PARENTHOOD
Chapter Eighty Six The soft hum of the engines filled the air while two pair of converse sneakers stuck out from under the console and rocked back and forth. Adam watched while Theta moved the sonic screwdriver over the wires then placed the sonic screwdriver between his teeth. "Yuck," Adam said and Theta took the sonic screwdriver out from between his teeth. "What?" he asked "How can you do that after all the junk that thing's been in?" "I will have you know that my sonic screwdriver is perfectly sanitary," Theta said with a smug tone in his voice. "But it's been dropped in muck, slime and who knows what." "Mini force field to prevent contamination," Theta said and gently tapped Adam on the head with the sonic screwdriver. They stopped talking as they went back to work when Adam sighed, looking up at the wiring. "Now what's wrong?" "I was just thinking how different we are from the Doctor and Alan. They take the family and go off on adventures and we're doing this. How come we're not spontaneous?" "I guess I never was the spontaneous type of a person. True, I did steal my TARDIS on the spur of the moment but I learned to be more careful as time went by." "Different universe, different Doctor,": Adam said and Theta nodded. "But isn't it boring?" "I guess but I'm happy," Theta said with a shrug of his shoulder and Adam nodded. Theta knew that Adam liked to do most of the things that Alan did and was a tiny bit jealous of the spontaneous nature of the Doctor and his family. Theta also knew that he was comfortable staying on New Gallifrey but didn't know why. Thinking for a few second, he pouted and placed the sonic screwdriver in his pocket. Adam watched as Theta slid out from under the console and stood up. He held his hand out as Adam stood up and Theta smiled, closing his eyes. "Attention Frankie, Marion, Cameron, Jamie, Jenna, Zoe, Donald, Cam and David, get your butts to the TARDIS a.s.a.p.!" Theta thought and Adam looked at him with a confused look. "What are you doing?" he asked when Marion, Cameron, Jamie, Jenna, Frankie and eight year old Zoe, Donald, Cam and David walked inside the TARDIS and Theta snapped his fingers, making the doors close. "What's going on?" Marion asked while walking to Adam and Adam shrugged. Theta moved around the console as he pushed buttons, moved levers, flipped switches then looked at the screen and smiled. Pulling on the main lever, the rotor moved up and down behind the glass and the TARDIS hummed around them. "Where are we going, Daddy?" Cam asked and Theta smiled, plopping down onto the jump seat. "It's a surprise," he said then pulled Frankie down onto his lap and wrapped his arms around her. "And what is the reason for this surprise?" Frankie asked and he gave her a stunned look. "Do I need a reason to go off on a trip with my family?" "Well, aye, you do, because you never do anything without a reason," Jamie said. "He's right, Dad, you're not the spontaneous type," Jenna said. "Well, I am now," Theta said then set up a privacy block and appeared naked in front of Frankie in her mind. She smiled when she appeared naked in front of him and he walked closer, kissing her lips. Frankie gasped when she whispered in his ear and Theta gave her a wide grin. "Um, Adam, call me when we land, eh? I'm about to be very spontaneous!" They watched as Frankie got off his lap while he stood up and they ran out of the room. Frowning, Adam walked to the console as he looked at the screen and Marion stood next to him. "Where are we going?" she asked. "I don't know. It says "Nah-nah-na-nah-nah, I'm not telling."," Adam said then sighed, scratching the back of his neck. Frankie sighed while Theta's hearts thumped softly in her ear and she moved her fingers through the soft hairs on his chest. She thought back to the first time she had ever heard a double heartbeat and how shocked she was when she saw them on the scanners her brother, Cameron, had created to show a full three dimensional image. She had read that a heart is the size of someone's fist but Theta's hearts were small to fit inside his chest cavity. "Like my TARDIS, they're bigger on the inside," he has teased her after he woke up but he then explained that his cardio system was different than a human's and she loved the soft pulses thrumming in her ear. She also learned that he had a double nerve system and he felt pain more than a human. He would moan in his sleep most of the time and she wondered just how much he could stand before screaming. "Mmm, that feels nice," his voice rumbled in her ear as she looked up at him and he smiled at her. His smile and sad chocolate brown eyes were the first thing she fell in love with and she still have to pinch herself to make sure that she was really here, lying next to him. "Can I ask you something?" "What's wrong?" she asked and he softly laughed in her ear. "Nothing is wrong. I just wonder if you're bored with me," he asked as she crawled on top of him and placed her arms on his chest, resting her chin on top. "How can I be bored with you? You are the most amazing man I have ever known." "But I don't go off and get in trouble like the Doctor does." "Who's asking you to?" "Adam doesn't think I'm spontaneous like the Doctor. He takes his family off on these long adventures and the riskiest thing I've done lately is organize Cam and Zoe's research trip to Alnari Seven." "Again, who is asking you to?" "I'm asking me. I never acted like this before. I would go off in my TARDIS and never cared what was behind the doors. If it was this tiny village in the middle of some forest with teddy bear people, I'd go exploring and get to know them. If it was this space station being attacked by Cybermen, I'd go fight them and save the space station. What is wrong with me?" "Well," she said then kissed his chest. "I think it goes back to the crash. You nearly died, Love, and you should have regenerated." "I couldn't because my TARDIS was dead. She had absorbed most of the Eye of Harmony and I used it to regenerate from my eighth life to my ninth life to this one but, with it gone, I couldn't." "Does this TARDIS have that energy?" "Yep, I put some of it in the coral before I gave it to Adam." "Ah, well, like I was saying, you nearly died and a part of you changed the way you do things." "So, gone is the wreck less me and here to stay is the safe and sound me? How boring," he sighed and she smiled. "Only if you want to be that way," she said and he looked at the ceiling. "No, I want to be more like the Doctor. I mean I am silly and, I hope, fun to be with but..." "The wise and brilliant Theta is scared?" she asked and he gave her a sad puppy look. "Uh-hunh!" he said and she kissed his lips. "So, your idea of spontaneity is mind blowing sex and going who knows where?" she asked and he slowly moved his fingers up and down her back. "Yep," Theta said, popping the "p" and she giggled. "So, where are we going?" she asked and he slid his hands along her lower back and wiggled his eyebrows up and down. "It's a surprise," he said with a grin and she sighed, shook her head and started kissing him again. The snow blew in small circles as the TARDIS materialized and the doors opened. Theta walked outside while wearing only his brown pinstripe suit, a white shirt, a brown tie, white converse sneakers and his long brown coat and he smiled, looking up at the large waves of frozen ice. Frankie walked outside as she adjusted the fur lined hood of the white parka she was wearing and the white ski pants clung to her legs. She was also wearing two, white fleece jumpers under the parka, white gloves and white ski boots and her eyes went wide while she walked to Theta. Alan and Cameron walked outside and were wearing blue ski jackets, blue fleece jumpers, blue ski pants and black boots and Cameron had a black woolen cap on his head. Marion, Zoe and Jenna were wearing the same outfit as Frankie except that Marion's was pink, Zoe's was purple and Jenna's was tan. Donald, Cam and David came out wearing black ski jackets, white jumpers, black ski pants, black boots and gloves and David had a gray woolen cap on his head. "Where's Jamie?" Theta asked as Jenna smiled and pointed. Jamie came out wearing a green snowsuit with a fur lined hood pulled tight enough to only show his eyes, black boots and gloves and had two scarves wrapped around his neck. "Um, I thought Highlanders liked the cold." "Not this Highlander," Jamie's muffled voice said as he half waddled closer and the kids giggled. "I just hope he doesn't have to pee," David said as Jamie glared at him, sighed then turned and half waddling back to the TARDIS. Jenna ran to help him as Adam high fived David and Theta laughed. Jenna and Jamie returned a few minutes later and Jamie was wearing a red parka with a fur lined hood, a scarf, two jumpers, thick woolen trousers and black boots and he gently whacked the back of David's head as he walked by. "So, Brother, mind tell us where we are?" Adam asked. "I'm sure Marion knows where we are," Theta said while Marion looked around then her eyes went wide and she gasped. "This is Woman Wept," she said and he nodded. "Why do they call it that, Daddy?" Cam asked. "It's because this continental landmass is shaped like a woman weeping," Theta said when he projected what it looked like into their minds and the kids smiled. "That is so cool!" Donald said. "But what are we standing on?" Zoe asked. "Well, believe it or not, we are standing on the surface of the largest ocean on this planet. In fact, all of the oceans are frozen," Theta said, looking at the large waves made out of solid ice. "I'm not sure exactly what happened but they were frozen in some fantastic natural disaster and some of the waves of ice are over one hundred feet tall." "Whoa!" David said as he looked at the curving ice wave to his left and nearly fell onto his bottom as he tried to see how tall it was. "And what does one do with waves of solid ice that are over one hundred feet tall?" Cameron asked. "This!" Theta said when he started running then slid on the ice and laughed. "Oh, yeah, I got to try that!" Cameron said when he ran then slid on the ice and bent his fingers. Suddenly he flew up the side of the ice wave as he moved up and down then upside down on one of the small ice curls and Theta frowned, placing his arms over his chest. "Cheeky showoff!" he said then smiled and Frankie looked at Jenna. Shrugging, they ran then slid on the ice, followed by the kids then Marion and Adam looked at Jamie. "Coming?" Adam asked. "Nah, you go ahead," Jamie said while Adam ran then slid on the ice and howled. Watching the others having fun sliding on the ice, Jamie sighed then stood his full height and ran. "Creag an tuire!"
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