Roses red, violets blue, I think I've been stalking you.

"If you ever treat me like that again, I'll personally see to it that your entire wardrobe will be nothing but lime green for a month." Sonya shot back, a small, playful smile tugging at the corners of her lips as she linked her arm with his and began heading back to the TARDIS in a much better mood now the collar was left behind. "It bothers me I can't return here for at least ten years now. All of their good things are in this time period." She added as an afterthought, grumbling slightly under her breath as she glanced over her shoulder at the bazaar longingly. "Come on, Doctor man, let's go find what other trouble we can get into." Sonya said finally, picking up the pace when her eyes landed on the familiar blue box as it came into view ahead of them.

He follows, heeding her warning yet grinning at all the collar jokes running around in his head. The baazar had been quite the excursion but he hadn't liked the familiarity of it all. As the field surrounds them, the police box in the distance calling, he can't help but realize the sinking feeling inside him hadn't ceased.

Letting go of the Doctor's arm, Sonya ran forward and into the TARDIS as the doors opened for her once she neared them, allowing the Time Lady jog directly to the controls and begin fiddling with them before he entered behind her. "So... I was thinking, I haven't gone to Midnight in a while, or we could go to the third moon of Jupiter. You wouldn't imagine what they've built in the past century since I last landed. They have actual skyscrapers that reach into space! Can you believe that? They even have ports that jut from the sides for spaceships to land and dock at." She laughed brightly, running to the other side of the controls, distinctly realizing she was beginning to act like the tenth incarnation of her friend and dismissed it with a wave of the hand.

Honestly, who didn't his attitude and energy rub off on? Blimey, she's seen some of his old companions and they were nearly as mad as he was when it came to plans or going any place. Rushing about like a child on espresso is what they looked like more than anything. Chuckling to herself, she sniffed and tapped the console with one hand, looking over at the Doctor from under her eyebrows thoughtfully, watching his expression with a frown. "You know I told you to stop with that 'I shouldn't be here' junk."

He wishes it was that. But he shrugs and walks about the console room, his thoughts weighing heavily on his mind. It was getting harder to avoid the fact that this feeling was slowly eating him up, making him more aware than he has ever been on why he had lived, why he had been pulled from the cold remains of some factory on some planet that shouldn't matter. This was bigger than him, and that serves to frighten him even more. He looks as Sonya taps and pulls and twists and turns. The Tardis was a symphony within itself and he always loved to watch other's pilot her.

Sonya glanced over her shoulder at the Doctor and frowned again at his expression, tentatively reaching out to brush against his consciousness curiously. "You know there's a reason behind everything the universe does, Doctor. You know that and I know that better than anyone else. I mean, look at me! I was split into two people, separated into two different universes for a number of years then brought back together for a reason." She said slowly, leaning her back against the edge of the console, her arms folding over her chest as her eyes dropped away from his face in thought.

"I will tell you this, I will never understand why it does the things it does... But the Universe is older than either of us, I'm sure it has a reason behind everything. Your here now because there's something important you do later. Stop moping, stop wondering and stop asking why because you will spend the rest of your life asking those questions and end up driving yourself mad because you can't find the answer. Just accept it." She added with a small quirk of her lips, looking up at him with a small shrug. I used to do the same thing after everything I went through, and I went through plenty of problems. But eventually I got the hint, I'm important, I'm here because of something I do later to help the universe stay on it's correct path. And you should too, Doctor."

He grudgingly nods his head. He remembers being charismatic, telling people they were important, telling whole species that they deserved to exist, to fight back and reclaim their existence. But now here he was trying to question it over and over and over again and wh was he to argue if the universe wanted him alive. And how very alive he was. He felt like he could take on the world. He looks at Sonya, smiling as he speaks.

"Blimey, your right. That's amazing. You know that in nine hundred years of time and space and I've never met anybody who wasn't important before. I just never knew to include myself into that category."

"Well you better start to or I'll have to beat a few knots into that thick head of yours so you'll end up having to." Sonya teased him, her eyes sparkling with humor while staring at him with a bright smile before turning around and beginning to mess with the controls again. "Come on, lazy, get that butt into gear. I want to get off this bloody planet before someone comes knocking and asking around for a playdate or something." She mumbled under her breath, shuddering slightly at the memory of the collar resting on her neck before pushing it aside and focusing on the task at hand. "You pick the next place, apparently I have no luck today so might as well let someone else decide where we're going before we end up in a place where humanoids are eaten as food."

He smiles, helping her twist and pull knobs. He nears the keypad, biting his lip. What did he want to see? He was tired of peeking in at his companion's lives, but happy when some got to live there's fully. last he had checked Donna had two kids and a house, Wilf had passed in his sleep,and Donna's mother had become less brash and more loving. Martha Jones and Mickey Smith were expecting their first, living in London to work for unit. Jack Harkness was nowhere to be found... his team all ded except for Gwen Cooper.

Everyone had their life, why was it so hard to find time to at east properly live his own. He stares at the pad for a few minutes before typing in some coorinates

"I think Mars has a brilliant spa package right now."

Sonya's eyes brightened at the mention of a spa and nodded enthusiastically. "Now that sounds like fun." She grinned brightly, watching him as he finished with the coordinates and yanked the lever down next to her, sending them off into the vortex again. Gripping the edge of the controls, she laughed happily, her eyes moving to the Time Rotor as it worked. "Doctor, I have to say. You are brilliant, a spa, why do I never think of those?" She murmured to herself as an after thought then shrugged, at least someone did think of it.

When they landed, she sprinted for the doors, grabbing his hand on the way and pulling him along behind her. Yanking the door open with excitement, she stepped out into a posh lobby flooded with people. Pulling in a deep breath through her nose, Sonya felt another grin spread across her face. Turning over to the Doctor beside her, she tugged on his hand again to get moving. "Come on, I want to get a massage."

He laughs as she compliments him. He himself would rather go into danger and sudden deth but sometimes you needed a break and who was he to deny himself of Sonya the luxury? As she grabs him and yanks him outside, he sees they've renovated.

"They redecorated... I don't like it."

Although it was still vast and he himself could use a massage of him own. As their checking in he decides he's fine being an echo. At least he got to relax a bit more often. With grins on their faces their led towards a large frosted glass room and He couldn't be happier.


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