As Bad As It Looks - Part 15 by Gallifrey-Pirate, literature
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As Bad As It Looks - Part 15
“You’re sure this is the right door?” Rory watched the Doctor10 adjust the settings on his sonic screwdriver with agitation.
“Yup, only this time it’s being stubborn. It was more than happy for us to be in there earlier, but now it’s like this whole place knows what we’re up to.” The Doctor10 looked about at the corridor, searching for answers whilst his screwdriver chirruped. He frowned at his older self who was staring at the opposite wall. “Oi! Some help wouldn’t go amiss. Still seeing things?”
“I’m not sure,” the Doctor11 murmured. “Possibly.&rdquo
As Bad As It Looks - Part 1 by Gallifrey-Pirate, literature
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As Bad As It Looks - Part 1
"Trust me, Rory, this'll be the best stag party you'll ever have, ever!"
The Doctor danced around the TARDIS console, turning taps and jimmying levers.
"Forget ladies in cakes, well, the one you didn't have. Forget enormous fake rude parts and regrettable karaoke. This will be a night to remember!"
His current companion, who looked as though he had been dragged out of bed at four o'clock in the morning, made a pained face. "Doctor, I really don't think this is necessary. Amy and I are already married." He paused in rubbing sleep from his eyes to add, "For about a year and then we had a baby who is now older than us and...marrie
As Bad As It Looks - Part 2 by Gallifrey-Pirate, literature
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As Bad As It Looks - Part 2
Guided through the complex by the host simulations, Rory and The Doctor were left outside their prepared chambers. Two oval doors stood at right angles, each leading to a set of connected suites for the individual's entertainment, nothing overblown about the décor.
"Doctor, um, I'm not sure about this. How does this work, exactly?"
The Doctor gave Rory a reassuring pat on the shoulder. "It's fine. It's a perfectly controlled environment. Your Tinters, so-called from the old saying 'rose-tinted glasses', respond to your thoughts and feelings. They won't do anything to alarm you," he grinned, "unless that's your sort of thing." Pointing to th
As Bad As It Looks - Part 3 by Gallifrey-Pirate, literature
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As Bad As It Looks - Part 3
This was more like it. Contentment had reached The Doctor at last as he lay immersed in blissfully hot water, up to his neck in twinkling foam. One arm draped lazily over the side of the great inverted trapezoid forming the bath whilst he operated a tap with his toes. The concoction of salts and lotions he had toyed with in childish excitement had turned the water a curious bronze colour that sparkled with red and gold flecks beneath the layer of froth. Letting the warmth soothe away the pains of his lifetime of running from and scraping out of danger, he breathed in the mingling scents his extraordinary mind could only be bothered to descri
As Bad As It Looks - Part 4 by Gallifrey-Pirate, literature
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As Bad As It Looks - Part 4
"Rory! Don't panic! Everything's going to be fine. Just hold on. It's The Doctor! I'm here to help!" Having scrambled back into his clothes in the lobby's restroom, The Doctor came bursting back into his friend's suite, yelling gallantly. "Rory?" He dashed past each open door, only allowing himself to observe enough to confirm the human's absence, though a few flashes of places they had travelled managed to slip into his memory the Velvet Fields of Sleff, the honeymoon planet near the Horsehead Nebula, Rengata's Onyx Caverns, even Upper Leadworth. No sign of Rory, yet, however. The Doctor hurried on, waving his sonic like a frantic wi
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As Bad As It Looks - Part 5
Far beneath the pleasure complex in rooms teeming with workers and humming computers, Kaemu scurried past clusters of bleeping workstations, eyes flicking from screens to the data-pad in her claws. She was a sleek build of Tephalisk, her scales silvery and pearlescent with youth, but her beauty rarely proved a distraction to her colleagues. The Tephalisks were skilled at hormone control, which made them ideal employees for a job that dealt in wants.
"I have a data request," she enquired of one of the clerks. He paused in keying in a series of symbols and gave her his attention.
"Yes?"
"Transfer readings from the programmes running in chamb
As Bad As It Looks - Part 6 by Gallifrey-Pirate, literature
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As Bad As It Looks - Part 6
The silence was not a comfortable one, a silence made worse by 40th century hyperjazz punctuating the absence of speech. Having tried to distract himself from Jack's unsubtle gaze, The Doctor11 reached his limit halfway through his packet of crisps. Scrunching up the bag, he slapped it on the bar top and turned to the ex-time agent with a shrewd expression.
"Pack that in before your eyes drop out."
Jack sniffed a laugh. "Did you wake up on the wrong side of the time vortex or is this you always this way?"
"It's been a long day. I try to take just one more time out to relax but there's always something. The helpful people aren't being very
As Bad As It Looks - Part 7 by Gallifrey-Pirate, literature
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As Bad As It Looks - Part 7
From the security of the SES office, the Chief and his leading tech watched the scene in the Quark and Banana playing out on one of the surrounding monitors. The technician tapped his claws on the desk, his retracted visor revealing restless obsidian eyes.
"I would question this, Irriden, if that were wise. Whatever our friends are planning, do you think they can contend with two children of Gallifrey? Our scans show they are both Time Lord, genetics so identical I would suggest they fooled the systems..."
"Our systems are not fooled," the Chief stated.
"That was my conclusion, yes."
"There is only one Time Lord on Hedonis 4. They are bot
As Bad As It Looks - Part 8 by Gallifrey-Pirate, literature
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As Bad As It Looks - Part 8
The time travellers' acceptance of the offer was made more out of surprise than considered choice. Bewildered, aside from the smug time agent, they followed the Tephalisk back toward the SES quarter.
"Doctor, how did she know we would be here?" Rory whispered.
"She's from my future, Rory," The Doctor11 answered. "Any time after today she could have found out and chosen to interfere."
"You don't think she's annoyed, then? I mean if she's booked the rooms, that's a good sign, isn't it?"
The Doctor11 gave Rory a strained sort of smile. "Probably. Or it might explain the convenient malfunctions. Keeping to the positive, yes, but just in case,
As Bad As It Looks - Part 9 by Gallifrey-Pirate, literature
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As Bad As It Looks - Part 9
"Gallifrey "
The Time Lords walked into the vast ballroom with its staggeringly ornate ceiling, crystal chandeliers and diamond trellises floating beneath a painted dome, but all they cared to see was the view beyond the huge arching windows. Stone steps descended onto meadows of red grass, dotted here and there with great silvery trees. The horizon blazed burnt orange above the misted peaks of distant mountains.
"Oh but it's so beautiful," The Doctor10 uttered, his voice crackling with grief and wonder.
"If only it were real," The Doctor11 murmured. He sniffed, his eyes watering as much as the man standing beside him. "Memories, that