crack_van | Culture Crash by Seanan (PG)

Fandom: DOCTOR WHO
Pairing: None
Author on LJ:

cadhla
Author Website: tagged fics
Why this must be read:

I have a serious weakness for fics where one TARDIS crew meets another. In this the Ninth Doctor, Rose and Jack accidently run into the Fourth Doctor and Leela. Hilarity ensues; involving acid spitting squirrels, Jack unsucessfully trying to chat up Leela and a religion founded on danger mouse.

"How did that happen, exactly?" Jack asked, as they walked back towards their own TARDIS with bags of jelly baby in hand. "I thought the timestream had defenses against this sort of thing."

"It does," the Doctor said. "It's just that they break down from time to time. Can't be avoided. Besides, we got candy out of the deal."

"And I nearly got to meet my spleen!"

"And that taught you an important lesson about wandering off, now, didn't it?" The Doctor grinned. "I was a nice bloke, wasn't I? Horrible fashion sense, though. No taste at all. Jellybaby?"

"You used to travel about with a cavegirl," Rose said, disbelievingly. "An actual cavegirl."

"First off, she's from your future, not your past; show some respect," said the Doctor, blithely. "Second off, from where I'm standing, the two of you are next-door neighbors on the evolutionary ladder. Ape number one, meet ape number two."

"She's got a bikini on! Made out of rabbits! Actual dead rabbits, attached to her..." Rose paused, then concluded, "...she's wearing rabbits!"

"And you're wearing impractical shoes," the Doctor said, with a broad grin. "Isn't perspective grand?"

"This day has been very strange," Jack declared.

The Doctor nodded. "All the best ones are."

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