046 years late

[hulloeverything]

[Eleven is bored. You don't want Eleven to get bored, people. When he gets bored he gets fidgety. When he gets fidgety he tends to... fidget. Those fidgets translate to IMPROVEMENTS!

Today was spent in the kitchen. Throughout the day he'd taken apart one of the walls and found something curious. Even more curious was that the kitchen was lacking one tap above the sink. Why, you ask? It already had hot and cold running water, what other tap does the kitchen really need? Isn't it obvious?

Lemonade.

Yes. Eleven has installed a lemonade tap in the kitchen. He's now sitting with his feet propped up on the kitchen table sipping a nice cool glass of lemonade from said faucet. There's a plate of jammy dodgers within reach and he has a notebook into which he's jotting down ideas for more improvements he can make upon Cair Paradisa. The journal is open nearby and he dictates idly]

So! Now that spring has officially sprung and it's nice and sunny and spring-y outside I'm thinking of trying to build something. I haven't a clue what, yet. Or, rather, I haven't a clue what it does... but it'll be something, a big... something... and that's something, isn't it?

[Pause... then the sounds of paper tearing and rustling as he crumples up his latest design and chucks it over his shoulder]

No. Strike that. That's rubbish. That was a big rubbish something and I'll have nothing to do with it.

[And with that he goes back to muttering to himself and writing furiously in his notebook. Clearly he needs to be bothered]

((ooc: That's right, people. There's now a lemonade tap in the kitchen. Mod approved!))

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[doublethefun]

[and here's a pony trotting in, heading towards the fridge]

Determining its function would be helpful, methinks.

[she pulls it open with magic, ducks her head in, and emerges with an apple between her teeth.]

[hulloeverything]

[He watches her trot across the floor with a smile]

Oh but what's the fun in that? There's nothing like throwing a lot of things together and finding out what it does.

[doublethefun]

[she takes a seat on the floor next to him before taking a bite out of that apple.]

Going for the serendipitous route, are we?

[hullo_sweetie]

Another of your things in progress?

[River was surprised to find him in the kitchen, but it does take her a few moments to notice the new faucet]

Alright, what did you do this time?

[hulloeverything]

[Another discarded idea goes over his shoulder]

Hmm? In progress, yes, right. Still working on that.

[He grins] What? Isn't it obvious?

[hullo_sweetie]

[River grabs a glass and blinks when lemonade comes out. How did he? That man, she swore if only he could put that keen mind to better use, they'd all be home safe and sound again]

You and your bizarre talents.

[But have a kiss on the cheek as she settles in beside him and sips from her glass]

Mm, it's good.

[huffythedragon]

A lemonade tap?!!! Awwwesooome!

[Yeah, he's just going to put his head under it and turn it on. Time to gorge!]

[hulloeverything]

[He laughs]

Now that's the spirit!

[huffythedragon]

[It takes him a while of drinking before he stops the tap to peer at The Doctor]

Did you put this here? Because I gotta say, it's a real improvement.

Action

[wizard_redfive]

[And bothered he shall be! Dairine's already tackled the other Doctor. Now it's Eleven's turn.

The young red-head (no, not the usual one) is peering over his shoulder. So when he tosses the crumpled-up paper, she catches it.]

A whole lot of nothing or just a little bit?

[hulloeverything]

[Huh. That's odd. The paper didn't hit the floor. He looks around before realizing the voice is coming from right behind him. He cranes his neck around to grin at Dairine.]

A whole lot, I'd imagine.

[too_fairytale]

[via the journal]

Aren't you supposed to be on a camping trip with Cricket Boy?

[hulloeverything]

It wasn't a camping trip, Amy. It was an expedition!

And we were. We got back just in time to help clean up the snow... or in my case, plant the grass.

[ectobabble]

[Ray wanders in, his head stuck in his old castle journal. he wanders up to the cupboard, grabs a mug and a packet of instant soup mix, and somehow, juggling the book and the packet, manages to get the mix into the mug without either dropping the book or making a mess.

he's having a RECORD day of it so far, with that sort of thing.

until, still without looking up, he puts the mug under the lemonade tap and fills it up, catching Eleven in his peripheral vision as he does so]

Hey, Doc.

[hulloeverything]

[He wasn't paying attention to what Ray was doing so he didn't see Ray take the soup mix. He looks up to see Ray filling a mug with lemonade. Oh good, people are making use of his addition to the kitchen. He smiles]

Raymond! Hullo! And what are you up to, today?

[is0latedthinker]

Back for a day and already causing trouble, huh?

[hulloeverything]

Trouble? Who's causing trouble? [He laughs]

[zeke_developer]

[Herpin' a derp, Huey comes whirring into the kitchen, laptop open on his lap, and his eyes only half paying attention to what he's doing, until he spots the new tap at the sink. He smiles, pulling out his travel cup, and wheeling over to Eleven.]

Hey, did you put that in? It's brilliant.

[Then he spots the notebook, sensing a kindred soul.]

What're ya working on, if...uhh...you don't mind my asking?

[hulloeverything]

I did, indeed! Thank you.

[He smiles, watching him wheel over]

Hmm? This? Oh... something. I haven't a clue what it's going to be, yet. But that's half the fun, isn't it?

[stalkershiki]

...Summer is coming. You could build, like, the best water slide ever!

[hulloeverything]

Shiki! That's a brilliant idea!

oh yeah action

[psych0p0mps]

[Comin' down to the kitchen because.... why not....

But oh dear, someone is there. Someone familiar. Someone with a bow tie and a weird, sort of gaunt face.

Someone who is promptly getting POUNCEGREETED.]

You! I thought you weren't coming back!

[hulloeverything]

[Whoa, hey, surprise hug! The best hugs there are, clearly! He enthusiastically returns that hug]

Aradia! Of course I was coming back! Why would you think otherwise?

[banished_dame]

Doctor? What's going on?

[hulloeverything]

What? Nothing. Well, something... but nothing. I'm working on something.

I added a lemonade tap to the kitchen, though. [he chuckles] How about yourself, Rose? What have you been up to?