Closed rp; The Doctor & Jack

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

Jack had gone for a wander to find the Doctor to get that seasonal drink and he hand eventually ended up in the great hall sat at a table picking at a bunch of grapes occasionally that were sat in a dish before him, looking happy and trying to make a list as he sat but getting distracted by people watching which was a perfectly reasonable distraction for him. This is why he really needed Ianto or someone telling him to focus. It wasn't long before his list of things to do had become a page of doodles, none of them charmed (thankfully).

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[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

"Oh come on, U-boat Captain." Jack laughed.

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

"Oi! For you information, this really looks nothing like that sort of outfit. Besides, that's...sort of smart, yeah?"

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

Jack just raised an eyebrow and looked at him. "Yeah... but you have to for me. Plus I hope everyone who turns up makes some sort of effort." Jack looked slightly worried. "This is going to a lot of work isn't it."

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

"Getting married usually is~" he added with a laugh. "Nah, I'm getting something. At some point. Really. When's the wedding?"

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

"I have no idea." Jack looked slightly worried. "We need to sit and plan some more." He was now thinking about too many things he had to do and what could go wrong.

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

"Deep breath, mate. All you need to do is plan things out. Now, Gallifreyan weddings may not have been much fun, but there was considerably less stress about preparations. Stress, yes, but not so much as you Humans seem to fret over it. Talk to JD about it first before you start worrying about anything."

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

Jack put his head in his hands and leaned on the table. "Oh what the hell am I doing." He sounded slightly muffled before he finally asked. "So what are they like then?"

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

"Getting hitched, I think, is a very Human term for it," he replied jokingly. "What is what like? A Gallifreyan marriage? Oh, you don't want to hear about that."

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

Jack lifted his head. "It's not like it would be back home." And he wasn't meaning Cardiff. "I wouldn't mind hearing, less stressful options are sounding good right now."

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

"This is gonna need some alcohol, I think. Celebration and killing braincells." But instead of answering, he asked his own question. "So why'd you ask me how the slow life was going?"

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

"Just curious." Jack nodded. "Killing braincells sounds good right now."

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

"Well, refrain from being so curious next time. Come on, let's go get drunk somewhere where we're not so liable to make fools of ourselves, yeah?"

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

"Fine." Jack then grabbed the rest of the bunch of grapes from the bowl as well as the other bits that were his. "Right, lead on!"

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

"Your place or mine?" he asked with a grin. "Is JD in? Could join us. Eh, probably would be better just to go to the astronomy tower." It had been ages since he ever stepped into the Gryffindor common room. Perhaps that ought to change sometime. ...You know. Maybe. Possibly. Leaning toward never.

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

"Yours. No, he's somewhere with Sasha." Jack was talking about the scooter but didn't tell the Doctor that. "That sounds more like you, so I'm guessing there it is."

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

"No jumping out of windows this time, you," he warned. Honestly! Jack was going to give him a hearts attack one of these days.

"Now, a Gallifreyan wedding is a lot of pomp and circumstance--much like everything else they do. Looking at their faces you'd think they were going to a funeral! There aren't any rings or anything, but they share a mild psychic bond. Makes it a bit hard to cheat, if you think about it. There aren't really what one would call churches there, but one would get an official representative of the High Council to have a bit of a ceremony out in the town square or wherever had the most open space outside. Suppose the closest thing anyone really had to a religion was Rassilon, but I've met the bloke, and he's nothing to write home about. But oh no, everything happens under the peaceful watch of Rassilon, the old windbag. I'm not saying a wedding can't be beautiful there, and depending on the bride and groom, they could be nervous wrecks or beaming away like they've won the lottery. But it's a bit of serious business to them."

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

"I won't." Jack had had plenty of chances to that earlier but hadn't.

Jack hadn't heard the Doctor talk of anything like that before. "Huh, don't think that would be the best for us, me and JD having some sort of psychic bond." JD didn't need to know about the nightmares. "Still sounds a lot less stressful."

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

"Well you're not psychic, so no need to worry about that." The Doctor rolled his eyes. "I suppose it's a bit of stress, but there's not nearly as much preparation. You lot, you've got flowers and catering and bridesmaids and best men and dresses and tuxes and all that. There's no after party, not officially, unless someone decides they want to hold a bit of a celebration at their place. And there are specific robes that the bride and groom wear. The only problem there is tailoring one to fit. See, there are official robes for everything, it's ridiculous. School robes, robes for the High Council--those are ridiculous, mind, bright orange with these huge half moon headdresses." He shook his head. "Never let it be said that we had the best fashion sense. Dunno how anyone ever goes through it with a straight face. Probably too nervous to laugh or something. Robes and invitations and getting the time of the High Council representative, that's usually about it."

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

"Well..." Jack summoned up a bottle and handed it over. "But what about parents being there?" That was an odd direction to take the conversation in.

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

"What about them? It's sort of like any old wedding, they come if they can make it, if they're invited. 'Course when I say they're not very fun, you do get one or two now and then that sort of rock the foundation. But the High Council's pretty strict about what goes on, which is probably why they're usually so uninteresting in the first place. Loads of fun, that lot, barrel of laughs."

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

"I miss my mom."

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, well, we all gotta grow up and face the big wide universe at some point. I think it's just about in everyone's DNA to miss people like that." He clapped Jack on the back. "If I had my TARDIS I'd take you to see her, but as it is..."

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

"So what have I been doing so far then?" Jack sort of smiled. "Thanks but I don't think I'd want her to know what I've become. Not sleeping properly, the nightmares. Everything like that."

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

"Wouldn't tell her that bit, no, but come on, look at what you've done with yourself!" He opened the door to the Astronomy Tower. Things looked more and more homey. "I mean, maybe not so much about the conman business, but Time Agent, met a wonderful bloke called the Doctor, not to mention a beautiful woman named Rose, headed a branch of a prestigeous Earth organization--I say that because you wouldn't want to tell her the nitty gritty realities and all, and then, magic! You're getting married, Jack! That's got to beat out everything else."

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, but she'd know. I mean she'd take one look at me and know." Jack followed the Doctor. "Make yourself at home."He laughed briefly. "And don't forget I helped save the world, on more than one occassion too."He pointed. "I think that's a fairly big thing."