elmo-doodle: This story was just screaming to be written. All this fuss about what's going to happen tomorrow had me wondering, "Hmm... what would that Doctor say when he heard of this situation?" and then this piece of writing followed. There will be a second part to this story tomorrow, if we're all still here ; Although I do believe that there would have been a bigger deal made if the world was going to end. My friend's theory is this: "I have come to the conclusion that the world will not end on Wednesday- instead, genders will be swapped." I couldn't stop laughing when she said that.
Stay tuned!
Wednesday 10th September 2008
Somewhere in Time and Space…
"Mum- mum! I know, just calm down, okay?" Rose Tyler sighed as her mother's frantic babble continued to echo out of her mobile phone. She pushed open the door to the console room where the Doctor was lying under the console breaking something.
"I had no idea, mum," Rose continued, walking over to the console and giving it a few sharp knocks. There was a bump from underneath and some cursing. "No, really. I don't think you should be worried- he woulda said something if that was true."
The Doctor pushed himself out from underneath the console and gave Rose a playful glare, rubbing a rather red area on his forehead. Rose waved him over and gave him a look that said 'help me!'.
"Look, he's right here, mum," Rose said as the Doctor stood beside her. "Do you want me to ask him?" More high-pitched noise. "Okay, just hold on a minute." Rose set her phone down on the console and turned to face the Doctor.
"Your mother is now calling for my advice?" he asked, raising an eyebrow. "I think she's starting to like me."
"Don't get your hopes up," Rose poked him in the side and smiled. "There's something on the news about scientists and Switzerland, and she's a bit freaked out."
"Go on," the Doctor said, frowning. Scientists and Switzerland? That didn't ring any bells. It sounded like some sort of book…
"Anyway," Rose continued, "there's rumour going round that they're turning on this big machine and when they do, a black hole will be created and the Earth will be pulled inside out and sucked in." Rose watched as the Doctor's face became straight. "They say that tomorrow's the 'end of the world'."
The Doctor managed to keep it together for about three seconds before he burst out laughing.
"What date is tomorrow?" he asked, chuckling.
"Mum says tomorrow will be the 10th September 2008," Rose said, and the Doctor resumed his laughing fit. Rose raised her eyebrows at him. "Doctor, what's so funny?"
"I had completely forgotten about that!" he said, wiping tears of laughter from his eyes. "The human race can be so funny at times…"
"Doctor, is the Earth going to explode tomorrow?" Rose asked- she still had a panicky mother to reassure.
"Rose, how many times have you seen Earth in the future?" the Doctor asked. He watched as realisation slowly dawned on her face. Her lips formed the shape of an 'o'. "I think you can be assured that the Earth will not end tomorrow."
"But you said that some things are fixed and some are in flux," Rose countered, silently proud of her point. "What if this is one of those decisions that is in flux, and it can just randomly change at any minute? Sure, I've seen the Earth billions of years in to the future, but what if this machine does something wrong, and the Earth implodes or something?"
The Doctor listened to Rose and just smiled fondly at her. Her words didn't make much sense, but he understood what she was trying to say.
"Well," he said, moving around to console to look something up on the computer, "tell Jackie that this is one thing that I'm not sure about. As you pointed out, tomorrow could be in flux and anything could happen." He winked at her. "It'll keep her on her toes for a while."
"More like on the edge of a panic attack," Rose sighed, but picked up her mobile anyway. "She is gonna kill you when we next visit."
The Doctor just grinned at her.
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