Thrills
Chapter Five: Mission Impossible
I'm back! And when I was away I had a brilliant idea for a sequel to this! Obviously I can't tell you about it now, as it will contain spoilers. And I also bought a sonic screwdriver, so I can be just like the Doctor! Yay!
Disclaimer: Doctor Who isn't mine.
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"20p a go - right -" The Doctor inserted a pound coin into the machine, "This doesn't look too hard -"
Rose spluttered.
"Have you ever been on a crane machine before?"
"Nope! Shouldn't be too bad, though - you just need to move that claw thing and pick up one of those toys, don't you?"
"Yes. Mickey had a goon one a while ago - he was at it for half an hour and he finally managed to win me this weird one-eyed thing ... I think it was supposed to be a fish ..."
"So does anyone actually try and win things for themselves?"
"Not really, no."
The Doctor pressed the button to drop the crane. It made a feeble grab at a green bear, scratched its ear, then ascended, empty.
"I see what you mean."
Five pounds later, Rose was empty handed.
"Right, this is a complete rip-off. I'll have one more go -"
"I thought it was a rip-off?"
"It is! But it's alo very addictive!"
The Doctor slid a 20p coin into the slot and began to move the crane again. He carefully shifted it over a pink bear with its leg in the air. He'd tried for it the most, as it was the most prominent one.
The claw dipped ... it grabbed the bear ... and picked it up!
"Oh - you've got it!"
Rose was positively leaping up and down. The Doctor watched, breath held, as the bear was carried to the chute. It nearly slipped out of the claw's grasp, but it just made it.
"YESSS!" Rose threw her arms around the Doctor's neck. He bent down - with difficulty - and picked the bear up.
"Here you g - oh."
The bear was holding something. They hadn't seen it before because of the angle it had been lying at, but they could see it now.
Sewn to the bear's paws was a heart. And on the heart, in embroidered white letters, were the words 'Be Mine'.
"Hm." Rose took the bear and examined it, "Didn't see that. Well."
"D'you want it anyway?"
Rose thought. She wanted to scream 'YES' again and give the Doctor a big 'thank you' kiss, but she wasn't sure how he'd react to that. She decided to play it safe.
"You don't usually go for - erm, pink cuddly teddies, do you?"
"Not really, no ... you're the pink cuddly teddy type though, aren't you?"
"You could say that, yeah."
"He's yours, then."
"Aw, thank you!" Rose gave the Doctor a hug, "I knew that was all my money but I gave it to you ... that was really sweet of you."
"Sweet? You asked me to win it!"
"I was joking!"
The Doctor shook his head, but he was smiling.
"Well, I'm gonna buy you something," Rose insisted, "But not necessarily a cuddly toy ..."
She was eyeing a motorbike racing game.
"Oh no! Oooh, no!" The Doctor laughed, "If you race me on that, you'll only cry when I beat you!"
"'Lied the Doctor'!" Rose retorted, "Go on, I bet I'll win!"
Before the Doctor could argue, Rose pulled out a two pound coin and put it in the machine. She sat on the left-hand bike.
"Get on then, if you think you're hard enough!"
The Doctor sat on the other bike and impatiently whizzed through the selections at the beginning.
"Doctor! You just set the difficulty to 'expert'!"
"Oops! All the more satisfying when I beat you!"
Two minutes later ...
"No!" the Doctor gasped, as Rose's computerised bike whizzed past the finishing line first.
"Whooo! Who's laughing now then?" Rose cackled, "Ha! Oh, and I got a high score!"
The Doctor glared as Rose entered RMT into the machine. It sickened him. It looked completely wrong on screen...
RMD, however ...
'The Doctor' was a stupid name to share with someone, but a stupid name shared is a stupid name halved ...
The Doctor was just smiling at the names Doc and Tor when Rose slid off the bike.
"D'you wanna go on the roller coaster now?" she asked.
"Alright then. As long as I'm not going to end up covered in half-digested candyfloss."
"No, I'm fine now. Let's go and find it!"
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It shouldn't take me too long to type up the next chapter! Please review!