Break in Time
By Gerard Luft
Chapter One
Sally Maitland entered the TARDIS and was stunned by the massive chamber within. To her left stretched a long bookcase, and to her right numerous Roman arches in a semicircle led deeper into the ship. In the middle of the column filled chamber a tall glass column rose from the center of a six sided, wooden console up to the domed ceiling several storeys above. The column was supported by an array of six iron girders.
"It's bigger on the inside!" Cried Sally.
"And can go anywhere in time and space," said the Doctor as he entered the ship. He wore an Edwardian frock coat and waistcoat with a silvery ascot. How handsome, long, oval face was framed with long auburn locks.
Behind him, a pretty girl with blonde hair and an Edwardian safari outfit silently followed him in and plopped down in an armchair near the bookcase.
"This is impossible!" Cried Sally as she ran her fingers through her blue hair, a look of utter wonder on her baby face. "But this primitive machinery couldn't move antigrav lorry down a street, let alone travel through time and space.
"Primitive!" cried the Doctor. "This is a Type 40 TARDIS capable of traveling to any planet, at any point in that planet's existence. Let me demonstrate. Where would you like to go?"
"Alright then!" Said Sally as she closely watched the Doctor pull levers and soon dials on the console. "I want to see Earth in the year 2000."
"2000 Humanity Era it is," declared the Doctor as he threw a switch and glowing glass rid in the glass column's interior began to rise and fall to the sounds of a deep wheezing and groaning. "How does the year 2000 sound to you, Charley?"
"Fine," said Charlie as she sulked in the Doctor's chair.
A wheezing and groaning sound filled the night air in a park overlooking an enormous bridge spanning a bay. A blue Police Box slowly materialized upon the grass."
The Doctor, Sally and Charley exited the box and looked around.
"That's the Golden Gate Bridge, isn't it?" Asked Sally practically hopping up and down. "But what's all this, then?"
"Golden Gate park, I suspect," said the Doctor, absolutely thrilled at Sally's excitement
"A park in San Francisco? We really have travelled back in time! We crossed light years of space and centuries of time in only a few minutes. Who are you, Doctor?"
"That's for me to know, and you not to find out. Come on! We have a whole city to explore."
"Where are we going first?"
"To the Hospital."
"Hospital?"
"Yes, I have an old friend, Grace, I'd like to look up. I have a kiss to return to her."
"Ooo, a kiss! You're quite a player, aren't you?"
"Yes, but mostly chess. Come on, Charley!"
"Great!" Muttered Charley. "Another woman to join us."
Charley fell behind in her despondency. Before she knew it, she was out of sight of the Doctor. "Doctor! Where are you? Forget something, like me, perhaps?
Two men in black came off of some nearby bushes startling Charley to no end. She saw the flash of a badge on each of their chests and relaxed a little. "Is it the custom of San Francisco constables to jump out of bushes?"
"Is it the custom of young ladies to be prowling about in the park after dark?" Asked one officer shining his light upon her.
"Is that illegal?" Asked Charley.
"Actually it is," said the other officer. "You'll need to come with us."
The first officer took her tightly by the wrist while the other pulled out his handcuffs.
"Let me go!" Demanded Charley. "You're hurting me! Doctor!"