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All right. It's all very intriguing, and I'd quite enjoy a chance to get involved with Communications, or have a look at those engines, and the science department is quite enticing, not to mention all the people here — yes, you lot, definitely a perk, lovely chatting with you all — but I've had enough.

[ enough of boring domesticity. enough of being trapped. no matter how many small projects he takes on it never gets any less dull, and the bigger one never resolves itself. one thread leads to another leads to another, and he knew from the moment tom mcnair told him about the pirates that there was more going on here than meets the eye, reaffirmed by neal caffrey's cryptic intelligences, but in the process of finding it he's getting itchy for real information. ]

[ so there's a strictness in his tone and a glint in his eye that is perhaps not strictly the best way to make his debut on the network (this debut, anyway) but he has a question he needs answered. ]

Now. Somebody tell me how I can go about speaking to the captain of this ship.

[ he adjusts his bow-tie, and waits. would he be the doctor if he didn't think he could work it all out where everyone else has failed? it would be delusional arrogance if he hadn't managed it quite so many times in the past. ]

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As charitable as that is, I don't need looking out for.

[ and hastily, since like, there's several women on board who could hear and contradict him. ]

Not in the medical sense, anyway. But your concern does you credit.

It wasn't concern.

[ well, not really. beyond general doctor concern. ]

It's not wanting to see an idiot come back realizing that going after them was a goddamn fool's errand that made them worse off than they were when they left and didn't help anyone.

And what would you suggest, when it comes to helping.

Are you actually gonna listen to the suggestion or would I be talking to a brick wall?

I'll listen.

[ whether or not he'll take the advice is another thing entirely. ]

Make sure you're not going out there all half-cocked. Trying to play the hero because that's what you do because all that's going to do is make everything worse in the long run.

I'm never half-cocked. I am always fully—

[ actually, no. no, he's just gonna stop there. ]

I don't play the hero. I'm not a hero. I'm just — the Doctor. And if you think this is the first or even fifth time I've been trapped in a place with limited resources and something ominous and impossible starting to happen, well.

[ he smiles. ]

The pods are new, I'll give them the pods. Hyperspace travel isn't usually so hard on the system.

Always. Well then, you're just a regular old, been around the block a few times genius, aren't you?

[ god he is not impressed at all. ]

You keep saying the Doctor like it's supposed to mean anything to me beyond potentially being a part of my profession. [ a beat. ]

This isn't like what you've done before, then. If the pods are are new and— god help me they make hyperspace travel even worse, then this is new to you.

No no no. You're a doctor, I'm the Doctor. It's my name. Look me up.

[ not that there's anything to look him up on, he just likes saying it. ]

That aspect,

[ he corrects, ]

Is new to me. Give me a few more jumps.

You mean the one who keeps coming and going. Excuse me, the Doctor, had no idea you were so special and were just going to save all our poor asses.

[ still unimpressed. ]

And you'll have it all figured out and get us home. This I gotta see.

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