Hearing his other correct himself on this rather harmless proverb is both sweet and sort of sad. The Doctor takes off his glasses to be able to run a hand over his face.
"Risks are often necessary, I agree, but they have a time and a place. I'm sure you're fit and all in working order, but you don't know if your working order still includes regenerative abilities. We can test for that, we should test for that, and I've got some stuff back in my lab on the TARDIS that we can use on a tissue sample, so you won't have to initiate a crisis to find out. We don't have to take this particular risk for this experiment. There's no logical reason we should, your instruments are precise enough to record the data reliably. We can simply connect and do the same thing we did back in the wardrobe, and no-one will be in any danger of dying."
He recognizes his other's eagerness as something he's seen in himself and never wanted to acknowledge to be there. It's the urge to run away, to start something new and see if that will change everything, because that's what it means, the word new, doesn't it? Change. Except that it never works, at least not quite the way you had hoped it to. The Doctor's learned that much.
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"Risks are often necessary, I agree, but they have a time and a place. I'm sure you're fit and all in working order, but you don't know if your working order still includes regenerative abilities. We can test for that, we should test for that, and I've got some stuff back in my lab on the TARDIS that we can use on a tissue sample, so you won't have to initiate a crisis to find out. We don't have to take this particular risk for this experiment. There's no logical reason we should, your instruments are precise enough to record the data reliably. We can simply connect and do the same thing we did back in the wardrobe, and no-one will be in any danger of dying."
He recognizes his other's eagerness as something he's seen in himself and never wanted to acknowledge to be there. It's the urge to run away, to start something new and see if that will change everything, because that's what it means, the word new, doesn't it? Change. Except that it never works, at least not quite the way you had hoped it to. The Doctor's learned that much.