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„No"
He blinked surprised. "I'm sorry?"
He honestly didn't expect her to decline.
He was well aware his live wasn't something for everyone. Heck, he didn't even invited everyone who actually fitted into his lifestyle. But still, those he did mostly followed. Especially after something awesome, breathtaking and wonderful as the thing the two of them went through just a couple of minutes ago. Especially someone like her, she was perfect after all.
Surely not on the first sight, oh no, but the true personality of someone always reveals under pressure and hurt. And under that nervous, rude , know-it-all and way to needy surface with that really bad, downright hurting humor, laid an actual loyal, fierce but compassionate, good soul, eager to learn and discover everything.
Somehow down inside the deepest corner of his heart these thoughts ashamed him.
"No, Doctor. I won't come with you."
And for once he stayed.
Just for an evening, he sat down, stopped blabbering and listened to everything.
And she smiled and told him about that one different world where he never will go, the one he left behind so long ago, when he stepped with his grandaughter into that old type 40, the wonders he will never be able to witness himself again, not with his lifestyle, sitting there next to him and his TARDIS on her balcony under the Stars, crouched in a warm blanket on her old plastic-chair with a warm cup of tea in her hands.
And as he finally left, they didn't hug, but merely nodded to each other, being nothing more than passerby's, whose lifes touched each others for a second, but being to different and polar to each other to really get intertwined.
He stepped back in his little big blue box to return to his normal life in the Stars.
She stepped back into her tiny flat to return to her normal live on earth, because the possibilities and wonders this little planet in this- for a Timelord- way too insufficient part of the universe had to offer, were to endless and perfectly enough for one human lifetime.