tushanshu | [Console; Video] Fresh Meat

[The video opens on a somewhat charming smile. The man in it seems very sure of himself, and utterly unrattled by his new situation.]

Hey. Captain Jack Harkness here, and I've got to say it's a pretty nice turtle you've got. She's not exactly where I was trying to get, but seeing as this place seems short on the killer reality tv shows...pretty minor quibble.

I've already met a few of the locals - thanks again guys, and sorry about those vegetables - but I'm always open to meet more people. Local, not-so-local, I don't really mind either way since it looks like I'll have some free time.

Other than company, all I'm in the market for right now's a job and maybe some tools, if someone's willing to lend them - I have a piece of tech that got broken in transit somehow, and I'd really rather get it back in one piece.

[He raises his left arm to show off a leather cuff with what appears to be a communicator inside. It's been fried.]

I'm sure we can work something out in exchange, I've been told I'm pretty good with my hands.

[He laughs a little, at his joke, and there's a moment of dead air after it. Just when the pause starts to get uncomfortably long he makes a show of clearing his throat.]

And oh, Doctor, Rose? [His smile tightens, just barely. Appears just a bit forced.] If you're out there, looks like I'm alive after all. Which I'm kind of hoping you two didn't know, because seriously? There are much nicer ways to let a guy down.

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[ The face on the view screen is eighteen, but the eyes are older. But, still, she smiles - coy, inviting. And her accent? Decidedly British. ]

Sorry, darling, I don't believe we have a Doctor Rose here. Have you been shown to the hotel yet?

[Oh, Jack spent enough time around the Doctor to know old eyes when he sees them. It doesn't stop him from returning a flirty smile, and the accent especially doesn't.]

They're two different people, but trust me if he was here...I'm pretty sure you'd know. As a matter of fact I haven't. My new friends only showed me as far as this place. Would you happen to have some spare time?

[ Oh, she likes the ones that flirt back. ]

Well, it just so happens, that I'm off shift at the Healer's Guild. Now, where would you be, darling? The Welcome Center?

Good guess - but that was an easy one wasn't it?

[Flirting and banter, and Jack is a happy man.]

Healer's Guild, huh? You're not going to tell me that I left the company of a guy who goes by the Doctor and a pretty blonde Londoner, just to end up with the whole deal in one package are you?

[ She laughs. ]

Oh, darling, I haven't been to London in years. I live mostly in Paris these days. Or New York.

[ Except the whole eighteen year old thing. ]

Now, I will stop by and bring you to the hotel. You'll be welcome until you get yourself straightened around.

My mistake, but you can still hear it. I've been around a bit myself.

[Not, Jack's assuming from the avoidance, a doctor then.]

I'll be waiting. Just let me wrap up a few things and, oh - promise me that last part isn't mandatory. [He adds, laughing at his own joke.]

No, of course it isn't.

[ Oh she is going to like him. Still, she bundles up her stuff, says good bye to her work mates and heads to the Welcome Center. That's the place to be when you're new. ]

Hello darling, ready to head to the hotel?

[At the greeting, Jack looks up with a hundred-watt smile, and logs out of the computer.]

Done for now, I know how to find the place - and I got taught better than to keep a pretty girl waiting.

[He gets up from his feet and crosses the room to her - clothes just slightly the worse for wear, spots of dirt and dust on them. Black leather tells all. It doesn't stop him from offering her his arm.]

Shall we?

[ She smiles and slips her hand through his elbow. Honestly, this place needs a little chivalry. ]

My name is Heather.

[ She's dressed in bright colored scrubs, the bane of any nurse. And she smells like antisceptic, but that's nothing she can do about right now. ]

Now, the rule is, you can stay at the hotel for a month, free. But at the end of the month, you'll be expected to have settled in and found work somewhere.

I was wondering when we were going to get around to that.

[Jack's teasing, but he's gentle about it. The smell doesn't bother him, he'd never been around traditional hospitals much anyway.]

Sounds fair to me. Never really had trouble finding a bed wherever I wind up, and I've got at least two people lined up to talk to about employment. Tell me, Heather, does everything move this fast around here?

[ Her smile is cryptic, and old at the same time. ]

That depends, darling. Do you really want us to slow down?

[ Her eyebrow arches, playfully. ]

Never. [Jack tells her without hesitation, mischief in his eyes and his smile.]

I was just going to say if so, this is starting to look like my kind of place.

Well, we do have those who have no interest in even flirting. I despair of them.

[ Devin, she's thinking of you. ]

However, you'll find that I'm not one of them. I enjoy a good, hard flirt now and again.

[ Is she still talking about flirting? Probably not. ]

You get a few of those no matter where you go. I've learned not to take it personally.

[And he seems to have been doing pretty well since he got there.]

Good to know I haven't been seeing things. That makes two of us, by the way. But don't worry - I can absolutely give as good as I can get.

Can you darling? That will make my time here a bit better, I can assure you.

[ She leads him through the streets, heading for the hotel. ]

Now, my dear Captain, why don't you tell me how you ended up here?

Then I'm glad to hear it.

[He kept an eye on their surroundings, even while making sure to watch her. All the better to learn the layout of the place - and she, honestly, was as fun to look at as to flirt with.]

Didn't know there was a how. I'd just been left behind by my friends, headed out to find them and... [Jack shrugs, animatedly.] Woke up in something that wasn't lettuce.

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