oh my giddy aunt! page 2

The stage descended into darkness again for a second or two, until the Doctor and Susan reappeared on stage, alongside a rather tall actor playing David Campbell. The Doctor entered the TARDIS looking somewhat remorseful, not even glancing back at Susan as if to save him from any more of the emotional pain he currently felt. 

Susan ran up to the TARDIS and desperately shouted ‘Grandfather!’ as the TARDIS door shut abruptly in her face. The stage revolved to show the Doctor stood in the TARDIS interior with Susan glancing on from the right hand side of the stage. 

‘Grandfather, what are you doing?’ cried Susan, tapping anxiously at the door. 

‘I want you to belong somewhere, to have roots of your own. With David, you’ll be able to find those roots and live normally like any woman should do,’ replied the Doctor, a tear glistening like a raindrop in his eye.  ‘Believe me, my dear, your future lies with David, and not with a silly old buffer like me. One day, I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs, and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine. Goodbye, Susan, goodbye, my dear,’ 

As if to emphasise the point, the Doctor began to sing: 

I'm nothing special, in fact I'm a bit of a bore

If I tell a joke, you've probably heard it before

But you have a boyfriend, a wonderful thing

'cause he will care whenever you feel too ill

I'm so grateful and proud

All I want is to let you live here now 

So I say

Thank you for being my companion, the adventures we’ve been having

Thanks for all the joy you’ve been bringing

How can I live without you, I ask in all honesty

But what would your life be?

With an old man like me? 

So I say thank you for being my companion

For being there for me

Mother said I was trouble before I could run

She says I began to interfere before I could travel

And I've often wondered, how did it all start?

When did I find out that nothing can be fun

Like travelling around the universe can?

Well, whenever it was, I became a man 

So I say

Thank you for being my companion, the adventures we’ve been having

Thanks for all the joy you’ve been bringing

How can I live without you, I ask in all honesty

But what would your life be?

With an old man like me? 

So I say thank you for being my companion

For being there for me

I've been so lucky, I am the man with a wonderful granddaughter

I wanna shout it out to everybody

What a joy, what an adventure, what a life!

So I say

Thank you for being my companion, the adventures we’ve been having

Thanks for all the joy you’ve been bringing

How can I live without you, I ask in all honesty

But what would your life be?

With an old man like me?          (3) 

‘Come on, Susan,’ said David gently, steering Susan away. 

~~~ 

River walked back on stage again, watching as Susan walked away. 

‘What the Doctor didn’t realize was he was going to get a love life too. But that’s a spoiler for now. And I mean that in both ways, sweeties,’ said River. ‘As time went by, the Doctor found more companions; companions, who were unaware of the death and destruction awaiting them. However, in most cases, for the Doctor it felt like they left as soon as they arrived. By the time he arrived on his last adventure in this incarnation, he was travelling with Londoners Ben and Polly and his body was beginning to tire,’ 

Two actors playing Ben and Polly rushed on stage and kneeled by the Doctor’s side as the stage lights began to flicker frantically. The lights stopped flickering as a man playing the 2nd Doctor appeared on stage. 

‘Wait a minute. You’re not the Doctor. Is he, Polly?’ exclaimed Ben, confused. 

Polly shrugged. ‘Well, he certainly isn’t the Doctor we know.  But we’ve seen a lot of weird things happen. Is it really that impossible for this man to be able to change his face?’ 

‘I suppose not,’ he said unconvincingly. 

Polly followed this with a song, which she sang directly to the new Doctor laying on the floor: 

Now and then I think of when you looked old

Like when you said to wrap up warm and seemed so weak you could die

Told myself that you were alright for now

But felt so unconvinced in my belief

But that was desperation and it's an ache from not so long ago 

You can get addicted to a certain kind of man

Like determination that there’s no end, not always an end

So when we saw that you did not make sense

Well we decided that this cannot make sense

But I'll admit that I am glad you’re not dead 

But you didn't have to change without warning

Act like nothing was going to happen so that we won’t know

And I don't even think I have any trust

But you treat me like an equal and that feels so good

No you didn't have to like me so much

Care for your friends like you do but now you’ve changed your face

I guess that I can’t trust you though

Now you're just the Doctor that I used to know

Now you're just the Doctor that I used to know

Now you're just the Doctor that I used to know 

Now and then I think of all the adventures we enjoyed with each other

But then you changed as if it was always something that you’d done

But I don't wanna live that way

Unable to trust every word you say

You said that you were wearing thin

And I wouldn't catch you having faith in a Polly that you used to know 

But you didn't have to change without warning

Act like nothing was going to happen so that we won’t know

And I don't even think I have any trust

But you treat me like an equal and that feels so good

No you didn't have to like me so much

Care for your friends like you do but now you’ve changed your face

I guess that I can’t trust you though

Now you're just the Doctor that I used to know 

Doctor

I used to know

Doctor

Now you're just the Doctor that I used to know 

I used to know

That I used to know

I used to know

Doctor          (4) 

Ben jumped as the Doctor sat up and said in response ‘Oh my giddy aunt! “Doctor that I used to know?” What kind of song is that?’

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