christmas cheer [ scene, for taptaptaptap ]
With a week of advent deeds beneath his belt, the Doctor has retreated back to the TARDIS for a bit of a breather. Instead of taking up residence in the shiny, tinsel-bedecked control room, he meanders off into one of the ship's many inexplicable side rooms. This one looks rather like a Victorian parlor, something Dickens might have held an intimate reading in. Speaking of Dickens, the Doctor has a copy of The Christmas Carol lying upside down on his lap, where he sits on an overstuffed couch with his feet up on the table. There's a fireplace across, that and a lamp providing all the merrily flickering light in the room.
This room is free of kitschy Christmas spirit, however, the only adornment some pine garland on the mantle with a large bow in the center. The Doctor doesn't look like his holiday-clad alter ego, either, except that he's wearing red shoes with his blue suit. There's a Christmas list off to one side, undoubtedly with peoples' inexplicable wishes, and an almost untouched glass of eggnog on the table, perilously close to being jarred by his foot. For all effects and purposes, head leaned against the back of the couch, the Doctor might well be dozing - or just lost in thought.