Drabble Fic: A-peel-ing (1/1)
“Doctor?” Rose gasps.
He rushes to his beloved ship, now lying haphazardly on its back.
“I don’t know Rose. She shouldn’t of…” He begins checking for any damage.
“Could’ve been the Daleks,” Roof? Fine.
“A power surge of some sort.” Door? Fine.
“Could be she’s just getting old.” He’s moving so frantically that, upon reaching the bottom of the Tardis, he trips and almost joins her in her undignified pose on the ground.
“Doctor?”
He looks down at his feet, “Oh!”
“Doctor, what is it?” She moves towards his side.
“It’s ah…nothing,” he replies nervously, before doing an odd backwards kick thing with his foot.
“Doctor?”
“Really, Rose, it’s nothing.” He waves her away.
“It’s not nothing. You just…” She stops dead in her tracks.
He looks at her guiltily.
“How many times?” She leans over, picking up something off the ground. “Have I told you?” He flinches as she waves the procured item in his face. “Not to throw your banana peels on the ground!”