Chapter 2
"I will walk home, that strange man should have gone by now shouldn't he?" Cassie looks towards the Doctor expectantly. "I will have a look & see; no he is still out there." Cassie starts wondering why the man hasn't come inside then decides to ask "Why hasn't he come inside looking for me if he wanted to get hold of me that bad surely he would have tried?" "well you see I am well known throughout the universe and I have got quite a reputation so I very much doubt he would try & besides, the entire British army couldn't get through that door even if they tried & believe me, they have tried many times and failed many times, people only come in the TARDIS if I want them to and if I let them in, I am from a planet called Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous, I am a time traveller & this (The Doctor gestures around the TARDIS) is my time machine but it doesn't just travel in time it also travels in space. My planet was lost many years ago in a Time War that destroyed my people & ever since then I have been travelling & as you can imagine I have made a lot of enemies".
Cassie stared at the Doctor looking very confused, "if the man is still out there how am I going to get home then? I can't stay in here all night with you being ridiculous & to be honest I am wondering if I am safer out there or in here? Time travel is not possible!" The Doctor give Cassie an insulted look that makes Cassie feel very uneasy. "Do you want that man to get hold of you because believe me that creature will happily end your life within seconds of you stepping outside of the door, you won't be able to take 5 steps before he kills you!" Cassie looks around the TARDIS weighing up her options, she either leaves this madness with the result being certain death according to this mad woman or she lets this woman stand and fiddle on the machine and supposedly takes her home. "Okay then if this machine can travel through time and space show me, show me, take me to my flat this morning before I left & show me who that man is standing outside. My address is 46 Lethbridge Close, Godalming, Surrey, Uk, Europe, Earth, Milky Way, Universe" she says sarcastically.
The Doctor gives her a disgusted look and starts typing something which Cassie assumes to be her address into the machine and then pulls a lever to the side of a monitor screen. "you might want to hold on to something, she can be a bit bumpy" Cassie immediately grabs hold of the nearest handrail as the TARDIS groans and everything judders and shakes uncontrollably then all of a sudden everything is still and quiet. "There you go, 46 Lethbridge Close, Godalming, Surrey, UK, Europe, Earth, Milky Way, Universe, I believe that is the address you just gave me." Cassie looks at the Doctor and laughs and shakes her head. The Doctor looks at her with an insulted expression on her face. "If you don't believe me open the door and take a look outside, I promise you, you are a few doors up from your address".
Cassie looks round towards the doors behind her then back to the Doctor, "So you are telling me that this box, sorry TARDIS, has just flown through time and space back to this morning and we are now outside my house? If you expect me to believe that then you are crazier than the creep outside!" Cassie stands there with her arms folded as the Doctor walks towards her then past her and opens the doors. "have a look for yourself" Cassie obliges and walks towards the door and warily takes a look outside and to her disbelief they have indeed moved, they are now 3 doors up from her flat and she can see the strange man stood across from her flat. She looks at her watch curiously, "but its 6:23pm, how is that possible? If we have moved through time and space how come my watch didn't change?" "Your watch didn't change because you were inside here, everything in here stays relative, but everything outside of the TARDIS changes. Now do you believe me that this is a time machine? You asked me to take you home, quite rudely all the same you asked and I have".
"You can't leave me here that man is stood just over there and if you are telling the truth then I will be inside my flat, I can't just walk in on myself. I suppose I will have to believe you, after all that strange man is stood there where he was this morning, I mean now?, earlier?, my god this is confusing, how do you manage to keep track of where and when you are?". The Doctor begins to laugh at what Cassie has said "believe me it's not always easy but you get used to it". Suddenly the TARDIS starts beeping, the Doctor looks round and runs towards the console in the middle, she pulls the monitor screen round and stares at it, "are you getting out or are you coming with me? Because I need to leave, I can't hang around here all day, I have things to do, like I said I am a very busy woman". Cassie thinks about whether she should leave or not with that man standing outside her house & also what she will do all day. "well where are you going? What is so important that you need to rush off?"
The Doctor carries on looking at the monitor, after a few seconds she replies, "oh we are staying on Earth, we are just going into its past by about 8,000 years, something was left here and that something is a alien species called Skilatonians and they are why that man outside is trying to capture you, to feed to them." Cassie looks horrified at what the Doctor has just said to her, "but why would they want to eat me? What have I done to them?" The Doctor looks round to Cassie "close the door so we can go and I will explain exactly what they want with you".