Thought about posting this to sixwordstories, decided not to.

[rude_not_ginger]

I'm brilliant.

That's really all, actually.

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[sleepswithlove.livejournal.com]

*laughs* What brought this on?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

I was shaving, just a moment ago, and I looked into the mirror and realized I'm brilliant. Moment of joy, actually. Wanted to share with the world.

[sleepswithlove.livejournal.com]

You were shaving and it just popped into your head?

You are an odd duck, did you know that, Doctor?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

I've been getting that a lot actually. What do I do to make me so strange?

[sleepswithlove.livejournal.com]

Well, usually people declare they are brilliant after they've done something brilliant. Shaving doesn't really count as that.

Unless you were thinking up something brilliant WHILE you were shaving? Were you?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

I was thinking that I was brilliant which was brilliant and

How are you, anyway?

[sleepswithlove.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Ok. I believe you. You are something else, Doctor. I think that's probably why you're so adorable.

Very good, actually. I saw my husband the other day.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

I'm adorable? I...I think I could handle being adorable. It's the being "cute" I have concerns about.

Did you really? Eros, am I right? How is he?

[sleepswithlove.livejournal.com]

You are adorable, and cute too. *grins*

I did and yes, Eros. He is good...now. He was a bit of a mess when I came home though.

[daughterof-evil.livejournal.com]

What makes you think that?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

Well...it's hard to deny the truth.

[daughterof-evil.livejournal.com]

Fair enough.

Congratulations on being brilliant.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I do my very best.

Don't worry. I think you're rather brilliant, yourself.

[daughterof-evil.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you do. It must be hard work being brilliant.

Thanks, that is the nicest thing I've heard all day.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

Well, most of it comes naturally. There's a bit of work involved, but not an extravagant amount.

Having a rough day?

[daughterof-evil.livejournal.com]

Then it would be more work if you were less naturally brilliant.

More like a rough bunch of months, but I'm working on making it better.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

Anything I can do?

[daughterof-evil.livejournal.com]

Nope.

But you can add 'awesome' in there with brilliant, because that's what you are for offering.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

You've never been anything but kind to me, Sasha. There isn't a reason in the universe I shouldn't return the favor once in a while.

[daughterof-evil.livejournal.com]

I can think of a time when I was less than kind to you, but I don't like dwelling on my whole attitude towards people when Peter was away. I was upset then and I'm trying to get better now. I really appreciate you being nice enough to offer to help me.

[thisway-comes.livejournal.com]

And yet, were I to make such a pronouncement, I'd get a lecture on overinflated pride.

Really, Doctor.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

I think we both know my pride is inflated to just-the-right-size.

[thisway-comes.livejournal.com]

*deadpan* I'm sure you say that to all the girls.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

No, Rani. That information is kept secret from everyone except you.

[thisway-comes.livejournal.com]

Mmm. And next I imagine you want to show it to me? Demonstrate its proper level of inflation, et cetera?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

I would never be so forward. I'd want you to imagine it yourself first. Invitations for sight of my perfectly inflated pride come after a few drinks.

[thisway-comes.livejournal.com]

It's so completely evident that you slept through our lectures on the scientific method, Doctor. I never imagine anything. I require empirical experiences. Independent verification of submitted claims, and all that.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

So instead of me offering for you to see it, you instead are asking to view the aforementioned inflated pride for your own scientific methods?

Now who's being the forward one?

[thisway-comes.livejournal.com]

You made the claim. I'm seeking to prove or disprove it.

And have you ever known me to be anything but direct when it comes to acheiving a goal?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

You have me there, Rani. Can't deny your fervor or determination, not even with a Grexaxxian History Writer.

So.

[thisway-comes.livejournal.com]

So.

Your local, or mine?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

Let's go yours.

[thisway-comes.livejournal.com]

These days I'm partial to the Dubliner. It's in the Phoenix Park Hotel in Washington, DC, America, Earth. I'll meet you there... oh, 19 December, 2007? In the evening?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

Fantastic, I'll see you there.

Anything in particular I should bring? Besides the pride?

[thisway-comes.livejournal.com]

There were books you offered to lend me. The Kama Sutra, and there may have been another, I can't entirely recall. If you'd bring those, it would be most helpful.

[thisway-comes.livejournal.com]

Turnabout's fair play.

...It is you, isn't it?

[thisway-comes.livejournal.com]

I just... well. There's this bloke in 1973. Remarkable, really. I thought...

You know what, never mind. Just... keep an eye on the Doctor. Stay away from his chameleon arch, all right?

[thisway-comes.livejournal.com]

I have not.

Right, look. There's this bloke in 1973 who's the spitting image of you. Only he's human, with some crazy story about just waking up suddenly in 1973 and having no idea how he got there.

I'm not convinced the Doctor didn't--or won't--put you through the chameleon arch and then drop you off in 1973. All I'm saying is, be careful.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

I met him, too. It's not him, Rani. The only similarity is the appearance. I thought he might've been trying to trick me, or hide away. Invoke pity of some sort. No, no, the man's too different. Even Yana held similarities to who the Master was underneath it all.

[thisway-comes.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, you'd hardly tell me if you'd done it, right? No offence. I'll believe it when I can prove it for myself.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

Explain to me the purpose in putting the Master in that situation? It couldn't be to make him love humanity---he spent decades as a human and it didn't change him. The only thing it would make him is more vunerable. I'm not about to have him die now.

Besides, how would you prove it? Chameleon arch is 100% perfect. Only thing left is straggling memories. I know, I've done it before.

[thisway-comes.livejournal.com]

To control him. To know where he is, and that he's not going to take over the world again, without the encumberance of having to keep him with you. Which I've never understood you doing.

Nothing's one hundred percent perfect.

Who'd you do it to last time, then?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to take him on as a responsibility and then drop him, Rani. That's not the sort of man I am.

Myself. It was...it's really a long story.

[thisway-comes.livejournal.com]

And we're back to neither of us knowing what sort of person the other is anymore.

Yourself? You've been through the process? Then you... we must talk. I have questions. It isn't as if we won't have time in Washington. For your long story.

[sarahs-attic.livejournal.com]

Or else very good at improvising.