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When We Were Six, by aralias (Gen)
Fandom: DOCTOR WHO
Pairing: Gen (Six, Donna Noble, Peri, Wilf)
Length: 2,099
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aralias
Author Website: Fic list, or at Teaspoon
Why this must be read:
Because tiny adorable Donna. Is there a better reason than that?
On holiday with Peri, the Sixth Doctor meets a six year old Donna Noble, who's visiting Strathclyde all on her own.
The staring had gone on for at least ten minutes. The Doctor was used to being stared at, but not when he was on holiday and doing something as normal as sitting in a café drinking tea, and so he had ignored it. For ten minutes. But by now the staring had become too distracting, and he turned on the frowning child at the next table. “Yes?”
“Are you a clown?” the girl said immediately. She seemed quite unabashed at having been caught behaving so rudely.
“No, I most certainly am not,” the Doctor retorted. “Are you?”
“I’m six,” the girl said scornfully.
“So am I,” the Doctor said. “In a manner of speaking.”
“How? You don’t look six.”
“Well, I’m the sixth version of- Look, it doesn’t matter. I’m neither a clown, nor a jester, and this coat is the height of fashion in several galaxies you are never likely to visit. Now I would appreciate a cessation of your staring, if you wouldn’t mind. It’s putting me off my Darjeeling.”
He felt he had handled the situation very well, but he had just raised the teacup to his lips again when the girl dumped her glass of lemonade in front of him, and climbed up into the opposite chair.
“What’s cessation mean?”
The Doctor stared at her – accidentally in shock, rather than rudely with intent. “It means end, stop, a permanent pause,” he explained, having recollected himself. “It certainly doesn’t mean “would you like to share my table?’”
“You looked lonely. I thought you might like to talk to me instead.”
When We Were Six
Pairing: Gen (Six, Donna Noble, Peri, Wilf)
Length: 2,099
Author on LJ:
araliasAuthor Website: Fic list, or at Teaspoon
Why this must be read:
Because tiny adorable Donna. Is there a better reason than that?
On holiday with Peri, the Sixth Doctor meets a six year old Donna Noble, who's visiting Strathclyde all on her own.
The staring had gone on for at least ten minutes. The Doctor was used to being stared at, but not when he was on holiday and doing something as normal as sitting in a café drinking tea, and so he had ignored it. For ten minutes. But by now the staring had become too distracting, and he turned on the frowning child at the next table. “Yes?”
“Are you a clown?” the girl said immediately. She seemed quite unabashed at having been caught behaving so rudely.
“No, I most certainly am not,” the Doctor retorted. “Are you?”
“I’m six,” the girl said scornfully.
“So am I,” the Doctor said. “In a manner of speaking.”
“How? You don’t look six.”
“Well, I’m the sixth version of- Look, it doesn’t matter. I’m neither a clown, nor a jester, and this coat is the height of fashion in several galaxies you are never likely to visit. Now I would appreciate a cessation of your staring, if you wouldn’t mind. It’s putting me off my Darjeeling.”
He felt he had handled the situation very well, but he had just raised the teacup to his lips again when the girl dumped her glass of lemonade in front of him, and climbed up into the opposite chair.
“What’s cessation mean?”
The Doctor stared at her – accidentally in shock, rather than rudely with intent. “It means end, stop, a permanent pause,” he explained, having recollected himself. “It certainly doesn’t mean “would you like to share my table?’”
“You looked lonely. I thought you might like to talk to me instead.”
When We Were Six