Next chapter, sorry, I lied! No canoeing yet! Just the Doctor jumping on a trampoline! Yay!
The Doctor's eyes widened to the size of saucers when he caught sight of the fourteen foot trampoline in the garden behind the kennels. His mouth fell open and Lucy laughed at his expression. Regaining his composure the Doctor reined in his jaw and leapt forward, clapping his hands in delight, his eyes sparkling with excitement.
"Whoopee!" he grinned and darted forward trying to kick off his converse as quickly as possible but found they were tied to tightly. He groaned in frustration and his fast fingers set to work on the knots undoing them in a matter of milliseconds.
"You seem pretty enthusiastic," Lucy commented, a bemused smile on her light features as the grown man literally bounced onto the trampoline and did a forwards roll with the momentum, "Anyone would think you hadn't been on one before."
"I have, but it was over two hundred years ago, in my younger days, haven't had time since," the Doctor shouted and whooped in joy as he bent his gangly legs and sprang several metres in the air. Lucy didn't think she'd ever seen someone jump so high, he was like a human frog. The young girl's mind quickly skipped over the fact that the man had mentioned being alive over two hundred years ago, too amused by his antics.
"Boing!" the Doctor yelled at the top of his lungs, beaming all the while. He bounced and bounced, each time going higher and higher than before. His hands wind milled in the air and his already manic hair was messed up beyond imagination. His brown locks sticking up at the oddest angles as if they could defy gravity. In fact, his whole body seemed to defy the forces of gravity as it was propelled impossibly high.
Lucy just watched in awe, her lips slightly ajar as the adult leapt on the trampoline. He seemed to be enjoying himself more than even she had ever on the elastic bed. He cheered and whooped and yelled like a five year old. The young girl didn't know what to think other than he was slightly loony.
"You gonna just stand there then or are you gonna come join me?" the Doctor bellowed as he turned a somersault and landed gracefully back on his sock clad feet.
"Er…sure," Lucy pulled off her shoes and climbed onto the blue protected edge of the trampoline, remaining there as she was slightly afraid of the nutty man.
"Well don't just sit there, bounce!" the Doctor demonstrated his words and sprang into the air again, kicking his legs out into a star jump. He then started forward and grabbed Lucy's arm pulling her onto the trampoline centre. The girl began to flex her knees in time with the Doctor's loopy jumps but didn't allow her toes to leave the floor. The Doctor paused and frowned at her.
"Why aren't you jumping?"
"I'm kinda…worried?"
"Worried, why on earth would you be worried when you're with me? I can fend of Daleks, battle Slitheen, tame werewolves…what more could you want?" the man demanded, jumping again and grinning.
"You're the reason I'm worried, you're kinda batty," Lucy replied and then a thought struck her, "Werewolves?"
"Batty? Batty?! I'm offended! Batty is a word for weird old women that walk around with tea cosies on their heads and cats all over the place. I would've accepted, loopy, manic, crazy, wild, mad, hyper active, fruit loops, peculiar, odd, abnormal, eccentric, barmy, loony, even round the bend but not….batty!" the Doctor looked indignant.
"Yeah, well I was never any good at English," Lucy shrugged, a bit overwhelmed by the man's expansive vocabulary.
"Not good at English? Neither was I, stupid subject, hated it all the way through the TLA, load of cods wallop. Now science, that's another matter, best scientist in the academy! D'you like science, Lucy?" The Doctor asked, his eyes taking on that passionate flare again.
"S'ok, I suppose," Lucy replied, non committal. The Doctor looked aghast.
"Ok? Geez, what do they teach the youth of today. Science is all explosions and fire. How can you not like it?"
"Explosions and fire? Yeah right, at our school the nearest to a fire you get is a tea light which we use to evaporate water," the girl retorted.
"Tea light?! Evaporating water? Where's the fun in that? I nearly blew up the school with one of the experiments I did, never mix potassium and acid, not a good idea….no, no, no!" the man jumped again after momentarily stopping to look shocked at Lucy's revelation of her science lessons, "I can show you some stuff! Wanna see how you can blow up a bottle on the fire?"
"Oh yeah!" Lucy grinned.
"Right, but first I have some more bouncing to do. Come on!" the Doctor grabbed her arms and bent his knees ready to spring. The two of them leapt into the air and landed again.
Soon the two were having a competition to see who could go the highest. The Doctor was winning by miles, much to Lucy's disappointment. He just seemed to be made of rubber. Springing off the bed with ease, no effort required. Finally, the girl had had enough and stopped bouncing, trying to catch her breath.
"Tired already?" the Doctor smirked, barely even breaking into sweat. Lucy felt beads of perspiration trickle down her forehead and off her nose.
"Thirsty, d'you wanna drink? I can bring it out here," Lucy offered, climbing off the trampoline.
"Yes please, water will do thanks!" the Doctor continued his dancing jumps on the trampoline whilst Lucy entered the house.
When she came into the kitchen she was net with the sight of her mum putting the kettle on and Rose wolfing down some cereal. The woman smiled sheepishly as she appeared, looking at her bowl.
"It's not what it seems, I'm all for the camping experience but I was hungry," she babbled, "Besides the boys will never no."
"Well, I've come to get drinks for me and the Doctor. He's in the garden on the trampoline," Lucy replied. Rose spluttered into her milk and almost choke on a Shreddie before managing to speak.
"On a trampoline?"
"Yes, he seems to be enjoying it – a lot," Lucy answered and began pouring drinks.
"The Doctor on a trampoline! I have to see this!" Rose leapt to her feet just in time to hear a high pitched scream issue from the garden. The Doctor! Did he scream like that?
Rose charged into the garden and came across a sheepish looking Doctor who blushed as he caught sight of her.
"What happened?" she asked breathlessly, "Not just anything makes you scream."
"Er…well…" the Doctor paused for a moment and then said, "This wolf came and attacked me…." Rose's mind rolled over the possibilities and then grinned when she realised what had attacked the Time Lord.
"Was he like this high?" she made the gesture with her hands.
"Yeah!"
"Golden eyes?"
"Yeah!"
"Hairy?"
"Very and I had to fend it off with my bare hands, you should have seen its teeth…."
"Doctor, the wolf licked you didn't it?"
"Maybe."
"That was Merlin….and you screamed!" Rose laughed unable to contain her glee.
"It was big and he jumped on me!"
"What was it again…oh yeah…. a little girl, nine, maybe ten years old. I'm seeing pigtails and a frilly skirt" the woman giggled, remembering Mickey and the rats.
The Doctor pouted, "Don't you go nicking my lines, make up your own!"
"You know, I would have been more sympathetic if you'd said a tiny Tibetan spaniel jumped on you," Rose retorted.
"Hey, Rose, I may have had a moment of weakness there but I would not be afraid of a spaniel, give me a little credit!" the Doctor answered, looking indignant.
"Wait until you meet, Jeff," Rose grinned.
"Who's Jeff?" he frowned.
"He's…" Suddenly a flying ball of fur appeared from inside the house and hurled itself at the Doctor. The vicious animal sunk its teeth into the Time Lord's arm and he howled in pain.
"Ooh," Lucy winced as the Doctor tried shaking his arm violently to rid himself of the dog attached to his arm. "That's gotta hurt."
"Hey, Doc, Rose! You just left me! What's going on…oh…?" Jack appeared in the garden and caught sight of the scene, "Ouch."
"Get it off!" the Doctor yelled, jumping in circles.
"He's not an it, he's a he," Lucy offered.
"I don't care!"
"Watch it, you'll hurt him," the Doctor jerked his arm one last time and the dog released its grip, zooming through the air and landing several feet away. All three women gasped and ran over to the animal's side, worried for its welfare.
"Oh, thanks a bunch! I'm the one the midget dog attacked and I'm the one who's bleeding everywhere!" The Doctor pouted and Jack shook his head, smiling.
"Here, let me help, Doc, you just gotta learn that with women, the animal always comes first."
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