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Even though the icon above shows Sarah Jane sitting, that is in fact not what she is doing right now.
Sarah Jane? Is pacing.
Pacing because, while James has been at work for the last few hours, she's slowly been realising what a rash idea this was. She doesn't belong here; this isn't her world. There's no Metropolitan and certainly no journalist by the name of Sarah Jane Smith and she doesn't have any way of supporting herself here.
She's dependent as long as she's here, and dependent in a way that she isn't when living on the TARDIS because that doesn't involve money and day to day expenses. Less than a day in, and it is already starting to irk her.
Still, there is that gym membership he promised - they were going to deal with that during his lunch hour tomorrow, weren't they? And shopping and maybe a bit of redecorrating (as she refuses to live in a dull flat) and other things, she's sure of that.
It's all a matter of waiting for James to flipping get home soon. She's not going to start preparing dinner until he's there to share the task with her.
Sarah Jane? Is pacing.
Pacing because, while James has been at work for the last few hours, she's slowly been realising what a rash idea this was. She doesn't belong here; this isn't her world. There's no Metropolitan and certainly no journalist by the name of Sarah Jane Smith and she doesn't have any way of supporting herself here.
She's dependent as long as she's here, and dependent in a way that she isn't when living on the TARDIS because that doesn't involve money and day to day expenses. Less than a day in, and it is already starting to irk her.
Still, there is that gym membership he promised - they were going to deal with that during his lunch hour tomorrow, weren't they? And shopping and maybe a bit of redecorrating (as she refuses to live in a dull flat) and other things, she's sure of that.
It's all a matter of waiting for James to flipping get home soon. She's not going to start preparing dinner until he's there to share the task with her.
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Date: 2007-04-16 05:55 am (UTC)He's comforted by the presence of another person when he returns, though he suspects the novelty will wear off when Sarah Jane runs out of things to do. Thinking on that wipes the smile off his face. Had she done anything today?
"Sarah?" he calls out, peering around a corner. He can hear the shuffling of her feet. Pacing. Not a good sign.
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Date: 2007-04-16 02:25 pm (UTC)"Oh, it certainly took you long enough to get home from work," she mutters without even a hello.
It's the restlessness. The fact that she wasn't sure what to do with herself today and wound up spending most of her time thinking and the results she came up with weren't good. Not good at all.
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Date: 2007-04-16 03:35 pm (UTC)"Are you all right?"
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Date: 2007-04-16 03:39 pm (UTC)Sarah Jane shakes her head, and its only seconds later that she starts to pace again. "What am I doing here, James? It's not as if I'm from your world. I'm not housewife material and you know that and I don't have a job and nothing to do except that gym of yours and nothing!"
Beat.
"We didn't think this out, did we?"
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Date: 2007-04-16 03:42 pm (UTC)"Did you bring your typewriter with you?"
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Date: 2007-04-16 03:43 pm (UTC)"You're avoiding the question."
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Date: 2007-04-16 03:45 pm (UTC)"Did you?"
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Date: 2007-04-16 03:47 pm (UTC)Sarah Jane stops pacing again to stare at him.
"Answer the question, James."
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Date: 2007-04-16 05:22 pm (UTC)Sarah Jane's profession is far more flexible than his. If their situations were reversed, James would be at a loss for what he could do. Sarah Jane could just as easily pick up a pen and paper, write a spectacular article and submit it anywhere. Sure, it'd be a while before she could be able to live off her writing, but he had no doubt that she would eventually reach that point. If she tried.
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Date: 2007-04-16 05:24 pm (UTC)"Freelance reporting? Well, it's not something I've ever considered."
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Date: 2007-04-16 05:31 pm (UTC)She's had enough experience in what most people would probably consider fiction that surely something would strike her fancy for a story. And freelancing...well, loads of journalists did that these days. It couldn't be too hard, could it?
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Date: 2007-04-16 05:59 pm (UTC)She smiles and stops walking in the middle of the room, waiting for him to come to her. "If I recall, me moving in here was your idea. And yet, you haven't done a single thing to make me more comfortable in your flat aside from going off to work. I wouldn't even be surprised if you were expecting dinner on the table just now."
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Date: 2007-04-16 06:00 pm (UTC)"...maybe I was."
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Date: 2007-04-16 06:57 pm (UTC)"I am never going to be your housewife, James. Or anyone elses."
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