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trans_92012-04-07 07:34 am
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My Doctor and I
Who: Barbara Wright and the Eleventh Doctor [closed]
Where: Near the Daligig area
Summary: Backdated to just after this, where the Doctor tries to use words for important things, rather than babbling. Barbara is there to make sure he doesn't get into trouble. As is Barbara's job.
Warnings: None
Barbara left the Media Library with the Doctor as butterflies began to dance in her tummy. Although she hadn't met a Daligig before, she had reason enough to believe that they weren't terribly nice, and their guards were positively terrifying. Tall lizard-like beings with, what she had heard were lightening reflexes and amazing martial art skills. They were yet to see a guard at their post, but now Barbara half-expected one to jump out from some place and tear them both to pieces.
"I'm beginning to think this wasn't such a good idea after all," she said, sticking close to the Doctor, hand in hand.
Where: Near the Daligig area
Summary: Backdated to just after this, where the Doctor tries to use words for important things, rather than babbling. Barbara is there to make sure he doesn't get into trouble. As is Barbara's job.
Warnings: None
Barbara left the Media Library with the Doctor as butterflies began to dance in her tummy. Although she hadn't met a Daligig before, she had reason enough to believe that they weren't terribly nice, and their guards were positively terrifying. Tall lizard-like beings with, what she had heard were lightening reflexes and amazing martial art skills. They were yet to see a guard at their post, but now Barbara half-expected one to jump out from some place and tear them both to pieces.
"I'm beginning to think this wasn't such a good idea after all," she said, sticking close to the Doctor, hand in hand.
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"It is in restricted areas," the Kessek replied after a long, hesitant pause.
"'It'? What do you mean 'it'?" she pressed. "We'll need to know what needs lifting if we're to do the job properly."
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The Doctor perked up at the words “heavy” and “restricted areas” – some of his favorite phrases! Well, not so much “heavy”. Heavy he could skip. But “restricted area” downright wonderful! The Doctor struggled not to look too tempted to run off right this very moment.
“We could still give it a good go. It’s either that or we wander aimlessly and I get the impression your other Kessek friends might not like that. Maybe we ought to know where not to wander.”
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An approaching Kessek guard cut him off. The guard by Barbara and the Doctor saluted, standing straight in attention until saluted by his work mate. Barbara watched with a slight fascination, noticing how their change of the guard had elements of the guard changes in varying Earth cultures.
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“Well! I think that’s enough to go by, don’t you think, Barbara?” The Doctor rubbed his hands together, then reached out, and, amazingly had the nerve to pat the Kessek’s elbow (he had to stretch just a bit to even reach). “And thank you for the advice, Big Fella. I imagine we’ll work twice as hard.”
The Doctor exchanged looks and beamed at Barbara. The Kessek gave a stiff nod, turning to follow them as the Doctor barely managed to avoid jogging right for the exit. Once he was out of view, his strides lengthened. It was another one of those things that had changed since he’d been old and young at the same time with Barbara and Ian. Loads more hair and the height to go with it.
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She had to trot to catch up with the Doctor, and even when she was level with him, she still had to walk quite fast.
"What are you thinking?" she asked once they were out of ear shot.
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He waited until they could duck behind one of the fleshy protrusions on Stacy, big enough to dwarf a house and lined with glowing pink pustules that dimmed as they got close enough to brush up against it. The Doctor glanced both ways, checking for any Kessek wandering around, and then wheeled on Barbara, his face lighting up with that strange glow of excitement that hadn’t changed despite all his different faces.
“Now. The question is do we snoop now or later?”
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But she knew the Doctor well enough to know that nothing terrible was going to happen.
Yet.
"Well," she began, a hand resting on his arm as she peered over his angular shoulder for anyone who might be listening in, "everything is fresh in out minds..." of course, Ian wouldn't be terribly happy that she was throwing herself into danger. But the Kessek had hinted at something potentially valuable. "And I might forget the finer details in a couple of hours."
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“Exactly! Your species’ short attention span borders on legendary,” the Doctor completely agreed with Barbara’s assessment of the situation. Clearly they needed to investigate this now instead of waiting for silly things like backups or a second opinion when she put it like that. “There’s simply no way around it. We’ll have to go right this very instant.”
The Doctor flashed a private sort of grin at Barbara, pleased that centuries apart and she was still the same woman he’d known before. Really, she and Ian had set the bar for the other companions, in a way. He supposed it was possible there were bits and pieces of Ians and Barbaras in all his other friends that he invited along…and those times he didn’t necessarily need to kidnap them, either.
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