A Journey Through Time (Tintin x Reader)

2. Reporters! Reporters!

The next morning...

'Glug glug glug glug'

The captain is having a bath early in the morning and he whistles his favorite tune, the Loch Lomond whisky commercial. He lays in his bath, washing his feet from the shower.

'Ah! That's better...' he hums as the hot water soothes his stiff muscles, wiggling his toes.

'RRINGG'

'RRINGG!'

'Bother that telephone!' He say wearingly.

'Hello? PFOUGH!'

He was answered by a tremendous blast of hot water, as he kept his shower head in his ear thinking it's the telephone.

'BILLIONS OF BLUE BLISTERING BARNACLES IN A THUNDERING TYPHOON!'

He gets out of the bath tub and throws on his bathrobe, muttering all the curses he remember and storms out of the bathroom with his hair dripping wet leaving a damp trail of water on the clean carpet.

He picks up the actual phone this time.

"HELLO?" He booms. "Yes?.... Cuts the butcher?! Look Madame let me tell you for the thousandth time,  THERE IS NO CUTTS THE BUTCHER HERE! THIS IS MARLINSPIKE 62! Yes Madam! Good day Madam! Best of luck Madam!"

"Barnicles!" He slams the phone.

He goes back to the bathroom and removes his bath robe. He keeps one leg inside the tub.

"RRINGG!!"

He clenches his fists and turn all shades of red. He peeks out of the bathroom only to see the phone not ringing.

"NESTOR!" He bellows. He snatches the bathrob again and slammed the bedroom door open.

"Who is this miserable molecule of mildew ringing bells early in the morning?" He thunders down he hallway, making Tintin peep out of his room.

"Is everything alright Captain?" He asks.

"Oh fine just bells ringing all around me!" He says as he heads toward the staircase.

Tintin follows him.

They see Nestor opening the main door. Something made him jump. He closes the door quickly and came running back.

"Oh Sir! Sir!" He cries. He looked pale.

" What is it Nestor?" Captain asks now curious and worried at the same time.

"Oh sir! There are hordes of people in front of the gate sir! It's horrible! Dreadful! Theres a tv crew as well!" Nestor exclaims.

"Thundering typhoons! What do these rubbernecks want from us?"

They all peep out from the door only to see the whole road filled with reporters. Jolyon Wagg the insurance owner is seen with a big banner of his Rock Bottom insurance talking to the Tv crew. There were cameras flashing.
A cameraman from a crane is recording the estate. It is utter chaos. The reporters saw the Captain and waved at him.

"Great Snakes!" Tintin exlaims "it's because of yesterday's news. What are going to do now Captain?"

"Cataclysm! Catastrophe!" He runs back to him room. "Captain!" Tintin calls out.

"Don't worry, I'll talk to them Mr Tintin" Nestor straightens his white bow tie and heads out.

Tintin waits for Captain. Snowy looks out of the nearby window growling.

Just then Tintin saw professor calculus walking towards the house.

"Professor! Professor!" Tintin calls him. But no one can hear him as the crowd started to cheer.

"Good morning Professor!"

"Professor over here!"

All the reporters called out. The crowd cheered him and waved at him.

"A carnival? My! Captain never fails to surprise me!" He says to himself. "Hello everybody!" He calls out at them.

A few of the reporters comes towards the house with Nestor.

Captain came rushing down, now dressed.

"No! No more interviews ever again! Let me tell them a good few words so they can stick their noses in their own houses and not my house!"

He opens the door to see Nestor coming with a group of reporters.

"I'm sorry sir, they want to interview the professor" he says.

"Well I..."

"Hello  gentleman!" Calculus greets the reporters.
"What a lovely carnival! A delightful surprise! How are you feeling captain?

"Very well, as you can see" replies Captain, annoyed.

"Why thank you captain, but it's not my birthday you know" he replies flattered.

Captain face palms himself.

"Excuse me sir" one of the reporters excused. "Would you be so kind to give us an insight about the findings?"

"Certainly!" Calculus pointed out. He heads out of the house. He clears his throat, straightens his tie and begins.

"It happened a few years ago...when we had the opportunity to be a part of a historic cinema..."

Captain and Tintin looked at each other baffled.

The reporters are now confused. But he carried on. One reporter photographed him whilst the another  jots down in a notepad. A few of the held tape recorders and microphones.

"It was quite the resemblance to the actual Incan civilization you know, such precision, fine details! The crew did an amazing job, magnificent I tell you"

"Uhh...Very well professor, so how did it help you with the research on artifacts? And where was this film set, as you call it, set in?" They questioned.

"Oh not at all! The crew were happy to show us around their set, and it looked like we actually visited an Incan kingdom."  He continued.
"Such fine exquisite work should be commended as always! Tintin, Captain and I are proud to be part of the Hollywood masterpiece, don't we captain?"

"Yes...Err... yes of course aren't we laddie?" Captain turns around to see Tintin grimacing. "Yes, heh! Quite..."

"The actors we met had such talent! We had the opportunity to see a total solar eclipse, they looked actually frightened to death! Oscar worthy!"

The reporters had no clue what calculus is talking about. Still, they wrote down every word coming out of the professor's mouth.

"Very well professor, uhh how did you all managed to visit there?"

Professor calculus answered. "Well it all started when..." he couldn't finished as captain intervened.

"Alright that's enough lads! Good bye!" Captain takes calculus in and closes the door. "Nestor, take care of the others will ya?"

"Of course sir" Nestor nodded. " This way sirs come with me" he said as he escorted them towards the gate.

"Whew! That's was close!" Tintin said relieved.

"We should visit a Hollywood set again shouldn't we Tintin?" Calculus asked hopefully.

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To be continued.