TARDIS Spring Cleaning (after Darksoul possession/Jamie-talk)
Several days after being possessed and the Doctor’s convinced he needs to do some spring cleaning. Or at least some kind of cleaning. Probably should have done it awhile ago, come to think of it, but things kept coming up. Things do that, so he doesn’t blame them. So, spring cleaning. Needs doing, established that, good as a distraction except….
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He decided to fly over to inspect the TARDIS to see if it wasn't a trap that she'd be walking right into. When he gave his approval, Hoshi nodded to him and the smile didn't falter.
"I've got plenty of time to help you out. What do you need?" she asked, trying to get an idea of just what the TARDIS was like from sight alone.
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"Boxes that need sorting. Might have to toss some things -- Ah! Here we are!"
With a final heave, the Doctor struggled and grunted and pulled that trunk over the TARDIS's threshold. The only real way to describe the trunk was obnoxious. Awful, awful carpet trim, what might have been golden wheels once upon a time, and a little chain swinging off the side. The chain itself was studded with an equally obnoxious ruby. All in all, it was obnoxious and that was the end of that. A by-product of his younger days, he supposed. The Doctor nudged the trunk with his foot.
"Just this for now, I think. Probably take good part of an hour." He glanced over at Seraphiel flying about, making sure he didn't buzz into the TARDIS and set off anything. "Want to do the honors?"
The trunk wouldn't bite Hoshi. He promised.
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While the design of the trunk was certainly... well, unique, she nodded and smiled. "Sure, I would. What should be kept and what should be thrown away?" she asked, wanting to do this job the right way with no errors in it.
Seraphiel decided to sit on one of the railings in the hangar and observed the work that they were doing silently. Hoshi trusted the Doctor and he supposed that he trusted him as well.
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The Doctor didn't make a move to open it for Hoshi, trusting her to be able to manage a low-level security trunk, awful carpet and ruby chain and all. He did, however, lean over her shoulder to watch, his hands clasped behind his back. It was just close enough to possibly be either unnerving or irritating or a mixture of both.
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While hovering over her shoulder was a tad weird, she wasn't exactly too put off by it. She thought that it was just to make sure everything worked out with this weird trunk and the contents inside.
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" -- Jam? Well, it's probably still edible," the Doctor said at length. He didn't sound entirely sure, though. The seal wasn't broken but this stuff was old. As in older than Earth old, seal or no seal. No telling if the Ohm had reached that asteroid belt or not. Definitely didn't get this trunk in this regeneration, he can tell Hoshi that. "Might as well sort it. I could use the jars for something, I imagine. Unless you want them."
The Doctor finally stepped back, letting Hoshi work her way through the frankly quite cute bottles of jam.
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"Jam! It could probably go on bread if we have it around here or on top of something," she replied while she took each jar of jam carefully in her hands, pulling them out just so and organizing them by flavor. She had to admit; the bottles of jam were definitely adorable.
"I could take a few of them off of your hands, if you would like me to," she said after a moment of organization. "Though, do they have an expiration date on them?"
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As for expiration dates...
"Might have them under the bottom. I doubt they'd mean anything to you, though. There's no Earth equivalent. As for taking them, be my guest. I would have just tossed them probably."
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"I see. So, if they were expired, the only way I would be able to know is if I taste test it and hope that my stomach doesn't lurch?"
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That said, the Doctor turned back toward the awful, ghastly and now half empty trunk, pulling it toward him. He rapped on it with his knuckles, then listened to it. Strange, seemed like there was another compartment in there they had missed. The Doctor nudged the trunk toward Hoshi with a "here, keep going" as he ducked into the TARDIS. When he came back out, he was dragging a cord of some kind, already impossibly long.
"Look for a socket," the Doctor said, "Think we missed something."
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Hoshi then shifted her attention to the trunk that was still in front of her while she nodded. She changed her position while inspecting the trunk to find the socket required.
"I think I found it. What now?" she asked while popping her head up out of the trunk so that her attention was now on the Doctor himself.
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The Doctor crouched down next to her, examining the plug, then the end of the cord. Good, he didn't get the wrong one -- he hated it when he did that, and didn't a human do a study on the science between things randomly getting knotted together? That specific human didn't know it, but that study was a key contribution to the rest of the civilized galaxy. The Doctor worked on untangling the kinks in the cord, skinny hands working in a blur.
"Plug it in there, and...okay. Press the lock button again. Actually, you might want to step back, cover your eyes or do both."
The Doctor was already pulling on a pair of goggles with a snap of elastic.
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She watched the Doctor work, making sure to take some notes here and there should she do this again. She didn't want to make it seem like she was just sitting there, so she helped him untangle the cord, her own hands working fast with it.
Then, she quickly nodded and plugged in the cord before pressing the lock button. As quickly as she did it, she brought her arm up and shielded her eyes while taking a few steps back. This was fairly exciting, but it also seemed to be rather dangerous in of itself.
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The Doctor stuck his finger in his ear. "Whoa! Didn't expect that!" he said, as encouraging as always. He poked at his ears until they stopped ringing from the thunderclap in their faces. "Obvious secret compartment, I think. Made to be obvious. Let's see what's in here..."
Fishing about in the obvious secret compartment, he comes up with...an old bundle of papers. They're written in in a twisting language with sharp strokes. The Doctor blinks at it and then at Hoshi.
"How's the ears? Sorry, didn't think it'd do that."
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"It's okay," she said, once she registered that he was, in fact, talking to her. She rubbed her ears a bit more and smiled once the ringing stopped. "They're fine now. What's on the papers?'
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The Doctor seemed to have forgotten about sorting for now, bounding to his feet and rushing into the TARDIS with those papers, the doors swinging open behind him. He may have left Hoshi with the obvious panel still open on that trunk.
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