first_in_time | Zagreus Sits Inside Your Head (for Splendid

Barbara looked out at the view as Ian put the last of their things in the car. From the front door of the little Bed and Breakfast, she could see beautiful rolling hills for miles. The last of the morning was being chased away as the sun rose higher in the sky, thawing everything out. Even the cows seemed more active on one particular hill.

"I wish we could stay for a little longer," she sighed to Ian, turning her back on it all so that it might be easier to leave. Her arms folded, one hand still held on to the key they were yet to return. "I don't suppose your car has a secret time traveling device so we can spend an extra few weeks here?"

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first_in_time

"Get out!" Barbara growled and advanced with Ian.

Jack blew a kiss toward them and reached out to open the door behind him. "And that dress is only half as good as as the last outfit."

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splendid_roman

Ian slammed the door behind Jack, practically hitting him with it and enjoying far too much the muffled "Ow" from the other side.

Then Ian leaned against the door and ran a hand over his face. "Any normal person would apologise, not make suggestive marks." And not broken into their flat in the first place.

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first_in_time

"He's gone," Barbara sighed and held out her arms for a hug, "that's the main thing."

She cuddled up to his chest, arms slipping around his waist. After she kissed his cheek, her tummy tumbled loudly.

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splendid_roman

Ian put his arms round her, resting his head on hers for a moment. He smiled at her tummy rumbling and pulled back a little to look at her. "Let's see what we have for dinner." He let go of her to take her hand to walk to the kitchen. Maybe they could banish the memory of Captain Harkness and his suggestive comments.

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first_in_time

She followed and let go of his hand to lean back against a counter top and fold her arms. "Do you really think he meant it?" Babara asked eventually while she subtly admired Ian's shape through his trousers as he bent over to rummage through his fridge and cupboards.

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splendid_roman

"Meant what?" he asked as he stood up with a block of cheese that hadn't gone mouldy in one hand and some pasta in the other. "How about macaroni cheese with pasta?" Not that they had a great deal of choice of what to eat, but at least the long life milk didn't smell like it had gone off.

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first_in_time

"Sounds lovely," she smiled before going back to her question: "do you think he meant it about other ships like the TARDIS? I thought we destroyed the only other one when we came back home."

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splendid_roman

"It's hard to tell what he said that was true." Ian put the pasta on to boil and set about melting the cheese. "I suppose if the Daleks got time travel from the Doctor then it's possible that others could have too."

Once everything didn't need his constant attention he turned to face Barbara and lean against the opposite counter. "I like the idea that there are other ships out there."

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first_in_time

"Because you want one of them to be from Earth," Barbara smirked.

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splendid_roman

He shrugged. "I wouldn't complain if one was." But he smiled - she knew him too well. "It would just be nice to know that the human race wasn't confined to this planet. And attempting to orbit it."

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first_in_time

"There is the space program. We could be orbiting soon." Barbara folded her arms and smiled back at him. "Would you go back into space with them if you could?"

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splendid_roman

"I would." He sounded excited about the prospect. "It would be a bit different with being weightless and the G-forces at lift-off. But it would still be going into space." That it was different would be what would make it more exciting.

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first_in_time

Barbara loved how excited he got over somethings, and smiled a little wider at him. "What would be the first thing you would do in weightless space?"

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splendid_roman

Ian had to think about that one while he stirred their dinner. "Do a somersault in the air. And then try and catch blobs of water floating about."

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first_in_time

Barbara pushed herself up and back until she was sitting on the bench top and crossed her legs. "And what will be the first thing you do when you get back?"

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splendid_roman

Getting back wasn't nearly as exciting a prospect. "Kiss you." He grinned, then went over to kiss her now.

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first_in_time

"Only kiss me?" she asked, leaning forward to accept his kiss, "we could have dinner together and maybe do some dancing...go for a long walk...things like that."

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splendid_roman

"We could do all of those things," he agreed. "But they couldn't be the first thing I'd do when I got back. Unless you wanted to wait to be kissed." He leaned forward as if he was about to kiss her again, but at the last minute he stepped backwards and grinned at her before turning round and checking on dinner.

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first_in_time

Barbara bit her lip and tried to plot how she might get him back as she hopped down from the counter. Her arms looped around Ian's waist and her lips found his neck.

"How is dinner coming?" asked Barbara quietly near his ear.

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splendid_roman

"Nearly there." He closed his eyes for a moment and put his hands on her arms as if to move here away from him, but he didn't move. "It would go a lot faster without you doing that."

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first_in_time

"But you enjoy it so much," she told him and placed one final kiss just below his ear then moved away so that Ian could finish dinner.

Rather than standing about and watching him cook, Barbara set the table and poured them each a glass of water (since there wasn't any wine).

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splendid_roman

"I do," he agreed. "Save it for after dinner."

It just needed a few minutes under the grill to brown, and then he could dish it out onto two plates.

"We definitely need to go and buy some food tomorrow," he said, once they were both sitting down to eat.

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first_in_time

"We can go after we come back from your parents - there's that big supermarket between there and here. We should find everything we need and it'll give us an excuse to leave if we must."

Barbara cautiously had a fork-load of macaroni. She was experienced with Ian's cooking and knew that she should expect anything. She was surprised, however, to find that it actually tasted like it was supposed to. Mostly, anyway.

"Thank you, this is delicious," she told him and leant over to kiss him briefly in gratitude before turning back to the meal.

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splendid_roman

He smiled at her. He might have experimented had he not needed to leave some food for breakfast and he had not been too hungry to wait that long. "All the meals I cook are delicious." He thought so anyway. Although he was hungry enough at the moment that he hardly had the time to taste it, the speed he was eating it at.

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first_in_time

Barbara could have disputed that with a number of examples, such as the time he used cheese and sweet chilli sauce in a bangers and mash, but she kept it to herself. She was happy to just be eating and to be rid of their rude visitor.

"How does it feel to be found attractive by another man?" she teased after a quiet moment.