Doctor and Assistant, Chap. 22
Chapter 22: Have A Holly Jolly Witchmas
Caution: SOME MATURITY IS IN THIS CHAPTER.
/the Doctor\\
***Time Jump (3 Weeks Later)***
The Doctor jumped out of bed, changed into his suit, brushed his teeth, and ran to his girlfriend who was watching the monitor -all in under 6 minutes.
"What?" she asked, turning to face him completely.
"Your cast!"
"What about it?"
He finally reached her, grabbed her good hand, and began running with her to the medbay.
"Can you tell me? It's my cast, right?" she laughed.
He stopped running, turning to her with an anxious smile. "We can take your cast off now!"
"How?"
"Well, for starters, a saw."
"'Saw'?"
"Yeah. Its a machine that sounds like a lawnmower and slices through objects."
Derpy gulped loudly.
"I won't let it get you, my dear. Do I seem like that type of person?" He began running to the medbay again. "And I have something planned afterwards."
"Which is...?"
"Secret."
Derpy groaned. "The one time you make up a plan and it's not in the heat of the moment," she giggled.
"Oh, shut up, you love me," he teased playfully, now running backwards as he turned to face her.
"You're right, I do," she laughed.
/Derpy\\
***Time Jump (1 Hour Later)***
A light and peaceful snow fell onto the ground and the Doctor, holding her hand, almost literally bounced out of the TARDIS.
"Why are you so excited over this plan?" she asked him with a giggle.
"It's Christmas Eve, silly!"
"And?"
"Don't you do things like that over in Equestria?"
"Yeah, duh. What's so good about Christmas on Earth?"
"Well, the children get presents and whatnot. And it seems in Manhattan, they were hit hard by the shoppers! Like a herd of suicidal cows knocking everything out of their way to get to that cliff."
Derpy sighed. "Not an allusion I wanted to know."
"Yeah," he inhaled through his teeth in a half-sigh, "not the best of 'em all."
"Anyways, for the adults?"
"Right, right. They get to enjoy the holiday cheer!"
Derpy shook her head to hide a smile. "I swear, Doctor, you're such a child - and I love every bit of it."
"That's good. You'd probably have to wait until my next regeneration for it to change. And only Gallifrey knows how long that'll be..." he trailed off. "Anyways. How about, since Scarlet is sick with Lilly and Hydran watching over her, we can enjoy ourselves with a day on the town?"
"And what do you suppose we do?" she asked.
He leaned closer to her. "Whatever we need to," he said huskily.
"You're so cute," she whispered, "especially when you say things like that."
He rolled his eyes, embracing his assistant.
"What about the rest of our crew?" she asked.
"I already told Lilly I had originally planned for us 4, well, 5, counting Rachel, to go, but she declined. She wanted us to have some alone time."
"That's what everyone's doing," Derpy giggled.
"And then, as you know, Scarlet is sick, and Hydran can't really go outside without attracting attention."
Derpy nodded.
"Oh, and another good part of Christmas?"
"What is it?"
"Snow."
"No way! Is it the same?"
Before the the Doctor could react to her question she grabbed a few snowballs and threw them at him. He gasped sarcastically, running to the opposite side of the TARDIS.
Suddenly a snowball flew over the TARDIS and landed on the top of her head. She shrieked, laughing. She ran over to his side of the TARDIS and launched a few at his chest and he fell down onto his back in defeat.
"Where's my white flag?" he asked sarcastically.
"Knowing you, it's probably in your pockets," she giggled, sitting next to him. "You know, I can get used to this entire Christmas-with-hands thing."
"So, are you used to snow on Earth?"
"Sort of. Why-"
-the Doctor laughed, throwing his last snowball high up into the air. Then, with a buzz of his sonic screwdriver, the ball exploded into a white fluff and fell onto them.
"Hey, no fair!" she whined sarcastically. "You're an alien!"
"Hey, so are you!"
"But you're a cooler alien."
He rolled his eyes. "You could fly."
"You are a Time Lord."
"You were a Pegasus."
"You have a box that travels through time!"
"And space," he added sheepishly.
"Oh, shut up," Derpy smiled, kissing his cheek.
He blushed, sitting up and draping hand arms casually around her shoulders. "Hey," he smiled, tracing patterns on her thigh, "I was thinking we could head out pretty soon."
"Mmhmm? And what can we do?"
"Derpy, what is with you and formal invitations?" he chuckled softly. "Would you like to have our first date today?"
"Didn't we already have one?"
"Yeah, but not really. We were disturbed by some Angels. So I automatically told myself 'hey, this doesn't count'."
"So, basically, a redo?"
"You just made me feel so bloody guilty," he laughed weakly.
Derpy blushed, looking down before smiling up at him. "I would love to."
He linked their lips together shortly. "Good. Suppose we change into some warmer clothes?"
"Okay," she smiled, letting him pull her up to her feet.
Now in a long-sleeved black sweater, black boots, dark jeans, and gray gloves/scarf combination, Derpy walked our of her room and saw the Doctor leaning against the wall across from the door.
"Oh! You're done!" he grinned, jolting from his slouch to an upright position.
She twirled in a quick circle shyly. "How do I look?"
"Gorgeous," he smiled earnestly, giving her a quick and deep kiss.
"Why didn't you change into anything warmer?" she asked in return.
"I'm a Time Lord. Coldness is the least of my worries," he replied.
"And everyone knows we'll be outside?"
"I told Lilly and Hydran, and left Scarlet a note since she was asleep. The TARDIS will translate it for her when she wakes up because I accidentally wrote it in Gallifreyan and I'm too lazy to rewrite it," he rambled in one breath, his madman grin ever present.
"Good," Derpy smiled, touching the tips of their noses together. "I'm so excited!"
"Me too," he laughed, kissing the top of her head and holding her hand, swinging it back and forth as they walked.
The Doctor held out the door for her her and together they hopped out with a laugh. "So, where are we going first?" she asked.
He pondered it in his head before smiling. "We can just walk around and go wherever we want to. I mean, I got a psychic paper to help."
"Oh, Doctor," she smiled back, leaning lightly against him. "I love you."
"I love you too, dear." He wrapped his left arm around her waist and held her to him tightly.
Together they ventured into town. The sky was a pale blue, the clouds a dark gray. Kids laughed and played happily, romping through the closed streets. Music was playing through speakers and couples were dancing. Everyone had smiles on their faces.
Derpy looked at the Doctor who was already looking down at her. "Beautiful, isn't it?" he asked. "You know, I came here once. Encountered some Daleks trying to build the Empire State Building."
"Oh! The one with the pig-men?" she asked.
He nodded. "Yup!"
"You're insane," she giggled.
"You're the same," he laughed.
(Author's Note: Okay whoever got that reference to the awesome YouTube video "Wholock: The Musical" deserves a high-five.)
"Am not!" she grinned.
"Really? You have my smile."
Derpy pursed her lips softly but the smile broke through and shone. She tilted her head up a bit and planted a sweet kiss on his lips that she wanted to last forever.
He looked down, smiling at her. "Have you ever ice-skated before?" he asked out of the blue.
"Doctor, I've only been human while I'm with you. Ponies don't use them, remember?"
He laughed again, continuing his walk. "Wanna try?"
"Try to use ice skates?" He nodded. "Be ready to catch me, then, because if I fall I'm blaming you - twice."
(Author's Note: so many references! Talk about some Flesh and Stone!)
So they began walking to a nearby outdoor rink, watching the people around them and keeping small talk going, when the Doctor's form stiffened and he froze.
"Doctor?" Derpy asked, stepping in front of him.
His gaze was locked onto something far off to the right.
Derpy placed her hands against his chest, feeling his mesmerizing heartbeat. "Doctor, come on, what's wrong?"
"...Nothing. Lets go." His smile was forced.
She dropped her hands, linking his and hers together. "Not until you say what happened."
"I saw someone. Or, at least, I thought I did," he rambled, squeezing her hand and walking again.
"Hmm."
But Derpy kept walking. Trying to ignore how skittish the Doctor was, she watched everything around them instead, accidentally stepping on his foot. He flinched slightly and Derpy automatically gasped an apology before he laughed: "I'm alright."
"Can... Can you tell me who you thought you saw?"
"I wouldn't want to scare you, my dear."
"Remember, Doctor? It's been 8 months of non-stop traveling for us! We've seen more than the average eye."
He laughed vibrantly, his arm now resting around her shoulders. "Do you believe in witchcraft?"
She paused. "Witchcraft?"
"Like, witches using voodoo dolls and casting spells they've mixed in cauldrons?"
"I guess, sort of. I mean, does Lilly count?"
"I don't think so. At least, not in this manner of speaking for the topic."
"Well... Then, no."
He paused, pursing his lips expressionlessly. "Okay," he nodded.
Derpy waited for him to dwell further into the topic but it didn't come. "Why do you ask?"
"Oh, no reason," he said, obviously lying.
Derpy punched his shoulder playfully. "Come on, Doctor, you can't possibly think that'd work with me. Remember? 8 months and 3 days!"
The Doctor laughed nervously, a frightened gleam in his eyes. "Did I ever tell you about the time I met William Shakespeare?"
/the Doctor\\
"Well, no..., but can you tell me anyways?" Derpy asked.
The Doctor nodded, scouting out a bench for them to sit on. After finding a reasonable seat the Doctor sat her down next to him. "Okay. Well, I was with my second companion. Nice woman named Martha Jones. She was an actual doctor - well, not at the time, but she is now!"
"Good for her," Derpy smiled as an excuse to move closer to him. She'd gotten used to him rambling around the subject and purposely going off-topic.
"Yes, good for her. Anyways, back on topic, silly old me. The main reason I asked you that was because of the sole fact Martha and I had been confronted by witches who were manipulating Shakespeare and making him write an evil spell," he explained in one breath. "And... We wouldn't have made it out alive if not for William's brilliant mind."
"Really?" she gasped.
"Yeah, and Shakespeare seemed a bit smitten towards Martha. Poorly for him, though, we couldn't affect his life in any ways or forms."
Derpy rolled her eyes, her hand falling flat against the snow next to her on the bench. The Doctor laughed at her reaction. "But what does witchery have to do with what you just saw?"
He paused. "I love you, Derpy, and I would never say anything or do anything to put you in danger. Well, never intentionally."
Derpy switched to sitting on his leg, kissing his lips shortly. "Just tell me."
The Doctor drew in a deep breath. "We were confronted by 3 witches: Mother Doomfinger, Mother Bloodtide, and Lilith. No, not our Lilith, a different Lilith. And... yeah. I thought I just saw one," he shrugged.
"How did you get rid of them?"
"I locked them in a ball inside of the TARDIS attic."
"...Is that all?"
"That is all."
Derpy's hand traced his sharp jawline. "Are you sure?"
"As sure as I could be."
"I believe you," she admitted.
He grinned triumphantly. "Can we get back to our date now?"
She nodded, resting her head in between his shoulder and his neck, letting out a sigh before standing up. "And where are we going?"
"Ice skating," he smiled, taking her hand.
(4 Minutes Later)
"I think your actually getting the hang of it!" the Doctor exclaimed, holding both of her hands in his.
Derpy giggled. "Don't jinx me!"
"Pfft," he rolled his eyes sarcastically. Derpy kissed his cheek, and out of surprise a light blush spread around his face. She grinned.
"You're adorable," she said.
He laughed, spinning her as they followed the rink's path and curved to the left. "You're adorable-er."
"Because that's a word," she laughed.
"It is in my book."
Derpy laughed freely again. "Hey, I have a question."
"Mmhmm?"
"I know this is a natural dating question that everyone asks their other, but why did you decide to kiss me? Like, when did you find out you had a crush on me?"
He kissed the tip of her nose, swinging her outwards when they reached the next turn on the rink. He joined her back to him, and caught her when she nearly fell. "It was when you asked me to accompany you on Hearts and Hooves day even though we were humans. Well, on Earth, at least, cause I'm a Time Lord. From then on out, I was falling for you over and over again," he said huskily.
Derpy snickered.
"And it seems to be a long-term effect. You've taken my hearts, Derpy."
That's when she blushed.
"So, what about you?"
Derpy smiled. "One month after we began traveling. I saw you save the little girl's life from a Cyberman and I was just in awe."
The Doctor grinned at the memory. "Hey, how about we get off of the rink and-"
"-WHOOPS!" a woman gasped suddenly, running into the Doctor. He fell with Derpy in his grasp to the ice, feeling something plucked from his head.
The Doctor quickly turned to see who had run into him but all he saw was a black cloak, pointed fingernails painted black, and tweezers just barely covered completely with a thin piece of hair.
His hair.
"Derpy, get her!" was all he remembered saying before the intensity set in.
/Derpy\\
The Doctor said something but she had read his expression well enough to know this wasn't normal. She was already rushing, using railings to propel her forwards. Everyone quickly dispersed from the rink.
The Doctor caught up with the woman and grabbed her wrist, stopping her from moving. Derpy stopped when she reached them.
"What're we doing?" she asked breathlessly.
The Doctor stayed silent, studying the young woman's features intensely and pushing her out of the ring. Derpy felt a pang of jealousy but wiped it away almost immediately.
"She's a Carrionite," the Doctor muttered.
"How nice of you to notice!" the girl smiled. "I've missed you. And whatever happened to that Martha Jones girl?"
"What are you doing on Earth?" the Doctor asked, holding her still.
"It's simply lovely."
"Come on, Lilith, you know I am not messing around!"
"Lilith...?" Derpy heard herself ask.
/the Doctor\\
"I see you've told another about me," Lilith grinned. She held out a free finger, pointing at his assistant.
"Don't you dare!"
"Doctor?" Derpy asked, clinging onto his arm.
"I do dare. Instead of on 4, on 2 legs she moves, I name thee Ditzy Doo Hooves!"
Derpy began falling to the ground but the Doctor, letting go of Lilith, held Derpy to him in a tight and secure grasp.
"Funny. Again, she's only asleep!" Lilith laughed. "Out of her time AND place! Doctor, what have you been doing?"
"She's not from Earth," he stated. "Now answer my question."
"The Carrionites were freed, but only I and my Mothers. We 3 split up in search of you, and now I've found you."
"Who possibly could've freed you? You were in the attic!"
"Someone with new words, a wider vocabulary. Someone with words which can shimmer and sparkle. Someone who claimed, and turned out to be, better than Shakespeare himself."
"And who is this?"
"He called himself ' the Master'," Lilith smiled dreamily, "and he was wonderful."
"What did he say?" he asked, standing after setting his assistant on the ground.
That snapped her back into reality. "Nothing. It doesn't matter."
"What are you trying to do?!"
"We are trying to get to you, Doctor... And now we know you have 2 hearts. We also know your past...," she murmured, placing a finger on his chest and pulling herself closer to him. "And we know about your lives."
"Stop," he growled.
She pulled away. "The Master warned you'd be like that. With your fancy girlfriend you won't let anyone else in."
"How did he know about Derpy?"
"He said there's a little birdie who tells him everything," she smirked. "Oh, and Doctor, what a past you have... we learned your name."
The Doctor stalled, his breathing weak. They couldn't know! "But... The Master, the Master doesn't know my name! I never told him!"
"Doctor, you don't know...?"
"The naming won't work on me!" the Doctor argued.
"With dangers trailing not far from your dorm, I name thee the Oncoming Storm!"
/(New!)Lilith\\
The Doctor fell to the ground next to Derpy. It wasn't his real, true name, but it was close. He was known as the Oncoming Storm. If you ask anyone or anything in the solar system about the Doctor, they'd refer to him as the Oncoming Storm.
It'd only work for a few moments. He was stronger than the others. Now was her chance.
Lilith bent down in front of the fallen Time Lord, plucked a second piece of hair from his head, and after retrieving her wooden doll from her dress tied it around the head. After knotting it tightly, she retrieved a pin and stabbed the right leg eight times, as the Master had taught her.
One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four.
The Doctor groaned out of pain and Derpy sat up. Lilith fled.
/Derpy\\
The Doctor lay on his side next to her, his hands scrunched up against his chest. He didn't seem peaceful, though, he looked like he wanted to wake up. His eyes were noticeably moving under their lids and a small, weak groan emerged from his mouth.
"Hey, hey, Doctor, come on... Come on," she said, shaking his shoulder lightly. "Doctor..."
The Doctor's eyes shot open. "Derpy! Where's Derpy? Is Derpy okay?!"
"Doctor, I'm alright," she laughed, hugging him. "Is that how you usually wake up when I'm not around?"
"...Maybe."
"Aw," she said, snuggling closer to him, "that's adorable."
The Doctor tightened his grip around her, going limp in one exhale. "I just don't want anything to happen to you."
Derpy giggled, kissing his cheek. "Are you okay? And what happened to me?"
"Yes, I'm okay. And it's the power of a name. Works only once, and it's the oldest trick in the book," he explained into her hair. "That was the witch-Lilith."
"And What irony it is that you explained her to me the moment she came. Did you summon her or something?"
"Hope not," he laughed, kissing her softly before letting go of her.
Derpy stood up, waiting for the Doctor to do so as well. However, he only gave her a questioning glare. "Are you going to get up?"
The Doctor frowned. "I... I can't."
"What do you mean 'you can't'?" Derpy asked.
"Derpy, I mean I can't. I can't get up. I cant feel my leg."
Derpy "aw"ed sadly, kneeling next to the Doctor. He sat up and she wrapped his arm around her shoulders. "Good thing I'm here," she whispered into his ear.
He laughed, allowing Derpy to pick him up. Although resting his weight upon his assistant, the Doctor felt a shock of numbing pain run up his right leg, leaving fire in it's wake. He let out a gasp and fell back down, Derpy standing still above him with a frown.
"Doctor, you weren't lying," she frowned.
"Really, I didn't know," he said sarcastically, trying to push himself up.
"Wow, Doctor. In pain and able to be sarcastic at the same time."
"I'm a Time Lord. We do that," he said earnestly before chuckling to himself.
Derpy extended her arm and he graciously took it, pulling himself up and then groaning through his pain.
"I have to keep going," he told Derpy. "We need to get back to the TARDIS. The medbay will have something; it always does."
"Doctor," Derpy sighed, "what do we do about Lilith? Do you think the Mothers are coming too?"
"Would you like the truth?"
"Yes, please."
"...I think so."
***Time Jump (12 Minutes Later)***
"Witches?" Lilly asked.
The Doctor slipped a syringe into his leg and groaned through the pain of the numbing solution he had injected. "Yeah," he muttered in response.
"And how do we get rid of them?" Scarlet asked, coughing slightly afterwards.
"Words." He swung his legs over the side of a second medbay-bed and Derpy rushed to him. "No, no," he said, holding up his hand.
"You're okay?"
"Yeah, I just needed some medicine," he nodded.
"So..., how did you get hurt?" Lilly asked after a pause.
"I'm thinking it was Lilith. The witch-Lilith," the Doctor admitted. "Took some of my hair and then BAM! You got yourselves a DNA replication module."
They all glared at him nonchalantly, a confused gleam in their eyes.
He rolled his eyes and exhaled. "Fine. Voodoo."
Derpy giggled, taking his arm and looping hers around his. "Doctor, we need to go and stop them. And how do we do that?"
"Lilly, what tricks have you got up your sleeve today, my dear?" the Doctor asked her.
"What does that mean?" Lilly responded.
"Think, think. Listen: we need to defeat the Carrionites one last time. In 1599 England when I and Martha first met them, they unleashed the Carrionites, the actual forms. They were like skeletal ravens flying hellishly through the stadium."
Lilly paused for a few moments. "I could use... Mind over matter. And... Oh! Mind over matter, telekinesis, and mind reading," Lilly smiled. "Two are harder than the one."
"How would they work?" Hydran asked.
"Mind over matter is basically pushing away your emotions to focus on the task at hand; you don't care how you feel until the situation is over and done with. Telekinesis, I will be able to pick things up. And then mind reading..., if I am reading their mind I can know their plan as long as there are no locked doors."
The Doctor nodded. "Hydran, stay and look after Scarlet. Scarlet, stay put. Nowhere but the medbay; you are sick. Derpy and Lilly, come with me."
He stood up completely, grabbing the 2 girl's hands and clamping his around them.
"Avante!" he yelled happily, running out of the TARDIS.
/(New!)Lilith\\
"Come with me, my Mothers and feel the Earth beneath your feet once more! The Doctor is found!" Lilith called out. "Mother Doomfinger and Mother Bloodtide, stop your searches, for I have found the Master's requested person! The Doctor is found!"
/the Doctor\\
The Doctor felt something buzz in his brain. He froze, completely and utterly confused.
"Doctor?" Derpy asked.
The Doctor leaned against the controls and spun a few levers. "I think that the TARDIS is communicating with me."
/Derpy\\
"What?" Derpy gasped.
Lilly froze. "That buzzing in your brain? Me too."
The Doctor grinned excitedly. "I'm helping the reception. It sounds fuzzy..."
"Can you tell me what she is saying?" Derpy requested.
Lilly exhaled shakily, somehow with a different persona than the Doctor who had the same thing happening. "The TARDIS is saying that Lilith has summoned the Mothers, who are unleashing the Carrionites..., and they're all going after the Doctor."
/the Master\\
"Master!" Lilith called out.
"Yes, my dear?" he answered through an intercom that was wired into an earpiece (which was being worn by all 3 Carrionites).
"Say the words!"
The Master cleared his throat, reading a slip of paper Lilith had written out for him. "The light of Shadmock's hollow moon doth shine onto a point in space betwixt Dravidian shores, Dravidian shores linear five-nine-three-oh-one-six and strikes the fulsome grove of Rexel Four."
/the Doctor\\
Screams erupted outside.
"What is that?!" Lilly gasped.
"That's our cue," the Doctor said in a forced whisper. He ran outside with the girl's in tow and saw the clouds had turned a deep dark gray, and Carrionites flew rapidly throughout their visions. They soared through the sky, screeching and howling.
"And those are the Carrionites," Lilly muttered.
"Correct," the Doctor frowned.
"And how in the name of Celestia are we going to defeat them?" Derpy asked.
The Doctor pulled out of his pocket the ball he had originally trapped the Carrionites in. "This beauty, of course."
"How...?" Lilly asked. "Your pocket...?"
"I'm a Time Lord. Everything is bigger on the inside - it's just what we do."
Derpy and Lilly laughed.
The Doctor then frowned. "But we can't do it yet."
"What?" Derpy exclaimed.
"Derpy, my dear... You once asked me what kind of man I am. And... And I am the man who gives everyone a chance. Just no seconds."
"But you've given them a chance already," Lilly reminded him.
"And I realize now I've never given them one in the first place," he whispered. "And I realize now I was wrong."
Derpy pulled him into a short yet passionate kiss. "Doctor, make sure you never change."
He laughed, blushing. "I won't."
Lilly stood there with her arms crossed and a large grin on her face. "You two are perfect."
Derpy giggled embarrassedly. "Everyone, and I mean everyone is saying that."
Lilly stuck out her tongue teasingly, then watched the Carrionites in silence.
The Doctor walked to Lilly, knelt next to her, and rested a hand on her shoulder. "Hey, what's wrong?"
She looked over and hugged him weakly before pulling away. "I just find it weird how they can be so incredibly hostile and dangerous to everyone, but when I look at them I think they're beautiful."
"No, no, there is something else... Lilly, please tell me?" the Doctor requested.
Lilly exhaled shakily to keep her composure. "I don't want anything to happen to you..."
The Doctor pulled her into a comforting hug. "Why would that happen?"
"The TARDIS said that the Carrionites are coming for you. Not me, not Derpy, not Scarlet or Hydran or anyone else, you. And I feel something's about to happen."
The Doctor kissed the top of his daughter's head. "Hey, don't worry about me. I'm over 900 years old. I'm sure to know a trick or two." Lilly laughed and he let go, ruffling the preteens hair slightly. "My main priorities are you and Derpy. Trust me."
Lilly nodded, ruffling the Doctor's hair too. "Revenge," she stated with a giggle.
The Doctor stood up after exchanging smiles with his daughter one last time, walking a few seconds until he was directly underneath the Carrionites' cloud's center.
"Now, Carrionites, I am demanding you to stop!" he yelled.
Both Mothers, Bloodtide and Doomfinger emerged from the dark depths of the cloud with Lilly trailing behind. They hadn't changed into their real forms like the others, so they all looked the same old age.
"Yes, you have heard me. I'm back, girls, and I'm not looking to fight. I'll give you one chance, or..."
"'Or' what? Lilith, Doomfinger, do you hear this Time Lord?" Mother Bloodtide cackled. "Doctor, you don't even have any useful weapons!"
"You want to destroy and kill the Doctor under the name of the Master," Lilly murmured in one exhale.
Mother Doomfinger blinked a few times, shock exclaiming itself in her expression. "How could you possibly know that?"
The Doctor grinned. "I suppose you could say, 'its witchcraft'."
/Lilly\\
Lilly extended her hands. Feeling her power flowing through her veins and trailing up her arms, she blew all three witches back around a several-ten feet (Author's Note: a.k.a 30. I don't even know if that's grammatical.)
"Carrionites, stop the attack or I shall declare your imprisonment once again!" the Doctor exclaimed.
The 3 witches dove at them, barely missing Derpy who had ducked down in time. Lilly extended her arms once more, locking them in place. Much to the time travelers amusement, Bloodtide, Doomfinger and Lilith didn't try to escape.
"Will you or will you not stop this attack on New York?!" Derpy asked loudly.
"Never! Carrionites, kill on sight!" Lilith declared.
But the Doctor was already talking. "Close up this din of hateful, dire decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You thieve our brains, and consider me your toy, yet my doting intelligence tells me I am not! Foul Carrionite spectres, cease your show! Between the points seven-six-one-three-nine-oh! Banished like a tinker's cuss, I say to thee: Expelliarmus!"
The Carrionites screeched and howled as Lilly let them go. The Doctor held out the crystal ball, and Doomfinger, Bloodtide and Lilith were sucked in, the rest of the Carrionites into a tornado. The swooshing sounds stopped, silence echoing except for the sounds of clapping.
Everyone who had been attacked, any who had died were now up and walking again. They approached the time traveling duo shouting praises and thanks. The Doctor ran to his Derpy and Lilly.
"In the beginning of my incarnation London learned of aliens. I suppose now it's time for New York to join in," the Doctor murmured so only his family could hear. He smiled at the crowd.
"What were they?" someone asked.
"Carrionites from the year 1500!" the Doctor exclaimed. "Witches. Is everyone alright?"
Everyone nodded.
"Then I suppose it's time for us to go. Stay safe," he yelled, walking Derpy and Lilly back into the TARDIS, where they set sail for an orbit in space.
***Time Jump, 4:09:00 (Four hours and Nine Minutes later)(8:38 P.M.)***
/Derpy\\
Lilly excused herself to go to her room, exiting the control room. Derpy, who had been searching the control desk for some sort of heater, turned to the Doctor.
"Don't ya think we'd be warmer if you shut those doors?" she giggled, walking closer to him.
Derpy sat down on his leg and he hooked his arm around her mid back, his feet dangling out of the TARDIS. "Derpy, my love, we are in outer space. We won't not be cold," he chuckled, his gaze on a distant star.
"Oh, whatever," she smiled. "Where or when can we go next?"
"Love, why must you think of the future so often, when the present may be so much greater?" he asked dramatically.
"Oh, you cute little poet, I ask of the future so I know how long I have in the present," she whispered.
"I wonder why this is so?"
"Oh, shut up with your poetic-ness," she giggled, placing her lips onto his but not kissing him.
He smirked, the movement tickling her lips. "Why are you waiting?"
"I'd keep this moment frozen forever if I had the choice," he said.
"Well I'm sorry, I'm so, so sorry because you just seem to fixed on that decision and I'm about to mess it up," he rambled, tilting his head slightly to the side and kissing her deeply.
She wrapped her arms around his neck before leaning away. "If that's how you mess up my plans, I better make more for you to mess up," she giggled breathlessly.
He smiled, an embarrassed blush forming on his cheeks. "I'll see to that."
"Okay, I'm serious. The poetic stuff is getting annoying," she grinned.
"Why must it be so? And that wasn't even poetic, my dear."
She rolled her eyes. "If I kiss you, will you stop talking like that?"
He smiled. "It doesn't matter whether or not you kiss me. I'm not stopping. And guess what."
"What?"
He pointed over his head to a single mistletoe hanging above them. "Merry Christmas," he laughed.
She giggled and leaned forwards to him, linking her lips with hid. He held her to him tightly and returned her kiss passionately. They stayed like that for what seemed like a millennium although they could've stayed for a whole lot longer.
"I'm waiting for you to say something," she giggled breathlessly.
"...I love you, Derpy."
She blushed. "I love you too, Doctor."
He cradled her face and pulled her up to him again. Their lips linked and unlinked together softly with a hint of hungriness, like they needed each other and that kiss to survive. One of his hands rested against her thigh and the other stayed on her cheek. The Doctor felt her go limp against him, melting into their deep kiss when her legs straddled his waist. The grip they and on each other was strong and unbreakable.
The Doctor moved them farther into the TARDIS and laid her on the ground before looking down at her. She smiled, giggling embarrassedly. "Why are you looking at me like that?" she laughed.
"Derpy, how could I not?"he answered breathlessly, beginning to Kiss her in again in different intervals of joining together and breaking apart. "You're beautiful."
Derpy laughed vibrantly. "Doctor, you say that so often I don't feel awkward over it," she smiled when they took a breath.
The Doctor fully laid on top of her. "That's a good thing, right?"
"That's a good thing."
The Doctor and Derpy both shared one more laugh before bringing their lips together once more. The Doctor's left arm hooked around the middle of her back and pulled her up closer to him. He then stopped completely, watching her. "Derpy, are you completely sure you want to do this? We've only been dating for a month."
She smiled her answer, placing her lips onto his. "Are you?" she asked when they broke apart one last time.
He watched her again before an infectious grin caught onto his face. "Regenerate me."
"And I can trust you not to treat me like Queen Elizabeth, where you run off without me?" Derpy taunted.
"Derpy Hooves, crown or no crown, you are the only Queen I need," he said huskily.
Derpy laughed again, linking their lips together. A few seconds after that the Doctor carried her into his room, and, well... you know what happens next.
Author's Note:
I'm sorry. This was supposed to be uploaded yesterday, thus is why the setting takes place in Christmas, so... Again, I'm back to my ways of being late.
People never change, huh?
How was that for the end of a date? Sorry for the maturity, I suppose.
Thank you for reading!
- GothicPegasister