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This Time Round: Romana Meets Sarah Jane
by Cmento
The Doctor parked the TARDIS inside the barroom, next to about a hundred other TARDIS--not plural but plural as it was the same TARDIS. "Romana, mingle, I want to go and find my friend Adric and find out how's he's getting on with my next self..." The Doctor left her at the bar and strode off.
"Uhh, Doctor...." Before she could get his attention to tell him what she already knew, the Doctor was gone. She sat down at the bar on a stool and nudged herself into the cushion. "Bartender, I'll have a malted shake with a tiger' s eyeball in it."
"Miss?"
"Well, when I say here's looking at you, I want something staring back."
Silence.
"No, I'm just kidding. Just give me a malted with lots of vanilla and caramel..."
"That'll get you sick," said Sarah Jane Smith as she sat down, fresh from her adventure with Eldrad.
"Oh hello, you must be...?"
"Sarah Jane Smith..."
"Oh yes, of course, I recognize the outfit..."
"Do you really?"
"Yes, quite silly, if you ask me."
"I didn't..."
"Typical of a bad reporter then..."
"Typcial of someone who would help a blob faced man go back in time to erase the human race..."
"I just found one reason why I wish it would have worked."
"You're the one he told me that left him in the lurch with that young Adric only..."
"You're the one who he kicked out. Besides, Adric's preferable to traveling around with you. At least people would look at him and not laugh. Besides, the Doctor always said he needed someone more intelligent than you and cave girls to travel around with although from what I'm seeing Leela was an improvement...she at least could protect the Doctor..."
"Yes, and the function after she left was taken up by you? Oh no, by the tin dog that I've grown so fond of. Mine is Mark 3."
"Well, there's no accounting for your math grades is there? Oh you mean, your K9?"
"Yes the one he gave me after you stole his..."
"Whiny prat. Never wanting to get cold or wet..."
"Something you don't have to worry about...you're personality...cold and as for wet...well, no one can dry the wet off of you."
"Savaged by bug eyed monster, thrown down steps, blinded, raging against the machine...."
"At least I didn't get eaten by a plant..."
"Can I say Krynoid?"
"Can I say Pirates?"
"Can I say left in the street with a dog?"
"Can I say left of own accord with lion from the Wizard of Oz."
"Can I say ducking down from an atomic blast...really, you could have stood up."
"I can hardly stand what I'm experiencing now."
"Not unusual for you. You really were a screaming, groaning, annoying clumsy cow, weren't you? I don't know why so many people were fooled by you."
!....!
"Now that was fun, wasn't it?" Romana and Sarah said. They both laughed and then shared stories about the Doctor that are probably better left untold.
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