tell me doctor, can you quantify? he just wants to know the reason, the reason why [closed]

[lottawork]

The days without his laptop were not pleasant or painless ones, nor was it particularly easy to make any notable progress in any work-related or personal or significant areas while deprived of that rather key resource, but since Rush's series of, for lack of a better term, decommissions, he has had very few opportunities to return to the TARDIS to obtain it.

He was extremely grateful, to say in the least, to receive an explicit request to do so, and coupled with an invitation to understand the TARDIS in a more hands-on and constructive manner; neither were opportunities he could think to refuse.

He leaves after his return from work. He leaves his apartment with its darkened spill of equations across walls and the thickening heat and the shattered head it does not represent, does not in any way represent, and locks the door firmly behind him. The confinement of the physical becomes infinitely more escapable when one habitually surrounds oneself in the theoretical, in the unquestionably conceptual, in what can only be captured in the lines and curves of numbers against an unmarked expanse.

The TARDIS defies all these conventions. Infinite potential contained in theoretically finite space, brought to a point on an axis unquantifiable.

It is an unspoken relief to vacate the contained, arid hell of his apartment, and an even greater one to at last make out the blue outline of the TARDIS between the trees, the release from the park's numberless haze. He draws even with the door and knocks, even and controlled, and shifts back one pace, unconsciously redistributing his weight in vague curiosity as to who will answer: the TARDIS, or her pilot.

He knows without question which he prefers.

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[whofrownedthisface]

The Doctor is disturbed out of a manic haze of scribbling and thought, by an unusually unannounced knock at the door. Not that a knock isn't generally kind of its own announcement, just, not here, not for him. If there were a way to get even more layers of announcement between himself and people at the door, he'd definitely be on that. This is why it doesn't do to stay in one spot too long, soon there's people piling up, knocking on doors like obnoxious neighbours looking to borrow a cup of sugar. Mistakenly assuming they're entitled to his time and attention, just because they happen to know where he is.

The problem here being, of course, the interruption. Who it is that caused the interruption is irrelevant, not even worth a thought or pulling up a view outside. The damage is done, may as well find out if it's worth it now, and then get it over with when it likely turns out not to be. With a literal millenium's (at least) worth of resignation, the Doctor opens the door.

Well, it's refreshing to be wrong occasionally. This is definitely worse than just an interruption. He looks at Rush, aghast, for the briefest second, before resuming a more spirited manner. "Scruffy! What can I do for you, to get you on your way? Or have you got some equations you'd like checked over? That, I don't mind. Though I expect there'd be rather a lot of corrections to do, so probably best to come back in the morning."