Drabbles

An exasperated sigh slips out of the doctor’s throat, before he can really even think about it. The immediate result of this is a soft sniffle from beside him, and Doctor can’t help but look over at the person who had caused the noise. Roo’s entire form has deflated, and he wouldn’t have said it was possible for the short boy to be any smaller, but sagging sadly like this seems like it is. Part of him must have already forgotten the small boy was stood their beside him, even though he caused the frustration. Continuing in the slumped expression, Roo turns to leave, both tail tips untwined and dragging across the floor, any dust that could have been on the tiles, swept away with him. This nearly causes another one of the sighs to escape Doctor’s throat, but he manages to catch it this time around.
“Wait.” He calls out, Roo paws and turns on his paws to look at the older man, though there’s not really any hope in his expression yet. “I should be able to do it.”
The second the positive words escape Doctor, Roo brightens up completely, and comes bounding back over to the man at the desk. As he gets there his tail tips wag excitedly, staring rather wide eyed, and excited up at him.
“Oh I’m glad to see you had so little faith in me. Just because I was exasperated doesn’t mean I won’t be able to do it, so little faith.” He mutters, half to Roo and half to no one else in particular. Roo however, doesn’t seem to take how this was supposed to be insulting to him, and continues to rock on his feet happily. If this was anyone else, Doctor would have been annoyed by this further lack of faith and listening to the man, but Roo is practically contagious in his joy.
“So, so you can do it yeah? Oh and if we get some chocolate chips we can also make some cupcakes at the same time…” Doctor can’t help but drain the ramblings of the child out, his computer is still on, it will be picking up everything Roo says and sifting it by importance. Though as he speaks Doctor can’t help but pick up on how the child tugs at the edge of the bandana, an excited sim he’s seen happen a couple of times now, especially when he talks about baking, which seems to be the topic he’s drifted into. However, there’s now just too much data coming from the small boy, spouting out in an almost nonsensical order, though Doctor knows that it’s probably some sort of sensible order when the child comes to think of it.
“Alright, shh, shh, shh.” He hushes Roo again, gentle finger to the other’s lips, taking him slightly by surprise, but either way it works. “Give me some time to work, and Quiet, and I can get it done for you.”
“Thank you Doctor!! You’re really the nicest to me! I don’t know why people think you’re cranky!” Roo splutters out, words faster then it feels like they should be from a real mouth, a speaker yes, a person is debatable; though it is clearly happening right now. Doctor goes to open his mouth, the second it does, Roo swiftly shuts his own.
“That is because you are a smarter than most people, Roo, well smart in your own way.” For once Doctor hopes that Roo doesn’t pick up on his insults, “Now please, go off and bother someone else while I get this sorted for you.”
With that Doctor waves his hand, in the universal, go away gesture with a little personal flourish added to maybe make it seem a little less rude, though Roo doesn’t seem to pick up when Doctor is being rude to him anyway.
“Yay, thank you!” Roo grins before then running back out of the room, tail held high.
Doctor sighs again, this time it’s slightly less exasperated than before, he guesses that he can’t really help it, Roo has grown on him sort of like a tumour; not that he’s going to complain about that anymore. Roo makes everything seem just that bit more exciting and brighter when he’s around, though you wouldn’t catch him saying that anywhere out loud. In encrypted notes however, that’s something slightly different.