rude_not_ginger | Entries tagged with featuring: majenta pryce

[the sounds of pandemonium. Everyone is talking at once, echoing off of the dull hum of the TARDIS console room]

DOCTOR: Right, everyone, calm down, please.

[more noise, they're all clearly upset]

DOCTOR: I mean it, guys---

[they're not listening]

DOCTOR: [whistles loudly]

[immediate silence]

DOCTOR: ( That's better. Now, I'm sorry to have to do this to you all, but I had to bring you out of your timelines for a very important reason. )

Muse: The Doctor (Ten)
Fandom: Doctor Who
Word Count: 1,237
Based on some rumors that an audio companion will travel with Eleven! Yay audios!

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"Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up." - Thomas J. Watson

Majenta Pryce does not sleep.

It's part of her species' genetic makeup (or so he figures), so she never feels tired, not beyond her usual self-indulgent laziness. It's actually quite fun, for the most part. There's no need to stop in the middle of a series of adventures for eight hours of companion-rest time and there's no worry about making camp in the middle of an alien forest. She's even gone so far as to pull her bed out of her bedroom on the TARDIS and replace it with a lounger for when she sits up to watch the late-night soaps on ITV (The Intergalactic Television Viewer).

The only time it bothers the Doctor is when he needs to rest. The few hours he needs a week used to seem like nothing, but now that he's the only TARDIS traveler who needs sleep, he finds that time before he falls into trance more worrying than anything. What is Majenta up to while he sleeps? Is she behaving herself? Is she toying with the console? Sometimes, he stays up as long as he thinks he can, before collapsing wherever he was out of exhaustion for a few hours.

It's not that he doesn't trust her---well, no. The term "as far as he could throw her" might apply to the Doctor and Majenta if the Doctor wasn't absolutely certain Majenta would knock him out cold before he managed to even try to throw her anywhere. Majenta's not a willing companion, and she's not even a companion he's certain he wants around most days. And while he's sleeping…she could be up to anything.

And, after she kicked down her bedroom door when he tried to lock her in that first time, he's learned that he has no choice but to trust her while she's on board.

It's early. He blinks and finds he's fallen asleep at the edge of his bed in a somewhat awkward position that's left his neck a little sore. He straightens, rubs the back of his neck, and tries to remember where he was when he went out.

Working on the console? No, no, talking to Majenta. Her instructing him where they'd go next while he insisted that her ordering the TARDIS about would do no good. He then said something along the lines of "I'm tired," to which she replied, "Then get to your bedroom, because I'm just leaving you on the floor if you fall asleep on it again. Lazy Time Lords."

And, apparently he made it to his bedroom and she went off to do whatever it was she did while he slept. This must be what it's like for his human companions, he thinks. They're never certain what the Doctor's up to while they sleep.

He starts towards the console room because, really, wherever she's ended up she'll go back there. The TARDIS is deep, but there's only one way out.

"---no regretting stuff, all right? I chose this---"

The Doctor can hear the recording playing in the console room and the slow walk turns into a run. ( Of all the bloody things that ridiculous woman could've gotten into… )

Muse: The Doctor (Ten)
Fandom: Doctor Who
Word Count: 1,734 not including dialogue from Comic #399 "Time of My Life"

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Photo Prompt.

"Doctor!"

"Hmm?"

"Do you know what day it is?"

"Yes!"

"You do?"

"No. Wait a minute. It's…March 9th."

"Right, but more specific."

"Oh, you want the year? I…I'm working on what year."

"No, no. It's a holiday."

"Is it? No, it isn't."

"Yes it is, I read it on the newspapers out there. It's Employee Appreciation Day."

"Oh. That's…fairly ridiculous, but I suppose if you like…"

"So I've got this."

"A cake."

"Yep. Happy Employee Appreciation Day, oh-employee-of-mine."

"This is for me?"

"Yep."

"Why?"

"Because I felt like it."

"You felt like…"

"Cake!"

"Oh."

"Oh? You don't like it?"

"I don't understand it."

"Right, here's how it works. You take the cake---"

"Majenta."

"—you cut the cake---"

"Majenta."

"—and then you put the cake into your skinny-boy-mouth."

"Skinny?!"

"Understand now?"

"I don't understand why you made me a cake."

"Puh-lease, Scrummy. I bought you this cake."

"You bought me a cake."

"A sort of employee appreciation…thing."

"A cake that says I'm pretty."

"Too much?"

"A cake that says I'm pretty."

"You're not going to try employer harassment on me, are you?"

"A cake that says I'm pretty."

"At least you're pretty."

"At least? That's very nearly double-sided, Majenta."

"You don't want me to call you pretty?"

"It's not quite a compliment, is it? At least I'm pretty."

"Well, you're certainly not a great driver."

"Well."

"Or particularly daring."

"Oi!"

"Or relatively clever..."

"So this is an insulting cake."

"You wouldn't eat it if it was complimentary. You'd think I'd poisoned it or something."

"…well...."

"You have no faith. And no meat on your bones, so plenty of frosting on this. Happy Employee Appreciation Day, Doctor."

"Thanks, Majenta. That's very nearly kind of you."

"Nuh-uh. You get to eat it when you've fixed the console."

"What?"

"Then you can take me to October 16th."

"Which is---let me guess. Boss's Appreciation Day?"

"Yep! And there's this wonderful new diamond necklace I've been lusting after for a while…"

Muse: The Doctor (Ten)
Fandom: Doctor Who
Word Count: 309

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