OTA - Everyone's Personal Prison

[st_everybodylives]

The first few weeks she'd explored the hotel, generally enjoying the absurdity of it all. And the Doctor did not come.

Then she spent a few weeks testing the boundaries of their prison. And the Doctor did not come.

Then for a few weeks she tried boosting the vortex manipulator, and while she almost ripped a hole in space time, she hadn't gotten anywhere. And the Doctor did not come.

She wasn't quite sure if she was disappointed, or annoyed. Which, frankly, was annoying.

She was still trying to figure this out when she found herself enjoying the garden on the first truly warm spring day with a book and a carafe of hot tea, tucked into a nook amongst rose bushes.

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[st_everybodylives]

"I've been having her scones in the morning," they really were quite good. But then neither she nor Amy could bake so, there was something special about baked goods.

"Is she extraordinarily lucky to have you in her life?" It didn't always even out, River had found.

[st_illunsmeared]

"You would have to ask Dot," Phryne replied out of not wishing to speak for her rather than any false modesty. "I know she credits me with many changes in her life, and that she likes the person she's become. Beyond that, I couldn't say."

[st_everybodylives]

"Liking the person you become because of another person, it's harder than it sounds." And if Dot managed it, she was incredibly lucky.

[st_illunsmeared]

"Yes, it is." But Phryne smiled, expression softening. She'd been very lucky finding Jack. Very very lucky. She thought she might just go and tell him that, and pushed to her feet. "If you'll excuse me, there's a man I need to speak to."