I've been thinking about getting used to and unknowingly loving Dottore as a pest that always comes back.
You tried to poison 25 and he drank it on purpose to challenge himself to find a cure and he did it in 4 hours. Failed.
You blew up his piano once and you failed.
You tried to hypnotize him into falling off a cliff and he played along and floated back up because disappointing you would be fun.
You put glue in the shampoo of his youngest segment. Definitely not your proudest moment but he tried to get you to eat a bug. Success, but it didn't count for much.
You tried infecting him with elezar and he just showed you old notes from that messed up clinic.
At one point you glued on an academiya graduation outfit to one of his old photos just to taunt him. He made you throw it into an incinerator.
Failed to eliminate him with a gun. Failed to keep him sealed in an old puzzle. Failed to get rid of him even when the rest of his clones were deleted. Failed to get rid of him when he disappeared and you hoped he was on some other planet entirely. Failed when he rewrote himself as a diety, he still came back after that fight to taunt you.
You just got used to failing and to saying 'hello again' more than you said goodbye to him despite the attempts.
So now, when he fails instead of you, when he doesn't come back from the fire and the ashes - you have a 'hello again' on your tongue that has no place anymore.
