[for perfect_shoes] your best friend I've come to be

[galeforcehero]

Dorothy's had a weird couple of weeks. It started with the Doctor (tall, pinstripes, hair that does that thing) showing up in the middle of a meeting in Oz, sitting her down and telling her he's scared he's turning evil, and maybe they shouldn't be together anymore, which was very much a low point in... several months, actually. Once that was

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[perfect_shoes]

It's an usual day by relative standards, as relative for him and the people around him, but it's quiet and that's quite unusual for him indeed. But then a thought bites him very hard in reminder of what he's been trying to do but never had the time for as of late, leaving him with a singular objective that consisted mostly of an advantageous use of the unusual quiet to sit down in a comfortable spot and read. With a cup of tea and maybe a nice biscuit.

Perhaps it is ironic, just a little, for a time-traveller to be reading Around The World In Eighty Days as a person who can go around the world and come back thirty minutes before he leaves, but that isn't the principle of the thing

[galeforcehero]

"If I felt like going to the 18th century, I'd have said 'I feel like going to the 18th century'. But I don't, so I didn't."

She turns, facing the console, and peers up into the time rotor. "I said I feel like dancing. So..." Dorothy looks over her shoulder back towards the Doctor's chair. He hasn't even looked up from his book. That's particularly annoying, when he does that. She can never tell if he's actually listening, or choosing not to listen, and both of those options are just plain rude.

"So let's dance, you and me. Come on, it'll be fun! You know you want to."

[perfect_shoes]

The Doctor does look up then, slowly, like the concept of him dancing was about as sardonically ridiculous as suggesting to him that time travelling was a complete farce. As it is, the Doctor is now staring at Dorothy, bewildered she would make such a claim at all. No one has ever asked him to dance before - well no one has ever asked to dance with him with enough conviction that he couldn't talk his way out of, blustering and talking about human habits and such

[galeforcehero]

Dorothy doesn't respond right away, just quirking an eyebrow at him. Strange. Either she was imagining things, or he was purposely trying to steer her in a completely different direction than she was planning on going, and she was pretty sure she wasn't imagining things. That's not very nice. Dorothy does not like it when other people try to manipulate her, subtle or no. Especially when it's the Doctor. He has this way of trying to be gentle about it which just comes off as patronizing-- by now she's sure he doesn't mean it, but it doesn't make it less annoying.

"Why don't you want to dance with me?" Since he will in the future. Enthusiastically.