June 20 // Delirium, OPEN

[walkingmyfish]

Date: June 20 (some time before the CLANG!)
Characters: Delirium, etc.
Location: Library
Summary: Delirium returns from a long walk through the stars.
Warnings: None

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[theshortdoctor]

The Doctor was in the library, silently reading a copy of Waverley by Sir Walter Scott. He was at the very end, the scene where the protagonist and the Jacobite rebel were waiting out the night together in prison, before the morning of the Jacobite's execution. The Doctor was more than usually engrossed by the novel, though his eyes frequently stilled on the page as he wondered how Jamie was faring in the aftermath of Culloden, if he had escaped the redcoats and slave-catchers and kept his head down enough to survive. Somehow, the Doctor didn't expect that he had. If only he had the TARDIS, he could go back and make sure. Time Lords be damned, he wouldn't let Jamie be the victim of random, pointless human violence. Even if the High Council and CIA and the lot of them tried to prevent him from landing in that place and time, he'd find a way.

[theshortdoctor]

Well, it seemed a decent enough explanation to him, and rather poetic, too. Some parts of himself - which had been more dominant in his first body - would have dismissed her whole little speech as foolish piffle. This version of himself, however, was quite ready to roll with the punches and take what he could from the babble of mostly-nonsense.

"Yes, yes well it can be hard sometimes, being different when you are around many people who seem the same."

[walkingmyfish]

Delirium nodded. "People do that. Even sometimes when I don't want them to, unless I really don't want them to. Then I use my important voice and it's okay."

She tilted her head sideways, backtracking to the Doctor's previous comment. She was strangely intent on this point, for the time being, and the gummy bears, momentarily forgotten, slowed in their actions. "What's a Time Lord do? Does a Time Lord lord time?"