THE GRAND TOUR OF OKLAHOMA
Chapter Twenty Six "Suri!" Suri looked over as the Doctor came up and put his arm around his shoulders. "We've decided, we'll take you up on that offer tomorrow," the Doctor said. "But first we want to watch the baseball game. So, coming?" Suri gave him a wary look at the sudden change in the Doctor's personality. He stared at him while he tried to figure out if the friendliness was genuine or not. "Well, are you coming?" the Doctor asked. "Um, yeah," Suri muttered. "Splendid!" the Doctor said, slapping his shoulder. Suri grunted at the force of the slap and then watched while the Doctor walked over and paid for a ticket for him. When he was done, he beckoned to Suri and Jenny and Rose followed him as they looked for an entrance. Suri hesitated a moment and then followed. They found an open door on the side of the stadium and the Doctor showed the tickets to a middle aged balding man sitting on a chair just inside the gate. He nodded and the Doctor pointed to Suri who had just caught up to them and told the man he was forth one. The man nodded and waved them inside. The Doctor led them over to a souvenir booth. He smiled at Jenny. "Do you want anything? I'll buy it," he said. "You sure?" Jenny said. The Doctor put his arm around her. "I know you don't like accepting handouts from people but I want to do this for you and you said you had no problem with people doing that, right?" Jenny nodded. "Then go ahead and choose what you want, I told you Rose and I are doing this for you as a sort of welcome to the TARDIS type thing. So pick what you want. Me, I want a t-shirt," he said, pointing to t-shirts lining the back of the booth. "Yeah, me too," Jenny said. "Go ahead and pick, I need to find a cashpoint…or ATM in Americanese and I'll be right back," the Doctor said. He ran off while Jenny stood in line and looked at the selection of t-shirts. "You know what I want?" Jenny looked over her shoulder at Rose who had come up behind her. "What?" she said to Rose. "I want one of those inflatable baseball bat things," Rose said, pointing to a red bat hanging from the top of the booth. "Really, why?" Jenny said. "Because I want to hit the Doctor over the head with it and make him cross," Rose said. Jenny chuckled at that while the Doctor walked up to her. "Found a cashpoint," he said, getting back into the queue. "Oh Lord, he made another withdrawl," Rose said. "Hey, I'm paying for souveniers here, I told Jenny to get whatever she wanted and that takes money. So go ahead and get whatever you want." "Um…Rose told me something but I'm not sure I should tell you," Jenny said. "Yes, you should tell me," the Doctor said while Rose giggled. "As a companion, you are required to tell me any scheme that pops into Miss Tyler's noddle. Now what did she say to you?" "She wants to get one of those inflatable bats so she can bonk you on the head with it," Jenny said, pointing to the bats. "Oh, did she now?" The Doctor said while Rose gave him a look of innocence. "Ah ha, well, thanks for the warning then." "Where's Aladdin, by the way?" Jenny said, looking around for him. "Probably off finding the booze," Rose said, rolling her eyes. "Doctor, I can't believe you asked the wino to join us." "Oh, I intend to a have a bit of fun with him," the Doctor said airily. "I think it's time we turned the table on the annoying pest. Oh, hang on, it's my turn." He walked up to the counter and the lady behind it asked him what he wanted. "Yes, I'd like that t-shirt," he said, pointing to a white t-shirt with the Redhawks logo, a Redhawk's head with a bat in its beak. "And…I'd like one of these inflatable bats please." He turned and gave Rose a devilish look while Rose eyed him. "And…Jenny, what do you want?" he asked her. "I want the same shirt as you but a large size," Jenny said. "And what size do you need, sir?" the lady asked the Doctor. "Oh! Um…extra large will do for me, thanks. Anything else, Jenny?" "Well, I like those glow in the dark necklace things," Jenny said. "One of the glow in the dark necklaces as well," the Doctor said to the lady. The lady put his selections on the counter and the Doctor paid for them. Jenny took her shirt and necklace, snapping it so it'd glow and putting it around her necklace. The Doctor took his shirt and grabbed the bat. Jenny laughed when he thwacked Rose on the head with it. "That's for thinking of attacking me with this bat," he said as he walked away. "Oh yeah? Two can play at that game," Rose said while she stepped up to the counter. "So…" the Doctor said walking with Jenny to a concession stand. "Let's get some nibbles and something to drink." "Oh God, I see Aladdin and he has beer," Jenny said, pointing to the plastic cup filled with beer in Suri's hand while he wandered around. "No worries, we'll have a bit of fun with him," the Doctor said. "How?" "Well, you remember when you told me no one would believe you if you told them I was an alien?" "Yeah?" "Well, I'm willing to bet Suri won't either." "You're going to tell him?" The Doctor shrugged. "Might as well be truthful with the boy, eh?" he said. "Now, I want to show you one of my toys. This is called psychic paper," he said, pulling it out of his pocket. "Now, I open it up and what do you see?" "Blank piece of paper," Jenny said, examining it. "Okay, now the trick of this paper is I can project my thoughts onto it and show someone whatever I want them to see. So…I close it and now I open it again and tell me what you see now?" Jenny blinked in shock. "Um, a photo of you smiling. How'd you do that?" "Alien technology," the Doctor said, putting it back in his pocket. "I can use it to make IDs of all sorts. It helps me get into places I normally wouldn't have access to. I trained Rose how to use it and I'll do the same for you when we have time. And this…" he said, reaching into his pocket again, "is a sonic screwdriver. This…" He gasped when Rose thwacked him on the back of the head with her inflatable bat. "Two can play at this game, Doctor," she said while Jenny laughed. "Jenny, dear, might I borrow your necklace so I can strangle my insolent companion with it?" He gasped when Rose bonked him on the head again and he grabbed his bat and bonked her back while Jenny laughed. "You guys are great. I'm glad I met you," she said. "Yes, the feeling's mutual and…Rose, I swear if you hit me with that thing one more time, you'll be eating it," the Doctor said while Rose giggled. Rose winked at Jenny and swatted him with the bat. The Doctor gave her an incensed look while she ran away with it. "Your job, one of them anyway, is to rein that thing in so I can have some peace," he said, pointing to Rose's back while Jenny laughed. "Blimey, I'm sorry I bought mine since that prompted her to buy hers. Ah well, as I was saying…" The Doctor let Jenny hold the sonic screwdriver while he gave her a brief explanation on its uses. While he talked, he kept glancing at Rose who had her tongue between her teeth while she tried to sneak up on him with the bat. Rose stopped near him when she realized what he was doing and let him finish telling Jenny about the screwdriver. Then she thwacked him again and ran away while the Doctor shook his head. "Like I said, keep an eye on that one," the Doctor said while Jenny giggled. She handed the screwdriver back to the Doctor and they walked towards the concession stand. Suri spotted them and ambled over while Rose hurried to catch up to the Doctor and Jenny. Jenny laughed when she bonked the Doctor on the head as she got in the queue. "You're minutes away from eating that, I swear it," the Doctor said to her. He eyed Rose when she bonked again and Jenny laughed when he swatted her face with his bat. "How old are you people?" Suri said while he watched off to the side. "I'm 902, you?" the Doctor said. Jenny and Rose bent over laughing at the shocked look on Suri's face. "Um…I'm 36," he said. "Ah, well, I believe that you should never get old enough to have fun," the Doctor said. He gasped when Rose bonked him on the head again. "I second that," Rose said. "I will throw you out into the vortex, young lady," the Doctor said, loud enough that Suri would hear him. "Vortex?" Suri said. "Yeah, he's a time traveling alien, he didn't tell you that?" Jenny said. The Doctor jerked his head around and held his laughter in when he saw the odd look on Suri's face. "A…time traveling alien," Suri said slowly. "Yeah, I'm the Doctor, hello," the Doctor said, shaking his hand. "I thought you were John," Suri said. "Nah, that's just my human alias, I'm really the Doctor, aren't I?" he said to Jenny and Rose. Suri backed up slightly when Jenny and Rose nodded their heads. "Whatever, dude," Suri said while the Doctor walked up to the counter with Rose and Jenny. They ordered three Cokes, some nachos and popcorn. As they walked away, Suri followed at a slight distance, still unsure what to make of their sudden friendliness and the Doctor's claim that he was an alien. They walked down steps to a row of seats near the front. They found their seats and sat down. The Doctor made sure to sit by Suri so Rose and Jenny, who were on his right, wouldn't be bothered by him. He sighed when Rose bopped him again with her bat and he swung his bat into her face while Jenny ducked. While they were teasing each other, Suri pulled out his mobile and made a call. "That's the other thing I've noticed," Jenny said, pointing to the mobile. "All these homeless people apparently can afford mobiles and IPhones. I don't own one because I don't have the money." "Sell your food stamps and you will have the money," Suri said. "Fuck no; I'm not wasting my food allowance on stupid shit I don't need at the moment. I don't have anyone I wanna call anyway." "Well, I'm calling Anthony and telling him where we're at and see if you can come with me," Suri said. "Whoopie," Jenny muttered to Rose. Rose grinned at Jenny and wacked the Doctor with her bat. Jenny laughed when the Doctor jerked it out of her hand and used it and his bat while he hit her all over. "Annoying, isn't it?" the Doctor said while several people sitting behind them laughed. "Makes you want to ask me to stop now?" "Okay, I'm sorry!" Rose said, hunkering down while he hit her. The Doctor gave her back her bat while Suri shook his head and muttered about how nutty they all were.
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