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“Try the… thing!”
“I have tried it, Master Doctor!”
“Then try the other thing! I don’t know how it works! Just… poke it, I guess.”
“Why do you not use the mallet you do when your ship slips off course?”
“Why don’t you?”
“I fear I might accidentally demolish it if I did.”
“…touche.”
I opened the door to my room, only to find that it led not into the hallway, but into somewhere else. The Doctor was running circles around an object that could only be described as a Thing, while Thor was gingerly prodding it. It was shaking dramatically from side to side, glinting like a disco ball and buzzing ineffectually, like an annoyed insect.
“What’s going on?” I demanded. Thor looked up apologetically, while the Doctor opened his mouth irately and went off into a long rant or complaint (it didn’t sound much like an explanation) about rogue Time Lords, King Arthur’s second-best hat, a green-eyed basilisk, a carrot and a pigeon.*
“If you can’t get it to work,” I said practically, “and you don’t know what it is or what it does, why not just destroy it?”
On second thought, maybe not so practical–but I had had work (not the fun kind, the kind that brings in money and is miserable) and was in a vicious mood.
The Doctor opened his mouth and shut it again. “That just might work,” he said dubiously.
I looked around. “Also, why is my bedroom in the TARDIS?”
“I think the TARDIS likes you,” said Thor, bringing Mjolnir down on the Thing with a resounding clang. The Doctor muttered something that sounded suspiciously like “traitor”.
It also sounded like the TARDIS was laughing in the background.
We never did find out what the Thing was for.
It was probably a dummy and did not do anything. It is also likely that the Thing was constructed by the Master (who we put in a looney bin) as a chew toy. Or a cuddle beastie.
Who knows?
(It was a very confusing day.)
*Please don’t ask me to tell you how those particular objects are related. One: I am not Steven Moffat. Two: I doubt even Steven Moffat can understand the Doctor when he starts babbling like that. Three: I also doubt that even Steven Moffat can explain the “three things and a lizard” comment, so you should definitely NOT ask me.
Author’s Note: Who wants Thor to be a companion on Doctor Who? *raises hand* (Weeeell, any of the Avengers, really. Except maybe Tony, because he’d try to take the TARDIS apart, and that would make the Doctor really mad. Maybe. I don’t actually know.)
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