( o5 video )

[wearafeznow]

[ The video starts with a pan in on someone wearing tight trousers and big, stomping boots. Whoever it is, skips along three pavement slabs, and then hops to the middle of the next one, stands on his tiptoes and wavers. ]

Oh come on, that's not the right point. Nine hundred years old and I should be able to skip a point fourteen. What kind of person am I? Honestly.

[ It's very much the Doctor's voice, and he sighs, starts jumping again. ] I don't know why, but I just can't get the number out of my head. [ 1, 2, 3, wavering slightly on the fourth again. ] I made three cups of tea today, filled up the fourth up only a little bit. Good thing too, I like to think even I can't drink that much tea. A full fourth might've been pushing it. Maybe that's why I can't keep still.

[ Skip. Hop. Jump. Wobble. ] Oh c'mon. This is awful. Why can't I get this right at all?

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[wearafeznow]

Ooh, maybe you'll get lucky. But the curse would muddle up anyone looking at numbers, I reckon. I wish you luck.

[ Smiling. ] Hello, Pepper. I'm the Doctor.

[threeolives]

Maybe... I'd better not chance it. The expense report can wait 'til tomorrow.

The definite article Doctor? I think I've met another one of you before.

[wearafeznow]

We tend to get around a bit. Like buses.

[threeolives]

"You miss one, there's another one on the way." Sounds like it can be confusing. Are your personalities as different as your appearances?

[ The other Doctor she met doesn't seem like the skipping kind... ]

[wearafeznow]

Yes, each time we change we become something seperate entirely. Our physical being and our mental. You'll find us quiet different even though there are some bits that remain the same.

[threeolives]

[ She nods, thoughtful and intrigued. ] That's quite a way to go through life. Sometimes I wish I had a reset button like that.

[wearafeznow]

[ After a moment. ] Yeah, I suppose it's a bit like that.