[drinks] Reinette and the Doctor [of the not-ginger-persuasion]

[onlysayinghello]

The Doctor had made all the arrangements and making sure that Reinette was going to be coming along. Of course the last minute note that Jack had invited her along for the 'date' was something that flustered the Doctor even more. Which of course Jack thoroughly enjoyed.

Rather than try to clean up Torchwood or anything of the sort he picked a fine establishment just outside of London and had settled up in a dimly lit corner of the bar waiting for the others to join him. Of course he had started drinking without them and was sure that it wouldn't be a worry to either.

When he spotted them coming in he was a gentleman of course and stood for the company of Reinette and just grinned at the Doctor who had an expression on his face that was both of pure amusement and frustration all at the same time. It really was quite the spectacle.

The barmaid came by and took all their orders and hurried off to put them in. Jack leaned back in the corner booth and smiled at his friend the Doctor and the lovely Madame de Pompadour as he took his final sip of his drink.

"Well this is already proving to be a promising evening, I've got a lovely lady to one side of me and the Doctor to the other. I'd say I'd died and gone to heaven, but really... what are the odds of me dying these days?"

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[onlysayinghello.livejournal.com]

"Oh the lady has a suggestion, and I get to be the deciding vote?" Jack grinned at the Doctor, "See why I like her so much?"

When the waitress returned with drinks though Jack removed his arm from around Reinette to take his drink and remove the stirrer that obviously was to keep his drink separate from... the other overly obvious drinks. Shaking his head at the stirrer he dropped it onto the napkin and took a sip of his drink glancing to the Doctor, "I think he's thinking too much on it, or he's already forgotten the question."

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

"I haven't forgotten the question!" the Doctor looked offended at first, but he was quickly distracted by Reinette's suggestion.

He nodded, "Well, I don't really want to leave, not with nibbles and drinks and fantastic company. What do I do to prove I want to stay?"

[ambitious-woman.livejournal.com]

Reinette leaned across the table, not caring what might or might not be seen by those sitting at nearby tables. After all, they were not the objects of her attentions. It seemed, to the casual observer, her only intent was to reach a location close to the Doctor's ear.

"If I have to tell you what to do," she whispered into the Doctor's ear, keeping her voice low as if to spare embarrassment. She found personal enjoyment in his closeness. "Then it is not worth it. Is that not what you look for in your own companions? A certain -- natural instinct?"

[onlysayinghello.livejournal.com]

Jack watched with a bit of fondness as Reinette whispered something to the Doctor and the eyebrow raise that was the result amused him to no end. Jack had to resist laying his hand upon the small of her back as she leaned toward the Doctor, and he had to keep himself occupied with his drink as well to not stare at her.

Of course the drink was probably the problem, or at least the source of his easily distracted actions since it would seem that he was clearly intoxicated at the moment.