Everywhere in the universe, at every single moment, there are billions of individuals going about their business at the same time. A Raxacaricophalvapatorian might be enjoying a meal in a first class star liner the same moment the Moxx of Balhoon is getting burnt to less than a crisp on an observation deck being sabotaged by a piece of lip-sticky skin. The two will never meet, never hear of each other, and never have anything in common other than these shared moments in time.
Our story concerns two such individuals. One a Time Lord, and one a human. These two led very different lives, and had almost nothing in common. There was no reason for them to meet, and it was almost impossible for them to do so.
But sometimes, paths, no matter how they diverge, cross.
1 The Beginnings
While a strange blue box sat on a beach with a straining, sputtering wheeze coming from it, a young human girl walked along a crowded sidewalk. Well, people called it crowded. But really, they meant something more along the lines of 'Fifteen more people here than usual.' It was that kind of a town, where everybody knew everybody, and everybody knew everybody's business. Unfortunately, in that kind of a town, there wasn't much business to be known. A lazy contentment, a sort of permanent stability, lay over the town like a haze. Or a net. A net that was closing in on the human girl every day, and made her soul thrash and scream in dismay and longing for escape. Escape from the town, from a purposeless life, from the mundane to freedom and meaning.
Her name was Silver Haile. And she was bored beyond belief.
"Well, there must be something you can do!"
"I can't do anything, young man. It's out of my hands."
"But this is your ship, you fly it all the time!"
"And he doesn't exactly choose our destinations. In fact, he nearly brought us to before the beginning of the universe!"
"But that wasn't Grandfather's fault! The switch broke, if it hadn't been for him we'd all be-"
"Safe and well at home, isn't that right, Doctor?"
"I have tried to get you home. It's because I tried we were in that mess, Chesserman!"
"You're the one who abducted us!"
"After you forced your way into my ship, may I remind you, young lady, hmm?"
"She was worried about Susan! And so was I."
"He's right, Grandfather. They were just concerned."
"Well, it wasn't their place. Pushing past an old man into his private property..."
"It did look like a police box."
"Which wasn't my fault either! There's no use blaming me for things I have no control over."
"You had fairly ample control over our freedom."
"You talk as though you'd been kidnapped."
"Oh, I'm sorry Doctor. I didn't realize we hadn't been!"
"Chatterton, you-"
"Chesterton!"
"How dare you raise your voice at me!"
"Enough, both of you!"
"Stay out of this, young lady!"
"Quiet, Barbara."
"Don't you take that tone of voice with me!"
"Stop! Grandfather, please, make them stop!"
"Susan, you stay out of this as well!"
"I can talk if I wish!"
"As can I!"
"Then let us know if you have anything usefull to add to the conversation."
"Ian Chesterton!"
"He's quite right."
"Oh, Grandfather, how could you?"
"We have more pressing problems."
"Problems that you created."
"I have no control over this! And I don't need the input of two frivolous females, and one stubborn, primitive human boy!"
"Grandfather!"
"Doctor!"
"Doctor!"
"Enough, you three! I can't hear myself think."
"I wish I couldn't."
"What did you say to me?"
"I wish you would, all of you, shut up!"
"Quiet!"
"Ian!"
"Barbara!"
"Grandfather!"
"Chesterton!"
"Doctor!"
"Susan!"
"Young lady!"
Very soon, the sounds of bickering drowned out the noise of the Tardis' engines...