Doctor Who Drabble: Aliens And Quarries

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Title: Aliens And Quarries

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: The Doctor, any regeneration.

Rating: G

Written For: Challenge 035: Quarry at dw100

Spoilers: None.

Summary: Why are so many aliens found in quarries?

Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.

What was it about aliens and quarries? It seemed like anytime alien races came to earth, they made straight for the nearest quarry, preferably disused, and set up base there. Maybe abandoned quarries reminded them of home; there were a lot of bleak, rocky worlds in the universe. The Doctor had visited a fair few in his travels; there was no accounting for taste.

On the other hand, battling the enemy in a remote quarry had its advantages. Fewer people around to get hurt or captured; damage was restricted to rocks rather than buildings.

Best of all, hardly anyone noticed.

The End

Comments

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People who go on modern rollercoasters are way braver (or more stupid?) than me! My friend totally tricked me, she said it just went up and then came down again. Total lie, but it was fun and fast.

I love the old Hammer Horror films, Christopher Lee as Dracula, Peter Cushing and Vincent Price, as well as Karloff and Lugosi. I like reading horror novels too, or used to, but the last few I read just weren't scary.

Kids these days grow up kn owing how to use computes, tablets, phones... I can just about use my very basic mobile phone as a phone, I have no idea how to text or anything. I'm such a dinosaur *sigh* Everything I've leaned about computers has been trial and error. I can do what I need to computer-wise, but nothing very fancy.

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How about crazy for a description? That works for me! ;D Either I'm a total wuss, or I have a very strong sense of self-preservation; I'd be too suspicious.

I haven't seen too many of the Hammer ones, but I've liked the ones I've seen. Lee and Cushing were brilliant. I could listen to them for hours. And I love Vincent Price. I used to be a pretty big fan of horror novels, myself; now I just tend to gravitate more toward the "true" hauntings, instead.

It's pretty amazing/insane, how quickly kids are getting into technology. Mom used to work in a restaurant, and she'd see two-year-olds with iPads. It's so stupid; parents seem to give their kids all these high-tech things as pacifiers, instead of as gifts for special occasions, or things along those lines. Boy, times have changed rapidly.

Mom got a new phone last summer, and she really surprised herself by how quickly she caught on to it. She doesn't consider herself tech-savvy at all. I had to help her out on a few things (complete trial-and-error on my part; she gave me her old phone, so her new one is a lot more advanced than anything either of us were used to). But she figured a lot of it out in about two days; now she's texting, using Facebook, beating the pants off of a lot of people on Words with Friends.

I envy her, though, coming from a simpler time. I like having the Internet and video games and DVDs. But everything sounds like it was so much more relaxed when she was a child.

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Well, I was only 9 or 10 and I trusted her and her family.

My phone isn't an internet one, just a bog standard mobile. Anything more would baffle me completely.

Even when I was a kid life was much simpler. We had to use our imaginations more, make our own fun. Nowadays,, kids expect to be entertained and if they're not they get into trouble. I could spend hours entertaining myself all alone, with no TV or anything. Kids seem to have forgotten how to do that. It's sad. Some things are better though - washing machines are easer to use, central heating is everywhere, and computers are fantastic! I still entertain myself by writing =)

True ghost stories are WAY scarier than horror novels, just because they're true.

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Haha, even at that age, I would still have been way too scared. I didn't trust anyone but Mom and Grandpa.

Yeah, these Internet ones can be pretty confusing. It's a cool option to have (for a couple years, our only access was through Mom's old phone). But I don't really see where phones need all these functions. I'm more than happy letting a phone be a phone, and letting a computer be a computer. Juggle too many balls, and you're bound to drop a few.

Same for me. I grew up in a small town, was an only child, and didn't have very many friends. So I'd be reading, playing with my Legos, doing puzzles, coloring, making up stories while playing dolls. Just doing quiet stuff, keeping myself occupied. It kinda sucked that, after I got my Nintendo, there were these two girls who I thought were friends, but they only ever came over and glued themselves to it, when maybe I'd want to play outside. Mom told me a few years later that she'd given them an ultimatum: Either actually play with me when they came over, or quit coming around. They chose the latter option. :-/ It's a funny thing how a video game system is all you need to let you know who your friends really are, and who might only be an opportunist. Anyone else who came over was totally fine with a water-balloon fight, or flying kites.

Oh, infinitely scarier, I agree! I didn't used to believe in them until about fourteen years ago. Now I feel differently; have enough weird stuff happen, and it makes you stop and think.

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I do believe; mum saw some strange things, she saw her sister in the middle of the night shortly after she passed away.

I was never much for dolls, I played with toy cars, jigsaws, and my farm, read a lot, coloured, played with fuzzy felt... I never had a shortage of things to do. the same is true today but I don't seem to have enough time for everything. I love to do various crafts but computers get in the way, I spend too much time online, writing and occasionally reading, or answering emails.

I tended to just have one friend at a time. My older sister was more popular, but she spent a lot of time with her friends so mostly I was on my own anyway. Now I'm on my own completely. I miss mum, but I'm managing. I keep myself busy.

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Wow. That's spooky. We seem to have something that follows us every time we move houses. And I saw a shadow person when I was seven--but I thought it was Santa Claus, because it was Christmas. And the house I grew up in seems to be haunted by a cat; we're not sure if it's a cat Mom and her brother had when they were kids, or if it's the one I had as a child.

I was more a Legos/puzzles girl than a doll one, myself. And every librarian I've ever met has been crazy about me; I'd check out about twenty books at a time. Ah, the online life; the ultimate distraction! I have two library books I need to read, and I keep sidetracking myself with the laptop! I gotta say, though, it is damn handy if I need to research something for my writing!

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I find it handy for Doctor Who and Torchwood transcripts so I can check details without getting sidetracked by watching whole episodes. I do occasional other bits of research, but on;y when I need factual details. Mostly I just let my imagination run riot.

I loved lego, we had quite a bit but I think it was given to my nephew when he was little. He's in his thirties now!

I think we were limited to six books at a time by the library, but I tend to own books these days rather than borrow them. Back when I was young and still able to work, before my health fell apart, I worked in the science library at our local university. My absolute dream job, I loved it. Libraries are the best places!

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Yep, the transcripts have been handy for me, too. Every so often, though, I need some sort of scientific detail that I'm not quite sure about, so I hunt around. I've learned the damnedest things as a result. Research was so boring until I got into this fandom; now it's a blast!

When I was about eight, we found this huge Lego set at a garage sale; I'd only had a few pieces prior to that. Snapped that sucker up, and I still have it. :) I lost the minifigures pretty quickly, though, and ended up using the 1 x 1 blocks as "people".

We never had limits except for this one time when the local librarian was sick, or something. The person who stood in said that I could only take about five books. When I got home and told Mom about it, her reaction was pretty much, "Well, she doesn't know what she's dealing with!"

A science library? That sounds really cool! :D

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Mostly I research for places, street names, locations... I try to be realistic with those things.

Wow, that sounds like an awesome lego set, lucky you! Must be fun still having it. I regret so many of the things I don't have any longer!

It was awesome working there. We had the biological sciences, the so-called pure sciences (chemistry, maths and physics) and engineering, all under one roof. I started work there when I left school at 16, but had to give up work at 21 because of health problems. I loved it there though =)