[call my muse 'my husband' pre-marriage || accepting]
How was it that every time he went out adventuring with Martha, they always seemed to end up at one of these black-tie dealies? Probably because of Tish... Martha's sister always seemed to end up right square in the middle of things.
He was only half listening as Martha chatted with one of the donors -- hard to pay attention really. All the food and people in interesting hats. And there was the woman with the chocolate cover strawberries again, his favorite!
Truth be told, he probably shouldn't have popped four of them in his mouth at the same time, but what was he supposed to do when the tray lady was trying to squeeze by so fast, and it wasn't as if she had offered him a napkin and he only had so many hands-
The combination of chocolate and Martha seemed to be working together to betray him that evening. The young doctor's words came floating over the heads of the crowd, and The Doctor spun around, shocked, sucking in a sharp breath and an enormous strawberry right along with it. He immediately started to choke. Coughed. And managed to spit a massive red gob right onto the shoes of the very nice woman Martha had been chatting with. The Doctor wheezed, giving Martha a very pointedly incredulous look, before turning to the woman he'd spat chocolate strawberries on and smiles. "Sorry about that," he spluttered. "I forgot, I'm....... allergic. Very nice shoes, by the way..."