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

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

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 =)