#sirspaceman

It was a difficult thing to STARTLE the Doctor. Especially when his best mate was the famous author John Smith with his bag of tricks. He knew John had been hiding, not just because John was terribly predictable at times, but also because his hiding spot was rubbish.

He allowed his friend the pleasure of thinking he had a good spot, however; casually passing by him as if he knew nothing. And when he heard John start to emerge, there was a FOND smile that tugged at the Doctor’s lips.

The Doctor was expecting a jump scare. Not necessarily to be tackled to the ground. His knees buckled from under him as John leaped and he crash landed against the metal grating of the console room floor.

“What the hell was that for?!” he groaned with ambivalence. “Don’t tell me you’ve gone and drank all the coffee in the TARDIS again? Go and let a man try to scare ya and this is what y’get!”

John hadn’t had all the coffee. No, he’d only had most of it. Anyway, that isn’t what mattered - what mattered was that John was bored and that he wanted to have a bit of fun.

“Oh hush, you’ve had it worse.” John sat as he sat on the Doctor’s chest, keeping him pinned down. One of his hands casually messed with the other’s hair - brushing it in all sorts of directions just because he could and because it smile him smile.

             "I'd call you a genius, except I'm in the room."

At first, her heart sank. She was just being silly again. She had only been back on Earth for a year and still every time she saw a police box, which were becoming rarer and rarer these days, or heard a recorder she’d look around hopefully for her cosmic hobo Doctor and his Jacobite companion. Of course, there was always nothing. So she began to turn away from the man.

But then she hears two magical names: The Doctor and Jamie. The stranger knew who they were! She quickly turned back towards him, excitement and hope in her eyes. “Y-You’ve met them? Are they here?” 

They must be here, they simply must be! After so many months apart, somehow, someway they had found her again. She had missed them so much. So much it was hurting her heart. Even after a year apart it still hurt as much as it did they day she said goodbye.  She found herself on that accursed beach often, staring off into waves...sometimes seeing the TARDIS bobbing in the water, or Jamie and the Doctor waving at her. 

Sometimes it was so real and so vivid that she ran into the sea to embrace them both, only to feel the cold waves and even colder reality hit her. 

“Oi! My eyes are up here, mate!”

Every INCH of the Doctor was frozen, except for his eyes, which twitched between John’s face and… well. “No, no, I wasn’t- I just-….. where are your… CLOTHES… exactly?”

“Sorry, no, don’t answer that. Just- just… put them on.”

“I’m just heading to the shower, mate.”

What did the Doctor expect? For him to walk through the TARDIS halls naked on his way to the shower? Of course he wasn’t going to do that! Hence why he had some underwear on right now.

‘ y’know. ‘ she called, ‘ it’s considered rude to park a police box in the middle of a street. could cause an accident, even. ‘

           ‘ i swear to god i’m going to PUNCH you in the face. ‘