Title: The Doctor's Resolutions
Rating: K+
Summary: The Doctor's POV as he completes his resolutions.
Disclaimer: (using recycled Rove joke) I own Doctor Who. Yeah right! And Anthony Callea's gay ... what? ... oh how awkward ...
Author's Note: I'm soooooooooo sorry it's taken so long to get this up! Hopefully I'll be updating regularly, though I can't make any promises.
1. I will learn how to work Rose's MP3 player.
I'd been working on the TARDIS for a while. Rose was sitting near me, listening to her MP3 player. Honestly the guy who invented portable music was a genius, I love him. When in old times having a song stuck in your head meant it was just in your mind (which it still is, I always get Kylie's "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" stuck in my head, funny that), now you can actually have a song playing in your head, stuck in with headphones. Brilliant. Anyway, I was bored, so I figured hey, may as well listen to a tune myself.
"Hey Rose," I said. "Do you think I could have a listen to your MP3 player?"
"Oh, uh, I guess so," said Rose. "Would I have any songs you like?"
"What have you got?" I asked.
"I've got some Delta Goodrem, Kelly Clarkson, James Blunt …"
"Oh, I'm sure I'll find something," I said. Rose nodded and turned off the device. She then threw it to me.
"There you go," she said. I held it in my hands, clueless. Just because I wanted to listen to it didn't mean I knew how it worked.
"Um, how do you turn this thing on?" I asked.
"Press the third button on the bottom," Rose answered. I did so. Nothing happened.
"It's not working," I complained. Rose sighed and came over.
"You have to hold it down," she said, demonstrating. "There you go. Okay now?" I began to nod, then stop.
"No," I said. "How do you select a song?" For a moment Rose was silent, then a small smile crept along her face.
"Do you mean to tell me," she began, "that you can operate a machine that travels through time and space, you can defeat aliens and save the world … but you don't know how to work an MP3 player?" I bit my lip.
"Yes mam," I said. Rose burst out laughing.
"Well the Time Lords weren't really very musical," I said. "Not like you apes. And as for rap … Rose will you stop laughing!"
"Sorry, sorry," said a still giggling Rose. "Okay, press the third button to go to menu. Now press that one there to find a song you like. Oh, they're all arranged in folders for each CD they come from. You've gotta go into the folder to see what songs are on it. To get back out just press the menu button I showed you before."
"Uh huh," I said. "Okay, I've found a song I like." I saw Rose have a peek at my song choice: Sexy Back. I blushed.
"Now press that one," Rose said.
"But that's the ON/OFF button," I said, confused.
"When you hold it it's that, when you press it it's PLAY/PAUSE/SELECT."
"Oh," I said. I pressed the button and the song started playing. It was too loud. Rose saw my distress and pressed the volume button. The volume showed up in the screen.
"Press that one to turn it down," Rose instructed. But I was too late. The volume screen had vanished, and my actions had caused the previous song to play.
"Bloody hell!" I exclaimed.
"You were too slow," Rose said.
"Why don't you just put more buttons on these things?" I said.
"Convenience," Rose replied.
"Well it's not being very convenient right now," I muttered.
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Poor Doctor! I like writing him a lot more than writing Rose. We're both ramblers, so that helps lol. Please review!