Well, for the past ten or so minutes, the Doctor had been sidestepping 'traps' (he would never go so far as to call them that, of course) in the halls. All that tea, all those biscuits, going to waste. The farther he got through the hall, the more he shook his head until finally he was just plain facepalming. "Eris, you control bloody chaos, and this is the best you can come up with?" he muttered. "You're losing your touch~"
"I think that's the other way around, the way you're speaking. I'm beginning to think that you and Aphrodite taught him everything he knows. I'm godly at being annoyed at people when they're being right gits, how about that? Godly at keeping you out of my trousers, that works. Nine hundred years, you've got to think sometime that you can't always get what you want."
"Because she would have bragged," she insists, albeit secretly uncertainly. She would have, wouldn't she? She's a stuffy, stuck up wench, isn't she? "It'd rattle that austere virgin thing right out of her."
"Mmhm, she would be bragging, I'm sure." Hey, nobody said he couldn't make with the innuendo right back. "And so would you, and that'd just get nice and annoying, and I'd have a few friends who would certainly be giving me a bit of the evil eye from then on."
"You usually brag a lot, when you're not whining," he points out. "And, you know, we've got a lot of doctors around this school; what will you do if someone like, say, a bloke named Coxy-boy ends up caught in one of your ingenius little devices?"
"... possibly I will seduce him to solace myself from your untimely and miserable rejection." She frowns. "How do you like that, hmm?" Maybe he'd be jealous!
"That sounds like exactly what the bloke needs." Jealous? Of Coxy-boy? Better chance of the sun expanding five billion years too early. "You know, it never used to be all about seduction. Don't think you were exactly the most thrilled with me the first time or three we met up and I decided to step in and stop all the chaos and destruction you set in motion. Guess I'm just that irresistible, hm?"
"Well, I have to admit, you've gotten prettier." She leans into his personal space again, nose to nose like a cat might. Her nose twitches a little, even. "And you know I just can't resist a 'no'. If you'd let me pat your backside years ago, we might have avoided all this."
He scoffs. "You did that one time, remember? Not that I exactly let you, but that's what you did--oh, which of me was that, must've been a few regenerations ago now. With the cricket uniform. Wasn't just a bit of flirting, you copped a bloody feel!" Irritated? Just a bit. Embarrassed? Only a tad. "I think it was more than my backside you wanted to pat."
"Well, by then it was far too late! I was infatuated! And I am such a sucker for a man in uniform. Have been all the way back to the Romans -- now there were some gentlemen that knew how to wear a tunic." She sighed and clutched her hands to her chest.
"Oh Jimmy, I'm afraid I'm just... I'm in love!" Not in the least because it drove him mad. Oh no, that wasn't the reason.
"Then I think you should've had a word with Aphrodite long ago, hm? Sounds like that should've been in order. Can't go around falling head over Achilles heel for a," his eyes gave a roll here, "mortal."
"Aphrodite won't talk to me. Something about taking the fall for the Trojan wars, blah blah blah." She waves her hand in a circle. "I think she's bitter that I'm prettiest."
She leans in and bats her eyelashes. "Oh, but you're not quite mortal, now are you? It'd be like falling in love with my nephew. Perfectly normal."
"Yeah, might be a bit miffed after all of that apple nonsense. Old grudges die very, very hard."
He leans back a bit. Erm. Awkward. "Well, not eternal, now, am I?" At least, hopefully not--certainly should've found out by now if he was! "And that's really not normal in this era and on this continent, sorry. Works a bit differently here." He takes her by the shoulders and moves her aside so that he might be able to move somewhere without her in his face. He's got places to be, after all! ...Which he really doesn't, but it beats being around Eris.
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"Oh Jimmy, I'm afraid I'm just... I'm in love!" Not in the least because it drove him mad. Oh no, that wasn't the reason.
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She leans in and bats her eyelashes. "Oh, but you're not quite mortal, now are you? It'd be like falling in love with my nephew. Perfectly normal."
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He leans back a bit. Erm. Awkward. "Well, not eternal, now, am I?" At least, hopefully not--certainly should've found out by now if he was! "And that's really not normal in this era and on this continent, sorry. Works a bit differently here." He takes her by the shoulders and moves her aside so that he might be able to move somewhere without her in his face. He's got places to be, after all! ...Which he really doesn't, but it beats being around Eris.
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