Chapter One-A Funny Man and a Big Blue Box
One day as I was walking back from a long day at work I came across a funny looking man sat on a bench. He wore a blue suit and a long brown coat with a rather scruffy looking pair of bright red converse. His brown hair was sticking up every which way and it blew in the strong wind that probably meant a storm was due. The strangest thing of all though was what was next to the bench the funny man sat on. It was a big blue box that I recognized as a police box of which hadn't been around since, at my best guess, the 1960s. The other thing that made it seem so odd was the fact that I had walked this way almost every day for about three years and I had never once seen a police box next to that bench. Sometimes I had even sat on that bench to eat my lunch on sunny days and I would've had to have been incredibly ignorant not to have noticed it!
As I moved closer to the funny man I noticed how sad he looked. Although his clothes were so quirky and his hair far too eccentric, the look upon his face was one of the saddest I had ever seen. I paused for a moment, deciding whether or not to approach him and for whatever reason I did.
"Excuse me," I said, "Are you alright?"
The funny man looked up at me and smiled, "Why wouldn't I be?"
"Well, it's just that you looked rather sad and I was wondering, if you don't mind me asking, what's wrong?" I replied.
"I've lost someone," he said.
At this point I was extremely confused. I didn't understand how he could loose someone. It is possible to loose an object or to become lost yourself, but loosing someone else is, quite frankly, rather a silly thing to do.
"I think you might need to explain a little better than that," I said, sitting down on the bench next to him.
"What would you say if I told that my friend, the one…the one I loved…still love, was trapped in a parallel universe and I could never see her again because it would tear the world apart?" the funny man asked.
"I'd probably say you were mad, but since you didn't say that I suppose you're not," I answered.
He gave an odd laugh as if he felt guilty for laughing when he should be sad. I was glad to have almost cheered him up though. That, at least, was something.
"What's your name?" the funny man suddenly asked.
"Elizabeth Timmons," I replied.
I was shocked that I'd told a complete stranger my name. Especially one who said such odd things, but then again there was something about this funny man that made me feel safe.
"Well, Elizabeth Timmons" he said standing up, "I best be off. Things to do, places to see."
With that he hopped off into the police box.
I walked towards the big blue box and realized that it needed a touch of new paint to make it look a bit nicer. After all, such a wonderful looking thing should be kept in its best condition.
Then I suddenly realized how silly of me it was to be standing outside this big blue box when there was clearly a mystery inside.
I knocked on the door, but there came no answer. I knocked again, but there was still no answer. I decided to try once more, just to be polite, but then opened the door myself and stepped inside.
I expected to walk in and find myself squashed up against the funny man in a dim light, but much to my surprise I wasn't. Before me was a huge room, with a few chairs surrounding a big mess of buttons and switches and odd bits of wire in the middle. All of which was lit up by the centre piece that gave an ominous glow and a mass of dim lights around the walls. I could also see a few doors that must have led to different rooms, meaning that the inside of the big blue box was even bigger than this one room.
All of a sudden the funny man popped his head up from behind the centre piece, holding an odd bit of metal and a strange looking tool with a blue light on the end.
"Oh, hello!" he exclaimed, "I was just…err…giving her a touch up. This is the Tardis by the way. What do you think?"
He shoved his hands in his pockets and rocked back and forth on his heels, looking rather pleased with himself.
I looked at my surroundings, trying to take it all in.
Then I asked, "Does it have wi-fi?"
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