Smells Like Home (# 870: Spice)
Title: Smells Like Home
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Martha Jones.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 870: Spice.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Martha is caught off-guard by a scent.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
It had never crossed Martha’s mind to wonder what an alien planet might smell like. She’d been to earth’s past, and it had been a bit stinky thanks to the lack of proper plumbing, but now here she was on an alien world and…
The scent reminded her of her grandmother’s kitchen when she’d been a kid, warm, and redolent of mixed spices. It almost made her mouth water and for an instant she was hit by such an intense wave of homesickness for a past she’d completely forgotten that it almost made her cry.
Home was so far away.
The End
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Martha Jones.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 870: Spice.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Martha is caught off-guard by a scent.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
It had never crossed Martha’s mind to wonder what an alien planet might smell like. She’d been to earth’s past, and it had been a bit stinky thanks to the lack of proper plumbing, but now here she was on an alien world and…
The scent reminded her of her grandmother’s kitchen when she’d been a kid, warm, and redolent of mixed spices. It almost made her mouth water and for an instant she was hit by such an intense wave of homesickness for a past she’d completely forgotten that it almost made her cry.
Home was so far away.
The End