Our Lady of Fandom; Sunday [ 12/17 ]

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Chrono couldn't help but scratch his head a bit. "Rosette, do I want to know why this habit has been cut up like this?"

From where she was stretched out in a pew, one arm drapped over her eyes, Rosette groaned. So...many...drinks last night. She shook her head lightly, avoided the question. "We should really get the ladders out and take all those foam arrows off the statues..."

Even just casting his eyes upward toward the statues made Chrono's neck and back ache. The thought of carrying the ladders, climbing them, reaching up to clean things reminded him of a much worse pain. He grunted. "Can't we leave them? They look, uhh...festive."

That didn't sound like Chrono at all. Frowning, Rosette clawed her hand on the back of the pew to help her up, and she looked at him. He turned his head toward her; blue eyes failed to meet red, because they met, instead, a strange wall between them that hadn't been there yesterday. Chrono turned away first, which eventually drew Rosette's eyes away.

"I'll go make some tea," he offered, heading for the basement.

"Yeah...tea," Rosette frowned at the floor. Maybe she'd just imagined it. Maybe it was just the hangover messing with her. "Tea's good."


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The Doctor wandered into the church, a bottle of good brandy wrapped in a little velvet bag in his hands.

"Hello?"

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A blonde, veiled head slowly emerged from the back of one of the pews as Rosette pulled herself back up at the sound of someone entering the church. "Oh! Doctor! Hello!" she smiled brightly, but not too brightly, because, ow, head. She scrambled up from the pew to go and greet him. "Y'know, we usually don't do confessions until Mondays." And of course she noticed the little something in his hand. "What's that?"

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"Hair of the dog," the Doctor said with a wink. "Though a very finely bred dog, actually."

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"Oh-ho, I'd hope so," Rosette chuckled a little, biting her lip against a grin and rocking a bit back and forth in her boots. "So...s'that fer me, or do you just like carrying it around 'cause you think it makes a nice accessory?"

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"Oh, yes, for you, sorry," the Doctor said, holding it out. "While I've had some odd tastes in fashion accessories over the years, not quite to that level, no."

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"Yay!" Headache or no, there had to be bouncing at that as she recieved the gift from the Doctor and admired the nice velvet bag while thinking of how she'll admire what's inside of it much more. "Thank you! Any particular reason, or is it just the Brit in you, fulfilling some sort of obligation to decency in leui of seeing a lady without her shirt?"

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"The latter, I suspect," the Doctor said. "It was definitely an experience I hadn't ever had before."

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"Awww, ya flatter me, Doc," Rosette said, not quite sure what to make of the actual, genuine blush invading her cheeks at the moment. "Jus' comes to show, really, that I'm nothin' special, jus' 'cause I'm a nun. Underneath the habit, I'm just a normal girl..."

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"Well, a girl you may be, but you're far from ordinary," the Doctor said. "So this is the church." He looked about. "Does it have a steeple? If we open the doors, will we see all the people?"

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"If there were any people, maybe, and not a steeple, but a belltower that banishes trolls," Rosette drew in a deep breath and looked around a bit proudly. Yeah, the place bored the hell out of her more often than not, but she'd grown to like it. "Nothin' much, basic church, nothing too exciting..."

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"I can now see what you meant by having a lot of time on your hands," the Doctor said. "Ever thought about... knitting? Writing a great novel? Attempting to paint the entire church with a toothbrush?"

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"Ooooh, I do like that last one," Rosette chuckled, tapping a pensive finger on her chin. "What colour do you think? I'm thinking maybe blue..."

There was a sound from one of the doors to the side, the sound of rattling and struggling and threatening to fall, followed by a curse, and then another, and still yet a third. Rosette's eyes grew a little wide and then chuckled a bit nervously. Chrono must have been in a bad mood today if he was swearing; he never swore. "That would be the tea." She hurried over to the door to help Chrono open it. "You'll have some tea, won't you? You have to have tea, actually. You're British."

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"Actually, I just sound British," the Doctor said. "I'm an alien. I... did we not already have this conversation?"

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"Well, yeah, you being British would make you alien," Rosette said, taking the tea tray from Chrono and telling him to go grab another cup. "Unless everyone's been lying to me and we're not in America after all. An' I don't recall talking about this. Might have been the other nun?" She grinned as she set the tray down on a pew and started pouring a few cups. "Milk or sugar?"

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"Milk, please," the Doctor said. "I suppose I just lose track of who all I discuss things with. I'm an alien in the widest sense. As in, from outer space."

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"Outer space?" Rosette asked, tilting her head as she fixed up the cup of tea, milk in his, a whole lot of sugar in hers. "Like, the stars and stuff...?" As a girl from before science fiction left the surface of the planet, the concept was a little difficult to concieve. "Really?"

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"If you had a stethoscope, I could prove I've got two hearts in here," the Doctor said, pointing at his chest. "Don't worry, I'm totally friendly. Not evil in the least. I come here with only the best intentions."

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"Best intentions?" Rosette chuckled, grinning at him as she handed him his cup of tea. "You come here bearing gifts of brandy to a nun, and then spout rhetoric about best intentions?"

She took a quick sip of her tea, and continued on with her other responses. "And should you, the Doctor, have the stethoscope? What'ya need two hearts for, anyway? Isn't that a little...supler...supflero...isn't that a little excessive?"

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"Well, I'm not that sort of doctor," he said. "And the two hearts are quite neccessary. Helps keep things smooth and increases the longevity. I'm over a thousand years old, me."

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Rosette arched an eyebrow over another sip of tea. "Y'look good for your age," she complimented, although she did live with a thousands year old demon who looked like he was twelve...or twenty-four, depending. "So...are the hearts still like human hearts? Or do they function entirely different, an' it's just the outside of you that looks people-ish."

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"Oh, same sort of function, hearts. There to circulate the blood, love others, etcetera, etcetera," the Doctor said. "And you look good for your age as well, I may well say." He took a sip of his tea.

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"Do'ya even know how old I am?" Rosette asked, grinning and highly amused. "A bit shy of a thousand years, I gotta admit, so that makes it a little less impressive."

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"Haven't a clue," the Doctor said. "But for any age, you'd be looking fantastic, so I stand by my statement." He smiled. "There's got to be something I can do, something to help with the long boughts of quiet here." He sipped the tea again and thought.

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Rosette was very glad to have tea to grin into so it didn't appear so much that she was smiling like an idiot at that. He was good at this whole thing. She wondered if her face was as pink as it felt.

"Oh, but even this is helping a lot," she told him. "Even just having visitors is a grand, exciting event around here, even if its just to have tea and discuss redecorating ideas. And then there's the gift. That'll definately help the boughts of quiet later on."

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"Ah, but drinking alone is no solution at all, really," the Doctor said. "Ever... thought about putting in a pinball machine?"

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"Oh, I won't be alone," Rosette waved a dismissive hand. "I'll be trying to get Chrono to try some." She realized that the little guy hadn't returned from fetching another cup and looked around with a frown. "Wonder where he went?" she muttered slightly. "He's been acting so stra--"

Rosette shook her head a moment, and sipped at her tea. "Pinball machine?"

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"You've not heard of pinball machines?" the Doctor thought for a second. "When are you from?"

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"1926," Rosette squared her shoulders proudly, then a grin crept onto her face. "I guess that does, technically, make me older than I originally let on."

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"Time's all relative, anyways," the Doctor said. "So you've not had the chance to discover all the fine advances in the electronic entertainment industry. We'll have to change that. I understand there's a couple places on this island that have a few arcade machines."

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"Yeah?" Rosette bounced a little, carefully, as not to spill any of her tea. "There's so much I gotta catch up on; I'd love to check 'em out."

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"Then we have a mission," the Doctor said. "I always thought a church could use a nice pinball machine. Or Pac-Man. Every place could use some Pac-Man." He laughed. "It'll be fantastic, it really will."

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"Pac-Man?" Rosette giggled a little, shook her head. "Sometimes tells me I should just wait and see before I ask anymore questions."

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"Yes, that's one better seen than explained, absolutely," the Doctor said. "This tea was excellent, thank you." He set down the empty cup.

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"Oh, you're welcome!" Rosette set down her cup, too, although she hadn't finished her tea. "I'd tell you to thank Chrono, really, 'cause he made it, but he seems to have disappeared completely." She shrugged, with a slight sigh. OH, wellll. He was probably finding a corner to brood in.

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"Wonder where he's gone," the Doctor said. "Does he often wander off on you?"

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"No, not usually," Rosettes said with a worried frown. "But he's been acting strange all day. If I didn't know any better, I'd think he knew about last night and is being a little....weird about it."

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"Last night was perfectly innocent," the Doctor said. "Sounds like the choir boy is getting a little uppity." He thought for a second. "You don't think he's got feelings for you, do you?"