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[doctorate.livejournal.com]

. . . Oh, this. This. Is. Gorgeous.

No, really, I mean it. I've seen a lot of things -- more things that you'd think I ever would, given my youthful and altogether handsome appearance, -- but this place. Brilliant! So flash! So shiny! Well, they're stars, how could they not be shiny? Although, strictly speaking, stars are more luminous than shiny. But you can't use luminous in an interjection. Too many syllables. Can't be spouting off exclamations of surprise if it takes more than a second. Wouldn't really be surprised, then -- it'd sound too premeditated to be genuine.

So! The shop's the gateway, yeah? Never seen it before today, and I'd figured I'd gotten used to this version of London by now. Still, always did like a little shop, but it feels a bit wrong that it'd be used for sinister purposes like this -- after all, I can't really see this as being positive, the whole kidnapping and displacing thing. I guess you really can't ever trust a salesman. Or a saleswoman. Or a salestwin, as the case might be.

But right, anyway! Sinister little shop leading to a mysterious planetarium taken to an extreme scale? I might be new to this universe, still, but I'm reasonably sure this wouldn't be considered normal.

Now, who wants to offer an explanation before I call for back-up? And you might want to be quick about it -- I like calling for back-up.

Comments

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

Let's just say I loathe it all.

Oh, but it's not nearly as bad as you loathe me, I'm sure.

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can't stand you.

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

I knew it! I always had that little nagging feeling.

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

I've been good at hiding it.

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

It must make the whole being teammates thing extremely awkward, yeah?

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

Just a bit, yeah.

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

And yet we suffer through, for the good of the institute.

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

It's tough. [Sticks tongue out] I'm amazed you haven't just waltzed off and found someone new.

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, I suppose, despite our total detestation of one another, we've got a rapport going on, yeah?

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

Just a rapport?

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

Should it be more than that?

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

I dunno.

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

I suppose by now we can read each other relatively well, too.

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

You think so?

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

Just a bit, yeah!

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

So what do you think I'm thinking about right now?

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

[Entirely serious.]

Cupcakes.

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

Cupcakes?

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

Very definitely cupcakes.

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

...you're very right.

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

. . . I am? Blimey, I was just making it up!

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

[Laughs] The thought crossed my mind at least once. But I was mostly just humoring you.

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

-- Oh, well then. Excellent show of knocking me down a peg.

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

If I didn't do it, nobody would. And besides, it's part of what you like about me.

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah? What happened to our mutual loathing?