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Title: Sweet Shopping - Sequel to ‘Twisted Timelines’
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Characters: Tosh and the Fourth Doctor.
Rating: G
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Tosh takes the Doctor to buy sweets.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: I know I said ‘Twisted Timelines’ was the final part, but DarqueQueen7 asked me to write one more with Tosh taking the Doctor to a sweet shop. How could I possibly refuse? It’s a little longer than planned, a set of 5 drabbles.
As Tosh looped the scarf around the man’s neck, he smiled at her, the manic yet infectious grin she remembered from so long ago. She was so caught up in remembering their last/first meeting she almost missed what he was saying…
“You don’t happen to know where I could get some Jelly Babies, do you? I have the oddest craving for them, but I can’t for the life of me recall what they are.”
Smiling back at him, she took his arm, guiding him along the street.
“As a matter of fact, I know just the place. It’s not far.”
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Pushing open the door, Tosh led the way into an old-fashioned sweetshop, the kind with jars of sweets around the wall, waiting to be weighed out into bags.
Small independent shops had started making a return to high streets a few years previously. People had grown tired of the pre-packaged sweets, craving a taste of their childhoods, and enterprising businesspersons had quickly spotted a potentially lucrative opportunity.
Tosh had taken to buying herself some sweets here a couple of times a week. Somehow they tasted so much better from a paper bag, and Ernie stocked all of her childhood favourites.
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“Morning, Ms Sato, what can I get you today?”
“Morning, Ernie. I’ll have half a pound of Sherbet Lemons, please, and my friend here will have a pound of Jelly Babies.” Tosh loved that Ernie had chosen to use pre-decimal weights. It added to the authenticity of the place.
Ernie fetched the jars and weighed out Tosh’s sweets, but just as he was about to weigh out the Jelly Babies, she stopped him.
“On second thoughts, could we buy the whole jar? My friend doesn’t live near a traditional sweetshop.”
“No problem. That’ll be £27.50.”
Tosh paid with a smile.
OoOoOoOoO
With the plastic jar and a bundle of paper bags in a brown paper sack cradled in the Doctor’s arms, they set off back along the street.
“I feel rather bad. You gave me this lovely scarf and you’ve bought me sweets, and I haven’t done anything for you.” He dug in his pocket. “I don’t think I have the right currency to repay you.”
“That’s alright, Doctor. I’ve been expecting you for a very long time.”
“You have? You know who I am? Extraordinary!”
“Let’s just say we’ve met before. I know some of your later regenerations quite well.”
OoOoOoOoO
The Doctor and Tosh stopped outside an old 1960s police box, incongruously parked in the middle of a flowerbed. Tosh found it highly amusing that not one person amongst the throngs of shoppers gave it a second glance.
“Well, here we are.” The Doctor opened the door. “Would you like to come in for a cup of tea? It seems the least I can do.”
Tosh smiled.
“Thank you. I’d like that very much,” she said, stepping through the door he held open for her.
Morning tea in the TARDIS seemed like a very good way to start the day.
The End (and this time I really mean it!)
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Date: 2014-01-16 03:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-16 03:53 pm (UTC)Thank you.
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Date: 2014-01-16 08:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-16 10:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-16 09:22 pm (UTC)I went to a sweet shop when I visited the UK back in the 80s, and it was delightful. I ended up with a HUGE bag of sweets that lasted the rest of the trip!
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Date: 2014-01-16 10:11 pm (UTC)Thank you.
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Date: 2014-01-17 01:18 am (UTC)I love it how the Doctor is grateful to Tosh for the scarf and the Jelly Babies. It's fantastic that we have Toshiko to blame for both!
I just loved this to pieces.
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Date: 2014-01-17 02:38 pm (UTC)The Doctor appreciates Tosh's help and her gifts, he was feeling very out-of-sorts post-regeneration, but now he feels like a new man! The least he can do is make Tosh a nice cup of tea.
Thank you =D
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Date: 2014-01-17 03:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-17 02:43 pm (UTC)Well, he HAD to have the whole jar. Jelly Babies these days are sold in plastic packets, but the Doctor always had a crumpled paper bag of them. In my head, the Doctor stops off briefly in Cardiff every few months to pick up a jar of Jelly Babies from Tosh so he can keep stocked up. Ernie buys in extra jars for Ms Sato's friend, it's always good to have regular customers.
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Date: 2014-01-17 10:48 am (UTC)Great story.
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Date: 2014-01-17 02:46 pm (UTC)Thank you.
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Date: 2014-01-18 10:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-18 11:16 am (UTC)Yes, I think the Fourth Doctor would have found her delightful as a companion. I think she would have been great with every Doctor, but for different reasons.
I do know of a fic where Tosh is a companion to the Ninth Doctor, Tosh's Story - Travellers' Tales by wiseheart. The prologue is here:
http://otherworlds-lib.livejournal.com/105686.html
Lots of Japanese history in this one, I love it. Of course, I might be slightly biased!
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Date: 2014-01-18 11:03 pm (UTC)I promise I'll get back to ya!
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Date: 2014-01-18 11:20 pm (UTC)And if you like it, please tell wiseheart, I think it would make her day to get a comment!
(Had a productive day, I wrote 1000 words!)
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Date: 2014-01-18 08:37 pm (UTC)I dont like Jelly babies. Actually I cant eat them because they're not vegetarian, but even back when I ate meat I didn't like them.
But morning tea in the tardis sounds like a great way to start the day! :-)
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Date: 2014-01-18 10:10 pm (UTC)Morning tea with the Doctor is an excellent way to start the day, especially if it means you can have a lie in, have tea with the Doctor and then travel back in time so you can get to work while you're still asleep at home in bed. =D
Thank you!
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Date: 2014-01-19 01:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-19 03:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-31 05:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-31 12:15 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2014-02-01 02:36 am (UTC)Love the interaction between Tosh and the Doctor!
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Date: 2014-02-02 12:36 pm (UTC)Tosh and the Doctor get along very well, he finds her charming!
Thank you.