The Doctor and The Penguin

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“That's what I like to hear! And eager and open mind! Alright, Chadirra! First thing you'll need to know is about the vessel in which we're traveling! It's called a TARDIS. Time And Relative Dimesnion In Space. And in my humble oppinon, no finer way to travel the cosmos! She can be a tempermental bit of machinery but she's never let me down! Have you, old girl?”

Chadirra smiled some more as she listened to the Time Lord, this was just the.. she could not put it to words. One day she was out in the cold with no where to go, then the next day she was about to travel with a Time Lord to see the universe! Just how could she put to words how she was feeling? One side of her wanted to run away, another that wanted to run up and hug the Time Lord while crying out of joy. But she did not want to do either, the last thing she wanted was to do something wrong and be chucked out for it.

She looked to the console as The Doctor spoke about it, then curiously walked up to watch as the Time Lord started messing with the buttons and all the other gadgets that were imbedded in the control console. She put her hands to the small of her back to keep herself from pressing one of the flashing buttons that were in front of her, smiling and giggling as the Time Lord moved around the console.

Chadirra looked up and around as a groaning noise sounded through the ship, she guessed that the ship was slowing down to a stop.. or that there was something wrong with it. But she foudn her first guess was correct as The Doctor told her to head to the front door, with a small motion. With a wave of pure excitment, the Shape Shifter ran to the door. With a small tug the door was open, holding her hand out she looked as a tiny snow flake landed on her hand. Then with one leap she was out of the TARDIS and in the snow, laughing.

When she looked to see the Time Lord was out of the ship as well she ran up to him, wrapping her arms around him, "Thank you Doctor! Thank you so much!" She looked around, it was nothing but snowy mountains and hills for miles, the young Shape Shifter wondered just where he had taken them to.

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"Thank you Doctor! Thank you so much!"

He smiled endearingly to the little whifferdil and heaned down to wrap his arms around her in a genlte hug.. "Welcome to Earth's Antarctic Circle. It's no Xenon, but I imagine it'll help you feel less homesick for the time being." He passed a hand over her hair and reassuringly spun her around and gave her an encouraging push. "Go on my dear. Explore til your heart's content~ I shan't be far behind"

He took the opportunity to close the TARDIS doors and lock them. It was highly unlikely that something would come along and nix his TARDIS but.. Why invite Pandora to the box? Oh he would have to tell Chadirra about that Pandora girl sometimes. Spirited and curious young thing with a talent for trouble. Such a magpie, so to speak. He raked his fingers through his hair to brush them from his eyes and fastened the front of that bottle green frock coat o block out a bit of the chill and hurried after.

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Chadirra spun around as she looked to the scenery, nothing but white snow. Real snow! Wait.. Earth had an Antarctic Circle.. what was that? She looked up the tall Time Lord, "What is the Antarctic Circle?" She spun around to him, "I feel at home already.. You're not going to leave me here are you?" she hoped that The Doctor would not leave her here alone, yeah it was like home in every way.. But it was missing something.

She stopped and looked back to him as he gave her an encouraging push, with a small smile she ran off, scooping up some of the snow into her hands. It was just as she had last snow she had seen on Xenon. She stopped and looked around, edging close to the water and looking to it. She sighed some when all she saw was her reflection and looked back to The Doctor who seemed to be slowly making his way towards her. The Whifferdill looked around some more, that was before she stopped and scooped up some more snow and made it into a ball before tossing it at the Time Lord.

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The Doctor watched her scamper away, enthralled by her new surroundings. The chill was bitter and The Doctor took a slowed breath as slowed his hearts and allowed his body to cool so that the cold did not effect him so deeply. But the Doctor still found himself dancing lightly in place to keep the blood moving. He was happy he was able to give this young whifferdil some spark of happiness. He would have normally attempted to take her straight home to Xenon, but he felt that he needed to remain on earth. There was something important he'd left and it was nagging him at the back of his skull as he tried to figure it out.

As Chadirra took to exploring, The Doctor closed his pale blue eyes as he mentally tried to retrace his steps. He'd been just outside a convenience store when he'd hurried into his TARDIS. That convenience store felt important. “Perhaps I shou- Ouff!” he took a slight stumble back as he was met with a ball of snow. He brushed the cold powdery snow from his face and saw the impish grin on Chadirra's face and he smirked. “Oh, so that's your game, is it?” He stooped down to gather up a handful of snow and returned fire, with a softly shouted laugh.

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The shape shifter watched as the snowball nailed The Doctor right in the face, she could not help but give an impish grin as a reaction. Chadirra tried to play innocent but it seemed that the Time Lord knew that she purposely threw the snowball at him. Well she was the only one who could. Her grin grew wider as she spoke up, "Yes this is my game Doctor. Care to join in?"

The youngling laughed as The Doctor scooped up and balled some snow before tossing it to her. She was not really bothered with the cold, her home planet was almost nothing but either snow, ice or permafrost. In fact there was no summer or spring.. nor fall. Just a wonderful year round winter. She scooped up two good hand fulls of snow and tossed them, one at a time at The Doctor, "Don't you have snow where you come from? We get snow year round back on my planet. There is no such thing as the three seasons here."

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"Yes this is my game Doctor. Care to join in?"

"Oh I think you may have just met your match, young one!" he replied with a short laugh as he lobbed snowball after snowball at her in a jovial snowball fight. Before long the two of them were absolutely covered in a fine powder of snow. The Doctor found himself being rather grateful that he did not succumb to the elements as easily as a fair few of his other companions had. Humans, so tenacious and strong in so many aspects, and yet, they were so fragile. Certainly his favorite species.

He was suddenly disrupted from his musings when he was brought back to reality by another snowball to the center of his forehead. He chuckled and brushed himself off and walked over to place a hand on her shoulder. It was time for the game to come to an end. He still couldn't put his finger on it, but there was something important that he knew he needed to be doing. And as delightful as the snowball fight had been, it was a distraction.

"Don't you have snow where you come from? We get snow year round back on my planet. There is no such thing as the three seasons here."

He smiled down to Chadirra and nodded softly. "My home.. is called Gallifrey. It's a very long way from here. Come to think of it, I haven't been home in quite some time." he went on to describe his home, the brilliant burnt orange skies, the glistening trees of silver, the rolling grass of a deep red and the mountains of purple in the distance always capped in snow. Even of the citadel encased in an ever rotating dome of glass called a Panopticon.

"Perhaps, one day, I'll show you." he offered with a warm smile.