Last one until Tuesday! ;A;
Happy Christmas everyone! I hope you all have a great day! =3
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Being back on the TARDIS Phil and Doctor were sat in silence before Phil jumped up and ran up the stairs. They're freed the star like critter and let Zachary on board and contradicted Maggie that time machines do exist.
Having a wrapped present suddenly waved in his line of vision Doctor jumped up and looked at her. Phil hid the present behind her back and smiled. Rolling her eyes and laughing at his child like eagerness to get the present she held it out to him.
"Happy Christmas Doctor." She leant forward and gave him a light hug before standing back up straight and watching him slowly unwrap it. Unlike most people she hadn't gone overboard on the cellotape. "As I said it isn't much, but then you don't look the picky type." Phil gave a lazy shrug as Doctor came face to face with a little black book. Opening it he couldn't help but smile, "I had trouble with my memories and wouldn't like to forget them again. I hope you wouldn't too." Phil watching him turn the pages quickly.
There were all sorts of drawings in there, some from past regenerations of things that only he would know. Doctor resisted the urge to lecture her about psychic linking again. "I couldn't obviously get messages from people," Phil said while reaching up and tying her hair up. She went one better than getting a message from all his past friends. Phil instead drew them, Doctor looked up at her.
"When did you do all of these?"
"Huh when? Let me think...when I was on Earth soon before you got taken hostage and I came to the rescue." She giggled childishly and put her hands in her jumper pockets. "Oh well I'm glad you like it Doctor, night."
"But I haven't got you anything," he said after shutting the book, Phil turned around on the stairs and shook her head.
"You don't need to get me anything."
"Well I could have said the same thing about you!" He wagged a finger up at her, she grinned and shrugged.
"Well think of that as a thank you gift as well as a Christmas one. After all I don't think you realize how much you've really done for me." Phil smiled and turned to walk up the rest of the stairs.
After looking through the book for the tenth time Doctor put it down and walked along the corridor towards Phils room. Opening the door slowly, he looked around and smiled lightly when he spotted her curled up asleep. Walking in quietly he sat down on the bed, it was then that he discovered how much of a light sleeper Phil really was.
She rubbed her eyes and looked up at him, "You alright?" She sat up slowly and stretched, once she had finished trying to wake up she received a hug from him. "Erm...I can't breathe..." Phil whispered and the grip on her was loosened. Sighing contently her eyes slid shut as she leant against him.
"Happy Christmas Phil although I've not given you a present."
"You don't have to give presents for Christmas you know. You said earlier on that I better not say the favourite thing for me about the holiday was the presents." Phil opened her eyes and leaned away from him, "Your company is enough for me."
Doctor smiled and kissed her on the forehead, "Alright Phil, sorry for waking you up."
"That's alright honestly!" Phil smiled and laid back down. "What do you usually do on Christmas?"
"Well I try and do nothing really but something always happens to find me. That's why I said that all my Christmases were dramatic. But at least this one this years wasn't so dramatic...and I got a present!" Doctor rambled and then smiled happily to himself. Phil opened her eyes again and looked at him, "What's with that look?"
"You're so easily amused, it's rather cute." She yawned and sat up slightly and leant against the headboard of the bed. "What did you do last Christmas?"
"I stopped a ship crashing to Earth, rearranged a mans life the usual," Doctor shrugged. "I also made a shark act as a horse and pull me and some other people in a sleigh."
"A shark?"
"Yes Phil, a shark. You look confused, maybe you're not awake for this." Doctor mused while Phil rubbed her eyes and yawned quietly.
"Sharks fly?"
"Ok that's it I'm stopping this conversation because you're not awake for it. You struggle with concepts anyway but you're struggling more so now because you're half asleep." Doctor waved his hands at her. Laying back down she pulled the cover over her shoulders and shut her eyes.
"Was ninja training on Quinnis hard?" Phil asked, Doctor laughed lightly. He remembered telling her about Quinnis in a situation similar to this.
"Not really. It was fun though!"
"Ninja Doctor," Phil giggled quietly, "That's still as funny as the day you told me." She fidgeted slightly and looked up at him. "Where else sticks out in your mind?"
"Aww does someone want a bedtime story?"
"You woke me up, hugged me, thanked me, yes I think the least you can do is tell me of a place you've been to."
"Good point there Phil." Doctor sat in thought for a moment, Phil laid patiently waiting. "Tasak."
"Tasak?" Phil repeated the name to see if she could say it correctly. She received a thumbs up from him before he fidgeted to get comfy. "Hold on," Phil shot up from the bed suddenly, rummaging in her bag which she'd taken to Cornwall she walked up to her bedside table. Pushing things off of it Doctor looked at her, "Phil you're a messy person really aren't you?"
"Heh, shh," she giggled and plugged the mobile planetarium in. Switching off the lamp which was on her bedside table, which found itself standing on the floor, she turned the planetarium on. "Where about is it?"
"Well I would show you but as I've already said this planetarium isn't realistic at all and you know that." Doctor said while rummaging in his jacket pockets, pulling out the screwdriver he pointed it at the little sphere which made the very unrealistic stars, turn into the view they knew best. "Right," Doctor said while pointing to a small cluster of stairs. "Tasak is round about there."
"Alright."
"The planet was used as storage for the Cybermen. They built a hibernation tomb on there, this planet was also inhabited by humans."
"Oh wow, what a mix."
"I know right? But yes, they had decided to inhabit the planet too so that if the chance happened that they'd awaken, there'd be plenty of humans to convert."
"What happened?"
"What do you think happened?"
"You stepped in and pulled some heroics?"
"Indeed you are correct. Now get to sleep Phil we still have to get back for you to say bye to your family." Doctor said while she laid down and pulled the cover over her shoulders again.
"You're not complaining about the eight hours of sleep." She pointed out while he stood up and straightened his jacket out. Turning to look down at her he shook his head, "That's a first."
"I've got accustomed to your human nature kicking in and demanding eight hours wasted on just laying around." He said simply while reaching out to turn the planetarium off, Phil swatted his hand away from the plug. He tried again only to receive a similar action.
"Leave it on, I like it." Phil grinned and looked up at the ceiling, Doctor smiled and nodded. "Goodnight again Doctor."
"Night Phil!" Doctor smiled and exited the room leaving her to get back to sleep.
"It was nice of you two to come down for Christmas, where else is there for you to travel to?" Phils aunt asked while the two stood just about to leave. They'd arrived back on Boxing day morning and the family were none the wiser that they'd actually left.
Phil and Doctor exchanged a look, "We've not been to Egypt." Phil stated while rubbing her head in thought. Doctor nodded, true they hadn't visited Egypt yet although he didn't know why out of all places Phil said that for.
"Well I hope you two enjoy yourselves."
"We're not going just yet!" Doctor said while opening the door, he could already sense a lecture or some other words of parental advice to come from the woman. He didn't really want to witness the moment so he was trying to escape while he still could. "We have to go back to London and pack."
"We've not even got the tickets," Phil laughed and hugged her aunt, "I'll come back for the new year. Bye bye." Waving and walking out of the door Phil linked her arm with one of his. It was still snowing in Cornwall and with snow came ice. The two watched as people clutched onto fences to steady themselves.
"Oi oi! You two off again?" Nick slid on the ice and stopped near them. Clearly the weather had no effect on him. Pulling something out from his pocket Phil narrowed her eyes at him, "Heck I'm doing this for charity!" Nick exclaimed in his defence. There was a reason as to why he kept trying to get people to kiss him with the mistletoe, reaching into his bag on his back he pulled out a little container. "See! Proof, now get over it and kiss me." Nick said straight to the point. "Also give me money."
"I couldn't think of a better person to be doing this," Phil said while kissing him on the cheek. "That's all your getting," she muttered while reaching into her pocket and pulling some coins out. Slotting them into the container she smiled, "Bye Nick see you in the new year."
"Aye yeah alright," he nodded and shook the container it was a little more heavier than it was thanks to Phils donation. "Come on then Doc," Nick said in a jokey tone, Doctor took a step back from him. "Spoil sport, here, you two may need it more. See ya laters!" Nick exclaimed while skidding on the ice down the road.
Crumpling the mistletoe up Phil narrowed her eyes at his retreating form. "He's such a twit."
"True, but at least he's doing it for a good cause. Come along Phil, you wanted to go to Egypt did you not?"
"I just threw it out there, but yeah alright. The history interests me." Phil smiled and walked steadily after him, while still holding onto his arm. If she was going to slip and fall, she was making sure she'd take someone with her. Although Doctors balance seemed a lot more better than hers, she was slightly jealous of that.
Walking back into the TARDIS Doctor walked up to the console, "What year huh?"
"I don't mind! Surprise me."
"Nick said women liked to be surprised, and you said not to listen to him. Now you're contradicting that."
"You have a very good memory."
"I have to," Doctor smiled and watched Phil walk up the stairs to stand beside him. Waving the mistletoe at him she tiptoed and kissed him lightly and then turned to walk off up the stairs to her room. Doctor shook his head snapping him out of the slight daze, smiling rather childishly he typed on the keys in front of him. "Hold onto something up there Phil!"
"Ok!" Came the slightly muffled reply, she was in her room. Flipping a switch Doctor held onto the railing behind him as the TARDIS kicked into life.