The Littlest Timelord: The Fall of the Eleventh

Chapter 14

The Doctor settled into life with the Ponds well enough. He and Elise took walks every day and just talked about things that were on her mind. It felt nice to spend time with him.

Right now he was sitting with Amy and Rory eating fish fingers and custard as they watched some reality television. "If I had a restaurant, this'd be all I'd serve," the Doctor told them.

Amy scoffed. "Yeah, right. You running a restaurant."

"I've run restaurants. Who do you think invented the Yorkshire pudding?"

Rory laughed, but stopped when he saw the serious look on the Doctor's face. "You didn't."

"Pudding, yet savory. Sound familiar?"

The next morning, the Doctor was playing on the Wii again. His favorite game involved hitting a ball with a racquet.

Elise didn't see the appeal.

"Oh, yes! Second set, Doctor! Ha ha! Oh, if Fred Perry could see me now, eh? He'd probably ask for his shorts back. Third set decider, come on, then."

Suddenly, the cube that was sitting on the side table started floating.

It flew in front of the Doctor. "Out of the way, dear, I'm trying to..."

The cube didn't do anything. It just hovered there.

"Whatever you are, this planet, these people, are precious to me. And I will defend them to my last breath."

The cube only hovered.

"Is that all you can do, hover? I had a metal dog could do that."

A little metal tube came out of the cube.

"Oh, that's clever. What's that?"

It fired an energy bolt.

The Doctor dodged and it hit a vase. The Doctor and Elise scrambled out of the living room.

Well so much for domesticity.

The cube started flipping through images on the TV.

"You really have woken up."

Rory came running in from the kitchen. "Doctor! Hi. Uh, the cube in there, it just opened."

Amy came running down the stairs. "The cube upstairs just spiked me and took my pulse!"

"Ha! Really? Mine fired laser bolts and now it's surfing the net," the Doctor told them. He grabbed his jacket and put it on as Brian came inside the house.

"You're never going to believe this. My cube just moved. It rattled."

Rory's phone started ringing and he answered.

The Doctor laughed and ran back into the living room.

"Hello? Okay, I'm on my way." He hung up. "I have to get to work. They need all the help they can get."

"Let me come, help out," Brian said.

"Take your dad to work night, brilliant!" He turned to Amy. "Okay, are you going to be all right here?"

Amy kissed him on the cheek. "Keep away from the cubes."

"Right." Rory and Brian left.

The Doctor was looking down at his psychic paper with a smile.

"What are you grinning about?" Amy asked.

"We're wanted at the Tower of London."