A/N: I decided to add a little extra scene just because I wanted to continue with the Doctor/Dorothy sweetness.
Chapter Two
After helping to get her shoes and coat on, the Doctor went back downstairs. He gave his wife a kiss as Dorothy hurried out the garage door.
"Have fun," Rain said to him.
"Always," the Doctor said with a wink. "Don't borrow the TARDIS while I'm gone."
"Wouldn't dream of it, dear," Rain said innocently.
He gave her another kiss and waved goodbye to her and Madison as he walked into the garage. He stopped short just inside when he notice Dorothy was standing beside his TARDIS.
"Nope, we're going in here," he said, pointing to the minivan.
"TARDIS!" Dorothy said, pointing to it.
"No, we're going in the people carrier, Dot. I'm not taking my TARDIS halfway across town. Now come on."
He opened the passenger door for her and Dorothy climbed up and sat down. He shut her door and she giggled when he smushed his face against the window and crossed his eyes. He walked over to the garage door button beside the door, opened the garage and got in the car. He paused for a moment and then smiled at his daughter.
"You know what?"
"What, Daddy?"
"D'ya wanna go get a burger instead? I suddenly feel like eating some charred moo cow meat."
"Okay."
"Brilliant, hang on then, little mate, and we'll go find something over which we can salivate."
He made a face.
"That rhyme came out funny, it wasn't too sunny," he said while she giggled.
He looked behind him and pulled out of the garage.
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They drove into the city to a place the Doctor knew of that served good food. It was a restaurant near the city limits that had a manmade lake with ducks and fish in it. There were large windows and booths where you could sit and watch the ducks and also a patio where you could go out and sit or feed the fish with bread crumbs you could purchase from the restaurant. It took twenty minutes for him to drive there. He parked in the parking lot beside it and told Dorothy to wait while he got out. He walked around and opened her door for her.
"After you, Madam," he said, bowing.
Dorothy slide out of her seat and jumped down. The Doctor shut the door and took her hand as they walked towards the front door. The restaurant was called Lakeview Restaurant; it was a one story brick building with shrubs all around it. The entrance had a blue canvas canopy over it and two small palm trees in large clay pots on either side of the double doors. The Doctor stopped Dorothy at the entrance and opened the door.
"After you, Madam," he said, pointing inside.
"You're silly, Daddy."
"I'm not being silly, I'm being polite," he said. "Now, ladies first."
Dorothy went inside and he followed after her. The restaurant had white plaster walls with framed paintings of ducks and nature scenes. The tables were round with white tablecloths and artificial candles that had a tiny lightbulb for the flame. The booths by the windows had unadorned tables with no candles on it. Near the back was the kitchen separated by closed metal double doors and the counter with the cash register where a young lady with auburn hair, chubby face and freckles stood. Overhead, a wooden ceiling fan spun around providing the restaurant with some cool air. The restaurant wasn't very crowded, only twenty people scattered around at different tables but this was what the Doctor was looking for. He realized he didn't feel like standing in the noisy, crowded pizza shop while he waited for his pizza. The conversation between the patrons here was soft and pleasant and the entire restaurant soothed him after his distressing day.
He led Dorothy over to a booth that looked out over the lake. Several mallards, ducks and swans, both black and white, were swimming by the window. Dorothy, her interest peaked by the sight of them, crawled up on the seat and crawled on her knees to the window where she looked out at them as the Doctor sat down beside her. The Doctor glanced over at a nearby table and got out of his seat. He ran, got the candle from the empty table and ran back. He slammed it down on the table hard enough so Dorothy would look.
"There, now we can have a nice romantic candlelit dinner," he said to her.
Dorothy grabbed the candle and sat quietly as she stared at the bulb. She reached out and touched it and then smiled at the Doctor.
"You wouldn't have been smilin' if that'd been a real flame," he said to her.
The waitress walked up to them. She was young, in her late teens with blonde hair that had been swept up into a loose bun. She had alabaster skin and grey green eyes. Her face was thin with a dimple on her chin and a small scar on her left cheek. She was wearing a white blouse, black skirt and black heels.
"Hi, would you like something to drink?" she said, giving the Doctor a regular and kid's menu.
"I'd like hot tea and…"
He leaned over to Dorothy.
"What you want, Monster Mash? Coke?"
"Yes."
"And a Coke for her," he said.
The waitress nodded.
"Is there anything I can get you for starters?" she asked.
"Do you have any cheese sticks?"
"Yes, we do."
"Okey-doke, we'd like some cheese sticks then."
The waitress wrote it down and walked off as the Doctor turned his attention to his daughter.
"So…how was your day today?" he asked her.
"Fine."
"Fine, just fine? Not super fantastical scrump-dili-iciously neat-o?"
Dorothy giggled at that. She took the candle and held the bulb up under his nose.
"Aaaaah," the Doctor said quietly.
Dorothy giggled and held up the bulb again.
"Aaaaah, mercy, have mercy on me!" he said.
Dorothy did it a third time.
"Eeeee, that's hot."
"No, it's not," Dorothy said, giggling.
"It's not."
He touched the bulb with his index finger.
"By George, you're right. Sorry, I was overreacting, I s'pose."
The waitress came back with their drinks. The Doctor thanked her and after she left, he grabbed Dorothy's glass and pulled it over to his tea cup.
"Mine, you don't get any," he said.
"Hey, you give me that," Dorothy said, reaching for her glass.
"I need something first before you can have it."
"What, Daddy?"
"Lovin's."
Dorothy threw her arms around him and gave him a big kiss on the lips.
"Ah, that's more like it," he said, sliding the glass back to her.
Dorothy took a drink while she watched her father fix his tea.
"What you doin'?" she said, pointing to the tea cup.
"I'm fixing a cuppa for myself. Can you say cuppa?"
"Cuppa," she said, sticking her chin out at him.
"Can you say…biscuit?"
"Biscuit."
"Can you say, Bloody Hell, I'm knackered?"
"Blood..."
"No, no, don't say that, Dot. I'm just joking," he said, putting his hand over her mouth.
He picked his cup up.
"Monkey see, monkey do," he said quickly before taking a sip.
"What?"
"You heard me, Chimpy, you do and say eeeeeeeeverything I do," he said, jerking his head around and staring at her with wide eyes.
He smiled and thanked the waitress when she set the plate of cheese sticks down in front of him. The moment she left he jerked his head back around and resumed the wide-eyed stare.
"As I was saying, Chimpy…oi, get your hands away from those!" he said when Dorothy started to reach for a cheese stick. "I got those for me."
He feigned anger when she grabbed one off the plate and began eating it.
"Of all the nerve," he said as Dorothy giggled. "Fine, see if I care!"
He held his menu up to his face and pretended to read it. Dorothy finished eating her cheese stick and reached for another one. She froze and giggled when the Doctor slowly lowered his menu until it was just below his eyes and stared at her.
"What are you doing out there?" he said.
Dorothy snatched another cheese stick off the plate.
"Oi, I didn't say you could have anymore, Chimp-a-roo from the zoo!" he said as she giggled harder.
Dorothy ate it and giggled at him.
"Did I say you could eat that?" the Doctor said, pointing at the cheese stick.
Dorothy giggled as he bent down lower.
"I said, did I say you could eat that?"
"Yes!" Dorothy said.
"Oh I did? Oh, sorry, musta slipped my mind."
Dorothy watched while he put the menu back up in front of his face. He reached around, got one of the cheese sticks and chewed on it while he read the menu.
"I think I shall get the lobster while you get a crust of bread and a glass of water from the lake out there, how's that sound?" he said to her.
"No!"
"No? What'd ya mean, no. You like crusts and pond water," he said to her.
He smiled when Dorothy snuggled up against him and reached for another cheese stick. He sent love into her mind as the waitress walked back up to them.
"Are you ready to order?" she asked the Doctor.
"Yes, I'd like a burger platter with French fries and green beans and she…"
He looked at her.
"Cheeseburger and fries?" he asked her.
"Yes."
"She'd like the cheeseburger platter with French fries and cottage cheese."
The waitress wrote that down.
"Okay, be back in a little while."
She walked off. The Doctor watched her go and then looked at his daughter.
"Was that a threat?" he asked at Dorothy giggled.
"No."
"Oh okay, sorry. When she said that, I got an image of her coming back with a flamethrower and roasting us for Christmas dinner."
"You're silly, Daddy."
The Doctor smiled at her and gave her a tender kiss on the forehead before taking another cheese stick and popping it in his mouth.
