I sleeped until I wasn't sleepy. Win.

[beccaelizabeth]

I dreamed of the Doctor. All 10 (or possibly 12) of him. I was wandering the earth after an apocalyptic invasion. Also I was black. But I wasn't Martha, for she is too awesome. I think I was Tanya Lamb, but it might have been a different T name. Everyone thought she was the messiah and she spent all her time telling them she wasn't and to get on and save themselves. Yelling at them not to wait for some white guy in the sky and all that. It got very frustrating.

... I have issues with the end of season 3, okay? Just... issues.

So. Anyway.

She could teleport by really wanting to. Only she couldn't just want to be away, she had to want to go *to*. So basically she could go to people and places she loved. Only, due to the whole apocalypse thing, there was an increasing shortage.

There were lots of shadows of Daleks on the walls, and running through tunnels. The thing about Daleks is, if you see them clearly? You're pretty much dead.

So eventually she'd wandered the whole earth and was back where she started. A convention hotel full of people who'd been there when Gwen's baby got born on a hellmouth and got possessed by Eeeeevil and kicked off this whole apocalypse thing. Yeah, uh, my subconscious, don't ask.

It was also complicated by a whole thing where I was also a police captain and one of the guys working for me was Sam Carter's boyfriend, you know, the one that didn't die, and the other guy in charge of the other half of people I only saw from afar but I think was the guy who was on seaQuest and also is one of the boss people on SG1. There was slashy kissing. I don't want to think about it too much. Anyway, I was upstairs in a diner collecting an order when I saw the whole thing with Gwen stopping in the middle of the road where the epicenter of the hellmouth was, all big with baby. And then when the demons came everyone that was looking got possessed but I'd known and looked away and my lot were in the basement so we escaped via the parking garage and they weren't possessed neither. Sort of a complications intensive apocalypse, really. Definitely more than one episode.

So, wait, timeline: TL is police Captain lady, with two lieutenants, who snog. She also goes to get coffee and donuts and stuff, for she is just that cool, and possibly no one else gets the order right. And her department is in the basement. And when the demons come we run away bravely. Through tunnels. And then split up to form a resistance, which doesn't work very well, so there's a Dalek-y demon-y sort of apocalypse.

Hey, that's a thought: Daleks vs Demons, who'd win? I guess it depends on if Dalek ray guns can kill demons, because if they need anything blessed, they're pretty much screwed.

ANYway, she walks the earth, and gets back to the beginning place, which is a convention hotel. There's a reg desk with name badges and everything. And then people have competitions about shotting people and stuff. I don't know, what kind of con would the demon possessed run?

She's got nowhere left to go, so she's going back to her hotel room from the last good weekend. She gets in the lift, only the controls are all different, with a type pad instead of regular hotel numbers. So she types in her hotel room number, 112. And the lift starts moving up. But it has no doors, so it's my standard scary lift dream. Only then there's this really large American lady, also black, and she's in the lift and she's reaching into her purse and I figure, okay, gun, going to get shot again (because being shot at kind of alternates with being worshiped, especially after the save-yourselves speech) but no, it is worship's turn, and apparently there's been some updates to the Bible cause she pulls it out and it's all full of Lamb stories. Kind of a *facepalm*, but what the hey. Not having that argument right now.

So then the lift goes up to the 11th floor. Which is kind of a surprise because there didn't seem to be 11 on the list last time. So they find it's under construction, full of concrete and construction offices, empty of hotel rooms. Quite possibly nobody knows it's there. Cool hiding place.

Only then it turns out everyone knows it's there - everyone from the resistance, all her people she'd been meaning to meet up with, and a bunch of her friends too. Including this really stoned guy from high school, you know the one, the guy who doesn't seem to need anything herbal to be living in a highly subjective reality? That guy, really white-blonde hair and white skin, in a rainbow striped wool hat with ear flaps, and some fingerless mittens with the pouch bit on the back that you can pull over in the cold. He looks like he's been wearing the same ensemble all year, and you can't read what's on his t-shirt any more, plus there's at least half a dozen layers going on. Also, he doesn't remember or recognise her. Which is a refreshing change by this point. But closer enquiry says he doesn't remember anything from Before, which is increasingly common among traumatised survivors, they only remember this world they have to live in. Which kind of sucks, really.

So her first speech to the assembled masses, who aren't very mass and in fact could probably fit in the lecture theatre at college and they're frickin tiny but anyway, her first speech is all about 'remember when' and she's thinking of the past and all the shiny there.

And then the noises start, and the shadows come.

Okay, so they know this floor is here.

But there's nowhere left to run cause the lift is broken and the stairs only go down one floor and that's already fighting and basically they're screwed.

So she tries the other part of her speech one last time, the you-can-save-yourselves bit and the I'm-not-special and the part where she explains how they can do it too. Only, this time, because it's all people that knew her and were only expecting their boss and have seen her first thing in the morning and all that, they actually believe her. Because it's hard to believe in a messiah you've seen severely caffeine deprived. So they listen, and connect, and the world goes all shiny, and whoosh, they've teleported.

Only where to? She'd run out of places.

But not times.

So she finds herself back before all this happened, still on that unconstructed floor, but back when life was shiny and windows didn't mean flying death. Which is much more fun.

And then she turns around and her friends start to appear. Because it worked. They could see it worked. They could see how. So they all just followed her.

Win!

Only then they noticed something rather odd. The sun seemed to be going backwards. And all the people outside the window too. And, well, oopsie, but they seemed to have not only travelled in time for that short hop, they were stuck going backwards too.

And not knowing how they'd done it, ro having seen how, well, they were still following her...

And everyone was getting younger. I don't know how she knew it in the available timescale. Maybe things sped up, or maybe she was Just That Cool. But they'd have these little backwards lives and get to be baby sized and then unhappen. It was sort of freaky.

Then the Doctor arrived. The one we know as the 9th Doctor was who she saw first. When his other earlier selves turned up he sent them away on the basis his oldests would clearly know the mostest. Except then 10 turned up, so by his own logic 9 got sent away. He weren't best pleased about that, but he was stuck with it.

So then 10 held my hand and we ran to go find out what was going on and how to fix it.

I was a bit surprised by the holding hands. It had been a while since anyone touched me. Or I touched anyone. And 10 was a bit surprised by that. What, not even hand holding? Even he did hand holding! But he let go, cause she seemed uncomfortable.

So TL explained that when she touched someone, she knew them. All the way back and many ways forward, and that's a lot to know about someone, so intimately, and tragically too. But then, he'd know that.

And then he looked at her all serious and took her hand again, because yes, he'd know *exactly* that. So then there was some more hand holding and, er, knowing each other, until they got a happy... look, I was asleep, I didn't write handporn-telepasex, just... ANYways, moving on back to the plot:

They did running some more, and figuring out what was going on, which involved watching inflatable Dalek toys on the beach. Don't ask, they didn't really get it either. And then before they could figure it out the Doctor went all gold like he was regenerating... and turned into 9.

Because the Doctor was also ageing backwards. At a vastly accelerated rate. Possibly something to do with being a more frequent time traveller.

So, then there was a very brief moment of 9, long enough to figure what had happened, and then he went golden again and it wasn't 8. It was, in fact, that incredibly stoned dude from High School, who apparently had a reason for seeing all those things nobody else saw. Which was kind of a jaw dropper. And then he regenerated, and turned into someone very disabled from brain damage, who was possibly kinda sorta her foster brother. Just... don't think about it too much, her brain broke too. So then that guy regenerated, with a lot of screaming, and he looked like 8 at last. An older sort of 8, worn down and grey haired. He knew about the Daleks because he'd spent most of this regeneration - centuries - fighting the Time War. So he was kind of grim to start with, and had few plans. But the younger he got the bouncier he got, and the more plans he had. It was sort of tragic watching it. Then, of course, there was 7, who thought he'd got it all figured out, and 6 who reckoned it would all be over by teatime and we just had to press this button. Except for, the button was going backwards in time with us, and needed to send a signal in the normal direction, and he'd forgotten that. Oops.

And the really odd thing was that future-Doctor the stoned amnesiac, the one who really had seemed very human, was still hanging around de-aging only at the same speed as the rest of the humans, and was watching all his prior incarnations antics with great interest.

So finally we ran through the countdown and figured out how to get back into normal time - but only at the point we'd left from. Which could be considered a problem, given that we left it to avoid being killed by Daleks. But stoner-guy told us not to worry, he knew what to do now.

... given the givens, we worried.

But, few options, so we also went.

And then stoner guy went teleporting some more, bounced around collecting things, came back with a bunch of stuff in his pockets and a signal device that could send the signal to some anti-Dalek weapons platforms 7 had set up. Which gave humans a signal, and a fighting chance. I'd like to think the humans all joined in and helped and saved themselves around then. Er, the meta of this dream sort of breaks down. Because here we have one white guy, former crush, not technically in the sky but in a sort of high personal place, and, well, he saves the world some. But he is in fact human at the time. Really truly. Because he gets shot, by one of the possessed - hey, I know, the Doctor would be dealing with the Daleks, but the newly psychic human collective would be what kicks out the bad things from the possessed. Right! Solved! Sorta... ANYways, stoner-Doctor gets shot... and gets out his pocket watch.

So he gets his glowy Time Lord-y-ness back and then regenerates into 9.

Cool.

So then 9 has to leave, because I know from 10 that a bunch of stuff has to happen before this whole invasion thing or else we'd have been invaded already. And because it's a Time War and all his earlier selves were here then this Dalek thing has been dealt with already but also hasn't happened yet by the time he's travelling with Rose.

... time travel. brain breaky.

So. Anyway. Eventually she might meet 10 again, who is actually 10(+2) in this alternate timeline. And then they'd have to get over the whole thing where they'd been, er, differently connected in previous incarnations. Or, possibly, make a note to never hold hands again and just go their seperate ways and promise to never ever mention it.

... You know, I could probably leave that part out, but with one time traveller prone to amnesia and changing his body all the time you've got to wonder sometimes.

... that wasn't very coherent. It was a dream. With lots of running and guns and daleks and demons and being the messiah only not.

And yet, now? Feeling pretty well rested.



soooo... there was a character called TL, and she ends up with the Dr, and that's a really long post for a dream bunny... I has cleverly encoded irony right there. ;-)

but it was kind of neat the idea there were 2 regenerations we never met, who were getting over the damage and not quite all there. Hiding among humans until they could cope on their own again. And then that would mean 10 is actually 12, and almost run out. Because he knows what's next, and while he can't quite figure how that could happen he really doesn't want it to, so he's kind of screwed if he does change again. So he'd hang on to that form with everything he's got. Which would explain the lack of regenerating when he scans as dead. Although that can also be explained by how he can make himself look dead with meditating. It's just interesting to drop in, a couple of amnesiac regenerations.

... nah, not so much. As per usual the dream bunnies is less worky once written down. eh.