The Tenth Doctor and Adalia

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As Adalia walked into the TARDIS for the first time (again...long story), she was both awestruck and comfortable, like walking into your house after a long day at work.

The Doctor stepped up behind her. "Pretty amazing, isn't she? walking through those doors, it never gets old."

She smiled. "Yeah. You know, this reminds me of something. All of this...you remind me of something."

"Oh? And just what would that be?" He asked.

"Monty Python's 'The Meaning Of Life'."

His eyebrows shot up. "What? The one with the accountant pirates and the fish and the topless women on rollerblades? How does THAT remind you of me and my TARDIS?!"

She had to bite her lip to contain her laughter. "No, No! I mean the song at the end. About the universe. I think that song was pretty much the actual point within all the nonsense. The 'meaning of life' as it were."

The Doctor scratched behind his ear, looking quite confused. "Funny, I don't remember that part."

"I thought you knew everything!" Adalia cheered mockingly.

"I haven't memorized everything in the entire universe yet, I had Monday off! Perhaps if you could sing a few bars?"

"Alright, but remember, you asked for it.", She warned.

Adalia began singing, quite pitchy at first, but she soon corrected herself...

"Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, revolving at nine hundred miles an hour;
that's orbiting at ninety miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving at a million miles a daaaaaaaay,
in an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles an hour, in a galaxy we call the Milky Way."

The Doctor then joined in, and began swaying with the tune.

"Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars, it's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light-years thick, but out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.
We're thirty thousand light-years from galactic central point, we go 'round every two hundred million yeaaaaaaars;
And this galaxy is one of only millions of billions in this amazing and expanding universe."

The Doctor held up a finger to stop her singing, and quickly interjected, "You know, the earth actually orbits the sun closer to sixty six thousand miles per hour. For that matter, the distance from your solar system to the center of the Milky Way is closer to twenty six thousand light-years. And-"
He was interrupted by a smack on the arm and a nose-crinkling smile.

"Ey! I thought you said you had Monday off!"

"Only part of Monday." he replied jovially.

"Care to sing the next bit then, Mister Part-Of-Monday-Off?"

"I'd be delighted, Adalia!"

"The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, in all of the directions it can whizz;
As fast as it can go, the speed of light you know, 11.1 million miles a minute (and that's the fastest speed there is)...Well-"

She glared at him. "Seriously, now, Doctor. Enough of that. That's not how it goes."

"I was just making a few...corrections." His words were met with the same steely 'I've had enough of this crap now get on with it' gaze from his companion.

"Fine. Stay scientifically stuck in the 1980s, for all I care. Your loss.

*ah-he-he-hmmm*
-As fast as it can go, the speed of light you know, 12 million miles a minute (and that's the fastest speed there is);
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure how amazingly unlikely is your biiiiiirrth,"

"AND PRAY THAT THERE'S INTELLIGENT LIFE SOMEWHERE UP IN SPACE, 'CAUSE THERE'S BUGGER-ALL DOWN HERE ON EARRRRTTHHH!"

They both screeched the last bit, stumbling almost drunkenly and falling on the floor, the sounds of their caterwauling and laughter echoing about the TARDIS.

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