The Doctor, Time Lord and... babysitter?

So that was how a few moments later, the Doctor Last of the Time Lords, Predator of the Daleks and the Oncoming Storm found himself babysitting a young and rather powerful Alicorn Princess. Said Princess's parents had left him explicit instructions on what to do, and what not to do. He thought back to when he was getting them...

"Okay, first off she cannot drink anything that has not been prepared by the royal chefs." Shining warned.

"Why? Scared she might got poisoned?" The Doctor couldn't help but inquire. Shining chuckled and shook his head.

"Nah, she's just very picky." He replied. It was at this point his wife joined in.

"Also, she loves to suckle on things." Cadence said.

"Yeah, I noticed." The Doctor deadpanned using the skills Twilight had taught him, as Flurry just happened to be doing exactly that with his bow tie once more. Bow ties were cool, but could be made much less so covered in foal drool the Doctor mentally grumbled to himself. So humiliating for him.

"Anything else I should be warned about?" The Doctor asked nervously, quite afraid to find out.

"Yeah, she uh..." Shining began, but looked rather sheepish while doing so. Cadence shared his expression. The Doctor began to grow even more nervous and felt a impending sense of incoming possibly regeneration causing doom. Okay, maybe not that bad in reality but some of a certain Princess of Friendship's worrywartness had imprinted on him when he had gone to this body.

"Well, spit it out. I don't have all day." The Doctor snapped. Some of her patientness, or lack thereof as well. Sadly, the Doctor found out what Shining and Cadence were so worried about when he accidently scared Flurry with his annoyance and she did what Luna was infamous for in her youth.

"WAAAAAAAAGGGHHHH!"

Flurry's cries shook the castle and crystals cracked and Crystal Ponies fled into their homes. But it soon stopped as quickly as it came when Cadence held her daughter's favorite stuffed duck in front of her and she suckled on it.

"...That." Shining said at last once he had recovered his hearing. "That's what you should be worried about."

"Great." The Doctor muttered.

Looking at Flurry now, with her cooing at him happily in her crib the Doctor wondered what he was so worried about. He almost considered dropping his guard. Almost. To his left, was a cart the catering staff had brought in with Flurry's personally cooked baby food. Personally cooked? Bit overkill the Doctor thought. Then again, if you were royals I suppose you could afford to go a bit overboard. Heck, he had no room to talk really as he came from a family that spoiled their children relentlessly. Him and the Master. Well, it was Missy now but that was besides the point.

"Well, you are kind of cute. For a pony, I mean." He murmured to himself and as he reached his hoof out to tickle Flurry, she did what any young foal or child of any species would probably do. She grabbed it in her mouth and suckled. The Doctor sighed, which he suspected he would be doing a lot lately.

"Well, at least it's not my tie...."

He shouldn't have opened his mouth, as guess what Flurry grabbed with her magic next? The Doctor found a pillar and began beating his head against it.

Eventually, he opted for feeding Flurry her baby food. Well, tried and failed would be a more accurate phrase as whatever he did, she only either made a mess of it on her high chair or just spit it back up.

"I wonder if the lucky parents are having it any easier?" The Doctor wondered aloud.

Canterlot Royal Gardens...

"After that thing!" Shining shouted as he, his wife and the Royal Sisters along with Twilight chased after a giant six legged lizard with  many spines on it's back.

"Foul creature, we shall turn thou into a new purse!" Luna bellowed as the creature screeched at her before spitting a thick gunk at her which covered her and Twilight's manes and fur.

"Ugh, this is what the regular ponies nowadays call demeaning." She muttered in disgust before resuming the chase.

Back with the Doctor...

"Eh, I'm sure they're fine. Now, back to business..." The Doctor said, before Flurry spit up on him again. However, eventually he manged to eat some of her food. But now came something even harder, getting her to bed.

"It's okay. This can't be that hard, now can it? She's just a Alicorn Princess. Not like she's a goddess or anything... What is she even the Princess of anyway?" The Doctor mumbled to himself. "Scaring away potential babysitters maybe?" He added dryly as he rocked Flurry. He had to admit, she was rather cute when she was sleepy as she finally drifted off into dreamland. He slowly crept out of her room but then tripped on a toy and fell over. His shout of shock accidently woke up Flurry, and I think you can guess what happened next.

"WAAAAAAGGGHHHH!"

Oh that was it, the Doctor was about ready to give in. He was going to resort to desperate measures, as the old saying goes. He was going to call for help.

"Hmm, I wonder if Derpy's free?" He asked himself.

As it turned out, so she was. But the first thing he was asked was "Weren't you a grandfather once?"

"I... I forgot a few things, okay? It's been a while! Over 900 years, in fact." He mumbled in embarrassment and hung his head as Derpy cooed at Flurry and helped her drift off to sleep with more rocking. It probably helped that she had experience taking care of a foal with access to magic, namely her daughter Dinky.

"Well, that should do it. Let's just not trip over anything and render this whole thing a moot point." Derpy whispered, but then they saw all of the toys in front of them. It was like a potential minefield of things to wake up Flurry. She shared a look with the Doctor, and they both said in unison "Nah, best not."

A few hours later, both Cadence and Shining returned covered in some gunk and nervously crept up to Flurry's room rather scared of what they would find. They peeked their head into Flurry's room and both d'awwwed at the sight of the Doctor and Derpy fast asleep next to Flurry's crib, where she was snoozing with a plush Tardis in her hooves.

"Well, that actually went better then I expected." Shining said.

"Maybe we should appoint the Doctor as our official royal babysitter." Cadence agreed.

The Time Lord didn't know why, but he suddenly felt that sense of doom return.

END