On playing Ian Chesterton again

[splendid_roman]

I understand that you miss playing me. I'm not sure why - don't you play enough characters as it is? I'm not special and I really don't think I need another game. I know what these involve and it's usually some sort of torture and inexplicable happenings. I do agree, it's not all bad: sometimes I get to do some teaching and it has been interesting to meet other incarnations of the Doctor. I still don't understand how he regenerates, but I've seen enough of him to believe it must be true.

But I worry about the amount of time you have to devote to this. I know things are quiet now, but it won't stay that way. Besides, you have that Tumblr for Barbara and I to update. When's the last time you posted something that wasn't a reblog? See what I mean?

Please just think it through first. For both our sakes.

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Ian!!!!!!

[fifthdoctor]

[Oh oh, the Doctor heard his name AND the word regenerate. Now if he could only remember who this person is...hopefully Ian doesn't mind a puzzled looking man in a cricketeers uniform looking at him puzzledly for no apparent reason.]

[splendid_roman]

Doctor. It's good to see you again.

[Ian knows who he is, all right]

[fifthdoctor]

[Well that clears that up.]

Yes, yes so it is. Hello.

[Now...if he could just remember which one this was...not Jamie, no kilt. Wasn't Turlough, he wasn't ginger. Absolutely wasn't Adric. One could almost see the wheels turning as he tried to bring back the name.]

...Chesterton?

[splendid_roman]

[Ian smiled. That was typical of the Doctor, not remembering him at first.]

That's me. So what have you been up to, Doctor?

[fifthdoctor]

[When one was around 500 years old or so....though he had just as much trouble when he was younger so perhaps the Doctor is just always a touch senile.]

Oh, you know, popping in and out of time here and there. Yourself? [Uh oh.] Are you still traveling with me? [Waving off his own explanation.] The other me? [Last thing they needed was to cause a paradox.]

[splendid_roman]

Sometimes. She likes to play me from all sorts of places from my life. it makes things very confusing.

[fifthdoctor]

Ah...I suppose that would be confusing.

I almost wish the mun had kept Harry Sullivan around, you might have liked meeting up with him.

[splendid_roman]

I imagine I'd like any companion of yours. After all, we all have something in common.

[fifthdoctor]

Oh? What is that? [Doctor is slightly oblivious to the obvious.]

[splendid_roman]

[Ian rolled his eyes.]

A sense of adventure and enough intelligence to get themselves and you out of whatever situation you've landed them in.

[fifthdoctor]

Well, I suppose that's....

[Hey!]

Are you implying those aliens trying to destroy us were my fault?

[splendid_roman]

Which aliens would that be? There were so many.

[But it was said with a smile on his face and a twinkle in his eye]