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Alright, I admit, that's a new one, if only due to regeneration being an ability that's unique to your species as far as I know.

[You sound like you feel about Rassilon about the same way she feels about Palpitine.]

I'm assuming Rassilon didn't succeed in his plan; if he did, I doubt we'd be here talking about it like this. But was your intervention as pivotal in preventing it as these psychics thought it would be?

Yes. I know.

[Dry, quiet and hollow]

No. He wasn't.

[At her last question - she may see all the knots his stomach makes on his face and only replies by nodding his head]

[There's a slight pause.]

I may not be the best one to ask, honestly, but if you have any questions or need any advice, one parent to another, I'm willing to help.

[There's a lot in that nod and Leia is quiet for a long moment, extrapolating and correlating what she knows, and what she's been able to deduce from what has and hasn't been said.]

So you prevented Rassilon's plan from coming to fruition... but doing so cost more than you can reconcile.

[If there was one thing Leia understood it was loss. And whatever stopping Rassilon's insane plan had cost the Doctor, it was obviously enough to make it seem like a pyrrhic victory to him.]

[Ten is only going to remind distant in his aura and gives another head nod]

[Leia closed her eyes. Took a deep breath.]

Believe it or not, I understand. I've had to make those kinds of choices myself. Not for the fate of the universe, but certainly for the fate of the galaxy. Choices that in the end boil down to a debate between 'could I live with myself if I do this?' and 'could I live with myself if I don't?'

[She sighs, opening her eyes.]

Sometimes there really is no good choice. Just a bad one and a worse one. Entities like the Empire and the First Order are good at creating those situations. And it sounds like Rassilon was too.

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[Ten's demeanor change to being rather pointed and fierce] That doesn't excuse it

[Then draws back and gives Leia a silent head nod and whispers]

Sorry. So, sorry.

And I'm sorry about what happened.

[Leiah just nods calmly.]

No it doesn't. There's never an excuse for that kind of death and destruction. An explanation, maybe. A logical reason, maybe. But no excuse.

It's worse, though, when people don't think they need an excuse. People like Tarkin, Palpitine, Snoke, and Rassilon; people for whom power and control are an end in themselves. The kind of people who would build something called the 'Death Star' in the first place.

[Pause.]

And you don't need to apologize; none of what happened to me and to my galaxy is your doing. And I know the things more personal to me likely can't be fixed, even if you could get to my galaxy with the ability to do so; too many other events that depend on them.

[Small, grim smirk.]

Seems to be the case more often than not for my family. Our connection to the Force is very strong... but that also means that our fates are intertwined with it, for good or ill.

Yeah.

I know. All of space and time - and thar's still events I have to let happen.

I'd be curious to know how you can tell which is which. Is it just something instinctual to Time Lords, or is distinguishing such events a skill you have to learn?

Instinctual.

[He's hiding how much it may hurt to be reminded what he doesn't and hasn't done for quite a long time]

[Leia nods. And hiding it or not, she can still guess.]

It must be difficult to be without that here, since time works so... oddly in Nautilus. I know that as much as I sometimes have a love/hate relationship with my connection to the Force, being without it entirely when I first arrived felt almost like I was missing a limb.

[Ten eyes away]

Linear. And not timey wimey wibbly wobbly.

Yes. It feels like I'm blind... [Deep inhale; he's been blind for a very, very long time. The Force helps a little but it's not the same]

Master Kit showed me how to bend the Force so I had some kind of connection but it's not the same. But it's - something.

[He won't say it but he's learned to make due]

[Leia's smile is both sad and understanding.]

I've spent much of my life holding on to 'something', so I know how inadequate it can feel sometimes. But I've always been grateful to those who helped me find it.

Ah! There we are!

[Have a rather close up look of a grinning Four.]

My dearest Queen! I am afraid I may need to ask something rather highly of you. My idiot future has seen it his own imperative to vanish with only a minute warning.

That being, I will have to be in the box until his return. I am not sure how this will affect my current projects at the medbay so, if the surgery room of the fifth floor begins to smell like over cooked tapioca, please vacate the premises and inform me immediately!

I'm no queen, but yes, so I saw. Hopefully he has a bit more explanation when he gets back, though somehow I doubt he will.

And duly noted about your projects. Do I want to know what it is you're cooking up up there?

I don't care one way or another at this point.

[He smiles far too innocently at her question.]

Oh, nothing important. Simply testing a few chemicals and pharmaceutical combinations. Most things here are for either non-organic or human based life.

[Leia quirks an eyebrow.]

Nothing that might explode, I hope? As entertaining as that might be in the short term, any damage that might cause would take time to repair, even with Bending.

[He tilts his head, eyes narrowing lightly in thought.]

Explode. Well. I hadn't really thought of that option. I don't think it would, but then I'm not sure how the atmospheric pressure here will react to carbonating glycerin and neon.

Hallo, Leia. It's the Doctor. Tenth Doctor.

[Someone is obviously feeling better considering how chipper and smiley someone is being and putting his shoes on the table off to a slight angle. However, does turn more serious slowly.]

Thar are some things you should know in case all of me is back in the Medbay again all at once with Jack or at all.

First - Rose was really stressed out with running around to four bedsides and exhausted. Next time - please for her sake just put all of us in one room.

Secondly - [His voice is even more serious] You cannot under any circumstances let any of me have anything with acetylsalicylic acid compound in it. Including aspirin and anesthesia.

[A pause and dry tone]

You'll kill us. Me.

[Leia nods.]

I'm sure that something can be arranged, provided none of you are there due to some sort of contagious disease; if that's ever the case, personal preferences would have to take a back seat to actual health concerns.

Just fair warning though; if all of you rooming together ends up causing more trouble than is reasonable, the one who seems to be instigating it will be separated from the others. To be perfectly frank, all versions of you make terrible patients, and we really don't have time to deal with loud arguments and such on top of your usual antics and escape attempts.

No need to worry about the medication issues, though. Your Fourth self already warned me some time ago, and we've programmed the medical droids accordingly. Though if you know of any painkillers that are safe for your species and can Bend some, we can certainly keep them on hand, just in case.

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[Leia smirks slightly.]

Rule number one when dealing with potentially hazardous chemicals; never assume that something can't or won't explode.

But I take it that the danger here would be more in the fumes than in potential combustibility?

[Have the most innocent smile ha can muster, Leia.]

Why of course not!

[There's a head nod]

We'll behave. Promise.

[A pause] Anytime after our seventh life we don't like the hospital. Sorry so sorry.

Well here's something Four doesn't know. The cure is chocolate.

We'll manage the pain and any surgery while awake should that ever be necessary.

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