DOCTOR WHO: Complications

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Title: Complications
Characters/Pairing: Martha and Jack, mention of the Doctor
Word Count: 452
Rating: G
Summary: Luckily, Martha knows where the Doctor keeps his spare key. Unluckily, she's not sure she can reach it.
Notes: Written for itsproductivity, something of a missing scene for Make Believe You're Unafraid. Because Martha is tiny and it's just adorable. Spoilers for 4x13? Maybe?
Disclaimer: It all belongs to the BBC, I'm making no money from this.

When she used to travel with the Doctor, Martha kept a few spare TARDIS keys, just in case. She doesn't have the one that got made into a perception filter - the Doctor has that - but there's one in a drawer somewhere in her flat. The thing is, that's in London, and not exactly easily accessible here in Cardiff, unless she wants an hours long train ride there and back just to get a key.

Jack said that when he knocked, the Doctor turned on loud music and ignored him until he went away, so knocking is probably not the way to go. Luckily, Martha knows where the Doctor keeps his spare key.

Unluckily, she's not sure she can reach it.

Martha considers the police box sign, hands on her hips. Glowers at it, rather, like it's just insulted her mum or something. There's a little hidden compartment, just over the P, just big enough for a key to fit in there. Which is reasonable, considering the Doctor doesn't exactly have a doormat to hide it under, but she has to wonder if the Doctor has ever been short enough to realize that might be a problem.

Martha glances around the Plass briefly, but of course there's nothing she could drag over to stand on. That would just be too convenient.

She steps forward and reaches up, hoping maybe she can reach it. Standing on her tiptoes, her fingers brush the top of the sign, but don't quite reach far enough to grab the key. She drops back onto her heels with a sigh, glances around to make sure no one saw that, and turns away to walk back to the tourist information center.

Explaining this to Jack is going to be fun.

*

Jack reaches up, easily retrieves the key, and hands it to Martha, admirably with only a slight twitch of his lips. Evidently, he got all his mockery out on the way back up.

"Thank you," she says, and then makes a shooing motion with her hands. "Now go."

"You don't want me to come?"

"If we both go in there, it looks like we're ambushing him!"

"Which we are."

"Well. Yes, but more subtly."

Jack raises his hands in surrender and turns away, starting toward the lift. Martha turns to unlock the door, and then freezes. "Jack!" she calls just before he reaches the lift, and he turns back to face her.

Martha smiles sheepishly. "Actually, could you just wait out here? And stand to one side so he can't see you?"

Jack starts back toward her with a quizzical expression. "Sure. Why...?"

"I need you to put the key back when I'm done."

Comments

[kawaiispinel.livejournal.com]

MARTHA IS TINY. *gleefits* Oh Martha. I love her and her TINY-NESS and Jack mocking her and. *GLEE*

And the ending brought the BIGGEST SMILE EVER. Oh Martha.

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

Jack mocks because he LOVES. ...He mocks for other reasons too, but in this case, it's because he loves.

She is just too. Damn. Cute. This is going to be my problem if she is on Torchwood next season. I'll have to watch episodes, like, three times just to get all the important bits, because every time she's on screen I'll be too full of squee to really pay attention to much else. This is only made worse if she and Jack happen to be on screen together.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_chibidragon_/]

SQUEE!!!!

:D

TINY MARTHA IS ADORABLE. This fic makes me super happy!

You gotta stop making me fics that cause me to grin so hard my face hurts. It scares the grandparents.

(just kidding, NEVER STOP, but maybe it should be in a warning, May cause painful grinning).

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

I feel that there needs to be more squee over tiny Martha. I am glad to help in any way I can. *Grins*

I am sorry I made your face hurt, though. And that I scared your grandparents.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Cute!


(Of course, theoretically, even Jack should have trouble reaching the cubbyhole above the P 'cos the TARDIS is actually about 8 feet tall... But let's pretend it's not! ;D)

[starletfallen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, why don't you leave off the smiley and the "let's pretend it's not", and just pretend you had the balls to not try to pass this off as friendly jibing, Miss I-churn-out-crap-every-day. If you thought about it or looked at pictures (http://ninthdoctor.time-and-space.co.uk/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=15&pos=232), you'd see that while yes, he'd have to stretch, Jack could totally reach the cubbyhole above the P.

Jack's not shorter than the Doctor, how d'you think HE reached it?

Believe me, honey, you're not even HALF as good as all your little fangirls seem to think you are.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Excuse me?

That was a perfectly valid comment. The TARDIS is at least eight feet tall, and both Jack and Ten are only just over six feet tall, so not tall enough to easily reach that cubbyhole above the P!

What has my joking comment to do with my fanfic writing? If you don't like my fic, that's your business (after all, I've not forced you to read it), but you don't have to be such a bitch in response to what was intended as a friendly joke.

[starletfallen.livejournal.com]

Alright, I will admit that my personal feelings on your writing don't come into play, I've just wanted to say that for a while now. Not the time or place, apologies.

However, you're saying the TARDIS is at least 8 feet tall, or at least, the top of the sign is, right? Jack and the Doctor, a little over six feet. The average length from a person's nose to their fingertips is three feet. That gives them at least a couple inches' wiggle room in reaching the top of the sign, and that's all they need to easily reach that cubbyhole.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

What's the distance from someone's nose got to do with it? It's the length of their arms that's relevant - and most people don't have three foot long arms.


As for you not liking my fic, I really don't care. I don't make anyone read it and if you choose to, and then don't like it, I'm not going to apologise. I certainly won't bother reading yours again if my comments are so offensive.

[starletfallen.livejournal.com]

...the distance from your nose to your fingertips? Almost exactly the same as the length of your arms.

Also, I wasn't aware that you'd ever read any of my fic. Considering that no, this is not my fic. Gasp, shock, etc. If, however, you choose to not read my fic because of this...

Well, I'll be relieved, honestly, since it will mean I won't have to receive reviews like the one you left. :)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Since this isn't your fic, I have to wonder why you feel it's necessary to be so obnoxious to me.

I'm used to people posting fic on LJs with different names to their usernames, so I didn't register you weren't the author. That fact just makes your attack on me even more uncalled for.

[radiantbaby.livejournal.com]

Awww, poor wee Martha. Bless.

Cute story! :)

[oursoliloquies.livejournal.com]

Aw, Martha! What an adorable fic. :)

[heatherbelles.livejournal.com]

THat made me smile. Thank you

Of course, I sympathise with Martha on the height issue, I've spent the last week having to ask other people to undo the top lock of the doors to a gallery I was working on.

It gets old...

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

Glad it made you smile!

Heh. Technically, I'm only an inch taller than Martha, at most, but somehow she makes me feel tall. Maybe it's just because she looks so tiny when she stands next to Jack.

[heatherbelles.livejournal.com]

Looking at IMDB, she actually has 2 inches on me...

But yes, she looks so little next to Jack. I may have gone awww, when they walked off hand in hand...

ETA:You're using quotes from Savage GardensAffirmation on your pages aren't you?

I officially adore you... I love that song.

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

Oh, I was definitely squeaking at the adorable of the two of them walking off together. SO cute.

Yes, I am! It's one of my favorite songs, and it just fits the whole mood of Doctor Who/Torchwood/SJA so well.

[heatherbelles.livejournal.com]

Whenever I got fed up with a couple of my housemates at uni, I'd retreat to my room and play that to cheer myself up.

Well, either that, or I'd dig out my 'I love the Eighties' cd and stick Tiffani on repeat a couple of times. Just because I knew how much they hated it....

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

It is the best cheering up music in the history of TIME. Seriously.

Ahah. That's always fun. Though with my roommates it was always showtunes. ^^

[laurab1.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love both of these :)

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

heee! Very cute, thanks.