Jacob Rinkol never saw such an odd box next to a dumpster. Covered in peeling blue paint, with the words "POLICE BOX" written in bold steel letters, a peculiarly strange light at the top of it and a simple lock on the door, it intrigued him more than the street performers before him. It must have been the odd colouring that interested him. After all, nothing looked so bold, yet so hidden. So artsy…
Yes, he said artsy in his head. After all, the art gallery not too far away from his house had used a Police Box like that for an exhibit, but they only found half of it. This specimen, as he investigated, was totally real. The paint peeled off in his hand as he looked behind it, wondering if it was some kind of entrance-way to another world, through the wall it was parked against.
He never noticed the blonde-haired woman staring at him from the opening of the alleyway.
The Doctor stared at the human investigating her TARDIS, bewildered as he delighted in the most insignificant things. Usually people look at the front, not the back, or the sides. Thankfully the windows were freshly tinted.
Jacob froze when he heard a nearby cough.
"Can I help you?"
He jumped up to see a woman in blonde, with a sharp nose and hands deep in her trenchcoat pockets. She turned her head slightly, as if looking at a strange art exhibit.
"Can I…Help you?"
The blood rushed away from his face as words failed him.
"Yes, right, well, um. Sorry, miss, but, I, well, this is sort of embarrassing…"
He saw her thin lips curl into a smirk, as if more amused than bothered.
"No, no, please go on. I'm enjoying this."
She stepped slightly closer as he continued to tumble through his words.
"I… Well, I was looking at your 'Police Box' and couldn't believe that there was a whole one still around. I thought, y'know, maybe this is a door inside to an apartment upstairs."
She stepped up to the policebox with a soft step, gracefully pulling out a simple key to open the doors.
"You seem curious enough. What's your name?"
"Jake-Jacob. Jacob. Yours?"
She brushed her long yellow bangs to the side.
"I'm the Doctor. Want to see inside?"
The first question confused him, while the second filled him with immense curiosity.
"Yes, please."
With the click of a lock, the doors opened wide…
To a room far bigger than he expected.
"No…"
He didn't even walk in before inspecting the box again, just to be sure he wasn't mad.
"Is this box connected to the wall?"
"No. You and I both know the store next to us is a clothes shop. Beautiful tops and dresses, but their shoes were all I could afford…"
"But it's…!"
He hovered around the doors, looking into the massive room, complete with rotating section above and massive lava lamps gracing the columns around the main console.
"It's inconceivable! It's a miracle! It's against every known law of physics! It's…"
She turned to him,leaning on a column and snickering as his mind was utterly blown. She's seen this so many times before.
"Say it, Jacob. Say what you really mean."
He calmed himself down allowing the simple truth to come to him.
"This box is bigger on the inside, than it is on the outside."
She turned to the center console. With a flick of a switch, the doors closed behind him.
"This is no ordinary box, my new friend. This is a time and relative dimension in space, or TARDIS. This machine can travel anywhere in time and space. All it needs is a destination. I don't know who you are, or where you're going, but I know that you're curious, and curiosity leads to adventures. I could use an adventurer on my team."
She turned to him as she hung her heavy coat on a rack and returned to the center console.
"I'd like to go on an adventure, Jacob. Where would you like to travel to?"
He walked closer to the center console, his hands floating above the buttons and screens. Scanners and lights flashed and whizzed across the whole room as circles moved and shifted on the walls. He never walked into a room that felt more alive.
"I'm…I'm…I don't know."
Her head dropped in disappointment.
"You humans are so interesting. When some curious ones get the chance to travel across time and space, they usually have a clue of where to go."
She turned back to him, looking for a clue of where to go.
"You don't have a single clue of where to go? Anywhere in particular?"
He shook his head. Immediately, she returned to the console and pressed a few buttons. Immediately a screen near him turned on, revealing a line on the screen.
"What's this?"
She looked up from the console and pointed to the line on the screen.
"This is a line of Earth's history. Simplified for humans to understand. Nothing personal, just the truth. Anyways, this is a cause-and-effect model of the entirety of human history, from Homo Sapien to Solar eruption. Pick a time and we'll set off-"
He had been looking at the line, but his eyes pointed him towards one part- the far end of the line, where nothing seemed to happen.
"How about here? When is this?"
The Doctor turned to it and stopped mid-breath.
"That's the end of the humans- no…"
She looked closer, turning the screen to her. Only after examination did she turn to him.
"Do you know when this is?"
He shrugged.
"This is the end of time. When nothing is left in this galaxy but swirls of gas and rocks and ice. Even the radio signals have dissipated. Nothing is left."
"What is that like?"
She paused.
"I…I don't know actually."
"Shall we both find out then?"
She saw it in Jacob's eyes. He wanted to go to the end of time.
She didn't even remember what it felt like.
Maybe it would help her in some way.
Immediately she punched in the coordinates.
Milky way Galaxy, time- None.
By the time he actually got to question what he was doing, he felt the TARDIS float off of the ground and disappear into the air.
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