Title: This Song Is About You
Summary: Some other women the Doctor is going to annoy in the future.
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: The end of "The Shakespeare Code".
This Song Is About You
by LizBee
"Does
that happen a lot?" Martha asked when she'd caught her breath. "Finding
out that your future self has become the sworn enemy of someone
powerful, I mean."
"No," said the Doctor. "Well, almost never. Not frequently..."
"So that's a yes, then."
"I've
come to the inescapable conclusion that one of my future selves is just
a little bit obnoxious." The Doctor didn't sound sorry about this,
Martha noted. He sounded slightly proud, in fact.
"Just a little bit."
"Actually, that occurred to me a couple of bodies ago. I'm starting to think I might be the obnoxious one."
Martha
filed the 'bodies' remark away for a future interrogation and said,
"Queen Elizabeth the First. I'll be avoiding her in the future. Anyone
else I should worry about?"
"Lucrezia Borgia?"
"Oh, good."
"And
Boadicea. Great woman. Not sure what I'm going to do to offend her, but
I hope it's worth it. She has some great mead. Also, Margaret Thatcher.
But who isn't on her list? Oh, and Carly Simon, I think."
Martha blinked. "Sorry?"
"You know that song?" He hummed a few bars. "Sometimes I worry that I'm going to find out it really is about me."
"Right."
"Maybe
she's going to come traveling with me and I accidentally leave her on a
Venusian satellite beach while I get distracted. Could happen to
anyone. That's what I said to Peri, anyway."
"There was an eBay auction," Martha said. "To find out who it was about."
"I know. I came second."
"I
guess you'll just have to wait and see, then." Martha grinned. "Are you
likely to turn into Warren Beatty any time soon? 'Cos I think I deserve
some warning if you do."
He gave her a serious look that drove all jokes from her mind.
"Don't even joke about it," he said.
end