A/N - Thank you to Orchidellia, Whyna Katran, MayFairy, Last-Catastrophe, and Ali for reviewing!

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"Emma, no, put it down."

"But look at it! It's so cute! And all alone." She pouted, cradling the puppy to her chest.

The Doctor glared at her. "No. Leave it."

"Out in the cold? For Heaven's sake, it's raining!" She walked over to him, but he refused to look at her. "Could you really be that cruel? Besides, I've already named it..." He sighed at that and gave her a quick glance.

"What'd you name it?"

"Doctor." She paused. "After you."

All anger disappeared from his face, replaced with a smug look as he reached out to scratch the puppy's ear. "Well, I suppose with a cool name like that-" He stopped, narrowing his eyes at her. "You just named it after me so I'd let you keep it, didn't you?"

"What? No." She scoffed. "I lied about naming it after you so you'd let me keep it." She lifted it up, pressing her cheek to its head. "His name is Scruff." She laughed as the puppy licked her chin. The Doctor stared at her, eerily quiet for a moment, before,

"PUT THE PUPPY DOWN, OR I'LL LEAVE YOU HERE!"

"Oh, you can't be serious!"

"I'm completely serious." He took the animal from her, holding it out like it was diseased. "I will not have this - this thing scratching up my TARDIS! It's just going to pee on everything, and lick all over you."

"Just because you don't get to lick all over me, doesn't mean you have to take it out on a poor, defenseless puppy." She snatched it back from him. "You have such jealousy issues."

He blushed. "That's not what this is about! I don't even want to...you're such a..." Frustrated, he clenched his jaw and took a deep breath. "Put Scruff down and get in the TARDIS."

"No." Looking behind her, she spotted a crate by a dumpster and sat on it, pulling Scruff into her lap. "I'm not leaving him."

"So a puppy's more important than me." He mumbled under his breath. He considered leaving, but thinking of travelling without her, he couldn't do it. "Alright. You can keep the blasted puppy until you find a home for him."

"Really?" He nodded. "Thank you!" She jumped off of the crate. Holding the puppy in one arm, she wrapped her other one around the Doctor's neck, leaning up to place a kiss on his cheek. "You're actually alright sometimes." With that, she skipped off to the TARDIS, talking to the puppy in a baby voice.

The Doctor smiled dazedly, brushing his cheek with his fingertips. "Yeah, I guess I am."

A/N - And now I go back to working on requests ;)