expression as he could.
Donna narrowed her eyes, taking a step closer and jamming her finger into Rex's chest and moved onto her toes so that her face was closer to his. "My best friends are missing. I think they're in trouble and I'm incredibly worried. If you think you're going to be able to stop me from coming along, you've really got another thing coming." she threatened, dropping back to her heels and turning to look at Sam, a satisfied smile stretching across her face. "See, Sam here's got his head on straight." She looked down at the knife and wrinkled her nose, but gingerly accepted it anyway before pocketing it in her front jacket pocket. "Alright then. We've got a Time Lord to find." She nodded once, determinedly and moved past them to take the lead.
Rex 's eyebrows shot up when Donna advanced on him, shooting a look at Sam that mimicked betrayal. "Alright, fine. You can come." He relented, more so they could get moving rather than keep wasting time. Not that the woman needed permission, who already decided she was coming and taking lead. Shaking his head, he mumbled for Sam to "Come on" and pulled out his phone to text Jack with an update. "Okay, if he was last seen in the room we were just in, and he's not back upstairs, he had to have gone this way, so that's our best shot." he pointed in the direction that Donna was already heading, following after her a bit disgruntled.
Sam tried to keep his amusement to a minimum, especially when Rex shot him a look. However, he smiled happily towards Donna and nodded as she took the knife and then the lead. "Should we maybe be careful that something might be different? I mean, the Impala seems to stay in the same place but if you look at the walls... they're not the same as when we were just in here." Frowning, Sam pulled out his gun and began to take the safety off as he held it by his side, being careful to watch his and their backs. "Is there anything else besides the tiger we should be worried about?"
Donna scanned the walls, a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach. She knew it sounded ridiculous, but she couldn't help but feel like the ship was working against them. She swallowed thickly and nodded, glancing over her shoulder at the two men. "Tiger's probably the least of our worries.."
Rex "The rooms change," he nodded, walking over to the wall and touching it with the tips of his finger and the other hand moving to rest over his gun holster, ready to yank it out at a moments notice. "And she's right..." He considered telling them what he knew about the Master, but instead his attention was drawn to the next door. "Anything could be in these rooms, so basically expect the worst."
Sam adopted a semi-annoyed expression when neither of them truly answered his question. It was almost like he was talking to his brother and Castiel. "Okay, besides the tiger, I mean, what is it specifically that we should be looking out for?" Edging close to a door that he didn't think was there before, Sam slowly reached for the handle, but stopped when Rex told him to 'basically expect the worst'. "Alright, well I found a door, so... do we want to check it out together or do you want me to head in by myself?"
Donna honestly wasn't sure what to expect. She only hoped that they'd either find one of her Doctors or the TARDIS before anything that might try to cause them harm. She really didn't want to have to use that knife sitting in her pocket. She didn't even really want to think about any circumstances that would call for the need for it. She eyed the door Sam was standing next to with narrowed eyes before nodding. "Let's just all go in together. If the rooms keep changing, it'll be easier to lose each other if we split up." And then she nodded for Sam to open he door and crept in behind him and let Rex take up the back.
The Doctor didn't hear anything at first, except for the dull rhythmic sound that seemed to echo in the back of his mind. That was until he heard voices (and not the one's that were in his mind, those were gone) but actual voices... and then footsteps! Inhaling sharply, the Time Lord replies to a series of texts from the Master before peering out from the darkness towards the group. "Er... hello? Have you come to save me?"
Rex stopped just outside the door and took another close look around, looking for anything that might be concrete and stay the same and help them find their way back if the rooms changed again while they were inside. Unsatisfied with his findings, he put a notch next to the door in the wall before following after Donna. At first all he heard was silence outside the normal creaking noises that came from the ship, but then he heard the undeniable voice of his roommate - or the voice he had probably come to most at least. "Doctor?" He called out cautiously, moving closer to the voice.
Sam was surprised when he opened the door that it was seemingly normal. He expected it to be some sort of messed up version of the ship. However, he stopped when he heard a voice and looked to Rex when he called back to it. "He's somewhere in the room. Sounds a little... Far away though. How big do you think this room is?" Lifting his head, Sam turned to Donna wondering if she might have an idea.
Donna didn't stop until she heard the familiar voice of the Doctor. Her heart sank when she registered what he said the way he sounded. Then without looking to Rex or Sam, she just nodded as if to answer Rex's question. "No idea," she shrugged at Sam's question and pushed herself forward, walking to the back of the room, that was longer than she anticipated, until she found the Doctor. "Doctor..." She murmured, kneeling down to look at him sitting on the floor. "Yeah, we're here for you. Sam and Rex... Or Clare is here too." She told him, resisting the urge to fuss over him with the memory of their last conversation still deeply rooted in her mind and unsure how he would react. But she did roll her eyes abit fondly when she corrected Rex to Clare.
The Doctor looked up a bit dazed and focused in onto Donna as she approached closer and then knelt down in front of him. "Donna? Donna Noble? Oh it is good to see you." Smiling at her, he reached up and wrapped his arms around his former companion, holding her into a tight hug that he wasn't so sure he wanted to let go of. Though when it registered that she said Rex and Sam were there, he pulled back and searched her face. "Clare's here? So he does miss me. Wait-who's Sam?"
Rex blinked, stopping briefly when Donna suddenly rushed forward, leaving him and Sam behind. He shot a glare at Sam as if it were his fault and grumbled under his breath before following behind her. He didn't hear any screams so he took that as a good sign. And then he heard more of their voices and let out a breath of relief. He couldn't even be bothered by the use of Clare when he heard it. "What happened to you, Doctor?" He asked, furrowing his eyebrows together and examining the surrounding area looking for any signs of struggle.
Sam watched silently as Donna moved past both him and Rex. He waited for Rex to move before following him, but not before giving him a glared look for silently blaming him for it all. Quietly he listened to the conversation that was going on, and smiled lightly when he heard his name come up. "Sam Winchester, Dean's younger brother. I'm uh... Just here to lend an extra hand." He paused and surveyed the scene before him. "Its nice to meet you Doctor. I've heard a lot of good things about you."
Donna gasped when the Doctor lunged in for a hug, but easily wrapped her arms around him as well and holding him tightly, relieved that he was safe- or that he at least appeared safe. She nodded without looking back to check that they had followed, sure that they had. And sure enough before he could answer about Sam, she heard him answer for himself. With a nod, she pointed her finger behind her at the two men without letting go of him with her other hand. "I was just about to ask the same question myself," she nodded in reference to Rex's question, locking her gaze on her friend before pursing her lips together.
The Doctor listened to what Sam had to say before smiling and nodding at him. "Dan's brother! Oh wonderful, wonderful. Glad you could join us." He continued to hold his cheerful nature before looking towards Rex and then finally resting his gaze onto Donna, practically begging her with a look. "I have met an old friend here and he isn't good. He won't stop until he finds the TARDIS and other Doctor. Please help me find my Metacrisis and my ship because they are both in grave danger." He knew he was lying, and in order for him to be convincing he had to weave in some truth to it. "Donna, please. I'm begging you."
Rex narrowed his eyes and mouthed 'Dan?' Before shaking his head and leaning a little closer and listened intently to what the Doctor was saying even though it was clear he was only talking to Donna. Immediately he pulled out his phone and sent Jack a quick text, letting him know what he just heard hoping he'd get the message in time since he knew Jack was already looking for the Metacrisis as they all spoke. "Jack's looking for him now," he spoke up. "He won't let anything happen to him."
Sam had only met the other doctor through the blogs and heard of Jack from others. But he knew enough to know that the two of them were in some sort of serious danger. Glancing around, the hunter moved closer towards Donna and the Doctor before asking his question. "Can I ask what sort of danger they're in?" Another question passed through his mind when he thought about what a TARDIS was, but he didn't want to seem to quizzical so he resorted to asking later about it.
Donna felt her heart sink and gulped as she kept her eyes trained on the Doctor. The look on his face alone was enough to break her heart, but what words accompanied that look made her arms weak as the worry that had been troubling her already basically doubled. She plastered on a fake smile and nodded when Rex spoke up. "See, he's going to be okay," she attempted, though she wasn't completely reassured herself. "And I'll help too. We'll find him."
The Doctor frowned at Rex's words before slowly nodding. "Jack's a good lad, but I don't know if he's a match for..." he paused and narrowed his gaze as he looked up towards Sam. "An old friend of mine that lost his way. He's very dangerous and he can and will harm anyone and anything that crosses his path. My advice is to never trust a thing he says." Slowly, he pulled himself to his feet, steadying his weight on Donna and then offering a hand to pull her up. "We'll need to find him quickly. The Master just left."
Rex moved back enough to give the Doctor room when he stood up, ready to offer a hand if he needed it. "I've already become ... Acquainted with this guy and he's right. He's dangerous and ruthless. He's already made it clear to me when he -- he's made it clear he's not here to make friends." He added, correcting himself before slipping that the Master had already killed him once, not wanting to freak anyone out when tensions were already high.
Sam listened intently when the Doctor finally addressed the real problem that was going on with the ship. He knew how friends could turn enemies and he knew that they would be just as influential as they once were. Grimmacing, Sam nodded towards the group. "Well you guys check it out, I'm going to head back and talk to my brother about all of this."
Donna frowned, edging to the side a bit so that she was standing somewhat protectively in front of the Doctor subconsciously and still able to look between all three of them. She nodded at Sam before glancing up at the Doctor, the look on her face making it clear to all of them that she wasn't leaving him anytime soon. "We'll find the other Doctor and if you see anything, you let us know, alright?" She instructed, pulling out her phone to give her number to Sam really quick before he parted ways.
The Doctor reached out and took Donna's hand. It was as familiar as it was strange, and although he knew that she'd possibly hate him later, at least in this moment it felt comforting to have her there. Giving a small smile to Sam who genuinely did seem to want to help, the Doctor nodded at his departure. But it was Rex's words that caused the Time Lord to stare directly at him. "I'm so sorry for what he's done to you. We'll make it right."
Rex nodded in agreement with Donna and waved with a silent offer of thanks towards Sam before he left. Despite being against it at first, he was genuinely glad that the two of them ended up joining him. He knew through the grapevine that Dean would be a good asset on their side. When he slid his gaze back to the Doctor, he shrugged. "Damn right we will. But don't worry about it, it's not your fault." Then clapping his hands together, he dug into his pocket to shoot Jack one last quick update before pointing his finger toward the door. "Let's find us a Metacrisis."