A bus from the Conrad hotel is currently rolling south down I-55, toward Oklahoma. Which is the most logical place for a bus from a hotel in Chicago, right? Loaded onto the bus are a couple ancient and forever boys, a Time Lady, a couple doctors, and a couple guardian angels who really didn't have any choice in the matter (one of those people was
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Why Des chose seats in the middle of the bus is beyond anyone. This is just what Des does- be completely illogical and slightly annoying.
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She has to decide if she wants to go over or under them, because she is tiny and going over things is difficult. Martha doesn't want to wake him up, because he needs his sleep and she's trying to be a good girlfriend after telling both of her boys that they weren't allowed to drive and making them sulk.
However, this attempt is not going well. Martha tries to stretch her leg up over Des' legs and trips over them, twisting around and landing sideways in the aisle way with a squeaky yelp.
"Ow," she says, making a face on the floor of the bus, her legs still twisted up with Des' a bit. "...that was dumb."
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"You know, Martha Jones, you could have told me to move," he grins, teasingly.
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She rests her head against the aisle and she stares up at the ceiling of the bus.
"Y'know, it's really not so uncomfortable down here. Not nearly as much as you'd think, and you're trapped this way," (yes, trapped by her legs of tangled doom, right) she says. "It's a bonus. Somehow."
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Anyway, she is up front for a good portion of the journey, driving and up to having conversations.
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She flops into the seat furthest to the front, leaning forward against the divider between the seat and the stairs down to the door. "You don't mind company up here, do you?"
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"Not at all," she says. "Driving gets a bit boring after awhile without comp- Oi! Get on your side of the road, wanker!" Martha smiles all apologetically. "Well. Not too boring with idiots like that on the road. And anyway, how are you?"
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"I'm alright." She shrugs. "A little nervous. I mean, it's good that we're going, I just... You know. Des." He has a habit. Of getting into trouble. Not nearly as much as the Doctor, but here they're practically going in asking for trouble, and God, she's nervous.
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"Having fun back here?"
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"Yes, yes, I'm quite sure you could have, but I just... figured you needed space and all of your thinking and ability to be put into making brilliant plans of rescue and... things." Martha is sometimes nice and humors her boys even though it's quite obvious she's only humoring them, which... sort of defeats the niceness of it. "I was only being thoughtful when I said you were absolutely under no circumstances allowed to take the wheel of this bus."
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"I think you're more concerned I'm going to drive us off a cliff. If it helps, there are no cliffs in Oklahoma."
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Just to top it off, he's singing softly, barely audible. "I never really knew that she could dance like this; she makes a man want to speak Spanish; como se llama, bonita, mi casa, su casa..."
He really is trying to keep from bothering anyone else, but if someone should wander in his general direction...
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At least she didn't ask him if his hips lie.
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And don't tell the Doctor. He would twitch mightily.
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