A Chibi Halloween
Title: A Chibi Halloween
Authors:
aibhinnand
souleswanderer.
Characters: Ten, Rose, and assorted foot-high plushie dolls.
Warnings: Diabetics, beware. You may want to have extra insulin on hand.
Spoilers: The Tenth Doctor is hyperactive and has a companion called Rose. That's all we spoil. Well, that and your dinner with all the sweets.
Betas: Are you kidding? They all ran screaming.
Rating: S for Sugar high. No, seriously, it's pure G.
Authors' notes:
aibhinnblames this whole thing on
souleswanderer. It's her fault. Really. No, seriously. This is what happens when you watch The Seeker four times just to stare at sexy Mancunians in black leather. And I gladly accept all blame for any and all arm twisting on this :)
It was a cloudless night. The kind of night where the full moon hung suspended amongst a multitude of pinpricks of light, shining like a sun and bathing the land below in a pale glow.
A small group of figures moved along the meandering path between the pumpkin patches, their laughter floating freely through the crisp evening air. Leather soles meeting loose gravel added a dull rhythm to the lively banter as the children neared a particularly large pumpkin sitting beside the road. The tallest stepped forward, his leg swinging in a large arc towards the tempting target.
Screams pierced the air as the top of the pumpkin exploded upwards with a war cry of "MEEEEEEEP!" A leering chibi!Master eagerly watched as a shower of candy rained down around him to the sound of rapidly retreating footsteps.
Grinning his conquering smile, he made short work of retrieving the tiny morsels and dragging the weighted bag towards a large box. Meeping displeasure at the sight of chibi!Carlisle sitting amongst his ill-gotten treasure, he poured the bag's contents into the half-full container, ignoring the outburst from chibi!Carlisle, who found himself scrambling to stay atop the growing pile of sweets.
Admiring the mountain of goodies, chibi!Master began to turn, only then seeing a hand reaching for one of the giant Tootsie Rolls. The mini laser screwdriver hummed and chibi!Carlisle meeped in pain as he pulled his stinging hand back from the brown and white wrapper, shooting a hurt expression towards the back of chibi!Master now dragging the desired sweet behind him as he headed once more towards the road.
Chibi!Carlisle turned pleading eyes on Rose, who shrugged. "You know better than to get between him and the Tootsie Rolls," she told him. Chibi!Carlisle meeped grumpily and slumped against the edge of the box, where he unwrapped a lolly and began licking it, well on his way to a full-on sulk.
Rose shook her head and went on after chibi!Master, picking him up by the scruff of his neck. He meeped in displeasure, brandishing his mini laser screwdriver menacingly. "Oh, leave off," she snapped. "You know that won't hurt me. And stop scaring the children. This is not a chance for you to indulge your sadistic little desires; this is meant to be a fun night for them."
At great length and with considerable dignity for one dangling by the scruff of his neck, chibi!Master let it be known that he had a right to some fun as well.
"Not by frightening the children out of a year's growth and scarring them for life besides," she said firmly. "Now stop it, or we'll give your candy away to the others."
Defeated, chibi!Master sighed and put his laser screwdriver away. She put him down again. "Why don't you go find chibi!Nine and help him with the pumpkin carving?" she suggested. "It might be a chance to show off your what your laser screwdriver can do."
Mollified by the chance to prove that his laser screwdriver was better than anything sonic, chibi!Master scuttled off into the night towards the TARDIS. Rose sighed, watching him go-it was like having a pack of children around, it really was-and resumed her search for the perfect human-sized pumpkin for her and her Doctor to carve. "Why don't we have fun stuff like this back home at Halloween?" she wondered aloud. They'd landed in a pumpkin patch that had been opened for Halloween fun, and consequently, there were children everywhere in various costumes. Some better than others, she mused as a child walked past in a sheet clearly meant to look like a ghost, but unfortunately, he'd cut a few too many eye-holes. A lot too many, in fact; he looked more like a Swiss cheese than a ghost. He trudged along with his head down, clearly dejected, dragging a blue blanket and followed by a white beagle. Rose felt sorry for him.
She was distracted by a familiar form ahead of her: chibi!Ten, holding pumpkin vines apart and peering through them as though he were watching something he shouldn't. "What are you doing?" she asked.
He jumped, emitting a squeak of surprise, and turned round. His face blushed bright red when he saw her, and he dropped his gaze, raising a hand to rub at the back of his neck and meeping quietly in explanation.
"You're watching what?" she exclaimed. Stepping over the tangle of vines into the next row over, she put her hands on her hips and glared. "All right. What do the two of you think you're doing?"
Chibi!Rose wrapped her cloak around herself-she was dressed as Hermione from Harry Potter-and denied all wrongdoing.
"Nice try," Rose said. "Jack, quit hiding behind her."
Chibi!Jack popped his head out from behind chibi!Rose and meeped indignantly.
"All right, you weren't hiding, you were keeping warm," Rose said, rolling her eyes. "Come on out, anyway. What are you doing back there?"
Chibi!Jack waggled his eyebrows and stepped into the moonlight. Rose's eyes widened.
"Oh, no," she said. "No, no, no. You are not wandering around like that! There are children about! Rose, give him your cloak."
Chibi!Jack meeped some more, still indignantly.
"Not buying it," Rose told him. "I don't care if you're going as Adam from the Book of Genesis, you are not wandering around with only a pumpkin leaf tied in front of you, and that's final."
The Doctor was finding it hard to stifle a giggle at chibi!Jack's outburst, until Rose turned and gave him the same glare that warranted no arguments. He gulped, smiling sheepishly, as she stepped past him and whispered suggestively, "Maybe you want to rethink your costume?"
"But Rose, I already have a perfectly good costume-"
Looking down at chibi!Jack, then back at Rose, his eyes widened and a devilish grin began to form. "Just you wait, Ms. Tyler!" he called after the retreating blonde.
***
Chibi!Nine leaned back to examine his creation. Still not satisfied, he hunkered down over the pumpkin and once more the sonic screwdriver's light added a blue glow to the small area. He swatted absentmindedly at the tickling sensation on the end of his ear, then reached back to scratch at the annoying itch, still doggedly working on the carving. Finally he could take it no longer. Shaking his head, he swung around and then meeped angrily at chibi!Master who was waving a feather and gloating in silent laughter. Chibi!Nine shrugged deeper into his leather jacket and pointedly turned, ignoring his tormentor.
Chibi!Master exhaled dramatically to show just how bored he was, and leaned over chibi!Nine until he was breathing warm air on the other's cheek, watching as the design on the pumpkin took shape. A jousting scene, complete with striped tents lining the field, small banners flying, and two figures on horseback racing towards each other with lances held steady. The intricate details were amazing.
Chibi!Master scoffed and turned away as if he could no longer be bothered, then hesitated before turning back with a questioning meep. Chibi!Nine nodded towards a nearby pumpkin and promptly resumed his task, uninterested in whatever scheme chibi!Master was concocting now.
***
"Oh, what have we here?" the Doctor asked, interested.
Chibi!Carlisle looked up into the Doctor's face and gave him a knowing look, then scrunched his face into a hideous grimace as the Doctor's wet thumb wiped a smudge from his cheek. He meeped furiously, wiping his sleeve across the spot as if to wash away any traces, as the Doctor licked his thumb again. "Mmmmm, cherry. Wh-a-at?" Ten looked slightly taken back at the sudden tantrum.
"You had a-" he pointed at his own cheek with his finger waggling up and down. "I was only trying to be helpful. It wasn't that bad." Chibi!Carlisle refused to be placated and began hurling sweets at the hapless Doctor. "Fine!" the Doctor huffed. "I'm going, I'm going. And I'm not a git!"
"Now what are you on about?" Rose asked, coming up beside the Doctor. Chibi!Carlisle pointed accusingly at the Doctor and Rose fought to keep a straight face, opting instead to pick up the small figure and plant a kiss on his cheek. "All better now?"
Chibi!Carlisle nodded, then leaned in closer to Rose and meeped quietly. Rose grinned. "No," she assured him. "I promise he won't lick that off."
"Oi!" the Doctor protested.
"Well, would you want someone to lick one of my kisses off you?"
"Of course not, but that's not the point. I didn't lick anything off him!"
Chibi!Carlisle meeped furiously, pointing the Doctor and then to his cheek, and licked his own thumb in illustration.
"That's not the point," the Doctor said stolidly. "The point is-well, okay, maybe it was the point, but still-hello! What's this?"
His attention had been diverted by chibi!Rose and chibi!Ten. Chibi!Rose was dragging a bag of large marshmallows, and chibi!Ten a package of Hershey's chocolate bars. They were followed by chibi!Giac, who was shoving hard at a box of-
"What's that?" Rose asked, reaching down to pick up the box. "Graham crackers? What are those?"
The Doctor's jaw dropped for a moment, then his face lit up in a grin. "Oh, that's brilliant!" he told the chibis, who beamed back at him. "Simply brilliant!" He looked at Rose. "They've brought us the ingredients to make s'mores!"
"Some more what?" Rose asked, still looking at the graham crackers.
"No, not 'some more,'" he corrected. "S'mores. It's an American treat, commonly made whilst camping. You heat a marshmallow on a stick over a fire until it's hot and sticky, and then you put half a bar of Hershey's chocolate between a pair of graham crackers and slide the marshmallow onto it. The hot marshmallow melts the chocolate, and you eat it like a sandwich." He smacked his lips. "Delightful stuff. Not much room here for a campfire, but the sonic screwdriver could-"
He was interrupted by a great bang! and flash from the opposite side of the TARDIS, where chibi!Nine had been peacefully carving pumpkins. A howl of anger split the air, and a moment later chibi!Master came tearing around the TARDIS, followed closely by a furious chibi!Nine. For once chibi!Master didn't seem pleased with his prank; he was running flat-out and looked honestly afraid.
The Doctor swooped down to pick up chibi!Master, while Rose grabbed chibi!Nine. Chibi!Master looked thoroughly disgusted by this turn of events while simultaneously shrinking toward the Doctor's shoulder and away from chibi!Nine, who was shouting meeped imprecations.
"He did what?" Rose asked chibi!Nine. That only set chibi!Nine off again, and he launched into an entire narrative, complete with gestures and sound effects. When he mimed an explosion, Rose turned reproachful eyes on chibi!Master.
"You blew up his pumpkin! That wasn't very nice of you!"
Chibi!Master told his side of the story.
"You did not have to blow it up," Rose said. "Even if you were carving a dragon. I know dragons were meant to have eaten medieval villages or whatever, but none of that really happened! It was pure myth! Besides, you could've made your own village if you'd wanted to blow something up."
Chibi!Master meeped quizzically.
"What do you mean 'what's the point of that'?" Rose demanded. "Honestly, sometimes I think we should just lock you in the TARDIS and not let you have any fun. You always ruin it for everyone."
Chibi!Nine folded his arms in satisfaction, but chibi!Master stared at her, eyes wide. Tears began to form in them. He meeped quietly.
"Oh, now," the Doctor said. "Did you hear that, Rose? He said he was sorry!" He turned to chibi!Nine. "He apologised. What do you say?"
A pair of fingers was chibi!Nine's only answer.
"Oi!" the Doctor exclaimed. "That's hardly polite! He did apologise, after all."
Chibi!Nine meeped fiercely and turned away from chibi!Master, folding his arms again and glowering. Rose sighed.
"I don't think we're going to fix this any time soon," she said. "But we can have the-s'mores, did you call them?-that would be fun." She looked at chibi!Master. "And you can use your laser screwdriver to melt the marshmallows. That all right?"
He meeped happily, causing chibi!Nine to grumph! in Rose's arms.
"And you can stay with me," Rose told chibi!Nine. "I'll let you protect me from him."
Chibi!Nine didn't change his body language any, but a blush began to crawl up his face. Rose chuckled and kissed his cheek, arranging herself on the ground. "Right then," she said. "Sticks to roast the marshmallows on, I think. You two want to find them?" she asked chibi!Ten and chibi!Giac. They meeped in agreement and disappeared into the TARDIS as Rose began to open the packages of chocolate, marshmallows, and graham crackers.
"And you," the Doctor said to chibi!Master as he sat down beside Rose, "can only use that laser screwdriver if you promise to keep it on flicker, not flamethrower."
Chibi!Master sighed and meeped dejectedly, but nodded.
The Doctor grinned and reached out to clasp Rose's hand. "Happy Halloween, Rose," he said.
"Happy Halloween, Doctor," she said, grinning back. "Now where did chibi!Rose and chibi!Ten get off to?"
"I don't want to know," he said firmly.
Authors:
aibhinnand
souleswanderer.
Characters: Ten, Rose, and assorted foot-high plushie dolls.
Warnings: Diabetics, beware. You may want to have extra insulin on hand.
Spoilers: The Tenth Doctor is hyperactive and has a companion called Rose. That's all we spoil. Well, that and your dinner with all the sweets.
Betas: Are you kidding? They all ran screaming.
Rating: S for Sugar high. No, seriously, it's pure G.
Authors' notes:
aibhinnblames this whole thing on
souleswanderer. It's her fault. Really. No, seriously. This is what happens when you watch The Seeker four times just to stare at sexy Mancunians in black leather. And I gladly accept all blame for any and all arm twisting on this :)
It was a cloudless night. The kind of night where the full moon hung suspended amongst a multitude of pinpricks of light, shining like a sun and bathing the land below in a pale glow.
A small group of figures moved along the meandering path between the pumpkin patches, their laughter floating freely through the crisp evening air. Leather soles meeting loose gravel added a dull rhythm to the lively banter as the children neared a particularly large pumpkin sitting beside the road. The tallest stepped forward, his leg swinging in a large arc towards the tempting target.
Screams pierced the air as the top of the pumpkin exploded upwards with a war cry of "MEEEEEEEP!" A leering chibi!Master eagerly watched as a shower of candy rained down around him to the sound of rapidly retreating footsteps.
Grinning his conquering smile, he made short work of retrieving the tiny morsels and dragging the weighted bag towards a large box. Meeping displeasure at the sight of chibi!Carlisle sitting amongst his ill-gotten treasure, he poured the bag's contents into the half-full container, ignoring the outburst from chibi!Carlisle, who found himself scrambling to stay atop the growing pile of sweets.
Admiring the mountain of goodies, chibi!Master began to turn, only then seeing a hand reaching for one of the giant Tootsie Rolls. The mini laser screwdriver hummed and chibi!Carlisle meeped in pain as he pulled his stinging hand back from the brown and white wrapper, shooting a hurt expression towards the back of chibi!Master now dragging the desired sweet behind him as he headed once more towards the road.
Chibi!Carlisle turned pleading eyes on Rose, who shrugged. "You know better than to get between him and the Tootsie Rolls," she told him. Chibi!Carlisle meeped grumpily and slumped against the edge of the box, where he unwrapped a lolly and began licking it, well on his way to a full-on sulk.
Rose shook her head and went on after chibi!Master, picking him up by the scruff of his neck. He meeped in displeasure, brandishing his mini laser screwdriver menacingly. "Oh, leave off," she snapped. "You know that won't hurt me. And stop scaring the children. This is not a chance for you to indulge your sadistic little desires; this is meant to be a fun night for them."
At great length and with considerable dignity for one dangling by the scruff of his neck, chibi!Master let it be known that he had a right to some fun as well.
"Not by frightening the children out of a year's growth and scarring them for life besides," she said firmly. "Now stop it, or we'll give your candy away to the others."
Defeated, chibi!Master sighed and put his laser screwdriver away. She put him down again. "Why don't you go find chibi!Nine and help him with the pumpkin carving?" she suggested. "It might be a chance to show off your what your laser screwdriver can do."
Mollified by the chance to prove that his laser screwdriver was better than anything sonic, chibi!Master scuttled off into the night towards the TARDIS. Rose sighed, watching him go-it was like having a pack of children around, it really was-and resumed her search for the perfect human-sized pumpkin for her and her Doctor to carve. "Why don't we have fun stuff like this back home at Halloween?" she wondered aloud. They'd landed in a pumpkin patch that had been opened for Halloween fun, and consequently, there were children everywhere in various costumes. Some better than others, she mused as a child walked past in a sheet clearly meant to look like a ghost, but unfortunately, he'd cut a few too many eye-holes. A lot too many, in fact; he looked more like a Swiss cheese than a ghost. He trudged along with his head down, clearly dejected, dragging a blue blanket and followed by a white beagle. Rose felt sorry for him.
She was distracted by a familiar form ahead of her: chibi!Ten, holding pumpkin vines apart and peering through them as though he were watching something he shouldn't. "What are you doing?" she asked.
He jumped, emitting a squeak of surprise, and turned round. His face blushed bright red when he saw her, and he dropped his gaze, raising a hand to rub at the back of his neck and meeping quietly in explanation.
"You're watching what?" she exclaimed. Stepping over the tangle of vines into the next row over, she put her hands on her hips and glared. "All right. What do the two of you think you're doing?"
Chibi!Rose wrapped her cloak around herself-she was dressed as Hermione from Harry Potter-and denied all wrongdoing.
"Nice try," Rose said. "Jack, quit hiding behind her."
Chibi!Jack popped his head out from behind chibi!Rose and meeped indignantly.
"All right, you weren't hiding, you were keeping warm," Rose said, rolling her eyes. "Come on out, anyway. What are you doing back there?"
Chibi!Jack waggled his eyebrows and stepped into the moonlight. Rose's eyes widened.
"Oh, no," she said. "No, no, no. You are not wandering around like that! There are children about! Rose, give him your cloak."
Chibi!Jack meeped some more, still indignantly.
"Not buying it," Rose told him. "I don't care if you're going as Adam from the Book of Genesis, you are not wandering around with only a pumpkin leaf tied in front of you, and that's final."
The Doctor was finding it hard to stifle a giggle at chibi!Jack's outburst, until Rose turned and gave him the same glare that warranted no arguments. He gulped, smiling sheepishly, as she stepped past him and whispered suggestively, "Maybe you want to rethink your costume?"
"But Rose, I already have a perfectly good costume-"
Looking down at chibi!Jack, then back at Rose, his eyes widened and a devilish grin began to form. "Just you wait, Ms. Tyler!" he called after the retreating blonde.
***
Chibi!Nine leaned back to examine his creation. Still not satisfied, he hunkered down over the pumpkin and once more the sonic screwdriver's light added a blue glow to the small area. He swatted absentmindedly at the tickling sensation on the end of his ear, then reached back to scratch at the annoying itch, still doggedly working on the carving. Finally he could take it no longer. Shaking his head, he swung around and then meeped angrily at chibi!Master who was waving a feather and gloating in silent laughter. Chibi!Nine shrugged deeper into his leather jacket and pointedly turned, ignoring his tormentor.
Chibi!Master exhaled dramatically to show just how bored he was, and leaned over chibi!Nine until he was breathing warm air on the other's cheek, watching as the design on the pumpkin took shape. A jousting scene, complete with striped tents lining the field, small banners flying, and two figures on horseback racing towards each other with lances held steady. The intricate details were amazing.
Chibi!Master scoffed and turned away as if he could no longer be bothered, then hesitated before turning back with a questioning meep. Chibi!Nine nodded towards a nearby pumpkin and promptly resumed his task, uninterested in whatever scheme chibi!Master was concocting now.
***
"Oh, what have we here?" the Doctor asked, interested.
Chibi!Carlisle looked up into the Doctor's face and gave him a knowing look, then scrunched his face into a hideous grimace as the Doctor's wet thumb wiped a smudge from his cheek. He meeped furiously, wiping his sleeve across the spot as if to wash away any traces, as the Doctor licked his thumb again. "Mmmmm, cherry. Wh-a-at?" Ten looked slightly taken back at the sudden tantrum.
"You had a-" he pointed at his own cheek with his finger waggling up and down. "I was only trying to be helpful. It wasn't that bad." Chibi!Carlisle refused to be placated and began hurling sweets at the hapless Doctor. "Fine!" the Doctor huffed. "I'm going, I'm going. And I'm not a git!"
"Now what are you on about?" Rose asked, coming up beside the Doctor. Chibi!Carlisle pointed accusingly at the Doctor and Rose fought to keep a straight face, opting instead to pick up the small figure and plant a kiss on his cheek. "All better now?"
Chibi!Carlisle nodded, then leaned in closer to Rose and meeped quietly. Rose grinned. "No," she assured him. "I promise he won't lick that off."
"Oi!" the Doctor protested.
"Well, would you want someone to lick one of my kisses off you?"
"Of course not, but that's not the point. I didn't lick anything off him!"
Chibi!Carlisle meeped furiously, pointing the Doctor and then to his cheek, and licked his own thumb in illustration.
"That's not the point," the Doctor said stolidly. "The point is-well, okay, maybe it was the point, but still-hello! What's this?"
His attention had been diverted by chibi!Rose and chibi!Ten. Chibi!Rose was dragging a bag of large marshmallows, and chibi!Ten a package of Hershey's chocolate bars. They were followed by chibi!Giac, who was shoving hard at a box of-
"What's that?" Rose asked, reaching down to pick up the box. "Graham crackers? What are those?"
The Doctor's jaw dropped for a moment, then his face lit up in a grin. "Oh, that's brilliant!" he told the chibis, who beamed back at him. "Simply brilliant!" He looked at Rose. "They've brought us the ingredients to make s'mores!"
"Some more what?" Rose asked, still looking at the graham crackers.
"No, not 'some more,'" he corrected. "S'mores. It's an American treat, commonly made whilst camping. You heat a marshmallow on a stick over a fire until it's hot and sticky, and then you put half a bar of Hershey's chocolate between a pair of graham crackers and slide the marshmallow onto it. The hot marshmallow melts the chocolate, and you eat it like a sandwich." He smacked his lips. "Delightful stuff. Not much room here for a campfire, but the sonic screwdriver could-"
He was interrupted by a great bang! and flash from the opposite side of the TARDIS, where chibi!Nine had been peacefully carving pumpkins. A howl of anger split the air, and a moment later chibi!Master came tearing around the TARDIS, followed closely by a furious chibi!Nine. For once chibi!Master didn't seem pleased with his prank; he was running flat-out and looked honestly afraid.
The Doctor swooped down to pick up chibi!Master, while Rose grabbed chibi!Nine. Chibi!Master looked thoroughly disgusted by this turn of events while simultaneously shrinking toward the Doctor's shoulder and away from chibi!Nine, who was shouting meeped imprecations.
"He did what?" Rose asked chibi!Nine. That only set chibi!Nine off again, and he launched into an entire narrative, complete with gestures and sound effects. When he mimed an explosion, Rose turned reproachful eyes on chibi!Master.
"You blew up his pumpkin! That wasn't very nice of you!"
Chibi!Master told his side of the story.
"You did not have to blow it up," Rose said. "Even if you were carving a dragon. I know dragons were meant to have eaten medieval villages or whatever, but none of that really happened! It was pure myth! Besides, you could've made your own village if you'd wanted to blow something up."
Chibi!Master meeped quizzically.
"What do you mean 'what's the point of that'?" Rose demanded. "Honestly, sometimes I think we should just lock you in the TARDIS and not let you have any fun. You always ruin it for everyone."
Chibi!Nine folded his arms in satisfaction, but chibi!Master stared at her, eyes wide. Tears began to form in them. He meeped quietly.
"Oh, now," the Doctor said. "Did you hear that, Rose? He said he was sorry!" He turned to chibi!Nine. "He apologised. What do you say?"
A pair of fingers was chibi!Nine's only answer.
"Oi!" the Doctor exclaimed. "That's hardly polite! He did apologise, after all."
Chibi!Nine meeped fiercely and turned away from chibi!Master, folding his arms again and glowering. Rose sighed.
"I don't think we're going to fix this any time soon," she said. "But we can have the-s'mores, did you call them?-that would be fun." She looked at chibi!Master. "And you can use your laser screwdriver to melt the marshmallows. That all right?"
He meeped happily, causing chibi!Nine to grumph! in Rose's arms.
"And you can stay with me," Rose told chibi!Nine. "I'll let you protect me from him."
Chibi!Nine didn't change his body language any, but a blush began to crawl up his face. Rose chuckled and kissed his cheek, arranging herself on the ground. "Right then," she said. "Sticks to roast the marshmallows on, I think. You two want to find them?" she asked chibi!Ten and chibi!Giac. They meeped in agreement and disappeared into the TARDIS as Rose began to open the packages of chocolate, marshmallows, and graham crackers.
"And you," the Doctor said to chibi!Master as he sat down beside Rose, "can only use that laser screwdriver if you promise to keep it on flicker, not flamethrower."
Chibi!Master sighed and meeped dejectedly, but nodded.
The Doctor grinned and reached out to clasp Rose's hand. "Happy Halloween, Rose," he said.
"Happy Halloween, Doctor," she said, grinning back. "Now where did chibi!Rose and chibi!Ten get off to?"
"I don't want to know," he said firmly.