lizbee | FIC: "This Song Is About You" (Ten, Martha, PG-13)

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