Prompt: 002. Christmas
Characters: The Doctor (Nine), Jack, Rose, Jackie
Pairing(s): None
Length: 585 words
Comment(s): Written as placeholder for tasks 9, 10, 11
Rating: K
It was the 25th of December in London, Great Britain. Snow was silently falling from the skies, covering houses, cars and a certain blue police box. At least, the people passing by thought it was just an ordinary police box. But actually it was much, much more. Actually, it was a spaceship. An alien spaceship, to be exact. But of the three persons inside the spaceship, only one was really alien. Not that you'd see that from him.
"Jack, I won't argue with you. I could wrestle you down in no time."
The addressed man just laughed. "I wouldn't be so sure of that, Doc. How old are you, again?"
"My age does not matter now! What matters are my skills and my skills are perfect. Besides, this body is new and strong, you wouldn't see 900 years anywhere on me."
"No, of course not. For me you look no day older than 620."
With open mouth, Rose followed the verbal exchange between the two men, looking alternately to the Doctor and to Jack Harkness.
The Doctor took Jack's teasing with a smile. "Oh, really? Why, thank you!"
Jack sighed and laid an arm over the Doctor's shoulder. "Oh, Doctor, you are so incorrigibly optimistic. I like that. And now… it's time for a little fight."
The Doctor raised an eyebrow. Then he answered by stretching his hand out for Jack to shake. "I'm in!"
Rose rolled her eyes. "Really, now. Some people celebrate Christmas by singing, some by praying and some by getting drunk under the Christmas tree. But you! You just have to have some action, every Christmas Day, don't you?" she said, laughing.
"Yup", the Doctor said and his northern accent showed up beautifully.
And so it came, that the Doctor and Jack stood opposed to each other on the place in front of Rose's mum's flat. Rose had gone and gotten her mother to watch the spectacle and both women were now standing on the sides of the place, cheering: Rose for the Doctor and Jackie for Jack – not that she really knew him, she just wanted to see the Doctor being thrown to the ground. "So! The person, who's wrestled down first, loses!" Jack called out. "And that person then has to admit that he's inferior to the other in physical… stuff."
The Doctor sighed. "At you, it always has to be a competition, does it?"
"'Course it does!" Jack winked.
"Can it start then? I'm freezing my toes off", Jackie called out.
Rose nodded approvingly. "And, three, two, one… start!"
Swiftly, like you wouldn't have expected it from him, Jack leaped forward, defending himself against the Doctor's immediate attack with a good blockade of the arms. But the Doctor knew better than to let Jack win. He put his right foot in Jack's back of the knee and kicked. Jack fell and landed face first in the snow, only to hear the Doctor's laughter. "And that was it? That was the glorious Jack-ish battle style?" Rose laughed too and jumped over to the winner to give him a tight hug while Jackie helped Jack up.
"Never mind", she said. "The Doctor clearly was cheating!"
Jack smiled. "It's alright, I should have known he'd come with such tricks. All right, Doc", he said then to the Doctor, who stopped hugging Rose and turned to face the man from the year 5000. "Hereby I admit that I'm inferior to you in physical… stuff." He smiled cheekily. "Have I earned a hug?"