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Crazy and utterly deranged. Blame this on the garlic in my fridge. And my sister.
Prompt: Garlic
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The best thing about Italy, in Rose's opinion, (aside from attractive Italians named Luca, fantastic views and exquisite perfume) was the food. You could never have enough pasta.
As she sat in a small booth of a small restaurant in a small Italian town, she shovelled spaghetti into her mouth, intent on nothing else. The Doctor watched her across the table, an untouched plate in front of him. Rose couldn't tell why, but unless it was a trick of her imagination, it looked like he was glaring at it.
"Doctor?" Rose asked questioningly. "Why aren't you eating?"
Said Doctor narrowed his eyes at the hated food. "It's got garlic in it." He said simply, sitting back. "I don't like garlic."
"Why not? Are you allergic to it?"
He blinked at her, his mind registering what she had just said. "Me? Allergic to human food? Honestly Rose, I'm not so low-class as to be vulnerable to something so…primitive." He wrinkled his nose in disdain.
"Right." Rose sighed. 'Insulting species again.' She thought, noting the bitter tone in her companion's voice. She watched him over a forkful of spaghetti. "There's nothing bad about garlic. What's wrong with it?"
The Doctor stared at her incredulously. "What's wrong with it? Garlic, Rose. Garlic. What does garlic rhyme with?"
"Uh…marlic?"
"Marlic? That's not even a word. And I should know. I once studied a book called One Hundred and One Reasons Why English Rhyme is Backwards. Quite good, actually. Was a bestseller about 70 years ago. Of course, back then there was the whole literacy movement so everyone was writing books and novels and things people didn't really need, only to show their unique grasp of –"
"Doctor."
"Oh. Right." The Doctor blinked, seeming to come back to what he was really focusing on. "Where was I? Garlic." He seemed to sneer at the offending herb. "Think Rose! What else does it rhyme with?"
"I don't know, Doctor. Why don't you just tell me?"
He muttered darkly under his breath about the idiocy of humans. "Dalek, Rose! It rhymes with Dalek!"
"Oh."
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