The Disclaimer is in Part One
Part Two
The Doctor opened the TARDIS door, "There's a draft."he complained. He quickly put on his long brown coat. He was wearing his usual blue suit with red tie. "Luckily, I'm wearing my coat." remarked Jane. "What's out there,Doctor?" she asked nervously.
"Why don't we find out."he said then he quickly left the TARDIS. Jane sighed,took a deep breath,then waled fastly outside. The outside area was a deeply remarkable sight. It was like they were walking around the whole universe. Some stars were up close and others were far away. There was no floor beneath them,just stars. "Doctor?" Jane asked. " How are we standing up?"
"I'm just as puzzled as you are,Jane."he told her while sighing. About a mile away was the lighthouse. "But..." the Doctor said with hope. "Hopefully, the Lighthouse will have answers." A little nervous about their surroundings, the Doctor and Jane ran to the lighthouse. The closer they got to it the more detail they could see. It was a normal lighthouse,tall and white. There was a candle burning in a window half way up. At the very top was the only difference. Instead of the usual light there were blue rings pulsating out and circling around the whole area.
Blue light flashed across the Doctor and Jane's faces as it came around. Then suddenly....splash! "Oh,we've hit water!" said the Doctor slightly laughing. Jane sat down, "So we have." she chuckled as well. The lighthouse was on land but around it was a moat. "It's a moat,Doctor." Jane told him. " Like the one's around a castle." "You are exactly right,Jane." the Doctor said in an impressed tone. "But..." he paused. " That means whoever is inside doesn't want us to go in."
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"Banished here." he wrote, "Marooned." he grumbled. He had been here now for forty years. "Or so I think." he thought. The old man coughed and stood up and went up to the top. He took the candle with him so he wouldn't stumble. He was in his late sixties. He was balding, gray hair and he had a bushy gray beard. He looked like an old sea captain. He wore a wool sweater,black pants with suspenders. On the way up the stairs were tally marks. They meant the number of days the man has spent here. Then enclosed in a circle, was a number. Today he stopped just before the top. He got out his pen,dipped it in ink and wrote the number forty and circled it. He coughed once more and went into the room at the top. "Sonar still working." he said. He then scanned the area with his own eyes.
"Everything looks the same." he said before sipping something from a silver flask. He coughed and coughed, then he spat into a tin can. It made a ping sound and the old man smiled. The mystery surrounding this place still puzzled him. Two thing however, he did know. First, it's his job to protect the lighthouse. Second, if anyone comes to the lighthouse, it means they are here to replace him and his job there is over.
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The Doctor and Jane were walking around the moat. "Should we go inside,Doctor?" Jane asked him. "Well Jane..." the Doctor sat down, the area around the moat was grassy. "I don't know how deep the moat is."he began. "And I don't know about you, but I don't want to drown today." Jane laughed and sat down beside him. Even though she had her coat, she was still cold so she sat closer to the Doctor for warmth. "Your a Time Lord. Shouldn't you know what this place is then?"
"I'm sorry, Jane." the Doctor began, " But this place wasn't created by Time Lords."
"Who created it then?" she was worried and puzzled by what the Doctor said. "There is a group of people called The Eternals." he explained to her. " They are immortal and outside of time. They see all and they know all." Jane watched the Doctor stare off into nothingness as he taught her about The Eternals. " And you think there here. They built this place,yeah?" she asked him worried about a possible threat. " They built this place for people who traveled through wormholes on accident."
He stood up frustrated, "But I travel through the time vortex,not wormholes." What is a wormhole?" Jane asked listening carefully to the Doctor's words. "A link,a bridge, a passage to another universe. There are universes on universes, and in between those universes are tiny little gaps known as the void." "So were in the void?" Jane asked still clinging on to every bit of the Doctor's words.
"Yeah, but the lighthouse didn't travel through the wormhole. It's been here." The Doctor paced around searching his 900 year old brain for any of clue,any kind of explanation. " You can tell...well I can tell." he corrected himself. " I can tell by the brick that it's not from any place in this universe. It was made by The Eternals. To harbor passengers who traveled through the wormhole."
Jane's mouth hung open listening intently to the Doctor's lecture. "But, why, how!" he yelled. " How did the TARDIS get here? It's just not possible!" Jane stood up too and paced a bit. "Doctor..."she began, the Doctor shifted his attention toward her. " Has lightning ever struck the TARDIS before?" she asked him just thinking out loud. "Aha! Moltobene!" the Doctor cheered. " That's it! Oh,you are brilliant." he pointed at her. She just looked at him and laughed and smiled.
He grabbed her, picked her up and swung her around. Then out of sheer joy the Doctor gave Jane a tender kiss. It was joy and pure happiness. Jane sensed it and she kissed back just slightly. The Doctor sensed it then pulled back. He coughed nervously and got serious, " When the lightning hit the TARDIS it took us out of the time vortex." he began. "Then just by chance a wormhole was in the area. The TARDIS having no where to go jumped into the wormhole. And that's how we got here."
Jane was amazed at how the Doctor understood that. She then was happy at herself for helping him arrive at that point. "Happy I could help." she smiled. " Oh yes." the Doctor hugged her tight. " You are brilliant, Jane. Just brilliant." "Thank you,Doctor." Jane blushed. "So what do we do?"
"Back to the TARDIS." he began taking her hand and walking away. " I'll have to repair the circuits so we can get back." the Doctor then began to lead Jane to the TARDIS. "Wait!" someone yelled. "Stop right there!" A huge spotlight came upon them. Suddenly, out of nowhere a man was in front of them.
It was the old man from the lighthouse. He put on his glasses and looked at the Doctor and Jane. "Two." he said confused. "Well better late than never. What took you so long?" he asked madly. "What?" asked the Doctor in his usual manner. "Well you've come to relieve me,correct?" he asked the Doctor. "What?" the Doctor said again. "Well of course you must know." the old man laughed, " You've come to serve in the lighthouse.