Fill: Challenge #10

[shivver]

This is the beginning of the party from “The Lazarus Experiment”, except instead of Ten and Martha, it’s Nine and Rose. Note that the character histories have been switched, so Rose didn’t travel with the Doctor and return back a year later by mistake, and Jackie and Mickey haven’t met the Doctor yet. Instead, Rose met the Doctor when her Henrik’s building got taken to the moon and has just returned to Earth after the Doctor taking her “for just one trip”. Mickey is swapped in for Tish here, having been hired by Lazarus because of his computer skills, to set up the network for the demonstration of his machine.

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Seeing her out of the corner of his eye, Mickey tugged on the network cable to test its security, then hopped up just in time to catch her in a hug. “Rose! I didn’t think you got my message.” He pulled back and looked her up and down. “You look amazing! I didn’t know you had a posh dress like that.”

Glancing over her shoulder at the Doctor, she stammered a reply. “Oh, I, er, I borrowed it.”

Following her gaze, Mickey frowned at the unknown man in the olive jumper and worn leather peacoat, out of place among the tuxedos and silk evening gowns. “Who’s this bloke?” he asked, pulling her closer in a protective embrace.

Rose hadn’t prepared an explanation for bringing the Doctor and blurted out, “Er, yeah, he’s my plus-one.”

Anger and jealousy flashed in Mickey’s eyes, and he stepped away from her. “You brought a plus-one. I invite you to a party, and you bring your own date.”

“It’s not like that. We work together.” She beckoned the Doctor forward. “Mickey, this is the Doctor. Doctor, this is Mickey,” she introduced, then added with emphasis to clue the Doctor in, “my boyfriend.”

Grinning brightly, the Doctor thrust a hand out in greeting. “Pleasure, Ricky!”

Mickey eyed the hand but made no move to take it. “You got a doctor in teen girls at Henrik’s?”

“Not ‘together’ together. He does…” Rose couldn’t think of what a doctor might do in a department store, but maybe science might be close enough. “Sales analysis. Maths and things.”

“Oh, you must be a genius to do maths and things,” came a voice behind Rose, and her mother slithered around her to offer the Doctor her hand to kiss. Jackie wore a pale pink gown cut low at the neck and studded with cheap glass beads, and her shining blond hair was twisted into an elaborate updo. She smiled at him coyly. “I’m Jacqueline, Rose’s mother. Let’s leave the kids to the party and get to know each other?”

The Doctor stared at her hand just like Mickey had his a moment earlier. He pursed his lips. “No.”

Fill: Challenge #9

[shivver]

The campus, however, hadn’t impressed upon Peri the full weight of its grandeur until she entered the famed Harvard Yard. Back at Cal State, she would have called this the quad, but she couldn’t bring herself to give this place such a banal name. Thick leafy trees shaded the wide green lawn crisscrossed by walkways, such that though the square wasn’t more than a tenth of a mile across, she couldn’t see the opposite side through the foliage. Great buildings of red brick ringed the square, watching the students as they had for hundreds of years.

Most daunting, however, was her destination, the university library. A wide rise of steps led to entry doors dwarfed by twelve thick Corinthian columns, shining white under the gray Boston sky. The dark windows stared down at her, daring the girl from a (gasp!) state school to attempt entry into the finest library in the country. Peri bit her lip. She’d faced down maniacs on far-flung alien planets with no problem; why was this so frightening?

Challenge #11

[shivver]

Write a scene where a companion finds an object or information that the Doctor or another character didn’t want anyone to know about. It can either be about the companion finding the object and his/her thoughts about it or about the Doctor/other character discovering that the person found it.

Fill -Challenge 10

[romanajo123]

 It was a sunny November morning at Farringham School, and Doctor Smith, the new science teacher was in the middle of only his second class of the day. 

"So" he began as he scrawled on the chalkboard "In 1609, Johannes Kepler wrote that the planets in the Solar System orbit in an ellipse. This contradicts the previous-" Right at that moment, the bell rang.

"Ah, class dismissed." 

As a flurry of boys and less than a handful of girls filed out of the classroom, one of them, Nyssa , stayed behind a minute.

"How was I?" Doctor Smith asked "I fear I'm coming across rather dry."

"I found it quite fascinating, Doctor." she answered.

"Nyssa, do feel free to not refer to me so formally," he said, starting to prepare his desk for the next class. "I am, after all, family."

"Sorry, Doctor-I mean, uncle" Nyssa quickly corrected herself. That was going to be hard to adjust. The Trakenite quietly reached into the pocket of her uniform.  The watch was there, ticking like normal.  As she began walking to her next class, she wondered how Tegan was doing.

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Several weeks later, Doctor Smith was having a rather terrible sleepless night.  He'd had them more and more lately-and now he was having the most peculiar of dreams.  He'd considered speaking to the school nurse about it, but for now he took out a pen and the journal on his nightstand. The pages were filled with the most incredible stories: metal men,  gigantic lizards, vampires. There were stories of far off places. A few pages had small drawings-some were his two nieces, some had other figures he didn't recognize. All so vivid and real..but only dreams.
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"I have had it!" Tegan exclaimed later that afternoon. "Someone get me out of this place!" Classes had ended for the day and both girls had a bit of a break.
"Tegan," Nyssa started "we have to stay here for at least three months. The Doctor is in danger."
"I know!" the Australian cried. "But if I have to put up with one more of these stupid old professors asking me where his tea is or to sort his books, I'm going to murder him myself and save those Family things the trouble."Tegan groaned. "If I wanted all this, I could've stayed an air stewardess."
"I thought you got 'the sack' ." 
"I did! But that's the point, Nyssa. I-wait a minute!" A sudden noise made both girls turn towards the window. There, outside, piercing through the night sky, were flashes of green light and shooting stars.

(A/N- So, this...happened. ;p I know I know, cliche divergence but Human Nature is my fave Who Thing and it was kind of fun! I feel like this could be expanded somehow.  And sorry Miss Redfern but I couldn't think of what to do with you)