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[ofdrumsthesound]

It's the holidays, of course people have been busy!

They'll come back.

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[xthedoctorx]

I didn't know I'd been missing.

How long has it been, exactly? And what have you done? [Eyes you warily.]

[ofdrumsthesound]

Months, in your case. Only a week or two for other people.

You were gone, and the drums got loud . . .

[xthedoctorx]

You didn't...you know...eat anyone, did you?

[ofdrumsthesound]

A few bad people. Only the really deserving, though.

[xthedoctorx]

[Facepalms]

That's on me then, for leaving you. Guess I'd better stick around, yeah?

[ofdrumsthesound]

Yes please. Sticking around is good.

Want to play with me?

[xthedoctorx]

I'm here, aren't I?

[ofdrumsthesound]

Well, yes. But I was thinking an actual game. Chess, maybe?

[xthedoctorx]

Oh. Right! You've got a board, I assume?

[ofdrumsthesound]

Yup.

Another good thing about you being back, that: playing yourself is dull.

[xthedoctorx]

[Sets up the board.]

What else have you been up to while I've been away?

[ofdrumsthesound]

Meeting new people, killing the ones I didn't like, the usual.

[xthedoctorx]

[scowls]

What did I tell you about that?

[ofdrumsthesound]

You weren't here, okay? And the drums were so loud . . . in any case, we just had this conversation.

[xthedoctorx]

Hey, hey, hey, it's alright. *grips his shoulder* I'm back now, and I'm staying, alright? Yeah? We'll be okay, you and me, right? I'm not leaving and I'm not...judging, no matter what you may think. I'm just trying to keep as many people alive as possible.

I may need to take you away from here, away from Earth.

[ofdrumsthesound]

Good idea. Somewhere with no people and lots of big animals, maybe.

. . . can I hurt you? Just a little bit?

[xthedoctorx]

*sighs*

Yes, but not here. Can we go somewhere more private?

[ofdrumsthesound]

Of course, old friend.

*And off to his room in the TARDIS they go.*

[soangryicouldtinkle]

Not if there is a merciful chaotic entity with supreme power over fate and chance, they won't!

[ofdrumsthesound]

. . . what are you on?

[soangryicouldtinkle]

You know what you stare into the Abyss?

Well, I'm what stares back.

[ofdrumsthesound]

A cliche-spewing moron?

1/2

[soangryicouldtinkle]

Hey, I thought that was pretty good...

2/2

[soangryicouldtinkle]

Though, honestly, I've seen you around these parts before and I can't take you seriously.

I mean, look at you. You're the Spiderman of crazy evil people. Sure, you do the occasional awesome thing but you're so whiny and needy that no one is going to care.

[ofdrumsthesound]

Ah, so you're a jerk too.

I'm starting to think killing you would be a favor to us both.

[soangryicouldtinkle]

Sorry to hurt your feelings there bondie. I should have realized you were the sensitive type.

As I said, I've seen you around. You don't got the mojo for this fight.

But, hey, I got time to kill.

Get it? Man, I got a million of them.

[ofdrumsthesound]

And all of them suck. Now piss off, will you?

[soangryicouldtinkle]

Yeah, you wouldn't know a good joke if it carved you up and wore you to a costume party.

Speaking of which, you weigh what? One eighty? Two hundred?

[ofdrumsthesound]

. . . you're trying to make a fat joke about a starvation victim, are you?

[soangryicouldtinkle]

Swing and a miss. Try to keep up, would you?

I was talking about tailoring. Also, you are the saddest excuse for a cannibal ever.

He really is annoying, isn't he?

[ofdrumsthesound]

Shoo, or I'll find a way to drop you in a black hole. You are a stupid, annoying little troll who does not deserve to look at me. A cat may look at a king, but you're a rat. *His hands crackle a bit. He grins.* Heh--that was pretty poetic, wasn't it? I'll have to make silly faces or something to make up for it.

Seriously, though, go away. I have lasers and lightning bolts and I think I might even have a few old Time War weapons in here somewhere. So unless you want to take a trillion years to blink I suggest you leave. Now.

[soangryicouldtinkle]

Blah, blah, blah. I get it, you passed Black Magic 101. Now, get a better dye job and you might actually scare someone.

Also, you're bad at poetry.

I've stared upon the endless chaos and seen the beginning and end of all time and space. I will unravel it all and listen as every atom cries out before being devoured.

But, sure, lasers and lightning bolts are totally scary.

[ofdrumsthesound]

I lived fifty years in the final darkness, long after the last stars had gone out. I saved the last survivors, brought them to a safer time.

I have destroyed galactic clusters by accident. I have erased people from history out of pique. I have died over and over, but I'm still here.

[whitetheblack]

No.

[ofdrumsthesound]

No what?