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[sets down various weapons as stolen from Minato's under-the-bed armory. It is worth noting that he's chosen to relax at the bar, and that there is an opened bottle of whisky on the counter]

House fire in Kingston upon Hull, six-year-old boy dead. It's considered an accident.

Ethics in altering the past you know as a fact while back in time: discuss.

[drinks from his glass of whisky]

Or don't.

[and another drink!]

A word, Guv.

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Sounds a lot like the normal human definition, Doctor.

Does it? What's your definition of it, Sam?

Love is... it's, uhm... I don't know. I... can't define it. Love's too different every time it is.

[snorts and elbows him] Cheater.

Ow! [abuse hurts more when it's not from Gene, apparently] But I can't! I mean, if I think of the people I love, it's - it's different for them all. But it's still love.

[gives him an amused look] Exactly. It's different for everyone. You love some people a little more or a little less. Maybe you have more faith in others. That's how it is. it'd be perfectly fine if you lot didn't insist on putting things like 'platonic' and 'romantic' and 'in love' and all that.

[looks at him for a moment] ...Have humans been boxing you in about love, then?

[mildly] I suppose sometimes. You just usually have ideas about it. If I love someone, I'm not categorizing it by if I'd snog them or not.

Well, you wouldn't snog your mother, would you? It's a pretty bad definition.

Of course not. The person who counted for that hated me. Most of my family did. So I can't quite do incest anyway.

...Oh. Uh...

[laughs] Time Lords didn't breed like that anyway, Sam. And actually, by the time, ooooh, 2310 hits, your lot are more concerned with breeding with people like Ardwas than with each other. Those sort of definitions change over the years. Love is fluid over time... not that everyone who dances love each other but, well. [shrugs and drinks his rum]

... 'dances'?

You know! [waves his hand, drinking more] Doing what your lot do best.

.... I don't get it.

[raises eyebrow and he feels so awkward saying this] Sex.

Oh. ...That's not what we do best!

[drinks his rum] That's what you're known for through most of the universe. That and food, actually. You should see how many races adopt chips.

Sex and food??

[pauses to think] And pollution. And shrewd business. Oh and when you evolve into gas clouds, you're known for taking up loads of space. You also gave the universe thousands of new tourist attractions, like Planet Hollywood.

I'm glad to see we're held in such high esteem through the grander scheme of things.

Aw, well, at least most species think you're quaint in a positive sort of way.

Quaint.

[nods] You should have seen what some of my school textbooks said about Earth and humans. I always liked Earth, though. I said it'd be the first place I visited.

...Has no one every hit you for talking like that?