Earth Grazer || Doctor Who

53. A Night Like This

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The rest of the day was mostly filled with the complimentary tour, the Doctor went to tinker in his room mumbling about a bundle of sentient wire he had to untangle. Ella silently called bullshit because she knew he wasn't tinkering, most likely brooding and theorizing about Ella's situation with the nanogenes which is something the woman was curious about as well. She was almost tempted to slink back to her room and test, but the brunette recognized that as self-destructive which was terrifying as she hadn't thought like that in years. The woman shook her head, pushed her glasses up and continued to lead Jack around the ship, "annnnd that is pretty much it," she finished a few hours later.

"For real this time?" Jack asked wearily as he leaned against the wall closest to him.

"Nope. Not even close, I've been here for a while and I'm pretty sure I've never reached the end of this ship. And I've taken a lot of angsty walks through these halls. Anyways we take a left here probably and our rooms should be there."

"Should," Jack asked again.

"That's just how she talks, I don't know how the Tardis works but usually you think of a room you want to go to and she puts it in your path ... somehow." Rose answered and sure enough they rounded the corner and the hallway where the rooms were usually lined up appeared. Ella walked up to the door that looked new to her and her assumption was correct.

"This is your room, Jack," The two girls followed him in, and later Ella agreed that they probably shouldn't have done that as they were met with a fully stocked bar. Ella and Rose quickly exchanged grins, "Hey, Ro you want a drink," Ella exclaimed as she ran up to the bar and immediately got the makings for margaritas after she got an enthusiastic nod from the blonde. "How bout you Jack, what do you want?" She wondered as she carefully mixed the pitcher and in true Ella fashion, she added in more alcohol than what was most likely recommended. "I am so glad this bar is here now! Now, we don't have to dock on space stations trying to find alcohol that won't kill us."

"Or you know ... are laced with psychedelics," Rose added in. Jack looked contemplative to Ella's earlier question and shrugged.

"When I thought that I was going to blow up earlier I had my flight computer make me a martini, but she added too much vermouth. That was almost my last drink," Ella nodded and looked around for the cocktail shaker, next she looked for the ice bucket if there even was one. She found a black one on the other end of the bar and just on a whim she looked inside, and it was full of ice chunks. She added some into her and Rose's pitcher of margaritas and it seemed the blonde was getting impatient as she had already got herself a glass and poured a generous amount.

As Ella was putting some ice into the cocktail shaker Jacks earlier words finally registered, "your flight computer just made you a martini? How does that work?" She furrowed her eyebrows as she looked around for the gin, assuming he wanted a dry martini as he had complained about vermouth earlier.

"No idea, how does the outside of this ship fit around the inside?" Ella shrugged and hummed 'I don't know' she started shaking the shaker with all the grace of a bartender.

"But I guess it's not that wild, the Tardis has been known to materialize things from out of nothing. This one time the Doc and I were stargazing at the door and this blanket just poofed into existence because I got cold." Ella grabbed one of the chilled martini glasses from a random mini fridge behind the bar and the strainer as well as a lemon garnish. Soon enough Jack found himself enjoying one of the best martinis he had ever had, the inclusion of the lemon rather than an olive was genius.

"I remember that!" Rose shouted about the memory Ella brought up, the blonde was across the room looking over Jack's music choices, eventually she decided to go with a random pick as she didn't recognize any of the names. Ella offered up her glass to Rose when she made her way back after picking a high energy playlist. Rose clinked their glasses together, "yeah it's been a while since we had a night like this, right?"