Heya guys! Guess what? Its a quick update! Thanks to all the reviewers who are still actually reading this story despite long updates! hehe! Um...sorry I lied, no paintballing this chapter. I kinda got swept up in the moment. Hope you like oh and I have to give some mention to my friend Sam for giving me the very wrong line in this chapter! Her idea, not mine!
A cool breeze swept over Jack and he murmured peacefully in his sleep. Something soft tickled his ear and his eyes flickered open, slowly focussing on the small pointed face of a hedgehog. Jack took a moment to register the mammal and the hedgehog a few seconds to realise this wasn't a potential home. The creature let out a terrified squeak and scarpered. Jack leapt back to avoid the prickly animal and placed his hand right on the retreating back of another hedgehog.
"Argh!" he yelped and drew his injured limb to him, "Ow, spiky" He nursed his hand and took in his surroundings. He was lying in the middle of the field. The tent was about a hundred metres to his left and he could hear no sound from it. Checking his multifunctional watch he discovered it was seven o'clock. "Bastards," he muttered.
When he sat up in his sleeping bag, hair all over the place, he found it covered in dew, "Bollocks."
"You know," he yelled angrily, "If you wanted some time on your own together you could've just asked!"
Suddenly the Doctor's head popped out of the top of the zip, like a meerkat, and spotted Jack, "'Scuse me, trying to have some private time, here."
"You wish," Rose tried to say but was muffled by the Doctor's hand and it came out 'mmph'. The Doctor flashed a cheesy grin at the captain.
"We were trying to help you get in touch with nature," he said.
"Yes," Jack held up his hand, "I touched it alright, many times."
"Eew, that's jut gross." Rose peeped out and made a face.
"I also had a very unpleasant encounter with Mr Spiky and Mr Prickles or it may have been Mrs. How do you tell the sex of a hedgehog?"
"Did you know, that one in five ducks are gay," the Doctor stated randomly, "True fact."
"Ok, I feel like breakfast."
"Me too, what are we having?" the Time Lord agreed, looking at Rose.
"Erm….why are you asking me?"
"Because you're a woman," Jack smiled.
"I cannot believe you just said that!" Rose glared daggers at the man.
"Actually, what I think he means is you organised this trip so shouldn't you have gathered the food for all the meals so its all ready prepared?"
"Oh, right, I knew there was something I forgot. Must be a trip to Tescos," Rose declared.
"Yay! Tescos!" the Doctor grinned.
The three of them had to walk into the nearest village and catch a bus into town. They arrived at the supermarket and the Doctor immediately grabbed a trolley.
"Bagsie being pusher!" he grinned like a child.
"Ok," Rose raised her eyebrow and shrugged.
"Um…" Jack had just spotted a very good looking guy standing in a café, "I'm just gonna go over here. Meet you here for breakfast."
Rose and the Doctor entered the shop and headed for the fruit section. Baskets and trays of different coloured fruits lined the shelves: pears, oranges, apples, pineapples and bananas...
"Bananas!"
"How did I know you were gonna say that?" Rose groaned as the Doctor began piling the yellow fruit into the trolley, "That's enough." The woman grabbed his hand and steered him away.
"Aw, no, we need more, that won't last me a day!"
"Five bunches?!"
"Ok, two days."
"We need proper food: bread, meat, eggs," the woman stated, "Let's go."
The Doctor ran little along the empty aisle and then jumped on the end of the trolley propelling it forwards. The Doctor whooped in delight, enjoying whizzing along.
"Doctor stop it. Don't be so childish. And watch out for that woman!" Rose screeched the last bit as a doddery old lady appeared at the end of the aisle, intent on searching for cat food and not noticing the seemingly middle aged man flying towards her on the back of a trolley.
"Uh oh," the Time Lord gulped and tried steering the trolley with his weight. The cart tipped dangerously to the right and nearly flipped up.
"Careful!" Rose yelled as the Doctor dropped his feet onto the floor and dragged them on the slippery surface until he came to a juddering stop.
"Phew, that was a close one."
"Oh, hello, dear, have you seen the cat food? I can never remember where they keep it." The woman finally noticed the Doctor a smiled fondly completely unaware of how close she'd been to being knocked flying.
"Um…I'm not sure…sorry…possibly in the pet food section," the Doctor suggested.
"Oh, good idea….and where's that?"
"Two to the left of this aisle, love."
"Thank you" she said and left.
"You're an idiot!" Rose hit the Time Lord on the arm.
Prancing around the cake section the alien's eyes grew to the size of dinner plates and he licked his lips ravenously. He rifled through the stacks of éclairs, brownies and flapjacks occasionally pulling one out and asking Rose, "Can we get these?" to which she would always reply no.
"Why not?" the Doctor whined when she turned down his request for gingerbread men.
"Because, they all have too much sugar in," Rose answered.
"Please, just the gingerbread! Pwetty pwease with a cherry on top?" the Doctor made puppy dog eyes and pouted.
"Oh, fine," Rose relented, how could she refuse that?
"Yay!"
The two of them, laden with bags, met Jack in the Tesco café. He was sitting with his hands around a cup of coffee, one bandaged from his earlier ordeal. Another man was with him. He had short blonde hair and startlingly vivid blue eyes that if you squinted slightly almost looked violet. He had a strong jaw and a muscled body from what Rose could see through his clothes. She could tell why Jack liked him.
"Hey, guys, I'd like you to meet Johnny Baxter," the captain introduced the man.
"Hi," Rose smiled shyly.
"How d'you do?!" the Doctor grinned manically at the stranger. The man raised an eyebrow slightly, "Jack's new friend I see."
"Um…we're not," the man was quick to cut off that idea.
So he was straight. Nice. Rose thought to herself. Not that she would dream of doing anything with him. But it couldn't hurt to make the Doctor jealous.
"Anyway, what's for breakkie?"
"Well, anything on this menu," Jack said.
"Oh, right! Full English then! Oh, wait, no, pancakes! I love the pancakes. Or omelette! Always enjoy one of them in the morning. What are you guys having? Johnny, anything you recommend. I don't come to Tescos that often. Not around Earth much. Usually eat on the TARDIS." As the Doctor babbled the stranger watching grew even more intrigued.
Hehe, I love the bit where Janitor and Doctor Cox put JD in the carpark in his bed. You may have seen some slight references there to Spooks. I think I'll just warn you now. I am, although this is a completely DOCTOR WHO based story. It may have little hints or maybe even characters from my other fav tv programmes!
Robin Hood on SATURDAY! Ooh, I found out that it is quite likely that when Dave T leaves then Harry Lloyd is gonna be the next Doctor! How cool?! Apparently he was recommended by both DT and RTD. REVIEW!
