[ video - backdated to Day 76 ]

[noblexcompanion]

[ Donna looks and sounds exhausted. ] Is everyone safe and sound and in one piece? So much for the epic plan to get us all home... Speaking of which, has anyone seen the Doctor? He disappeared. Like, literally, vanished...

Maybe it worked? Maybe he got outta here. I reckon it's more likely our not so pleasant hosts snatched his skinny butt though...

Does anyone need plasters or bandages or tea?

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[freewheeling]

No, you sit your gorgeous self down and I'll make the tea.

[ It can't be that hard, right? Says the Warlock who usually just clicks his fingers for it to arrive. ]

[noblexcompanion]

Gorgeous? You a little blind there?

[ Even so, she sits herself down. ]

[freewheeling]

[ He does the tea the Mundane way, filling the kettle and looking over his shoulder when she speaks. ]

Oh no, don't tell me you have no confidence. I didn't pack my yoga mat.

[noblexcompanion]

I think it'd take more than yoga. [ Her self confidence isn't so great. Blame all the years of her mum putting her down and school yard bullies. ]

Besides, whales don't do yoga.

[freewheeling]

It's Donna, isn't it?

[ He leans on the back of a chair, watching her. They haven't really spoken but already Magnus wants to help her out. He can see a bright, bubbly woman beneath all of the self-criticism. Besides, he's fabulous, he'll only stay with fabulous people. ]

Donna, darling, let's have none of that. A pity party's all well and good, but do you know what's better? Owning it. You've a fabulous body.

[noblexcompanion]

[ Fabulous, eh? Is he going to start sparkling any time soon? She arches a brow at him. ]

Didn't say anything about a pity party. Just stating the facts.

... Kettle's boiled by the way.

[freewheeling]

They're not facts, they're opinions.

[ He goes back to staring in confusion at the tea kettle. The bag is in the mug so he just ... pours water in. Success. He's an awesome warlock. ]

[noblexcompanion]

[ He should feel so proud of his tea making skills. ]

Oh aye? And who says my opinions aren't fact?

[freewheeling]

Well, when they're self-deprecating then I say so.

[ Handing her a mug, looking at it dubiously. ] We're sharing a house now darling, and let me tell you, I don't let anyone be down when they could simply be fabulous instead.

[noblexcompanion]

Be sure you don't see me in a morning before I've got my face on and consumed coffee - it's not a fabulous sight.

[ She takes a sip of the tea. At least it's not terrible? ]

[freewheeling]

[ He's watching her like a child at Christmas, eager to see if they're glitter and macaroni monstrosity will work. ]

How's the tea?

[noblexcompanion]

It's not bad. Thanks. Just what the doctor ordered.

[freewheeling]

[ He leans back. ]

How long have you been here, Donna?

[noblexcompanion]

Me? Oh... Going on for almost three months now, I reckon.

[freewheeling]

That long? And there's been no successful attempt at escape?

[noblexcompanion]

Nope. A few failed ones though.

[freewheeling]

And here I was hoping for a secret Houdini around here somewhere.

[noblexcompanion]

Sorry to disappoint, sweetheart.

[freewheeling]

And not even a bar to drown my sorrows with cocktails and tiny umbrellas, now that's disappointing.

[noblexcompanion]

Well, there's a bar. But I doubt you'd get any tiny umbrellas there.

[freewheeling]

[ He used to be able to summon umbrellas :( ]

I saw it. It looks vaguely like it should have a sign Lumberjacks Only.

[noblexcompanion]

It's not so bad. [ Donna got a teeny, tiny bit drunk last time she went there though and snogged an angel. Oops. ]

[freewheeling]

Maybe I'll check it out.

[ Usually he could summon alcohol but no, not here. ] So is there anything anyone does for fun around here?

[noblexcompanion]

Well I guess that depends on your definition of fun, sweetheart.

[freewheeling]

Beautiful girls and boys coupled with alcohol. I also tend to like party streamers.