"Short story? A wedding. The long story includes messing about with time, secret societies of real dickheads - as if there's ever a different type of secret society, demon-apes breaking through into the world, a really fancy brothel and a, still, a wedding."
"No idea. We crashed it for other reasons. From what I picked up - between the screaming and the bridesmaids, they'd both been cheating on each other and, despite what some songs suggest, that didn't bring them together. Mother of the groom had some serious liquor ready to be pulled out, so I think she might have suspected something."
"A lot of weird shit is sacred, so that might fit."
He slouches over, starting on the plants. "Anyway, it was better than the state wedding we ended up at. Sixteen courses are about fifteen courses too much. And everyone was so chillingly polite that you really wished they'd start screaming."
"Sounds like my personal Hell," he mutters. "Those kinds of social events caused most of my premature graying. If I had to remember one more title I was going to punch someone."
"I'd usually slowly slide under the table, but it was sixteen courses free of any sort of alcoholic beverage. I did consider just leaving the Doctor have fun in prison around course six, but I had the always mistaken idea that it couldn't get worse."
"And by course ten you were already in too deep to quit, I assume."
The Doctor. He's heard of this person, in a vague sort of way. They get mentioned here and there by people in conversation, and while he doesn't know much, he is aware that he's not an actual physician.
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Date: 2022-07-03 11:44 pm (UTC)"I was a musician, when I couldn't avoid employment."
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Date: 2022-07-03 11:50 pm (UTC)He grins a little to himself.
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Date: 2022-07-04 12:02 am (UTC)He tests the soil of a plant, before adding a little more water.
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Date: 2022-07-04 09:50 pm (UTC)He prods at another plant and snips a browning sprout.
"After you tell me what you were doing in the 18th century, of course."
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Date: 2022-07-04 09:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-07-04 10:15 pm (UTC)"Was it a nice wedding?"
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Date: 2022-07-04 10:22 pm (UTC)A rare moment of complete sincerity, before he shrugs.
"And I've been to some pretty bad ones. Though the one where they broke up before even getting to the vows was pretty funny, in my opinion."
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Date: 2022-07-04 11:50 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2022-07-04 11:55 pm (UTC)"Come water the plants on this side of the room for me."
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Date: 2022-07-05 12:11 am (UTC)He slouches over, starting on the plants. "Anyway, it was better than the state wedding we ended up at. Sixteen courses are about fifteen courses too much. And everyone was so chillingly polite that you really wished they'd start screaming."
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Date: 2022-07-05 12:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-07-05 12:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-07-05 01:21 am (UTC)The Doctor. He's heard of this person, in a vague sort of way. They get mentioned here and there by people in conversation, and while he doesn't know much, he is aware that he's not an actual physician.
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Date: 2022-07-05 01:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-07-05 02:22 am (UTC)"The rest you infiltrated for one reason or another, I assume?"
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Date: 2022-07-05 02:24 am (UTC)