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Characters: Oliver Day (oliverplus) and OPEN
Location: Your reality!
Time: After Oliver's fairytale has ended, and during or after yours, as you prefer
Summary: Oliver goes on an involuntary reality-hopping tour of the multiverse~
Warnings: Oliver is a geek, and depending on your reality, he might just show it. Possibly a lot.

Tag in if you'd like Oliver to visit you! Prose-style or action tags are fine; just tag in the way you feel like playing.



"Samwise! Don't go under there!"

Oliver had learned a long time ago that "getting lost" and "going somewhere in the TARDIS" were basically synonymous, so he'd long since given up on getting annoyed when it happened. Instead, he usually just looked at it as another adventure to conquer--plus, you never knew what sort of cool things you might find in the meantime. And that was all well and good when he was alone, but this time he'd made the mistake of bringing one of his pets along. Watching a dwarf rabbit run off to be lost in the TARDIS was not the sort of adventure he'd had in mind for today.

He crouched down by the random large machine that was sitting by one of the walls of a room that otherwise appeared to be some sort of study. Aside from the hulking metal contraption, the room was lined with comfortable sofas and armchairs, the lighting coming from lamps on sidetables. Fancy rugs were scattered about on the polished wooden floor, although the area around the machine was bare aside from some telltale scuff marks. And while the space underneath the machine was large enough for a rabbit to fit, Oliver doubted he could even get one of his hands in there. "Come on, come out! I'll get you some nice greens?"

As he leaned down to look under the machine, he just caught sight of a furry ball shooting out and across the room. "Samwise!" He jumped to his feet, realising now that he'd been so intent on the rabbit that he hadn't even thought to close the door to the study when he came in. And, of course, he pet was making straight for it. Oliver ran after him, hoping to grab the door and shut it before Samwise could reach it and disappear into the corridor. It was going to be a close thing. He grabbed at the side of the door--

--and missed. Oliver skidded to a stop, almost falling over in his surprise. Because it was immediately apparent that he hadn't simply missed in his grab--the door wasn't there anymore. The study wasn't either, nor was the familiar hum of the TARDIS.

"What...?" Oliver breathed, looking around him in confusion. "Where am I?"

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Oliver was surprised by the rough treatment, his excitement replaced by shock--and hurt. He didn't try to pull free of Saga's grip.

"I just appeared here! The Plane's doing something." He struggled with how to explain when he didn't know why--or how--any of this was happening. He wished he knew why Saga was so upset about it, too. "I can't go there or home. I'm just...showing up places. I can't control it."

missed word up there /blames the clients for distracting me lol

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His expression softens. So Morgana wasn't the only one who could have access to realities because of the Plane... That worried him.

It wasn't as if Oliver couldn't be there. Morgana wanted to meet Athena. The Holy Father and the Goddess were delighted with her presence because she was Saga's friend (and they were happy for that), but he had been warned by Shion about asking for permission first and foremost.

Saga loosened his grip and let Oliver go. He sighed in resignation. "You will be back. At least... that is a pretty excuse for you to come, I guess. You wanted it."

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Oliver started to smile a little again. He certainly hadn't meant for the Plane to do this to him, but so far he was seeing places that he'd wanted to go to but his friends hadn't been willing to take him. And as long as nothing bad happened as a result, that was perfectly all right with him. "Yeah, it sorta works out for me," he admitted.

He gestured past Saga at the incredible landscape, hoping his friend didn't mean to keep him confined to a few pillars until he left. "Can I look around? Oh, wait!" Remembering something very important, he began to dig with one hand in his newly dimensionally-transcendental pockets (courtesy of the Doctor). "I've got something for you."

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"You had your own way." a sheepish smile on his lips. He would have taken Oliver with him, that was for sure. Just like Morgana, Saga wanted to show his friend the place where he grew up and trained hardly to become one of the most fearsome and powerful Gold Saint of the Order.

He moved away so Oliver could go ahead and look at the view. "You can, though you have to be careful--" At that, he blinked and kept quiet for a moment as he looked at his friend.

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"Not on purpose!" Oliver protested with a grin, glad to see Saga smiling back. He'd been worried there for a minute, but everything seemed to be okay now.

Still hunting in his pockets, he was only half-listening to Saga. "Careful?" he asked absently. But then he found what he was looking for. "Hah!" he declared, withdrawing a small rectangular package wrapped in rather garish multi-coloured "Happy Birthday" paper with a giant blue bow on top. He offered it to Saga. "Happy Birthday!"

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Saga couldn't help but chuckle. Oliver will never change...

He stared at the gift with slight surprise, an almost wide smile as he took the package and looked at Oliver, unwrapping it with utmost care.

A small meow was heard and Elektra came out from the Temple, heading towards Saga.

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Oliver watched eagerly as Saga unwrapped the gift. Inside, his friend would find a copy of a famous 2143 re-combined edition of The Twelve Labors of Hercules that Oliver had managed to dig up in the Plane's library. It was the first story he'd thought of when he's tried to come up with a tale of a hero who had hurt his loved ones but come back from it. It wasn't perfect; he didn't want Saga to think he was trying to imply penance was necessary. But he had a feeling Saga already felt that way anyway, and Oliver hoped that the message that you could come back from something like that would shine through more.

"What do you think?" he couldn't help but ask. Elektra appeared then, though, and he turned to the cat with a surprised smile. "Oh hey! Haven't seen you in a while." He clicked his tongue, gesturing for her to come his way. So far, this was turning out to be a really good day.

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When he stared at the cover, there was an unreadable regard in his eyes.

It's been a while since he read that heroic myth in an old, worn handwritten book... and he noticed the message conveyed in it. He wasn't offended... absolutely. Meanwhile, Elektra approached Oliver with a lengthy meow and rubbed herself against his legs with endearing dedication.

Saga closed his eyes as if he were thinking of something, then he looked at Oliver once more with a thankful little smile. "I like it. This one is much better than the one I used to have." Now there was a good reason to re-read it. It meant so much to him.

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Oliver crouched down to pet Elektra, though he still kept an eye on Saga. At his friend's smile, he smiled back, excited. "Yeah? Oh, good! I hoped you'd like it." He scratched Elektra behind the ears. Really, he could hardly have been more content than he was at this moment. He didn't even mind that the Plane was shunting him between different worlds.

"But I guess we're even now," he admitted. "You got your gift, and I got to see your temple."

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Elektra purred glad at the pantomime and Saga looked at her satisfied. She was such a friendly cat (except with females that weren't Morgana) in contrast with her owner. He tilted his head, motioning Oliver to go inside the Temple with him.

"Was that a sort of exchange?" he joked with a grin.

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Oliver gave Elektra a few more scratches behind the ears before he straightened. "Coming with us?" he asked her as he started forward, following Saga eagerly toward the Temple.

"I guess it turned out like that," he replied with a shrug, grinning back. "Why, did you have another in mind?"

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She meowed as in approval and followed him. Once inside, there was a mild dark corridor, which at first sight it had no end and looked more like a black hole.

Saga kept walking as he was looking at Oliver with the same grin. He was about to answer when a voice was heard... a voice that sounded exactly like Saga's.

"Saga... are you there?"

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Oliver smiled as he saw that Elektra was following, but after that point, he only had eyes for the area around them. He couldn't wait to see what the Temple was like!

But then he heard the voice that was so like Saga's, and his eyes widened. He looked to his friend for how Saga wanted to handle this. Oliver was both excited and nervous at the realisation of who that must be, and while part of him really wanted to meet him, he would take Saga's lead in how to react. He owed his friend that at least after barging in on him like this.

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His eyes widened as well for a flash of a second. His face darkened with seriousness, apprehensive about how to handle the situation. Not that he couldn't...

Elektra meowed loudly at the voice, which caused Saga to shoosh her silently. He regarded Oliver, trying to keep composure of what he was going to do. "Stay behind that pillar over there." in low voice and pointing at it with his gaze.

"Saga!" The voice kept insisting, the footsteps getting closer.

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Oliver nodded at Saga's instruction, moving over to the pillar as quickly as he could. He snuck behind it, poking his head around just slightly so he could watch what happened next.

[sosweet]

The Gemini closed his eyes for a moment and sighed, turning to the stranger's voice direction. From the shadows, a man who looked exactly like Saga appeared dressed in the same training clothes that Saga dressed as well. But there was something different about him: his eyes showed toughness and arrogance, a great contrast from Saga's saddened and guilty ones.

The man looked at his twin with a mild upset gaze. "You better change that habit of yours of not answering my calls." Saga looked away. "I was busy." a simple, cold answer. Kanon lifted his eyebrows in fake surprise and crossed his arms. "Really? Because I know you well enough and I know when you seem suspicious, big brother." That caused a slight choak in Saga's throat. Kanon frowned "What are you hiding, Saga... or simply put, who? Remember what the Holy Father told about bringing strangers here." Saga didn't answer, so Kanon grinned "Oh, I get it... then must be your girlfriend named Morgana, right?".

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Oliver watched Kanon's approach, rather unsettled at the sight of him. Kanon's attitude was too threatening for his peace of mind. Although he knew it was irrational, he had been expecting Saga's brother to be more like him. But he could see now that Saga and Kanon were as night and day as Oliver and his own brother.

When Kanon mentioned Saga's "girlfriend named Morgana," Oliver almost choked. He had to fight back a cry of surprise. Why did Kanon know about that? And why couldn't there be visitors? Better yet, what happened when there were visitors? He considered coming out of his hiding place immediately and attempting to put all the blame on himself to get Saga out of it, but watching how Kanon could see right through Saga, he knew that would never work. So, for the moment, he continued watching, his mouth dry with nervousness.

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Saga was aware that Kanon knew him well enough. After all, he was the man who let him know about his "demons" and whispered evil against his ears.

At that, Saga looked at him and his voice turned into an upset one. "That was uncalled for." Kanon closed his eyes and shrugged nonchalantly with a mocking face. "Okay. She isn't." But then Kanon's face filled with kindness "I'm not against the idea of you having friends..." Saga regarded Kanon with a confused gaze as the younger twin was leaving the hall with a mischievous smile "Besides, it isn't as if I hadn't brought someone too." The Gemini turned to look at his "shadow" once more, this time with surprise but he was gone already.

The Saint understood what his brother was doing and he couldn't help but smile.

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Oliver watched the exchange curiously. He was secretly disappointed when Kanon left, as it looked like he wasn't going to get to meet Saga's brother after all, but he knew Saga was probably happier this way. Oliver would have thought it was safer not to meet him, too, but considering what Kanon had said, it seemed like it wouldn't have mattered. He smiled a little, glad to hear those kind words from the brother Saga had shown so much uncertainty about.

"Psst, Saga!" he hissed, poking his head out from behind the pillar. "Can I come out now? I don't think he's really bothered either way."

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Still watching the trail, he startled and turned to look at Oliver sheepishly. "Y-Yes, of course." Elektra meowed at Saga and lifted up to pat him. The Saint blinked and kneeled before her, petting and smiling at the cat with a tender smile.

"He isn't." His brother was such a mystery. Even after not seen each other for more than thirteen years, Saga didn't know what his twin was thinking most of the time. "He is mean most of the time, but when not..." A slight frown and distant look "... I guess I'm not used to it yet."

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Oliver smiled, not glad to hear that Kanon wasn't usually so kind, but...well, the brief exchange he'd seen had made him glad that Saga had Kanon here for him. He hoped that this surprising behaviour was a sign that Kanon was changing for the better. Maybe he would be more like this for Saga as time went on.

Stepping out from behind the pillar, Oliver dusted himself off before he rejoined Saga and Elektra. Naturally, he also knelt down to pet her. "Hey, don't look a gift horse in the mouth," he said, rather sagely, grinning at his friend. "I wouldn't want to get you in trouble, after all."