Monkey Magic
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"I thought you said magic wasn't real!" Donna panted, running at the Doctor's side behind a large cardboard box. This wasn't supposed to happen, he hadn't even offended them!
"It's not," he replied, also out of breath, pressing his back against the box. He seemed confident in its protective power, so Donna followed the example.
"Then what do you call that?" a flurry of lights exploded over their heads, and Donna ducked instinctively, but they disappeared before they could hit the ground.
"Fireworks," the Doctor ground out and sighed, descending into a mutter, "Humans, honestly, show them one thing they don't understand, and they start crying, 'Magic, magic!' There is no magic . . . apes . . ."
"Yes, yes, yes," Donna interrupted. "Humans are apes. But what about the actual apes?"
The Doctor stuck his head out from behind the box, only to receive a flying banana to the face. "I think they prefer to be called monkeys."