"I think what we're up against here, is the Flesh." the Doctor stated, as he pulled a lever on the control console. "Fully programmable flesh, living flesh, that can take the form of literally anything! It grows, the flesh does, so it's also very powerful, but it normally doesn't take long to attack, or to scan.. It scanned me in under a minute, and I mean.. I'm a Time Lord! Powerful stuff there, did have some minor malfunctions when it took my form however.. Sorry, I'm rambling. Ooh, rambling, that's new! Actually, no.. No it isn't."
Blaine stared at the Doctor, completely stunned. Kurt, however, still wasn't over the TARDIS. Not the usual "It's bigger on the inside!" ordeal, this was new.
"But, it's orange!" He pointed out. "It's all orange and.. Shiny. Very tacky looking if you don't mind me saying, though I do like the glass floors," he looked down. "Very nice touch."
Blaine grabbed Kurt's shoulders, as if trying to relax him, but also trying to get him to shut up.
"So, if my mum is made of Flesh, why hasn't she attacked or scanned me for three years, Doctor?"
"I don't know, Song-"
"-Anderson-"
"-If it was planning to do a scan it would have been long gone by now, but it stuck around. For three years no less. My guess is that it had trouble reading your genetics. No doubt River has something to do with that, but why is it so desperate for your life form?"
"Well, I don't know. I mean, I'm a Warbler, just a Warbler."
"Yes.." The Doctor smiled. "Just a Warbler. A Warbler! Is that some kind of alien? It doesn't sound familiar..."
"What?" Blaine laughed. "No, the Dalton Academy Warblers. It's the glee club at my school."
"Are you wearing a bow tie?" Kurt butted in.
"Yes," The Doctor adjusted his bow tie. "Bow ties are cool."
"I love it."
"You do?" He raised his eyebrows.
"Yes," Kurt smiled. "Very fashionable."
The Doctor grinned. "Anyway! You!" He pointed at Blaine "You are very special. Very special indeed, if you can confuse the Flesh.. And myself."
"I'm sorry," Blaine started, a confused look on his face "I didn't mean to cause you any trouble or-"
"No!" The Doctor interruped "No trouble! It's exciting! Not everyday I come across something I don't understand.. Mostly Saturdays.." he patted the TARDIS console "She loves Saturdays."
Kurt raised an eyebrow, questioning the Doctor's sanity, when he remembered that he was in a time and space travelling blue box. A time and space travelling blue box.. that's bigger on the inside. Sane.
"So, Doctor.." Blaine started "Where is she..?" Kurt looked at Blaine, a sad look on his face.
The Doctor sighed slowly, looked up at Blaine, then ran towards the TARDIS door, a mischevous grin on his face, "Come along, Song."
"It's Anderson," Blaine muttered descending the stairs, and walking towards the Doctor. Kurt had a mischevous smile on his face, as if thinking "Not for long it isn't.".
The Doctor smiled at Blaine before pulling open the doors revealing vast amounts of stars and planets.
"Somewhere out there, Song-"
"- Anderson-"
"Your mother is doing unimaginable things, possibly and probably breaking many laws created by the Shadow Proclamation... to protect you."
Blaine was taken aback by how close he was to the stars. The Doctor grinned widely as Blaine called over his shoulder to Kurt. "Kurt, come look at this. It's.. It's amazing."
Kurt hurried over to Blaine and placed his head in the crook of his boyfriend's neck. His mouth hung slightly open at the sight of space. The Doctor stood aside, heading back up the stairs and sitting himself on one of the seats. Kurt took the Doctor's place at the door and slid his hand into Blaine's.
".. I love you." Kurt breathed
"I love you too." Blaine smiled.
"Oh alright, that's enough." The Doctor interrupted, "I wouldn't have brought you along if I had known it would've turned into a love fest." He waved his arm as if he was literally waving away the boys' emotions. Blaine looked slightly offended, but Kurt just raised an eyebrow.
"Alright, I was just joking, but honestly, I don't need my own personal romance movie." He puffed.
Kurt frowned, wanting the moment to last just a little bit longer, but the crazy man running around the console kind of ruined it.
"So.. Doctor." Kurt started, letting go of Blaine's hand and walking up the stairs to the console. "Where are we going now?"
"Home!" The Doctor replied, "Well, not home home, and not your home, your home!" he pointed at Blaine "I need to make sure that River flesh duplicate doesn't harm anyone or anything. I don't know who or what made it or what is currently controlling it, but I do not like it! So, we're going to find it and make sure nothing like this ever happens again." He grinned.
"But.." Blaine's mouth hung slightly ajar "We ran from it.. Why are we going back?"
"I just told you why!"
"Yes, Doctor, but we ran away! We fled from it and disappeared completely! It may know we know what it is!"
"You," The Doctor pointed at Blaine, still dashing around the console flicking switches and pulling levers. "have a very good point! And that is why we're going to materialize three seconds after we dematerialized!"
"Why three?" Asked Kurt
"What?"
"You said three seconds.. Why exactly three seconds?"
"Because.." The Doctor stopped running around and walked up to Kurt, looking him in the eyes solemnly. "I like three. It's a nice number. There's a lot of nice threes in the universe.. Three is cool."
"Oh.." The confused look on Kurt's face was clear, as well as the slight fear. "Sorry.."
"Haha!" The Doctor grinned, running back to hit a button on the console. "We've landed!"
Blaine, who was closest to the doors, ran outside and paused, stunned at the fact he was back home, yet closed off, as if it wasn't really his home anymore. He didn't have time to ponder this thought as suddenly Kurt was next to him, holding his hand. The Doctor rushed passed them, straight down the marble hallway and into to kitchen. The kitchen was deserted, all that was left of Flesh-River's presence was a newspaper and a half empty cup of tea sitting on the round table in the middle of the room.
"No!" He shouted, "No, no, no, no, no!"
Blaine hurriedly ran into the kitchen, Kurt not far behind.
"What's wrong?" Blaine asked, looking around the kitchen, realizing that the Flesh duplicate had vanished. ".. Oh."
The Doctor took out his sonic screwdriver and started waving it around in front of everything.
"What is that.. What.. What are you doing?" Kurt asked slowly.
"It's uh, it's a screwdriver. It's sonic."
"Well, what does it do?"
"It's more a question of what it doesn't do." The Doctor grinned.
"Alright. What doesn't it do?"
"Wood."
"I'm sorry?"
"Wood. It doesn't do wood!"
"You mean..."
"Yes. It does everything. Everything. Everything except wood."
"Wood."
"Yes, and deadlock seals. But, wood."
"And when you say everything.."
"Everything."
"Yes, I got that, but what do you mean by it does everything?"
"I mean," The Doctor said, putting the sonic down "It does everything. Honestly, you humans." He shook his head and ran out of the kitchen and up the marble hallway, around a corner and through a set of large wooden double doors, stopping only to unlock the double doors with the sonic. Kurt and Blaine were running down the hallway to where the Doctor had disappeared to.
"Where'd he go? What's in there? In the room?"
"I have no idea. It's always been locked. Always. I've never been in there."
"Then the Flesh thing must've never wanted you to see inside."
"So," Blaine grinned mischievously, "Let's see what's inside."
They took a step towards the door, only to stop dead in their tracks. A yell sounded from inside the room. A yell that unmistakenably belonged to the Doctor. Kurt and Blaine looked at each other.
"Shit."
