Doctor Who: the Continuity of One

chapter 4

The Doctor paced around the console. "How long has it been now?"

"Doctor, you can't rush these things," Angela said.

"Yes, you can," the Doctor said. "Rory, how long does it take."

"Oh, that's just not acceptable in any context," Rory said.

"If I seem to recall," Amy began.

"Amy," Rory warned.

"It's not about you," Amy said. "The first time we met, Doctor, it took you several hours before you were properly satiated."

"You had sex the first time you met the Doctor?" Angela asked.

"I was a child," Amy said.

"That's really disturbing, Doctor, even for you," Angela said.

"How could you even think such a thing!" the Doctor said. "I was hungry. For food."

The door to the TARDIS opened. Loxy, hair mussed, bare shouldered, leaned in. "Could you guys make a pizza run? We're like starving out here."

"Would a frozen do?" Rory asked.

"Oh, that would be lovely, thanks," Loxy said, and popped back out.

"What was it you ended up liking? Fish fingers and custard?" Amy asked.

"You ate the fingers off of fish?' Angela asked.

"Fish don't have fingers," the Doctor said.

"Because you ate them?" Angela said.

"Oh, come on. Enough with the distractions. Aren't any of you intrigued that Loxy looks exactly like Clara!" the Doctor said.

"I never met Clara in person," Rory said.

"Have you?" Amy said.

"I am still sorting," the Doctor said.

"Sorting what?" Amy asked.

"Like, who is the real Clara?" the Doctor said. "How is it that she is so impossibly mysterious and all over the place?"

"Oh, I have seen that look before," Angela said. "You're in love with Loxy."

Amy crossed her arms in front of her chest. "You are married to my daughter, Doctor."

"I am not in love with Clara. I mean, Loxy. Or Clara. She's a mystery, that's all. And I love mysteries," the Doctor said. "Which doesn't preclude I love Clara or Loxy, but I don't love them! I don't even know them. I am trying to know them."

"I'm interested in the fact she called herself the Doctor," Rory said.

"She's clearly insane," Amy said. "She can't be the Doctor."

"Why not?" Angela said. "Females can be doctors."

"They can't be THE Doctor," Amy said.

"Oh, I so want to meet a female Doctor," Rory said.

"I bet," Amy said.

"Oh, more than ever now. I would run off with her and let you stew alone, worrying about what I am up to," Rory said.