...yeah, so my cat's been excessively adorable lately, inspiring me to write more of this. Let's face it, Six is like seventy-three percent cat anyway.
Peri woke up to find a large blond cat curled up next to her. She stared at it for a moment, then remembered the events of the previous night. So it hadn't been a dream! Grinning, she sat up and ran her fingers through the long fur, noticing how the ends curled a bit. The cat snored.
She lifted one of his front paws and let it drop back down. Giggling, she did it a few more times before she realised the snoring had stopped and the Doctor was looking at her through slitted eyes.
"Amused?" he asked.
She smiled and scratched behind his ears. "I think I like this regeneration best."
The Doctor huffed. "I didn't regenerate, it was an accident with the chameleon circuit. Weren't you listening last night?"
"I was wasted last night."
"I remember. You came back in the wee hours of the night, barefoot, singing Beyoncé's latest single and tripping over your own feet! I'm surprised you even managed to find the TARDIS on the first try. You do realise we can actually go anywhere in space and time? And here you are, going on pub crawls! Why bother leaving the planet at all? Forget the seven moons of Balkor or the Eye of Orion, it's half-price drinks at the..." Tired of the lecture, Peri started scratching his tummy. "...at the...place...could be watching the...annual...geese-juggling..." The Doctor started kneading the air with his front paws before he noticed what he was doing. "...and will you stop that?!"
"Aww, you're purring again!"
"Am not."
He purred as she switched to rubbing his cheek and twisted so he was both on his back and curled up. Peri couldn't help it- she 'aww'ed again because he just looked so damn cute. "Stop it," he snapped. "We don't have time for this, you've got to repair the chameleon circuit and reverse this."
"Me?"
"Well I can hardly do it myself in this condition! Right now, you've got the only pair of hands in the TARDIS."
"But Doctor, I don't know how to fix the circuit."
"Nonsense! You can still follow instructions, can't you? Not too hung over to listen to me?" He rolled over, stretched and stood up. "Now come on. We've wasted enough time waiting on you as it is."
Being a cat sure hadn't made him any less bossy, Peri thought. "Okay, I'll do it. But on one condition." The Doctor cocked his head at her. "You have to let me get this out of my system first."
"Get wha-"
She scooped him up in a bear hug and nuzzled his head, going, "Whoosa kitty-kitty-kitty!" Fur standing on end, the Doctor yowled, struggled free, and ran from the room, claws skidding on the slick floor. Peri laughed and followed him to the console room.
"Doctor, stop it."
"Stop what?" He batted at the tools in her hand. She moved them out of his reach, but he reached up and took a swipe a them anyway.
She pushed him away. "Stop getting in the way when I'm trying to help you." Five minutes into the repair, he'd started chasing dangling wires from a piece of equipment Peri was carrying and slid into a wall when she suddenly turned around. Between instructions, he'd batted away pieces of circuitry, hopped up on the console and sat on important buttons, tried to eat some string he'd found, and managed to electrocute himself by sniffing an exposed wire. (Peri had to do a lot of coaxing to get him to come down off the wall.) "All you're doing is making this harder."
"What did you expect?" he said, hopping into her lap. Peri moved his tail out of her face. "You're trying to do this with a cat in the room! Switch the red and blue wires..."