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Chapter One

A small blue button started flashing. It caught my eye immediately, and I glanced over. Suddenly the console started releasing a small wailing noise. The blinking began to speed up and the wailing gradually increased in volume. The screeching hurt.

Obviously, something was wrong with the TARDIS. I began to panic a bit. I kicked my feet off the jump seat which I had been using to lounge. A quick glance around confirmed that the Doctor was not in the console room. I vaguely recalled him muttering, "Be right back," only a few minutes ago.

"Doctor?" I called out. No response. "Doctor?" I shouted a little louder.

The TARDIS's howling was becoming a little too uncomfortable for my ears. My stomach sank at the thought of something going wrong while we were in the middle of space-nowhere. I took a deep breath and started running to the nearest hallway.

Down the hallway, every door was locked. That's odd, I thought, I've never seen the TARDIS lock these doors. I persisted at checking every door handle, and I began to knock on each door in case the Doctor was in one of them.

"Doctor?" I occasionally called out. I felt extremely alone. Every door refused to open. "TARDIS!" I sighed, exasperated and lost. I continued to jiggle the handles.

The hallways were completely silent. However, I could still hear the buzzing noise from the console as I travelled further away. The corridor I was on was coming to a dead end. I reached out to the last door on the right. The rusted golden doorknob turned. I gasped, and my stomached turned, finally finding a bit of hope.

I swung the door open and dashed in the room in order to hasten my search for the Doctor. Well, I found him. He was lounging back in a sofa with his long legs stretched up on a coffee table. He was wearing his regular brown pinstriped suit and swirly blue and brown tie. The Doctor's brown coat was laying over the couch's armrest. His head was leaned back as he stared at the ceiling. However at the sound of my entrance, his head flashed towards my direction.

"Rose! Don't—" He looked surprised to see me and lifted his hand, pointing at me. I jogged a little into the room. I was about to alert the Doctor that the TARDIS needed him. The door slammed shut behind me fairly quickly. I turned and eyed the swiftness of the door.

The Doctor groaned. He rested his face in his hands and sighed. I placed my hands deep into the pockets of my pink sweater. My concern was growing with each moment. What is going on?

"That door…" the Doctor began and paused with his face still in his hands. "Is that door behind you locked?"

He looked a bit distraught, but so was I. After crumpling my eyebrows at the Doctor, I turned around the wiggled the doorknob. Locked. Why are all the doors locked?

"Locked." I confirmed the Doctor's hypothesis. He raised his head out of his hands. His jaw slacked slightly.

"We're trapped in here, Rose," He explained to me. The Doctor folded his hands together and stared down at them. Trapped? The feeling in my stomach intensified and rippled through my body.

The Doctor expanded after seeing my blank look. "I came in here about ten minutes ago, and the TARDIS shut the only door that leads back into the hallways. I tried shouting for you, but I don't think you heard me." That reminded me of the noises and blinking light from the console room.

"Doctor," he glanced up at me from his feet, "The TARDIS, it was buzzing and flashing lights. Something's wrong."

The Doctor jumped up from the plush green sofa he was sitting on. He took a couple steps towards me. He opened his mouth about to say something but was interrupted by some clicking noises.

On the wall to the left of the door I had just walked through, there was a bronze typewriter on a small white table. A small silver door was on the wall just to the right of the stand. The door was shut, and, I guessed, locked. The typewriter was clicking away as words appeared on the crisp parchment. The Doctor and I both walked over to it.

The paper looked antique and ivory. There was an imprinted header on the paper in the upper left-hand corner. "T.A.R.D.I.S." the header read. The ink was a navy blue. As each letter was selected, the key pressed down as if invisible hands were there. The clicking stopped after a quick message was printed.

We are safe, it read.

"We are safe?" The Doctor repeated and just stared at the message.

I pointed at the message. "She must be referring to the noises and blinking lights."

"Will you ever unlock the door?" The Doctor asked his TARDIS. A couple seconds passed by, and the Doctor took a step back. A second before I gave up hope, she began to type a response.

You will be free in due course.

"Why would she…" The Doctor murmured on. He turned around and glanced around the room. I did the same.

I had not been in this room of the TARDIS before, which surprised me, because I thought I had seen every room there was currently. This room looked very similar to a living room. There were couches centered around a brown coffee table. A television was mounted on the wall above an unlit, grand fireplace. To the right of the room, there was a small white dinner table with two wooden chairs on each side. There were small homey decorations around the room like lamps and candles. On the far opposite side of the room, there was a small archway that led to a hallway. This room was definitely not a room I had previously stepped foot in before. I hadn't seen anything so domestic inside the TARDIS.

I glazed up at the Doctor's worried expression. I asked, "Where are we?"

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