Hey, I finally finished something! My latest Scream of the Shalka / S10 Doctor Who fanfic, Catster’s Tail, is up at AO3.
In this humorous short, Shalka Master is literally a cat. Alison Cheney, Bill Potts, and the Shalka Doctor try to figure out what he’s complaining about.
In this Chapter 2 excerpt, the Doctor enters with a solution!!!
“Ah hah! I have it!” The Doctor enters the library at that moment, throwing open the book door so hard that its knob hits the wall. They run across the galactic carpet, leather apron flapping around their rangy frame. A purple pansy lamp clips them on the temple, knocking welding goggles from their balding forehead. They recover themself and hurtle onward.
The Doctor advances into the light half of the library. They crash into a golden blond table, fumbling the electronic device under one arm. For a moment, their limbs fly in all different directions. Then they pull themself together, executing a forward flip across the tabletop. Taking a jumble of books with them, they land on their feet in front of Alison and Bill, as if they planned to do that all along. They tuck locks of grey hair behind their ears and brandish their device in Bill’s direction. “Look, my dear Bill — a solution to all our feline problems!”