Prompt: Felicity trying to explain Doctor Who to Oliver.


Summary: Felicity tries to explain Doctor Who to Oliver. Takes place during their 5 months away from Star City.


Disclaimer: Unfortunately I don't own Arrow or any of the characters, they all belong to the CW & DC.

A/N: All mistakes are mine and mine alone, Microsoft Word was my beta so please forgive any and all mistakes.


A Deal's a Deal

"Felicity, can't we watch something else?"

"Oliver, we had a deal, remember? I'd watch a tv show of your choice and you'd watch one of mine."

"Well I didn't think you'd make we watch this."

"Hey! You made me watch Sons of Anarchy and I didn't complain."

"It's a great show."

"Oliver, you made me sit through seven seasons of blood, gore and violence. I still have nightmares about spoons! Ugh. I've watched my fair share of action movies but I've never seen anything that violent. We already have enough of that in our lives."

"You binge watched all five seasons of Game of Thrones last month."

"That's different."

"How is it different?

"It's fantasy."

"Fantasy or not, there's plenty of violence. Much more than Sons of Anarchy."

"Nope."

"Felicity, I have two words for you… Red. Wedding."

"Yeah, well you're still watching Doctor Who with me. A deal's a deal. We shook on it."

"We more than shook on it."

"Oliver..."

"Fine, so what's this show about anyway?"

"OMG! Please tell me you're joking."

"..."

"So you've never heard of Doctor Who? Ever? Like ever, ever? Not even when you were growing up?"

"Growing up? How old is this show anyway?"

"Technically… it's a little over 50 years old. But it was canceled in '89 then revived in 2005."

"How many seasons are we going to sit through?"

"Really, Oliver? Relax, we're not going to watch from the beginning. We're starting with the first season from the revival… so seven seasons."

"Wait, so if the show started in 1963 and ended in 1989, did they just re-cast the actor who played Doctor Who, or did the same actor stay on the show for 26 years?

"Oliver. His name is not Doctor Who, it's the Doctor."

"What kind of name is that?"

"And they found a way around simply re-casting actors to play the role. It's called regeneration."

"..."

"I'll explain. The Doctor is a Time Lord from a planet called Gallifrey. He steals a TARDIS, which is a time machine that allows him to travel through time and space, and flees the planet."

"So there's time travel?"

"Yes there is. The TARDIS..."

"Doesn't that get confusing?"

"What?"

"Time Travel."

"Oliver, stop interrupting me."

"Sorry."

"Ok, so the TARDIS has a chameleon circuit which allows it to take on the appearance of local objects as a disguise. But the chameleon circuit in the Doctor's TARDIS is broken, so it's stuck looking like a blue British police box."

"Hang on...so a random blue police box just… pops up in different time periods?"

"Yes, and on different planets."

"Don't the people there find it weird?"

"Oliver, shush. Time Lords don't die, they regenerate when they're mortally wounded. When they regenerate they take on a new appearance and a new personality."

"When you say new appearance, does that mean he can turn into a woman?"

"It's possible, yes."

"Oh."

"Oh?"

"Can you Imagine being a man one minute and a woman the next?"

"Oliver…"

"Sorry. Go on."

"Oh, and the Doctor doesn't like to travel alone so he always has a companion."

"And the companion is always female."

"Yes, most of the time. But there's no hanky panky between the Doctor and his companions… it's all platonic. Well except for Rose, they were in love but nothing happened between them. Which reminds me, we're going to need a box of tissues at the end of the second series."

"Honey, that all sounds wonderful, but aliens and time travel, that's really not my thing."

"Well it will be once you've given it a chance."

"Isn't there anything else we can watch together?"

"There's the spin off, Torchwood, but it's best we watch Doctor Who first."

"..."

"..."

" win."

"Ooh, you've got grumpy face."

"..."

"Awww… don't worry babe, by the third episode you won't want to stop watching."

"I doubt it."

"Let's get started!"

Fin