"No no no! The other violet lever!"
"There isn't another violet lever, there's just the violet one and the mauve one!"
"Are you mad?! That's not mauve that's...mauve. Right. Well anyway, pull that one!"
"Are you sure you know how to fly this thing?"
"Of course I'm sure, I told you I know how to fly it didn't I?"
"Well you're obviously having some problems with every single lever, switch, button and radio."
Harry and the Doctor stared each other down for several moments, this often happened when they had disagreeing opinions, it had become sort of a game. Whoever could win the telepathic battle of wills had to cave and justify themselves before letting the other take the reigns.
Harry held on admirably well for ten seconds before looking away with a muffled curse.
"Oi! None of that, I'm the designated parent figure on this-"
"You? You're the designated parent figure? Have you looked in a mirror recently?"
"I'm the only one who's gone through full Timelord training, making me the adult. And the adult wants to know whether you can fly this thing or not."
Harry grinned infuriatingly, something that the Doctor was grudgingly proud of, that was his infuriating grin Harry was using.
"Well once Dudley was watching a movie and the main character was a fighter jet pilot..."
"Are you mad?! A movie? You've been trying to fly this thing based on a movie?!"
"You fly the TARDIS without a manual!"
"I have almost seven hundred years of experience with my TARDIS and that manual was wrong!"
"Was it still wrong when we almost blew up Mars?!"
"I'll have you know-"
There was a quiet cough behind them and they both spun around in surprise. The young man they had commandeered the plane from was staring wide eyed and terrified at them. "Would you, um, be alright with it if I took the pilots seat? I don't want to die."
The Doctor and Harry looked at each other and back at the pilot, "Yeah, oh yeah, by all means, go ahead."
He breathed a sigh of relief and after a bit of jockeying and a few major heart attacks as the plane spiraled towards the ground before being course corrected by someone's shin or forehead, the pilot got back into his seat.
"Right, what's your name?"
"Um, Jeff?"
"Well Um Jeff, we need you to get us to Cardiff within the next twenty minutes, can you do that for us?"
"What are you going to do to Cardiff?" Jeff asked in horror, suddenly feeling very bad indeed about reclaiming the pilot's seat.
"What? Oh no, no, no Jeff, we just needed quick transport, a friend of ours ran off, we were stuck on a military base due to some very unfortunate circumstances-"
"He almost killed a general with a blue telephone box from the 1960's."
"I told him it was an accident!"
Jeff at this point decided not to bother the two very strange people and landed them in Cardiff, taking off again as soon as he could. It had been the strangest twenty minutes of his life and he was not anxious to repeat it.
"What I don't understand is how the TARDIS de-materialized by herself." Harry grumbled as they hiked through Cardiff towards the Roald Dahl Plass where the Doctor was sure the TARDIS would be.
"Well, she needed fuel, she was upset at me, decided we would be fine on our own and took off to refuel."
"In Cardiff."
"What is everyone's problem with Cardiff? Everytime we get anywhere near here it's 'Cardiff? Why're we in Cardiff? I want a planet Doctor, give me a planet Doctor' I find Cardiff to be a perfectly nice city!"
Harry shot him a skeptical look before he caved, "Well sure there's other places I'd rather go, but Cardiff is nice. Good memories here."
He suddenly got a far off look in his eyes that Harry had started to associate with the Doctor thinking about "them." Harry quickly grabbed his hand and pulled him into a run, "C'mon, I think I see the TARDIS!"
The Doctor laughed a bit at his small charge and allowed himself to be pulled along, never noticing the small camera following them across the square.
AN: Yes it's very short but it felt a bit necessary, I'll have another chapter out this weekend though, so don't worry about that :) Also, the Doctor's a little out of character in this chapter, I don't know why but no matter what I did I kept writing him like this...don't worry about that either, I'll have him back in character in the next chapter.
-Kat
