It was nice outside once it got dark. Not that Jo disliked the heat, but she wasn't used to having the weather nice for so long and it was always good to remember what the cold was like, to appreciate the heat more. It wasn't as if she needed to be out to get a tan - just going about normally did that on its own.
But she didn't particularly feel the need to be on her own, so she always headed towards other people. She made it over to Donna just in time to hear important words like 'boots' and 'Topshop'.
She sighed. "I do miss the shops. Even when you can't afford anything just trying things on and thinking about how great they'd be to buy is fun."
Donna pulled away from the telescope and laughed. "I have to agree with you there. How great would it be if Harrod's popped up right over there? Of course, I guess we'd all be paying in mangoes. I've kind of got a job now, but all I get is free alcohol and good company."
"Harrod's would be nice. You can spend hours in there just looking at everything." And never being able to afford any of it either. "Free alcohol and good company are great payment for a job. I don't get the free alcohol for mine." Although she knew enough people that getting free alcohol wouldn't be much of a problem. "You just have to speak nicely to the clothes box to get it to give you nice things."
Donna snorted. "Yeah, the best I can usually get out of it are floppy hats and moo-moos. Maybe it's just trying to tell me that I ought to get twelve cats and sit on a porch all day."
"I think twelve cats would be hard to control," she said, trying (and failing) to sound serious about it. "Mostly I think it just knows what you want and gives you the opposite. It only gave me fashionable stuff from the future until I found out what it was." Of course, until that point she thought the 80s fashions were hideous.
"The sun is a bit fierce sometimes. But you get used to it." She smiled. "It's just like a nice, long beach holiday, most of the time." When it wasn't raining or snowing.
Donna looked out in the direction of the ocean, then back up at the stars. "Not as good as some holidays I've had," she said, then looked back at Jo. "But I guess you understand that better than most."
She smiled. "It depends what you want in a holiday. Here it's nice and quiet and there's nothing to threaten us." Well, now that the Master had gone. "But if you want excitement and lots of running, then..." She shrugged. "There are always the dinosaurs."
But she didn't particularly feel the need to be on her own, so she always headed towards other people. She made it over to Donna just in time to hear important words like 'boots' and 'Topshop'.
She sighed. "I do miss the shops. Even when you can't afford anything just trying things on and thinking about how great they'd be to buy is fun."
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