Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock: Eleventh Doctor: 50th Anniversary (5 page)

‘I’m very clever,’ said the
Doctor seriously.

Polly shrugged. She went back
into the house, and the Doctor followed. There was, he was
relieved to notice, no fur on the walls.

Amy was in the kitchen, drinking
tea with Mrs Browning. Radio Four was playing in the background.
Mrs Browning was telling Amy about her job as a nurse, and the
hours she had to work, and Amy was saying that her fiancé was a
nurse, and she knew all about it.

She looked up sharply when the
Doctor came in: a look as if to say,
You’ve got a lot of explaining to
do
.

‘I thought you’d be here,’ said
the Doctor. ‘If I just kept looking.’

They left the house on
Claversham Row: the blue police box was parked at the end of the
road, beneath some chestnut trees.

‘One moment,’ said Amy, ‘I was
about to be eaten by that creature. The next I was sitting in
the kitchen, talking to Mrs Browning, and listening to
The Archers
. How did you do
that?’

‘I’m very clever,’ said the
Doctor. It was a good line, and he was determined to use it as
much as possible.

‘Let’s go home,’ said Amy. ‘Will
Rory be there this time?’

‘Everybody in the world will be
there,’ said the Doctor. ‘Even Rory.’

They went into the TARDIS. He had
already removed the blackened remains of the squiggly whatsit
from the console: the TARDIS would not again be able to reach
the moment before time began, but then, all things considered,
that had to be a good thing.

He was planning to take Amy
straight home – with just a small side trip to Andalusia, during
the age of chivalry, where, in a small inn on the road to
Seville, he had once been served the finest gazpacho he had ever
tasted.

The Doctor was almost completely
sure he could find it again …

‘We’ll go straight home,’ he
said. ‘After lunch. And over lunch I’ll tell you the story of
Maximelos and the three Ogrons.’

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