[008 ☿] Cliff-Diving

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[There's a gorgeous view from up here: a rocky cliff face overlooking the sea. The breeze plays with her hair as Ami waits at the very highest point, right on the edge. She looks down, an angle likely to give vertigo but she only grins broader.

She's going to jump.

She lets go, and her body suddenly looks so small against the backdrop of open sky as she plummets towards the water and sinks beneath the waves. The movement is a thrilling rush and the moment she's immersed, she smiles. She lets herself stay there, savoring the feeling, and she rises to the surface only reluctantly and belatedly.]

(ooc: not necessarily theme, but I'm open to theme antics as well if anyone wanted to catch her here for them; let me know)

Comments

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

You'll take risks 'for the universe'?

People don't really have that sort of motive. [And to be fair-] Not me, either. I just want to defeat those enemies that want to destroy it.

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

You're also not a Time Lord.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[No. But she's a soldier. She knows all the empty lines about 'protecting' and 'for the greater good'.

And she knows they're empty because in the end, they cover an even darker and more selfish true intention than her own.]

Time Lords aren't different in this. They're the same as anyone else.

[Doubly, if she knew his story and the destruction he's brought despite his mouthings of saving. So like the princess.]

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

They're dead.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

You're right in front of my eyes.

[But it raises a question perhaps only a time lord, outside of the senshi, could or would think to answer.]

If you had a child, the Time Lords would continue. Is that right?

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

Except I don't have a child.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

If you did, what would happen? With time lord blood and human blood mingled?

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

No. They don't mingle. There is no mingling of human and-and Time Lord DNA like that!

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

Is that a law, or genetic impossibility?

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

Genetics! Why are we even discussing this?!

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[Because she's easy side-tracked by academics!]

It's nothing. A distraction.

Besides, you didn't want to dive, right?

This isn't the first time you've shown up. So I've been thinking, there might be something for us to say to each other after all.

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

There might be. I doubt it's about babies though.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[Probably not. And for once she wouldn't be being snide. They're too different, even if they were to unfathomably be attracted to each other.]

Even though it won't be diving, either, feel like swimming awhile?

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

Depends on the tide.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

It isn't very strong right now. I chose my time.

[Not that she needs to worry about the water; but prudence is still always wise.]

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

[ With a nod he turns and heads back down to the beach. ]

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[She slips back into the water easily; it's as if she was born to it. Ami sinks beneath the waves and resurfaces a remarkably far distance away from her starting point.]

Out here!

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

It's a bit far, don't you think?

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

Did you want to swim, or wade?

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

We'll start with wading and see where it leads us from there.

[ He slides his tweed jacket off and his shoes and socks. Then he starts wading into the water. ]

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

You should roll up those pants more. You can't go very far like that!

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

My pants are perfectly fine!

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

If you don't mind them getting damp.

[thatoldthatkind.livejournal.com]

It's a bit too late for that one.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

If you don't mind.

I kind of like that sort of person who plunges in once they decide.