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Ace McShane/ Dodo Chaplet

[memorae.livejournal.com]

"Oy there! 'Scuse me, do you know the way to Coal Hill School?"

The girl calling her was like no one Dodo had ever seem before. She was wearing leggings and an odd skirt and some sort of jacket- like a winter jacket maybe, but with pins all over it. And was that a baseball bat in her rucksack? Very odd. She looked lost though, so Dodo smiled at her.

"Sure I do, just keep straight on down this street, then a left at the laundromat, a right a tobacconist, then there's a sort of a fork, take the left one, another two blocks and you're there."

"Right at the laundromat, right at the... what again?"

"Left at the laundromat, right at the tobacconist- hey, I've got a bit of time, I can show you the way if you want."

Actually, Dodo was supposed to be home already, but, if she was already going to be chewed out by her aunt, what was another fifteen minutes?

"Oh that'd be brill! I thought I knew how to get there
but I got all turned around on these streets. I'm Ace, by the way."

"What a fab name, I've never met anyone named Ace before. That jacket- are you a like, a flying ace? Are you with the RAF or something?"

"Nah, that'd be pretty wicked though, wouldn't it? No, I'm just- well, I guess I don't even have a proper job now. I used to be a waitress but that was lame anyway. Good riddance."

"Oh, I don't think it'd be wicked. I mean, why shouldn't a woman be able to fly a plane as well as a man? Better then being a waitress anyway, I'd think. Oh, where're my manners, my name's Dodo."

"Like, the bird?" The girl's voice was curious, not jeering and made Dodo feel divulging.

"Yeah, I saw this exhibit about dodo birds once on a trip to Whipsnade Zoo with school. I was looking at all the pictures of them and I kept thinking, maybe they didn't all die. What if they got tired of people killing them and taking their eggs so they just flew away? That's what I would've done if I were them, but I guess everyone else thought it was a pretty daft idea when I told them and they started calling me Dodo. Me real name's Dorothea though, horrid isn't it? And I liked the dodos anyway, so I think it's an improvement."

"You're kidding, my r-" the girl broke off for a second and a cloud passed over her face. She flicked her braid over her shoulder and continued, "well, it's not my real name, but the name my mum gave me's Dorothy. Totally naff, isn't it?"

"Naff?"

"Yeah, I don't even like to tell people normally."

"No, me neither. I live with me great-aunt and she
won't listen when I tell her I don't want to be called Dorothea anymore. She drives me a bit mad. Sometimes," Dodo dropped her voice to a conspiratorial whisper and met Ace's eyes, "sometime she makes me just want to fly away, you know?"

"Yeah, like there's something else you're supposed to be doing."

"Like there's another life I'm supposed to be living." Dodo dropped her eyes and kicked a stone one the pavement.

"Sounds a bit silly I guess," she said timidly. "Here we are, anyway."

"No, no it doesn't. I have to go, but, it was nice talking to you. Really."

"Maybe we could talk again sometime. Where do you live?"

"Right now I kind of live in a police box."

"In a police box?"

"Well, it's not really a police box it-" a loud rumbling sound came from the school and Ace frowned.

"Look, I really have to go," She turned and dashed across the schoolyard, but she turned for a second when she reached the door and called back, "Thanks for everything Dodo."

"Thank you Ace," she called back, but the door was already shut.

---

A couple years later Steven would comment that she'd come to terms with the whole 'police box that travels in space and time' bit pretty quickly for someone from the twenty-first century and Dodo would just laugh. The only thing that surprised her, once the situation was explained, was that she could never find that black winter jacket, no matter how far she dug into the Tardis's closet.