@angry-eyeebrows | continued from here
The Doctor giggled, not that he would admit he just giggled, he was too cool for that. It was more like a chortle, which might be the same thing. He ducked down behind the empty crates people left outside and waited for the moment to be most opportune. The Doctor knew Basil would start looking for him soon, he had walked off some moments ago and normally, upon visiting a new place Basil didn’t like to wonder off too, too far from each other.
He heard the crunches of snow under boots and fidgeted with the ball of snow in his hands. And then there was Basil’s face, and worried look because, it was true what he said, any time the Doctor wondered off, he was definitely getting into trouble somewhere. Basil turned around and the Doctor took this moment to stand up and launch the snow ball across the crates and hit Basil in the back of the neck.
“HA!” He yelled out, “Got you!”
Basil had been walking with the Doctor, but had gotten distracted by staring at the snowflakes drifting down from the sky. This was the first time he’d seen snow since leaving prison, so he was experiencing it almost as though it was a once in a lifetime event. But when he’d turned around, the Doctor had disappeared. As the Doctor knew, Basil did get nervous when he wandered off, for multiple reasons. Firstly because it probably meant he was doing something he shouldn’t be or getting himself into a less than brilliant situation. But secondly, because Basil didn’t like to be left on his own in a new place. He had been in one familiar place for so many years, so that was only to be expected. The Doctor was the only familiar thing he had now in new places, so he didn’t like to stray too far from him.
“Doctor?” He walked around a little, searching for him. He couldn’t see the Doctor at first, so he turned around, and that was when the snowball hit the back of his neck. He gasped in shock, because it was cold! Snow was almost-new to him, so it was even more of a shock than it would’ve been. Basil spun around now and marched towards the Doctor, stopping only to scoop up his own snowball.
“That was cruel, I’m going to get you back for that!”
