Spring Cleaning, Round 2 [Backdated to just after podpop]

[fantastix]

Who: The Doctors, their assistants and friends, some visitors [Open], and the Master.
Where: The TARDIS, the blue police box located in the Hangar.
Summary: Somebody's made a mess of the old ship. The Doctors are very unhappy. Time to dig in and clean up! Also, there's some necessary hashing-out of titles and ownership between three men who happen to be the same person. And a bit of a problem arises...
Warnings: Possibly mild swearing on Nine's part.


The Doctor and his immediate successor with the long coat had run straight from the Observation Deck when they'd learned where the TARDIS was and gotten their bearings. They'd been whisked through the uncomfortable transport tubes, spilled into an arsenal of ships, and been left to search. Luckily, as diminished as their abilities were, they could still sense the old girl. It wasn't long before she was found.

They wasted no time in opening the door, winding up in a console room that could never fit inside the seemingly small exterior of the police box without some serious dimensional shifting. It was a wide space, well-lit, but definitely not the room the two new arrivals were used to.

Here, they'd finally find this other Doctor the other crew members have told them so much about. And with any luck, they'll have some answers too.

Comments

[hullo_sweetie]

"Yes you will." River fully agrees with him on that. If she didn't have such a close, personal, child-of-the-TARDIS relationship with the old girl, she might have been jealous.

"You don't think it's possible I could be hundreds of years old?" River eyebrow rises, flashing him a sly grin that lets him know she's just teasing him. "I'm flattered, really. Not that I can say, spoilers and all that."

[fantastix]

"Course not. You're...nice-looking enough, I suppose. And not a Time Lady." Or anything close to one, right? He and the Master were the last ones, and they certainly weren't having children any time soon.

That was the most she'd get out of him for a compliment. "Have you been with that Doctor for a while? Domesticated him?"

[hullo_sweetie]

"You're so sure I'm not a Time Lady? As if you know every single Gallifreyan born woman...."

His question coaxes laughter from her, like she hadn't laughed in a very long time. Her body was practically heaving with it! "Me? Domesticate you? Oh I suppose I've done my fair share, but I never forced anything on him - you." Tenses are rather confusing at the moment.

"We're not together, here or now." She feels she should stress this. Even if it seemed they were constantly flirting with one another these days. The Doctor held a deep respect for her and obviously found her fascinating, but that was as far as it went at the moment.

"In the past, my past, maybe. Still, you know I can't say as much. Spoilers." It seemed every other word she said was a spoiler. No doubt it was getting on his nerves.

"I know I'll be someone you trust completely, someday...."

[fantastix]

"...They're gone. For the most part. You'd've have to escape before, but...no. Never mind." That was his final word for the moment. Something did feel strange about her, but she'd never tell. He knew that much.

"Oh, well that's good then! Getting together's a right mess, it really is." Even if he'd felt something with Rose. No, Rose was more than likely dead. Better to repress and forget that bit. Getting involved was bad news and he was going to act the part.