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❝ Honestly, I don't know how you've done this a dozen times already. ❞
– Lexi Pond / The
Glorious
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"Which one? The green or the yellow?" Jupiter asked as she held up a mint green, knee-length empire waist dress with elbow-length sleeves in one hand; while holding up a lemon yellow, mid-thigh length silk chiffon dress with cap sleeves in the other hand. "I mean, either one will work. But, I thought I'd get your opinion."
"To be honest, I like the yellow one." Lexi told her daughter, pointing at the yellow dress from where she was looking at Jupiter upside down as she laid at the end of her bed. "It really brings out the redness of your hair, which brings out the greenness of your eyes."
"So you're saying yellow is more my color?" She raised an eyebrow, holding up the yellow dress a bit more to examine it.
"Oh, yeah." Lexi nodded, rolling over to be on her stomach, her blonde hair falling in her face as she did so. "I mean, you look lovely in most colors, my dear. But yellow especially."
Jupiter pursed her lips, nodding after a moment's consideration before walking back into her closet to change. "Do you miss it, Mum?" She called to Lexi from inside the closet.
"Miss what?" She questioned back as she propped herself up on her elbows on Jupiter's bed, resting her chin in her hands.
"Being a ginger. Being Scottish." Jupiter replied as she re-emerged from her closet, now wearing the yellow dress as she walked to the other side of her room where her full-length mirror stood. "You know, that sort of thing."
"Well, I may miss being ginger a bit. I mean, I was one for over nine hundred years. So I guess you could say I got used to it." Lexi explained as she sat up on her knees, resting her hands in her lap. "And as for if I miss being Scottish... well, to me... I still am. I mean, I may not sound like it anymore, but I still feel like it in my hearts and in my mind..."
Not turning around, Jupiter looked at her mother through the full-length mirror, taking note of the far off look in her eyes.
"Mum, are you alright?" She asked her, smoothing down the crinkles in her dress before actually turning back around towards her mother. "You seem distant."
"Just . . . thinking." She replied after a moment of silence, shaking her head as she swung her legs over the side of the bed as she went to stand up. "It's nothing bad, or anything. At least I don't think it is. I just... don't know a whole lot about myself now. Like, I know certain things, such as how I feel towards the way I now sound, the way I now look, the fact that I now know how to play the piano. But, I don't know things, such as what all I like to drink or what all I like to eat. You know, there's just a few things that I don't have figured out yet... It's all new."
"Aw, I want to help you." Jupiter pouted slightly as Lexi walked over to her before fixing a few of her hairs that were out of place.
"Oh, don't worry about me. I'll be fine." Lexi waved her off, smiling a bit as she tucked a strand of her daughter's red hair behind her ear. "You and Sky have somewhere to be anyway."
"Yeah." She sighed before going back over into her closet to grab a pair of heels that would match her dress.
"Now don't get too crazy when you go to this thing." Lexi warned, taking and putting back on her red leather biker jacket that she had draped over the back of Jupiter's desk chair.
"It's a hen party, Mum." Jupiter responded as she walked back out of her closet, now wearing a pair of heels that matched her lemon yellow dress. "It's bound to get a little crazy."
"No, no, a little crazy is good." Lexi smiled. "Too crazy? Now that could be trouble."
"It's for me and Sky's goddaughter. And if you've forgotten, Seraphina is heir to the British throne in the early twenty-third century. I think I'll be fine." Jupiter told her, looking herself over in the full-length mirror one last time. "Sky's the one that should be looked after. He's going to Seraphina's fiancé's stag night."
Lexi let out a laugh. "I do worry about your brother, but I think he's pretty capable. Just like you." She said as they walked to the bedroom door. "As long as you two make it back here to the TARDIS in one piece, it's fine."
"I think we'll be able to manage." She giggled as the two of the them walked out into the corridor. "Where are you going off to now?"
"I think... I think I'll go and find a lounge room." Lexi said, tilting her head slightly as she thought. "Maybe practice a bit of mixology, you know, that way I might be able to figure out a drink that I'll actually like now that whiskey apparently tastes horrible to me."
"Well, I wish you luck."' Jupiter laughed, giving her mother a quick hug before pulling away.
"Don't do anything I wouldn't do!" Lexi called to her daughter as they walked in opposite directions of each other down the corridor.
"That doesn't really narrow it down!" Jupiter shouted back.
"Hey!" Lexi exclaimed, only hearing her daughter's laugh in response as it faded down the corridor. Lexi just shook her head, sighing as she rounded a corner. "Okay... Now, lounge room."
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"Alright, Sky, let's get going." Jupiter said, checking her phone as she walked down a set of steps to the console. "Are you ready?"
"Yep." Sky nodded as he straightened out the dark blue blazer he was wearing, paired with a nice black T-shirt and jeans. "The year 2224, right?"
"Yes. The sixth of August, I believe." She nodded, taking the vortex manipulator her brother held out to her before typing in the coordinates.
"I would say not to go too mad at this thing, but it's stag and hen parties." The Doctor said as he turned around from looking through a bookcase. "So there's really no point, is there?"
"S'what I said to Mum." Jupiter nodded, smiling a bit as she looked to where her father was on the upper level of the console room. "If you see Lucas and Clara before either Sky or I get back, please tell them we wish we could've brought them with us."
"Oh, you know them." The Doctor waved a hand, turning back towards the bookcase. "They like to have a balance between their normal lives, and their time and space travel lives."
"Let's hope those can stay balanced." Sky remarked as he put a hand on top of the VM around Jupiter's wrist.
"Oh, before you go." The Doctor said suddenly, turning around again before quickly walking down the steps to where his children were by the console. "Where is your mother?"
"Not sure where, specifically." Jupiter told him. "She said she was going to find a lounge room so she could figure out what she might like to drink now. Practice mixology, or something or other. That's all I know. Anyway, see you later, Dad."
"Later." Sky waved at his father, him and Jupiter then zapping out of sight a moment later.
Now alone in the console room, the Doctor sighed as he turned around to walk back up the steps to the upper level. "All these people, coming and going. Never know who's going to pop up next." He muttered as entered a corridor that lead deeper into the TARDIS. "Now, where is my wife...?"
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"Eurgh." Lexi made a face, lowering the glass of Rum and Coke she had made herself away from her mouth while she stood behind the bar of a lounge room the TARDIS had let her find. "So apparently it's a 'no' on the Rum and Coke."
The TARDIS hummed at her.
"Well of course I'm disappointed." Lexi frowned slightly as she looked up to the ceiling. "It's bad enough that I hate the taste of whiskey now. But to have as much difficulty trying to find a drink that I will like the taste of? It's not fun."
The TARDIS hummed again.
"I know it's going to take some getting used to." Lexi sighed. "I'm trying to do that."
The TARDIS hummed at her once more.
"Oi!" Lexi pointed up at the ceiling. "I don't need your sass right now."
"Is this what you two do when I'm not around?" The Doctor's voice asked, making Lexi turn her head to see her husband standing in the doorway of the room, his arms crossed as he leaned against the doorframe with an amused look on his face. "You know, have little chats with each other."
"Sure, let's go with that." Lexi rolled her eyes as she turned around behind the bar to dispose of the Rum and Coke.
The TARDIS hummed again.
The Doctor chuckled, shaking his head before uncrossing his arms and pushing off of the doorframe to walk further into the lounge room. "What exactly are you doing in here, Lex?" He asked as he came and sat down on one the barstools at the bar.
"I'm sure Jupiter told you about the difficulty I'm having trying to figure out things that taste good to me now." She sighed as she turned back around to face her husband. "I've already tried a Rum and Coke, a Tequila Sunrise, a Mai Tai, a Mojito, a Piña Colada, a Cosmopolitan, and an Appletini; all of which tasted horrid. Then again, all of those did have either rum, tequila or vodka in them... So I guess I don't like any of those now either." She pouted slightly before shaking her head as she turned back around and bent down towards where the wine cooler was. "The list of drinks I now don't like is growing... Just like my frustration. Honestly, I don't know how you've done this a dozen times already."
The Doctor smirked slightly at her rambling, tilting his head slightly as he watched his wife pull out a bottle of wine from the wine cooler before standing back up straight. "Have you really tried all of those drinks?"
"Oh, yeah." Lexi gave him a thin smile before popping the cork of the wine bottle, then pouring it into a wine glass. "It sort of reminds me of the time when I first met you."
The Doctor blinked in surprise. "Really?"
"Well, yeah." She shrugged. "It's like when floppy-haired, raggedy you couldn't figure what he liked to eat." She snickered at the memory, smirking a bit. "You went through apples, yogurt, bacon, baked beans and bread and butter... All that before finally landing on fish fingers and custard, of all things." She shook her head, lifting the glass of wine to her lips. "Now I can't seem to land on any one drink."
"Maybe you just don't like alcohol now." He pointed out before leaning over the bar and picking up a glass and a bottle of Scotch.
Lexi just rolled her eyes, taking a sip of wine before immediately spitting it back into the glass. She made a face while sticking her tongue out, as if that would help get rid of the taste. "You've got to be kidding me."
The Doctor raised his attack eyebrows as he poured himself a glass of Scotch. "Is it a 'no' on the wine now as well, love?"
"Just shut up and drink your Scotch." Is all she told him as she poured out the glass of wine into the small sink of the bar. "Maybe you're right..."
"Ooh, it really is so very rare when you say that sentence to me." He told her, smirking a bit before taking a sip of his whiskey. "Mind telling me what it is I'm right about this time?"
"Me not liking alcohol now." Lexi said before shrugging as she replaced the cork and stuck the wine bottle back into the wine cooler. "Which I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but it's really sort of disappointing. I mean, to not be able to find one single alcoholic drink that tastes good... It's kind of out of nowhere." She smirked slightly, leaning against the bar as she looked across to her husband. "Of course, my whole life with you was basically out of nowhere."
The TARDIS hummed, chiming in.
"I know you had a hand in it as well, Sexy." Lexi sighed, looking up to the ceiling. "And again, thank you."
The TARDIS hummed in response as Lexi looked back to the Doctor.
The Doctor smiled slightly as he reached across the bar and took his wife's hand. "I love you, Lex. And I'll do what I can to help you."
Lexi let out a slight laugh, lifting the Doctor's hand and pressing a kiss to it. "I should be saying the same to you. Here I am complaining while you're going through the same thing yourself."
He gave her hand a squeeze before lifting his glass and taking another sip of Scotch. "Yes, but I am more experienced in this sort of thing than you are. So I should be the one guiding you more. Alth–" He cut himself off, pausing as a thought occurred to him. "Wait just a... moment..."
Lexi frowned, watching as her husband let go of her hand before quickly standing from the barstool he had been sitting on. She watched as he briskly walked across the room to a wooden cabinet before opening it and scanning over its contents.
"What are you doing?" Lexi asked curiously as she came out from behind the bar, walking a few steps towards where her husband now was on the other side of the lounge room.
"If I remember correctly..." The Doctor trailed off, thinking. "I believe that there is one drink that you didn't mention." He said before pausing as he spotted a specific bottle. "Ah, there you are." He plucked it from the cabinet before turning back towards his wife. "It's worth a shot."
She squinted as the Doctor lifted the bottle a bit for her to see. Lexi's eyebrows shot up when she realized what it was. "Gin?"
The Doctor grinned. "Gin."
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With her jacket now discarded, Lexi giggled as she took a sip of the Gin she was having over ice in an old fashioned glass while she and the Doctor were sitting on the kitchen floor with their backs against the counter, a gallon tub of chocolate ice cream with two spoons sticking out of it sitting on the floor in between them. "Not a bad choice at all, my sweet."
The Doctor chuckled, taking another sip of his Scotch. "Yes, well, I'm glad that I could at least help you with something."
"Mm, you don't give yourself enough credit." She smiled at him before taking another sip of Gin, sighing in content at the pleasant and zingy juniper taste. "I think we've found my signature drink... Who knew it would end up being Gin over ice garnished with a slice of lime?"
He raised an eyebrow at her as he took one of the spoons before taking a bite of the chocolate ice cream. "You sure you don't want slow down? That is your fourth glass."
"And when has that ever stopped me with anything?" Lexi smirked at him, taking another sip of her Gin.
Not taking his eyes off his wife as he stuck the spoon back in the ice cream, the Doctor tilted his head slightly as he considered her. "Is this you going to be more flirty the more you drink?"
Lexi raised an eyebrow. "Problem?"
"No." The Doctor shrugged before taking another sip of whiskey.
She couldn't help but let out a huff of laughter before just shaking her head, grabbing the bottle of Gin she had sitting next to her and pouring a bit more into her glass. "You know, this new you is... well, different than the last you. Obviously. But, there is one thing that hasn't changed."
"And what would that be?" He asked, glancing at her again.
"You still know how to make me feel better." She told him, smiling slightly as she grabbed her spoon from the gallon of ice cream before grabbing the can of whipped cream she had sitting next to her and spraying a bit of it onto the ice cream that was on the spoon before taking a bite.
The Doctor gave her a small smile, raising his glass. "Back at you, Lex."
Lexi smiled, sticking her spoon back into the tub of ice cream before raising her glass of Gin as well, the two of them clinking their glasses together before taking sips. "By the way, glad to see the 'Lex' nickname hasn't gone away either."
"Oh, that won't ever change." The Doctor shook his head before taking another bite of chocolate ice cream.
Lexi couldn't help but laugh a bit as she examined herself and the Doctor. "Look at us."
"What do you mean?" He asked her.
"Whiskey." She nodded at the glass in his hand. "Gin." She lifted her glass a bit before nodding at the tub of chocolate ice cream in between them. "And chocolate ice cream."
"With the occasional spritz of whipped cream." He added, nodding at the can of whipped cream Lexi had sitting next to her. "Peculiar combination."
"No more than fish fingers and custard." Lexi pointed out, downing what Gin was left in her glass before getting to her feet and setting her empty glass on the counter, then bending down and snatching up the can of whipped cream. "Well, figuring a few things out has been fun... ish. But there's another thing, which is definitely fun, that we still haven't gotten to do in these bodies. So, I think I'm going to go to bed now."
"Why?" The Doctor raised an eyebrow as he watched Lexi walk to the entrance of the kitchen. "Are you actually tired?"
"Not at all." She smirked, winking at him before turning fully around and completely leaving the kitchen.
The Doctor blinked as he now sat there alone on the kitchen floor while pondering on what his wife had said. However, he snapped to attention as soon as Lexi's words actually registered. His eyes widened even more when he remembered that mischievous look in her eyes as she left with the can of whipped cream. . .
The Doctor quickly downed the rest of his Scotch before scrambling to his feet and rushing from the room, not even caring about the tub of ice cream that still sat on the kitchen floor. His mind was focused elsewhere now... At least one thing hadn't changed about Lexi.
She could still be a bad bad girl.
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Author's Note
Did you like. . .? 😏
This didn't turn out exactly like I had envisioned it, but it was still nice to write. ❤️ I do hope you enjoyed it. I'm falling more and more in love with Evaldi the more that I write them. 💕
Anyway, I'm am really happy to be continuing with this story. I really and truly am. 😊
Anyway . . . See y'all next time when we go "Into the Dalek"!
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