Attempting to revive a... not-old muse?

[andrememberme]

Thank you for letting me out. Finally. I know, I know, you're really busy now. But you promised me you wouldn't just let me languish and die up here like almost everyone else has. I do appreciate it, and I just hope you can keep going this time. Now find me someone to talk to!

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[twelfth_night]

How about an old ear to chat off? [He'll be stepping out of the TARDIS leaning against the wooden door frame with a smile.]

[andrememberme]

I think you already know the answer to that, Doctor. It involves lots of hugging.

[twelfth_night]

Oh, that again, is it? Always the hugging, Clara. [He smiled at her then walked over to give her a hug. It was what she wanted, wasn't it?]

[andrememberme]

Always, Doctor. [You know she's always all too happy to do that.]

[not_the_question]

[This Doctor is going to address the mun first. For reasons.]

I suggest you do as you're told. 'Cos when you don't, well...

[He makes an awkward head gesture at Clara. Everyone knows she can be a bit much, yeah? Right. That aside, he turns to Clara.]

And you. You do realise that making demands of their kind leads to nowhere good?

[andrememberme]

[The mun is very sadly aware of this, and nodding emphatically.]

[Clara herself has her hand on her hip, shooting the Doctor a look.]

I know what might happen, Doctor. But I know her weak spot, and she knows it. If I have to play dirty, I will.

[not_the_question]

[He shakes his head.]

No, no, no. I really don't think you do, Clara. Their kind... they've got associates. Sometimes they all gang up on you.

[He's speaking from experience. Not just other voices in the mun's head, but other mun's. Yeah. It's bad.]

[andrememberme]

This one? With associates? She doesn't really... associate much.

[She's part of the reason most of the other voices got silenced. She thinks she's done her job pretty well. And as for the other muns? She thinks she can handle them. She thinks.]

Besides, she's one of those things they call a shipper. I know exactly how to make her cry and get away with it. I don't like doing that on purpose, but... Yeah.

[not_the_question]

A shippper?

[Oh, God, not those. Must play dumb because... anything but that.]

She likes the TARDIS a lot, eh?

[That's a good cover, right? Yes. Blame it all on the TARDIS. She'll forgive him - eventually.]

[andrememberme]

[She knows you're playing dumb, Doctor. That's why she's giggling.]

Oh, yeah, she loves the Tardis, Doctor. She loves it so much, she watches videos about it.

[She's playing along, just because it's sort of amusing.]

[not_the_question]

[He pulls a face at that.]

Wh-why would she do that? It's nothing special. Disappears here, reappears there. It's got some spinny bits. But that's all fairly recent.

[He's losing. He doesn't like to lose. And he's selling out the TARDIS right now. TARDIS definitely will make him pay for that.]

[andrememberme]

[And now she's giggling hysterically, because she can just imagine that the old girl is cursing at him in Gallifreyian right now.]


You know she's gonna try to kill us now, yeah? Pretend to break down on some creepy planet inhabited with Cybermen or Daleks or something.

[not_the_question]

[That lights a fire under him he waves a finger at her.]

No, no, no. You don't know her at all! Cybermen and Daleks? Is that the best you think she can do? She's connected to the whole of Time and Space. If she really wanted to kill us, she'd simply make us cease to exist.

[He knows the TARDIS wouldn't go that far - at least not to him.]

[andrememberme]

Cease to exist? She could do that?

But no, no, you're right. She'd probably just strand me temporarily at a planet with no ice cream. Or a planet with no ice cream and Missy. Where we would argue incessantly until you found us.

[not_the_question]

Of course she could do that. Unless there's some part of 'whole of time and space' you don't understand.

[But he chuckles at the 'until you found us part'. Because the big picture is always staring the companions in the face and so few of them get it.]

You really think I'm that capable without the TARDIS? You tried to separate us once, Clara...

[Tried and once are the operative terms. Now that they're sufficiently off the shipping track... His plan worked, right? Good.]

The real question is: why are you so grateful to be let out when so many of us are trying to get back in?

[andrememberme]

Of course not, Doctor. I'm sure, though, you'd take your time finding us. I'm sure the idea of Missy and me going back and forth like that amuses you to no end.

[That part is obvious to her.]

What? You mean out of this woman's head? Because she's completely bonkers and it's scary place. And more because, unlike her, I like to be social, and not a hermit.

[not_the_question]

Actually. No. Whenever my past and present lives catch up to each other, it's always a rubbish experience.

[And when more than one of himself is around, it's even worse.]

What's wrong with being a hermit?

[After all, the Doctor is a bit of a hermit.]

[oldfashionedlady]

And here I thought you'd have a better way of finding conversation partners than just asking, sweetie.