008 |Accidental Video|

[iam_thebadwolf]

[The device flickers on to show the bathroom. There's a bathtub full of bubbles, a half glass of wine sitting on the edge of the tub and lit candles are scattered about. However, there's no sign of anyone in the bathroom or the tub. From the way the candles are guttering it's clear that they've been lit for a while. ]

DOC--[Rose's appearance is

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[iam_thebadwolf]

[Well at least she'll have fifty different instances that imply it. Repetition, as mentioned, is kind of reassuring.

Sorry for the confusion, but yes it should have been expected. Rose loves the Doctor, regardless of what he looks like at the moment. The degrees and types of love just change depending on which one of him he is.]

Again.

[Yeah she's not letting him get out of this that easily, but it's not anything she's really doing consciously. She just came from the breaking of that forever promise. And yeah, she's taking his agreement with and occasional confirming of forever as a promise. She does like this more concrete one though

[am_i_being_rude]

[He really wasn't fond of it, no, but hey, if it gets the point across. And if he catches on that she likes seeing that sometimes he also isn't totally sure, then there is a chance, however slight, he'll show that side a bit more often.

When she starts talking, he looks over at her. The words do make him feel a bit better; at least he's not screwing everything up.] I am not going to break that promise, Rose Tyler. You can have... all of that, if you want it.

[iam_thebadwolf]

[In general it does and it also makes her feel a bit better about not having a clue how to handle this.

Oh Doctor, he is so far from screwing everything up. It's just a detour.

It takes her a few moments to answer but when she does, her answer is certain, quiet and determined.]

Yes. [And then just a half a pause afterwards.] Please.

[am_i_being_rude]

[They can both be ridiculously clueless and fun together and fumble over everything and shit. Yay.

Those are a few moments of intense tenseness. She can probably see the ten tonnes of metric pressure just sort of steam themselves out almost immediately after she says yes. It's really not that he's worried she's going to leave or that they won't be friends or anything - mostly just that he doesn't want things to change. Anything to change. He was happy and just getting used to things that were happening and is really worried about the state of things.]

Good. Excellent. Yes, absolutely. I mean, it would be kind of horrible to offer it and then say no after you're accepted the thing. Stuff. [Yes he is going to taste the wine now.]

[iam_thebadwolf]

[And it will be awesome. To someone. Not them.

She can see the pressure and even feel it before she says yes. When she does, it's almost like a balloon popping. His response gets a smile out of her, a real one. Not brilliant and lighting up the Universe but at least it's relaxed and happy, even grateful.]

Be a bit rude, yeah. Might worry 'bout you as well, changin' your mind so quickly. [She'll take a sip of wine as well. Surely it will help the situation.]

[am_i_being_rude]

[I think a decent part of their lives is probably awesome to people who aren't them.

Smiles are wonderful even if they could be bigger. He always likes them anyway but at this point obviously they're quite appreciated.]

I was rather under the impression I was quite... wishy-washy. At least in some respects. In this regeneration. Not about some things I suppose. Some things stay the same across.

[iam_thebadwolf]

[Good point.

She bites her bottom lip and looks up to him, reaching one soapy, bubbley hand out to hold his hand. She wiggles a couple of fingers, beckoning him closer.]

Wishy-washy about some things but sorta like the things that stay the same across the board. [Of course she's a bit biased. One of those things is her.] Keeps you my Doctor.

[am_i_being_rude]

[He just leans forward at first, to almost-comfortably reach and take her hand, because she is still in the bath and that is yet new territory, but he stops being silly and moves to sit on the floor next to the outside of the tub.]

Think I can handle that.

[iam_thebadwolf]

[She's glad he decides to stop being silly. Really, if bubbles disappear, he can probably see less from the floor than he can standing above her. Also, it gives her a chance to slosh him with water.

It might have been an accident except she's giggling when she does it.]

[am_i_being_rude]

[Well the initial look on his face is definitely surprise since he wasn't expecting 'playful' from her just yet, but the giggles and the fact that it's water and bubbles probably are the main reason he slicks a hand across the surface of the bath she's in and gives her a face full of bubbles in return, playful look indicating that sloshing is fine but expect retaliation.

She did get him fair good with the sloshing. He's quite wet now, and might have a bit of rose-bath-water in his wine he doesn't know about yet.]

[iam_thebadwolf]

[At least Rose-bath-water-wine probably never killed hurt anyone. It's just that there are bubbles and he's sitting next to the tub. They've reached a point where she can continue asking him if he's really going to stay or she can accept it, at least for the evening, and try to move if not forward, at least not backwards.

She squeals when the Doctor splashes her face full of bubbles. She sinks down a bit more into the bath, knees poking up more as a result. She swipes wet hands over her face then turns her hands a bit to splash more water at the Doctor, laughing as she does. It's an actual laugh now, less with the giggling.]

[am_i_being_rude]

[I'm sure his superior Time Lord biology can handle somewhat bubbly wine.

He makes a very poor attempt to avoid the water, considering he's sitting right next to the source and that doesn't do much to your dodging abilities. At least he doesn't spill his glass all over anything, although he does set it down since it looks like that is an increasing possibility. The laugh is an excellent sound to hear.]

Oi! Now, if I wanted to get all wet, I would have had my own bath.

[iam_thebadwolf]

[She smirks a bit at him, arching one eyebrow.]

All right then. If that's how you wanna play that.

[She closes her eyes and sinks a bit down into the tub, all the way up to her chin, knees sticking up out of the water.]

[am_i_being_rude]

[He blinks. He was vaguely expecting more sloshing after that. The sinking back down up to her chin and showing him more of her knees was not in the list of possible reactions he had mildly prepared for.]

Making yourself a smaller target or just eliminating the need to splash you at all by immersing yourself?

[iam_thebadwolf]

[She opens one eye, looking at him, a grin twitching at the corners of her lips.]

You were objectin' to gettin' all wet, weren't you? M'doin' what you told me to. For once.

[am_i_being_rude]

[She has a point.

Well, he can tolerate all of about twelve full seconds of sitting there with just her face, knees, and a slightly-decreasing-amount-of-bubbles to look at before he's already categorised all the real reasons that moths are so attracted to light - 'nobody knows', pft - and is bored.]

Addendum to rule number two. No. Three. Always do as I say unless I tell you to do something boring. And I'm already wet. This didn't help that at all. In fact I'm between wet. [He's picking at his shirt through his jacket.] This is like one step between damp and wet-wet. Are you all pruney yet? When do you humans start 'pruning' in the bath?