Chapter Four: Listening (Derpy`s Point of View)
With a bow I walked out of the room and shut the door behind me. This was all too much to understand!
First he tells me he can travel through time, but then he tells me he can cheat death because he has two hearts!? I mean, who does that?
"Wait a second, calm down, Derpy, he is an alien. Not from here, doesn`t know the way you ponies live." I told myself. I pressed my ear against the door and heard their muffled conversation.
"Is that so, Mr...?" Celestia asked.
"Whooves," The Doctor said quickly. "I`ve decided to call myself Doctor Whooves."
"Well, Doctor Whooves, it is nice to finally meet somepony like you. You know, Twilight Sparkle is always reading books about aliens, beings from other worlds. She loves to learn about the past." Luna said sincerely. "What else can you do, other than traveling and such?"
"Well, if you must know, I..." He continued to rant and ramble the same exact way he did to me. I could only hear a few words each sentence so I decided to stop snooping. Trusting my gut instinct, I found a fellow mailmare and told her to tell the Boss I wasn`t coming in to work today.
"Are you sure, Ditzy Doo? I mean, you`re already on thin ice... You might get fired," Blossomforth warned.
"Yeah, yeah, not like I was going to get a promotion anytime soon, right? Just tell him I won`t come in, family emergency or something. Well, technically it is a family emergency, but he isn`t actually my family. So, yeah – family emergency," I laughed nervously.
"Alright, whatever you say, kiddo – I`m just along for the ride," She laughed as she flew to the mail stations.
(Back at the Castle, About an Hour of Waiting Later)
"So, how did it go?" I asked the Doctor as he stepped outside.
"Pretty well... anyways, I think I must be going home now. It`s about 8, and I need some rest." He yawned with fakery.
"Please, come over to my place. Dinky would love to meet somepony like you!"
"Well, um, if it isn`t any trouble..." He smiled as we started walking.
"It isn`t, and you can park your TARDIS thing outside. You said it uses camouflage, right? Just disguise it as a tree or something," I suggested.
"Ditzy, you are a GENIUS!" He yelled happily.
"Haven`t heard that in a while," I muttered with a frown. "What did you tell them?"
"Everything and anything I could remember. They seemed fairly interested, although I think they were wondering about if I was lying or not."
"That`s what I was thinking!" I laughed.
We talked for several minutes and we eventually got to my house.
The living room light was on and Dinky sat on the floor, playing with a toy I had recently bought her, a collectible edition bear. It wasn`t a scary bear, though, it was really chubby and cute, so of course she loved it.
"Mommy, who is this...?" She asked.
"Ah, is this Dinky?" He asked. I nodded. "Very well then, Dinky, I am Doctor Whooves, a friend of your mother`s."
"Oh, mommy has a friend?" Dinky asked. "That isn`t right,"
"That wasn`t very nice," I whined. "But um, anyway, (I cleared my throat), Doctor, Dinky, how about you two play or something. I think I might make some muffins for dinner again." And I flew into the kitchen.