Day Fourteen
Okay... He was getting that hungry. The black otter brought him half a fish daily, and took it back after a couple of hours.
The Doctor looked at the fish, prodding it with his big toe. He really, really didn't want to eat it, half-chewed on raw fish... But his gurgling stomach wanted it. The Doctor bent down and prodded it with his fingers, tearing a little piece off and inspecting it. God... It smelt so awful.
Just pretend it's a fish finger... The Doctor told himself as he closed his eyes and brought the piece of raw fish to his mouth.
He puked as soon as the piece hit his tongue.
Damn thing tasted nothing like a fish finger.
Day Sixteen
He had spent all day looking for something else to eat besides fish. At this point, he'd probably eat grass, if it meant his stomach would stop hurting from hunger. And he tried eating the nearby grass.
Which made him sick and wouldn't do anything for him.
After trying the grass and washing his mouth out with some water from a stream, he kept looking. He was very glad that he brought River to a planet untouched by man and without pollution.
He found some acorn-like things, but they were green, so those were out. There weren't any berries, so there basically wasn't anything to eat.
Day Eighteen
He did it. He ate the fish.
Day Nineteen
The Doctor spent most of his day in the woods, sick. The black otter came up and checked on him, but the Doctor shooed him away.
Day Twenty
His stomach felt better, but he was still hungry.
Day Twenty Two
The other otters had slowly started to approach him, coming only a couple feet close to him before turning away and scampering off again, coming back a few minutes later. It was always a different otter, like they were daring each other to reach him and his boulder, which is where he always sat.
The black otter, however, always came with half a fish, which he only took little bites out of, to help his hunger.
He thought that the black otter should have a name. Maybe his name should be Jack.
Day Twenty Five
As it turns out, the black otter which he had thoughtfully named Jack was actually a girl. He now knew this because Jack brought over a bunch of pups over to him. They warily approached the Doctor, Jack nudging them closer. After a while, Jack began to nudge the cute little baby otters back home.
After all the baby otters were gone, Jack came back and tried to nudge the Doctor off of his boulder. The Doctor stayed adamantly and the otter huffed at him, before leaving again.
In his mind, the Doctor renamed the otter Jackie.
