The Doctor felt like he'd been hit in the chest.
"You're Kurt! You're the little boy!" the Doctor exclaimed, clearly distressed, how could this have happened? He'd been gone five minutes! Only…he hadn't. He'd left Kurt there for years, oh god, what had he done?
"I'm Kurt, and you're late." He said icily "we've established this." The Doctor took a deep breath to calm the pounding in his head. That little boy. How were they even the same person? That chubby, kind, freckle-faced little boy was now this…this man. He was tall and lean, he'd definitely lost his baby fat, his freckles were only just visible, and those kind, curious eyes were distant. The Doctor had a sinking feeling that whatever had happened to Kurt in that time span wasn't good.
"What happened?" he asked, Kurt rounded on him
"Twelve years!" the Doctor's hand came up to rub at his head, effectively messing up his hair and getting and unpleasant amount of gel on his hand. Why he decided to put gel in it was absolutely lost on him.
"You hit me with a cricket bat!" The Doctor exclaimed, because that really wasn't necessary, and it had hurt.
"Twelve years!" Kurt shouted again, as if that was all the explanation that was required.
"A cricket bat!" the Doctor argued back
"Twelve years and four psychiatrists." Kurt said, the Doctor's eyes widened
"…Four?" he asked
"I kept biting them." The Doctor stifled a laugh, he could just imagine that tiny little boy trying to fight them off.
"Why?" he asked, Kurt shrugged
"They kept saying you weren't real." He said softly, "that and y'know, the constant bullying, more dumpster dives that I would've liked, and having almost no friends," the Doctor's heart clenched in his chest,
"Bullied? What? Kurt-" but before he could voice his concerns, or sit him down and make him tell the whole story, much like he wanted to, the voice sounded again.
"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated." The Doctor looked to Kurt quickly
"I'm not forgetting this." he jumped up and quickly looked around them wildly until he saw the sound coming from an ice cream truck. He ran over to it, with Kurt directly at his heels.
"What are you playing at?" he asked the man in the window of the truck
"It's supposed to be Claire De Lune!" he said frantically trying to shut the device off, the same phrase kept repeating itself over and over.
"Doctor, what's happening?" Kurt asked, looking around him, at people fiddling with their ipods or cell phones, apparently, the voice was everywhere. The Doctor suddenly ran off, Kurt followed. They ended up running into someone's house, when Kurt arrived, the Doctor was apologizing to the older lady and staring at the television. A big eye was darting around the screen and the phrase was blaring from it. The Doctor walked over to take a look at the remote when the woman turned to look at Kurt.
"Oh, hello Kurt, dear." She smiled "Are you a policeman now?" Kurt laughed nervously
"Sometimes!" the older woman looked confused
"I thought you were a nurse…" Kurt's cheeks colored
"I can be…a nurse."
"Or actually…a priest?" Kurt smile too tightly
"I dabble!" he said as the Doctor looked at him curiously
"Kurt, who's your friend?" she asked, smiling politely at the Doctor
"Oh, nobody special, just the…policeman, nurse, priest's old friend." He said, giving Kurt a look. Kurt's cheeks burned as he looked to the ground. The old woman still seemed confused
"I know you from somewhere, though, I've seen you before." The Doctor shook his head
"Not me. Brand new face." He stretched out his cheeks and smiled at her "first time on. Now what sort of job is a kissogram?" he asked, crossing his arms and looking at Kurt.
"I go to parties and I kiss people." He explained lamely "…with outfits. It's a laugh!" the Doctor looked at him in the sort of way that he didn't think it was a laugh at all.
"You were a little boy five minutes ago!" Kurt rolled his eyes. The Doctor didn't like this one bit. Kurt's job was kissing people? He shouldn't be kissing anyone!
"you're worse than my aunt." The Doctor walked up to him and looked him in the eyes, narrowing his own
"I'm the Doctor. I'm worse than everybody's aunt, so you can just pack those…outfits away." Before Kurt had a chance to argue, the Doctor turned around to the lady "and that is not how I'm introducing myself." The Doctor crouched down in front of the radio and Kurt wondered what exactly was wrong with this man and how could he change his thoughts so quickly? It was giving him a headache. The Doctor continued to fiddle with the dial before announcing
"So it's playing everywhere, in every language, they're broadcasting this to the whole world." The Doctor suddenly ran to the window, opened it and looked up at the sky
"What are you looking at?" Kurt asked
"Okay. Planet this size, two poles? Your basic molten core? Uh, they're gonna need a forty percent fission blast." Kurt had no idea what that meant, but he knew it wasn't good. And to make matters worse, just then is the moment that Finn decided to step through the door. The Doctor backed him up against the wall
"But they'll have to power up first, so assuming it's a medium sized starship that would mean…" he thought for a moment "twenty minutes, how does that sound? Twenty minutes?" Finn looked extremely confused, which wasn't actually that abnormal.
"yeah." The Doctor decided "we've got twenty minutes."
"Twenty minutes to what?" Kurt asked
"Are you the Doctor?" Finn asked, and Kurt just wanted to slap him because really? Did this boy have no filter? The elderly woman made a sound of agreement
"He is, isn't he? The raggedy Doctor! All those cartoons you did when you were little, Kurt, it's him!" Kurt just wanted the floor to open up and swallow him whole. The Doctor just looked at him, a little bit amused
"Cartoons?" Kurt blushed and averted his gaze. "you did cartoons of me?"
"Shut up. I was a kid, you're a freaking magic man in a box, it made a good story."
"Oh, don't be embarrassed, it's flattering, in fact-"
"Gran!" Finn interrupted "It's really him, isn't it!" the old lady nodded
"Finn, shut up!" Kurt nearly shrieked, surprising everyone, he locked eyes with the Doctor "twenty minutes to what?"
"The human residence." The Doctor explained "they weren't talking about your house. They're talking about the whole planet. Somewhere up there there's a starship. And it's going to incinerate your planet. Twenty minutes to the end of the world." Kurt's heart dropped. End of the world? How were they going to fix this?
Woo! Still mostly transcripted, though I added some of my own stuff, because honestly, how would this even make sense if I tried explaining it myself? The Doctors words are best, Kids. But I think you'll like the next chapter, we're meeting our 'Rory' ;)
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