[Video]

[championoftime]

[Public]

[He appears on the screen, holding a squirmy mongoose. That terrible jester marionette of his? Still sitting on the back of his couch. He's hesitant because he knows what's been going on, and there's some potentially terrible things that he could be admitting about himself right now. So he's going to try really hard not to!] Harper! This is actually your pet. I'm duty bound to return it to you... I have no idea what it's name is.

[And a pause. Okay! Let's go with-] I know how to play the spoons!

[Really?

That's it?

He sighs in relief.] I was worried for a moment that I was going to say something considerably worse! [He ignores the mongoose considering a voyage down his pullover.] Such as the fact I know I'm the most problematic, repugnant, and unpleasant of the lot of me and I'd been better off not even having gone through this regeneration.

[Wait.] Ignore that bit. [He makes a pissy huff and cuts the feed.]

Comments

[intofireforever]

I don't think you're unpleasant.

[alzarian-youth.livejournal.com]

No you're not!

[championoftime]

I ah... thank you. [He's done a lot of bad things, and thinks a lot of bad thoughts. But when he tries to argue to her that she's a good person and then turns around and says that he's not, it's not helpful.] How have you been feeling?

[intofireforever]

I'm okay. Nothing new has happened to me, in the way of what we we speaking about.

[championoftime]

[Rose-tinted goggles, Adric.] It doesn't really matter, anyway. I've almost finished that vehicle, by the by. I just have apply the jumper.

[Private]

[championoftime]

Excellent. Hopefully, by the time of your return, I'll give you a way to shut out or even lash at anything that attempts invasion.

[Private]

[intofireforever]

It won't help. The only thing I have to go back to is where they come from. I was taken there when I died.

[fivestepsahead.livejournal.com]

... Tempting fate, Doctor?

[timesbureaucrat]

Actually, I think you're the least problematic of the lot.

[Coming from the Coordinator of the CIA, this probably only helps prove Seven's point.]

[Private]

[championoftime]

He didn't send the Rani back to before the Time War. I doubt you'll be condemned to an equally dismal place. You'll have something better when you're finished here even if I have to see to it. [He has a time ship and he's not afraid to use it.]

[championoftime]

It's a daily activity. I'd get bored if I didn't. Besides, the mongoose is going to nest in my clothes soon if I don't dispatch it promptly.

Re: [Private]

[intofireforever]

...this probably doesn't make any sense, but before I came here, I was only there for two weeks. I remember that exact stretch of time clearly. I was also there for at least 25 years during the same stretch, which I also remember clearly. Both of those things are true...at the same time.

I've tried to explain this to Paddy so many times, but it's hard when I don't get it either. Let's say it's just not as easy to escape as you might think.

[championoftime]

[Oh Narvin, you are so very helpful.]

Yes, Narvin, I think you're lovely, too.

[fivestepsahead.livejournal.com]

Tell me you're not pitching it over the deck, at least.

[ He's ignoring the last bit because in his own experience, that kind of thing? Is hard to dissuade from. The best thing is really a distraction.

So Seven gets a distraction. ]

[Private]

[championoftime]

It makes sense to me. [Because Time Lords are weird.] We have rooms that can perform similar effects. To us, anyway, there is both the time that passes, and the alteration of your own perception of time that passes.

In any case, I don't think it's impossible. Any more than my coat pockets are. [And he puts the whole mongoose down in his coat pocket with that. No wiggly lump or anything. It just seems to be gone.] One step at a time.

[championoftime]

What? No! Of course not. I wouldn't condemn some distant sphere to a mysteriously falling mongoose from the sky. [Stupid flood making people know how much he dislikes himself.]

[Private]

[intofireforever]

[Her eyes go wide with concern and she indicates his coat.]

Is it okay in there? It's not moving!

[with_discipline]

You're hardly unpleasant, Doctor.

[Private]

[championoftime]

It is. The pocket's bigger on the inside. [And he reaches in. Pulls out a can of tuna, some napkins, a box of thumbtacks, his sonic screwdriver, a magnifying glass, another can of tuna, another can of tuna... he was going to use those for something, he was sure... and Oh! There's the mongoose. He sits it down to let it slink off.]

[Private]

[intofireforever]

[...well that was weird.]

I'll take care of it. I mean, if Harper doesn't want it back. He doesn't seem to remember being here before.

[Laura loves little furry creatures.]

[championoftime]

I am so! I'm petulant and angry and dismissive. And sometimes foul-tempered as well [This might also be angry. Most people just have given up on telling him this.] Now, go finish you're proposal because I'm curious.

[fivestepsahead.livejournal.com]

I would think that some of those spheres have received worse than a mongoose, though.

[young-idealist.livejournal.com]

I like you better than the skinny one with the spiky brown hair.

[with_discipline]

[EMBARRASSSEEEED it never goes away.]

You are also extremely helpful, Doctor. It may be useful to recall your positive characteristics as well.

[failed-bluff.livejournal.com]

Hey, you put it out there, I ain't gonna ignore it.

You're not unpleasant, Doc.