THE GRAND TOUR OF OKLAHOMA

A/N: I'm originally from Indiana but at the moment I'm living in Oklahoma City and…the city has its good and bad points, that's for sure. I've had some quirky experiences though and I got the idea to take things I've experiences or people I've met or observed and let the Doctor and Rose experience the madness firsthand. So, most of the things that happen in this fic will be from my own experience of living in this city and traveling to various places throughout Oklahoma and it'll be partly crack and partly serious. I mean no disrespect to anyone especially any okies who may be reading this, just tormenting our dynamic duo for shits and giggles and letting them experience the good and the bad of…Oklahoma (ominous music).

Prologue

"So…what do you want to do now?" the Doctor asked Rose as they sailed through the vortex.

"Dunno," Rose replied, leaning on the console. "What do you wanna do?"

"Me? I've done everything, that's why I'm asking you," the Doctor said. "Come on, Tyler, give me some ideas. Think, ya daft woman!" he said in a Scottish accent.

"Um...okay, how about...hiking."

"Okay, gotta be a bit more specific than that," the Doctor said.

"Um…well, just put on a backpack and go hiking," Rose said.

"Yes, but where? Ideas, gotta have ideas."

"Well…to be honest, I'd like to go to America, haven't been before," Rose said.

"Okey-dokey, America, narrows it down a bit. Where in America?" the Doctor said.

"Um…"

Rose was thinking when suddenly she ran out of the room. She came back in holding a large atlas. The Doctor watched while she opened it to a map of the US.

"I'll just do what you would do," she said.

She held a hand over her eyes, lifted her hand up and jabbed a finger at somewhere on the map. The Doctor looked where her finger was pointing.

"You hit Oklahoma," he said to her.

Rose took her hand away from her eyes.

"Fine, Oklahoma then," Rose said.

"Okay, where in Oklahoma? Are you going to turn to the map of Oklahoma and jab a finger at it now?" the Doctor said.

"Well, I…um…"

"Yes?" the Doctor said when she trailed off.

"I was thinking be daft and hike all over the state but…the TARDIS…"

"Easy peasy, I have a remote control that can call the TARDIS to us wherever we are."

"You do? Wait, why haven't you used this remote control whenever we were in trouble and needed an escape?" Rose said.

"Because it wouldn't be much fun if we never had to think our way out of a situation, would it?"

"I…guess…" Rose said, feeling like dropping the TARDIS on his head for never telling her this before.

"But…hiking all over the state sounds intriguing. I haven't visited Oklahoma except for a few times and I would love to see it up close without the TARDIS and without a car. So…backpack it across Oklahoma and experience the wind as it comes whipping down the plain?"

"Yeah," Rose said, getting excited.

The Doctor smiled, seeing her excitement which in turn amped up his excitement. After 902 years, he preferred to let the companions determine most of the destinations since he had pretty much seen and done it all.

"So, I suggest, start in the capital city, see what we can see and then work our way to other places, by any means necessary and when we've had our fill of the Sooner State, we call the TARDIS to us and go on to the next adventure. Sounds good?"

"Sounds great," Rose said.

"Okay, since we're being random, I'll just let the TARDIS pick a random day and year and we'll see what comes up," the Doctor said as he hurried to the monitor.

Rose zoomed around the console and came to his side, watching while he worked the controls with boyish enthusiasm. He finished inputting the destination and chose random day and year and grinned when the TARDIS fired up and turned around in the vortex.

"Oklahoma, here we come!" the Doctor said as they hung on.

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