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“You’re full of it!
“Am not! You take that back, Rose Tyler!”
Rose stared. “You seriously think you can talk the Queen of Kirilta into just handin’ over the key to her high security vault by bein’ charmin’??”
“Yes! I’m charm personified, Rose- I’m devilishly dashing! Absolutely alluring! Gregariously gorgeous! I’m practically irresistible in this body! And just look at the hair! Look at my freckly freckles!” He waggled his eyebrows. “And I can do a seriously sexy Scottish brogue. She doesn’t stand a chance against my brogue and my freckles.”
“Oh, God,” Rose muttered. This was a first-class disaster in the making. At this rate, she was either going to end up bailing him out of jail, or locked up with him.
Either way, he was a git.
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Rose peered into the cell and sighed. “Yeah, that’s him.”
The guard shook his head. “What’s a nice girl like you doing mixed up with a troublemaker like this?”
“OI!”
Ignoring the Doctor’s indignant squawk, she smiled at the guard. “He’s not usually this much trouble. Must’ve forgotten to take his pills- makes him a bit loopy.”
“I don’t need pills!” the Doctor protested. “Superior physiology. I’m fit as a fiddle! Fitter than a fiddle! Fitter than FIVE fiddles!”
Rose shook her head pityingly. “See?”
The fatherly (orange) alien sighed in understanding, antennae bobbing. “Ah, lass, that’s a terrible shame for one so young. You’re a nice girl for sticking by him.”
“I beg your pardon! I’m not mad!”
The guard nodded placatingly as he unlocked the door. “Of course you’re not.” He winked at Rose. “Now you go with your lovely wife have a nice lie down- you’ll feel ever so much better.”
Rose barely suppressed a grin. “Come on then, husband.”
The Doctor stormed past the both of them in a huff.
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“Alright, alright! You can stop laughing about it now.”
Rose only laughed harder.
“Fine,” the Doctor huffed, crossing his arms petulantly. “Be like that.”
“Freckly freckles, you said. She won’t be able to resist my brogue, you said,” Rose gasped, trying to catch her breath.
“Well, if you want to be precise, she couldn’t resist me. Which is why she gave me her key.”
“The key to her room, Doctor!” Rose burst into laughter afresh. “You tried to open a high security vault with the key to her room. And you set off the alarm.”
The Doctor scowled. “It’s not funny, Rose. She said it was the key to her secret vault. How was I supposed to know she was talking about, er, something else?”
Rose only laughed harder.