Shuffle Play meme
Stolen from bekkypk
The Rules:
1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Turn on your music player and put it on random/shuffle.
3. Write a drabble/ficlet related to each song that plays. You only have the time frame of the song to finish the drabble; you start when the song starts, and stop when it's over.
4. Do ten of these, then post them. (ok so ~ I did one for each Doctor)
1. Dinner for One Please, James by Eartha Kitt (2.59):
The palace hall rang with laughter, Ian and Barbara recounting the story of their adventure to the roars of approval. The Doctor stood at the lead crystal window and watched Susan joining in. He tapped his fingers together in something that looked like irritation. She was growing up, and he could tell, from the glances she gave the rough hewn knights, even the way she looked at young Chesterton, that it would not be long before she left.
He wanted to blame Barbara for filling her head with modern ways. But in his heart he knew that she was just growing up.
He waved the Butler too him and ordered a glass of wine.
2. Deep Arch by Underworld (8.22):
The Doctor hared down the tunnel system, Jamie and Victoria already ahead of him. He glanced back at the rolling mass of glowing goo that pursed them and puffed out his cheeks, eyes wide at the prospect of a sudden drenching as it reared above him.
‘Oh my Giddy Aunt!’ he yelled at it, only to be pushed to one side by Jamie at the last moment.
‘Quickly Doctor, this way’ Victoria called from the stairwell she had discovered. The Doctor picked up his pace and threw himself at the Doorway, Jamie standing firm at his friends back in order to help Victoria pressed the door closed against the blobs might. Goop oozed around the edge of the door, dropping down onto the two young adventures, also splashing the Dr’s suede boots, much to his dismay.
‘Gae on you two,’ Jamie insisted ‘away with yea up the steps.’
‘We can’t leave you Jamie!’ Victoria wailed.
‘Och, I’ve faced worse things than this damned beastie!’ he grinned. She slapped his arm.
‘Language Jamie! There’s a lady present.’
The Doctor took Victoria’s arm and steered her to the stairs.
‘Come along, Victoria’
3. Believe by Elton John (4.47):
Benton found the Doctor led in the middle of the parade ground staring up at the stars.
‘Evening Sir, everything alright?’
‘Hello Benton, I was just thinking of Jo.’
‘Oh I See sir. She’ll be ok with the professor won’t she?’
‘Oh I dare say she will. I had rather gotten used to having her around.’
‘Is that why your led out here, sir?’
‘In a way Sergeant In a way.’ Benton nodded, straightened his jacket and lay next to the time lord. ‘What are you doing?’ The Doctor pondered.
‘Same as you sir, just thinking of Miss Grant.’ Their silence as they watched the night sky spoke volumes about what they were really thinking.
4. Me And My Imagination by Sophie Ellis Bextor (3.23):
The slim Movellan troops spiraled around the ruins, laser blasts firing in a sparkling disco of reds, yellows and blues. The Doctor stormed through the middle of the chaos, raising his hat to the opposing forces amongst the carnage. Somehow nothing managed to hit him, despite the trailing scarf and general disregard for live weapons fire going on around him. Romana scowled at him as he released her from the manacles that had her pinned to the wall.
‘Is there any chance at all you could arrive before the nick of time next time?’
‘And be predictable? Where’s the fun in that?’ he waved at the battle raging around them.
‘How do we get back out?’ he grinned.
5. Elegy (Battlestar Galactica) by Bear McCready (2.54):
The Doctor stood quietly under the night sky outside the window of the mansion. His companions were oblivious to his silent vigil for George Cranleigh.
It encompassed so many other names he had seen flicker past his lives.
He hoped that the vital spark of his best friends, even those asleep inside the house, would stay with him for considerably longer.
Dawn broke around him and he returned to his room as silently as he had stood waiting for it.
6. Love with the Proper Mannequin/Thrush cycle from The Spy with my Face (1.30):
Mel waltzed her way around the ballroom, hair a volcano if curls from her delicate face.
The Doctor, resplendent in his insane coat stopped in the middle of the revelers. And gave a cry of alarm, barreling through them in order to chase after the man with e knife. Mel excused herself, tore off her skirt and hared after him
7. Pie Jesu by Andrew Lloyd Webber (3.56):
The Doctor sat with his back against the ancient church wall. The summer breeze stirred the grass around him and Ace lay with her head in his lap. She was expecting a jazz festival, or may be the proms. But instead, once more the TARDIS had other ideas.
The doctor was determined to have his concert however and had walked her the 6 miles to this tiny village and led her down. A choir and an ancient wheezing organ groaned from within.
For once the world didn’t need saving and she idly toyed with the idea that today, perhaps, it was somebody else’s turn to do all that. She let her eyes close against the summer sun.
Above her The Doctor whispered along in perfect Latin. Of course as a time traveler, he would know the accent. But his Scots burr got utterly in the way.
Ace smiled.
8. White Christmas by Davy Jones with Mikey Dolenz & Peter Tork (2.08)
Charley stared at the present as it popped into her lap. C’rizz stared at Charley.
‘what is this?’
‘A present. You said you missed Christmas’ he nodded innocently in reply. ‘The doctor gave me a book about Christmas when I asked him about it. You give presents...’
‘Yes, I know what Christmas is, but it has a certain ambience that’s rather missing in the middle of a desert, don’t you think?’
‘It does?’ he looked pained. But she wouldn’t give him the present back.
9. Video Killed the Radio Star (live) by Robbie Williams (4.02):
The sonic screwdriver whirred and flipped in the air as the Doctor ran from one side of the console to the other. Rose caught it deftly and aimed it squarely at the hodgepodge of technology that was tearing itself free from the wall.
‘What is that thing!’ she yelled. The doctor was a little too busy to reply, dragging Hubert Q Davis renowned voice actor, from his petrified state in front of the mike. There was a blast of crackling air from behind Rose’s shoulder and the creature vanished, a square hole left in the wall instead.
‘You mean what was that thing don’t you?’ Captain Jack grinned.
‘It was a form of life Jack, it better not be dead!’
‘Cool it Doc, I’m way ahead of you’ He grinned and softly reset the sonic gun to deposit the thing outside the sound booth.
10. The Awakening Suite by Peter Howell (3.24):
Martha stole carefully across the open ground, dodging the cameras and patrols to reach the darkened causeway. She could see the troopers eyes were dull and lifeless, the unearthly glow of the parasite surrounding their period uniforms.
The Doctor was halfway up the hill on the other side of the causeway. The French army barely 2 miles over the hill. They had to do something, or Waterloo was going to be lost.
Martha took the initiative. She marched up to the nearest trooper and slapped him hard in the face.
She was glad she was too far away to see The Doctor wince.
Guns raised, Martha surrendered.
11. You Got It by Roy Orbison with the Travelling Wilburys. (3.32):
The Doctor sighed as he read yet another message from River Song. Was he ever going to enjoy museums again?
She was most infuriating, that woman. But he still set the coordinates while Amy and Rory slept.
He was sure she wouldn’t need him for that much that his friends wouldn’t notice he was gone.
He opened the TARDIS doors to find River, suspended by a chain from the edge of a cliff. The pirate types watching her had all turned their muskets towards him.
‘You’re not going to enjoy this bit’ River told them confidently.
The Doctor clapped his hands and pushed his hair from his eyes. ‘Need a hand?’
‘’Oh sweetie, I seem to have chipped a nail’
‘Be right there.’ He straightened his bow tie and set off.
The Rules:
1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Turn on your music player and put it on random/shuffle.
3. Write a drabble/ficlet related to each song that plays. You only have the time frame of the song to finish the drabble; you start when the song starts, and stop when it's over.
4. Do ten of these, then post them. (ok so ~ I did one for each Doctor)
1. Dinner for One Please, James by Eartha Kitt (2.59):
The palace hall rang with laughter, Ian and Barbara recounting the story of their adventure to the roars of approval. The Doctor stood at the lead crystal window and watched Susan joining in. He tapped his fingers together in something that looked like irritation. She was growing up, and he could tell, from the glances she gave the rough hewn knights, even the way she looked at young Chesterton, that it would not be long before she left.
He wanted to blame Barbara for filling her head with modern ways. But in his heart he knew that she was just growing up.
He waved the Butler too him and ordered a glass of wine.
2. Deep Arch by Underworld (8.22):
The Doctor hared down the tunnel system, Jamie and Victoria already ahead of him. He glanced back at the rolling mass of glowing goo that pursed them and puffed out his cheeks, eyes wide at the prospect of a sudden drenching as it reared above him.
‘Oh my Giddy Aunt!’ he yelled at it, only to be pushed to one side by Jamie at the last moment.
‘Quickly Doctor, this way’ Victoria called from the stairwell she had discovered. The Doctor picked up his pace and threw himself at the Doorway, Jamie standing firm at his friends back in order to help Victoria pressed the door closed against the blobs might. Goop oozed around the edge of the door, dropping down onto the two young adventures, also splashing the Dr’s suede boots, much to his dismay.
‘Gae on you two,’ Jamie insisted ‘away with yea up the steps.’
‘We can’t leave you Jamie!’ Victoria wailed.
‘Och, I’ve faced worse things than this damned beastie!’ he grinned. She slapped his arm.
‘Language Jamie! There’s a lady present.’
The Doctor took Victoria’s arm and steered her to the stairs.
‘Come along, Victoria’
3. Believe by Elton John (4.47):
Benton found the Doctor led in the middle of the parade ground staring up at the stars.
‘Evening Sir, everything alright?’
‘Hello Benton, I was just thinking of Jo.’
‘Oh I See sir. She’ll be ok with the professor won’t she?’
‘Oh I dare say she will. I had rather gotten used to having her around.’
‘Is that why your led out here, sir?’
‘In a way Sergeant In a way.’ Benton nodded, straightened his jacket and lay next to the time lord. ‘What are you doing?’ The Doctor pondered.
‘Same as you sir, just thinking of Miss Grant.’ Their silence as they watched the night sky spoke volumes about what they were really thinking.
4. Me And My Imagination by Sophie Ellis Bextor (3.23):
The slim Movellan troops spiraled around the ruins, laser blasts firing in a sparkling disco of reds, yellows and blues. The Doctor stormed through the middle of the chaos, raising his hat to the opposing forces amongst the carnage. Somehow nothing managed to hit him, despite the trailing scarf and general disregard for live weapons fire going on around him. Romana scowled at him as he released her from the manacles that had her pinned to the wall.
‘Is there any chance at all you could arrive before the nick of time next time?’
‘And be predictable? Where’s the fun in that?’ he waved at the battle raging around them.
‘How do we get back out?’ he grinned.
5. Elegy (Battlestar Galactica) by Bear McCready (2.54):
The Doctor stood quietly under the night sky outside the window of the mansion. His companions were oblivious to his silent vigil for George Cranleigh.
It encompassed so many other names he had seen flicker past his lives.
He hoped that the vital spark of his best friends, even those asleep inside the house, would stay with him for considerably longer.
Dawn broke around him and he returned to his room as silently as he had stood waiting for it.
6. Love with the Proper Mannequin/Thrush cycle from The Spy with my Face (1.30):
Mel waltzed her way around the ballroom, hair a volcano if curls from her delicate face.
The Doctor, resplendent in his insane coat stopped in the middle of the revelers. And gave a cry of alarm, barreling through them in order to chase after the man with e knife. Mel excused herself, tore off her skirt and hared after him
7. Pie Jesu by Andrew Lloyd Webber (3.56):
The Doctor sat with his back against the ancient church wall. The summer breeze stirred the grass around him and Ace lay with her head in his lap. She was expecting a jazz festival, or may be the proms. But instead, once more the TARDIS had other ideas.
The doctor was determined to have his concert however and had walked her the 6 miles to this tiny village and led her down. A choir and an ancient wheezing organ groaned from within.
For once the world didn’t need saving and she idly toyed with the idea that today, perhaps, it was somebody else’s turn to do all that. She let her eyes close against the summer sun.
Above her The Doctor whispered along in perfect Latin. Of course as a time traveler, he would know the accent. But his Scots burr got utterly in the way.
Ace smiled.
8. White Christmas by Davy Jones with Mikey Dolenz & Peter Tork (2.08)
Charley stared at the present as it popped into her lap. C’rizz stared at Charley.
‘what is this?’
‘A present. You said you missed Christmas’ he nodded innocently in reply. ‘The doctor gave me a book about Christmas when I asked him about it. You give presents...’
‘Yes, I know what Christmas is, but it has a certain ambience that’s rather missing in the middle of a desert, don’t you think?’
‘It does?’ he looked pained. But she wouldn’t give him the present back.
9. Video Killed the Radio Star (live) by Robbie Williams (4.02):
The sonic screwdriver whirred and flipped in the air as the Doctor ran from one side of the console to the other. Rose caught it deftly and aimed it squarely at the hodgepodge of technology that was tearing itself free from the wall.
‘What is that thing!’ she yelled. The doctor was a little too busy to reply, dragging Hubert Q Davis renowned voice actor, from his petrified state in front of the mike. There was a blast of crackling air from behind Rose’s shoulder and the creature vanished, a square hole left in the wall instead.
‘You mean what was that thing don’t you?’ Captain Jack grinned.
‘It was a form of life Jack, it better not be dead!’
‘Cool it Doc, I’m way ahead of you’ He grinned and softly reset the sonic gun to deposit the thing outside the sound booth.
10. The Awakening Suite by Peter Howell (3.24):
Martha stole carefully across the open ground, dodging the cameras and patrols to reach the darkened causeway. She could see the troopers eyes were dull and lifeless, the unearthly glow of the parasite surrounding their period uniforms.
The Doctor was halfway up the hill on the other side of the causeway. The French army barely 2 miles over the hill. They had to do something, or Waterloo was going to be lost.
Martha took the initiative. She marched up to the nearest trooper and slapped him hard in the face.
She was glad she was too far away to see The Doctor wince.
Guns raised, Martha surrendered.
11. You Got It by Roy Orbison with the Travelling Wilburys. (3.32):
The Doctor sighed as he read yet another message from River Song. Was he ever going to enjoy museums again?
She was most infuriating, that woman. But he still set the coordinates while Amy and Rory slept.
He was sure she wouldn’t need him for that much that his friends wouldn’t notice he was gone.
He opened the TARDIS doors to find River, suspended by a chain from the edge of a cliff. The pirate types watching her had all turned their muskets towards him.
‘You’re not going to enjoy this bit’ River told them confidently.
The Doctor clapped his hands and pushed his hair from his eyes. ‘Need a hand?’
‘’Oh sweetie, I seem to have chipped a nail’
‘Be right there.’ He straightened his bow tie and set off.