Hats, hats, hats!

[spacehipster]

Characters: The Doctor and YOU
Setting: the cafeteria
Format: Lights, camera, action!
Summary: The Doctor is making paper hats.
No, really.
You know you want one.
Warnings: The hats are so cool you might not be able to handle it. Brace yourself.

[Sitting alone at one of the tables in the cafeteria, a grown man is folding a piece of paper. The entire table he is sitting at is covered with identical sheets of paper.

What on earth is he doing?]

Comments

[spacehipster]

Hullo, Miss Maple!

[He wags a finger]

And no, not quite! Well, I suppose, technically, yes, but this is the art of folding paper hats! Which is much cooler and waaaaay more productive.

[pineandmaple.livejournal.com]

Hello, Doctor. [Look she even manages not to make a little face at that nickname]

Productive in that you end up with a hat, I suppose. Rather than something pretty but ultimately useless? Except what will you do with so many hats?

[spacehipster]

[Progress!!!]

Give them away. Everyone deserves a cool hat.

[pineandmaple.livejournal.com]

That's quite generous of you. I suppose there isn't much else to do.

[spacehipster]

Oh, no. I'm doing this to help me think. I don't do well when I'm stagnant. I have to keep moving, keep thinking, keep going.

[pineandmaple.livejournal.com]

Well keeping active is good. Do you always make paper hats when you're trying to think?

[spacehipster]

No, normally I go save a planet or race or spaceliner.

[pineandmaple.livejournal.com]

...Ah. This must be quite a boring place to be stuck.

[spacehipster]

There are things here, interesting things, but they're very unsafe.

[not that that bothered him]

[pineandmaple.livejournal.com]

That is completely true. [She hesitates and then speaks] You know we're gaining children at an alarming rate now. I don't know why they brought them here.

[spacehipster]

I don't either. I don't like it, though. Not one bit.

[pineandmaple.livejournal.com]

The best we can do it try to take care of them, right?

[spacehipster]

Right.

...Miss Maple, do you know how to make ice cream?

[pineandmaple.livejournal.com]

...Well yes but I don't think we have an ice cream machine.

[spacehipster]

...if I find a way to get a machine, will you make ice cream?

There are some little boys you'd make very happy if you did so, myself included.

[SOMEONE IS GOING TO BE LOOKING THINGS UP IN THE LIBRARY and putting suggestions in the suggestion box.]

[pineandmaple.livejournal.com]

...Of course I will make ice cream? [She laughs] But where will you get an ice cream machine?

[spacehipster]

Don't know. I don't think there's enough materials to make one, but I could try.

[pineandmaple.livejournal.com]

Ice cream is certainly of the utmost importance.