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[damn_time_ring]

Characters: Straxus (damn_time_ring) and the Ninth Doctor (charmandsmiles)
Location: The hotspring on the Plane
Time: Now (and presumably after this for Nine.)
Warnings: Potential for an embarrassed Time Lord. Take a guess which one!

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[charmandsmiles]

The Doctor, of course, was not actually looking for a bit of relaxation -- in fact, he was looking for the opposite. But he found Straxus instead. In a hot spring. He smirked a bit, feeling rather smug about intruding on this particular moment. It was payback for the onsen, really. So he stealthily stripped off his clothing, slipped into the water behind Straxus, and tapped him on the shoulder.

"Finally decided bathing in public wasn't so bad, have you?"

[damn_time_ring]

His eyes widened when he felt that tap on his shoulder, and even before the Doctor began to speak, he was quickly moving away. He'd never moved so fast in water before. "Doctor!" he cried. Then he noticed that his towel had dropped in the water. Straxus groaned. All his luck...

"I haven't--it wasn't public before now," he stammered and began wringing out the towel. Then he thought better of it and simply chucked the towel at the other Time Lord.

[charmandsmiles]

The Doctor simply laughed, catching the towel and tossing it aside. "I think 'outside' counts as public, Straxus," he teased, stretching out in the hot spring lazily. The warm water was relaxing...too bad he hadn't known about this spot while he was wounded. Everything was healed up nicely now, though.

"What've you been up to lately?"

[damn_time_ring]

"Oh, details, Doctor," he grumbled, sinking in the water until it was up to his chin. "Nobody was around so it wasn't exactly public."

Eventually he sighed, relaxing a little--he had a feeling the Doctor wasn't going anywhere now--and finally replied, with a grimace, "Running. Actual running from place to place." He paused and then added, "To place to place, so on and so forth."