Sad Kotyonok - The Advent Adventure

by TapTapAlways

This is a story for my friend who is sad sometimes. It will stretch across fandoms in total insanity and answer questions you never asked such as "What would happen if you introduced Doctor Strange's Cloak to the flying carpet from Aladdin?", "Would Doctor Strange and John Watson hit it off?" and "Would Doctors Strange and Who drink far too much while bonding?". An Advent Calendar.

7. December 7:th

December 7:th Carpet vs Cloak

Doctor Strange watched his work with a measurement of amusement. Even half a year ago, this situation would have caused him a fair amount of pain, but he was soundly beyond it now, so much so that he found it funny. He also found it funny to imagine the expression of his former self's face, had anyone told him that a year later, he'd be preparing for Christmas by baking Christmas cookies. By hand. Himself. Oh the horror.

Still chuckling at that mental image, Stephen looked down on his handiwork once again. He had made several large batches, because he had found that he enjoyed the process immensely. It reminded him of the precision he had needed, in another life, without beeing too demanding and through that frustrating. He had attempted to decorate this lot, though, and that had most decidedly been a mistake.

Idly wondering if inviting Christine over to decorate Christmas cookies would appeal to her, it was some testament to the oddity of his new life, that he did not even look up at a swoosh, crash, then a loud bang and finally another swoosh, coming from the hallway.

Of course, that Doctor Strange ignored the noises didn't keep the events in the hallway which caused them from happening. The swooshing sounds had been the TARDIS appearing and then leaving again, for reasons only known to itself (and likely to Mrs Hudson, but who would think to ask her?) the crash had (as Doctor Strange had correctly assumed) been the Cloak knocking something down over the railing in the hall, and the loud bang... that had been something else entirely.

While it didn't alert Doctor Strange, his Cloak got interested in the sound. Partly this was because it had him at a disadvantage - Stephen took the sound to come from something his cloak did, the cloak knew that it did not - and partly it was just a very curious cloak.

This, of course, lead to the cloak investigating, soundlessly floating down the stairs, only to freeze mid-air at what it saw. Down on the floor, where the TARDIS had left it, was a... carpet, floating just as curiously in the other direction, checking out the noise this magical piece of fabric was innocent of. The carpet, of course, had caused the loud bang by pulling another carpet out from under a suit of armour.

After staring, entirely silently, at each other for some moments, both carpet and cloak flew away in alarm. The Cloak surprised its chosen human by cuddling up to him in a most unusual fashion for such a warm room as a well isolated kitchen with a working oven, and the carpet promptly hid in a closet, chosing its hiding place so well that the master of the Sanctum didn't even know it was there until two days later.

This just had to happen. I am making myself crack up so often with this story! As you might have noticed, I am building up towards some pretty special events!

I do not own anything you recognise - I don't even know where some of it is from!

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