My Doctor and I

[first_in_time]

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.

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[first_in_time]

If Barbara had only just met the Doctor, or hardly knew who he was, she'd be positively terrified. The mix of suddenly ducking out of the way of general sight, and his manic grin which made his eyes twinkle with potentially dangerous mischief, was a little unnerving.

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."

[makeherblue]

Yet was always the thing, wasn’t it? It wouldn’t be much fun if there wasn’t a sneaky little yet waiting just around the corner.

“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.

[first_in_time]

"But," she added, stopping the Doctor in his tracks, "you have to promise me that you're not going to do anything stupid and get yourself hurt, do you understand?"