It's Christmas morning, and Martha rises early, as is her habit, wrapping herself in her robe and making a cup of tea. She curls up in an armchair in her living room and watches fat white flakes of snow drift down outside her window, and she can't help but smile. They don't get white Christmases often - not real snow, anyway. She wonders if she ( Read more... )

"I like to walk for a change. Makes me feel normal."
| JumperThe Doctor and Martha have started walking together after work, just aimlessly meandering around the neighbourhood. He uses the excuse that he needs to stretch his legs after a long day of sitting at his desk, but Martha knows that he really wants to people-watch. They always end up on a ( Read more... )

((To avoid confusion, I should probably point out that this piece is about Martha and Handy. Too many Doctors!))Martha sits on a stool at the kitchen counter, watching the Doctor regale her mum with a tale of a particularly bizarre adventure at UNIT that had involved rapidly multiplying furballs. He waves his arms wildly as he gestures, and Martha ( Read more... )

“Pub, ah yes. A meeting place where people attempt to achieve advanced states of mental incompetence by the repeated consumption of fermented vegetable drinks.”
| Red Dwarf

The other Doctor wants to learn how to be more human, and Martha's promised to teach him, though she's not sure how one goes about teaching someone to be human. To her, it's ( Read more... )

Martha put the last of the petri dishes she'd been swabbing in the incubator, then initialed the sheets for each dish. Alien bacterial cultures were so boring, but it was certainly better than the autopsies she'd been doing last week ( Read more... )