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clara "why are you booing me i'm right" oswald ([personal profile] makemeasong) wrote2022-10-06 09:48 am

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[personal profile] thedreamer 2022-12-13 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's completely unaware of the inner turmoil she may be feeling, if at all. He hasn't thought much about the actual confession at all. That's not what troubles him. No, it's the fact that she died for his sake that haunts him. He hasn't stopped thinking about it, among so many other things.

His small, perfect impossible girl standing before him now. She's scattered herself across his time stream, every life he's ever lived, and for what? Because she loves him, sure. But why? He's not worth it. It doesn't matter how often she says it, he won't see it that way. Beneath the happy smile, beneath the delight at spending time with her, is a man filled with anguish at the possible future that awaits them both. She'll have no idea the hours upon hours he's spent working out how to stop what's happened, how to prevent it, how to save her. He has time enough here to figure it out and he will and she'll be none the wiser. She's not going to die for his sake, no one will. ]


Not here, though. No, this a chance to catch our breaths. Have you ever been ice skating? Ever, of course. You must have been.
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[personal profile] thedreamer 2022-12-14 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Keeping her arm tucked against his side, he leads her down the corridor. ]

Oh, think grander, Clara. I've skated on seas of ice on Andalusia, a giant glittering lake frosted and frozen over on Ligeres, and I've even skated vertically up a frozen waterfall on Nandese!

[ Does he ramble on too much sometimes? Possibly. But there's so much to see, so much he has seen, and he loves to share it. It may sound boastful to anyone else, but to him it's just fantastic and he wants everyone to know how brilliant the universe is. ]

You'll be fine, don't worry. I'll be there to catch you.
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[personal profile] thedreamer 2022-12-16 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, we should always seize the opportunity to laugh at ourselves, shouldn't we?

[ His smile is an easy one. Whatever else is going on around them, whatever troubles lay heavy in his hearts, here in this moment, he's going to skate on the ice with a friend and he can't think of anything better in the world right now. ]
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[personal profile] thedreamer 2022-12-23 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Alternatively, the Doctor has decided just to 'skate' using his regular shoes. Why not? But he waits patiently for Clara, amazingly enough. He can actually be patient sometimes, as it turns out. ]

Oh, I've played football a time or two! I was quite good at it, actually. Maybe we get a team going here.
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[personal profile] thedreamer 2022-12-26 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ He grips both of her hands carefully, keeping a firm grip so she can make it to her feet and stand steady. ]

A time I was lodging on Earth for a bit with Craig. [ He says Craig's name like Clara should just know him, of course. ] Caught on quickly enough!

And why can't I? Should work just as well as skates, I think.
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[personal profile] thedreamer 2023-01-01 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ Continuing to help Clara carefully over to the ice, the Doctor keeps an arm around her waist, wanting to make sure there's no chance she can fall over and hurt herself before they even make it there. ]

For a bit, yeah. I'd stayed on Earth before, for much longer, of course, though that was another lifetime and a different face. I was exiled then.
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[personal profile] thedreamer 2023-01-02 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He could tell her easily and in fact, he'd be more likely to tell Clara than he would most people. But something makes him hesitate a moment longer; not because it's Clara, but because he's him, the Doctor, the man of secrets. Though, this particular secret isn't really a secret at all. More of a mystery, perhaps, and nothing that he feels he can't tell.

He'd like to keep her guessing a moment or two longer, though. So, he makes a face like he's pretending to laugh, rolling his eyes a bit, starting to slowly circle around the ice with her. ]


Would you exile me for a bad pun? Bet you would. You're ruthless, Clara Oswald. Besides, I never tell a bad pun!
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[personal profile] thedreamer 2023-01-09 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He makes a blerp-buzz sound under his breath, quite exaggerated just for dramatic effect. Of course, that time of his life when he was exiled was actually quite serious and devastating to him. The memory of it is troubling, to say the least, though it would be hard to discern that from his carefree, even jovial demeanor. ]

Oh, I would have liked to see them try.

Well-I suppose they did.

One more guess, eh, come on? Make it a good one, Clara!

[ As she circles around him, he reaches out to try and grab her wrist lightly, intending to tug her close and spin with her. ]
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[personal profile] thedreamer 2023-01-15 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That's not entirely correct either, but she's right in thinking that the fun is in the guessing, and he'll leave it where it's at. ]

You do know me, don't you?

[ The second spin feels just as exhilarating and he's laughing with joy and playfulness as they move in a circle together. ]
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[personal profile] thedreamer 2023-01-16 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
You might, you just might. Near abouts.

[ He enjoys the spin with her, feeling exhilarated all over again as they move about in a circle. ]

Oh, I know everything about you.

[ Quite the boast, of course. ]

Where would I start? Ask me anything!
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[personal profile] thedreamer 2023-01-16 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ah, but little does she know that even if he doesn't really know the answer, he'll have fun guessing and pretending to know, regardless.

When she calls him clever boy, though, for a moment he feels his hearts ache and flutter. She's only ever said it when she's dying and for a moment, those painful memories flash in his mind and he just holds tighter to her hands. But this is a better memory, a far better one. A remembrance of those words while she's right in front of him, perfectly healthy, happy, whole. ]


Bedelia, of course! Clara Bedelia Oswald
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[personal profile] thedreamer 2023-01-17 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ He wants to just always remember her like this, exactly like this; that bright smile, that joyful laugh, Clara just alive. It pains him again to think that she'd died for him, that she's died over and over again, and he's reminded of his promise to himself once more, to do everything he can to keep her safe, to try and alter the future she's going back to.

But he grins at her nonetheless. ]


Okay, a better one—Beatrice! Clara Beatrice Oswald.
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[personal profile] thedreamer 2023-01-17 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
Is that your middle name now? Have we accidentally and perfectly stumbled onto it?

[ He begins to skate in a broader circle with her now, enfolding her hand protectively in his. ]

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