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// Wearing Each Other's Clothes 
// Story: Azurala's 30 Day Derpy Whooves Challenge 
// by Azurala 
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  "Is this how it works, Doc?" Derpy looks up from where she'd been working on tying the silky fabric into an unrecognizable knot.

The Doctor didn't even look back over his shoulder, too focused on his work. "Probably not. I'm not even sure how to tie a bowtie with these blasted hooves! Do you want me to do it for you?"

"Please?" Derpy sits back on her rump in frustration with a pout on her face, her lazy eye fallen to the side. "I just don't understand how you wear these all the time! Do you tie them every day?"

"I did," the Doctor mutters, "back when I had hands!" Pushing away from the TARDIS' console, he rolls effortlessly over to Derpy in his rolling chair. "Let's take a look, shall we?" Undoing the silken knot Derpy had tied, the Doctor fumbles a bit with the strands. "Let's see... Under and over... To the right, the left, and under again..." He tugs on the lapels and stands back to admire his work. "There! Now, uh... Why did you want to wear a bowtie again?"

Derpy prances over to the mirror to take in herself, all prettied up in her bowtie. "It's Nightmare Night tonight, and I wanted to look mysterious!" She picks up a tweed jacket and slips it on over her shoulders, tucking her wings underneath. "And I figured that you're the most mysterious pony in Ponyville. Besides," she picks up a pair of glasses and pops them on her face, "You're very fashionable, Doc."

"Ha! Well, if you're looking for mysterious," he bounces off his chair and rummages in an old, Gallifreyan labeled trunk beside the mirror, "I would suggest this!" He produces a long, khaki colored trench coat from the depths of the trunk, along with a brown suit vest and blue tie on a hanger. "I wore this in my... Let's just say, 'emotional' period."

"Ooooh-ing" at the outfit, Derpy shrugs off her tweed jacket and tugs at the bow tie, but only manages to get her hoof stuck at the hollow of her throat. "Doc-- help, please..."

Expertly untying the bow tie, the Doctor slowly pulls the silk strip from Derpy's neck. "Now, I can definitely tie a regular tie with these hooves..." He slips the striped tie over Derpy's neck, about to start on knotting it when he's pulled forward, bumping his snout into Derpy's. 

Derpy draws back from the impromptu kiss, giggling at the Doctor's red face. "You totally fell for that one, Doc. Everypony knows it's easy to rope you in with a tie."

"Oh, yeah?" The Doctor smirks, tugging on his end of the tie to bring Derpy closer, bumping snouts a little more elegantly this time and making lip contact for a short moment. "Two can play this game!"

Giggles turning incensed, Derpy gives another, slightly too overzealous pull on the silken fabric, falling backwards in glee onto the floor and bringing the Doctor down on top of her. "Well, the two of us can play another game, too, Doc."

Nuzzling at Derpy's neck, the Doctor knickers under his breath. "We sure can."