Fringes: One of Those Days - Part 12

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Solo made arrangements for them to have access to a private jet. He also informed them that MIB had captured the Ogri.
“Apparently, it was hiding in a statue garden,” said Solo.
“Clever old thing,” murmured the Doctor. His tone became sharp. “Is it alive, Napoleon?”
“Yes, Doctor,” said Solo. “It’s fine. So is the Romulan.”
“Good,” said the Doctor. “See to it that they stay that way.”
They departed for the airport, stopping at the Doctor’s police box along the way. Walter and Astrid were remaining behind, and Tony had asked to be returned to the TARDIS.
“I don’t think I’m up for an extended jaunt from the TARDIS, Doctor,” Tony had said. His hands were shaking as he spoke and a trickle of sweat ran down his face.
The Doctor was solicitous and so they had stopped to drop Tony off at the TARDIS.
“It’s just as well,” said the Doctor. “I don’t like to leave the old girl on her own too long. You never know what she’ll get up to.”
Olivia wasn’t sure if the Doctor was joking or not. She watched Doctor Newman climb out of the car and vanish into the police box.
“Will he be all right on his own?”
“He’ll be fine,” said Uhura. “Tony just gets a little fragile sometimes.”
Olivia nodded. Right now, she could empathize with the man.

* * * * *

The trip to San Francisco was fairly quick. Olivia spent most of the time reviewing background information on Professor Arturo and CU-San Francisco. The Doctor produced a portable game of Scrabble which he and Uhura spent the trip playing. Peter watched and learned that the lovely African woman had an impressive knowledge of languages. Occasionally, she and the Doctor would argue, good-naturedly, over whether or not a word was ‘terrestrial’ or not.
“We only play using Earth languages,” explained the Doctor.
Peter looked at the word in contention. “Are you saying Velcro isn’t an Earth word?”
“The word, yes,” said the Doctor. “The material. . . .”
“Doctor,” chided Uhura. She waved en elegent finger at him. “No spoilers.”
“It happened in the past,” complained the Doctor. “Not the future, so it wouldn’t be a spoiler!”