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[screwdrivered]

This is because I kept you up all night, isn't it?

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[gonetraveling]

Yeah, that happens with them.

[screwdrivered]

You don't say. [Oh, Rose. Sure you want to do this? With this Doctor? You're not going to like him...]

[He looks towards the ceiling, gesticulating at it.] Threats don't work on me, you know that. Especially not when your only bargaining chip is a crazed fertility goddess, which, I confess, I'm curious about.

[gonetraveling]

[He's still the Doctor. She'd seen him with a new face before, even if this isn't the one she fell in love with.]

You lost me there.

Afraid you don't have any choice, Doctor. They're the one calling the shots. Not us.

[screwdrivered]

We'll have to see about that, won't we? [Is that a smile? Just a quickest quirk of the lips, a little bit of mischief in his eye?]

[He winks at her, bobbing on his toes.] I like a challenge.

[gonetraveling]

Yeah, well even you can't really do anything.

[It's hard not to smile back, but she's a little hesitant.]

Still not ginger.

[screwdrivered]

Not ginger. Not anything. Strictly speaking, grey isn't really a colour, it's more the absence of it. [He draws slender fingers through his hair only a little self-consciously, mussing it even more than it already is, his mouth down-turned and pursed. It doesn't bother him as much as it could have done, as much as it would have his previous selves.] Not what you were expecting?

[heymissy]

Do tell.

[screwdrivered]

Rather not, if it's all the same to you. Nothing personal. [Except.] No, correction. Extremely personal.

[heymissy]

It's always personal with us, that's a given. What were you doing with your poor scribe? Nothing you would be ashamed to admit to me, I hope.

[ Oh, the possibilities. ]

[screwdrivered]

No, no, shut up. Don't do that. You should know better than to ask that. [He's had it with her games. All of them.] Because what force in this universe could possibly compel me to tell you anything?

[heymissy]

[ Her smile is pure wickedness. But it fades, as she comes a little closer, eyes wide and questioning. ]

Did you find Gallifrey?

[madman_in_abox]

Do we usually keep people up all night?

[screwdrivered]

Difficult to say for certain; it's still too early to tell. [Probably best not to make a habit out of it though.] That's not to say it wasn't necessary. I needed her for a thing.

[madman_in_abox]

A...thing? Oh, we're good at those aren't we, future self. Oh, that's new. Future self. I won't get to say that much, will I? Were you talking to your mundane all night about....things?

i suddenly find myself missing eleven <333 lots.

[screwdrivered]

Setting out the terms of this little relationship of ours. [His expectations are higher than they used to be, considerably more demanding. Never thought you'd turn into such a pain, did you, Doctor?] There was a lot to talk about. Hardly my fault.

[Pointedly~] Certainly no excuse to be throwing me into the arms of a fertility goddess and expecting me to make it back in one piece. If I'd known she was going to be this petty, I would never have agreed to this arrangement in the first place.

Re: aw me too.

[madman_in_abox]

Sorry, did you say fertility goddess? Thrown into the arms of one? That sounds a little bit weird. [Downright scary, actually.]

Mine's throwing me into a game but nothing like that. It's got Pokémon in it instead.

[oswinforthewin]

You? Keep someone up all night? That is definitely not a surprise.

because she said she'd pay Clara a visit

[heymissy]

Oh my, is there something the two of you aren't telling us? [ Gasp, shock. ] Hello, Clara.

Buwahaha yes. She definitely needs more interactions.

[oswinforthewin]

Hang on--First of all? I had a boyfriend. One that you turned into a Cyberman for a plot you knew would never work. A boyfriend that I loved very much. In other words there is nothing between the Doctor and I. [ Keep saying it Clara. ]

Second? If there was - and there isn't - why would I ever tell you?

You're not getting a hello from me. Not now and not ever.

[ why does mobile tagging have so many typos sob. ]

[heymissy]

[ Yup, keep saying it, Clara. She's nodding along vigorously to every word, in somewhat disconcerting fashion. Then again there is such a thing as the lady protesting too much...

There's a twinkle in her eye. No hello, hmm? ] How about a goodbye?

[oswinforthewin]

I would gladly give you a proper goodbye. [ Apparently raising that device to kill her wasn't an obvious goodbye. It was more of a "Go to Hell." ]

[screwdrivered]

Couldn't help it, had a thing that needed seeing to, very important. [And because he's basically a child and, if he can't sleep, nobody gets to sleep.]

Anyway, you should be glad. Could have just as easily been you. You were next on my list, in fact.

[oswinforthewin]

[ Which means no one every really sleeps, since he never really does. ] And what thing was it that kept your mun up all night?

Maybe I should of been first on your list. I usually am anyways, aren't I?

[screwdrivered]

Had to resolve a small matter between me and a fertility goddess. Time was a factor. [Despite have a time machine.]

Duly noted. Day or night, next time a thing crops up, you're the first person I call. [That's a promise.]

[oswinforthewin]

A fertility goddess? [ What. ]

[ She smiles a bit at that. ] Good. I'll need to set up a ring tone just for you then.

Although, that "old friend" of yours? She is definitely not invited to anything. Even if my own mun likes the idea of her hanging around.