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The Mall was bustling with life as the Doctor entered the building through the front entrance. His mission? Find some new ding dang clothes. The ones he was wearing were becoming a pain, as he had to keep on pulling his trousers up and pull his coat back onto his shoulders. Why did he have to lose so much height and weight from his previous regeneration? He had to make a makeshift belt from a discarded rope he'd found on the walk to the Mall.
"Okay, clothes…clothes" he muttered to himself as he walked through the mall, having to double back as he passed the fountain in the middle as he'd spotted yet another Pink Seashell. This time, just sitting on the edge of the fountain. "Why are there so many of these around?" He asked, having seen a few more on the walk there. Two at a skate park and four along a path leading to a cemetery. He glanced at a couple holding hands and sharing a bowel of ice cream sitting just meters away from him, seemingly having heard this random guy talking to himself. "Heh, sorry…thought I'd broken that habit regenerations ago" he says, receiving a confused look from the two boys, then he put the seashell back down and walking away, glancing back at the pink object, once again, curiously.
He spotted a security officer and walked up to them, "Hey, you wouldn't happen to know the best place to buy some clothes would ya?" The Doctor asked. The guard let out a sigh "forth one in an hour" he muttered "yeah, try Reininger's, just down there. Can't miss it" he adds, pointing down the large hall.
"Ah, well thank you very much, my good man" The Doctor smiled and happily walked away from him, looking out for the, yes, very obvious Reininger's clothing store sign.
"Yeah, I maybe could've found that on my own" he admitted, stepping into the store and began to look around for some more suitable clothes for himself. He spend about half hour searching, and found a nice shirt, a red checkered shirt, some jeans and a pair of trainers. He didn't really feel like going all formal dressed this time around. Now, he just needed something else to bring the whole outfit together, something like…he let out a small gasp as he past a rack full of hoodies. Looks like this was who this Doctor was gonna be, a hoodie type of guy. He found the perfect navy blue coloured one and whisked himself and the items to a changing room and slipped into it all.
Once dressed, he checked himself out in the mirror and smiled, now the tricky part was gonna be getting out. Obviously he was gonna come back and pay…but as with the whole flippee incident, he had no money at all. Firstly however, he transferred what little he had in his old coat pockets and put them in his new ones, he'd do some pocket expansion trickery once he got back to the TARDIS. His head poked out of the curtains and looked around, time for the great…but as if by sheer coincidence, the Mall's fire alarm sounded and people began to evacuate. "Huh, that was…lucky" he says and made his way out of the changing rooms and joined the crowd as they were escorted out of the building.
As they got outside to one of the safe areas, he took this opportunity to make a swift exit and made his way back towards the direction that he'd arrived from. He was hoping that the TARDIS was close to fixing herself up so he could get on out of there, the post regenerative phase was clearing up and he could think straight again, relieved that this regeneration didn't have the typical complication like having to be bed ridden for a couple of days. Nope, as of right now, this had been smooth sailing.
He walked back through the town, taking in the sights before noticing a massive tree in the town centre. Curious, he walked over and checked it out, it only taking a few moments to hit him as he smiled "oh! December, it's Christmas!" He says "I've been too preoccupied to even notice, aw, Hon, you brought me to my favourite time of year on earth" he chuckled and looked around again, to a few stares. Wow, he really needed someone to talk to. "Heh, sorry" he chuckled and waved it off. Thinking back to Christmas' past and to the people he used to spend it with, with a content sigh. "C'mom, we've already missed half of the match" he heard a kid say to their father from behind. "I know, I know, we're going. Just don't tell your mom that I bought her gift two days before Christmas" he smiled in amusement at the fathers reply.
The Doctor stuck around for a couple more minutes before turning heel and walking away, unconsciously grabbing a news paper from a stand just as he was leaving the area and bringing it up to his face to read, His eyes glossing over several articles; 'Homeless man under house arrest' 'Cows lose their jobs as milk prices drop' 'Rooms with broken air conditioners are hot' 'Disappearances increase, but police say not to worry' 'Has anyone else seen these seashells around?' 'Attorney accidentally sues himself'
The Doctor chuckled to himself as he read some of these headlines, "what a delightful little town this it" he says, feeling himself take a detour off the pavement and onto what felt like a grassy field. Hearing commotion in the background as he was still solely focused on…wait, what? He narrowed his eyes and glanced at two very interesting headlines he had seemingly glossed over. The noise in the background got louder, were those cheers? He shook his head and narrowed his eyes to begin reading, but a voice was carried to his ears.
"She shoots, she…oh no, hey buddy, watch out!" The slightly raspy voice called.
"Huh?" He dropped the paper, and was instantly taken out with a very hard object to the face, letting out a 'oof' sound as he fell onto the floor and held the stinging part of his face with a groan and a "ow". The sun was in his eyes as he looked up at the sky, his ear was ringing from the impact but he managed to hear footsteps running over to him and then a silhouette standing over him "Woah, sorry about that, are you okay?" That slightly raspy voice asked, and as the Doctor looked up into the face of the stranger, he felt his hearts skip a beat.
One more chapter until the adventure of a lifetime for The Loud's begin :)