Lily And Robin
CHAPTER 1
I do not own Doctor Who and I am making no profit off of this story.
Author's Note: Obviously this story takes place after the end of the War of the Guardians.
Allison Parker was running for her life. She had been sucked through a crack that suddenly appeared right in front of her as she was walking through the park, and she had somehow wound up here in the middle of a desert. The next thing that she knew she was being chased by a bunch of men that dressed like they stepped out of a Cleopatra movie, and they all had huge spears in their hands!
She knew that somehow she had slipped back into the past as insane as that sounded, and she was terrified that she was never going to get back. She had been running for over an hour now, and she was sure that she was going to drop over and be overwhelmed by her pursuers any moment now. The only thing keeping her going was her fear of dying. She knew that even that wouldn't keep her going forever though. She needed for the impossible to happen and for someone to rescue her like in one of those old adventure movies that she used to watch as a kid. What she needed was a hero!
She couldn't believe her eyes when a hero suddenly appeared as if out of nowhere! He was dressed like he stepped out of a Robin Hood movie. This was an appropriate thought because he was Robin Hood. Not that Allison knew that at the time of course.
"Come with me, my lady. I shall save you from those foul miscreants," the handsome man said to her with a wide smile.
She looked at him in astonishment. Who talked like that? She must be dying now and imagining all of this.
Robin Hood grabbed her hand and ran with her toward a huge rock in the distance. The spear carrying men were still chasing them and were fast behind them as they ran.
They suddenly stopped as they reached the rock, and the side of it opened up to reveal a futuristic looking room inside of it!
Allison looked at it in shock. Now she was sure that she was hallucinating!
"Hurry, my lady! They are almost upon us! Get into the ship before they catch us!" Robin urged her.
She followed him into the rock, and two doors immediately closed behind them that seemed to come out of nowhere. Allison looked around her in shock as she released that she was inside a big room that had been hidden inside the rock. It looked like something out of a spaceship. In the middle of the room was a multi sided console that was covered with knobs and switches and was all lite up. Standing at the console flipping switches was a young woman with a huge smile on her face.
"Hello! Don't worry. You're perfectly safe now! Those soldiers can't get to you in here. My magnificent ship is impenetrable by their spears. Do you like it? It's cool, isn't it? All bigger on the inside and full of switches and knobs!" she said with a great big smile.
Allison just looked at her like she was insane. Or maybe I am? Allison thought to herself.
"You're not going crazy, sweetie. This is a spaceship that travels through time and space. I disguised it to look like a big rock. I'll admit that a rock isn't too imaginative, but it was all that I could think of on such short notice. You're very lucky that we tracked you down so quickly. It's very hard to track people down once they get sucked through a rift in space and time. I just happen to be very good at it though. You can thank me later!" the woman said with another huge grin.
"Who are you? What is going on? Why was I sucked through that crack, and where did it come from?" Allison said as she began to panic. This was all just too crazy!
"She doesn't understand, my lady. She's beginning to panic. It's all a little too much to take all at once," Robin Hood said as he looked at Allison sympathetically.
"Yeah, I know. I just enjoy this part so much. I love being all mysterious to the newbies!" the woman said with a sly smile.
Robin Hood gave her an impatient look as if telling her to get on with the explanations already.
"I'm Lily Wright, and this is my friend, Robin Hood. Yes, that's right! He's the actual Robin Hood! Okay, he's not the real historical Robin Hood, but he is the Robin Hood from all of the stories. So in a way he's just as real as you or me. He comes from a place called the Land of Fiction where all fictional characters are alive, and they live out their storybook adventures forever in a kind of fictional Valhalla," Lily explained.
Allison looked at Robin in amazement.
"I would love to see that place. It sounds really interesting. I bet it's fun there," Allison said with a smile on her face. It was the first time that she had smiled since she had gotten sucked through the crack.
"Oh, it is my lady. I should love to take you and let you have all kinds of adventures with me and my merry men. You would certainly love it!" Robin said with a fond smile on his face.
"You'd better be careful, Robin. I might get jealous at all the attention that you've just given our new friend here," Lily said with an expressionless face.
Robin looked terrified, and Allison almost laughed at the look on his face. She could tell immediately that he cared deeply about the other woman.
"I meant nothing by it, Lily. I was just being friendly to the girl," Robin said in a panic.
Lily's stone face suddenly morphed into a huge grin, and she laughed.
"That gets you every time, Robin! I'm not mad. I know you weren't doing anything. I just love messing with you. Sorry!" Lily said.
"You should not jest with me so, my lady! You know that I care about you deeply," Robin said with sincerity.
Lily's face suddenly turned sad, and she walked over to him and kissed him gently on the lips.
"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to upset you. I know you care about me. I care about you too, you big lug!" She said to him with a small smile.
Robin began to smile again, and they put their arms around each other.
Allison looked away and felt that she was intruding upon a private moment.
Lily pulled away from Robin and said, "I'm sure our guest doesn't want to watch us hug all day. She wants to go home I'm sure. Don't you?"
Allison nodded.
"I'd still like to know what happened though. How did I arrive in the past? Do you know?" Allison asked curiously.
Lily looked offended.
"Of course I know! I'm a Time Lady. I'm an expert on time and space. I know exactly what happened to you. You see there have been cracks opening up all throughout time and space and sucking poor unsuspecting people like you into them. This has been happening for about a week now. My people, the Time Lords from the planet Gallifrey, have given me the mission of tracking down all of these missing people and returning them home to their proper times and places. Then, I shut down the cracks with my time traveling ship, the TARDIS, here. As for what created the cracks, I'm still trying to figure that out. I've been so busy trying to rescue all of the people like you who have been trapped in time that I haven't been able to find out yet. I'm sorry! I haven't even asked your name yet. I've been too busy doing all the talking. I tend to do that so you'll have to overlook me," Lily said with a wide smile as she finished rambling.
"She does tend to talk a lot," Robin admitted.
Lily slapped him lightly on the shoulder and gave him a stern look which quickly turned into a small smile.
Allison loved these two. They were such a cute couple.
"My name is Allison Parker. I would love to go home now like you said, but I would like to know what's going on first. Could I go with you until you figure it out? I don't want to go home and set there helplessly while I wonder if it's going to happen again. I won't feel safe until I know that whatever happened to me won't ever happen again," Allison said.
Lily nodded. She knew that Allison just wanted an excuse to keep traveling through time and space with them. She could have just said so! Lily loved taking on new companions.
"That's fine with me. I will tell you that whatever is causing all of this is liable to be very dangerous though. You might want to go home unless danger is your kind of thing," Lily said with a grin.
She knew that she had her. This one wasn't going home. She was certain of it.
"No. I want to see this through to the end. Besides, who would turn down the opportunity to travel through time with Robin Hood? This is just cool beyond words!" Allison said with a smile plastered all over her face.
I knew it! Lily thought to herself. Do I know my humans or what?!
Lily and Robin looked at each other and laughed softly. The adventure of Allison's lifetime was about to begin!
They held hands and looked at each other with huge goofy grins on their faces as Lily started following the next crack in time. Allison could tell that they were enjoying this, and she briefly wondered if she had made a mistake in joining them. Then, she quickly pushed that thought out of her mind.
I'm in a time machine traveling through time and space with Robin Hood and a wacky alien! It doesn't get any better than this! she thought happily to herself.
Next: Lily, Robin, and Allison track down the next crack in time and find out some more about what is causing them.