The End of Time

The morning began at the Silverspoon’s house for the annual belated Christmas family photo. OLeif and Izzy set up the studio in the living room while Gloria made coq au vin for lunch.

Relevance and Kitts arrived at eleven o’clock for the more serious family portrait, followed by some rather silly shots of the boys, and a few more professional photos of Relevance and Curly with their guitars.

After a quick lunch and a try at Green Tea Ginger Ale, Relevance and Kitts departed for their further activities of the day, while the three boys practiced for their gig at the coffee house the following Saturday evening. And Gloria and Collette visited Costco and the battery store.

But the biggest news of the day was the final arrival of the finale of all finales in Doctor Who: The End of Time. The party was to begin at 7:00 with back-to-back episodes of David Tennant’s last performance as the most beloved doctor of all time.

OLeif brought the projector for the big-screen sheet-on-a-wall, Collette had a jar of Jelly Bellies, Carrie supplied the ginger beer, and Kitts and the boys arrived with potato chips, drinks, and grapefruit for Carrie, who was currently planting a box of herbs, still busy with her vegan diet. Then Alfonso and Velvet arrived, as did Jimmy Dean, and their company was complete.

Then to the basement, where there were seats for all, once the back seat of the fifteen passenger van had been hauled out to the room. And with the lights out, the epic began…

Oh, it was terrible, of course. Terribly sad anyway. But, as in life, all goods things did come to an end. And David Tennant left the scene in a blaze of fiery glory as the next doctor was brought to life.

Collette fell asleep contemplating the fictitious world of Doctor Who and his tragic endings. But she could not reconcile herself to doing anything but rewriting the ending for her own purposes. It was too sad a thing to leave alone.