Drabble (8/22): How Not To Pull

[john_amend_all]

The Doctor drew himself up to his full width. "I'm nine hundred years old! Don't you realise what that means?"

"It's been a while?" Amy suggested.

She hadn't thought it possible for the Doctor to swell further, but he did. "Certainly not! I could name names, though they wouldn't mean anything to you. Dread Empress Grelvia, the Terrible Zodin, Janice Rothwell..."

"Janice Rothwell?" Amy repeated. "She was my maths teacher!" She went very pale. "Look, just... forget it. OK?"

She ran from the room.

The Doctor nodded approvingly. "Then again," he remarked, "the Janice I knew was from Sirius Four."