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[ The room looks like a beach house — as it is. Ten and Finnick are dressed in shorts, with wild, vibrant prints, with Finnick wearing a loose shirt and The Doctor sporting a rather dapper find. Finnick Odair isn't quite in his underwear, but he is wearing something that suggests he hadn't opened his eyes while dressing himself this morning — and Ten doesn't look like his marvellously dressed self, either, swapping a suit for something that looks like he'd wear to a beach. Finnick wears oversized red rimmed love heart sunglasses while Ten sports a large dazzling yellow pair that swallow his entire face. Standing beside one another, they seem to bounce to very loud music playing from a stereo system in the background. ]

[ Finnick points to Ten every time he sings (quite well): ] Girl look at that body.

Girl look at that body.

Girl look at that body.

[ Normally, the Doctor might feel uncomfortable, dressed as he is, but somehow, it's not really bothering him right this second. What he and Finnick are about to do is all in good fun, and honestly, he's loving every minute of it, ridiculous clothes and equally ridiculous glasses and all. ]

[ Whenever Finnick points at him, he grins and points right back, singing his part with as much vim and vigor as he can throw into the performance: ]

I-I-I work out.

[ Finnick winks at him. ] When I walk in the spot, this is what I see —

[ And he just winks back. ] — Everybody stops and they're staring at me.

I got passion in my pants — [ Finnick points down to his crotch with an exaggerated thrust of his hips. ]

[ Ten throws back his head and laughs at Finnick's exaggerated movements. But, in the spirit of things, he manages a passable imitation as he continues with the next line: ] — And I ain't afraid to show it.

Show it, show it, show it. [ Finnick moves toward Ten and grabs his glasses from his face. He slips his own off and, one-handedly — almost poking him in the eye — he slips it back over his ears. He shoves his new pair on. Finnick now wears the yellow glasses while Ten wears the hearts. ]

[ Ten mouths a silent but clearly indignant 'oi' at Finnick, but continues on with the song, now wearing those ridiculous heart sunglasses. ]

[ Together: ] I'm sexy and I know it!

[ And Finnick gives Ten a great, big kiss on the cheek. ]

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[ mind: blown. ]

[ he's frowning at ten. ] How? There's only one sun. Except for when they make another, but that never lasts very long. [ in the arena, there's two — the real one, outside of the mechanics of the arena, one the capitol can't even control, and then there's the capitol's design. ] There's stars — too many to count — but there's always one sun in the sky.

[ For a second, it looks as though the Doctor is working really hard not to roll his eyes. ]

There's different planets and different solar systems out there. Oh, you wouldn't believe it without seeing it, but there are entire worlds out there filled with different creatures, different people, different everything.

[ Well, some things remain the same, whether a place is inhabited by humans or not. ]

Of course there's always one sun in the sky, but it's not always the same sun.

[ finnick leans forward, throwing his feet from where they rest across the back of the couch. his arms come to rest against his thighs. he acts like a child learning the most interesting thing in the world in school — and he finds that he is. his head is already spinning — different creatures, different people, different everything. panem is a country stuck in a glass jar that refuses to grow and move. it stays the same, with the same sun, with the same leadership, changing with technology but nothing else. ]

[ stagnant until the rebellion, finnick hopes. ]

The sun doesn't stay the same? How have you been to all these worlds — there's … [ his eyes move to the corner of his and he frowns, his teeth gnawing on his lip for only a moment. there's nothing outside of panem, that much he knows, because the capitol wishes to not let him know anything at all. ]

Well, it's still a sun no matter where you go, but it's not the same sun that's seen from Earth.

[ And there's the rub, the thing the Doctor's been skirting around until now. But he figures there's no reason to keep it hidden. ]

I'm what you might call a time traveler. Well, time and space traveler, I suppose, although I'm not much use for that here, since my ship got left behind.

[ finnick simply stares at him. everything he has said is so foreign to him, so unbelievable and far-fetched and weird, that he isn't quite sure how to respond. he thinks laughing would be the best choice, but he can't even muster up the sound. ]

[ time and space traveller. to finnick, that sounds exactly like what he's been longing for, the ability to travel through time and space to save himself and those he cares about from a grisly fate. but his hopes, and the elation that seems to rush up within him, despite the confusion and uncertainty that marks his face, dwindles down almost instantly when the doctor says something of his ship. but his voice is a little hopeful, mismatching the incredulous stare he rewards him with for his honesty. ] Ask the closet for your ship back.

[ He's seen reactions like this before, and it's both mildly humorous yet predictable all wrapped up in one. But usually, the person he's talking to resumes control of their voice if he waits long enough, and eventually, Finnick does the same thing. ]

That wouldn't work. There's no way a simple closet could hold a ship like mine. And besides, if my ship hadn't come with me when I first arrived, I highly doubt that I'd be able to get her back so easily.

[ He means to say, though, that it's not as if he hasn't tried. The TARDIS just is not coming. ]

Then ask for the parts. [ a ship is like a car, isn't it? isn't it like the train that connects all the districts? made of parts. when one part fails, the capitol orders a replacement. this is the closest he's come to a potential way out of wonderland. being the stupid boy he sometimes is, he grasps it with both hands and refuses to let it go. ] I know you can't request for the things back home, but you can ask for something similar.

I would, if it were that simple. I doubt the closets here can give me what I'd need. And anyway, if I were to build a new one, it wouldn't be the same.

[ No, what he wants is his ship, the one that's been with him since the beginning, not a new one that might not even work. ]

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