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[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

[have some of the TARDIS wardrobe set out on the Plane. You might see things like this and this and this, along with all types of other clothes as well. Handy is going through it, looking for some clothes to get by before he replenishes his wardrobe. He holds a shirt up against his chest as he studies his reflection in a floor length mirror and then quickly tosses it aside, going back to sort through the racks of clothing]

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[savagestime.livejournal.com]

[...hm]

Doctor?

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

[looks up at the Master innocently]

Yes?

[and his focus seems to shift as he studies the shirt he is holding in his hand]

Wait, wait, wait. Hold that thought.

[holds up a black shirt]

What do you think? Bit too Johnny Cash? [doesn't pause to allow for any sort of response] Then again, that one Doctor seems to have pulled off black nicely in his universe. We'll just keep it in the good pile.

[drops the shirt in a small pile, and then goes back to looking through clothes without missing a beat]

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you should choose what you like best.

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

Of course.

[still going through the racks, and he pulls out a scarlet and orange robe]

Think fast.

[tosses the thing to the Master, though it might not arrive very gracefully, what with the bulkiness and things of that robe, but he's not stopping to see if the Master caught it, he's back to looking for things]

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

[the Master catches it, and actually breaks into a grin]

Rassilon, but I think this is fitted to the first of you.

[with slightly glee, he pulls the robes on. There is no hat, but this is for the best]

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

[he's not looking at the Master to see that grin, but he can hear his tone]

Probably. There's bound to be a few more different sizes lying around as well. Surprised that thing is still in one piece.

[yes, it really is for the best]

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

I forgot how nice the material is.

[and let's be honest; when you wear the same stuffy robes for two hundred years, they begin to be a bit like a security blanket. The Master has ADD'd from bothering Handy about his emo, because he feels comfortable, Rassilon forbid, in Prydonian robes. That post-War nostalgia hits in all the strangest places]

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

Is it? I wasn't paying attention.

[awww, the Master is cute in his nostalgia! Handy hesitates and then comes over, feeling the material on the robe]


Oh, that actually is nice.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

I remember being told that the robes were supposed to be comfortable because we weren't supposed to like it. But I that isn't what it was. The robes were supposed to become comfortable. The Academy was supposed to make us like its suffocation, and when we were used to it - when we started to crave the impractical robes and the ornate rituals - that was when they knew they had us. That was when a young Gallifreyan's mind was broken into old Gallirey's ways.

[The Master tugs on one of the fold]

Always liked the square folds in it. Such an elegant, simple thing when you take it apart, but it seems complex at first glance.

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

I don't think I ever thought about it that much. Or maybe I did? I don't know.

[hesitates for a moment]

Do you crave them now?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

The robes, yes. They're impractical, and I wouldn't wear them outside a TARDIS, but I want to have them. I want to be able to wear them if I want to. I want that choice. You destroyed Gallifrey, and now it isn't a choice.

Not the rituals, though. ...Well, some of them. I always like a good ritual. Maybe if we tossed in a bit more summoning, I'd be sold.

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

[may have actually genuinely grinned at the last part]

So needs more summoning, then?

[pauses and shrugs]

You're free to have the robe if you like. Don't think anyone will notice it's gone missing. Too much stuff in this place, anyway.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Everything needs more summoning, Doctor. I thought you knew.

I had no plans to give it back.

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

Everything?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Name one thing that would be ruined by summoning.

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know.

[seems to think and then just shrugs]

Maybe you're right.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

...Oooh, say that again.

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

I would, but your head is big enough as is.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Well if you don't want to say it, I shan't force you. It's not half so satisfying.

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

Well then, we'll just have to wait until you're right about something else. That might take a while. Wonder if I'll still be around to see it.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

You'd have to die very quickly to miss it.

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

Well, you'll just have to get my attention when it's coming. It really is a blink and you miss it sort of event.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Like light, and I am the sun, constantly emanating it.

[he says this with a grand sweep of his robe-clad arms. he looks a right proper Gallireyan!]

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

[rolls his eyes, in an attempt to appear unamused by the gesture, but he actually does laugh at that]

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

[mimicking Borusa's voice]

Theta Sigma, that noise is not well-suited to the Academy halls. I would advise you stifle it.