Hey everybody, it's The Doctor's Strawberry, coming to you live with a fic I dreamed up last night. I told it to my friend and he demanded that I write it immediately. So this is for you, Alex!

Martha walked out of the TARDIS and brought up her hand to shield her eyes from the sun. "Where… and when…. are we, Doctor? Have we come to some super bright, sunny planet for a vacation or something?" She tried to stifle a giggle. "It's hard to imagine you laid out on the beach. You'd have to wear something other than that suit, it'd be ridiculous!" A few giggles escaped her, but were no match for his furrowed brow.

"Stop it. We're at a hospital. Now that you're officially traveling with me, we've got to get you vaccinated. Lots of space viruses out there. And for your information, I have a bathing suit!" he quipped. He led the way into the hospital, which was very crisp and clean-looking… and busy.

"Doctor, there's a lot of people here. Maybe we should come back another time?" she suggested as she pushed past a man with an enormous scarf.

"Nah," he said. "It's tradition!"

"Tradition?" she raised her eyebrow, silently demanding an explanation.

"Yep," he popped the p. "Every time I take on a new travelling companion, I take them to this exact time and place to get vaccinated. In fact, most of the people surrounding us-"

"Doctor," Martha interrupted. "That's you." She pointed across the room, where an identical man wearing the same clothes was standing with a woman with flaming red hair, both their heads tilted back in laughter.

"Not polite to point… Ooh, Donna's with me. I guess she changed her mind about not wanting to travel." He grinned. "I'd forgotten how handsome I am, look at that! I'd look fantastic in swim trunks… Maybe we should go to the beach"

Martha bit her lip to restrain the fit of laughter that nearly overcame her. "Should we go over and talk to them?"

He shook his head. "Nah, I try to keep from interacting with my future selves too much. I might give something away about my future."

Silence fell between them, neither knowing what to say for a few seconds. Then Martha stood up and said "Well, I can see it's going to be a while before I'm called. I'm going to the loo." And she left.

The Doctor tried to stay where he was. He really did. 'Martha doesn't know where she is,' he thought. 'she's bound to get lost.' But then he started wondering if this hospital had a little shop, and it turned out that it did, and he started browsing and sort of forgot about Martha for a little while.

Martha dried her hands on the napkin and threw it in the bin as she left the restroom. She walked back in the direction that she thought was where she and the Doctor were at, but when she was back in the room, he was nowhere to be found, except in the corner with Donna. And, when she thought about it, some of the vaccinations were bound to be the kind that you get yearly, so that might not even be the same Doctor and Donna. They could be back for a second vaccination.

She left the room and started walking down the corridor, poking her head in each door. She was overwhelmed. She didn't know what to do or where to go. She somehow ended up in the lobby. She sat down next to the fountain and buried her head in her hands. Suddenly, through the crowd, she spotted a familiar brown pinstriped suit heading towards the exit. She got up and ran, zipping her way through the crowd. She was moving so fast that she forgot to slow down in time.

WHAM! She ran straight into the Doctor and knocked him and a nearby blonde down.

That's the end of chapter one! I'll upload chapter two as soon as I figure out how!