[ The Doctor doesn't argue, doesn't try to tell her that there's everything wrong with being a 'little selfish' sometimes. That it's being selfish that can and does lead to people getting hurt, to them thinking they owe the Doctor something, that he can go on taking people into his TARDIS and endanger them through numerous risky endeavours because he's a bored, old creature and he gets desperately lonely sometimes.
That sometimes the only thing that keeps him from becoming something un-Doctor-like is the company he keeps, and it isn't right for him to take them away from their own human-y lives, but it hardly ever stops him, does it?
(In fact, he's being very selfish right now, isn't he, taking Clara's attention up and harbouring it for his own because he doesn't want to share it with anyone else.)
But though he might be selfish, he wouldn't hesitate to show them the very best things that the universe has to offer, to surprise and delight them with the wonders of the stars and planets, and to protect them at the cost of his own life if necessary. Yes. He does try. And he'll try until his very last breath. ]
Yes. [ He nods, meeting Clara's eyes for a moment more before he turns his head to look back at the wasteland that surrounds them. ] Yes, maybe it does. Maybe that's all it takes.
[ He isn't sure he believes it, but for now ... perhaps it'll do. ]
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That sometimes the only thing that keeps him from becoming something un-Doctor-like is the company he keeps, and it isn't right for him to take them away from their own human-y lives, but it hardly ever stops him, does it?
(In fact, he's being very selfish right now, isn't he, taking Clara's attention up and harbouring it for his own because he doesn't want to share it with anyone else.)
But though he might be selfish, he wouldn't hesitate to show them the very best things that the universe has to offer, to surprise and delight them with the wonders of the stars and planets, and to protect them at the cost of his own life if necessary. Yes. He does try. And he'll try until his very last breath. ]
Yes. [ He nods, meeting Clara's eyes for a moment more before he turns his head to look back at the wasteland that surrounds them. ] Yes, maybe it does. Maybe that's all it takes.
[ He isn't sure he believes it, but for now ... perhaps it'll do. ]