Companions For Life

Me: “I totally need to set my phone ringtone to the T.A.R.D.I.S landing noise.”

Partner: “You can’t do that! If the Doctor actually comes, you’ll think it’s your phone. I think that if one of us ever becomes the Doctor’s companion, we have to come back for the other one.”

Me: “Agreed. Hey, what if one of us did go with the Doctor, and there was a time loop that precluded the other from joining us?”

Partner: “I would cry.”

Me: “I would, too.”

(I pause for a moment.)

Me: “Or what if you did come back for me, but you were in an alternate timeline where I died and you had to turn back time and not take me with you, but you couldn’t tell me that?”

Partner: “If that happened I don’t think I would go with the Doctor at all.”

Me: “…aww, that’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me!”