"Now, why am I not surprised about that?" the Doctor asked with a small smirk. "Starting out young in the Casanova business, eh?"
No, that wasn't really why the Doctor wasn't surprised. Jack was a first-class flirt, but holding hands secretively was a romantic gesture, and deep down, Jack was an impossible romantic. Very different from the Doctor, who picked fights with Koschei as a child in order to show his affection. But his romantic thoughts were so secret, he kept them from himself, too.
"Now your dad," he went on. "Brilliant, I'm telling you. Those droids are absolute masterpieces. I'd keep one around the TARDIS just for aesthetics if I didn't worry about it killing me in my sleep."
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No, that wasn't really why the Doctor wasn't surprised. Jack was a first-class flirt, but holding hands secretively was a romantic gesture, and deep down, Jack was an impossible romantic. Very different from the Doctor, who picked fights with Koschei as a child in order to show his affection. But his romantic thoughts were so secret, he kept them from himself, too.
"Now your dad," he went on. "Brilliant, I'm telling you. Those droids are absolute masterpieces. I'd keep one around the TARDIS just for aesthetics if I didn't worry about it killing me in my sleep."