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[broken-clock.livejournal.com]

I'll assume I'd have caught on if you were torturing one of me? Regardless, please don't make it worse. I might be in his TARDIS for a bit, if my Eighth needs me to help with him.

Do you think we should bring something to the party?



How would you like a tour of the city? Tomorrow, perhaps?



[his voice isn't loud, or angry; in fact it's completely calm, and utterly assured]

Tell me what you did to him.


Why do cats never cooperate with a role call?

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Saxon

[broken-clock.livejournal.com]

[sharply] Details, Master. If I'm to clean up your mess yet again I'll need them.

Five

[iheardrums.livejournal.com]

You'll find the equipment I used in my other self's TARDIS. If you hurt him further trying to fix it, it'll be your fault, not mine.

Saxon

[broken-clock.livejournal.com]

I've a good deal of experience with damaged minds.

Master.

Five

[iheardrums.livejournal.com]

It's less a damaged mind and more a work of art.

[amused] I do think you'd have a hard time slipping me aspirin, you know.

Saxon

[broken-clock.livejournal.com]

Art is creation, not destruction.

If I truly wanted to, Master, I wouldn't.

Five

[iheardrums.livejournal.com]

Perhaps that's how you see it. What else is sculpture but destroying stone until it takes the form you want it to?

[tapping his fingers] While you're in your Tenth's mind, you might want to peek at his memories and see what Lucy thought of our little session. She's the one who encouraged me to do it, you know - and she was linked in with us throughout.

Saxon

[broken-clock.livejournal.com]

And what form did you want?

[quietly, tightly] I'll keep a note of it.

Five

[iheardrums.livejournal.com]

If I told you, then it would be ruining centuries of careful work, and not just a night's.

Saxon

[broken-clock.livejournal.com]

[sharp laugh] Would it really.

Five

[iheardrums.livejournal.com]

Last night wasn't really part of the overall plan - that's why I didn't do anything that would damage him permanently.

Saxon

[broken-clock.livejournal.com]

Was dying sixteen times part of it?

Five

[iheardrums.livejournal.com]

Every plan has to be readjusted occasionally.

So, are you planning on taking your revenge on me? It'd be useful to know.

Saxon

[broken-clock.livejournal.com]

Mmhmm.

You know I've never had much taste for vengeance.

Five

[iheardrums.livejournal.com]

[unimpressed] Yes, but you've been...consorting with my other self for quite some time now. Perhaps that's changed - you seem to have changed, at any rate.

Saxon

[broken-clock.livejournal.com]

Do tell me your profound insights into my character.

Five

[iheardrums.livejournal.com]

I could, but you seem to enjoy being in denial.

Saxon

[broken-clock.livejournal.com]

You don't have many, then.

Five

[iheardrums.livejournal.com]

Here's an obvious one: you'd rather spend time goading me than trying to patch your Tenth's mind back together.

Saxon

[broken-clock.livejournal.com]

[cheerfully]

No, I've been speaking with my Eighth on it, and in the mean time trying to taunt you into releasing information.

Five

[iheardrums.livejournal.com]

Have you quite given up yet, then?

Saxon

[broken-clock.livejournal.com]

Just about.

Five

[iheardrums.livejournal.com]

Good. I'm getting quite bored.