Timelord Care for Shadowhunters: Lesson 1
"Doctor, nothing about this is a good idea."
"Oh, come on, Jace. I'm not human it could work!"
"No but you're just about as stupid as one. Are you even licensed to drive this Tardis?"
"Weeeeeell….."
"Very comforting, Doc."
"Don't be like that. Here." The Doctor proceeded to unbutton his coat, a rather silly grin on his face. "What's the worst that can happen?"
"Famous last words." Jace shook his head as a red tie landed on his head. "Seriously, Doc. I can't do this."
"Oh, it won't hurt me a bit. And it certainly won't hurt you." By now, the Doctor was pulling his undershirt off. "Besides, we both know you want to do it." The Shadowhunter's face flushed bright red.
"Maybe I do. But for once I think I'll listen to that little voice that let's me know NOT to follow a stupid idea." Jace shook the tie off his head, turning to leave. "Contrary to popular belief, I do listen to it sometimes." He grabbed his shirt off the Tardis console as he passed.
"Jace, please…" The teen stopped short as the Doctor deployed his best weapon. The lonely kicked puppy voice. "You're the only one who can do this…. The only one I can trust…"
"Doc, we can't…"
"Yes, we can. No one has to know." Jace groaned as they both know he would give into the Doctor's wishes. The younger boy sighed.
"Alright… Fine…" He turned, pulling his stele out of his pocket. The now-shirtless Doctor grinned like a child at Christmas. "Where do you want it?"
Jace regretted few things in his life. Spending his life in the dangerous occupation of Shadowhunter he did not regret. The time he switched Izzy's shampoo with bleach he gleefully did not regret. The creature the Doctor had turned into from the rune he VERY much regretted.
It was an insight rune. A freaking INSIGHT rune. It shouldn't have had any obvious effects on him. Boy was that ever wrong. It had made the already energetic Doctor HYPER. And not five-year-old on a sugar high hyper. It was a ten year comic book fanboy meeting his favorite superhero hyper. Apparently, Shadowhunter runes were like straight out sugar to Timelords.
Currently, the Doctor was bouncing around the console shirtless, babbling at three hundred words a second about some distant galaxy. Jace had given up on trying to decipher his ramble. "What have I done?" The Shadowhunter had been forced to seek refuge in one of the Tardis's nooks. The Flash had nothing on a hyperactive Timelord.
After about an two hours of going crosseyed and listening to psycho babbling, Jace figured he might as well put the hyperactive alien to good use. Not like there was any sign of him slowing down anytime soon. "Doctor!" He grabbed the man by the shoulders, effectively stopping him. "You SERIOUSLY need to run off all this energy."
"Yeahyeahyeah! Totallyagree!"
"Well some of my gear is still caked with….. Goop, and sand from that bipolar swampy desert planet. I can't get it off to save my life."
"Oh! I've got just the acid for that! Don't worry! It won't hurt your weapons but it will hurt you. I'd better get started!" With that, the hyperactive Timelord bounced off, still shirtless.
"And put a shirt on! Nerd."
6 hours later…..
Jace was lounging against the Tardis console reading when the Doctor plopped down beside him, using the teen's shoulder as a pillow. He let out a pitifully exhausted groan. Jace gave him an unsympathetic glance before returning to his book. "Finally worn out?"
"Never again…."
"I'll take that as a yes." The Doctor groaned again. "Remember anything?"
"No…." There was a pause between the two. "I didn't destroy my Tardis did I?"
"I put you to work before you could get destructive."
"That explains why I woke up in your room."
"Don't worry I didn't do anything inappropriate. I like my dates willing and aware. And FEMALE." The Doctor smirked tiredly.
"Such a disappointment." Jace chuckled.
"What I want to know is why it made you hyper. It's an insight rune."
"Well your runes enhance your abilities right? In this case the mind?"
"Yes."
"Well my mind is what makes me run. Curiosity and all that. Enhance that and I turn into an energizer bunny." The blonde nodded in agreement. The Doctor did get more energetic when challenged mentally. "That or my two hearts confused everything and made me hyper. This earned a chuckle from both Timelord and Shadowhunter.
"That is a possiblity." The two shared another chuckle. "So Doc…. You ever gonna put on a shirt?"
"What?" The Doctor looked down and let out a shocked gasp. Sure enough, the Doctor was bare chested, rune blatant in the center. He covered himself, blushing bright red. "How rude of me!" With that, the alien took off for his room, Jace laughing in his wake. "I'm not ginger and not rude!"
