A/N: These are a series of one-shots and stories that tie in with my Something Old, Something New series. Just further adventures of the Doctor and Alan and their family that mainly take place between the time Dex is in the asylum and Alan's first birthday. This first story has a scene in it that has to do with Patrick Troughton being in the original Omen movie. He played a priest named Father Brennan who died in the movie after being impaled by a lightning rod.
The Beginning of a Journey (Something Old, Something New) series is nominated in the WIP category over on the Children of Time Awards website. You can go there and vote for it starting May 8th, 2009
Chapter One
It was a quiet day on the TARDIS. The Doctor was working underneath the console while Blizzard napped on the jump seat. The rest of his family had rented DVD's at a London video store and they were in the living room having a movie marathon. They had been disappointed when he didn't join them but he promised to after making a few crucial repairs to the circuitry.
While he worked, he suddenly felt a wave of happiness in his mind from all of them and he smiled, happy that they were having a good time.
While he worked, he noticed someone walking up. Blizzard jumped off the jump seat and he smiled when his wife bent down to pet her briefly before walking over to him and getting down on her knees to look at him. Blizzard came up and she stroked his fur while she gave him a sympathetic look.
"Is something the matter? You look out of sorts," the Doctor said.
"My poor Thete," she said rubbing his leg.
The Doctor was perplexed.
"Poor me? What d'ya mean by that?" he said.
"I'm so upset because I just found out what happened to you in your second life," she said.
"Why? What happened to me in my second life?"
"You regenerated."
"Yeah and it's happened a number of times since then, what's your point?"
"Well, it must have been very painful."
"Not really, it was relatively quick and painless actually."
"Really? A lightning rod through the body is quick and painless?"
He gave her an odd look.
"I didn't get a lightning rod through the body. I've never gotten a lightning rod through the body."
"You sure?"
"Well yeah, I'm fairly sure since it's my body."
"You sure you didn't get impaled by a lightning rod during your second life?"
"Uh, no, the Time Lords forced me to regenerate before I was sentenced to exile on Earth," he said.
"So they made you stand outside a church and the Time Lords stood on top of a steeple and hurled a lightning rod down into your body and you regenerated then?"
"No! Latara, where the hell are you coming up with this whole impaled by a lighting rod rubbish?"
She giggled and held out her hand to him.
"Come with me, my love, I wanna show you something," she said.
The Doctor scooted out from under the console and took her hand. They stood up and Blizzard followed them while she led him to the living room.
The moment they entered the rest of his family broke out in giggles.
"Brother, I'm so sorry everyone here had to watch a replay of your death by lightning rod," he said.
The Doctor's mouth fell open.
"What is with the death by lightning rod bit?" he said.
They made room for him when Rain led him over to the couch.
"You've heard of the original Omen movie with Gregory Peck, right?" Rain said to him.
The Doctor nodded.
"Well, we know you've never seen it, courtesy of Alan, but it's odd since you appeared in the movie. I guess you don't like to watch yourself onscreen?" Rain said.
The Doctor stared at her.
"What are you talking about? I wasn't in The Omen," he said.
"Oh, yes you weeeeeeeere," Donna said softly.
"Oh, no I waaaaaaaaaasn't, Noble. I've never been in any movie, ever."
"Bro, cue up the scene for our shy, modest little actor, will ya?" Awinita said.
"With pleasure," Alan said.
The Doctor listened to everyone's soft laughter.
"Okay, what the hell is going on here?" he asked them.
"Just…watch, dear," Rain said.
The Doctor waited until Alan found the correct scene on the DVD and then he moved away. The Doctor's eyes widened and everyone laughed when he saw a man that resembled his second life dressed in priest's clothes.
"See," Awinita said, pointing to the screen. "There you are!"
"Oh, ha ha, that's rich, that is," he said while they roared with laughter.
He watched while the priest ran terrified through a lightning storm.
"Look, the oncoming storm is scaring The Oncoming Storm," Mingxia said.
The Doctor eyed her when they all laughed. He watched while the priest ran towards a church while the storm grew in strength. The priest pounded on the door of the church trying to get inside. He stepped back looking up at the steeple and suddenly a bolt of lightning struck the lightning rod on top of it. There was a close up of the priest's face while he was screaming and the Doctor winced when the lightning rod went diagonally into his body and into the ground behind him, impaling him in an upright position. Alan paused the movie.
"So," Donna said to the Doctor. "How'd you manage to regenerate when there was a bloody great rod through your body?"
"Shut up, Donna," he said when they laughed.
"Well, that was you, Love. I've seen memories of your second life and that's you."
"It is not, that is not me in my second life. Man looks nothing like me."
"Just like Barty Crouch Jr. in the Harry Potter movie didn't look like ya?" Rose said.
The Doctor stared at her for a moment while Alan snickered and mentally went back over the Harry Potter movies he'd seen trying to remember Barty Crouch Jr.
"Goblet of Fire, Brother, if that's what you're trying to remember. He was in the trial scene? The one that Mad Eyed Moody used his wand on while he was running away? The tongue flicking chap. Rose claims he looks like us."
"He does not!" the Doctor said when they laughed harder. "He doesn't look like me and that priest doesn't look like me in my second life."
"Actually," Donna said. "You really wanna know who looks like the Doctor in his second life? It's Moe from the Three Stooges."
The Doctor glared at her while everyone else except Jenny roared with laughter.
"Three Stooges?" Jenny said.
Alan put a hand on her shoulder.
"Old comedy team from the 1930's and 40's, Jen. Apparently the Doctor became one of them for awhile."
"Shut your gob, Brother!" the Doctor said.
"Well, you know, there was that one Nicholas Cage movie we saw on cable the other day. Gone in Sixty Seconds? That evil German bloke looked like his ninth life," Rose said.
"Yeah, he did, didn't he? And I think you were in 28 Days Later too, Brother. You must have had quite a film career before you met all of us."
"Well, add to that his brief stint as a circus clown during his sixth life," Awinita said.
The Doctor tried to make a grab for her while she leapt up and ran to the back of the room.
"Not to mention the Doctor's first life and his brief stint as a model for zimmer frames and incontinence pads," Alan said.
The Doctor tried to grab him and he ran back to join Awinita.
"You know, I was having a pleasant morning working on my console until you all decided I was good for a laugh," he said to them.
"You're always working on the console, Dad."
"Yeah, you need to take a break every once in awhile," Mingxia said.
"Yeah, sit in here with us and watch some movies. The console won't fall apart on you, I'm pretty sure of that," Awinita said.
"Watch the rest of the Omen with us," Rain said. "I promise since you just died that we won't make any more references to your brief career as a movie actor."
The Doctor sighed.
"Ah, well, I guess it wouldn't hurt to take a break and watch a film," he said. "Although The Omen isn't exactly the kind of movie I enjoy watching."
"Yeah but it's interesting," Rose said. "So far, anyway. We got to the part where you got impaled and then we had a laugh and Rain went to get ya."
"Oh! Yeah, I felt your happiness in my mind a moment before she came into the console room."
"Yeah, so far, it's been about this child that's the spawn of Satan," Rain said. "And he has this evil, creepy nanny now after his first nanny threw herself off the roof of the mansion and hung herself during his birthday party."
"And he has a demon dog too," Alan added while he and Awinita sat back down.
The Doctor shrugged.
"I'll give it a try," he said.
He smiled when Rain snuggled close to him and Alan started the movie again.
"So, just how did you regenerate with a lightning rod in your body?" Rain teased.
He cracked a smile.
"Well, I came back to life long enough to pull it out of my body and then I regenerated," he replied.
"What made you decide to join the circus then?" Awinita said.
They laughed when he leaned over to the chair beside the sofa and smacked her on the head.
"You're gonna think join the circus when I fly the TARDIS to a Ringling Brothers show and convince the ringmaster to shoot you out of a cannon!" he said.
"How did you fight evildoers with soiled and wet incontinence pads?" Donna asked, sitting in a chair on the other side of the sofa.
The Doctor sighed when they all giggled.
"On second thought, working on the console with just Blizz to keep me company sounds good right about now," he said, starting to get up.
"No, we'll stop teasing you, Love, just sit down," she said.
He sat back down and put his arm around her while she snuggled against him. He smiled and sighed contentedly when Rain kissed his cheek and sent love into his mind and he snuggled with her while he watched the rest of the movie.