It's quiet… calm… peaceful. The waves slowly roll toward the shore, reflecting the setting sun in their depths. The sky is an unimaginable reddish pink with a light blue running along the edges and running off into the depths of the sky. A lone figure sits on the rocks. He seems small in comparison to the large expanse of sea in front of him. A leather jacket lays discarded beside him. It had gotten too warm for it ages ago.
"Penny for your thoughts?" Koschei blinked, head jerking to where the Doctor had silently sat down beside him.
"More like a dollar," he mutters in response. The Doctor lets out a jerky laugh, still shaken by the other Time Lord's near death not two days previous. Koschei glared at him, but it was more going through the motions again. His eyes were soft and confused but still full of adoration. The Doctor looked away with a slight blush. The look still seemed foreign on that face and, if he was to be honest, it was disconcerting.
Koschei looked back at the ocean's blue. "I still don't understand." The brunette gives him a brief confused look. "I mean, all of this. You could have let me die and it would have been so much simpler for you but you didn't. You could have pawned me off on someone else or left me stranded somewhere, but you didn't. You could keep me under essential house arrest in the TARIDS to where I can't even leave my room without you, but you don't. Instead you patch me up and take me to some beach in Washington state while the Pond's wander about."
A shrug. "Not as if I wasn't keeping an eye on you." There's a moment of silence and the crashing of the waves seems to get louder.
"That's not the point." Koschei continues. "The point is that you're… you're treating me like nothing happened. Like nine hundred years didn't happen. And you know what? I don't get it." He gaze drops downward slightly, eyes focusing on a log stuck between the rock getting covered by the ocean blue. "Any other person on the planet -except perhaps Amy- would have done one of those things by now."
The Doctor chuckled, leaning back on his elbows. "I'm going to tell you what I told little Amelia when she was seven and I want you to try and remember it, Kosch. It's important." Koschei stiffened slightly, but nodded. The other Time Lord smiled. "I'm not people."
The blond relaxed as he burst out laughing, laying back on the rock to look up at the pinkish clouds above. "No, I don't suppose you ever were, were you?"
"Not a once," the bowtie wearing brunette said with a grin.
The Doctor leaned back with his companion, staring up at the stars as they began to appear with the setting sun.
"Point where you wanna go," he whispered as Koschei's breathing evened out beside him. "I'll take you anywhere."