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souffle_girlek) wrote2014-01-03 08:08 pm
souffle_girlek) wrote2014-01-03 08:08 pm
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She is being emotionally blackmailed by a pair of teenagers. She is, it is horrible, and what's worse, they are getting away with it. They could at least attempt to not look smug, really, it would be kind to her feelings.
She thought though - she thought, well, he's an impossibly old and intelligent alien (who happens to like having human friends, it's odd). He's impossibly old and impossibly bright (usually) and while she has managed to be blackmailed by a pair of teenaged hooligans surely he will be able to stand his ground.
If anything, he caved faster than she did - sure, he'd made his 'cat in a twee bonnet' face, and he'd made a few minutes of sulky protests, but then he'd produced a ticket from somewhere in his pockets and announced that they were going to go on a spacy zoomba (whatever one of those was), and it was all over after that. Angie and Arty had looked properly smug after that - she's never going to hear the end of this.
She was so disappointed. And she's hoping, desperately, that for once they can have a nice quiet outing.
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"Well, here we are! Hedgewick's World, the biggest and best amusement park that will ever be, and we've got a golden ticket!" The Doctor cheers, hopping out of his ship onto a planet that looks remarkably like the moon - grey dust and American flag and all. The kids (little brats that they are) notice this, and comment. She stands back and lets them do it, because really, he's the one that brought them along, he should have to put up with their grief even if she can spot a power cable and a huge 'spacey zoomba' sign that evidently they've both missed. But it's good - they're where they're supposed to be, and they can do this spacey zoomba thing, and get the ice cream the ticket promises, and then they can go home, and it will all be fine.
And then life gets weird. She shouldn't be surprised - first by the guy in the top hat asking if they're his ride off-planet, then by the platoon of soldiers that come looking like something out of a bad sci-fi and sounding like something out of historical piece on Romans. She at least isn't surprised when they follow the guy with the top hat even when finding out that the planet has been abandoned on the whole and any sane person would be running as fast as possible.
Perhaps it's a sign how badly her own sanity has been effected that she doesn't run either.
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She thought though - she thought, well, he's an impossibly old and intelligent alien (who happens to like having human friends, it's odd). He's impossibly old and impossibly bright (usually) and while she has managed to be blackmailed by a pair of teenaged hooligans surely he will be able to stand his ground.
If anything, he caved faster than she did - sure, he'd made his 'cat in a twee bonnet' face, and he'd made a few minutes of sulky protests, but then he'd produced a ticket from somewhere in his pockets and announced that they were going to go on a spacy zoomba (whatever one of those was), and it was all over after that. Angie and Arty had looked properly smug after that - she's never going to hear the end of this.
She was so disappointed. And she's hoping, desperately, that for once they can have a nice quiet outing.
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"Well, here we are! Hedgewick's World, the biggest and best amusement park that will ever be, and we've got a golden ticket!" The Doctor cheers, hopping out of his ship onto a planet that looks remarkably like the moon - grey dust and American flag and all. The kids (little brats that they are) notice this, and comment. She stands back and lets them do it, because really, he's the one that brought them along, he should have to put up with their grief even if she can spot a power cable and a huge 'spacey zoomba' sign that evidently they've both missed. But it's good - they're where they're supposed to be, and they can do this spacey zoomba thing, and get the ice cream the ticket promises, and then they can go home, and it will all be fine.
And then life gets weird. She shouldn't be surprised - first by the guy in the top hat asking if they're his ride off-planet, then by the platoon of soldiers that come looking like something out of a bad sci-fi and sounding like something out of historical piece on Romans. She at least isn't surprised when they follow the guy with the top hat even when finding out that the planet has been abandoned on the whole and any sane person would be running as fast as possible.
Perhaps it's a sign how badly her own sanity has been effected that she doesn't run either.
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