The ride operator smiled at the number of couples that were soon to be boarding the Ferris Wheel. He frowned briefly at the old man who was standing next to a very young girl until the girl called the old man "grandfather" and started eagerly chattering away into the old man's ear apparently on a family outing rather than a romantic rendezvous. That was alright then. He opened the gate and started getting the couples settled into their seats, snickering at the antics of what looked to be a pair of comedians on break, one a Scotsman and the other a hobo by his dress. Come to think of it, the dress of a number of the passengers was unusual, and in some cases almost indecent, but old people were often set in their ways, and young people tended to go out of their way to be outrageous these days.

The Ferris wheel started moving in earnest now that everyone had boarded the ride. Eventually it reached about the right height for what he was planning to appear to be accidental to anyone who wasn't his date. The Doctor surreptitiously pulled his Sonic Screwdriver out of his pocket and aimed it at the controls for the Ferris Wheel. The Doctor Surreptitiously pulled his Sonic Screwdriver out of his pocket and aimed it at the controls for the Ferris Wheel. The Doctor surreptitiously pulled his Sonic Screwdriver out of his pocket and aimed it at the controls for the Ferris Wheel. He winced slightly at the noise, wishing that what he was doing was less obvious to the person next to him. He winced slightly at the noise, wishing that what he was doing was less obvious to the person next to him. He winced slightly at the noise, wishing that what he was doing was less obvious to the person next to him.

"Well River..."

"Well Romana..."

"Well Rose..."

"It looks like we're going to be stuck here for a while."

"I like the sound of that Sweetie." replied a woman whose primary color was gold: skin of an almost golden hue, untamed golden curls, and a gold top that wouldn't look out of place in the 21st century or the 51st.

"Is this another one of those human customs you've picked up?" a woman with long brownish blond hair asked as she fiddled with the end of an overlong scarf.

"Are you coming onto me?" a young woman with bleached blond hair asked, looking as if she wouldn't mind at all if the person she was asking was.

The Doctor turned to his companion and smiled. The Doctor turned to his companion and smiled. The Doctor turned to his companion and smiled. Before he could reply however, there was an indignant yell from a familiar sounding harpy behind and above him. Before he could reply however, there was a yell from some harpy ahead and below him. Before he could reply however, there was a yell from some harpy almost directly across the wheel from him. The yell drowned out an almost plaintive cry of "Grandfather, why has the wheel stopped?", and a "How is this supposed to be "fun" Doctor?" in a Scottish brogue.

"Oi, get this thing moving!" a certain red-headed woman yelled down at the ride operator who was frantically trying to sort out what had gone wrong.

After another ten seconds of the Ferris wheel remaining stationary, there was a whistling chirring sound in two different tones coming from two different directions and an exclamation of "I didnae know ye could do that with a screwdriver!". An explanation as to how it was possible to screw with ride controls via sonic waves wasn't forthcoming however, as the wheel had started moving once more.

As the ground grew closer, the Doctor who'd realized what was going on since it had happened several times before pulled out his screwdriver determined to get at least a bit of time with his wife in before the running and the screaming started. Apparently, more than one of himself had the same idea as two different screwdrivers joined his in the task of making the ride's controls inoperable.

"Now, where were we?" Three doctors asked, two of them determinedly ignoring their surroundings since there were enough of them in the immediate area to deal with at least some of the problem, and probably more lurking about elsewhere.

The bleached blond woman in the jeans and hoodie just smiled as she leaned into the Doctor's side and he put his arm around her.

"I think we were here..." the woman with the wild gold curls replied to her husband's question as she grabbed the Doctor and pulled him in for a kiss.

"You were going to explain exactly what you were thinking when you tried to get me involved in this display of exhibitionism." the brownish blond haired woman said, gesturing towards the kissing couple ahead of and below her with a hand that was holding a sonic screwdriver.

"I wasn't going to go that far!" The Doctor exclaimed as the kiss between a self he didn't recognize and a woman he didn't recognize grew more passionate.

As he watched the kissing couple ahead of and above him, a young Scotsman not-so-subtly shifted away from the small, dark-haired man he was riding with, jostling their seat.

"Grandfather, why are they mating in public?" a high childish voice asked loudly, cutting through several conversations and freezing the kissing couple in their tracks.

"Don't look Susan." an elderly white-haired gentleman in Edwardian dress said as he covered the eyes of the teenaged girl sitting next to him.

The formerly kissing couple turned to look at the old man and his young teenaged companion.

"We weren't mating!" the formerly kissing Doctor called back to the old man and his granddaughter before he turned back to his golden haired companion and quietly asked "Were we?". It was difficult to be sure how far someone who made their home in the Fifty-First century would go in public considering the number of taboos that had fallen by the wayside over the centuries. He'd only been planning on making out on the Ferris wheel. Anything else that might've happened could've happened on the Tardis if there hadn't been an impending disaster to deal with.

Rather than confirming or denying, River just laughed.

There was a grumble of "Well, that's ruined it." and a brief chirring of a sonic screwdriver before the wheel started moving again, stopping only long enough to let passengers off so that checks could be run on the ride in order to find and repair the problem.

"Doctor." a man with longish brown hair who was dressed like a professor in a woolen jacket with leather patches on the elbows and a smart bowtie said to a man in a pin-striped brown suit, brown coat, and grubby sneakers who had been sitting next to a red-haired woman who appeared to be in her thirties on the Ferris wheel.

"Doctor?" the messy brown-haired man in the suit, tie, coat, and sneakers asked before following him down the exit ramp. The man in the bowtie nodded in confirmation while the red haired woman who accompanied the man in the suit said "Isn't that that archaeologist lady what's her name?"

"Doctor." Both the messy brown haired man and the man with the bowtie said when a man with an exceedingly long scarf came down the ramp followed by a brownish blond haired woman who was making it clear that she wasn't with him though she clearly was.

"And, you are...?" the Doctor in the scarf asked, trying to get a bead on which regenerations they were since he didn't recognize either of them.

"The Doctor." both the messy brown haired man and the man in the bowtie said rather unhelpfully while pointing at each-other.

Then a man in a leather jacket turned up with a blonde on his arm.

"Doctor." both the messy haired man in the suit and the man with the bowtie said looking distinctly uncomfortable.

"Doctor. Doctor? Doctor?" the man in the leather jacket said in greeting, looking decidedly unhappy.

"What is this, a medical conven...oh, shit." a young soldier who was currently attached to UNIT who'd been out on a date with his girl said as a small and somewhat disheveled man made his way down the ramp in the company of a kilted Scotsman.