Word Count: 3591
Summary:  Where there's pie, there are metaphysical debates.
Warnings: None specifically
Rating: PG.  Mike keeps it clean for once.
Characters: Ten, Mike
Genre: AU, metaphysical navel gazing
Author's Note: This one's based upon some ideas in the NA's and Big Finish audios about Time Lord culture.  Thanks to radiantbaby for reading over this and keeping me honest about polytheistic culture.
Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who, Torchwood, Bernice Summerfield, or any of its characters, and I'm receiving no profit from this beyond the joy of writing.

( The Doctor sat at the Formica and chrome table with his head cupped in his hands and his elbows resting on the table. )

Word Count:  1599
Summary:  In a Brooklyn diner, a Time Lord attempts to change a bishop's mind.  And there's pie.
Warnings:   Swearing
Rating: PG
Characters: Ten, Mike
Genre: AU, Metaphysical Navel Gazing
Author's Note:  Mike is using the word "cult" in the older usage, that is to refer to veneration.  The part quoted from the book is from How to Serve the Latin Mass by Rev. H. E. Calnan (1948).  Thanks to Old Lady for the beta!

( And then they freaking pull out the Agatha Christie Indult on me... )

End note:  The same diner also appears in Absolution, the first story with Mike and in After Midnight.