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this.Jack might've been a brilliant pilot all on his own, but the Doctor never did like giving up control of the wheel. Or the positronic space manipulator, in this case. He steered them swiftly down to Gamma Beta 9, where they were promptly arrested for endangerment of the crew. But, the Doctor still had the sonic and Jack had his charm
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"Why is it always the shadowy places? Why is it never a pool, or a bar, or a six star hotel and spa?" He wasn't really complaining. Just... talking, filling a silence that didn't really need to be filled.
He squinted a little in the darkness to see as far as he could, following the line of the torchlight. "That spidey sense of yours tingling yet, Doctor?"
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"Not yet," the Doctor admitted. "But it's not exactly Google maps, this connection with the TARDIS is a very complicated thing. But she's alive, a little frightened, and not too far away."
The Doctor shone the torch down the roadway. The streets were lined with dark red gems, terribly rare and precious in all parts of the universe, but impossibly common here.
"Think we're coming towards a town," he said.
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"Oooh a town," he said with more than a hint of sarcasm, his hands shoved into the pockets of his trousers, pushing back his greatcoat. "Maybe there will be people who want to arrest us again. Or maybe shoot us. You know, because I'd hate for things to get stale. We really need the variety, don't you think, Doctor?"
He smirked slightly and knocked his elbow against the Doctor's as they walked. A light started to become visible in the distance, an intermittent glow of orange and blue.
"Hey, Doctor, that your town?"
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Privately, the Doctor wanted to inflict some sort of violence on whoever made his ship so afraid. Why was she so frightened? She'd been through everything he had. The more frightened she got, the more worried he got. He'd spent 600 years apart from her once and it nearly destroyed both of them. He didn't want to have to spend another week away, not if he could help it.
The Doctor nodded at the lights. "I think it is, yeah. With your charisma and my way with people, we'll get some information on a great big blue box appearing out of nowhere, I'm sure!"
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