This is Halloween
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Jackie Tyler
~Pairings: Nothing Specified
Genre: Humor
Rating: K+
Note: None
This is Halloween!
This is Halloween!
Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween!
~This is Halloween
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Doctor stepped out of the TARDIS, eyes sparkling, and "Here we are!" He announced. "21st century Earth! I told you I could do it!"
Rose snorted, as she followed him out, "Yes, after we landed on two other planets first."
"I had to—"
"And when you finally did hit Earth it took you three tries to get the correct time period."
The Doctor glared, "Oh yeah, sure, you make it sound like it's easy. Next time I'll let you drive and we'll see how that goes. You'd be lucky to get us on any sort of planet with the universe still in tact."
Rose laughed, "Oh come on you."
Grabbing his hand she eagerly dragged him down the streets, weaving in and out of the people.
"Blimey," He spoke. "Sure are a lot of people out tonight and oh! Look at this!" He eagerly pulled away from Rose and knelt down in front of a small figure, who was carving a pumpkin. "It looks like dead old Doctor Frankenstein has lost his monster again."
The figure giggled and the Doctor smiled, "And what are you up to?"
The boy smiled widely, "I'm making it scary!" He said excitedly and the Doctor's eyebrows rose.
"Is that so?"
The boy nodded, "Yep! And then Mum and I are gonna go trick-or-treating!"
The Doctor smiled widely, "Sounds like an adventure."
The boy opened his mouth to reply when a voice carried outside from the house.
"That's my Mum," the boy informed the Doctor. "I gotta go, see ya mister!"
He leapt off and the Doctor watched as the mini-Frankenstein stumbled inside.
Rose walked up to him and he looked at her, "Did you know it was Halloween?" He asked her, expediently.
Rose rolled her eyes, "Doctor we literally passed like ten people in costume."
He shrugged, "I can't notice everything, besides I was a little preoccupied defending my driving abilities."
"Or lack thereof."
He made a face—that was most defiantly not a pout—and proceed to pull Rose towards the Powell Estate.
"So!" He began. "Halloween! Full of monsters and ghosts, what do you wanna do?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean don't you want to I don't know, trick-or-treat or something."
Rose laughed, "I'm nearly twenty," she told him. "That's a little old to go trick-or-treating."
"Nonsense, you're young at heart!" He declared.
Another laugh and they debated the topic back and forth, until they reached her home. Breaking off the conversation Rose inserted her key into the lock and pushed open the door.
"Mum!" She declared. "We're home!"
"In the kitchen!" Came the response. "And tell the alien to leave his shoes on the mat! Last time he walked inside he tracked green goop onto my carpet!"
The Doctor scrunched up his nose and shot a glare towards the kitchen.
"And tell him to stop glaring! I ain't afraid to come and pound some sense into that thick skull of his!"
The Doctor jumped startled and turned to look at Rose, "How—"
Rose just shook her head, "Sometimes its best not to question it."
Rose strolled into the kitchen a took a look inside, "Whatcha makin'?"
"Well I was making dinner for one, but seeing as you two decided to pop by I suppose I'll have to cook up two more."
"Mum…you are literally putting a microwave meal in the oven."
"And now it will take me six minutes instead of two to cook for all of us and it's all your fault," Jackie scowled, but her eyes twinkled.
Rose rolled her eyes and walked away, joining the Doctor adjourning room, where he had chosen to lay across the couch and watch the telly.
"Move your legs," Rose told him.
"I got here first," He protested.
"Doesn't mean you have to take the whole couch, so either move them or I'm just gonna sit on them."
"You wouldn't do—Ow! Hey that hurts! Get off!" Rose had plopped right down on the Doctor's outstretched legs and she smiled wickedly as him as he struggled.
"Are you calling me fat?"
"What?! No! But usually when any sort of weight is put on one's knee caps, they tend to ache," he protested, and with one last struggled managed to free his legs.
Rose snorted, "Nice save."
He smiled dashingly, "I do try."
And with that they quieted, that is until the Doctor spoke up.
"I don't get this movie," he admitted after a second. "I mean is it a Christmas movie or a Halloween movie? It doesn't make sense."
Rose shrugged, "I think it's both. I mean I had a mate who was obsessed with it a while back and she watched it during both holidays, just because she could."
The Doctor hummed in agreement and turned his focus back to the movie, not even pausing to look up as Jackie brought in the 'dinner' she had prepared.
"Thanks Mum," Rose told her and then nudged the Doctor.
"Huh? Oh yes thanks Jackie," he grabbed the plate and placed it on the table.
"Aren't you gonna eat?" Jackie questioned.
"Not hungry."
"What?! I slaved away at that for—"
"Six minutes, you poor things, now shush, I'm watching."
Jackie glared, "I can't believe you travel with him. Is he always like this?"
Rose shrugged, "You get used to it."
This was followed by the Doctor announcing, "Rude and not ginger! That's who I am! If you don't like it you can get out!"
"I live here!" Jackie protested.
The Doctor ignored her, his eyes darting around the screen as if analyzing every movement it showed.
"Oh now that's just rubbish," The Doctor proclaimed and Rose sighed, waiting for the long rant. "I mean who would design a magical world or whatever and then not bother properly sealing off each one!"
"It's a movie," Rose groaned. "It doesn't have to always make sense."
"All I'm saying is that this whole thing could've been avoided if they had simply locked the doors."
Another couple minutes and then, "Just a couple seconds ago he was asking about the white stuff in the air? How does he all of sudden know that the snowballs are called snowballs, if he didn't know what the snowflakes were? I mean couldn't you assume that—"
"Doctor."
"Yes?"
"Stop."
He fell silent, but Rose could see him fidgeting, watching the screen intensely, as his jaw worked.
She slumped down into couch, "Fine, go ahead."
"I mean," he restarted. "Wouldn't it be safe to assume that Jack's never seen snow before and if that's true then how does he know that a snowball is a snowball, without knowing the word snow? It doesn't make sense!"
Jackie turned to Rose, "Does he always do this?"
"Usually it's worse," Rose admitted. "You should've seen him when we went and watched Star Wars."
"Which still doesn't make any sense!" The Doctor interjected. "One can't just—"
"Doctor, we don't care, now shush."
He grumbled and sunk into the couch, watching the movie in sulking silence.
...
They nearly made it to the Oogie Boogie song when the Doctor spoke again, "Is this stop-motion animation?"
"Yes."
"Oh, you know I tried to do stop-motion animation once. Well, I say tried, it was more like I watched, we-ll I say watched, it was more like I got kicked out of the studio and—"
"Oh for crying out loud," Jackie growled out. "If you don't shut your trap I'm going to do it for you!"
The Doctor wisely 'shut his trap.'
...
Then Oogie Boogie fell apart, "Now that is disgusting."
Rose couldn't bring herself to disagree.
...
When the credits finally did roll the Doctor jumped to his feet, "Well it's been a pleasure," his voice was full of fake appreciation. "But really Rose and I ought to be off and—Oh, no." He noticed as another movie began to play. "It's some sort of marathon isn't it?"
Rose smiled broadly, "Oh yes," she told him in her best Doctor impression, her eyes glinting.
He sighed and fell back onto the couch, "And what's this one about?"
"You'll see."
So the Doctor sat down and pretended to be annoyed as the screen played out the opening to The Corpse Bride, but a smile played across his lips anyways.
So...I actually don't really like The Nightmare Before Christmas, I love the soundtrack, but I dislike the movie...However, I love The Corpse Bride, hence the shout-out
I just wanted to post a Halloween fic and I wanted to update this story, so here it is! A half an hour before Halloween ends :P
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