Twelve Songs of Christmas is one of the Christmas Challenges being ran by The Fantasy Script forum. I have signed up to this challenge using Romana as my principle character and will pair her with 12 different characters from Doctor Who (and spin-offs). Some will be linked, others standalone.
Title: Why You Should Never Introduce a Time Lady to Carols
Author: tromana
Rating: K
Characters: Romana, K9, Four
Summary: Romana has a point, really.
Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who but I'm getting a Big Finish subscription for Christmas.
Why You Should Never Introduce a Time Lady to Carols
"Doctor?"
"Hmm, yes Romana?"
The Doctor was busy untangling K9's head from the tinsel he had somehow got himself caught up in. The air was fresh, there was a sign of snow on the horizon and the tinny sound of carols echoed around them.
"This Earth song, the twelve days of Christmas; the recipient receives an awful lot of gifts," Romana announced, leaning up against the TARDIS parked in a shopping centre. "Why would anyone want 12 drummers, 22 pipers, 30 lords, 36 ladies, 40 maids, 42 swans, 42 geese, 40 rings, 36 doves, 30 hens, 22 doves and 12 partridges in pear trees? Not to mention the innumerable gallons of milk and quantities of eggs associated with it? None are even remotely as useful as a geo-spatial recorder."
"I think you've misunderstood, Romana," the Doctor replied. "Aha! In you go."
"But you haven't explained-"
The Doctor opened the TARDIS door wide and allowed Romana and K9 in. "Once we're in the TARDIS, I will."
He sincerely hoped she'd forget, when he knew in reality she wouldn't. Perhaps a crash course in Earth religions would satisfy her, for now.