Recovering from the rocky ride they had just endured, Sky lifted herself up off the floor. The Doctor ran to Sky both of whom were laughing "Are you okay?" Giggled The Doctor.
"I'm fine!" Chuckled Sky.
River got up onto her knees and dusted herself down, shaking her curly hair sharply "That... is why i use the stabilisers. I'm fine by the way..."
"Oh..." The Doctor scurried over to her "Sorry, don't you prefer it this way?" The doctor said giving her a hand up.
"No. But i know you do sweetie" She smiled, checking her reflection in the screen on the side of the TARDIS before whispering "I'll let you have this one shall i?" She nodded towards an excited looking Sky and The Doctor turned to look before turning back to River and smiling "Yeah." He winked at her. "What will you do?"
"Spoilers..." She shrugged as he smiled cheekily. Sky was looking at the doors of the TARDIS wide-eyed, scratching her head with her left hand almost subconsciously. The Doctor then heard River say "See you soon my love" She kissed his hand and said to Sky "I'll see you soon..." Sky didn't move or even recognise that anyone had spoke, just continued to stare at the doors. With that there was a crack of light and River was gone.
The Doctor turned slowly towards Sky oblivious to Rivers last comment being total nonsense.
"Want too see?" The Doctor said pulling Sky out of her fixed strait at the door she followed him to the doors with her eyes. He skipped happily towards the doors and put a hand on one of them, gesturing to Sky to come closer with his finger. She moved closer slowly and as she stood next to him he said, no louder than a whisper "We're in space..." Pulling open both doors the pair were shown a canvas of twinkling stars, some where small and burning red others were up close, shining a light blue. Never had Sky seen a more pretty sight. She stepped forward leaning as far as she could out of the TARDIS doors. They were floating above all the moving lights trapped between burning balls
of flame. The Doctor leaned forward and made level with Sky's face, also looking out at the sparkly view that had amazed Sky so much she was now completely one with the stars. There were several beats of silence whilst The Doctor took in the sights around them, then The Doctor asked "Do you think the TARDIS is just wood still" He smirked. Sky shuddered before saying "Definitely not."
The Doctor smiled "Ever jumped out of an aeroplane?"
"What?" She frowned, still not taking her eyes off the stars and slowly rotating planets. The Doctor didn't answer but leap out in front of her causing her to take her eyes off the sight and gasp "Doctor?" Instead of falling The Doctor simply floated. Frowning Sky couldn't quite believe what had just happened. There she was stood inside a blue box that was bigger on the inside, where fully grown women could disappear and where men could jump out into space and float only metres away from where she was standing. "How are you doing that?" The Doctor extended his arm "Come and try for yourself..." She leaned slowly out of the TARDIS, "What if i fall...?"
"I'll catch you!" He smiled.
Sky nodded and slid her hand into his, without waiting The Doctor pulled hard and she was rotating around him in space. Gasping and breathing rapidly she looked all around her with eyes like a cats in the night, open and lit by the burning stars. "Why aren't we falling?" She said, staring down at the space below her feet. "There's a gravity bubble around the TARDIS, we are currently floating in the orbit of planet TARDIS!" They both laughed, Sky's laugh was still full of nerves "Its really weird, yesterday i was a waitress cleaning mucky tables and serving fish for a living and now I'm floating above... What is that? It just looks like colours..." The Doctor looks down at the patterns and swirls in the sky below them.
"That is your home planet!"
"You mean Earth?"
"That's where you live right?"
"Yeah... Oh my... It doesn't even look round!"
The Doctor frowned moving them both to sit on the roof of the TARDIS. "Earth isn't round!"
Sky gasped " What? How... What... did you just say?"
"Earth isn't round! It sort of curves at its points... Meaning it's more squashed at the sides" He made a gesture with his hands that depicted a squashed side circle and rounded ages at the two poles.
"That's..." Sky leaned back on both hands upon the TARDIS roof.
"I know, one day scientists will figure it out. And until then you can't tell them... okay?"
"Sure... Blimey you'll be telling me that the theory of evolution isn't real and that we're related to the squid or something!"
The Doctor exhaled deeply before saying "Don't even get me started on the theory of evolution!"
"Oh no! Seriously, are we related to the squid?"
"No... Not the squid but you are related to the lobster... Distantly" Sky's face dropped,
"Lobster...? Well what about the monkeys?"
"Monkeys? You think that they are your cousins just because you look like them a bit? I look like you but we aren't descended from each other!"
"That's a good point... What else are we wrong about?"
"Well..." The Doctor leaned back looking up at the stars above them, "You are indecisive about aliens, but there have been more species on your planet than you care to accept."
"What so there's more of you?"
The Doctor remembered all the other alien species out in the universe, and the Time lords "Not anymore... But there are thousands of different species out there, The Silence being just one of them." He fiddled subconsciously with his eye patch, Sky didn't seem to be fazed by her wearing hers at all.
The Doctor stood up on the roof. "So then... Sky... Wait a second, you never said what your last name was..."
Sky laughed "Didn't I? Oh! Well its lladd. Welsh again."
"I figured that... Well then Sky lladd..." He turned and said "Did i mention that the TARDIS travels in time?" There was a beat of silence before Sky burst out laughing... "What's so funny?" Asked The Doctor puzzled. When Sky had recovered and caught her breath, which was difficult because the air being generated by the TARDIS was quite thin compared to normal air, "I can believe that there are millions of planets, i can believe hat many alien species have trodden on the surface of the earth and maybe even lived there! But if you think for one second that I'm going to believe that this box can travel through time you are very mistaken!"
"Really... Then how do you explain my looking the same after 11 years...?"
Sky paused for a moment, she was so still The Doctor thought she had stopped breathing when suddenly just jumped up onto her feet and squealed, jumping up and down "Oh my god! You have an actual spaceship that travels through time!" She suddenly stopped jumping "You have a ship that travels in time... Time travel..."
"Yeah..."
"We can travel in time!" She laughed.
"Yes we can!" They were both laughing now, if anyone could see the pair of them they would think thy had gone mad from oxygen deprivation. Luckily it was highly unlikely anyone would see. Sky sat back down on the edge of the TARDIS looking out into the wide open space.
The Doctor sat next to her and asked... "Do you want to go somewhere?"
Sky looked at him in disbelief "What me?"
"Unless i was asking that star!" He pointed to a small burning star that looked close enough to touch. She smirked before saying "Where would we go?"
"Wherever you like!"
"Okay lets go back in time..."
"Done! But first we have to get down..."
"Oh yeah!" They both laughed and grasped each others hand
"Ready?" Asked The Doctor.
"No..." They both jumped down and were now hanging from the side of the TARDIS. Flinging around his whole body The Doctor managed to flirt them both into the TARDIS. Unfortunately, Sky was at an angle which meant that she ended up landing on top of The Doctor.
"Oops!" She chuckled pushing herself up off of him and straightening out her clothes "Sorry..."
The Doctor pushed himself up off the ground and announced "Don't worry about it, its not the first time that's happened..."
"I don't even want to know..." The both laughed and ran to the console in excitement. "So how far back can you go?" Sky questioned.
"As far as i like to, but i have to avoid certain times"
"Like when?"
"Well Sundays must always be avoided. How boring!"
"So you could go back to say..."
"To when?"
"When... I was younger?" The Doctors playful edge had vanished.
"Technically, yes. But you wouldn't be able to meet yourself..."
"Why?"
"Well if two bits of you at different times meet then... You could put a hole in reality."
Sky recoiled shocked. "Well better not do that then!" They both laughed before she added "But if you wanted to, and i mean just you, then you could go and... Talk to me?"
The Doctor frowned then nodded "Yes... But why is that important?"
Sky sighed "I grew up with only one friend..."
"And..."
She gave him a look he had seen on Amy's face so many times, it was the 'Think about it' face... "It was you"
