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Jack had been given a couple bottles of wine, the last of the old batch, from that dark haired man who never took off his glasses. He had his suspicions there was more to it than a kind gesture, but he wasn't about to pass it up.

He took them both to the waterfall to chill in the cold water and watched the stars for a while before he opened the first bottle. It was a nice night for a change, and he'd been having it relatively easy lately. A celebratory drink...deserved a song. He sang softly, something he'd heard years ago that had stuck with him. He didn't even remember what all the words meant in that language, but it was pretty.

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[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

The song carried a little ways, and the Doctor had been walking in the woods anyhow, looking up at the stars through the leaves. He would have recognised that voice anywhere.

"Sanskrit?" he asked, coming out into the clearing by the waterfall.

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

"Is that what it is?" he asked, looking back at him with a smile. "I'd forgotten."

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

"Mm." The Doctor thought for a moment, looking up at the sky. It took him longer to translate than he would have liked. "The narrator, announcing to the gods that he will avenge himself upon them if his lover the soldier is taken captive. Nice, romantic, a little bloody."

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

"That's right," he nodded, holding out the bottle. "You want a drink? It's cold."

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

The Doctor walked over, then nodded. "Yeah, sure," he said. "Why not." Maybe things would be a little less awkward then. "Any reason for singing that, or just because it's pretty?"

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

"Just...on my mind. Who knows, maybe it was the tune. Kind of sounded like something on the jukebox while I was dancing with my new girlfriend."

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

"She cute?" the Doctor asked, guessing that there was probably more to this than what it sounded like, Jack being Jack.

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

"No. She's gorgeous. Great dancer. No teeth and no real language skills..." he grinned. "And she likes to try to pull my lips off, but that's a small price to pay for her laughter."

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

This made the Doctor laugh, and he settled into the seat next to Jack. "So just how badly are you robbing the cradle this time, Cap'n Harkness?"

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

"Oh, you know," he chuckled. "Literally. Have you met Sola? Padme's daughter?"

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

"I haven't had the chance. Though I did talk to Jay about her, and the expression on his face might have told me enough. Think the two of you are completely enchanted. Pass that bottle?"

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

He handed it off and leaned back on his elbows. "Probably so," he smiled. "What are you doing out tonight?"

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

The Doctor took a long swig. Funny, after you drank moonshineitas, the wine didn't go down so bad. "Had to walk Atalanta. Then I couldn't sleep, so I went out to walk a little again. You?"

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

"Just enjoying the night. Greg's finishing a book and I wasn't interested in just sitting around."

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

"So you were going to sit here, sing in Sanskrit, and drink a bottle of wine all by yourself?"

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

"That was the plan."

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

"That's a lot of wine." The Doctor was trying to figure out how to shake the awkward.

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

"Ah, but now you're here, and there's another one in the water," he smiled. "New plan. Getting drunk."

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

"Who'd want to get drunk with some old fart," the Doctor asked. He could feel the alcohol start to hit his blood. Weird feeling.

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

Jack looked over at him and smiled, his expression curious. "Who wouldn't? If he was you?"

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

The Doctor shrugged. "Didn't know if you wanted to hang out, yet."

Hang out. Dear god, he needed more of that wine. Either that or he'd spent way too much time in the twenty-first.

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

The expression became even more curious as he took the bottle back. "I think you're a lightweight."

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

"Am not." He looked at Jack. "Look, I'm serious. I want to try to learn how to make this work."

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

"Make what work?" he asked, taking a pull from the bottle.

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

"Being friends, Jack."