The Doctor was sitting at the large table located splat in the middle of the kitchen. He had a full plate of food in front of him, just like everyone else did. Mashed potatoes, green beans, turkey, and french fries made their plates bright and colorful. It had been twenty minutes since the whole group had sat down and yet, the Doctor's plate was still bright and colorful because he had not touched his food. Everyone wanted to ask him questions first which was totally unfair because he didn't know one iota of information about anyone at the table. Except for Donna.

At the beginning of the meal, they had all voted that the Doctor should introduce himself first. Not able to change the minds of the many people encircling the table he had started.

"Hello, I'm the Doctor. Just the Doctor. Nothing else. Next?" he had said this in two seconds flat and had lost everyone at 'hello' but soon they all started to compute.

"Hold on now, Doctor." said Max raising her hand in a 'wait' sign. "You have to give us more than that. I mean, alien from another world? That's gotta be interesting."

"Nope. Not really. Who's up next?" The Doctor looked around but the only answer he got was from Gazzy.

"Can't we, like, ask some questions or something?"

"Ya. We should be able to ask you some questions. You know, just to get to know you better." Max said.

"Oh! Oh!" said Gazzy raising his hand. "Can I go first?!"

When Max nodded her head, Gazzy wiped his head around to face the Doctor.

"What kind of alien are you?" Gazzy asked.

"I'm a Time Lord." answered the Doctor looking at Gazzy a preparing to answer a lot of questions.

"Woah. So, can you, like, time travel and stuff?" Gazzy asked, his voice rising in excitement.

"Anywhere in time and space." answered the Doctor proudly. "That blue box out there, that's my ship."

"Cool! What planet do you come from?"

"Gallifrey."

"Why do you look human?"

"I don't look human, you look time lord. We came first."

"So, basically, I look like an alien?"

"If that's how you wish to put it."

"Have you ever met yourself?"

"Multiple times."

"Have you encounter aliens?"

"Is that even a question?"

"What is your spaceship called?"

"A TARDIS."

"What's that mean?"

"Time and relative dimension in space."

"Is it actually bigger on the inside?"

"Yes."

"How does it do that?"

"When you cross the threshold of the TARDIS you are entering a different dimension."

"Have you ever almost died?"

"Plenty of times. Infact, I've died nine times. Ten if you count the me who destroyed Gallifrey."

"What do you mean you died."

"I died is what I mean."

"But you're here right now."

"Yes, but as a different person."

"Different person?"

"Yep. When I die, I regenerate but I have a different face and personality."

"So you're immortal?"

"Not exactly. A time lord can only regenerate twelve times."

"How many times have you regenerated?"

"This is my tenth face. Eleventh if you, again, count the Doctor who blew up Gallifrey."

"Is Donna Noble your girlfriend?"

"Wait. What?"

"Are you dating Donna?"

"No."

"Then why do you travel with her?"

"Ummm… because she's my friend."

"Your girlfriend?"

"Uhhh… no. Where did this come from again?"

"Well, you sure do argue like a couple."

"Oy!" yelled the Doctor and Donna at the same time.

"All right. All right." said Max. "I think the Doctor has suffered enough questioning. At least for tonight."

Gazzy's face fell but the Doctor could tell that he was planning to shower him with more questions in the morning.

Max went next to introduce herself. Then Fang. Then Angel. Gazzy came next followed by Iggy, Total, Phoenix and Nudge. The Doctor learned every single one of them - except for Phoenix - had been kept in the same science lab for the first several years of their lives being experimented on and making them what they were, avian-human hybrids.

When the eight of them finished telling their story, Donna answered with a flat, "Well, that all sounds horrible."

"Yep." answered Fang, also flatly.

After a long and awkward pause the Doctor finally broke the silence.

"Well, we should really be going." said the Doctor getting up and grabbing his brown coat off the back of his chair."

"Why don't you stay 'til Christmas is over?" Max offered.

"Ehhhh… I don't know-" started the Doctor but was cut off by Donna.

"Only if it's okay with you." Donna said to Max.

"Of course." Max answered.

"You see… well… ummm… I don't really do that sort of thing…"

"Oh, shut it space man." Donna said, waving her hand in dismissal.

"Well, I guess that's that then." said Gazzy grinning. He really wanted to ask more questions.