The Day England Almost Sank

TARDISes

Holly answered her ringing mobile phone,

"Hello? Oh, finally, I'll meet you out there." She stuck the phone back in her pocket, "Alright, Nine is here so I'm going to go breif him." She jogged down the hall and pushed the hatch open, nearly swinging it into the TARDIS.

"Oi! watch the paint!" snapped a Northern accented voice.

"Sorry, Doctor." she kicked the hatch shut, "Glad you could make it."

"Well, I'm here so what do you need?"

"I have an idea to stop this island from sink-"

Holly was cut short by the sound of another TARDIS landing. It was Ten. Holly forced herself to walk calmly over to Ten's TARDIS instead of running like she wanted to. He stepped out of the TARDIS just as Holly reached the time machine,

"Oh, hello, Holly!"

"Doctor."

"So, I'm he- aww...not him..." Ten pointed at Nine, not sounding overly enthused.

"Yup. Me." Nine popped the 'p' and grinned.

Ten turned back to Holly,

"Wh-What did you invite him for?!"

"I need ALL of your help." She replied.

"Wait, you invited the next one, too?!" Nine and Ten said simultaneously, sharing a look.

"Yes, and he'll be here soon. Then I'll fill all THREE of you in on my idea."

"Your idea?" Asked Nine, "Well, if you've got an idea, what'd you need us for?"

"It's half-formed. I need your brains and possibly your TARDISes."

"It's always about the TARDIS!" Exclaimed Ten, exasperated, "Why can't it be about me?"

"Oh, I get self-centered, do I?" Asked Nine sassily.

"No, no you don't!" Replied Ten, "It'd just be nice if, once in 900 years of time travel, someone would say, 'Oh, you've got two hearts?!' instead of, 'Oh, you've hot a time machine?!' "

Nine snorted and Holly patted Ten on the shoulder,

"Well, it's your lucky day. I like, Time Lords..." She winked and walked past him to where Eleven's TARDIS had just materialized. Eleven hoped out a moment later, leaving the door ajar behind him,

"Hey! Holly Berry! How are you?" He proceeded to kiss Holly once on either cheek, "That's how we greet people now, isn't it?"

"I'm good, Doc. You should save the kisses for Tanya, though." He blushed.

"Where is my fez?" He quickly asked.

"It's coming back with Tanya and Sophie."

"Well, it better be here by..." He looked at his watch, "soon. An- what are they doing here?!"

Holly put her head in a hand. She should have known this would happen.

"Oi! She called me first!" Snapped Nine.

"Don't sound so disgusted..." Sighed Ten.

Eleven motioned exasperated,

"If I had known that Sandshoes and..." He struggled to find the words, "Mr. Ears were coming, I wouldn't have!"

"Oi! Cut it out!" yelled Holly. The three Time Lords fell silent. "Thank you. We have bigger issues than who was called first."

"Like his ears?" Asked Ten under his breath, casting a glance at Nine. Eleven tried not to laugh and ended up making snorting, choking noises.

"Hey, these 'big ears' are good at hearing, Chinny." shot back Nine at Eleven.

"Oi! My chin isn't that bad..." Whined Eleven.

"BOYS!" The Time Lords looked down at the ground, "Now, if you three could come inside WITHOUT and more bickering, that would be great."

"Sorry..." Mumbled Ten and followed Holly down the hatch. Eleven and Nine fell in behind him. Eleven tugged on one of Nine's ears and Nine poked Eleven in the chin as payback.

"Boys..." Warned Holly from the bunker. The Doctors followed her into the kitchen. There was a chorus of "Hi!"s and "Hello!"s of varying excitement as they entered. Except from Siobhan who was buried in her calculations.

"Anyway," continued Holly, "Let me show you my plan..."

She cleared a space on the table, sweeping papers out of the way along with a few cookie crumbs. Siobhan moved her papers with a frown and went back to her work. The three Doctors, Loki, Calla, and Thor watched as Holly rolled out a roll of blueprint paper. She weighed down two of the corners with mugs of tea, another with her mobile, and Ten offered his sonic screwdriver for the last corner. She pulled a silver sharpie out of her back pocket and began to draw.

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