From Bad To Worse | Doctor Who Fanfiction

1. Apologies

"So everyone got changed back, thanks to Nancy and her son Jamie." Ten said.

"But not just restored, perfectly healthy, anything that was wrong with them before was gone. I remember a woman mentioning that her leg had grown back." Eleven added.

Ten burst out laughing, confusing Eleven and Martha.

"What's funny?" Martha asked him. Just as it hit Eleven.

"Oh, yeah." He smiled at the memory of the sour face of the leader Sycorax after he had grown back his hand, after said leader cut it off. It was hilarious to look back at that and he knew that was exactly what got his previous self in stitches. Somehow he stopped finding it so funny after the meta-crisis happened. It was the reason that he had lost Donna. If he had just regenerated after getting shot by that Dalek she would still know about him.

He stopped himself from sighing at the memory of that, so his past self and Martha wouldn't ask questions. Okay, his past self probably won't ask questions anyway but Martha certainly would, asking questions was one of her talents. Really, if she hadn't become a doctor, she should've become a journalist or something, she would be perfect for the job.

In fact, she had many talents. He thought that she had been one of the best companions he ever had. Clever, brave, independent. And he couldn't deny that she was good looking as well, not that it was what got his attention, it certainly was not. It was just a fact that most men would consider her good looking, including him, but that was just an unimportant fact that was lingering in the background. And he was not just telling himself that. She also had a lot more good qualities besides those three.

"What's so funny?" Martha asked again, pulling Eleven out of his thoughts. He looked at Ten who was still laughing and it didn't look like he would regain his composure again soon, so he would have to explain it to her.

He turned to Martha.

"Remembering a certain event that involved losing my hand." Martha raised an eyebrow at that, obviously noticing that both versions had two hands. "Regeneration, I'm sure Sand Shoes," Ten stopped abruptly laughing at that.

"They are still not sand shoes!" He proclaimed. Martha laughed at that.

"Yes, they are!" Eleven answered while sending a smile Martha's way.

"Coming from the man with the bow-tie." Ten shot back. Martha just sat back and enjoyed the show, they had been bickering like brothers the whole time. Chinny, as her Doctor kept calling his future self and she had started to call him that as well, kept calling her Doctor Sand Shoes. She found that she liked both nicknames, but she would never call her Doctor Sand Shoes. But she liked Chinny calling him that and she liked calling the older Doctor Chinny.

"Bow-ties are cool." Chinny fired back, he would've tugged at it, if it hadn't been for his two injured arms. Martha shook her head, she could clearly see that they were the same person now, never mind weird it might sound. But, hey, she was travelling with an alien, what would she have expected? A giant wasp trying to kill her? Now, that would be ridiculous.

Although....

She thought a moment about that. After everything she had seen she wouldn't be surprised to actually come across one.

"No they are not, converse are!"

"No, sand shoes are not cool"

"Yes, they are."

"They are not."

"They are."

"Not even a small bit." Martha sighed. Like mentioned before they kept bickering like brothers and she was like the mother keeping them from physically fighting, which she really had to do considering that Chinny was already injured. Thinking of that, she really had to ask him what he was going to do after they were gone. She didn't think that he would be able to look after himself with two injured arms.