Welcome to Gaia! ::

::As a final sight, Sun was gifted with the sight of one light in the distance flickering and in that brief flicker of dark the little girl in white flashed into view, her hand raised as if caught in a wave, and she vanished just as quickly as she came.

As the elevator began its rumbling thumping and slightly shakey ride, Mary took to the corner nearest Dathos, not the same corner, just one adjacent. Her red hair and white nurses gown very quickly became alive with the creepy crawly white spiders. A few she let trickle down her hands, and others she very gently petted. But something was on her mind, something that showed in the way her eyes wandered. Something that was hinted at by her baited breathes, as if each breath was the prelude to a word, but the words kept falling away. Until about the time they passed the 36th floor. With her courage built up as high as it would go, she turned to Sun, a bit of concern on her face.::

Dathos, do you mind if I...ask you a question?

Okay.

::Mary said, nodding and taking a deep breathe. She had to composer herself so as to ask this right, or in the right way. If she did it wrong she might hurt his feelings, or his mind...or something, in some way she wouldnt understand. So she paused, and slowly the words came to her. One by one, and she spoke them.::

Where...

::Another pause a moment of doubt rising to the surface choking her up, and then sinking away again.::

Where have you been for all these years? We missed you. Father never told us why you left...

::Mary hoped she hadnt pressed the wrong verbal button and caused something of a snap. Sun had given her one of those answers that says pages and pages, but....told her absolutely nothing at all. From that description there was just about no way to tell where he had been.

The spiders scurried off like dust clearing off a very old table or counter thats been blown on. Mary didnt fight, but she did let out something of a suprised "Eep!", Sun certainly was a quick one. But her surprise soon calmed as the realization that cute guy was wrapped around her settled in. And as she heard his final word she leaned forward as if huddling slightly around him and whispered ever so cautiously.::

Its ok, it doesnt matter where you've been. Your home now, theres nothing to be scared of.

::And as the two sat the spiders moved back in, examing crawling over and generally exploring the two of them. Until suddenly they retreated to their corners just a fraction of a second before the elevator made a loud "DING". And the doors gently slid open.

Inside sat a luxurious hall. It was painted a deep red to match Suns's hair, and adorned crown molding. It was fully lit as opposed to the hall below, and it led to a set of very large double doors. It almost looked like this room was snatched from another building entirely and placed here, it wasnt dark, but elegantly designed. Mary gently patted Sun on the back.::

We're here....

::Mary of course obliged Sunstriks offer, she gently placed her hand in his but she was smarter than to allow him to do all the work and for the most part lifted herself to her feet. As a lady would, she walked beside Sun, and looked on at the pure innocence cast across his face.

And then they reached the doors. Mary nodded excitedly at Suns question. And kept a look out for his reaction.

The room itself was giant. It seemed like 2 or 3 normal rooms smooshed together. Directly opposite the door was a king sized bed with two night stands on either side, again red was a big theme but yellow and orange were occasionally spliced in on certain small details like bed trim and curtains frills. Infact Sun was gifted with one of the few rooms in the tower to have a window. The window was of course locked, bolted, and several layers thick, but it was a window none the less! It provided a beautiful view of the endless snowy night outside the homes walls.

As was to be expected to the far right of the door was yet another door, a pair of sliding doors leading to a large closet stuffed full of various clothes of random styles. Sun hadnt exactly come dressed in something displaying his taste in fashion and so a variety was picked.

Mary gave him a moment to look around before speaking.::

What do you think?

Yep. Its all for you. And there'll be more too. But you came as such a surprise we didnt have time to plan or build or even set up a par--eep!

::Mary couldnt help but giggle. She was honestly afraid Dathos would hate the room. Maybe it would be to big, or maybe it would strike up the horrible memory of something that had happened in the many years he'd been gone. He seemed surprised at the fact he'd been given so much when truly for the Doctor...family can never truly be given enough. This was only a fraction of what the man felt he deserved. Mary knew this. So somewhat excitedly and with a bit of a childish giggle she responded.

It was less of shrill "eep" of fear, and more of a somewhat shocked squeak. She wasnt used to be hugged just yet, Father was never physically comforting to his children. But, Datho's hug was met with a warm smile as she reached her arms around his back a bit awkwardly to return the hug. Clear through the deathly pale tone of her skin the slight pink of her blushing cheeks was clear to see.

A guy? Hugging her? No fleebing way. This had to go into the diary.

As she peered down she could make out Datho mumbling something to himself, but even she couldnt figure what. And then came the sudden flinch, and the odd look on his face as he let her go. His words, or words in this case only added to the confusion stacking in her mind like lego's.::

Is everything alrig--

::"Shadows" he had said. The words slipped from her mouth like water slipping from a fountain. Her hand rose gently to point at a nearby lamp.::

....we can make it brighter...will that help?

::Needless to say, she was lost.::

::Mary tilted her head ever so slightly to the side. Father had made a promise? Maybe he made it before she came down stairs with the sandwiches. Or was he promising her that the Doctor would be making him better and maybe clearing the Shadows in his mind. Well in all honesty either one was good! So she nodded triumphantly and simply said.::

Ok!

::She watched him wander, and as she saw him make his way to the closet she was about to make her way to the door. You see Mary was always taught proper manners by her father. You shouldnt stand in a room whilst someone is changing, its rude. Especially if said someone is a guest, despite how good looking said someone may be. But she was stopped, just as she pulled the double doors open. Datho had asked or help.

Mentally she kicked herself. How could she be so stupid! Of course Datho needed help, he had an obvious leg wound, how was he supposed to reach the higher ledges and hangers? Obviously he couldnt!::

Of course!

::Mary said as she scooted herself across the room and into the large closet. Instinctually her eyes looked around the closet, and then back to Datho with a cheerfully innocent smile on her face.::

What did you need help reaching?

::Blink. Blink.

There was an actual moment of disbelief. You see in raising his little girl the Doctor had endeavored to provide Mary with the small comforts and things most common in the development of a healthy female child. For instance, in order to cultivate her maternal instincts she was given small baby dolls. In order to give her a taste of male and female interactions she was given a male and female dolls. And, of course with said hand held features of childhood advancement she was of course given suitable wardrobes and homes and vehicles....It was only natural.

Her male doll was named Ivan. Ivan had two arms, and two legs, and a small box the size of a shoebox which held all his hundreds of outfits. Mary loved dressing Ivan almost as much as she loved playing with him, and Kimmy, her female doll.

But Ivan and Kimmy were small toys for a small girls small hands. And they were years in the past. Today the two dolls collected dust on her dresser. But before her stood something that was most definately not a dust collection. Before her stood someone, who had just said something to which she could only respond with a set of blinks.

Before her stood, what was effectively, a living, breathing, life size dress-up doll. And she was standing in his shoe-box full of clothes.

The dumbfounded look on her face shattered off as it was replaced with a sparkle in her jade eyes and a little skip.::

Really?!

::She said most excited. Though honestly she didnt even wait for an answer. With a fwoosh she was as the clothes, she liked to start from the bottom up. And as her nimble fingers slipped through racks of clothes, her mouth began moving. Talk of fashion spewing forth.::

Oh this is so awesome. I always wanted to give someone a makeover! Alright, now we need to give you something to match the weather....maybe some long sleaves, maybe some fur...red...fur...red...red....

::Her fingers flitted through the racks of jackets, pulling out a few with feathered tops, fur clothings, a fur scarf, even a fuzzy hat...She paused or a pit hovering the fuzzy hat over Datho's head, it looked like a fox complete with cute little fox ears. But then her eyes shifted down...she was caught for a moment in his eyes, and his physique. It wasnt as much a "checking out", as much as she realized something. And her realization caused her to flip the hat, and the long sleaved crimson trench coat over her shoulder and flop it onto the floor.::

You've got no reason to cover all that up.

::For the moment, the innocent Mary seemed to be gone replaced by some sort of fast talking, and faster moving Hollywood runway designer. Perhaps she had borrowed and eye or a liver from fashionista and didnt know. Mary had always had a bit of a thing for personality hopping....randomly...without control.::

Fwa! How about this!?

::As she pulled what seemed to be the equivalent of a red leather jump suit from a hanger. It was a one piece full body covering suit. It was complete with a large V neck. This was coupled with the arms and chest area being decked out in a myriad of small belts which assumably could be fassened for....absolutely no other purpose other than look. Mary even held up a matching longsleave coat, and a set of black leather boots, to match the black leather gloves. In all honestly, this looked to be the sort of outfit a long lost video game character would wear before going to hunt a myriad of demons or some such. But for the moment, Mary seemed quite serious, while excited and smiling, in offering this as suitable garb for the young man.::

::Mary's face quicky back dumbfounded yet again. Was...she joking? No no, was HE joking?! This was supposed to be a joke!::

Are you serious?

::He looked at the clothes in her hands. Supertight red leather, belts and what not.::

This looks like something some badass demon fighter person would wear or something, I was kidding! You like this?

::She looked at the outfit again, and wondered weather or not she should have thrown in a red boa maybe to complete the joke...But then quickly hung the whole thing up on the door, sort of "saving it for later" just in case.::

No, no...I see you more in something like this...

::Another quickly rummage through the closet and Mary pulled out another completely different outfit. This one consisted of a red suit. Red dressed pants, a red jacket which looked like something a priest would wear. It had red buttons coming from the neck in a straight line to the bottom of the suit jacket. This was matched with a pear of red boots...but then she paused.::

Very classy...but somethings missing....

::Then it came to her. She flipped a small red disk from the closet and plopped it onto Sunny's head, as it gently hit his head an audible pop was heard as the Top Hat popped open and rested gently between on his ears. And finally, she pulled out a red scarf and drapped it aroud the neck of the jacket. And finally a pair of thick red framed faux glasses. Glasses, jacket, scarf, hat, boots. She held back a bit of a giggle.::

Whaddya think?