in which mun is canon reviewing.

[theroman]

Alright, I get that you need to "canon review" or whatever you call it. That's fine, I understand. I haven't been the strongest voice to you since, since what? That space ship hotel..prison I think. And Livejournal now that I think about it.

Yep, completely understandable. At this point there's not much that I don't mostly get. I'm just not sure why you've got to watch that episode. The one with Leadworth where we almost froze to death in the TARDIS and everything was bloody terrible? I've changed a lot since then I think, and you think too, and Amy has, I hope.

And the Doctor's less of a...I don't know, intergalactic wag worked pretty well then, I guess, but I'm not sure that it works as well now. Or it might just be me, with all that's happened.

That was a long time ago, mun (or it feels like a long time ago, what with the two thousand years that never actually happened and all of that stuff). Can't you watch something more recent? Something mildly less emotionally, physically and mentally stressful?

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[defiedforaboy]

There are recent things that are more painful to some.

[theroman]

Amy--

[Every memory of that incident (but calling it an 'incident' only diminishes it, doesn't it?) hurts. It makes him wantto swallow his tongue and hold her, but he hesitates. What if she doesn't want him to?]

I know, I know...I'm so sorry. That was different though.

[defiedforaboy]

You asked for something more recent. [What, is she not good enough for you, Rory?]

[theroman]

Yeah but I was going for something more like that trash dump planet outside the universe, or maybe us being happy at home waiting around for him to show up again.

[He takes her hands in his, feeling them with his fingers rather than looking down at them. They're Amy's hands, just older. A sign of his own failure.]

[comeonthensexy]

I like to think of it as a life-changing experience, which means it's very important. Actually, everything you experience in life is important, so your mundane is completely right in watching everything.

[theroman]

I know it's important. Very important, and kind of amazing by the end of it, and wonderful. Still really not liking being called the gooseberry though, even after the fact.

[comeonthensexy]

Maybe I don't like being called an intergalactic wag either.

[So r u d e. Not that he cares a great deal, really.]

But at this point we both know that I'm the gooseberry in the group.

[theroman]

Yeah, but being the gooseberry doesn't make you any less important. You're the Doctor! You'll be fine.

[comeonthensexy]

Of course I will! I'm still the gooseberry. Not that I think a person's worth is measured in whether they're a gooseberry or not.

[theroman]

Yeah but you did think I was worth less then, and I don't really blame you. Amy has that effect sometimes. Or most of the time. And that was before I was a plastic Roman.

[comeonthensexy]

Yes, well, I underestimated you.

[theroman]

I like to think so.

[comeonthensexy]

Didn't have anything to do with you being the gooseberry you never truly were.

[theroman]

'Course not. Because that would be the obvious answer.

[comeonthensexy]

Yes.

A lot of people just outshined you for starters, Amy especially, that's all.

[theroman]

She does that. It comes with being Scottish I think.

[comeonthensexy]

Or with just being Amy. But the Scottish bit does help.

[justthedoctor]

[He doesn't know whether to look amused, insulted, or apologetic...]

"Intergalactic wag," eh? I'm almost afraid t'ask what my future me's done to earn that one...

[theroman]

Tweed, suspenders, bit of a bowtie fetish. And what I would guess is some form of ADHD that he picked up along the way.

--You. Not him. Because--because you're him.