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[rude_not_ginger]

After this.

The things he promised himself he'd never do.

1) Never fall in love with a companion
2) Never bend the laws of time so far they break
3) Go back to Gallifrey

Well, he was having a rather productive Saturday, wasn't he?

He watched Romana sleep for a long while and eventually left the bed to make them some tea. It wouldn't be so bad, once she got over the shock and the breaking of the timeline and the destruction of her home world...

He sighed as he put the kettle on. He should never have gone back. Never have pulled her from what she knew. But then again, if he did she'd be dead. And he couldn't lose her, not after everything.

He grabbed some toast and the tea and headed back towards his bedroom. She'd wake up soon (one could only hope) and at least she'd have some breakfast ready.

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[tastefulfashion.livejournal.com]

"Of course you are." Oh, she could have stumped him with something far more clever on her part, but it was just more fun this way.

"With younger races, they find means to make themselves feel safe and will latch onto whatever those means may be," Romana sighed. When she looked up to the ceiling she faintly recalled the incident on Gryben with the Monans and Free Time. "...Any race, really. Violence has always been the driving force for so many just to ensure their safety or their power."

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"They're better than that," he said, shaking his head. "Especially humans. They have so much potential, but they waste it on guns and explosives. Better ways to hurt each other."

He moved a little closer to her and leaned his forehead against her thigh. He liked the contact, remembering that Romana was here.

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"They are humans, though. Find the easiest path to take or the simplest method to achieve their goal," her hand absently reaching down to brush some of his hair back.

"It starts when their young, for all races. I remember in the Academy, their were fights every day. They'd keep to their own races and beat up the others." Romana could distinctly recall the lengthy reports she would receive from Narvin about them. "There had been deaths even, all because of their fears and blinded beliefs."

"I had hoped that opening it to humans, Monans, Nekkistani, just to anyone who wanted to learn would help to bring the races together." A half-hearted sound of contempt was made, leaning back against the headboard and her eyes closing. "Darkel certainly had taken pleasure in my hopes being shattered. She had used the incidents in the Academy to further her agenda."

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"What did you do to stop her?"

In the end, whatever she did it got Darkel nowhere, he wanted to say. After all, the two of them were all that was left of the world. He kept it to himself, however, and closed his eyes, savoring her touch.

"People turn on one another in times of trouble or just because they can. It's the more cruel side of the universe."

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"Unfortunately before anything could be done, it was then that Pandora came to power." And at a greater cost. Braxiatel had sent himself into self-exile because of her and Andred was killed when Pandora possessed Romana.

"Everything went downhill from there," she said a suddenly very sad smile. "Of course I tried what I could, but it was difficult enough as it was to regain my position as President after the destruction of the Matrix. Only reason I did really was because I knew more from traveling with you and through E-Space."

Twirling a few strands of his hair around her finger she opened her eyes to look at him. "Everything seemed to go wrong all at once back home."

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"I never heard," the Doctor said, his eyebrows knitting together. He opened his eyes and looked up at her. How much trouble he just ignored in favor of traveling.

"I'm sorry."

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Again she smiled just a little at him.

"You know how the Council is. If word got out that Gallifrey, the central point for time travel and just about everything else their swelling ego-wrapped minds believed to be, then they would have felt like the laughing stock of the Universe." There was a momentary pause when Romana shifted just enough to lean forward, a barely noticeable kiss pressed to his forehead. These simple yet intimate gestures were something she was becoming accustomed to both receiving and showing.

"Besides, Narvin would have ranted on to say it was clearly on a need-to-know basis. And renegades were not quite at the top of his list of Time Lords that needed to know." But now she couldn't help but miss the man who would constantly question her judgment, on of the few that could truly keep her on her toes within the higher ranking Time Lords. "He preferred to be sure that the CIA could handle anything and everything."

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"Well, in a way they were. Always sitting high up above everyone else, they were more an annoyance than a fear, after all a fear will actually interfere."

He smirked a little at the rhyme which melted into a softer smile at her kiss.

"And of all the things I miss about Gallifrey, the CIA is not up there on the top ten list. Do you have any idea how often I was in trouble with them?"

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There was a tone of laughter in her voice. "Oh, I've seen your records." Yes records. Multiple, meaning more than one. "Quite astonishing but not very surprising. They had asked me plenty of questions about you when I came from E-space."

Her motions of fiddling with his hair began again---she had the funniest feeling that this would become a silly habit at some point whenever they would be like this. "There had been even students at the Academy who wanted to follow in your footsteps, you know. Leela had told me that in her classes, some would ask nothing but questions of what you had accomplished and what you were up to now."

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That was probably the worst thing Romana could say to him.

He preened as his head apparently swelled up eight hundred sizes larger.

"Yeaaaaah, well, I've always been an inspirational sort. Make people go out, be better than they were and all that and where did you learn the art of head rubbing? This is absolutely wonderful, you know that?"

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"After numerous occasions of never-ending council meetings resulting in migraines, I had to find some sort of way to ease the pain," Romana explained with a grin.

It was absolutely silly. Really, it was. Things had changed and, though they were still taking some getting used to, she liked it. Which was why she stopped. Again the teasing thing was a habit that was falling into more and more often. "Don't want you falling asleep though, now would we?"

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"We're talking about the high council of Gallifrey, Romana, that's pretty much a given by this point."

Funny. Anyone else in the universe and the mention of the high council might've sent him into a fit of rose-tinted nostalgia. But Romana knew better, and Romana made him...more centered in regards to his history.

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Hands once administering a rather pleasant massage came to rest on either of his cheeks with a little pat. When she leaned forward, her cropped hair fell like a curtain around her face above his. Now, her expression might have been perfectly serious with how lips did not even twitch to reveal a joking smile. But there was that familiar twinkle of mirth in her eyes regardless.

"Granted they are boring but still I think we've both done enough resting for a little while. And as silly as you look now---and me without a camera of sorts, might I add---I've been doing most of the talking."

She paused then before adding, "Which I believe I picked up from you now that I think about it."

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"Well, it'd be fairly terrifying if I didn't have a voice or a need to talk, I think. Though there is this planet in the Cororoaiar Cluster that doesn't allow soundwaves at all. Now that was an interesting weekend."

He leaned up and pressed a kiss to the side of her mouth. Simple and intimate.

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"I can only assume that it drove you positively mad not being able to voice whatever was on your mind." She smiled against his little kiss and returned it in kind.

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"I happen to always have a lot on my mind. It's less pressure when I can let some of it out."

He raised a hand to touch her shoulder and slide down her arm. Even with the long-sleeved jacket, it still felt intimate to just touch her. Maybe it was because he'd been alone so long.

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"I do wonder about that some times" her voice taking on a chiding tone. "Speaking without thinking; It has gotten you into some trouble in the past."

Romana meant well though, her expression soft with a smile hinting at her mouth. Her fingers moved back to either side of his head now and started up the familiar motions of her now-famous-head-rubbing from before.

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"Yeah, but only a few times."

A pause.

"A couple of times."

Another pause.

"Okay, maybe often, but I like trouble as well, so, there you go!"

He closed his eyes again. He thought about purring, it felt that nice, that relaxing.