Adventures in the TARDIS

Chapter Three: The Queen Throws a Good Party

" Are we there yet? I've stepped on three sticks, walled into five trees and cut myself on two rocks. Consider shoes a blessing." Kaylee was really beginning to regret ditching her shoes. She shivered, her gown had very thin straps that weren't keeping her very warm as the night grew colder and darker.

"Here, take my jacket." The doctor shrugged off his coat and handed it to her.

"No, let's share it, i'm not letting you freeze to death and use you regeneration on something as stupid as not having a coat." She gasped, he looked at her as if she just magically grew a mustache.

"I never told you about regeneration," he told her as she leaned in to the space right above his hip, trying to get warm. Surprised at this sudden action, he gasped and looked down at her, then hugged her bare shoulders.

"I know, i don't know why i just said that." A strong wind blew and she further dug into his side, "doctor, i'm freezing. Go get help."

The doctor looked down at her, and urged her to keep moving, the castle was a few yards away. He knocked on the door, a gaurd opened it. Everything he said sounded like he was underwater, so the doctor just held up the psychic paper, pointed at Kaylee and pushed his way inside. "Help! She needs help!," addressing another redcoat he asked, "do you have any blankets... and a biiig fireplace?" The gaurd nodded, and led them to a room.

He got staight to work moving a chair over to the mantle. Pushing it made his limbs scream, the chair felt like it weighed one thousand pounds. Then he walked Kaylee over to the chair and made her sit down, his vision was going blurry. The doctor stumbled to get some blankets and he luckily had just enough time to drape them over her before, everything went black.

Kaylee woke up sweating, and under like five blankets. She groggily shoved them to the floor, tried to stand up, and tripped over something... a body. "Doctor?!" She cried, instantly waking up. She flipped him over and checked for a heartbeat, one was working, just one. He was to heavy to be carried, so she dragged him over the floor and tried to lay him down on the bed... unsuccessfully. Kaylee tried a second time to lift him, this time it worked...partially. She had gotten him up just enough to lay his upper torso on the bed and lift his legs up after.

After she got him on the bed, she untied his converse and threw them to the floor, and took off his jacket, which was laced with ice. She ran over to the fire and grabbed the blankets off of the floor, piling them high over the doctor. Pleased with her nursing skills, Kaylee walked around to the other side of the bed and laid down on top of the covers, not wanting the doctor to be alone when he woke up. But the moment her head hit the pillow, she was out like a light.

A good hour or so later came a knock at the room door, waking the doctor. He looked around, and saw Kaylee, "silly girl, she needs a blanket!" He sighed at her fear of cooties. Then he went to answer the door, "how may i be of assistance?"

"Sir, her majesty would like to formally meet you tommorrow night at her husband's birthday ball, you may bring your friend if you'd like."

"Thank you. May you tell the queen that i apologize for not meeting her when we first came in, we were a bit under the weather, and not prepared to meet a woman of her dignity."

"Why, yes sir. Of course, sir." He left without another word.

The doctor quietly closed the door, and tiptoed over to bed a pulled the covers up over his chest. Try as he might, he couldn't seem to fall back asleep, no matter how much time passed. Kaylee rolled over in her sleep and nuzzled into the doctor's neck, surprising him slightly. He was not used to this affection from her, but he fell asleep to the sound of her breathing anyway.